The cold stone floor, the red light from my status window, and the senses that I have trained from being a slave warrior all whispered the same words.
I am about dying.
I looked around at my surroundings.
There were many people in this boss room, all of them looking at the corpse of the boss after I cleared the final floor of the tower.
"Holy shit, he really did it!!"
"I thought that he would fail and we'll have to finish the boss ourselves but that bastard killed him all on his own"
"I told you guys right? Ray is the best warrior there is, he has always cleared any floor in this tower that we assigned him to"
"It's a shame that his dying though
"It's fine, he has already served his purpose"
'Well since I'm already dying anyways might as well kill all these bastards that treat me like a dog'
I raised my sword and dash at them striking down those who have their guard down until I was blocked by a huge armor clad knight
Normally I could cut him in half but since I was weakened after my fight with the boss as well as all of the injuries I sustained from clearing the entire final floor alone, I couldn't even make him budge
"You ungrateful lowborn. The Grand Ducal Family rescued you from the slums and this is how you will repay us"
"We should've had you killed after you killed the boss but we even let you live to think of the future glory of our family!!"
All of the men started swearing at me for having killed some of the people here and that was when he appeared.
"Ray."
I turned my head upon hearing that voice, upon seeing him it ignited a raging flame on my heart. A middle-aged man with a pitch black hair clad in a overly ornamented silver robe stepped into my view.
It was him.
The bastard that enslaved me
Grand Duke Robert Von Arcadia.
Like a god of death, his enormous mana began to cause a storm as it spread across the room creating a heavy pressure that make it hard to breathe and this was caused by a single man.
"Yes."
I swallowed hard and respectfully answered him out of habit.
"You have shown a competence that befits your title as my Strongest Warrior. The family was able to climb this tower and reach the final floor long before the others even cleared the 800th floor. This was all thanks to you clearing every single floor."
"I...was...forced to.. do that job."
I pretended like I was resisting something acting like I always did.
"But Ray…"
He spoke softly and authoritatively.
"Do you think that a Slave like you deserve freedom?"
Robert spread out his hand. And his filled th entire room.
"A Slave should just be happy to follow its master's orders. Thoughts, emotions, dreams, and feelings, all of those are meaningless."
"You think...I'd be happy following...a madman like you?...Your...ugh..probably thinking...on how to kill me...right now"
"Then why did you act like that, even though you knew that all that awaits you is death?"
Robert's voice sharpened, becoming cold, and tightened around my heart.
"And you even killed some of our most precious guest. Not to mention that you have broken free from the enslavement mark that was put on you"
Goosebumps formed along my spine. I bit down on my tongue to hide the fear that is forming within me.
'How did he know'
I had not spoken or acted differently than before, and I had not the slightest idea how he found out that the enslavement mark had lost its effect.
"Speak. How did you break the enslavement mark? Isn't it supposed to be unremovable? If you speak now then maybe I might spare you"
At that point, it was clear that he already knew everything if he was acting like that.
"How did you find out?"
I bit my lip and raised my head.
Enslavement mark. It was an item that was found in the 748th floor of the tower. It has the ability to mark a person with an unremovable and unresistable status effect called enslavement just like the name implied.
This status forces the one who gets it to follow every order that the item holder said
And the one who got this time is Robert and his Family.
They abducted or bought young children and, after training them to the death, mark them and used them as warriors for the rest of their lives.
I too was marked, but was able to get rid of the dreadful shackles after clearing the 900th floor.
"Because you were preparing to escape the clan."
Robert continued leisurely.
"I always put three leashes on all of the slaves in the family, this includes you. The first one is the enslavement mark as you know, the second is mental manipulation which is how I know you have gotten free from the mark as I can no longer manipulate your thoughts, and the third is…."
"Ugh! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGHHHHHHH"
I was no longer prentending. I screamed at the top of my lungs as I felt something eating my brain. It was an indescribable pain that I wish would end.
"Mind Eater. This insect is found in the abyss and it is quite unique, it has the ability that can turn them undetectable when placed in your head, it is gouging your brain as we speak because of my command."
"Mind... UGH!!...Eater?…."
It was something I never heard of before. But then I remembered all of the experiments he had done before and opening up the abyss was one of them. It seemed that Robert planted this to him in his sleep and had planned to use this insect as a fail safe incase I planned to escape House Arcadia .
"I-it's not enough to put on a façade of a hero and claim to return the world back to normal, you even went so far as to have a parasite lodge in my brain? You insane bastard!"
"It's not something I would say as being insane. I'd prefer if you called it being thorough. And you did actually break free from the mark. Was it in the 900th floor I remember you being quite happy back the although you tried your best to pretend to be calm"
Robert smirked, the berating and mocking smirk that he always show me when we're alone.
"There is a saying that you must always prepare backup plans incase your original plan didn't work out. This is also the reason why I let you clear this floor solo. I can't believe you didn't even noticed"
"Robert Von Arcadia!!"
I clenched my teeth. I raised my body, stifling the nightmarish headache that I'm experiencing.
I could not die without doing something that will harm that bastard one way or the other.
I was abducted a couple of years after reincarnating here, and was enslaved to become a dog for House Arcadia .
Despite reincarnating in this world, I had lived, forgetting all of the dreams that I have, and only coincidently managed to break free from the mark.
I had thought that I could finally live and explore the world of this tower after I cleared the final floor, but it was not the light of hope that I thought would greet me in the end but it was despair and death.
What sort of sin had I committed that forced me to live like a dog, I lived a quiet life in my past life following all of the law and only dying because I was killed by a psychopath!!!
Damn it!
The flames that was raging within my intensified.
"You can still stand while having half of your brain eaten?"
Robert' expression wavered a little.
"You bastards will come with me."
I activated one of the skill I received while climbing the tower[Final Struggle] it is a skill that reallocate all of your stats into two stat of your choosing and ignore all of the damage you take for a minute in exchange you will slowly die after the effect is over. I chose Strength and Agility
I instantly gained a surge of energy within me
'If I will die here, I might as well use a suicide skill to take them all with me.'
I would not go down without a fight. At the very least, all of his followers… No, I would kill all them all and then die here, starting with that fat bastard.
"Aaaargh!"
After only 30 second, I have killed every single one there exept for Robert.
We were the only people left in the room.
"Ever since I regained my conscience I have been dreaming about the day that I would kill you and get my revenge."
I concentrated all my aura in my legs, the concentrated aura then exploded propelling me in front of Robert.
Robert became flustered and at that moment I grabbed his neck
"This...is…impossible."
"Why do you think its impossible?"
I tightened my grip on Robert's neck
"Have you already forgotten who I am? Weren't you just boasting about me a few moments ago? You called me your Strongest Warrior!"
"S-stop this! Stop this right now!"
Robert hurriedly cast spells left and right.
Flames, ice, lighting, and many other elements started to go towards me in every single direction.
As I swung my sword, the aura that shot out turned into a tidal wave and swept over the spells he lunched.
"A-ah, no…this can't be happening...this is just a nightmare...Yes this is only a nightmare"
Robert was babbling nonsense at the ridiculous sight that he saw.
"P-please spare me… P-please…!"
He then started begging after he realized that this was reality as I curled my lips and said.
"Go rot in hell."
After that [Final Struggle]'s effect ended and I was slowly losing consciousness satisfied about what I have done when suddenly.
Clap clap clap
"What a magnificent display of power"
I saw Robert standing in front of the boss room's door slowly clapping his hands along with all of his followers
"H-how…?"
"Hmm?... Ah! Looks like you forget about this"
He pointed at his wrist and I realized that all of the opponent I had faced were just clones.
"Have you already forgotten what I told you? You should always have back up plan in case you plan failed."
After that Robert shot a wind blade at me .
And the world spun as Robert's cold eyes and the room flipped upside down.
I already knew what had happened. My head had been cut off by Robert's magic.
However, As a last act of defiance I throw my sword towards Robert but it was shattered by his magic.
However the frightening aura hidden behind the broken sword flew towards Robert cutting off an arm
"Even until your final moment your still doing useless stuff"
Robert reached out to his robe as if annoyed. Pulling out a potion and drinking it. After that he instantly fully recovered.
As expected…
Robert was a mage said to be the strongest and smartest in the continent. It was expected that I would be unable to win.
Knowing him, he probably has prepared everything he could just to take me down, and I did not, I only was able to think of a single plan. It could not be helped.
But the unquenchable rage that had begun to spread throughout my very existence surge like an explosion
It was unfair, in my previous life I did everything right, following the law helped elderlies and in the end I was killed by a psychopath and in the entirety of my second life all I remember is that I had been enslaved with by Robert doing everything he commanded, this is just really unfair.
I could not die this way.
If only I could turn back time I will do everything to kill that bastard. As I was lamenting on my life I heard a mechanical voice
[Do you wish to use the reward "Wish Granting" to go back to the past?]
[Yes/No]
…What?? When did I received this??
I was confused but I immediately answered yes and before I knew it I was returned back to the slums of the first floor.