The Late Cook Ascends the Tower - The Late Cook Ascends the Tower chapter 22

22 – Episode 22. Prudent Death_(2)

‘How many turns have you already made?’

Flick checked the rest of the deck.

Now there are only 7 chapters.

So, that means I wrote 51 cards, but is it like this after turning that many cards?

[Current remaining HP: 50]

Most of the guys I met on the 1st floor used to win or lose in two hands, or 10 cards.

I lost my mind at the enormous damage inflicted during the penalty time, or I knelt down myself.

But why?

No matter how many dozens of costs you spend, no matter how many dozens of cards you spend…

His turn never ends.

“Knock Knock Knock! Is that the conclusion you came to after thinking about it for so long? [Full Swing] If you use a dog poo card, you want to hit it again and again!”

Hook! Hooked!

[Current remaining HP: 38]

“Quaaagh!!”

“It hurts? It hurts? Then, let’s do something that doesn’t fit this turn. Hurry up and play the next hand!”

After returning to the first floor, I gave up on morality. I decided to become a demon in order to survive.

However, that guy was a villain who was more than two orders of magnitude ahead of himself.

To the subject of memorizing those countless cards. Even so, the monster that reversed the tower.

Choose only normal attack cards and hit them.

‘Am I… just about that level…? To the point where I could win even if I gave up my hand… And just picked a regular card!’

In the original world and also in this world.

Even on the day I climbed to the 4th floor, a sense of humiliation that I had never tasted covered Flick.

This didn’t make sense.

No matter how unfavorable the situation is, as long as the world returns to the workshop, my turn will surely return.

The reason his turn doesn’t end is…

‘Yes, because my judgment is wrong.’

The sound of laughter tinged with madness echoes throughout the room.

“Knock Knock Knock! How long are you going to keep an eye on it!? Do you think you’ll win if you know my hand? Just do your thing!”

A normal attack that deals 6 damage rips through my whole body like a drizzle, and I couldn’t come to my senses because of the pain and laughter.

Flick closed his eyes in the chaos.

After losing 50 stamina, I quietly accepted the gap with my opponent.

Then he raised his arm and covered his neck.

In my head, I put the card down.

It’s humiliating, but everything he said was right.

This is because I tried to figure out his hand and deal with it.

Because I saw the attack and defended it to block it.

Because I panicked and overplayed attack cards.

Every time my turn was wasted, he ended his turn.

He skillfully hid his own gaps within my gaps.

Then what should I do?

Now it’s my turn to do my job.

Catch your breath slowly.

Shudder runs through my body.

He felt his sense of true sword fighting awaken after a long time.

‘Forget the cards now. Just one moment. Once is enough.’

As soon as I stopped using the card, it slowed down dramatically, as expected.

“Ah, what is it? What have you realized now?”

Hook!

Hook!

[Current remaining HP: 32]

[Current remaining HP: 26]

Now, the opponent spreads his distance and uses attacks and dashes to slowly drain his health.

Seeing that, Flick smiled.

‘As expected, this bastard is also afraid of revealing gaps. If I find that gap, it’s my victory.’

What Flick paid attention to was the feet.

When the street was wide open, he would always bounce his feet and cross it.

And the instant it attacks, it accelerates rapidly.

He checked it over and over again, so it was clear that he had a habit. As he casually raises his hand when he guards himself.

And judging from my experience, it wasn’t something that could be fixed in an instant.

Especially in combat situations.

Because battle dyes people into madness.

That’s why the bouncing foot and the sudden acceleration slow down.

That moment will be his last.

With just one unique card taken from the 4th floor, everything will go back to nothing.

[Skull Crusher/Battle Card: Deals 18 damage to the target. On hit to the head, adds 10 damage and stuns. ★★★]

And at that moment, I finally found Flick.

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That the feet of the guy approaching for an attack slowed down.

I laughed.

‘Ha, it was like this.’

If I had been a little calmer, it would have ended a long time ago.

The way to hide the penalty time is so crude.

He’s pretending to attack, but now his penalty time was clear.

A trick to induce defense cards with false attacks or to buy time.

This time it won’t go the way you think.

“This is it, you son of a b*tch!”

The effect of camouflage attack is excellent, but the disadvantages are also clear.

Because I have to rush at the enemy in a defenseless state.

Looking at that moth-like appearance, Flick thought.

Yes, if you stay calm like this, you can beat anyone.

Now that I realized this, I might be able to go to higher places in the future.

Let’s stop staying on the first floor and go up the tower.

And thank you from the bottom of my heart.

For the mighty enemy who taught you such a valuable lesson, and for giving it a chance out of foolish carelessness.

Boo-woong!

The moment the stick hits the guy’s head like that.

The figure of the enemy disappeared before my eyes, and a voice came from the side.

“Did you think my turn was over? I just walked.”

‘Is this… Dash? Was there any cost remaining?’

And then the excruciating pain that followed.

Hook!

“Quaaagh!”

“Did you get excited and hit it for 3 cost? Then it’s time to die. Critical blow honey!”

[Current remaining HP: 16]

“aaa!!!”

Amid the terrible screams echoing through the labyrinth, Flick’s lessons were shattered.

And he looked up to confirm the exit.

I started to run away at an extremely slow pace.

‘In a game of swordsmanship… walking on purpose? I might die, just for a trick?’

The opponent was a monster.

More than what I saw on the 4th floor.

A monster that cannot be understood or confronted with Flick’s common sense.

He was nothing more than a clown dancing in the grip of a monster.

From experience, there was only one thing he could do in this situation.

To run away with all one’s might.

That became the new truth of Flick.

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“What is it? Where is the man You still have stamina left.”

It must have been about 10 minutes.

After nearly an eternity passed, Flick started to run away.

He crawled to the exit at a slow pace, then ran like crazy as penalty time expired.

I slowly followed him.

After fighting, I can understand his way of thinking.

Even at the moment of running away, the returning soldiers will be afraid and run away on my own path, not the way they came.

As expected.

When I went backwards and returned to the boss room, I saw footprints leading to the gnome’s shelter.

Perhaps they think it’s safe because it’s the way I’ve been…

“Hey~ There is a very bad room in front of it. Will you be okay?”

No answer came back.

Instead of that, a tremendous scream is heard.

“Quaaa!!”

As expected, Flick jumped straight into the aisle.

At first glance, it’s a trap room, but how scared you are, you can’t even see the dead body.

In the passage, you can see Flick trembling with an arrow stuck in his foot.

“Ehh, idiot. I’ll save you, so don’t mess around and stay calm.”

I grabbed him by the collar and pulled him out of the aisle.

Now Flick looked me in the eye without a hint of resistance.

What did I do that made me shudder like that?

“Sa… Save me…”

“Tilda said the same thing to me.”

“Sorry, sorry…! I want to live… I really just wanted to live…”

“You know, you know. I couldn’t help but live So I’ll save you.”

“Yes?”

“It will save you.”

“Gee, really? Are you really saving me?”

“Well then. I’ve never lied in my life. What if the potion you stole from Tilta remains in your inventory? Then you live, or you die. Isn’t it simple?”

“There is! There is!”

“Oh, what a lucky guy. Didn’t you manage to use it?”

When I looked in her asshole, I couldn’t see Tilda.

Is it still inside?

As I approached the dog hole with Flick, I saw an arm protruding from the hole.

‘What…’

No way… I’m not dead.

It felt like my heart was racing.

Evidently, I had some stamina left, and there was no blood loss.

I hurriedly reached into the hole and grabbed the dog tag…

[HP : 6/100]

[Stunning]

‘Phew, I thought he was dead.’

He had the same physical strength, but instead had a stun card in his deck.

Something like this happens when you run out of energy. You have to remember

In addition, new information is increasing.

I took Tilda’s hand and commanded Flick.

“Hey, put that potion in your hand. Then you are free.”

“Gee, really?”

“I don’t lie.”

Flick’s eyes were full of anxiety, but he quietly did as I ordered.

Now the potion is in Tilda’s hand, and it must have become Tilda’s item according to the party contract.

It’s the same as when I stole it.

Flick looked at me and said.

“Then can I… go over there now?”

“No?”

“Yes!?”

“You’re being fooled like that, Flick! When will you grow up!”

“You f*cking bastard…! Do some work! If you made a promise, shouldn’t you keep it!”

“Isn’t it? Would I be a bad guy if I betrayed like this? That’s right, keep your promise.”

“That, yes dude. I promised to save you…”

From a mean expression to an angry expression, and now Flick laughed as if he were a god.

He tapped him on the shoulder and said.

“Flick, I am here. Did you scold Tilda? You shouldn’t trust people so carelessly. The child is so immature… There will be no such thing in the future.”

“That’s right… A young child can do that. How scary is the world This kind of thing doesn’t happen because you write contracts like that.”

“Isn’t it? But why do you hate me Wasn’t it your fault?”

“This… Bastard!”

Pu-wook!

Slightly on the shoulder blades.

As soon as the dagger was pushed in, Flick collapsed on the spot like a doll whose batteries ran out.

Kung-!

Whew, it’s quieter now.

Now you can see Flick’s corpse on the floor, and Tilda’s arm before it becomes a corpse.

And I just killed a man.

When I came into TOE and saw that there were other players, I knew this would happen someday.

‘As expected, murder is embarrassing.’

But is it because the other person is evil?

Or is it because of my racial trait, [Quick Adaptability]?

[Fast adaptability: Unclean sensations and status ailments decrease rapidly.]

Sense of guilt quickly dissipates, leaving pain in its place.

“aaa… That hurts so bad…”

It was so painful that even sitting on the floor was difficult.

I leaned against the wall and barely lay down, checking my remaining stamina with my dog tag.

[HP : 21/100]

‘If the last one was correct, I would have been 100 percent behind. After…’

How foolish you were to pick a fight with Flick.

The power difference was overwhelming.

I didn’t see an angle to win even though I cheated so much, so I ended up using an extreme method.

It was an improvisation I discovered on the spot.

In TOE, if you block only 1 damage with a shield in any attack, you can hear the sound of the shield breaking.

Also, while the enemy can check the damage they have received, they cannot see the damage they have inflicted on the enemy.

It was a method conceived from that point.

Using only one defense per turn, making the sound of the shield popping, and then holding back the pain pretending not to have been hit.

That’s why he must have thought my cost was around 5.

In fact, they didn’t even know they were being beaten.

‘Ugh… It was a really stupid idea. Thanks to you, I won…’

Thanks to you, I will be sick.

There were also two [Fractured] Cards in my deck as if my ribs were broken.

The reason why my laughter got louder was actually because I was sick.

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Even thinking about what would have happened if Flick hadn’t been a coward, he feels dizzy.

So if I don’t finish my deck sooner or later, I might really die.

So even more so.

This reward is important.

I hear a refreshing voice that blows away all the pain in my head.

『Defeat the mid-boss monster [Flick Proudkill]!

Acquire a card as a reward.

Choose your reward from three different cards.

Acquire artifacts as rewards.』

After that, three cards appeared in front of me.

And even a treasure chest on the floor.

As I expected.

The reason there was no boss in the boss room is because Flick was my boss monster.

My farming target determined by the tower.

That’s why he died.

It’s not like pathetic revenge.

Perhaps it’s because of the racial characteristics, I feel like the pain is gradually going away.

Since no one is there, let’s scream.

“I won, baaar!!”