A Wimp’s Strategy Guide to Conquer the Tower (Novel) - Chapter 145
Chapter 145
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Translated by Jinmu
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The negotiation between the designer and the summoner player.
Ultimately, they concluded the contract just by placing soul liberation on the scale.
A result somewhat different from what the administrators had initially anticipated.
To what level will the difficulty really rise?
[Wouldn’t it be ambiguous with just one soul liberation? Of course, it would be a nightmare for ordinary players, but for the Earth summoner, it’s a bit…,]
[There would be no need to worry if he had placed just one more.]
[He gave up awfully fast. To the point of self-deprecation, saying he’s a coward himself.]
[He’s a sly bastard even if he looks stupid and timid on the outside. He is not the top player for nothing.]
[It might have been better not to make a contract instead.]
[No. By my judgment, this is enough. That is why I made the contract.]
[Is that so?]
[The equivalent exchange weight of soul liberation is much greater than the Trait Enhancement Rune and the Catalog Expansion Ticket.]
[That is correct, but….]
[And it’s the 81st floor. An originally formidable place. The difficulty increase caused by equivalent exchange, if he rushes in recklessly, he will pay a tremendous price.]
[I agree. Even if he doesn’t die, the damage will be huge. And some of the summoned entities will not be safe.]
[Right, as he goes through that, his mentality will collapse, right.]
[The current Earth summoner is very vulnerable in that aspect. If his reliable mainstays disappear one by one, even luck will not be able to assist him.]
[Mental collapse summoner player, I’m anticipating this.]
[This is a true ordeal, indeed.]
The 81st floor can absolutely not be cleared.
The administrators did not doubt it.
The contract was accomplished.
Heightened difficulty, but guaranteed rewards befitting it.
Actually, he has a corner to believe in.
The reason why the cowardly beta male concluded the contract.
Cossack’s already scheduled grade breakthrough.
Thus, the overall combat power of the summoned entities will unconditionally improve.
He plans to take a quick dip to taste it before sending Cossack.
Whether it’s a mission he can clear now, or whether he’ll do it 2 weeks later after sending Cossack.
“Shall we go?”
“Yep!”
“This old man is also ready.”
To prepare for emergencies, Mari is in an unsummoned state.
Because her help might be needed.
[Entering the 81st floor of the South Korea Black Tower (NO.2).]
He entered.
Then?
[The difficulty tier of the 81st floor of the South Korea Black Tower (NO.2) will change to Hell Mode due to the contract.]
Hell Mode.
Hell difficulty.
‘Hmm,’
Suddenly I regret making the contract.
Should I take it back?
[If the clear is successful, the difficulty of the 81st floor of the South Korea Black Tower (NO.2) will drop to Normal Mode again.]
It’s not permanent.
A temporary difficulty increase to receive Hartmann’s soul liberation reward.
If successful, back to original.
If he fails, forever in a Hell Mode state until it is cleared.
If he makes a single mistake, the North Korea NO. 2 tower might collapse.
Even if it collapses and a new tower is generated, the 81st floor will continuously be Hell Mode, right.
[Have you checked the contract conditions?]
Ey,
It’ll work out somehow.
‘Confirm.’
[The contract has been fulfilled.]
[The mission of the 81st floor of the South Korea Black Tower (NO.2) has been changed.]
[Upon completion of the mission, Hartmann’s soul will be liberated from the tower’s subjugation.]
A guaranteed reward.
So it seems they’re informing him in advance.
What in the world could the mission be?
To what extent is Hell Mode?
Joo-hyuk kept walking.
An expansive grassland area.
And hazily blooming fog.
Tti-ring!
[81st Floor Mission : Kill 1 Super-Giant Kaiju, Titan Behemoth.]
[Completion Time Limit : Within 2 hours.]
[Completion Condition : Super-Giant Kaiju Titan Behemoth 0/1]
“…”
No, what in the world is this?
To think it’s a Super-Giant Kaiju Titan Behemoth.
‘The naming is unusual, though?’
Moreover, the time is also extremely short.
Barely 2 hours.
Anyway, since we’ve entered, let’s at least poke it.
Combat preparation starts.
He took out an energy shield kit, a blink ring, and a shield, and shared the mission with the summoned entities.
“The environment is decent. It is flat terrain, neither hot nor cold,”
“That is so.”
It wasn’t a complete flatland.
“There is also one large mountain beyond the fog over there, sir.”
A bald mountain with a gentle slope.
But?
“Hmm, wondering where this Kaiju called Behemoth is,”
“It’s probably somewhere in the grassland.”
“Or maybe we have to climb that mountain.”
Seeing the modifier ‘Super-Giant’ attached means its size is quite large.
Then it should be visible as soon as we enter.
Could it be that we have to find and catch it?
A hide-and-seek type mission?
Could this also be a kind of time attack?
Looking at the fog, it seems like that too.
Right at that moment!
Kung!
“Mm?”
A sound ringing in the 81st floor grassland area.
Kung!
“Huh…”
Even the ground shakes with it like an earthquake.
Kung!
“It appeared, sir.”
“Where is it?”
“Well, it sounds like the noise is coming from the direction of that bald mountain.”
A mountain, huh.
Kung!
Mountain.
Kung!
Mountain?
Kung!
“…Uh.”
Joo-hyuk doubted his own eyes.
Kung!
Is what I’m looking at right now real?
The other summoned entities also rigidly froze.
“Oh my god.”
“That’s…,”
“Ho-e?”
“Cr, crazy!”
“…Ey, that’s a scam.”
“Heo-heo-heo.”
It was the mountain.
No, he thought it was a mountain, but it was a Kaiju.
Kung!
Super-Giant Kaiju Titan Behemoth.
Kung!
The bald mountain moves.
As it came closer, its distinct shape came into his eyes.
A quadrupedal Kaiju looking just like a bear.
The exact size?
I’m telling you, it’s a mountain!
“…Will we be able to catch it?”
And within 2 hours at that.
No one opened their mouths.
A short while later.
“This old man will pay a visit. To see if astral aura even works,”
Spot! Pa-pa-pa-pat!
The distance was extremely far.
Gwangma approaching the Titan Behemoth at a fast speed.
Compared to the Behemoth, Gwangma looked like a small dot.
Ji-i-ing!
Gwangma, a crescent moon sword aura,
Cheu-pi-rit!
He sent it flying towards the Behemoth.
Seo-geok!
A sound of something being cut.
However,
“Keu-ra-ra-ra-ra-rak!!!”
Kung-kung-kung-kung-kung!
The Behemoth severely stamping the ground as if it was angry.
To the extent that their bodies heaved even at a far distance.
Seu-pa-pa-pa-pat!
Gwangma ran towards the party’s direction and said.
“I was able to inflict a wound on it. Although it was barely at the level of cutting out the hide.”
However,
“Time is the problem. It is impossible to fell that guy within 2 hours.”
It seems like it.
A brutal size to the point you wonder if it’s physically possible for it to walk around.
Gwangma’s attack was just at the level of a sting.
The level of poking with a needle.
Still, if we keep poking it, it’ll die eventually, but.
“Additionally, it seems there are no summoned entities capable of combat with that guy besides this old man, Sergeant Bae, and the heavenly maiden Dal-rae either.”
Close combat is not possible.
How do you stick to that guy?
The moment you stick to it, you get stepped on and go to the afterlife.
Kung! Kung! Kung!
The Behemoth wandering around here and there as if the wound suffered from Gwangma was nothing.
Anyway, as of now, there is no method.
“…Let’s leave.”
Joo-hyuk took out a Tower Clear Mission Reset Ticket from his inventory.
As he grabbed the ticket with his hand,
[Will you use the Tower Clear Mission Reset Ticket?]
[Upon use, you automatically exit, the mission of the concerned floor is reset, and the entry record is deleted.]
Meaning it becomes an un-climbed floor he hasn’t entered yet.
If he challenges it again and records an S+++ rank clear, he can receive a platinum badge as well.
Of course, he doesn’t know if it will be cleared, but.
Jji-i-ik!
[You have used the Tower Clear Mission Reset Ticket. You will exit the tower.]
Spot!
Joo-hyuk and the party came out to the penthouse again.
“Phew.”
“Haa.”
“…”
“Hoo-e.”
“Kki-i-ing.”
Everyone’s gloomy expressions.
To think it’s a difficulty level like that.
Joo-hyuk the same.
His heart is still pounding, kung-kwang-kung-kwang.
The original mission was probably processing a normal Behemoth.
But the Super-Giant Titan modifier was likely attached due to the tower soul liberation being placed on the scale.
“…If we had placed even the Trait Enhancement Rune on the scale, what would have happened?”
“Well, I’m not sure. I don’t know for certain, but it might have gotten bigger, or faster…,”
“The clear time limit might have decreased further.”
It’s that level despite placing only one.
But even so.
By what method do we catch that huge guy within 2 hours?
“Sergeant Bae-nim.”
“Sergeant Veronica Caliber.”
“If you repeatedly smash 3 large-caliber bullets consecutively?”
“Hmm, I might be able to halt its advance, but I do not think I can inflict a meaningful blow.”
That’s right.
Large-caliber bullets also have a limit.
If measured by Earth weapon power, about the level of a 155mm artillery shell?
“We’d need to have at least a nuclear weapon to kill it.”
“If it’s the explosive power of a nuke…, if we could just detonate it on the 81st floor.”
Modern scientific weapons cannot be used inside the tower.
No, they can be used.
To be exact, it isn’t that they can’t be used, but they cannot be brought inside.
Of course, among Earth firearms, there are items that can be brought into the tower.
Representatively, pistols.
Items categorized as personal belongings.
Can be entered by grasping in the hand or thrusting into the pants waistband.
However, firearms larger than the size of a pistol cannot receive the personal belongings classification.
For that reason, pistols are used for pulling monsters.
“How about the corner-room alchemist’s bomb homunculus, sir?”
“We used them all before, right. You say she’s in the middle of making new ones, but the quantity must be large. Very large.”
It seems there must be enough homunculi to cover a single mountain to inflict damage.
When will we make all of that.
Furthermore, the most important thing.
He wants to finish this clear overwhelmingly too.
Without feeling anxious,
With a comfortable state of mind.
‘If it’s a nuclear weapon, I feel like we could produce a result.’
Behemoth, no matter how big it is, how can it endure a nuke?
However.
“Since there’s no way to bring it inside the tower…, eh?”
Wait!
Why wouldn’t there be?
Joo-hyuk quietly stared at Rajix.
“Ho-eng?”
All the other summoned entities also turned their gazes to Rajix.
At the same time, everyone realized.
“Oh!”
“Right!”
“I see. If it’s our worker’s backpack, we could bring it.”
“Even a whole camper van fits in his subspace backpack.”
“It will be possible if it’s the universe’s great farmhand.”
“As expected of the Supply Officer-nim. To think he can even supply nuclear weapons.”
“Ho-e-e-e,”
Rajix’s backpack has no limits.
Whether it’s an item inside the tower or an item outside the tower, he can put it in and take it out at will.
However, the remaining problem.
Bringing it is fine, but…,
“Where do we get a nuclear weapon?”
An object an individual cannot obtain even with money.
It’s extremely dangerous as well.
It is a national strategic weapon.
Well, if we try hard to get it, there’s nothing we can’t get, but we might be misunderstood as terrorists.
“How about requesting it from Commissioner Jeon Kwang-il?”
“Because there are no nuclear weapons in South Korea.”
“What about the US? If we speak with that Secretary MacMillan…,”
Ey,
“It’s a whopping nuclear weapon, no matter how close we are, giving a nuclear weapon to an individual is out of the qu…, eh?”
Wait!
Why wouldn’t there be?
Joo-hyuk quietly stared at Cossack.
“Euing? Why are you looking at me, sir?”
“We had our proud Comrade Minister of the People’s Armed Forces Go Sa-geuk.”
“Uh-uh-uh, …ah? Aha!”
Cossack seemed to realize as well.
“We will show the Behemoth the spicy nuclear taste of the people. Just give the word!”
That’s right.
They aren’t in South Korea, but they are in North Korea.
“I will depart right this instant!”
“No. We should all go together while we are at it.”
“Loyalty! Long live Joo-hyuk!”
Let’s go and carry just a few on our backs.
Putting them in Rajix’s subspace backpack.
The direction of the clear was decided.
The Behemoth is cleared with nukes.
Pyongyang, North Korea.
Chairman Kim In-jung was in the underground bunker.
Because Go Sa-geuk, the Minister of the People’s Armed Forces who would protect him, vacated his seat.
Lately, China’s movements are unusual.
For China, a honeymood relationship between South Korea and North Korea could not be pleasing.
Pressure coming in from here and there.
Who knows if they might send an assassin.
Economic aid from China was cut off a long time ago.
Well, that doesn’t matter.
Because aid is coming in from South Korea instead.
The Kaesong Industrial Complex was resumed, food is also being supplied, and soon a massive construction project is also being planned.
Honestly, it’s a good thing.
His mind is rather comfortable since they’re grabbing him by the collar and dragging him along like this.
The problem is guaranteeing his own safety.
Will he truly be able to survive even after the unification process ends?
It would be nice if he at least received a promise,
Not from Go Sa-geuk, but with the South Korean player he is serving.
He wants to live.
He can let go of this kind of power he can’t even protect anyway.
He just wants to live a normal life enjoying a natural lifespan in Jeju Island in the warm south, and then die a natural death.
At that moment!
Cheol-keok! The iron door of the underground bunker opening automatically.
A person who opens and enters like this?
“C, Comrade Go Sa-geuk!”
“Hey, Chairman Kim. You’re doing well!”
However, he was not alone.
“Glad to see you. Do you remember this seat?”
“Mm, yes, yes.”
How could he not know.
Because of this old man, he suffered for days.
A line of people was entering the bunker.
People of diverse ages and genders.
The bat human he had met before, the woman carrying a huge gun on her back, the man with a massive physique, the Westerner wearing armor and holding a flail.
“Hello? Enemy Leader. I’m Sergeant Bae.”
“Glad to see you. I’m Gobang.”
“Oh repentant lamb! Let there be light!”
And,
Seu-reu-reuk.
The heavenly maiden approaching like a ghost while floating in the empty air.
“This woman is called Gyeon Dal-rae. I am serving Young Master.”
Furthermore,
“Ho-ek!”
“Keu-reu-reung!”
From a cute-looking hamster human to a large dog bearing sharp teeth.
However, the truly important person was someone else.
The young man standing in the center of all these people.
Kim In-jung intuited.
It is this very person.
“Hello, Chairman-nim. I am Bong Joo-hyuk.”
The Joo-hyuk from Long Live Joo-hyuk,
“G, glad to meet you. I am Kim In-jung.”
The person who needs to be impressed the most here,
Look at this right now.
At the other people’s attitudes.
They are surrounding Bong Joo-hyuk in all directions and protecting him with utmost devotion.
“…Please sit here.”
He hastily yielded the seat he was sitting on.
“Oh-oh, there’s no need to stand up. Just keep sitting. I can just sit anywhere.”
At that, an uproar broke out.
“That will not do. The Young Master must sit in the seat of honor. Only then will discipline be firmly established.”
The heavenly maiden dissuaded him,
“Commander, please sit here.”
The female soldier called Sergeant Bae pulled out a chair,
“Ho-e!”
The hamster human diligently wiped the top of the chair with a microfiber towel they took out from somewhere,
And the rest of the people flanked the left, right, and rear of Bong Joo-hyuk.
Ggul-kkeok.
Chairman Kim In-jung nervously swallowing dry saliva.
“Chairman-nim, I heard you’ve been having a lot of hard work recently…,”
“Yes? Ah! B, because of China.”
“Tsk! I don’t know why those guys keep interfering in other countries’ affairs.”
Bong Joo-hyuk frowning.
At that.
“Just give the order, sir. I will slit the throat of the Chinese President and bring it tied in a ribbon, sir.”
“Please send this old man. I will bury him without a mouse or bird noticing and come back.”
“Sergeant Veronica Caliber, I will drill a hole in his forehead.”
Geppetto, who was walking on eggshells, also raised his hand sharply.
“Me! Me! Master, please send me. I will handle it stealthily and come back. That is my specialty.”
Geppetto desperately appealing to catch Joo-hyuk’s eye.
An opportunity to render meritorious service.
Now he has adapted to some extent.
Let me also get loved by the master and put on a badge once.
However, would the other summoned entities just leave him alone?
“Where does a new recruit dare to interrupt?”
“Be tactful.”
Cossack growled severely.
“Vampire jong-gan-na bastard, your liver has swollen outside your belly. How long has it been since you came outside, the only one below you, comrade, is the Tiamat e-mi-na-i (bitch). Got it?”
Kim In-jung was out of his mind.
When Bong Joo-hyuk frowned, everyone eagerly stepped forward saying they would take care of the Chinese President and come back.
Figures burning with impatience to render meritorious service.
Ah-ah-ah.
He himself was nothing.
The true Supreme Leader was here.
In the midst of that, Joo-hyuk organizing the situation.
“Now, now, calm down. There’s a more urgent matter than China right now. Let’s handle the top priority first.”
And then to Kim In-jung.
“Because there is a matter I’d like to ask of you.”
“Please tell me anything!”
“I need some nuclear weapons. Could you give me just a few?”
“…Yes?”
“I will pay the price.”
What did you say to give you?
Did I hear wrong?
“A, a nuclear weapon, you mean?”
“Yes. A missile isn’t necessary. Just the nuclear warhead.”
“Uh-uh-uh,”
Kim In-jung with a bewildered expression.
On what exactly should he say.
At that sight, Go Sa-geuk lost his temper and snapped at him.
“Comrade Chairman! The Republic needs nuclear weapons right now?”
“Th, that’s not it.”
“Didn’t he say it’s not for free and he will give you money? Sell the nuclear weapons and feed the people of the Republic white rice and meat soup!”
“…”
At that moment!
Seu-a-a-at!
Formidable murderous intent as if piercing the flesh.
Gwangma whispered with a fishy smile.
“Shall I make the decision easy for you?”
Only then did Kim In-jung jolt back to his senses.
Why does he need nuclear weapons in this situation right now?
It’s true they had become useless for anything anyway.
“I, I will give them.”
“I will calculate the price well.”
“No need. Please take them for free.”
“Ayu, to be this thankful.”
Nuclear weapons GET!
After learning the usage method, let’s detonate them on the 81st floor.