Evil God Chapter 63

The huge tower's passages, and everything arranged in it were all huge.

I *zukazuka* walk in the front.

"Ah."

Adrigori's voice leaks.

"Nn?"

I turn around.

"Dowaa!"

I receive the chop attack of the statue beside me.

"Well, if you're not careful, that'd be a death trap, but since it's Ashtal-sama, you'll be fine."

The old man said that like it was nothing.

Well, in reality since I have my omnipotent barrier(Sanctuary), I didn't sustain any damage.

Since I'm in the front, I'm the one who discovers the traps.

Well, I guess it's fine.

When I don't mind it and proceed, several tens of monsters became visible in the distance.

No, they're not monsters.

It'd be more correct to call them robots.

"Those are the soldiers of the ancient empire. They're something called an armor species." (HELP: 機甲種)

The old man explains.

Their two arms are something like gatling guns.

Each gatling gun has 4 gunports.

Their lower bodies are caterpillars. Their upper bodies are humanoid robots.

On their shoulders, they have 2 gun barrels.

"Hou hou."

"However, since this is the first floor, these are small fry right?"

Anyways, let's try it.

When I get a little closer to them, a beep sounds, and an armor species attacked me.

Gagagagagatu!

Their gatling gun arms spin, magic bullets come to me.

They come in four colors of red, blue, yellow, and green.

They probably correspond with fire, water, earth, and wind respectively.

Dondontu!

White and black magic bullets come from the tank type armor species.

They were the attacks of the light and dark attribute.

"I see, so we're being attacked by all the attributes."

While analyzing that, I received a magic bullet.

To be precise, I'm repelling it with my barrier though.

I punched one of them.

It broke easily.

"Ball of fire(Fireball)"

When I casted that magic, a number of fireballs with a diameter of a few meters were formed.

I release them all at the armor species.

Even the armor species that didn't get directly hit were destroyed by the shock wave.

"Oh, brilliant."

Adrigori is clapping with a serious face.

"Mu. The floor of this building didn't break."

It was unscratched, even with that magic.

I was surprised by that.

"This building is dreadfully sturdy. Of course, if Ashtal-sama were to try his best, it might be possible to break it, but we'd be troubled if you destroyed the entire tower."

"I know, I'm not going to do that."

I lightly wave at Adrigori, and answer.

The wreckage of the destroyed armor species moved to the edge, as if to draw us in.

Then, the floor at the edge *patto* opened, and the wreckage recovered.

The old man points at that.

"The Crystal Tower seems to have been automatically working like this. It's been thousands of years after all, it must self support its own energy."

"It's masters, the ancient people have already been destroyed, but they must have been conscientiousness."

It seems that the restored wreckage is reprocessed, and another armor species is made.

After a while, it'll be rearranged into the formation.　

While receiving that explanation, I move forward.

In the back, there was an elevator-like something.

We got on it, and moved to a higher floor.

"However, they were small fries."

Adrigori reacts to my honest impressions.

"It's because it was still the first floor. Although, even at the 15th floor which I've been to, there weren't any enemies that could threaten us, let alone you."

"No, the armor species' attacks seemed like they'd be pretty painful though. Your weak attributes are always included in them, so."

Serena is somewhat amazed by our inhuman conversation.

"We don't have a weak attribute."

Evil gods all have the evil attribute.

It's not one of the four attributes of fire, water, earth or wind.

It's neither light nor dark.

It's the seventh attribute.

The evil attribute is a flat attribute with no attribute it's weak against, but also without an attribute it's strong against.

"The first floor is something like a test floor. From the second floor on, each floor has it's own gimmick."

"That sounds fun."

I got thrilled, just like I would before a game.

Second floor.

A large room where six hexahedral panels are spread on top of the floor.

"It's a damage floor! Damage from poison, flames, thunder, etc will randomly come, so you need to avoid it while fighting."

Serena and the old man weren't participating, and were advising us from afar.

"Okay."

"Hou."

"I see."

The three people on the panels.

Adrigori, Jeko, and I state our thoughts.

Poison doesn't work on evil gods.

We'll immediately recover from slight damage.

Ah, before that, I have a barrier too.

It's a floor of 0 damage.

The enemy armor species were fighter aircrafts that flew through the sky, and were helicopter-like enemies.

When I *peshipeshi* shot them down, it ended.

Third floor.

"When the boss' HP is cut by half, it'll call more armor species. You can beat the small fries first, but when their numbers increase even more, it becomes more difficult to take care of them. You can leave someone in charge of taking care of the small fries and attack the boss, or you can clean up all of the small fries. Your tactics are challenged here."

"Ah, sorry, the boss instantly died when I hit it."

Serena was taken aback, and didn't close her opened mouth.

The gimmick misfired.

Fourth floor.

There were two large humanoid armor species.

The one on the left had a sword, and the one on the right had a shield.

"Of course, the left side has high attack power and the right side has high defensive power. Common sense tells us that the left side can be easily defeated, but if you attack and defeat the left one, the right one will explode. Its power depends on the remaining HP of the right one, so if defeat in full condition, it’s dreadfully powerful."

"I see."

I nodded, and struck the left one.

A *bubuu* sound echoed as if to tell us it was the wrong choice, and the right armor species was wrapped in light.

Dogoooooooon!

A large explosion occurs.

"Gehotu! Stop being so sudden!"

I ignore Adrigori's protests.

"Eh, we’ll be okay, but we have Serena-dono with us."

"Ah."

I realized it when I’ll pointed it out to me.

When I hurry up and look over to her, the old man had protected her, so she was unharmed.

"I’m sorry."

I apologized, but Serena wasn’t even looking at me.

"No, since Julius-sama protected me I was okay, it’s fine."

Serena was just holding onto the old man.

"As long as you’re fine."

"No no, no thank you, but umm……can I stay like this for a while?"

Somehow, they went into a world just for the two of them, so I hurriedly rushed forward.

It’s my fault, so I can’t complain about it.

Fifth floor.

One huge turtle-like armor species was waiting for us.

"Its main body is protected by a super strong shell, so it’s near invincible. When you begin to attack it, a few smaller turtles will appear. You should weaken and capture them. When the main body gets closer to you, it’ll stick out its head, so attack that."

Serena explained that, but she was somewhat negligent.

"Okay, it’s coming."

I perform a suicide attack towards the main body.

Then, I hit the boss.

"Mu, it’s hard."

It didn’t even give an inch from my attack.

"Ah, finally the gimmick worked."

For some reason, Serena was relieved.

"In that case!"

I remove the ring that was suppressing my jaki.

"Haaaaa!"

I build up my jaki, and hit it.

A *barin!* sound was made, and the shell broke.

"Hoatatatatatata!"

I continued to hit it, and destroyed its main body.

"I don’t even want to deal with these guys anymore."

Serena let out a sigh.

"The only one rampaging as he likes is Ashtal-sama though."

Adrigori calmly retorted.

Then, we went forward to the next floor.

Chapter end