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Chapter 153: Help (4)
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"Tell me. Why did he help you?"
Ye Tianwei asked again.
Taylor cleared her throat as she recalled the private messages she had sent.
She couldn't exactly say that she'd gotten drunk and sent Person123 rambling messages.
"...I asked him for help first. I never expected I'd get the chance to train under him personally."
Ye Tianwei glared at her with an indescribable look in his eyes.
"Anyway, then you should also..."
"How could you possibly do something like that?"
He cut Taylor off.
"To take up his precious time. No matter how desperately you wanted to clear the 7th floor, how could you do that? How long, no, since when have you been receiving his help, Taylor? Just how much of his time have you wasted? I cannot condone your actions."
Ye Tianwei suddenly fired off his words like a machine gun.
Taylor was a little dumbfounded.
Sure, Person123 had spent precious time on her, but who was Ye Tianwei to decide whether he condoned it or not?
"It wasn't for that long..."
"Every minute and second of his time is more precious than anything in the world. The very fact that you made him concern himself with training a mere latecomer is a loss and a waste. You should have handled the 7th floor yourself."
"Hey. Let me speak too."
Taylor let out a sigh.
"So you're going to refuse, then?"
"...Refuse? What are you talking about?"
"Person123 told me to ask you too, Ye Tianwei. Whether you wanted to train together."
For a moment, Ye Tianwei looked completely blank.
"...He called for me?"
Taylor nodded.
Ye Tianwei broke into a bright smile.
"Let's go. Can we head there right now?"
"...Didn't you say we shouldn't waste his time?"
"Forget I said that. If he's called for me, shouldn't I naturally follow his wishes?"
Taylor could only stare in disbelief at how quickly his attitude changed.
"To think I'd get to meet him so suddenly... And receive training from him directly? Do I dare accept such an honor? Really? Ah, but I can't let this opportunity pass..."
Ye Tianwei began muttering to himself, seemingly no longer paying any attention to Taylor.
Taylor looked at him uneasily.
'He's not normal after all...'
Of course, she also respected and revered Person123.
But she'd long realized that Ye Tianwei went beyond that. He was a little fanatical.
It'll be okay to bring someone like him along, right...?
* * *
After receiving Taylor's private message that Ye Tianwei had accepted, I immediately arranged another time to meet.
The place was the same cave in the rocky mountains of Zone 3.
When I arrived at the appointed time, the two of them were already there.
I looked at the neatly groomed man with slicked-back hair.
Ye Tianwei, China's representative Nightmare clearer.
I had been a little curious about him myself. About what kind of person he was.
After all, he had led the Climbers who followed the corrupted version of me in the parallel world on the 10th floor.
"It is an honor to meet you. I am Ye Tianwei."
Ye Tianwei smiled and respectfully held out both hands.
I shook his hand.
"Nice to meet you, Mr. Ye Tianwei."
At first glance, he looked like a perfectly normal person without anything particularly remarkable about him.
For some reason, Taylor was looking at Ye Tianwei with a slightly incredulous expression.
Anyway, now that Ye Tianwei was here, we could begin.
Without letting go of his hand, I asked, "Did you hear how Taylor received her training?"
"No, I didn't hear the details."
"Then try not to be too surprised."
I looked at Taylor.
She walked over and took my other hand.
I'd never brought two people into the Mindscape at once, but it should be possible.
The Demon King already meant there was always one extra person, and it had worked fine so far. The item's description also said nothing about a limit on the number of people.
My vision shifted.
As we entered the Mindscape, Ye Tianwei looked around in surprise.
"This is the Mindscape."
I gave him the same explanation I had given Taylor.
Ye Tianwei quickly calmed down and nodded.
"I understand. This is... truly astonishing."
"Then shall we begin training right away?"
Taylor, who had cleared the 7th floor, needed training for the 8th floor. Ye Tianwei needed training for the 7th floor.
I divided the space in half and trained them separately.
The 8th floor wasn't particularly difficult once you understood all the gimmicks.
Taylor only needed to practice solving puzzles while dealing with Sandworm interference and reduce the time spent finding her way through the maze inside the boss's stomach.
I recreated the underground caves of the 8th floor and had Taylor practice the puzzles.
Ye Tianwei began training to dodge arrows on the 7th floor.
Boom! Boom!
At the first checkpoint, Ye Tianwei nimbly dodged the massive iron arrows without using any skills.
I could tell that he'd trained intensely as well.
When I asked, Ye Tianwei said he possessed the Sixth Sense skill...
If so, Ye Tianwei was in a far better position than Taylor.
Of course, I still intended to put him through training just as intense.
"Impressive."
I stopped the arrows and spoke.
Ye Tianwei's face lit up with emotion, and he smiled broadly.
"Y-you flatter me."
...What was that? He was way too happy.
"Let's move on to the next checkpoint."
He quickly passed the second checkpoint as well.
Then we moved on to the problematic third checkpoint.
With the Demon King's help again, I applied the left-right reversal gimmick to Ye Tianwei.
After watching him pass the first and second checkpoints, I had to admit something.
When it came to handling his body, Ye Tianwei seemed more talented than Taylor...
Still, there was no getting around the left-right reversal.
"...!"
Ye Tianwei toppled over and flailed his limbs like a newborn giraffe.
Soon, he got into a four-legged stance and barely managed to stand up.
Why did the phrase convergent evolution suddenly come to mind? Laughing inwardly, I fired an arrow.
"An arrow is coming."
Ye Tianwei barely dodged the first one.
But he failed to dodge the second arrow that followed, and his body burst apart.
There was no other answer but to struggle desperately and adapt.
Taylor had endured well. Would Ye Tianwei endure too?
After hundreds, then thousands of repetitions, I realized that it had been a pointless concern.
Ye Tianwei also kept challenging it again and again without rest, with astonishing concentration and willpower.
During that time, Taylor completed her 8th-floor clearing training perfectly in under ten minutes...
But instead of immediately challenging the 8th floor, Taylor said she would continue practicing and wait for Ye Tianwei to catch up.
She seemed to think it would be easier for me to train them if they kept pace with each other.
After a long time...
Ye Tianwei finally adapted to the left-right reversal sensation and succeeded in passing the third checkpoint.
After that, I had him practice all the remaining checkpoints and prepared him for the 7th floor as thoroughly as I had prepared Taylor.
Once the training was over, Ye Tianwei, like Taylor, said he would challenge the 7th floor immediately.
"I will definitely succeed."
"Yes, you will. Good luck."
Ye Tianwei was calm, without any sign of nervousness.
I tried to lend him the boss item from Zone 6, but like Taylor, he firmly refused.
He said that if he failed even once, the item could disappear, and that absolutely could not be allowed to happen.
It wasn't that important an item to me...
Ye Tianwei entered the 7th floor and returned shortly afterward. He had succeeded.
Now it was time to prepare for the 8th floor.
The 7th floor had been the problem. Ye Tianwei finished his 8th-floor training incredibly quickly as well.
"I will challenge the 8th floor immediately too."
Neither of them rested before saying they wanted to challenge the 8th floor right away.
Their bodies would have fully recovered in the reward rooms after their previous clears, so there was no problem, of course.
Taylor and Ye Tianwei entered the 8th floor at the same time.
Before long, they returned as well. They had succeeded.
Congratulating the two of them on clearing the 8th floor, I said, "Should we rest a little before training for the 9th floor? Don't you need time to recover mentally too?"
Almost no time had passed in reality.
But the two of them had been trapped in the Mindscape and training for quite a long time. At least several months must have passed.
Taylor spoke first.
"I'm fine."
Ye Tianwei also spoke.
"We can't keep making Person123 spend unnecessary effort on us, so we'll clear up to the 9th floor as quickly as possible."
"Unnecessary? Don't think of it that way."
"My apologies. I misspoke."
Ye Tianwei lowered his head.
They really were Nightmare clearers.
Neither of them had normal minds.
- Is that something you should be saying?
We entered the Mindscape again and began training for the 9th floor.
They only needed to find the Circlet of Gingoa boulder where I'd told them, and climbing the mountain wouldn't be difficult if they prepared properly. Even when standing the boulder upright at the summit, they only had to break off a little from its base to stabilize it...
The most difficult parts would be capturing a Golden Monkey alive and defeating the boss.
It was fine. It couldn't possibly be more of a pain in the ass than the left-right reversal gimmick.
I recreated the 9th-floor environment and trained them hard.
In particular, I made sure they thoroughly learned the attack patterns of the giant Monkey boss. Defeating it would take quite a while.
At last, we completed the training for the 9th floor.
"Good luck."
The two of them entered the 9th floor at the same time.
Certain that they would succeed, I waited leisurely.
After quite some time...
Ye Tianwei returned first.
"Congratulations."
I smiled and congratulated him.
Ye Tianwei calmly nodded.
"Thank you."
Taylor returned not long after.
She was happier than Ye Tianwei.
'Good.'
Two new Nightmare Floor 10 Climbers, both Level 90, had been born.
At Level 90, they were overwhelmingly the highest-level Climbers aside from me.
They were around twenty levels higher than even the Climbers who had reached the highest floor on Hard difficulty.
"As I told you, the 10th floor will have different clearing conditions for each Climber. So there's nothing I can do to help you there."
I spoke to the two of them.
"I have no right to stop either of you from challenging it, but I hope you will take your time and approach the 10th floor carefully."
Taylor nodded and asked, "What should I do from now on?"
"...?"
"I am climbing Nightmare solely to be of help to you. I wanted to ask what you think directly. Other than climbing Nightmare, what else can I do to help you?"
Ye Tianwei also stared at me as though waiting for my answer.
What could they do...?
I hadn't helped them clear the floors because I wanted anything in particular.
I did it simply because it was something I could do.
Still, if they were asking... I thought for a moment before answering.
"I will challenge the 12th floor soon too."
"..."
"But I've come to realize something. Even if I continue succeeding in clearing Nightmare, the world can still be destroyed by the Tower's Tiered Floor Rule alone."
I had seen how Seri's world had been destroyed.
After I cleared the 12th floor, there was no telling what kind of hellish thing would appear next.
I looked back and forth between their faces.
"I just want both of you to do your best. Do what you can to stop the world from falling into chaos. That will be enough."
Taylor nodded with a determined expression.
"Yes, I will definitely do that."
Ye Tianwei lowered his head and quietly muttered something.
"I will heed the revelation."
...There was definitely something strange about this person.
Still, both of them were undoubtedly Climbers who were friendly toward me. I hoped they would continue to do well.
The cooldown for Radiant Incarnation was almost over too...
It was about time for me to challenge the 12th floor.
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