[Void Necklace(Unique)
The presence of this necklace will protect you from enemies trying to search you.
Increases concealment by 70%.
This is a set item: 2/3]
[Void Pen(Ender)
This item grants you a special ability to speak into people's minds up to three times a day, to use the ability to simply think of the item by its full name and say [use].
This is a set item: 3/3]
As soon as he put on the necklace and put the pen into his sub-space, James could completely feel that the area had changed, and after this momentary sensation, another window appeared in front of him:
[Ability Gained [Inventory(Legendary++++)]
Thanks to the combination of void items, an incredibly large sub-space [Inventory] was gained.]
It was only then that James, who had suddenly fallen to the ground after these windows, realised how tired he was. It was as if all the adrenaline in his body had suddenly disappeared, his eyes were blurred and his whole body was covered with perfect pain.
Just as he was about to close his eyes and let himself rest, a sudden voice brought him to his senses:
"COMMANDER LENO!"
James, who had suddenly fixed his eyes on Leon, tried to understand what was happening. Standing up and running towards Leno, James realised what had happened.
Leno was vomiting blood in a gigantic way. His eyes looked like they had drained his life force. This huge man now looked smaller than everyone else.
There were still the sounds of monsters being hunted and the voices of the knights in full swing, but the calmest place in the entire battlefield seemed to be the place where victory had been won.
"Master Leno..." James said suddenly, obviously upset.
"This...good young man...I don't even know your name but thank you, I was sure it was all over but your help saved the people, saved the hunters, saved the knights, saved my lady's statue."
Leno's words pierced everyone's heart like a dagger. James had never expected to feel so sorry for someone he had never met, but seeing this man with such a huge honour start to die seemed to be a huge blow to him.
"I...I'm...sorry, there had to be another way, forgive me," James said, his thoughts racing:
"If I had used the ring, would I have been able to hunt the High Chimera? No, the two of them were too fast, it was hard to even see them collide..."
"It's not your fault, it was the best thing to do...my life is nothing compared to the statue of Lady Persephone," said Leno, he thought it was a sacred thing to die for his goddess.
"I'm ....." James said suddenly, he was about to say something but at that very moment everything came to a halt.
James, who was trying to look around carefully and quickly, realised what was happening at that very moment. The time around him had stopped, the image that started to disappear from the horizon seemed to tell everything.
The mission was complete.
"Thank you for everything," James said suddenly, looking at Leno, whose life force had diminished in his eyes, it was sad enough to think that he was dead.
What comforted him was that nothing was real, none of it was real, was it?
"Congratulations Mr James, it was a great pleasure and honour to watch you."
James suddenly heard a voice speaking towards him and turned his head sharply in that direction. There stood a woman with dark blue hair, teal eyes, horns and wings, pointed ears and white skin, wearing a blue dress.
When James scratched his head as if he did not understand what was happening, the woman suddenly spoke.
"Nice to meet you, Mr James, my name is Leyla, and I am one of the managers of the tower, you can say that I am one of the administrators of this tower, a high-ranked one. What a pleasure to see the person chosen by Chaos himself."
James, whose eyes widened at these words, took a good look at the woman in front of him and then said, "One of the tower managers? Chaos? Can you explain a little more clearly, please?"
James had not yet recovered from Leno's collapse, so the more he remembered that image, the more he was upset and this was affecting him badly, it would not be a good thing for him to be confused at the moment.
"Yes, I am the one who invited you to the tower, and yes Chaos...you call it by another name, but it is enough if you know him as one of the creators," Leyla said in reply.
"Well, I don't want to be rude, but I don't really care about any of this right now, I have a few questions." James suddenly said. Leyla looked at this man for a few seconds as if she did not expect these words and then smiled and said, "Of course, please go ahead."
"This place I'm fighting in...it's instructive, it's all a lie isn't it, it's like a game, it's just a super realistic experience, it's instructive after all isn't it?"
James' questions had wiped the smile off Leyla's face, she didn't seem to expect to hear such questions in the more instructive part of the tower.
"Not really, Mr James. Everything you saw was real. The people you fought alongside, the monsters you killed, the civilians you saved, the Leno you saw die, and the High Chimera you managed to kill in an astonishing way. They were all real."
It was possible to see the surprise on James' face when Leyla gave these answers.
"So... I saved people... a city?" James suddenly said, more of a way of comforting himself than a question.
Leyla's face looked incredibly sour after these words as if there was a hidden answer, and this answer was something that James did not know, or even if he knew it, it would hurt him.
"This thing....those humans and half-humans...You couldn't save them, remember this is just a tutorial. No matter how many people are summoned to the tower, whenever one of them chooses the [hell] challenge, these people always go on that bad day without any memory."
"I beg your pardon? Are you kidding me? How could you do this to them? Why doesn't Lady Persephone try to stop it?" James suddenly snapped and shouted at Leyla, but what he was about to hear was none of what he had expected.
"It's not that she doesn't...she can't."