Volume 22 Chapter 10, A Final Addition

The dead were piling up.

In the arena where the martial arts tournament was held, party members of the winning team, who had successfully won this year’s tournament, were lying face down.

The cause was standing in the center of the arena.

Additionally, the cause had hardly moved since the battle began.

The winning team ended up without a single scratch on its opponent.

On the contrary, the champion team was in the same condition as before.

The teams seemed to be excited to be playing against a strong opponent, but they were unable to do anything.

The spectators, too, applauded the overwhelming strength of their opponents, who had put the winning team in such a state.

Why was this happening in the first place?

After the final match was over and the awards had been given, there was one last exhibition match waiting for the winning team.

Of course, this was after all the fierce battles that had just been fought.

The MC firmly asked the winning team if they wanted to play one more match.

And all the members agreed to fight, with bated breath.

The winning team had to fight a team from the same group that conquered the Amamiya Tower, and it was only natural that they decided to go for it.

The rumors of the party that conquered the tower had reached the level of legend among adventurers.

Even though a year had already passed since the town was established, and despite all the arrangements that had been made, not only had they not conquered the Tower, but they had not even been able to see the full extent of the tower yet.

In fact, the information provided by adventurers on the front lines suggested that it would be impossible to conquer the Tower at this point.

This was because they had arrived at a floor where advanced monsters were roaming around.

It would be impossible for current adventurers to conquer that floor.

The party that conquered Amamiya Tower was able to conquer all of these floors, and that was why they were controlling Amamiya Tower today.

Their strength was undoubtedly the highest level of any adventurer in existence.

It was a rare opportunity to directly challenge those adventurers.

Such an opportunity did not come along very often.

It was only natural that the winning team would be excited to test it out.

One of the contenders was a masked person named Mitsuki, who had been asked by Gazeran to join the competition.

Mitsuki agreed to join after getting Kousuke’s permission.

Originally, she was interested in the strength of the adventurers who were conquering the Tower.

The result, however, was, as you can see.

“I guess they won’t be able to conquer the Tower anytime soon.”

The leader of the party, who had managed to recover from the damage, responded to Mitsuki, who muttered this unintentionally.

“For reference, how strong do we need to be to conquer the Tower?”

“Well… I think you need to be strong enough to overpower a dragon by yourself at least, you know?”

Needless to say, when Mitsuki said that, everyone in the party said, “That’s impossible”.

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“You really went all out, didn’t you?”

Collete, who was watching from a special seat, said happily.

“No, it was probably because they might have gotten injured if you didn’t do it like that, right?”

“Really?”

Wanri looked at Kousuke’s face, filled with curiosity.

“Those guys, if she had taken more time, they would have launched one of their big moves. If you returned that, it would inevitably hurt the other person. So beating them up quickly was to prevent them from getting hurt by their own moves.”

Haku looked at Kouhi, and Kouhi nodded in response.

Indeed, Kousuke was right, and it was for this reason that Mitsuki quickly took them down.

However, it was a martial arts tournament, so the participants probably knew that there would be a certain number of injuries, but it was better not to injure them.

Besides, the strength of the members of the Tower team had been shown, so there would be no problem.

Of course, Mitsuki confirmed with Kousuke in advance what level of strength she would be allowed to demonstrate.

The current result was within that range.

The reason why he allowed Mitsuki to participate this time was to put a stop to the rumors that were beginning to circulate.

Some of the rumors were getting outlandish, and they needed to be put to rest.

The timing was perfect because if things went wrong, it could have ended up like Kouhi’s earlier outburst.

“Oh jeez. I didn’t expect for them to be dealt with so easily.”

It was Gazeran who approached laughing.

Kousuke and the others were seated in a special section, but there were other invited guests as well.

All of them were wearing masks, so their faces were not recognizable, but they were still attracting a lot of attention.

Aside from Kousuke, who attended the inauguration of the temple before, little information about the other members of the group was known.

“That’s what you were after, right? You even went to the trouble of inviting her.”

“Well, that’s part of it.”

Gazeran came over and said simply with a grin.

Some rumors were even beginning to circulate that they might have taken a different route to capture the Tower without any fighting.

Gazeran, who had seen Kouhi and Mitsuki in person, knew this was not true and wanted to put the rumors to rest.

He also wanted to stop adventurers from following the rumors and doing foolish things.

Of course, Kousuke knew that he was aiming for that, and gave him permission to do so.

“Well, that’s all right, but did you accomplish your goal?”

“Yes, it made things easier.”

“That’s good.”

Kousuke also smiled under his mask.