The Unsurpassed Maiden - Chapter 160

After dealing with the giant Bearded Dragon and saying a small prayer for its body, the black haired girl continued her journey through the clock tower.

Mi Young checks out the lift at first if there are any enemies inside of it, and when she realized that the coast is clear, she didn’t waste any of her time before getting inside the lift. She manages to press the highest level of the building before the lift’s door finally closes.

The young girl can feel the rumbling of the lift as its machines started working. She also welcomed the silence that enveloped her surroundings the moment the lift started to go up towards the higher parts of the building. When she looked at the small screen on top of the lift’s door, she realized she was still on the 17th floor. When the lift reached the 20th floor, it instantly stopped making the young girl wonder.

Mi Young is a hundred percent sure that the clock tower has 25 levels. She looks at the screen again to confirm if what she was seeing was right, and indeed there was a huge  red number 20 displayed on top of it, so she still has five levels to go to before she can finally reach the highest peak of the clock tower. Thinking that something was definitely not right, the black haired girl slowly opens the lift’s door with absolute alertness.

When the doors were finally opened she was greeted by a slightly dimmed hallway. Mi Young also noticed that the area was deserted. There were no signs of movement from any angle of the corridor. However, what the young girl was mostly concerned about was the pool of blood splattered on the floor, as if there was something or a group of people killed right there.

“Sh*t. What happened here?” Mi Young whispers to herself as she looks around the empty and dark area.

Seeing as there was nothing left she could, Mi Young finally decided to get out of the lift. Mi Young watches as the lift’s door closes and the light that was coming from the lift vanishes, making the room get even darker.

“Now, I can’t see.” Mi Young whispers to herself once again. She immediately made a series of hand gestures to produce some light. When she was about to create a fireball on her hands to give herself some source of light, a hand grabs her own making her jump in surprise.

“Don’t shout.” A very familiar voice says while the other person puts a hand on top of the black haired girl’s mouth to stop her from screaming. The other party looked to his left and right before grabbing Mi Young towards a door that she hadn’t noticed before.

When they were finally alone, the other party switched on the light giving Mi Young the ability to see what was inside the room. However, the young girl noticed that even though the room’s lights were turned on, it still wasn’t enough to light up the whole room.

“You should change the bulbs. It’s not working properly.” The young girl says while looking at the light bulb above them.

The other party chuckled behind her. “Actually, the bulb saved my life a couple of times already so no one’s going to change the bulb anytime soon. Plus, that’s enough to help me see.”

“Speaking of the sea, why is this floor level so dark? Are the lights not working?” Mi Young asks. She wanted to ask the other party a lot of things but she decided to ask the more practical things instead.

The man smiles at her before scratching the back of his head. I destroyed all the light bulbs in this entire floor except for this one.”

Mi Young’s mouth was hanging open before she caught herself and asked, “What kind of idiot would break all the bulbs in the entire floor and suffer with this slightly dimmed one?”

“Well, this idiot is just surviving so you can’t blame me.” The other party fires back while sticking his tongue out at Mi Young like a child.

“What’s up with surviving and breaking all the light bulbs?”

“This entire floor is inhabited by the One-Eyed Ram.” The other party says as he sits down on a worn out sofa in front of Mi Young.

“One-Eyed Ram?” Mi Young asks in confusion.

The man sighs before nodding his head. “Yes. This beast is the sole reason why I am stuck here.”

“Stuck? You mean you’ve been here for ages?” Mi Young asks, confusion written all over her face.

“Yes.” Hae Choon replies. “Remember that door I entered? I waited for you for like a week but you never came. Then this lady came up to me and asked me why I was still stuck there when I could have fun in the town. I told her I was waiting for someone but she pressured me into going to the town with her. Actually, she looks familiar to me but I can’t remember where I saw her. Anyway, since I was so tired and I lack a lot of sleep and I was just famished, I finally stood up and came with her. And she was right, the door I just entered was the exit towards the city. I can’t believe I finally got out of that hell-like headquarters.”

Nothing is making any sense to the black haired girl as she continued listening to Hae Choon’s story. Even though she had so many questions, she remained silent as she let the boy finish his story first. “Since I was so overwhelmed with the fact that I got out of that headquarters I totally forgot about our mission and strolled the whole city for as long as I wanted. Until I went to this side of the city and noticed that there were a lot of people looking up at the clock. I asked them what was wrong and they said that the clock tower, which was working for thousands of years, suddenly stopped working. It wasn’t really a big deal for me but for the people of the city, it was. This clock tower symbolizes the true power of their city, I don’t why but that’s how they view it.”

Hae Choon stops for a second to breathe. He eyes Mi Young as if he was asking for some permission to go on. When the young girl nodded her head, he continued his story once more. “I was about to ignore them and continue my tour but then I heard that any Mage who tried to fix the clock tower never came out. So I got curious and volunteered myself to see what was causing it. And that’s when I realized that at the 20th floor of the clock tower, the lift stops and anyone is stuck there with a huge beast who would do anything to kill any living organism that it meets.”

Mi Young was so overwhelmed with everything that she didn’t notice Hae Choon had already stopped talking. When she realizes the other party’s silence, she snaps out of her thoughts and blinks at him. “So you mean to say, this is really not an illusion?”

“Illusion? What do you mean?” Hae Choon asks. Mi Young explained to him everything that had happened the moment he entered that double door, how she met Zhong Yu, and how they met Zed, the one responsible for this all.

When Mi Young finished talking about her own story, Hae Chon’s mouth was hanging open and his eyes were wide as saucers. It was his turn to ask questions at the same time. “Zhong Yu is here? Wait, sio the girl who led me here was Zed? And you two thought that this city was an illusion?”

“Yes to all your questions.” Mi Young replies.

Hae Choon throws his body at the sofa as he looks up at the ceiling, not saying any word at all. “Holy sh*t.”

“I know.” Mi Young says before her own knees buckle and she sits on the floor just in front of the other party. “Sh*t. Wait!”

“What?” Hae Choon asks in surprise, suddenly alert with the young girl’s sudden burst of energy.

“If we’re really outside, then that means we can contact other Mages out there? Wait, speaking of outside, why are the city guards not doing anything? Why aren’t there any responses from them? Their people are dying, why aren’t they doing anything?” Mi Young fires questions one after another while she looks at Hae Choon with confusion.

Hae Choon’s face was calm when he says his next words, “Isn’t it obvious?”

“What?”

“The city isn’t on the people’s side.” The young man replies.

This immediately made so much sense to the black haired girl. From the moment Zed brought her and Zhong Yu out of that headquarters and the hundreds of beasts coming out from nowhere.. The black haired girl realized that those beasts were the very same beasts that were following her and Hae Choon when they escaped that one room filled with dead bodies and beasts, or so they thought.