Convenience Store 24: The Tower of the End 1st - Chapter 60



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Episode 60 ?? Floor, Dimensional Corridor (1)

‘What? I thought it was a country floor, but it’s a quest floor? That’s a different story.’

The reason why I decided to leave this floor in the first place.

This was because I thought this place was like a foreign land to some national class.

‘But if it’s a quest floor, there’s no reason to leave.’

Rather, I must use this opportunity to achieve my goals.

‘But I don’t think I’ve done anything that would trigger a quest. Well, I guess that’s good.’

The quest’s activation conditions were various, such as meeting a specific NPC or starting the moment you entered the corresponding floor.

‘Rather than that, quest floor, quest floor… … .’

I looked around the outside environment and recalled my memories to figure out which floor this was and what kind of quest it had.

But no matter how much I think about it, nothing comes to mind.

‘It’s strange. No matter how much I think about it, I’ve never seen a quest floor like this.’

My memory may not be faulty.

‘There can’t be a quest floor that I don’t know about.’

How hard have I been studying about tops by watching YouTube!

I couldn’t claim to know everything about the tower, though.

I was confident that I had at least grasped the important points of each floor.

‘But I’ve never seen a place like this before… … .’

I just couldn’t understand it.

There was only one thing I could think about right now.

‘Maybe I… … am on a floor that hasn’t been revealed yet?’

I felt a strange trembling, but I had one question.

‘But up until now, I’ve only fallen on floors that have been conquered. Why is that? If the tower has 100 floors, shouldn’t I have fallen on floors that haven’t been conquered at least once?’

To investigate why it didn’t fall into a floor that hadn’t been conquered before.

I have too little information.

‘And that’s not important right now.’

For now, we need to focus more on the quest that is right in front of us.

I raised my head and studied the message closely.

Quest: ?

Description: In these mysterious hallways, the only thing you can trust is your fairy, Wimpy.

detail: ?

compensation: ?

There is only explanation.

The moment I was about to question the quest window, where I couldn’t find the title, content, or reward.

Forr-

A ball of light flew up in front of me.

[Ah, I’m finally free from the Seal of Chaos! Thank you, Climber!]

“Wimpy?”

[Yes! I’m Wimpy!]

Yeah, I thought you were a Wimpy.

As I called its name, the ball of light twinkled.

Perhaps the guy is just a ‘navigator’ in this endless quest.

[Climbers, you must hurry!]

“Why? By the way, where is this place?”

[This is not just a simple stone passage, but a ‘dimensional corridor’ where multiple dimensions are intertwined!]

At that moment, the quest name written as ‘?’ changed.

Quest: Dimensional Corridor

Description: In these mysterious hallways, the only thing you can trust is your fairy, Wimpy.

detail: ?

compensation: ?

‘Oh, information opening through the navigator? That’s refreshing.’

Wimpy circled around me, who was leisurely drinking his mixed coffee, and spoke in an urgent voice.

[I don’t have time!]

“Why on earth do I have no time?”

Instead of answering, Wimpy hurried to the convenience store door.

I banged my head against the door.

[Ouch!]

Instead of comforting Wimpy and opening the door, I asked again.

Climbers must not be swept away by the atmosphere.

“Wimpy, why don’t you have time? Since you don’t have time, answer quickly.”

The light blinked as if nodding.

[Because this is a strategic point where multiple dimensions overlap, interdimensional wars occur frequently. Recently, there was a war between the Celestial Realm and the Chaos Realm, and the Chaos Realm lost, right? But these crazy things tried to summon the ‘Primordial Chaos’, saying that if they couldn’t have it, no one could. The Celestial Realm did its best to seal it, but… … !]

“Just the point, I don’t have time.”

[… … Yes. The seal has failed, and over time, the ‘Primordial Chaos’ will be summoned. Then, everything will be over.]

aha.

In short, it’s just a time attack type quest.

The parts that were marked as ‘?’ in the quest window have been changed again.

Quest: Dimensional Corridor

Description: In these mysterious hallways, the only thing you can trust is your fairy, Wimpy.

Content: Exit the Dimensional Corridor. After a certain amount of time, ‘Primal Chaos’ will be summoned.

(8:00:00)

compensation: ?

And then, after a while.

(8:00:00)

(7:59:59)

As time begins to tick down.

Wimpy’s light blinked like a sigh.

[The end of the incomplete seal is near.]

“How do I get out?”

[At the end of the corridor, there is a dimensional gate opened by the heavens. I will guide you.]

“Hmm.”

I quietly wiped my chin and opened the convenience store door.

Wimpy flies out in a hurry and spins around.

Clank-

I always lock the convenience store door.

I followed Wompey out and looked around.

Wimpy blinks his light as if to tell you to come over.

‘It’s even stranger when you see it in person.’

The stone corridor, which seemed distorted somewhere, seemed to have an inexplicable sense of instability hovering around it.

‘I had an uneasy feeling when I saw it at the convenience store, but it seemed to get worse when I came outside.’

I frown at the strange sensation.

I hear a sound from far away.

“Hey! Is there anyone there?”

Wimpy’s light blinked violently.

[There must be other survivors besides us! Why don’t we go and talk to them?]

Aha, you’re the type that likes cliches?

A quest style where you advance together with NPCs as companions?

I chuckled as I thought of the quest developer I didn’t know.

‘I’m sorry, but I have no intention of going along with your plan.’

There may be traps lurking in these blatant clichés.

‘I go my own way.’

* * *

Same time.

“No, why aren’t you following the quest line? I even gave you a navigator! Don’t you know what a cliché is?!”

The man looking down at the crystal ball does as he is told.

It’s not a difficult quest.

Just follow the straight corridor until you reach the end.

As if that wasn’t enough, they even gave me a navigator.

Of course, it can’t be called a pure navigator because it has some gimmicks mixed in.

Anyway! Where on earth can you find such a friendly quest?

“If you don’t even know what a cliché is, then just do whatever Wimpy says! Is that hard?!”

The man who had been screaming loudly picks up the bottle next to him roughly.

“Oh my, did I design the quest wrong? If the first climber is like this, then the design may have been flawed from the start… … .”

The man roughly wipes the corner of his mouth and focuses on the crystal ball again.

[Won’t you join us… … .]

[I don’t like it.]

[This is a dangerous place. But if we join forces… … .]

[I don’t like it.]

The ‘Mojiri’ guy in the crystal ball.

I finally managed to get rid of all three of my colleagues.

NPC companions who fail to persuade you to go with them will disappear across the corridor.

[Climber, what on earth are you planning to do… …?]

“I mean, damn it.”

Wimpy’s sighs were soon the man’s heart.

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Time keeps ticking away, but the climber doesn’t even think about moving.

Wimpy is also tired of flying, so he is rolling around on the floor.

“Haa, the first penalty is coming up soon… … Wait a minute.”

In that moment, the man suddenly stands up.

“Is this kid the one who knows clichés better than anyone else?”

But the man immediately sits down again.

“Tsk, but that’s okay. At least I got a hint about the ‘gimmick’.”

The first penalty prepared by the man is the ‘Noble of Chaos’.

A noble from the Chaos Realm who patrols the dimensional corridors.

The core content is to discover the traces of the climber and his companions and pursue them to kill them.

Of course, it is not an easy opponent.

It’s barely possible to deal with her if you satisfy the gimmick that the man has arranged.

This is because the content was not put in to be dealt with in the first place, but was put in to put pressure on people.

Wimpy even gives hints that something scary is coming!

‘You have to do this much to get the hidden reward.’

There are two routes to break through this dimensional corridor.

A classic first route where you quickly make your way through the corridor with your NPC companions, deal with the various dimensional remnants and remnants within the corridor, and reach the end of the corridor.

And, for the second route with hidden rewards, you must get hints from the ‘Heavenly Medals’ that appear here and there while traversing the path with NPC companions.

You must obtain the Celestial Medals, collect them to obtain a hidden treasure map, and then use the map to loot the corpses of the Celestial Nobles who died in the war, thereby obtaining various items.

As time inevitably passes during this process, you will inevitably encounter the ‘first penalty’.

You must weaken the Chaos Realm Nobles that appear as a penalty using the items of the Celestial Realm Nobles you have looted, and then defeat them.

but…….

‘Mojiri’ in the crystal ball did not choose any of them.

“It’s one of two things. Either you give up or you’re confident… … .”

But the climbers who made it this far.

There’s no way I would have given up without even trying.

If so, there is only one answer left.

“Hey, look at this kid?”

A sneer appeared on the man’s lips as he finally reached a conclusion.

“You cheeky brat, do you think you’re anything?”

The gimmick he inserted greatly weakens the first penalty, ‘Chaos Noble’.

What this means is that without the gimmick, the ‘Chaos Realm Nobles’ can unleash their full power.

“Sometimes there are guys like that. I’m the best, I can tear them all apart with brute force, so why bother using your brain?”

The man sat back in his chair.

He reached into a paper bag, took something out, and crunched it.

“I like people like you. People like you, intoxicated with your own confidence, and then, boom! You come across something you can’t handle with your worm-like strength. And after a few hits, you get an estimate.”

Wiping his lips, the man muttered darkly.

“Ah… … I’m going to die here.”

Men loved to convert unbelievers who had strong faith in themselves.

So the man was expecting that much.

I hope that ‘Mojiri’ will use all his strength, cry, beg, laugh, curse, go crazy, sob, repent, and even reveal all the ugliness deep inside him that he doesn’t even know about and die.

Because such spectacles were his best drinking companions.

And the man had no doubts.

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“Oh! It’s coming out!”

His proud creation.

I’ll make sure that cheeky bastard does that.

Whew Whew Whew-

A red magic circle is drawn in the void opposite the destination, in the direction of the starting point.

“Wow, the summoning circle design is awesome.”

Admiring the magic circle he designed himself.

This time, a man looking towards ‘Mojiri’.

“Come on, it’s not too late. Hurry up and kill yourself now. I planned it, but that guy is pretty vicious.”

The man who had been staring at the crystal ball with the corners of his mouth raised tilted his head.

“Huh? What are you saying?”

It looks like ‘Mojiri’ is saying something.

The man reading the lips frowns.

“What? Pop, up… … store?”