Instantly, Kael turned towards the direction Hans was looking, and there, hovering in the deadly darkness, were two glowing red eyeballs, as if they wanted to devour them both.
"Wha…"
At that moment, time seemed to stop.
The breathing of both of them had also frozen without them realizing it due to anxiety and fear.
They could feel that death was closer than ever. If just one of them stopped paying attention to those two red eyeballs, a Tower Creature would rush out from the darkness and tear them all apart.
Coldly and brutally.
He could sense that the killing intent it was emitting was not normal at all.
Although he had never actually faced a Tower Creature before, that killing intent definitely did not belong to a Predator.
'That means…'
The thing lurking in the darkness must be at least Fiend Rank.
"Hey Hans, did you see what it looks like?"
"…I can't." A short answer, completely out of character for him.
"Why?"
"[Night Eye] can help me see things in the dark, but even so, I still can't see what that Tower Creature looks like. It's like… it's the darkness itself."
What?
What did Hans just say? Even someone like him, couldn't see the Tower Creature's true form when using his Ability?
Did he know how absurd what he just said was?
But… absurdity was one of the things that made up the Tower of Glory.
A place that could make people's dreams come true, but it could also do the same to humanity's worst nightmares.
At that moment, Kael's brain worked at a speed that even surpassed that of light.
In just a few short seconds, he tried to recall if there was a period like this in Tower of Glory's storyline.
However, unfortunately, even after searching through his entire memory, he still couldn't find any useful information.
Except for one thing.
'Hey hey hey, don't tell me…'
A sudden event.
…
Fuck. How heartless could the heavens be?
Kael had only transmigrated to this damn world for a single day, and in this one day, he was already facing a fucking special event?
This was even harder than playing Tower of Glory on the hardest difficulty!
'Alright, I have to stabilize myself, don't be hasty. Calm down… calm down… calm down…'
At the moment, he needed to assess the situation first.
First of all, rushing forward and fighting that thing was the stupidest thing to do in the current situation. Even a child would know that it wasn't a good choice.
Eliminated.
Next.
'Hmm, wait. Something's not right.'
Kael and Hans were still alive.
On the other hand, the Tower Creature was just standing there. No obvious movements.
Was it because it was being stared at by him and the protagonist?
The possibility was quite low, but it wasn't impossible.
And indeed, just like what Kael had thought, as long as the two of them kept staring at it, it wouldn't attack them.
Eventually, after more than 10 minutes had passed without anything happening, the Tower Creature seemed to have lost its patience, as its two glowing red eyes slowly shrank, and finally disappeared into the darkness.
It had left, sparing their lives.
The moment those eyes were no longer there, both of them instantly relaxed their bodies.
Then, filling their lungs with a lot of oxygen, as if it had been a long time since they had enjoyed such fresh, airy air.
However, that was all they could do.
Kael could be sure that things weren't over yet. That Tower Creature would definitely come back.
And only when one side died would everything truly come to an end.
***
"Hey Hans, do you think we should talk about this with the other members of the party and leave tomorrow?"
"...You mean we won't go to that temple anymore?"
"Of course, in a situation like this, who would be in the mood to go there?"
"But do you want to go to that temple?"
"Well, to be honest, I still want to go there. But we can't risk our lives or the lives of the other four."
Kael said and turned to the four people who were sleeping like the dead, completely unaware that if Kael and Hans hadn't reacted in time, their sleep would have become eternal.
"...In that case, we just need to keep it a secret as if nothing happened, right? And when necessary, we can use them as bait."
"...Huh?"
Kael didn't know if it was just his feelings or not, but ever since this journey began, Hans Varun had become quite strange.
And the climax was when he asked the question just now.
If it was the normal Hans Varun, he would definitely choose to return without hesitation. After all, he was a good person, and a good person must protect other good people.
'Unless…' Perhaps, Kael was gradually understanding what was going on.
But at that moment, Hans Varun's voice rang out, interrupting Kael's train of thought:
"Hey, are you mentally prepared to kill someone?"
His voice was low, as though saying this had been premeditated.
"..." Kael didn't answer right away, but instead glanced at his expression.
At this moment, Hans was glaring at the four sleeping people with eyes as if he was looking at a sworn enemy. An enemy that must be killed, at all costs.
And it didn't take Kael long to figure out what the hell was going on.
In the game Tower of Glory, the game developers didn't go into too much detail about the first life of the main character - Hans Varun.
They just said that he was a regressor, along with a bit of information that almost everyone could guess, and that was all.
That's why all the gamers couldn't know the details of what had happened in that timeline.
But seeing what was happening in the present, Kael had gained a little more information.
Certainly, in the first timeline, Hans Varun had met Godfrey's party.
And in that same timeline, they had definitely committed a heinous crime, doing something unforgivable.
Otherwise, why would Hans Varun, even though he was in his second life, still want to kill them?
If this situation continued, bloodshed would be inevitable.
And Kael would naturally have to side with the protagonist.
What other choice did he have?
But… if a battle really broke out, would he be able to kill someone?