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Chapter 195: Greed's Summoning Circle (2)
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A message rang out to all humanity once again.
Person123 was telling everyone to accept the two-level reward.
Everyone was confused.
It was completely at odds with his usual strong warnings not to fall for the Tower's temptations.
[Dragon Tamer: What the hell is this? I didn't hear that wrong, did I?]
[Hell: Why is he telling us to receive the reward...? Is he planning to let us collect it first, then use the nullification right?]
[Ice: Doesn't seem like it. He said he'd deal with the boss himself.]
[Starting Point: It'll be okay, right? If everyone takes the reward, the boss will be Level 1,000...]
[Matthew: Have you already forgotten what you saw during the Great Invasion?]
[Joke: How dare you doubt him. Haven't you realized that he has become a being on an entirely different level?]
[Hihahiho: Whatever it is, he's telling us to accept it because there won't be a problem. Would Person123 ever make a choice that could harm humanity, even a little?]
[Jin: Just do what Person123 says. Why are you all talking so much? Two free levels lol]
The two-level reward was already a temptation that Climbers found hard to resist.
As though the reins had come off, the percentage of people accepting the reward began to soar.
Of course, a cautious minority remained.
[Bari: But are we sure this really is Person123?]
[Earth: I can't imagine Person123 choosing something that could put the world in danger just for a two-level reward for everyone... This is the complete opposite of everything he's done so far. Is he planning to use the nullification right if needed?]
[Boomerang: Could this be some trick where the Tower is impersonating Person123? That'd be seriously creepy.]
Some even wondered whether this voice was part of the Tower's scheme to impersonate Person123.
After all, it was far too different from the Person123 they had known until now.
But those doubts had no choice but to quickly disappear.
[Person123: Everyone, please receive the reward.]
Person123 soon posted in the Communication Window as well.
That completely confirmed that the voice really belonged to Person123.
If the Tower could manipulate even the Communication Window, there would have been no point arguing about any of this in the first place.
[Tower999F: It's official, no doubt about it! This is his revelation!]
[Music: It's really okay to accept it, right? I'm taking the reward?]
[Flare: Kyaa! Two levels up!]
[Tony: Thank you, god of humanity T_T Oh, great emperor god, glory, glory, glory.]
In the end, everyone who remained began accepting the reward too.
The Climbers on Floor 2 and above had struck it rich.
Still, the public mood was a mixture of anxiety and concern.
It was Person123 telling them to do it, so of course they trusted him... but would it really be okay?
Governments around the world watched the situation tensely.
Naturally, the Australian government was the most anxious of all.
Key figures from the government and military, including Australia's prime minister, watched the live footage in the situation room.
Tension was plain on their faces.
Person123 surely had a plan, and everyone could feel that he had become godlike.
But the pressure of an unknown threat at Level 1,000 was impossible to ignore.
[Time Remaining for Selection: 59 seconds]
Their expressions grew more serious by the second.
Person123 had still not appeared at the site of the summoning circle, even as the time nearly ran out.
Then, at last, time expired.
[Current percentage: 99%]
The percentage of people accepting the reward stopped at 99%, never reaching 100%.
Of course, there was little meaningful difference between 99 and 100.
[The choices have ended.]
[A Level 990 boss will be summoned from the Greed Summoning Circle.]
The Great Victoria Desert.
Fwoooosh!
With the message, the summoning circle in the center of the desert began to radiate a powerful light.
It was an ominous blood-red glow, as though a demon from hell were being summoned.
That was not the only change.
“...!”
The summoning circle, which had originally been only a few dozen meters across, began growing larger.
It expanded endlessly, as though it intended to cover the entire desert.
Military helicopters and fighter jets flying overhead hurried out of its range.
The summoning circle only stopped after reaching an absurd size, dozens of kilometers in diameter.
Then...
A hand shot out of the summoning circle.
A black hand as large as a mountain.
“...What the.”
It was not an exaggeration. The hand truly was the size of a mountain.
The fighter pilot watching the unreal sight, as though reality itself had become distorted, muttered in a trembling voice.
Soon, another hand emerged.
Rumble...!
The two hands that had protruded from the summoning circle braced themselves against the desert as though climbing out of a hole. The desert overturned, and a sandstorm swept through it.
Slowly, its main body revealed itself.
It was a giant.
No, it was something too large to call a giant.
When it completely emerged from the summoning circle and rose to its feet, its head reached the stratosphere above the clouds.
- ...Th-the boss... has appeared... from the summoning circle...
On the screen broadcasting the scene live, the news anchor stammered with a deathly pale face.
Everyone watching through the screen was dumbstruck as well.
Some Australians could see the monstrous creature directly even from cities far away.
Even the Communication Window's chat froze for a moment.
What... was that?
It was so overwhelmingly huge that the brain refused to process the information.
It was hundreds, thousands of times larger than the enormous rifts during the Great Invasion...
The Level 990 boss was a being straight out of cosmic horror.
“...H-hurry...”
Someone watching television muttered in terror without realizing it.
That was a monster the world could not handle. Earth would be destroyed.
They needed to hurry and use the nullification right to nullify the rule...
Craaack!
At that moment.
A vertical line suddenly appeared down the center of the boss's body.
Then, along that line, the boss's body split in half in an instant.
“...!!”
The boss's divided body tilted to either side.
Rumble...
Before that colossal body, far larger than Mount Everest, could completely collapse to the ground, its corpse slowly scattered away and vanished.
[The boss monster has died.]
[The ‘Greed Summoning Circle’ has ended.]
Messages appeared.
The boss had died the instant it was summoned.
The world fell silent.
For a moment, no one could understand what had happened.
Then...
Waaaaaah!
Enormous cheers erupted across the world.
“It, it's over! It's over!”
Australia's prime minister, who had looked like they could barely breathe moments ago, finally let out a trembling breath.
Person123 had truly defeated the boss.
A Level 990 boss. That impossibly enormous monster.
In a single instant.
The prime minister reproached themself for their lack of faith.
“God...”
It was not a sigh of relief, but reverence directed toward only one being at that moment.
He truly was humanity's god.
[Electricity: Person123! Person123! Person123! Person123! Person123! Person123! Person123! Person123! Person123! Person123!...]
[Person321: What was that? Does that even make sense? lololololololol]
[Emperor Penguin: What else would it be? He's our god.]
[Todi: Person123 didn't even show up? How did he defeat it??]
[Prrrr: He must have remotely executed the boss. Shudder. If he can send messages to all humanity, couldn't he do something like that too?]
[Wildcat: A god... A real god...]
[Person321: Everyone, join the Person123 Church. Worship, revere, and praise him.]
The whole world went wild, revering a single being.
And so, the Floor 18 rule ended both absurdly and wondrously.
* * *
After making the global announcement telling everyone to accept the reward,
I posted separately in the Communication Window too.
[Person123: Everyone, please receive the reward.]
Because there had been a small number of people who were suspicious.
Not trusting the Tower and being cautious was a very good attitude.
But it really was me, so everyone could relax and accept it.
“I'll be back.”
After speaking to my family, I moved to the site where the summoning circle had appeared.
An Australian desert.
I warped there while concealed and waited until the time came.
[Current percentage: 99%]
[The choices have ended.]
The percentage stopped at 99%, never reaching 100%.
There were probably people who had refused because they were still anxious even after I said it was fine, as well as people who had refused earlier.
Anyway.
[A Level 990 boss will be summoned from the Greed Summoning Circle.]
In the end, the boss's level was set at 990.
The summoning circle changed along with the message.
Fwoooosh!
The summoning circle glowed as it grew.
...But wasn't it getting way too big?
It expanded until it was large enough to be said to cover the entire desert.
Tap, tap.
I stepped on the air with Air Step and climbed into the sky.
Rumble!
Soon, a hand as large as a mountain shot out of the summoning circle and braced itself against the desert floor.
Wow...
What was that?
The Level 990 boss soon revealed its entire body, and its size was staggering.
It was an absurdly, ridiculously enormous giant whose head rose far above the clouds.
It was a Level 1,000 boss, or rather, a Level 990 boss, so I had expected something extraordinary to appear...
But it was so much larger than I had imagined that I let out a hollow laugh.
That was all.
I stopped time.
“Let's take care of this.”
I could not sense any divinity from the boss.
As expected, no matter how high its level was, it seemed a god possessing divinity would not appear.
In the end, it was nothing but an obscenely huge lump of meat to me.
I drew the God-Slaying Sword and infused it with divinity.
Then I rose to the boss's head...
Shhhk!
As I descended toward the ground, I slashed downward with the God-Slaying Sword filled with divinity.
Straight from the crown of its head to the end of its groin.
Then I released time.
The boss's body split cleanly in half. It was over.
Its body started to collapse into two pieces, then vanished completely.
[The boss monster has died.]
[The ‘Greed Summoning Circle’ has ended.]
After confirming the ending messages, I activated the warp device and returned home.
I checked the Communication Window and the news.
To everyone else, it must have looked as though the boss had suddenly split in half for no reason.
That had been intentional.
I thought this would inspire more reverence than showing myself fighting it.
I could feel faith growing stronger in real time.
I had weakened the Tower, helped everyone gain two levels, and increased faith as well.
I smiled in satisfaction.
The Floor 18 rule had ended with me squeezing every last benefit out of it.
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