Overgeared

“Wow. I thought it was falling.”

“Is the location found?”

“I didn’t detect any movement... surely it isn’t the refractive dragon, right?”

The impact to the tilted tower led to a variety of reactions from the tower members. A tower disguised with 83 types of invisibility techniques was attacked. It was a big incident that had never happened before.

The tower members assumed the worst thing they could think of. The failure to grasp the source of the attack was considered a particularly great risk.

The refractive dragon—due to its unseen nature, they thought of a silver dragon, also known as the ‘transparent dragon.’ This was just an assumption. The silver dragon was unable to reproduce, so its obsession with life was at a level that made other dragons click their tongues. It was extremely unlikely that it would attack the tower when it never left its lair.

“There is infinite sword energy. Sir Hayate has isolated the intruder.”

“That’s why I didn’t feel it.”

The tower members raced up the spiral staircase. Their expressions relaxed when they found the dawn-colored light outside the window. They were relieved to confirm that their worst assumption of the emergence of the refractive dragon came to nothing. Of course, their running didn’t slow down. It was a clear reality that a dragon had attacked. They had to shake off the dragon and run away at all costs.

“......!”

The faces of the tower members stiffened again when they reached the top of the tower. Beyond the infinite sword energy that was just lifted—

“Kueeek!” They witnessed Biban coughing up a large amount of blood.

“This is ridiculous...!”

“Sir Biban!”

It was true that Biban’s emotions were unstable. During the time when Biban first climbed the tower, Radwolf, who saw him, openly asked if he was a child with a mental disability. However, the tower members readily accepted Biban as a colleague. They acknowledged his beliefs and strengths, even though there were major flaws in his character and senses.

That’s right. The reason why Biban was the last seat of the tower wasn't because of his lack of skills. If the tower’s seats had been placed in order of skill, Biban would be fourth or third. Such a Biban—

“Kueeek!” He was coughing up blood.

13 seconds ago, the tower members recognized the attack. During this short period of time, a strong person representing the tower was seriously injured.

The 2nd Seat, Fronzaltz, stepped forward with Ken and gave an order, “Everyone except for the 6th Seat, board the magic machines in preparation for a surprise attack.”

It was a decision to put the safety of the tower members first before identifying the enemy. The tower members weren’t weakened just because they boarded a magic machine. They couldn’t use their own skills, but the power of the magic machine itself was very high.

The bracelet wrapped around Fronzaltz’s thick wrist turned blue and the temperature of the area dropped sharply. It was the aftermath of the giant’s magic engineering, God’s Circle, freezing the magic power.

On the day when the giants were destroyed, the God’s Circle, which was used by the Fronzaltz and Radwolf brothers to escape, was greatly damaged. Since then, it hadn’t been properly repaired for over a thousand years and many functions had been lost. Nevertheless, it could still be asserted that it was a ‘supreme artifact.’ It was comparable to the Overgeared God’s Greed.

The atmosphere screamed.

transparent ice took the shape of a guandao. Naturally, it was held in Fronzaltz’s hands. The ground where

moment when the furious Fronzaltz’s large

At the direction where Biban was facing—Grid popped out of the place where Biban’s sword energy had remained as a remnant and blocked people’s view. It was

"......?!"

open, unlike someone who always valued his dignity due to being in charge of the order of the tower. The other tower members also had flustered

This fuss was caused by the

frozen while freezing the magic power of the entire area. The 6th Seat, Ken,

them

“Wow, this is crazy.”

age. Grid was even someone who became a god. None of the tower members doubted his skills. Yet seriously injuring Biban in a matter of seconds? It meant he completely overwhelmed the other person.

a Sword Saint. He could communicate with and

saw blood dripping from

me that

his weaknesses? Biban was an eccentric person. He was so eccentric that they easily doubted him. Biban informed the

as he supported Biban. In fact, the two of them only exchanged one blow. Biban was highly resistant to swordsmanship and his wound wasn’t very deep compared to the blood spilled. At the very least, it wasn’t

no choice but to be moved. Sword Saint Biban—if he was defeated in a ‘pure sword battle,’ there was likely to be a decline

is no way for status to fall in

and lovely. Grid read

a bit angry, but...

maintain his composure. In fact, he realized the generational difference through Betty, who became very close to Grid. He didn’t think that old people would do things without thinking. He realized why young people often disparaged the older generation as

the youngest among the tower members. At the very least, he shouldn’t seem like an old man. He had such a sense of mission. Thus, he endured it. Grid’s usage of the blacksmith’s technique to combine four swords into two and the usage of the power of amplification when it was a ‘swordsmanship’ discussion was somewhat crude. However, he couldn’t

okay. I overcame the generational gap with this one painful

empathize with in a tower

became such an

was a smile

difficult situation to admit that

sophisticated, but it was fierce. The cold sound of the metal cutting through the air toward the top of his head was very unpleasant. He had no choice but to cut it before he was cut. The problem was that

“Huhu... Cough! Cough cough!”

“......”

to the tower members. The win was fair and Biban lost. His expression, which showed no regrets, was

“Biban! Biban!”

Grid’s back as he helped Biban seemed to overlap with the moment when he interacted with Ifrit. The tower members

just the hope of the world,

***

think there is a lot of mental

he tired because of

knows. His wounds will soon

Fronzaltz’s opinion as he left Biban lying down in the

Snore.