A Wimp’s Strategy Guide to Conquer the Tower (Novel) - Chapter 147

Chapter 147

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Translated by Jinmu

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Hartmann father and son.

Their faces resembled each other, and their personalities were similar as well.

First of all, both talk a lot.

Still, Joo-hyuk listening to their conversation from the side without interrupting.

It’s heartwarming.

It was beautiful.

How nice it is to see.

“That Assassination Guild guildmaster bastard, I killed him refreshingly, sir. I avenged you, sir.”

“What about Emperor Kalios?”

“I killed him once too, but it’s not enough, sir. I’ll go again and kill him one more time, sir.”

“If possible, do not kill him at once, but engrave pain unto him slowly while killing him.”

“Yessir.”

The conversation going back and forth wasn’t extremely beautiful, though.

“Father, since your soul has been liberated, how about applying to be a summoned entity taking this opportunity, sir?”

“A summoned entity? Are you telling me to work at the same workplace as my son?”

“Yep!”

“…If I’m summoned, I’ll be below you?”

“Isn’t that obvious, sir? If you come in later, you’re a new recruit, sir. No matter how much we are father and son, what must be kept must be kept, sir.”

That, that, that, lip-service Cossack.

He lies whenever he opens his mouth.

Then is old man Gwangma below him?

Be that as it may.

Hartmann-nim as a summoned entity, huh,

‘It’s a bit awkward.’

How can I give orders commanding Cossack’s father to do this and that?

“I appreciate the offer, but I will decline.”

That’s a relief.

“Why is that, sir?”

“Because I have to go look for your mother.”

“Ah!”

“Since it seems there is an afterlife, I should try finding her somehow.”

“If you find her, please convey my regards, sir. That I am living well. That I might go meet her later if things turn out well.”

“I understand. I shall convey it as such.”

I sincerely hope it turns out like that.

“Ah right! It would be best not to mention that you separated my upper and lower body with one sword strike and killed me, sir.”

“…”

“Mother might kill you, sir.”

“…”

No?

Are you crazy? Cossack?

How can you say something like that in this situation?

“…How was my swordsmanship back then?”

“At the time, I couldn’t dodge it even when I knew, but now it’s doable, sir. I am a Sword Master too, sir. Kya-kya-kya-kya.”

“Is that so? Then let us spar for a bit.”

Pi-sik, Cossack laughing.

“Are you confident, sir?”

“Be careful. Since you probably wouldn’t want to die cut in half again.”

Like father, like son.

The two are exactly alike.

“I will repay you, sir.”

“Come in quickly. Because I have something to show you as well.”

“What will you show me, sir?”

“The swordsmanship handed down in our family for generations, the Hartmann Sword Style.”

Cheu-pit!

Hartmann drawing his sword with a speed like a flash of lightning,

Chaeng!

Cossack easily parrying it over.

“Good, sir. It is worth sparring, sir.”

“Act relaxed and you might pay dearly for it.”

“Please do not look down on an LSSR, sir.”

Cheu-pi-pi-pit!

The sword style becoming fierce.

Cossack stepped backward continuously.

“Heu-ik?”

“Why? Did you not say it is worth sparring?”

“…Are you trying to kill your son again, sir?”

Flinch! Hartmann’s swaying sword.

Chae-chaeng! Cossack taking the offensive without missing this opportunity.

“It is a joke, sir. Please do not mind it, sir.”

Wow! Look at that wickedness.

Does he shake him up in that way?

However, that is Cossack’s fighting method.

The Sword Master of Assassination, Infiltration, Reconnaissance, Disruption, Intimidation, Extortion, and Frenzy.

Perhaps because of that, Hartmann also let out a chuckle and dealt with Cossack.

“Come in.”

“Yep!”

Chae-chaeng! Chaeng-chaeng! Chaeng! Chaeng!

Swords going back and forth.

Hartmann’s sword style seemed fierce, but the reality was not so.

It was a teaching.

Repeating the same movements, and when it seemed he got used to it, another sword stance.

I think I know.

A father’s heart trying to pass down the family swordsmanship to his son before leaving.

Would Cossack not know that heart?

He diligently followed the sword stances.

“It is truly touching.”

Gwangma approached Joo-hyuk and said.

“I agree.”

“It seems that assassin guy is also making a pointless fuss to lessen his father’s guilt.”

That’s right.

The gruesome tragedy of a father killing his son.

‘It’s all in the past.’

‘Now it’s fine enough to use it as a joke.’

‘So let’s smile without having things like guilt. It doesn’t matter if we smile.’

It seems he wants to convey this kind of will.

So Joo-hyuk, Gwangma, and Mari quietly watched the conversation of swords shared between the son and the father.

However, cruelly, the moment of parting was approaching.

Hartmann’s body gradually becoming hazy.

They probably know it too.

They clashed their swords even more vigorously, even more fiercely.

Finally.

Hartmann stepped back, sheathed his sword, and then.

“Rian!”

“F, Father!”

“I am going now. Be well!”

“Uh-uh…,”

Spot!

Hartmann disappearing without a trace.

“Father…”

Cossack let his sword drop limply and swallowed his tears.

“Wh, why are you leaving so hastily! You should have gone after seeing Sergeant Bae wear a bikini! Faattthherrrr!!!”

Cossack’s desperate cry,

Covered in tears and snot.

“Heuk-heuk-heuk, Yangyang on the East Coast is rumored to be such a hot place, but father couldn’t even visit…,”

Weeping sorrowfully like that, and then.

“Mm.”

Stopping his tears flatline as if he had never done so.

“Huu, performing filial piety is hard, sir. Was it like this for Summoner Bong-nim too, sir?”

“…”

[The guaranteed reward has been disbursed.]

[The liberation of Hartmann’s soul affiliated with the tower has been completed.]

[The Earth Black Tower 77th floor ultra-high difficulty optional mission has been replaced with killing Serial Killer Sword Master Zoldick.]

[The difficulty of the South Korea Black Tower (NO.2) 81st floor has changed to Normal Mode.]

I received everything from the basic reward to the guaranteed reward.

What’s next?

‘Are they not giving an S+++ rank clear and platinum badges?’

[World Notice : You have achieved the S+++ clear rank for the 81st floor of Black Tower NO.2 (South Korea).]

[S+++ Clear Reward : 2 Platinum Badges are awarded.]

‘They are giving them.’

I’m satisfied.

It was a surpassingly perfect clear, and a surpassingly clean reward.

World notices usually ring when an S+++ rank clear or a grave incident occurs in the tower.

Today is this.

[World Notice : You have achieved the S+++ clear rank for the 81st floor of Black Tower NO.2 (South Korea).]

Is it the North Korean tower again?

No. What’s wrong with our top player? Did he defect to the North?

Yeah, why doesn’t he clear tower NO.1. He’s stopped at the 76th floor.

Comrades, have a broad mind! Doesn’t the South Joseon tower also have more than 3 years left on its collapse deadline?

Be quiet, if he clears tower NO.2 again I’m going to pout.

Jong-gan-na bastard, we shouldn’t divide sides with towers from the same Republic of Korea.

However, the next day.

A world notice with somewhat strange contents rang out.

[World Notice : From now on, the use of firearms inside the tower is strictly restricted. Explosive reactions based on Earth science, such as gunpowder or nuclear fission and nuclear fusion, will not occur.]

What is this?

Putting the use of firearms aside, nuclear fission and nuclear fusion?

Did something like that really happen?

Anyway, if gunpowder reactions won’t happen…,

Handguns won’t be needed then.

Well, we can just take crossbows instead.

Ah geez, do we have to learn how to use a crossbow now too?

A crossbow is easy. You just pull, aim, and pull the trigger.

Take this opportunity to prepare a tower reward crossbow. The destructive power is better than a handgun too. The range is also long.

What about bows?

That’s probably a bit hard. You need a trait skill.

But what’s with the nuclear fission ban? Did someone perhaps detonate a nuke inside the tower or something?

Well, it’s not me at least.

Comrades, did someone say nukes just now? Aren’t nukes our Republic’s specialty?

Did North Joseon detonate one?

Don’t even say such nonsensical things. How are they saying someone enters while possessing a nuclear warhead?

Well, can’t that side’s Supreme Leader comrade make nukes with pine cones?

Kkil-kkil-kkil, the South Joseon comrades are truly amusing.

Who could have even imagined?

The fact that a nuke exploded in the tower.

However, only one person was guessing.

Commissioner Jeon Kwang-il.

The person who helped when making the super-giant shovel or the makeshift air-raid shelter was none other than him.

Inquiries also came by phone call to the South Korea Awakening Management Agency regarding the out-of-the-blue nuclear fission and nuclear fusion world notice.

Asking if they perhaps knew anything.

He was guessing it, but how could he say it?

He has to say he doesn’t know.

Still, to confirm, he called player Bong Joo-hyuk, and.

“Did a nuke really explode?”

– Yes, I blew away the Super-Giant Kaiju Titan Behemoth in exactly two shots.

“…”

It’s absurd.

To think it’s a real nuclear clear.

“I, is that why the tower’s world notice popped up?”

– Haa, yes, so I’m dying from regret. I went through the trouble of making a large shovel and a makeshift air-raid shelter and…, how great would it have been if we could have used them a few more times.

If so, where did player Bong get the nukes?

That’s also obvious.

It must be North Korea.

If he said to give them, they have to give them.

Because resistance would have been impossible.

Suddenly he feels sorry for Chairman Kim In-jung.

– Ah right! Did you raise your level a lot?

“Yes, I am level 23.”

– Oh dear! You are still a low-level, huh. It is so comfortable riding the bus, honestly I’m level 82 without doing anything in particular either.

“…Uhm, is that so?”

What is this?

Is he teasing me?

– Anyway I’m on vacation…, come visit when you have time. I’m at the beach on the East Coast here.

He is teasing me.

Telling me to come visit when he clearly knows I’m busy.

After ending the phone call with Commissioner Jeon Kwang-il, Joo-hyuk laid down on the sunbed again and appreciated the blue sea.

Gwangma laid down on the next sunbed, and there was also a camper van parked behind them.

The camper van is for Mari’s personal space.

What is she doing?

“Master, here…,”

“Oh! Thank you. Geppetto-ssi.”

Mari rolled up a highball cocktail with the optimal ratio.

When she softly puts it down through the crack of the camper van door, Geppetto serves it.

“Gwangma-nim’s is here too.”

“Did you add an extra shot?”

“Yes, it is a double shot.”

What a wonderful vacation this is?

The feeling of zoning out looking at the water while drinking a cocktail rolled up by an LSSR alchemist on a sandy beach sunbed.

Actually, the weather wasn’t that good.

Perhaps because it’s the monsoon season, the rain pouring down heavily.

However, this also has quite a mood to it.

“No matter how much I think about it, it seems this old man was born with luck.”

“Yes?”

“Summoner, it is a blessing to have been called out to you.”

Ey,

Making me feel ticklish.

“Before this, I had only experienced nuclear explosions outside the tower, could I have even imagined seeing one inside the tower? The administrator bastards must have been terrified. Just thinking about it is thrilling. Ha-ha-ha-ha.”

He understands what he’s saying.

Wars between nations happening because of conflicts forged by the tower’s tricks, or overflowing monsters due to tower collapses.

Thus, nuclear weapons exploding outside the tower.

The destruction would have accelerated even more.

It must have been regrettable.

And he must have felt helpless.

“Haa, it’s a shame. If we could just detonate them exactly 3 more times inside the tower, I would have no remaining regrets.”

Joo-hyuk’s thought is also similar to Gwangma’s.

When it was an easy ‘eat-it-raw’ clear.

“Geez, changing the rules right away just because they got hit by a single nuke? Tsk tsk, petty bastards.”

“That’s right. The administrators, they’re even more of beta males than I am.”

“Hm? Why is the summoner a beta male? You are the alpha male among alpha males.”

“Ayu, you overwatimate me too much. Ha-ha-ha.”

“Heo-heo-heo!”

Anyway, even amidst the falling rain, the summoned entities were playing excitedly at the beach.

Rajix with short arms and legs swimming in the shallow sea.

Gobang, Cossack, and Bardin formed a team of 3 and threw anyone they caught into the sea, no matter who it was.

Cossack’s wish came true.

Veronica in a bikini, Gyeon Dal-rae in a bikini, and even Tiamat in a bikini.

Aaah!

I honestly don’t know where to put my eyes.

So I wore sunglasses even though it’s raining.

Well, the men weren’t far behind either.

Are the summoned entities ordinary people?

Gobang, Bardin, and Cossack.

All had broad shoulders, bulging chests, clearly defined abs, and firm thighs and buttocks.

Figures that unconditionally make passersby turn around to look once.

Even as a fellow guy, they look cool to Joo-hyuk’s eyes.

But Geppetto asked Joo-hyuk while grilling meat.

“Excuse me, isn’t the youngest an incubus? Then why is she playing and I…,”

“Are you asking why you are only grilling meat?”

“Uh-uh-uh, not that I have any particular complaints, but,”

“Just consider it a sin for not being able to wear a bikini.”

“Ah!”

Geppetto accepting it surprisingly easily.

Even if to be a vampire, he’s a naive summoned entity by nature.

Anyway, shall I jump into the sea slowly?

“Won’t you go together, Sir Gwangma?”

“If an old man tactlessly joins in where young folks are playing, it’s perfect to get cursed at as a boomer.”

Then well,

Let’s go!

To the sea.

“Summoner Bong-nim is coming to swim, sir!!!”

“My Lord! We will serve you.”

“Please come quickly. We have been waiting.”

“Sergeant Veronica Caliber, combat swimming preparations completed.”

“Ho-e-e-e!”

After definitely blowing up a big one, my mind feels light.

There were many worries during this time, but it seems they all vanished along with the nukes.

Vacation ended one way or another.

We can’t just play at the beach every day after all,

Then?

I must work too.

The No. 1 tower up to the 81st floor too.

Thanks to liberating Hartmann-ssi’s soul, it seems an S+++ rank clear will be possible for the 77th floor of the No. 1 tower.

I heard the ultra-high difficulty optional mission changed to killing the Serial Killer Sword Master Zoldick, so that would be sorted out at Cossack’s level.

However, I don’t want to work right away.

Because the aftermath of the vacation still remains, after getting used to daily life.

Joo-hyuk came to the 17th floor of the White Tower.

At that, floating menus.

[Basic] [Arrangement] [Grant Move-in Ticket] [Resident List]

He touched everything in Basic, and next is Arrangement.

The core menu of the White Tower 17th floor city construction.

Arrangement has 2 sub-menus.

Copies up to 100 object items. Copy can be used externally as well. It does not cost anything.

Pastes and arranges the copied objects. A High-Grade mana stone cost occurs in proportion to height, volume, and value.

Before this, he had asked Commissioner Jeon Kwang-il to purchase a few small buildings with decent designs or country houses in the provinces where real estate prices are cheap.

And whenever he had time, he went and secretly copied them.

Now, pasting the copied buildings here.

It’s exactly like a game.

A shrunken building is seen on the simulation screen, and when a location where pasting is possible is displayed in green on the ground?

Move it slowly, fix the position, and then.

‘Paste.’

[The cost to paste the concerned building is 30kg of High-Grade Mana Stones. Will you execute it?]

‘Execute.’

Chak!

An actual country house appeared in the empty space.

“Wow!”

I went inside.

There isn’t a single piece of furniture or daily necessity.

The condition of a new house immediately after being built.

I can just decorate it later.

‘Resident number 1 is unconditionally Rajix.’

Because only then can we bring things like furniture or electronic appliances here using the subspace backpack.

Anyway, it’s lonely if there’s only one house left all by itself.

Paste, paste, paste, paste…

The High-Grade mana stone costs consumed according to size.

20kg, 25kg, 30kg, 40kg…,

A small housing village was quickly created.

Paving asphalt roads too.

1kg per 10m.

Connecting them all the way,

Ah! I should install parking lots horizontally for each house too.

White Tower 17th floor.

It truly is a fascinating space.

At this point, isn’t it a self-sufficient single world?

Of course, there are restrictions.

Residents.

The cost to move in is 1kg of Highest-grade Mana Stones.

So the people who can enter this place are extremely limited.

Well, how many people are going to come in anyway.

If Earth doesn’t fall, this place is merely a simple vacation home.

And one more thing.

The elevator.

From now on, I have to secure 1,000 tons of High-Grade mana stones.

When do I mine all of that?

I wonder if I can even install the elevator.