A group of people were sitting in circle around a single tent, just by seeing, there seemed to be more than 400 people in number.
All of them were patiently waiting for a single young man who was sleeping inside the tent to come out!
They didn't even have the courage to wake him up!
Two big men who looked like giant brothers were sitting in the forefront of them and another man whose face was completely a mess was unconscious in the far back from where the group was!
It seemed like no one even bothered to look at Jegal Sung, even though he had made his own group numbering more than hundreds of individuals!
In the end, no one helped him and he was left all alone.
They weren't loyal to him, they were loyal to their need in him and now that the needs have changed, so does their loyalty! But that was his fate, it had nothing to do with Michel!
Among the two men who were sitting on the forefront, one was Sura, the same pig-like man that was beaten by Michel on the first day and the other was Murkhan who was beaten by him just this morning!
"So…when I was in control of poison, I tried to attack you and that young man beat me up to save you all?"
Murkhan asked Sura as he heard the whole story of what happened. He also had only woken up just some time ago after Michel knocked him out.
Fortunately 'Soul numbing poison' wasn't anything threatening, as the name played, it only numbed one's senses of reality and its effect would ware off if not given regularly, so he was detoxified on his own after some rest!
"I still can't believe it!"
Murkhan said as an expression of surprise and a stupefied look appeared on his face.
"That you attacked us??"
Asked Linda who was sitting beside Sura.
Murkhan was a kind man who didn't like violence so she thought maybe he was having a hard time believing that he attacked someone else even though it was under the effect of poison.
"No, not that, I can't believe that, a petite young man like him knocked me out"
He still couldn't believe that he, Murkhan, the strongest warrior of the Iron knuckle group was beaten by some young man who hasn't even passed the age of 20.
"I too couldn't believe it at first"
Said Sura, biting off the wild corn that they found on the Island.
"But he is really strong! he was already strong enough before he entered the dungeon but god knows what happened there, he became a real monster and now he even has some skeletons to back him up! just don't have any ideas of messing with him for now"
He warned Murkhan who was still not convinced of his defeat!
"Besides....", A look of seriousness appeared on Sura's face "He seems to be the Heir of Crazy Necromancer"
"..!!", Murkhan was shocked yet again hearing that!
"So, nothing good will come out of getting on the bad side of a man like that, if anything we should make sure he would remember us, even if he isn't the Heir of the Crazy Necromancer, a climber as strong as him is bound to climb to great heights"
Unlike his looks, Sura seemed to be a pretty intelligent man. He was right! No matter how strong Murkhan was, in the end, he was from a no-name planet with a group that depended on him, no matter how much they tried without any backing they could only do so much!
But if they managed to have the Heir of Crazy Necromancer to back them up!! That story would change.
Linda who was sitting beside Sura hearing the conversation got up "There are only 15 minutes till the end of the tutorial, I will go wake him up now!"
She said as she went inside the tent and soon came out with a red-eyed young man who was scratching his stomach and was yawning with his mouth wide open!
"So, did you all manage to collect the beads?"
Straight off to the point! Some people among the crowd got up and came towards him and handed him the golden beads!
"10…11….12, that's 100"
Michel shouted taking the beads from them.
"Good work guys! Ah!.. you there, big guy…"
Seeing that Murkhan was up, he called him out!
Murkhan too looked at him with an emotion that was hard to express.
"I heard that you are the strongest among all the people here, do you wish to join my guild after leaving the tutorial?"
Murkhan was caught off-guard by the question, he thought Michel would ask him some things about why and how he was poisoned, but he asked him a completely different question!
But it wasn't completely an unwelcoming offer, Though he was strong and could somehow manage to find some backing from some big guilds, the same could not be told to the people who followed him!
Murkhan was not a man who could leave his people behind so it was a good offer for him if he could join the guild with his men.
"I….I don't know....if it is an invitation-only for me then I refuse....if you can let all my brother...."
Murkhan was an honest and kind man who took responsibility for the people with him, and everyone with him was orphans that he looked after back on their planet.
But Michel wasn't a kind man like him.
"Murkhan, don't mistake me, I am only inviting you because you are strong?"
Murkhan got silent at his words, It was like pouring cold water on his dreams.
"But if you insist, let me change the condition a bit...Listen, everyone..."
Everyone's ears perked up at his words.
"Whoever reaches the 10th floor within a year, I will let them join my guild, without any discrimination, whether you are a man, a woman, disabled, handicapped whatever it is I don't care, The only condition is that you reach the 10th floor before a year"
Reaching the 10th floor in one year? are you joking...The fastest someone ever cleared the 10th floor from the 1st floor was six months which was a record set by the Supreme summoner, and those who reached the 10th floor before a year were all current rankers or the descendants of some famous rankers, and this crazy man wanted all of them to do that if they want to join his guild? was he nuts? They wanted to say such things to him when they heard him again!
"If you do that and I will make sure to take you to the top of the Tower!!"
An extremely arrogant remark!!
You will take us to the top of the Tower, Is he a retard? No matter how strong he is, he thinks he can climb to the top floor that has yet to be cleared even when all those High rankers are trying so hard?
But somehow three people in the group thought that it wasn't just empty words!
"And you, green hair, you said you will join right? so do mind being the guild manager? how about that?"
He asked while looking toward Linda.
Linda was quite surprised at the offer, but it wasn't hard for her to answer, In the Tower when the strong preyed on the weak, it would be ideal if she could depend on someone strong!
"Hmm…I can do that…wait…who the hell are you calling green hair again"
"Of course, you have to fulfill the condition too", he said ignoring the last part.
Michel who said what he wanted, turned toward the people sitting around him.
"I don't know who you are and how strong you people are, but anyone can join the guild as long as you are strong enough"
Lind was still ranting at him in the back but he ignored her as he said whatever he wanted to say without even listening to their opinion!
Some of them wanted to ask him what if they can't, but as if to hinder their intention a system notification popped up!
Ding!
[The tutorial of the Tower ends here!]
[You have successfully completed the Tutorial]
[The number of people who have entered the Tutorial - 600]
[The number of people who passed the Tutorial- 426]
And soon after the notification, from the crack that appeared in the sky, appeared the cute creature that greeted them at the beginning.
It looked over the whole field from the sky watching all of them who were gathered in the same place.
"More than half of them are passed? was my test too easy?"
The first thing he mentioned as soon as he entered was the number of people that passed the tutorial.
Actually, the number of people who would pass the tutorial would be usually less than half of the whole bunch that entered the Tutorial but cases of participants surviving more than half, like now were unusual.
Well, probably another hundred or so would have died if it isn't for Michel who stopped the fight between the groups!
"Anyway as per the rules, all of you are now eligible for entering the Tower!"
"And everyone who is alive will be provided with 1000 Karma for successfully passing the Tutorial"
Ding!
[You have successfully cleared the Tutorial]
[You have been rewarded with 1000 karma]
"Now that the rewards of the Tutorial are settled, shall we move on to the next thing!"
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