Vol.3 Ch.149: New Participant 4

New Participant 4: This is the hundred and forty-ninth chapter of Volume 3 of Tower of God. Matte and Zamzam continue their fight, which gives Cha and Jinsung cover to escape, with insider Goruro noticing and escaping alongside them. Meanwhile, Yuri and Tiara are fighting and Yuri finds out about the power of writing.

Synopsis
In the lower floors of Viridis Parus Hotel, Cha and Ha Jinsung are discussing the current situation over their Pocket, since they both just heard an explosion and from Jinsung's room he can see many snake strands enveloping the higher floors, which makes Cha want to go and help Twenty-Fifth Baam. However, Jinsung disagrees since they would be breaking the rules and they have already called for Ha Yuri Zahard's help so it should be fine and they should rather focus on escaping themselves. Cha says that it won't be easy to leave Lo Po Bia Family Mothership since it belongs to one of the 10 Great Families and he asks Jinsung if he has a plan, but Jinsung just says that the Lo Po Bia Family is not as strong as they seem at the moment, which makes Cha question what Jinsung knows to make him certain of this. Jinsung cuts the conversation short when he sees Po Bidau Matte Ha riding Sharknose while fighting Lo Po Bia Zamzam, with Jinsung recognizing Matte as an intruder, making it the optimal time to try and escape.

Meanwhile outside the Hotel, Zamzam wants to go after the book but since Lo Po Bia Traumerei ordered him not to interfere he cannot investigate inside the hotel. Zamzam decides to instead focus on his fight, with him recognizing Matte as a likely striking Spear Bearer, so he decides to do a feint just when he is inside the range of the spear, then speeding past Matte's effective range and hitting him in a close range melee attack. However, Matte lets go of the spear with his left hand and punches Zamzam when he gets close enough, causing Zamzam to be confused and Matte to reveal that he is not a spear bearer and the spear is just ceremonial. It angers Zamzam that he was tricked and he grabs hold of Matte's fist and tries to crush it, but Matte activates his Body Reinforcement and transform his hand into concrete before swatting Zamzam away. Zamzam recognize this ability as belonging to Dopers before noting that it is supposed to be extremely painful and asks Matte what his attribute is, which he answers "Concrete!". The fight continues and Zamzam sees that he gets hurt by just attacking the reinforced body of Matte, so Zamzam decides to change strategies and he gathers the Dragonfly Observers stationed around the Hotel, since they are armed with exploding missiles, which Zamzam uses to attack Matte. The explosions are powerful and Matte is forced to extend his reinforcement to his whole body and the body of Sharknose, which Zamzam notes looks more like erosion than body reinforcement and Zamzam is currently quite confident due to the home field advantage. Lo Po Bia Kirin gets a report that Zamzam discoverd an intruder around the Hotel and is requesting backup from Rankers, which to trouble Kirin before he answers that he understood the message.

Back inside the lower floors of the hotel, Cha silently kills two guards inside the lobby while Jinsung turns off the alarm systems. They both meet in the lobby before changing into the guard uniform and travel down in the elevator, where Cha asks Jinsung if they can trust the insider. Jinsung tells Cha that nothing is certain, but it was the insider that told him the location of the mothership, though it likely just a messenger he personally met and the actual insider is someone higher up in the family. On their way out Lo Po Bia Goruro notices Cha and Jinsung leaving, with Goruro being the second-in-command of the mothership, supreme commander of the guards, branch leader, and the inside mentioned by Jinsung. Prior to noticing, Goruro is on a call with Kirin about the intruders and explosion, which Goruro says he will handle by himself before Kirin ends the call. When Goruro notices Cha and Jinsung, he decides it is time for him to leave as well, so he activates an explosion.

Meanwhile at the top of the hotel, Yuri and Po Bidau Tiara are still fighting, with Yuri having Rose Shower active and Tiara is writing something down in her book. Yuri decides to use a small compressed attack, since she cannot use any wide-range attacks inside the hotel and Tiara finishes writing "I want to become a person whose body avoids all attacks by turning into shinsu. The end.". Yuri launches the attack and it hits Tiara right between the eyes, but it seems that Tiara has avoided that attack by turning her body into shinsu like she wrote in the book. Yuri is surprised that Tiara survived, which Tiara responds that it is amazing since with the power of writing anything can be created, though realism is most important. Yuri scoffs at the idea that Tiara can just write things and they become true, which Tiara rebukes by writing a new sentence "I want to become someone capable of firing four blasts of that ultra-high-density shinsu at the same time. The end.". Yuri finds it ridiculous, since if it was that easy to fire four Baangs she would have done so already, but Tiara says that the power of writing is making the impossible a reality and if Yuri is so doubtful she can experience itself. Four baangs form around Tiara and shoots towards Yuri, which makes Yuri realize that this is very much real.