Re: Devil - Volume 1 Chapter 10
[You are being transported to the battlefield… ]
The summoning circle summoned a black light that enveloped me and transported me.
[Tower of Babel Floor 0 Area 3]
“The f…?!” After opening my eyes, A notification block appeared before me. “Tower of Babel? I thought I was being transported to a battlefield not a tower? Wait a minute!”
I quickly looked around me. There was no imps nor other demons. “It seems, what Olgur had said was right. I am separated from the other imps. This can be lucky or unlucky depending on the situation. But tower of babel huh…”
I looked around my surrounding and concluded that I was inside the tower. Judging by the size of the wall and this area, I could say humongous.
“If this is only the zero floor then what will happen in the upper floor?” I muttered as I was exploring a bit. Then,
[Surviving Condition]
Kill all enemies or be the last man standing
[Description]
New recruits of all factions are always being summoned to the battlefield to baptise themself in blood and experience survival of the fittest. Show them you are ruthless even to your own kind and bring carnage and slaughter to your enemies. The more you kill the more rewards you will get.
[Minimum Survival Condition]
Kill 4 enemies
[Tower of Babel Floor 0 Area 3]
Alive:50 Dead:0
Surprised by the notification, I read what was inside throughly and “That’s pretty f*cked up. So you are telling me not even half will survive?!” I exclaimed.
The last sentence was even encouraging all the participants to kill each other.
After understanding all of that and being shocked, I gradually returned to my calm state.
[First things first, It is a good thing that I can bring my weapon along. Second, I need to actively search for an opponent and kill a minimum of 4 enemies to first guarantee my survival. If not, the longer you are idle, only the stronger ones will be left and it will be hard to kill by then.]
Making up my mind, I started to explore this floor while also keeping my guard of any movements or enemies that may appeared at any time.
The corridor was quite dark and the only source of light were the torches. As I was walking through it while minding my step, I saw some green thing in front of me.
“Kuk?” It noticed me and he gave out a sinister smile revealing it’s sharp teeth. It charged towards me while holding a dagger.
Unfortunately for it, It’s speed was way slow than when I had battled the big imp. I could even see where it wanted to stab me.
Just as it wanted to stab me, I calmly avoided it and grabbed it’s arm that was holding the dagger and twisting it.
“Kuahh!!!” I used [Insight] on it.
[Insight]
Level 23 – No Name – No Title
Species: Normal Goblin (Common)
Unranked
Skills
None
[So this is a goblin.] As it was direct in front of me, I could see it’s feature clearly. It matched with the description of what was a goblin from my memory fragments. Short stature, green skin, and bit pointed ears.
Though after seeing it’s face, I was quite thankful that I was reborn as an imp. At least my face was sinister ugly unlike a goblin which was just ugly.
Finding nothing worth mentioning from it’s status, I knew it was still in it’s first evolution and was weak. I quickly stabbed it using my weapon and skewered it. it screamed and after a while died.
“A bit overkill … or it was just weak.” I muttered. “Well essences are still essences no matter what.” Just as I wanted to devoured it, it’s body turned into black substances, essences I believed, and scattered.
“… This battlefield is a scam. At least let me devour and taste even if it’s disgusting!!” I shouted.
[… The moment of heat. Luckily, the tower was huge and there was no enemies that heard that … hopefully.]
[Tower of Babel Floor 0 Area 3]
Alive: 47 Dead: 3
“What?! There was already someone else that had already killed 2 more enemies?”
My hunch was right, there was someone strong in this area. I quickly sped up my search and first guaranteeing my survival.
During my search, I managed to kill 3 more goblins clearing the minimum survival condition. I strongly thought that almost all goblins from the new batch were all sent here. I didn’t manage to see other species.
I also found it strange the way this floor was built. Because there was no junction at all or any other paths, I kept running in one direction and just like that I managed to find the 3 now dead goblins. But…
[Tower of Babel Floor 0 Area 3]
Alive: 32 Dead: 18
[Minimum Survival Condition]
Kill 4 enemies
[Do you want to go back?]
After clearing the condition, I got the option to either leave now or stay and a part of me again that made me picked the #3 Evolution forced me to stay. When I wanted to say “Yes” my mouth would not open and I could not talk.
“Fine. I just hope I can leave anytime and the option will still be valid. I don’t want to know nor experience it myself what else will go wrong in this tower.”
I resumed to walk this time to conserve my stamina as well as decreasing the chances of encountering the enemies. Besides even if you didn’t kill much, being the last man standing would still give out a significant rewards, right?
After a while, I managed to find 2 more goblins and was getting bored but after killing the two goblins , I found an imp but I didn’t recognize the imps from my batch.
But I killed it anyway because it wanted to kill me first. It must be the imps from other rulers’ faction. The only regretful thing was that I could not devour them and got the essences.
I sat down for a while recovering my stamina. It was true that I didn’t get hit or take any damages but running and killing 7 enemies still took up my stamina.
As I was resting for a while, I spotted a bigger goblin this time with 2 normal goblins accompanying it.
“Kukak Kukk Kukk.” They were talking to themselves with some kind of gibberish goblin language that I didn’t know of. I knew they had also spotted me resting and probably thinking me as a free kill as well as underestimating me.
I could not understand what they had spoken about but I could estimate by watching their gestures and faces. Just for curiosity sake, I used [Insight] on the bigger goblin.
[Insight]
Level 2 – No Name – No Title
Species: Greater Goblin (Common)
Skills
Lesser Toughness
Lesser Regeneration
[Lesser Regeneration]
Description: Passive, increase health and stamina regeneration by a bit.
“Tch… a great skill but unfortunately I cannot devour you because of a certain place.”
This time, I was serious unlike when fighting the normal goblins. Having experience evolution myself, I knew that evolutions gave out significant boosts not only on stats but also skills and maybe other areas.
I silently casted [Lesser Speed Movement] on myself. The Greater Goblin after seeing me not panicking immediately sensed something wrong. It’s eyes squinted observing me and finding out that I would not make any moves, It quickly ordered the other 2 goblins to surround me and prepared to attack with daggers.
The Greater Goblin was observing me while taking out his dagger and it ordered something I didn’t understand. After that, it suddenly threw his dagger towards me and the two goblins seeing it dashed towards me.
[I see that was your plan but too bad you meet me.] With [Lesser Speed Movement] not only it increased my speed but I discovered that during hunting the ants before the war that it also increased my reaction but by a little bit.
And as you could see, Normal Goblin’s attacks were already slow for me then what happened if I added [Lesser Speed Movement] to the equation?
The answer was I quickly dashed towards the Greater Goblin while ignoring and avoiding all attacks. Once it was in my weapon range, I quickly slashed it.
He endured the pain and took out his second dagger and aimed it at me. Sorry but, what made you think this would hit me if I could avoid your throwing dagger?
I did the same old tricks I did with the normal Goblin and skewered him with my weapon. Truthfully, I had grown a bit addicted of using this weapon. After confirming it’s death because of essences’ scattering, I turned my head towards the two goblins.
The goblins noticing me froze and was terrified because of me. They quickly seperate and ran. [Oh no you don’t] I quickly ran towards the nearest goblin and killed it but unfortunately the last goblin managed to escape from this tower. Black substances enveloped it.
[Tower of Babel Floor 0 Area 3]
Alive: 9 Dead: 41
