Finally, the last drop of Yugeo's ability to think was also absorbed by the demonic petals. However, even so, the last reason that remained in the deepest part of his heart was still struggling weakly.

The so-called love ...... Is this really the kind of thing?

It's really just, the same as money...... Is it just this kind of thing that can be measured in value?

That's not the case, Yogeo-senpai! Out of nowhere, a cry came from nowhere, and I looked over there, only to see a red-haired girl in a gray uniform, desperately reaching out to this side from the other side of the darkness.

But before Yugeo could grab that hand, several heavy black curtains had already fallen, leaving only the red-haired girl's infinitely sad eyes, which vanished. This time, however, another voice came from a different direction.

No, Giorbio. Love is definitely not something to ask for something in return.

Turning his head, a green grassland suddenly opened up in the darkness, and a blonde girl in a long blue dress was standing on it. The girl's blue pupils shone like the only exit from this invincible swamp. Eugeo desperately urged his shrunken feet to crawl that side.

However, the black curtain fell again, and the green grassland was swallowed up. Having lost his light, Yugeo could only kneel in confusion. Soon, the hunger and thirst that swirled in his chest and overflowed made him unbearable. Since I was a child, I have been abused and oppressed by others by improper means, and what I should have given myself will be taken away by others. The more I think about these things, the more miserable and regretful make my throat even drier like thick salt water.

Finally, with his head down, he began to slowly move his limbs, and began to crawl forward slowly, crawling towards the spring that was dripping with sweet honey without stopping.

Pushing my fingers apart from the soft silk mattress, my fingertips reaching forward touched the soft and smooth skin. As soon as Yugeo raised his head, the silver-haired girl with a goddess-like beauty took his hand with a transcendent smile. Under the gentle guidance of the girl's right hand, Yugeo fell forward without resistance and fell onto his naked body, swallowed up by the softness that almost melted.

In his ear, a sweet whisper came from his ear, "Do you want it, Yugeo?" You want to forget all your sorrows and covet my body, right? However, not yet. As I said, you need to love me first. Come...... Repeat these words after me. Trust me alone and give me everything you have. Okay, right? …… The first is the opening sentence of the divine technique. ”

In Ugeo's view, only the boundless softness that envelops him is the only reality. His mouth moved on its own, and the sound it made sounded to him as if it had nothing to do with him.

“system…… call……”

"Right...... Next up...... remove core protection。 For the first time, the Administrator's voice trembled slightly with some emotion. As if talking to himself, Eugeo began to chant the first words of a technique he had never heard before.

With each syllable of the short phrase "remove......, Eugeo became more and more aware of the lightness and floatiness of his body. For a long, long time, his hunger and thirst dissolved in the sweet honey. At the same time, the most important feelings in my heart also collapsed and gradually disappeared.

Is it really good to do that......

In the depths of my heart, which was becoming more and more empty, the question flickered like a faint spark. However, before the answer is formed, the mouth automatically pronounces the next sentence.

“core……”

Because, those sorrows, those hardships, I don't want anymore.

The love of the covenant has never existed in the world. If...... What if, retrieving Alice's memory, and she never looks at herself again? Will Alice be afraid of Eugeo, who has slashed at Wember for violating the taboo catalogue and fighting against several knights against the Congregational Church, will Alice be afraid of him and will despise him ......?

It's better to stop here than to get this outcome. In a haze, Yogeo realized that if he pronounced the last word, his two-year journey would be completely over. However, the feelings that existed in his heart now told him that there was nothing wrong with it if it allowed him to forget his sad and difficult past, and if he could let himself fall deeply into the love promised by the silver-haired girl.

"yes...... Come on, Yogeo, welcome to my body......" A sweet whisper filled with supreme incoherence rang in Yogeo's ears, "Welcome, in eternal stagnation......"

When Yugeo pronounced the last word, a tear flowed from his face.

………

"Finally...... Ha...... Ahhh Lin Yiyan let out a gasp that had already been shattered and indescribable, lifted his body that he didn't know had been hung dozens of times, hooked the edge of the marble with his right foot and climbed up, and finally pounced on the horizontal ground.

The joints and muscles of my body, which had long been driven beyond the limits of bearing, were cramping as if they had been burned directly by flames, and large drops of sweat flowed from my forehead to my neck, and I didn't even have the strength to wipe the sweat left, just lying on the ground and panting frantically. The intense fatigue made me unable to believe that this world was just a virtual world generated by STL.

After the moon came out, it took more than two hours of climbing through the walls to finally reach the 95th floor of the central cathedral, but I had no strength to check the topography of this floor, so I just opened my limbs and closed my eyes and waited for the natural return of destiny.

The distance from the minion-equipped terrace to the 95th floor, which is only seven floors, took so much time and so much physical strength, largely because of the presence of the Golden Fusion Knight, who is now carried behind my back and held tightly in place with tiny chains.

A few hours earlier, Knight Alice Synthesisthirty had broken the seal of her right eye with her own will, and the riddle system warning had been shattered, but the price paid was also quite tragic. The jasper-like right eye was blown to pieces, and the pain and impact caused Alice to lose consciousness.

On the terrace where the minion took off, Lin Yiyan was waiting for Alice's recovery while thinking about these things, but after an hour, the knight didn't mean to open his eyes at all. Although Lin Yiyan used divine magic to stop the bleeding from the wound in her right eye, if she wanted to completely heal it, neither the spatial resources nor the skills of being a sorcerer were enough. Even if the moon has risen and the surrounding space resources are replenished, all of them must be used to generate climbing awls. Thinking of this, Lin Yiyan could only tear off the corners of her shirt to make a temporary bandage to cover her eyes, and then carried her behind her, who was still in a coma, and began to climb towards the top of the tower.

When he untied the golden thin lock that bound the bodies of the two people and carried Alice's slender but incomparably heavy body to his back, Lin Yiyan also thought about throwing aside the chest armor and the sword of Jin Muxi, which took up most of the weight. However, now that Alice has made up her mind to fight together, it would be foolish to abandon her weaponry.

So, once again, I made up my mind, fastened my body tightly with chains, and then set my sights on the upper floors of the cathedral hidden in the night sky, and began to climb the cliff. After two hours of hellish walking, I finally saw the new terrace, but just as I was relieved, an awl slipped down. I wish no one down there was being smashed.

In short, after climbing 90 meters along the vertical cliff towards the goal of the 95th floor, I should be forgiven for sleeping for a while. Even if this didn't work, Lin Yiyan didn't want to move within three minutes. As a result of this consideration, I am now indulging in the pleasure of relaxation all over my body. However, as if he wanted to hinder Lin Yiyan, there was a slight movement from his back.

"Hmm...... Hmm......" Lin Yiyan's neck felt the warm air flow of the moving knight.

“…… Here it is...... I am...... How ......" Alice whispered as she tried to stand up, but she was immediately pulled back by the chains that wrapped around her body, and the weight that had left for a moment pressed back on Lin Yiyan's back again.

"This chain...... Yi Yan...... Do you say, carry me...... ...... all the way to this place? ”

Thank me for that. Lin Yiyan said to himself in his chest, however

"Nasty! You're sweating all over now! Even my clothes are stained! Hurry up and get out of the way! With a scream, Lin Yiyan received a heavy blow to the back of his head, and his forehead hit the hard stone ground.

"It's a bit excessive...... It's too heavy......" After hurriedly unchaining and putting down the heavy "luggage" behind his back, Lin Yiyan leaned on the column next to him and sighed.

However, the knight didn't care about Lin Yiyan's heroic dedication to heavy physical labor before, and just slapped his white skirt with his hands with a tense face. When Lin Yiyan thought that she had finally stopped, she found that she was just holding on to the cuffs of Lin Yiyan's neck when she was carrying Lin Yiyan's back, and her eyebrows became tighter and tighter. Seeing this scene, Lin Yiyan interjected angrily.

"If you really care so much, how about taking a shower, Your Highness the Knight?" Although this sentence was just to satirize Alice's cleanliness, but when she heard this, she tilted her head as if she had begun to seriously consider this measure, and Lin Yiyan could only hurriedly dismantle her platform.

"No, it's just kidding! It's a fantasy to go down to the middle floor when you get here. ”

"That's not necessary, go down five floors from here...... That is, on the 90th floor, there is a large public bath dedicated to the integration of knights. ”

"What......" This time Lin Yiyan fell into thinking. Since escaping the dungeon, it has been one fierce battle after another, and the clothes and bodies are covered in dust and sweat due to the unexpected climbing. To say that you don't want to wash your body properly is really lying.

Forget about the bathroom, there is a pool nearby, Lin Yiyan thought while turning his head back and forth to look at the surrounding situation.

The Hyosung Lookout Tower on the 95th floor of the cathedral appears to be a huge observation deck, as its name suggests. There are no walls around the square floor, and perhaps that's what this floor is for, with only a column supporting the ceiling of the upper floor every three meters or so. Seeing such an unguarded structure, Lin Yiyan finally understood the reason why the administrator set up a minion on the outer wall slightly below in order to prevent an almost impossible intruder, and nodded to himself.

At the outermost periphery where Lin Yiyan and Alice are now located, there are terraces that surround an entire floor, with short staircases leading to the interior at each point. Slightly elevated, the interior is filled with marble sculptures and lush trees, as well as intricately carved tables and chairs. It would have been a pleasure to sit in those chairs and look out through the superb view of the endless Under Orld in the distance, if not in the middle of the night. A grand staircase leads to the upper and lower floors, located on the north side of the entire floor. On the entire floor, there are only two people in Lin Yiyan now.

At the end of the day, did the Ugeo make it through the 95th floor?

It's been more than seven hours since I was separated from him on the 80th floor. Generally speaking, compared to Lin Yiyan, who had climbed up from the outer wall with great difficulty, Ugeo who went up the internal stairs should have arrived here a long time ago. However, the problem is that what stands in front of him, but compared to the minion who is fighting with us, is not a strong enemy of the level at all, and it is the integration of the knight captain Bel Cooli synthesisone himself. That's a legendary hero who is much stronger than Fanatiano, who staged a fierce battle with Lin Yiyan, whose fate is hanging by a thread, and even more powerful than Alice, who doesn't regard me as an opponent at all.

There is no doubt that Yugeo is also very strong, and in terms of sword skills alone, he may already be above Lin Yiyan. However, sword skills alone could not defeat the high-level integration knights who had already entered the superhuman realm. Only by grasping the blind spots of the opponent, taking advantage of all the conditions around them, and employing tactics that can be described as unscrupulous in a sense, can there be any hope of victory. And the Yagio, which has always been tenacious, can really do this......

Like the tangled Lin Yiyan, Alice was also looking back and forth, and then she said, "That, it has nothing to do with taking a bath or anything...... That companion of yours named Yugeo shouldn't have made it up to this level yet, right? ”

"Huh? Why? ”

"Why, you see, this floor is the only place we can return to the inside of the cathedral that has been thrown outside the cathedral. Just look at the structure here and you'll understand...... In other words, if he had arrived here first, he should have waited for you here now. ”

“…… I see, there seems to be some truth ......" Lin Yiyan crossed his arms in front of his chest and nodded. Of course, there were some words that Lin Yiyan did not say. If Eugeo had passed before the two of them, he would have either been captured or he would have died. Although there is a contradiction with previous speculations, Lin Yiyan still believes that Yugeo is not a character who is so easy to catch or kill.

"And, ...... Eugeo," Alice continued with a pensive expression, though she probably didn't even notice it, and before she knew it, she had called Eugeo by his name.

“…… If he goes up the grand staircase from the Cloud Garden, he will be in the thick of the strongest opponents before he reaches the Hyosung Tower. Encounter with my uncle...... Knight Captain Bel Coolly. ”

For the title of "uncle", Lin Yiyan suddenly became a little interested.

"Is that knight chief really strong?" Alice, who was still wrapped in bandages, smiled and nodded, "I haven't won him once." So, you who lost to me, and Eugeo, who is on your par, can't win either. ”

“…… Well, that's right. However, if I continue to fight like that, I will not lose to you, but ......" Completely ignoring Lin Yiyan's muttering of not admitting defeat, the golden knight continued.

"Not only does my uncle possess super-first-class sword skills, but even the Armed Total Domination Technique has reached an unattainable height. The artifact that the person possesses is a sword piercing that, as the name suggests, can cut off time. Specifically, in the space where my uncle swung his sword, the power of the slash can be maintained for a while, so you can understand that...... Even if a direct attack is avoided, the invisible blade will enclose the opponent's surrounding space without leaking, and if you make a gesture to touch it, your hands, feet, and even your head will be cut off, but if you don't move in place, the entity's sword will kill you with a single blow. The person who fights with his uncle can only eat it alive like a puppet in the face of that person's fatal blow. ”

“…… It will continue, slash ......" It's hard to imagine the whole picture just by hearing these words, but the point is probably that the sword can extend its slash forward in time. When you think about it, it does have terrifying power. Because the essence of the Ain Grant Stream Continuous Sword Technique used by Lin Yiyan and Yugeo was to expand the space and time range of the attack by reducing the power of each blow, and that sword move simply nullified this advantage completely.

What will happen to Eugeo against such an opponent? No matter how stubbornly Lin Yiyan firmly believed that he would not die like this, an ominous premonition still lingered on Lin Yiyan's back. Should you really go downstairs and look for him? But if he had already been caught, he was taken upstairs...... That is, the residence of the administrator, what about the top floor of the cathedral? What if he was now known to the High Priest of all the commands, and had performed some dangerous spells......?

Instilling strength into his limbs, where the fatigue had finally eased slightly, Lin Yiyan slowly stood up, looked back and forth at the north staircase again, and bit his lip. It is now necessary to search for the location of the Eugeo with the Divine Technique, but in principle, all Divine Techniques cannot designate a person who is not present as a target of the Magic.