Chapter 554

Chapter 554

Side Story 30

'You have to focus.'

Lee Ye gripped the bow tightly.

He had been a Ranker for thousands of years, but he had never faced a crisis like this.

Above were the Administrators and thousands of their Envoys.

And right in front of him, Asura and Taishang Laojun.

It was like walking on thin ice.

Suddenly...

"Hey, you."

At Asura's call, Lee Ye startled and looked at him.

"Stand on that side."

"That side?"

Lee Ye looked in the direction Asura was pointing.

There were Kim YuHun approaching the Administrators, and Tsukoyomi, Pandora, and Hargan forming a team one by one.

And the Rankers of the Celestial Realm joining Lee Rangjin.

They were already prepared to fight against the Administrators.

'So...'

Lee Ye looked at Taishang Laojun, who was in a close duel with Asura.

Due to the rocky start caused by Zeus's Lightning Bolt, he exuded a hostile aura different from the beginning.

"I'll take care of this guy."

A smile formed on Asura's face.

Facing the impending large-scale battle against Taishang Laojun, he was concentrating his Arcane Power to the fullest.

Lee Ye nodded at the energy emanating from the two and took a step back.

*Pat-.

Lee Ye walked past Taishang Laojun.

But Taishang Laojun didn't pay him any attention.

No...

He couldn't pay attention.

"The little one has grown quite a bit."

"Your era is over, old man."

A red aura emanated from the tip of the spear.

Two heads and four arms materialized behind Asura, imbued with Arcane Power, revealing Asura's true form.

"I'll show you."

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Initially, the Administrators' target was the Great Celestial Realm Guild, one of the most significant in the Tower.

The absorption of the Great Guild and the Great Celestial War provided a favorable scenario for them.

However...

"It's definitely The Nameless Mist."

"Didn't they all disappear?"

"N'yog-Sothep has been eliminated. Shub-Niggurath too."

"Then, how...?"

The fact that lightning fell from the sky was astonishing, but what concerned them more was the mist that concealed the onlookers.

The three Administrators couldn't have been mistaken. That meant the mist that had just appeared was indeed N'yog-Sothep.

And the owner of that name was none other than...

"What has you so intrigued?"

At this very moment...

It was the nameless player who appeared among the three Administrators.

*Slash-.

A rather fast swordplay. But more lethal than the sword's power was its strange nature.

Swish, swish, swish-.

The Administrators dodged the sword quickly, creating distance. They felt an inexplicable oppression as they watched the sword wielded by YuWon.

Chills, chills~

The Administrators focused on YuWon's sword with an unsettling feeling, as if their entire bodies were being sliced.

And at that moment...

"It has split very well."

Kwaaaat-.

A Black Woods spread around the two Administrators.

"What...?"

"This can't be..."

Seeing the woods that unfolded before their eyes in the courtyard where The Nameless Mist appeared, only one thing came to mind.

A dark landscape devouring the two Administrators.

And as expected.

['The Black Goat of the Woods' invites you.]

Entering the woods that had swallowed the two Administrators, YuWon greeted them.

"Welcome."

Swoosh.

The two Administrators and YuWon disappeared in an instant.

The Black Woods that had appeared for a moment swallowed the three of them in the same moment, then disappeared without a trace.

Only one remained...

Only the robed Administrator, whose body had been cut by YuWon.

"Something... is wrong."

The name of "The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young."

"Did you hear that?"

"Yes. I'm not even surprised anymore."

They had long abandoned complacency.

From the moment The Nameless Mist appeared, they were prepared to fight against the Outer Gods.

Footsteps sound~

Crack-.

The two Administrators turned towards the sound.

In the center of Black Woods, countless eyes and legs approached their location.

And among them...

"...They've arrived."

"The Nameless Player."

Surrounded by Black Woods Goats, YuWon, the shepherd, stood there.

"Nameless, you say. Clearly, I am active under the name Kim YuHun."

Petting the heads of the goats one by one, YuWon shrugged.

"Oh, right. This is just the beginning."

Beeeeeeh-.

The goats bleated in response to YuWon's words.

The goats were easily more than dozens.

Probably, in this vast woods, there were many more goats hidden than were visible.

"So, you know this name? Kim YuWon."

"Kim YuWon?"

The Administrators locked eyes.

Although the memory grazed them, they failed to recall YuWon's name.

At that reaction, YuWon nodded.

It seemed that even after hearing his name directly, neither of the Administrators remembered it.

'That's all I needed to confirm.'

There was no need to continue talking to them.

YuWon directed the goats with a gesture.

Beeeeeeh-.

The goats surrounded the two Administrators.

The Administrators began to swell in the overwhelming presence of the goats absorbing YuWon's Divine Power and growing in size.

Woo~

The two Administrators revealed their true forms.

An Administrator with green scales and jaws, and another that was a giant sphere with dozens of eyes and thin legs.

Enormously increasing their sizes, they looked down at YuWon and the goats and released their Arcane Power.

[How do you have those Names?]

[Are you also part of the Outer Gods?]

The reason they became interested in YuWon was simple.

It was because of the Names he possessed.

However, they didn't know.

That those weren't the only Names YuWon possessed.

"Dagon. Ihot."

The two administrators staggered at the names YuWon mentioned.

Dagon and Ihot.

Those were the real names of the two, the Administrators of the 17th and 21st floors respectively.

[How...?]

[Our names?]

The Administrators were baffled.

And rightfully so.

They couldn't even imagine that within the Tower there existed a being who knew their Names.

They had assumed that YuWon was a remnant of the Outer remaining in the Tower.

But if he were just an Outer God, he wouldn't have a way to know their Names.

"Why are you the ones deciding the distinction between an Inner and Outer?"

Inner and Outer.

Words that had been used for a long time, when the fight against the Outers lingered.

Back then, Tower players called themselves Inner.

At that time, the term Inner was used as a concept opposed to Outer, and the Tower, with its brief and tumultuous history, was heading towards destruction at the hands of the Outers.

However, long before that...

There were those who used the word Inner.

"What makes you think you can call yourselves owners of the Tower when you cowered in terror?"

Beeeeeej-.

YuWon stroked the fur of an approaching goat and mocked the two Administrators.

"Has it gotten to your heads?"

A Name born from the arrogance of believing themselves the owners of the Tower.

Inner.

The only ones entitled to use that name were the Players, not the Administrators.

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