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◈ I Made a Tier List the Transcendents Are Obsessed With ◈
Chapter 38: The Weight of the Crown
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After the Gallery dubbed it the "Oz Disappearance Incident."
There was one person who rather unexpectedly welcomed it.
"Khahahaha! You bitch, you must be going through hard times!"
It was Celestial Wind, still wandering the Chaotic Rift.
The laughter was so thoroughly delighted that even the chaos wraiths approaching to devour Celestial Wind's soul fled.
'You wouldn't have fared any better, bitch.'
Even within the Chaotic Rift, it was possible to access the Transcendent Gallery.
Celestial Wind naturally never wrote any posts, but could still observe the movements of the Great Heavenly World through it.
And so, all the confusion unfolding in the Gallery.
Celestial Wind was certain it had been caused by the baleful force sent at Oz.
It had been the second most costly attack of an entire lifetime. No matter how high Oz's level was, it must have done some damage.
That was why Celestial Wind had found some pleasure even as Celestial Wind's own true soul deteriorated.
The small satisfaction of having succeeded in taking revenge was a comfort.
"Ha ha... Hahahaha...?"
After laughing madly for some time, the Celestial Wind Daoist saw a post uploaded shortly afterward and stiffened.
[ Damn... The Gallery's a total mess again, isn't it? ] - Oz
I stopped lurking for a bit, and you all turned the place upside down?
The bad Gallery users who always make such a ridiculous fuss
deserve [ punishment ], don't they?
Kidnapping my ass. To celebrate my return, I made another tier list.
This time, it's a tier list for the Seventh-Dimension Saga (the Great War).
I'll rank them based on combined influence and power.
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Comments (3060)
- ?????? What the fuck, you said you were kidnapped.
ㄴOz) Did I ever say it happened to me? And you believed that?
ㄴYou motherfucker, then what was all that stuff about being restrained?
ㄴOz) Did I ever say that happened to me, either? They sleep inside rocks or ice walls themselves, so why are they blaming me for it?
ㄴAh.
- Where's that prophecy-spouting bitch? Get out here right now!!!!!!
ㄴAccording to the Palace of Fate, she's probably still collapsed and asleep after that last prophecy lol
ㄴLooking at the comment above, they really were restrained lol Why are you taking it out on the Palace Lord?
ㄴI'm so pissed, but there's nowhere else to direct it lol
-No Existence) At least check your DMs......
ㄴOldNewbie) This bastard is seriously legendary. They came all the way to our dimension and caused a mess.
ㄴIf they'd stayed any longer, they probably would've searched the Underworld too lol
"......"
Celestial Wind could not help feeling the greatest emptiness of an entire lifetime.
* * *
There were a few principles I had learned during my not particularly long life, at least by Transcendent standards.
One of them was never to fully believe rumors.
No matter how trustworthy the person spreading them seemed.
No matter how plausible an incident appeared, you should never blindly trust it.
The cases of countless celebrities ruthlessly sacrificed because reporters wanted to farm views proved as much.
The Gallery was exactly like that right now.
A chain of stories inflated by piling speculation upon speculation had somehow become a complete narrative.
And once it was revealed that the story was false, everyone began firing air slashes, air punches, and air attack spells at OnlyRegression, the source of the tale.
It was truly a terrible sight.
How could Transcendents be this immature......
"Still, Wendy, haven't you matured a little too much?"
That was what I said as I looked at the kindly-looking blonde middle-aged woman.
She stared back at me with blank eyes.
"Would you like a cup of tea?"
"No, tea isn't the issue. Has Magic Tower work been that hard? When did you suddenly age this much......"
Tears filled my eyes.
Of course, leading an organization was this exhausting.
But who could have expected her to end up looking like this?
"Sthop it......"
Ignoring the incomprehensible sound from beside me, I took hold of the woman's shoulders.
"It's okay. If you take good care of yourself, there should still be hope. I'm sorry I haven't paid you enough attention."
"I thold you to sthop......"
"There's plenty of time from now on, so I'll look after you and..."
"Kyyaaaaaaak!"
With a wildcat's scream, the blonde girl lunged at my head to yank out my hair.
* * *
A little later.
Wendy's fierce act of Destroying One's Teacher and Ancestors (欺師滅祖), in which she had lunged at her master's hair, was subdued.
Judy had held her back as Wendy flew at me in a rage.
"Come on, it was just a little joke."
"That's why you should know when to stop!"
I shook my head at Wendy, who shouted while panting.
Even after all that time, she still did not understand.
Comedy was completed through repetition and taking a joke too far......
Anyway.
After finishing my teasing of that blonde housekeeping android, I was able to have a conversation with Wendy for the first time in a very long while.
Of course, it did not feel like that much time had passed for me.
It felt as though only a few days had gone by.
"......You may have been joking earlier, but I really did have it hard."
"It couldn't have been easy. Honestly, I wouldn't have been confident either."
Leading someone was an endless succession of difficult times.
Just being responsible for Wendy and Judy, these two alone, was already this tiring.
Though for someone supposedly responsible for them, I had left them to their own devices most of the time.
"The old Tower Master has practically half-retired. Everyone knows I'm effectively the one running the Magic Tower anyway, so people keep pestering only me from every direction."
Perhaps even thinking about it stressed her out, because she frantically clawed at her hair.
Unlike Judy, who had grown at least a little, Wendy looked exactly as she had before. But unlike the lively, carefree eyes of the past, her pupils looked utterly vacant.
"I told you before, you can dump the practical work on someone else and live more freely."
"......I should've done that from the beginning. I don't know. I regret it too."
As Wendy herself admitted, this was a disaster she had brought upon herself.
A sigh full of regret escaped from the girl, sixty-two years old, crushed beneath that disaster.
The story went like this.
I had decided to use the Great Method to its limits and cycle through realms, while Judy and Wendy would each study their own paths.
Naturally, Judy grew astonishingly quickly with only a little guidance and help.
In particular, I had her walk the paths of cultivation, martial arts, and magic at the same time, just as in the original work. She had now achieved the late stage of Core Formation, the initial stage of the Life-and-Death Realm, and the First Stage of the Path of Magic.
Her overwhelming growth left me with nothing but bewilderment.
Meanwhile, Wendy had achieved some degree of weakening of the heavenly meridians.
With the blockage hindering her growth cleared, she had gained the requirements to reach the path of magic. Along with that, she had grown quite rapidly and was now just before breaking into it.
The problem was what happened during that process.
"Y-you mean you have it?"
The Tower Master of the Winter Tree Mage Tower.
News had spread widely that the Tower Master, who was cursed to die far earlier than their natural lifespan, was looking for Esherhart.
The rumor began because word spread that Esherhart had appeared on the black market, but it was later revealed to be false.
Perhaps that was only natural.
Esherhart could indeed be found in the Lower Realm.
But even the Lower Realm had its differences. How could such a precious item be found in a weak nation on a low-civilization planet?
Once the rumor was exposed as false, Wendy and I approached the Tower Master, who had been raging in frustration.
"I-I can definitely do it!"
Before I carried out the Great Method for the first time.
Once the Tower Master learned I was an 8-Star Mage, they immediately accepted my demand to hand over complete control of the Magic Tower in exchange for a cure to lift the curse.
If I had intended to seize that position by force, the Tower Master would have had no choice but to surrender it anyway.
How could they refuse when I even offered the spiritual medicine needed to remove the curse as severance pay?
The reason I had made that demand was simply because I needed a place.
A place hidden from outside eyes where I could cultivate in peace.
It did not particularly need to be the Winter Tree Mage Tower.
"I'll give it a try!"
"......Huh?"
But Wendy seemed to feel differently about it.
Perhaps because she had come up to Hyeondeok City at the age of twelve and spent nearly half her life at the Magic Tower.
The fact that she could become the master of the Magic Tower just by advancing her realm had set her resolve ablaze.
I can do it, I can do it.
Along with that burning determination, her training speed doubled.
In any case, I was pleased by her desire to improve, so I encouraged her to give it a try.
Of course, as I said before, I gave her a warning as well.
I knew that position would not be comfortable.
"It won't be an easy position. Are you sure?"
"I should be able to bear that much!"
What did the Wendy of today think about the Wendy of the past who had shouted that?
"I should go back and pull all her hair out."
"......Why are you suddenly so obsessed with hair?"
When I voiced my doubts about that unusually specific violence, Wendy silently lifted the hairbrush beside her with mana.
Then, with each pass of the brush through her hair, Patter-, strands fell out in clumps.
"......Ah."
After one brush, nearly a handful of hair had fallen out in a clump.
I nodded at Wendy's expression, which looked almost enlightened.
"Take it easy."
"......I'm going to from now on."
* * *
There was an eminent female knight-errant in Hyeondeok City.
She appeared like the wind, defeated the masters of martial sects, then disappeared like the wind once more.
She never demanded compensation or forced anyone to take down their signboards in the process.
So everyone regarded the female knight-errant as both a legend and something like a guardian deity.
"......Could it be true?"
This rumor had spread quite widely.
Even within Hyeondeok City, opinion was evenly divided over whether it was true. But any wandering martial artist would naturally be intrigued.
Moreover, this "female knight-errant" was supposedly quite beautiful as well......
Lee Hamyung, a wanderer who had reached completion in the Profound Realm, came all the way to Hyeondeok City because of this rumor.
Lee Hamyung had only one goal.
'I hope it's true, so that I can face her at least once.'
Facing the strong.
Through that, Lee Hamyung could reach a higher realm.
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