Chapter 109 – 10.4 to Rune Tower
I head to the Rune Tower with my older sister, Shinoshino.
Soldiers passing by glance at us.
Male and female students in academy uniforms, and white lead teachers in active wear. Within the military base, we were clearly a heterogeneous group.
But nobody spoke up.
Civilians roaming around a military base confidently, there was no way a suspicious person would walk around a base like that, so the soldiers quickly dispelled their suspicions.
Of course, it’s not just others staring at us.
On this side, there was also a person who was curiously looking around.
“Shinoshino. Don’t look around too much. You might be mistaken for a spy.”
“Ugh. Oh, I see.”
Shinoshino, who sincerely listens to what he said as a joke, stiffens.
Because it’s serious and it’s cute You keep wanting to play with me
The entrance to the Rune Tower was always guarded by sentries.
My sister and Shinoshino were a little nervous, but as we got closer, the sentries saluted instead of pointing their guns. It seems that the story has already been delivered.
“Please submit your smartphone and electronic device.”
The sentry holds out a small box.
Without a second thought, we put our smartphones in the box. No other tests were performed.
“Oh, if it’s an electronic device, do I have to submit this too?”
“What is this?”
“It’s a grip strength meter.”
It is a flimsy machine that displays the grip strength as a number when you squeeze the handle tightly.
However, if this is an electronic device, it can be called an electronic device.
“Yes. You have to submit that too——”
“No! You can just take it with you!”
“Uh, but…….”
The two sentries chatted in whispers, and eventually agreed to take it.
The more money and power, the better. Power is good.
I’m glad you got permission though. It wouldn’t be uncomfortable if I didn’t have it, but I’m still curious.
“Knives, why is that?”
As you enter through the entrance, your older sister asks curiously.
“To see how much of a difference there is before and after leveling up.”
“Level up?”
I brought the grip strength meter to check how strong my sister has become after this field trip.
If the initial grip strength is 10kg and 15kg after leveling up, the correction value due to the level can be regarded as +50%.
Of course, it would be clear to record this and that and compare, but this would be enough to see the difference at a glance.
“I see. Knives was surprisingly serious too.”
“Are you surprised? How worried do I live?”
“Yes, trouble. He is also my brother.”
When my sister smiles, she strokes the back of my head.
The older sister’s hands her were trembling faintly.
A soldier with her gun is also a trauma button for her sister her.
As if she could n’t show a weak side in front of me, my sister was trying hard to maintain her composure of her. Patting my hair would also be an unconscious act to protect my sister’s mentality of her.
She hates being treated like her child by her older sister, but should I leave her alone for a while? It’s not like her hair and she wears out.
Once inside the front door of her tower and out of sight of her sentry, the older sister let out a sigh of relief.
“This is Rune Tower…….”
Shinoshino looks around inside the tower.
In the spacious space on the first basement floor, there were only stairs and an elevator.
“This is an elevator…… Is it?”
Rune Tower itself is a fantasy.
However, the subtly modern interior scene was thus more heterogeneous.
“How are you, Shinoshino? Doesn’t it look like a hotel lobby?”
“I’m sorry, but unlike anyone else, I’ve never been to a place like that, so I don’t know.”
“Oh yeah.”
A cold reply came back.
Then shall we go together next time?
That kind of joke got up to my throat, but I decided to put up with it because it would leave a handprint on the other cheek if I said it out of my mouth.
After pushing the button on the elevator, I held out the grip strength meter to my sister while waiting.
“Then sister, measure your grip strength.”
“Yes. Kkeuk~!”
My older sister takes the meter and grabs the handle with all her might.
-Beep.
Hmm. Is your sister 28.5 kg?
I don’t know if it’s high or low.
“Would you like to try Shinoshino?”
Then, when I hand over the grip strength meter to Shino, he accepts it without muttering.
Since Shinoshino is more interested in leveling up than anyone else, she must be concerned about the difference in numbers before and after.
“Suck!”
-Beep.
“Wow! 45kg? Are you a gorilla?”
“Knives! What’s your habit of talking to a girl?”
Slap.
She was slapped on the back by her sister her.
However, instead of feeling bad, Shinoshino was elated.
It seems that it is better to be treated as a gorilla than to be treated as a girl.
“How many knives are there?”
“Me?”
The meter you brought is a crappy item.
The number display only goes up to 99 kg.
If you hold it hard, it will probably break.
“Eh~?”
I can’t break it, so I squeeze it with moderate force.
-Beep.
62kg came out.
“Did Knives come out sooner than expected? Aren’t you lacking in exercise?”
“This is not very accurate either. Because it is made in China.”
“Is it?”
“Let’s just take note.”
While chatting with her older sister her, Shino Shino was quietly competing next to her.
It seems that I don’t like the fact that my grip strength is higher. Isn’t it natural for women to come out less often than men?
-Ding.
The door opens with a sound like a real elevator.
We got into the elevator side by side.
“It looks like a real elevator.”
“Because that’s the concept.”
The elevator in Rune Tower looks like an ordinary elevator, but in reality it is more like a space transporter.
Each level is connected by a vast field that cannot be seen from inside the tower. It would be correct to say that it moves to a different space, not a layer within the tower.
Among the buttons activated from the 1st floor to the 17th floor, I press the 4th floor button.
“Is the 17th floor the top floor?”
“No. There is a boss on each floor, and you can go directly to the floor where you defeated the boss by elevator. It means that we have defeated the current 17th floor boss.”
Feeling like a tour guide, I explained to them about the Loon Tower.
Of course, the higher you go, the stronger the monsters and bosses. Environmentally, there is also a class that suffers from cold or hot weather.
Scientific weapons such as guns and bombs do not work against monsters, so most use melee weapons such as spears, axes, and great swords. If you have a special rune related to battle, you can use special equipment tailored to it. My sister is also a magician, so she must belong to that category.
By the way, did you just get through to the 17th floor?
I don’t know if it’s fast or slow. A new weapon was also developed, so I thought it would break through soon.
Do not be lazy and work, Samjangseong. Please clear the top floor before I graduate. I don’t know if there is such a thing as the top.
-Ding.
The humming elevator stopped.
And, the door opens.
“Here…….”
Outside the elevator door, an unbelievable scenery unfolded where the elevator was connected.
It is a meadow
Grass grows ankle-length and trees are planted everywhere. There is also a small pond on one side.
“Wow…”
Aside from Shinoshino, it must have been the first time for my sister to see the field inside the Rune Tower.
The two open their mouths side by side and look around.
But it wasn’t the time for me to be like that.
“Oh oh.”
Lucky for you.
I was able to spot the target right away.
“Nuna, Shino, wait a minute.”
“Knives?”
I left them in front of the elevator and started running.
The sound is quiet. Walk fast.
It moves forward through the ankle-length lawn.
Suddenly, he felt the guy raise his head.
However, he is a guy who is not normally exposed to much danger.
I chose the option of ‘examine the situation’ rather than the option of ‘run away’.
You don’t even know that the choice will lead to your own death.
“Suck!”
Right before I realized he was being targeted by me,
– Sasasak.
I slid across the lawn with a head-first slide and lunged at him.
He Reads the direction to run away and extends his hand.
At that moment, I felt the soft fur on my palm his.
He succeeded in catching his pricked ears.
-Beep! Beep!
The guy holding my ear in my hand flutters and kicks my torso.
However, the kick of such a small herbivore was nothing.
“Whoa! I am still alive.”
Transparent rabbit.
As the name suggests, it is a transparent rabbit. Its feet, which run away without being seen, are as fast as rabbits.
However, as difficult as it is to catch, he is also a person with a lot of experience. Compared to monsters of a similar class, it would probably be 10 times that.
It is safe to say that it has almost no fighting ability, but it is a special monster that is almost impossible to detect because it is transparent.
How did I find out
Because I have a mind rune!
A mind rune that reads the other person’s thoughts.
Of course, it doesn’t work well against monsters.
However, even if you cannot express a monster’s thoughts through text, you can roughly know the monster’s feelings. Alert, frightened, angry, or mindless.
Monsters like invisible rabbits are invisible to the naked eye, but are naturally caught in the mind rune radar. If you keep grazing, trusting only what is transparent, you will end up being caught by me like this.
“Eight.”
– Puck, puck.
He grabs the invisible rabbit by the ear and strikes it against a stone with enough strength to not die.
The rabbit, which was flapping and kicking, soon lost its strength and fell limp. It was transparent, so no blood could be seen, so there was nothing disgusting about it.
“Knives? What are you doing?”
The two people who told me to wait approached with slow steps.
I held up the invisible rabbit to my sister.
“Sister. Can you see this?”
“Yes? Ehh?”
My older sister frowned at something I was holding in my hand.
The transparent rabbit is transparent, but if you look closely, you can see a silhouette that seems to be shaking in space. Maybe that’s how I see it in my sister’s eyes.
But my sister was puzzled, not understanding why it seemed that way. Because there is no such thing as a completely transparent creature (though strictly speaking, this is not a creature) in the world.
It is useless to approach this scientifically. I have no choice but to accept it as ‘just like that’.
“It’s a transparent monster. Attack here with an ice pick.”
“Uh…”
My sister’s rune is the Frost rune.
Frost Rune. Literally the ability to manipulate ice, it can be seen as a rune that is symmetrical to Akane’s flame rune.
“Eh, like this?”
My sister panicked, but as I ordered, she made an icicle the size of her hand her and fired it at the invisible rabbit.
-Beep!
The transparent rabbit that was hit by the pointy end let out a cute throes.
“Nice job, sister.”
The invisible rabbit, who was on the verge of death, disappeared as smoke.
I can’t see it in the first place, so even if it disappears, I won’t notice it.
“Nuna, can you feel that your level has risen?”
“Level? Huh? Well, I don’t know.”
I guess so.
“Then do you want to try again?”
I held out the grip strength meter to my sister again.
“Yes. Kkeuk~!”
My older sister who takes the meter and holds it with all her might.
-Beep.
“Wow!”
My sister, who confirmed the number, raised her voice in surprise.
34.6 kg.
That was an increase of more than 20%.
