Chapter 218: A New Tower

I immediately ordered everyone to leave except for Herold. I couldn't risk everyone dying here today

"It looks like the same structure as Tartarus so you calling it the Tower of Babel doesn't seem crazy... Its shape and structure is the same except for the design." Herold was taking a good look at the tower.

"The Tower of Babel is a tower in my previous world. As a counterpart of the Tartarus. Its a place where unity and harmony exists while in Tartarus chaos and rampage exists. Its the complete opposite." I replied.

"If this is truly the counterpart of the Tartarus then we're in big trouble. We already saw how powerful those enemies are."

"I agree. They may be weaker than demons but they can resurrect indefinitely as long as their core is intact."

"And we don't know how long this has been up. But we saw the trails right? They're everywhere. So that means that it is spawning monsters like Tartarus does."

"When we got to this tower, there were trails left everywhere going in every direction."

"Yes there was."

"So there should be a lot by now. And it released five monsters our way. And those five were as strong as one demon that Tartarus releases. So it should be releasing five monsters every four months."

"That's... reasonable. And Tartarus releases every two months now. Their spawn rate has increased."

"And you've been fighting it with Yefa and Precia?"

"That's what we're doing while you're gone. Most of the monsters they caught was from Tartarus too."

"Then we might be ready for Tartarus."

"No. Not yet. You're all too naive about this. Those monsters being released doesn't compare to the real ones in Tartarus. Those are the lowest of the lowest. The cast away because they were too weak. We're still having trouble with those. If we go in right now, we'll get past several floors then die on floor ten. I can guarantee that."

"Hmm... Alright, then let's gather information that we currently have right now. What monsters did you see when you were fighting with Yefa and Precia?"

"We encountered a horde followed by the giant monster Precia showed to you. Tartarus doesn't release hordes but it couldn't have been the Tower of Babel too."

"What do you mean?"

"That horde was a combination of both demons and angels."

"...Hmm." A combination of demons and angels. "How large was the horde?"

"It was around the twenty thousands. It was instantly wiped out when the giant fell on top of the horde killing everything."

"Well, we know who can control that much demons and angels despite the both of it being completely hating each other."

"I was suspecting that too."

"This is good. He's already making a move. Ouroboros himself. It seems that our meeting is getting closer."

"We must prepare for everything immediately."

"Alright. I'll be gathering everyone now. It seems that we must make a move now."

Herold and I split up and he goes on to do whatever he needed to do.

I began to examine the changes at Izgoy. It seems that the people hasn't forgotten about me and welcomed me easily. I began to spend some time with the villagers and hear their thoughts about the change. Some didn't mind it as long as they aren't forced to coexist with them.

I ended our conversations there and gathered all the Crimson Knights in the room where we all left. And I was the first to strike up a conversation. "This isn't the time that I was expecting to meet everyone. I was to let it run for about three more months but the rise of the new tower is dangerous."

"What's that tower anyway?" Yurid asked.

I nearly forgot that she's a part of this team now. "Its the same as Tartarus."

"I've searched multiple countless categories just now and I haven't heard the term Tower of Babel or a tower being similar to the Tartarus. Do you think this is man made?"

"No. I'm sure its made by the gods. The structure, the design and its cycle of monsters... Its all nearly the same. By the way I wanted to ask, Feran, Helga, did you cast an invisibility spell on everyone?" My eyes have a special thing that lets me see invisible things so I can't differentiate the difference between an invisible being and not.

"Uh, I don't think so. My sister and I didn't cast a single spell in that fight. Except for her restoring your limb." Feran replied.

"Thank you for that. But, why did none of the monsters attacked you?"

"We were curious at first but we all decided to just let you fight it. It seems that you've been raring to go considering your expression on that... fight."

"That's true..."

"Halfway into the fight, we were about to engage but Herold stopped us. He then said that it seems that none of the monsters are interested in us. Only you."

"Only me huh... Why is that?"

"Its because you're a player. Those monsters passed by multiple kingdoms and left them all unharmed right? They seem to be targeting players only. Those eyes are neutral since they attack anything that is fighting but those valkyries, yeah they're only targeting players."

"This changes everything. Then that means that if we go in the Tower of Babel, I can just distract the monsters and then let you all fight them and barrage them with so much stuff. It won't attack you, only me. And I'm confident with my speed."

"So, when should we do it?"

"Not now. We still have a lot to do. I know that we've been working for the past few months... But we really need to move on. Because this... this is just the first phase of our plan. Precia's team, how many have you gathered?"

"Around hundred thousands. My estimate is around 130,000 or more." Precia replied.

"Good. Yurid, the sea kingdom?"

"Hmm... I doubt that you'll be able to rule them now. Since you know, Zeta left. Zeta and Greta were the rulers of that place. But before he left, he gathered around 90,000 troops over there. And we also found something... Disturbing."

"What is it?"

"We found a godspawn underwater."

"Judging by that title... its a being made by the gods?"

"Exactly. Its... name is... Charybdis."

"Charybdis!?" I thought it would be kraken or something because that's an easier thing to kill... but Charybdis? "That's a problem... What happened to the sea kingdom and everything else?"

"Everyone panicked of course. No one knew the Charybdis but once Zeta showed a projection of what it was, horror took over their faces. They called that that monster was from a legend in their educations while growing up. So convincing them to leave was easy. It was also at the same time as when Greta got pregnant so everyone packed up everything they had and immediately left. We didn't get the attention of the Charybdis but its slowly eating up the sea as we speak. Zeta and I visited the place of the Charybdis but once we got there, it was just pure emptiness from several kilometers around it. There was no corals, fishes, monsters or anything. It was just there, alone surrounded by thousands of bones from different creatures."

"Do we have to worry about it right now? I know how powerful Charybdis is so I'm not confident that we can still beat it yet. Charybdis is a gigantic monster that can suck anything so facing it head on is incredibly dangerous. So I need to know if its a danger. Immediately."

"No, not yet. It seems that there's no immediate trouble. And besides, if the oceans and seas gets sucked in its stomach, then we might find more treasures."

"Hmm. Rize's party, how many did you get?"

"We've gotten the approval of the 50,000 units of the sky island. And we beat the trials so we have an extra Flower of Zeratria and a vial that Neco took." Rize replied.

"Send the flower to Lam. For the vial, you won that so just use it as you will. Alright, it seems that everything is in order. So all in all according to your estimates, we have around 180,000 units. I'm removing Zeta's army here. We can't control the sea kingdom without him. If we're adding the units I've gathered from hell it would amount to 2,580,000 units."

"Wait wha-"

"So now that the first phase of our plan is done... We're going to move on to our second phase. This is going to be tough but we have to do it. All the kingdoms, we're going to take over everything. But there are some rules that we must follow. No killing and don't attack unless attacked. We're going to take everything by force or by politics. It doesn't matter. As long as you don't kill, we're going to be fine and the plan will go on."