A Wimp’s Strategy Guide to Conquer the Tower (Novel) - Chapter 163
Chapter 163
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Translated by Jinmu
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Cha-cha-chak! Cha-cha-cha-chak!!!
It rises. A building, a building.
Ssuk-ssuk, ssuk-ssuk-ssuk!
Opposite the housing complex.
Not just any building, but a 61-story building was created.
Even after doing it, it was hard to believe.
Honestly, I doubted ‘will it work?’.
It’s not a single-story house, nor a 5-story or 10-story one.
But it worked.
A building identical to reality appeared before my eyes.
However.
‘Eou.’
I sobered up in an instant.
Regret rushing in immediately.
‘…Can I not get a refund?’
Why on earth did I commit such an act?
50 tons of High-ma.
Perhaps 25% of the High-Grade Mana Stones stored in the warehouse disappeared in an instant.
I’m crazy. Bong Joo-hyuk, you’re crazy.
Just the money blown away is 100 billion.
Haa.
What do I do if the summoned entities say something.
The White Tower 17th floor elevator installation cost was 1,000 tons of High-Grade Mana Stones.
To gather that, I bought mana stones even in North Korea, mined mother lodes, used item additional acquisition tickets, and put on quite a show.
‘I ended up spending 50 tons while drunk.’
The looks I receive won’t be pretty.
Asking why I pasted a building that isn’t even necessary.
Asking if I’m in my right mind or not.
Asking if it feels good to blow away the 50 tons of High-ma gathered with blood and sweat so vainly like this.
Joo-hyuk has also witnessed it.
Mackenzie and Cossack getting publicly humiliated because of a single mistake.
Of course, they wouldn’t say things that harshly to him, but…….
– Summoner, you made a mistake.
– Gongja-nim, it is a rash action.
– Euing? Player Bong-nim, you went too far, sir.
– The warrior finds the Summoner’s intemperance regrettable.
– : I think the waste is severe. I’m disappointed.
.
.
.
I feel like I’ll definitely hear this level of words.
‘Is it my turn to get cursed now?’
It seems so.
U-reu-reu-reu.
The sound of footsteps running toward the direction Joo-hyuk was standing.
Yeah.
Let’s get cursed at refreshingly.
Well, I have to endure it.
Because I did something that deserves it.
“Player Bong-nim!!!”
Cossack is calling.
After preparing my heart.
Turning my head stealthily and innocently with an unbothered expression.
“…Yep?”
Cossack whose face was flushed red.
“I, it’s awesome, sir. It’s fantastic, sir. Our 17th floor is no longer a rural backwater, sir. It’s a city, sir.”
Ah-ah-ah.
The founding contributor Cossack.
How does he pick exactly those pleasant-sounding words to say.
“I can hear the sound of housing prices skyrocketing, sir. From now on, daily rent passes and monthly rent passes must also be charged double, sir. As expected of Player Bong-nim, sir.”
Following behind, the other summoned entities too.
“It is truly nothing but astonishing. I couldn’t even imagine that such a thing would be possible.”
“Summoner, this is something beyond magic. It wouldn’t be lacking even if called an authority.”
“This girl almost fainted too, sir.”
“Congratulations on completing the building. Commander-nim.”
“E-excuse me, may we go inside to look around, sir?”
“Cleaning… ho-e!”
: It’s the best. You’re cool™¡™¬™ª
Hyuu.
Fortunately, I won’t get cursed at.
But then!
Tti-ring!
Something rang.
Don’t tell me?
[Achievement : You have pasted a landmark-grade large structure on the 17th floor of the White Tower.]
Oh! Achievement!
[An achievement reward is distributed.]
What is it?
Is it another White Tower-related reward?
[A new item has been added to the White Tower 17th floor placement menu]
The placement menu means copy and paste, though.
What changed?
Checking the menu.
Batch copies all structures located within a maximum area of 1㎢. Copying can also be used outside. No cost is incurred.
Pastes and places batch-copied structures. Costs of High-Grade Mana Stones are incurred in proportion to the area, size, and value. Unwanted structures can be excluded from pasting.
‘…….’
Meaning I can move an entire region exactly as it is.
If it’s 1㎢, it’s an area the size of a small neighborhood in Seoul.
A place like Daechi-dong or Haengun-dong.
Well, it’s not a dud.
I built it while drunk, but I achieved one achievement anyway.
Then.
“Let’s go inside. To see how it is inside.”
U-reu-reu-reu.
The people running towards the building.
“There is an underground parking lot as well.”
Of course.
Since the original building was 6 floors underground and 61 floors above ground.
Because there was nothing around the building, it was desolate, but the inside was clean.
Exactly like that newly completed state.
What was copied were the building’s foundation facilities and essential interior.
“There are elevators as well, sir.”
Seems to mean the elevators going up the building.
Not the White Tower elevators.
“Look at the restrooms, sir. They’re all clean, sir, water flows out kwalkwal and goes down ssuk-ssuk well, sir.”
Water supply and drainage facilities are fully equipped.
Where does the water come from, and where does it drain to?
There’s nothing strange.
Since the copy and paste itself is a mysterious phenomenon in the first place.
Anyway, how should I utilize this place?
‘Aiy, I don’t know.’
Let’s just leave it be for now.
It’ll probably be useful somewhere.
*
The next day.
Korea Awakening Management Office.
Jeon Gwang-il commuted to his office.
He drank too much yesterday.
However, he was completely fine.
Rather, even more so than before drinking.
Thanks to the hangover cure drink with an amazing effect.
The potion granted by the alchemist-nim of the 17th floor of the White Tower.
The hangover completely disappeared right after drinking.
“Huu.”
Jeon Gwang-il leaning his back deeply against the chair and sitting, recalling the things that happened yesterday.
He was really surprised to the point of fainting.
It still feels like a dream.
To personally see the sight of that huge building being created like magic.
‘So he had been decorating the 17th floor in that manner until now.’
Just like a city building simulation game.
If I told someone, would they even believe me?
Of course I have no intention of telling, though.
Player Bong Joo-hyuk.
In his eyes, at least inside the 17th floor of the White Tower, he was no different from a god (神).
‘They call it copy-paste, but,’
It’s no exaggeration to call this the realm of creation.
That’s why the other summoned entities were also freaked out and surprised.
‘Now I understand the reason why Player Bong needs High-Grade Mana Stones.’
Just what kind of place is the 17th floor?
Another world where one can live self-sufficiently even if the world perishes?
At that moment!
Knock knock.
“Director-nim, may I come in?”
“Uh, come in.”
Team Leader Lee Min-ah opening the door and entering.
“What’s the matter?”
“The leather piled up in the tower materials warehouse has been supplied. To Rajix Trading Corp and HG Fashion.”
“Yeah? Did they say anything else?”
“HG Fashion CEO Go Yeon-ha had a lot of complaints? Saying their supply was less than Rajix Trading Corp’s.”
Jeon Gwang-il snorting at those words.
“Tell her she’s lucky we even give her that much. If it were up to me, I’d completely cut them off.”
“Yes! I will issue a firm warning.”
Exactly, should have done well from the start.
He plans to gradually reduce the supply to HG Fashion going forward too.
Since Team Leader Lee Min-ah was here anyway.
Jeon Gwang-il took out his smartphone from his pocket.
“Come here and look. I have something to show you.”
“What is it?”
“This, it’s the 83rd floor clear footage.”
“Ah! Tower NO.2 was cleared yesterday, right?”
Lee Min-ah watching the footage with the smartphone Jeon Gwang-il handed over.
An environment like a tropical jungle with spiderwebs stretched out in all directions.
And the spiders that appeared.
“Euu-eu-eu-eu…….”
“Gross, right?”
“It is, but they’re a bit small. Said to be a giant monster,”
“Keep watching.”
And the giant spider that appeared.
It was so big it was difficult to capture perfectly on the footage.
A single leg was longer than a soaring tree.
“…Crazy.”
“Right?”
“No, how do you kill this?”
“He killed it, though?”
“…Eh? Ah! Right. It’s Player Bong-nim’s footage.”
By the time the giant spider appeared and the baby spiders started their activities.
The clear began.
Hu-du-du-du-du-du-duk!
The flashy fire rain pouring down in the smartphone footage.
“Oh my! My goodness.”
Simultaneously, a fire storm, and even the eruption of boiling lava on the ground.
The spiders burn.
They were melting completely.
The footage Player Bong brought before was just simply information such as the giant monster’s appearance, size, etc., but…….
“The clear footage was captured this time too. But wasn’t Player Bong-nim’s characteristic magic? Or summoning characteristic?”
That’s what’s known.
Summoning characteristic Player Bong.
“It is a summoning characteristic.”
“…Then? Aha!”
Lee Min-ah nodding her head as if she understood.
“It’s a spirit summoning characteristic, a fire spirit! Right?”
Completely wrong, but he has no intention to go out of his way to correct it.
“Similar.”
“What’s the grade of the summoned spirit? High-Grade, Supreme-grade? Or the Spirit King of Fire?”
“Of course I don’t know either.”
Anyway.
“Edit the back part of this footage and send it to the tower climbing departments of each country around the world.”
“Yes.”
“Attach a comment that it seems weak to fire too.”
“Understood.”
Remove the part where the spiders burn.
It’s enough to inform them just the Arachnoid information; there’s no need to even show the clear footage.
What if he shows it?
Can they mimic it?
There wouldn’t be any parts to refer to for completing the clear.
“Oh right! Team Leader Lee?”
“Yes?”
“Are you still on a diet these days?”
“Of course! Dieting is a lifelong thing. …Do I perhaps look like I gained weight?”
“No, it’s not that, but…….”
Talking about dieting every day even though she’s so slim.
Well, is it just Lee Min-ah?
Player Nam Ga-eun is also a gym rat.
“Team Leader Lee, if there was an item that makes you lose weight even when staying still, what would you do.”
“Oh my? There’s something like that too?”
“Let’s assume there is.”
“I should buy it. Unconditionally.”
“If it’s like a tower item and is extremely expensive?”
“Pulling a loan. If that doesn’t work, I’ll even use private loans.”
“Yeah? Got it.”
“I’ll be going now. To edit the footage.”
After Lee Min-ah went out.
Jeon Gwang-il took out a round bracelet from his bosom.
Escape Obesity Bracelet.
The item he received from Player Bong yesterday.
However, it’s not for him to use.
There’s someone else who’ll use this.
Picking up the phone and pressing the numbers kuk-kuk.
Ddu-reu-reu, the ringing tone going.
“Hello. CEO Jeong Dong-hoon-nim?”
– Ah! Director-nim.
“You received the leather well, right?”
– Thanks to you, I received it well. The Apophis skin too. Please relay my thanks to Player Bong-nim instead for me.
“Yes yes, all right. I will pass it on.”
– I will transfer the payment for the leather immediately.
And.
“It’s nothing else, but Player Bong-nim sent a gift to CEO Jeong Dong-hoon.”
– Yes? A g, gift… rather, I should be the one giving one.
“Ha-ha-ha, you can take care of that on your own later, anyway, since the gift is a health bracelet…….”
– A health bracelet?
“Yes, a health bracelet. Please wear it for now, and if there are any changes, please give feedback immediately. For example, changes in weight.”
– Is it a tower reward item by any chance?
“Hmm, half right and half wrong, anyway it is true that it’s an item made from tower materials, but it is not a tower reward.”
– Ah, I understand.
“Shall I personally bring it to you?”
– Not at all. I will run to the Awakening Management Office right now.
The target is CEO Jeong Dong-hoon of Rajix Trading Corp, who has mild obesity.
What if the bracelet actually has an effect?
‘Going to rake in big bucks.’
The diet market is vast beyond imagination.
Medical, food, exercise…….
If the obesity bracelet is released to the market, the aftermath will be immense.
Erectile dysfunction or hair growth treatments can’t even follow.
Look around.
Are there more obese people? Or more bald people?
Moreover, even if they aren’t necessarily obese, people who want to lose weight overflow.
Like Team Leader Lee Min-ah, for example.
*
Joo-hyuk’s penthouse.
Starting with tower clears today as well.
Gathered people from the 17th-floor manpower market.
Well, brought everyone except Mari, though.
“Let’s go climb.”
[Entering the 83rd floor of the Republic of Korea’s Black Tower (NO.2).]
Since tower NO.1 was cleared, tower NO.2 must be cleared too.
The mission was the same.
[83rd Floor Mission : Kill 1 Giant Queen Spider Arachnoid.]
The sticky spiderwebs, the baby spiders appearing in swarms, the giant queen spider too.
So the clear strategy is the same too.
Hwa-reu-reu-reu-reu… hwal-hwal, kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa!
The 9-circle great magician Mackenzie Dronac’s wide-area fire magic.
‘Hmm.’
The fiery nature is nice, but…….
‘Seems he’s overdoing it too much this time too.’
Teol-sseok!
Mackenzie inevitably collapsed again.
Should have taken it easy.
You’re being too greedy.
The lingering feelings of the attention and praise he received last time seemed to remain.
So it seems he expected the same situation as that time this time too.
Even so, he didn’t receive any applause.
The summoned entities are cold-hearted.
They didn’t react a second time to a performance they had already experienced once.
Indifferent summoned entities.
There wasn’t even applause.
Mackenzie, who was disappointed sharply because the reaction he wanted didn’t come out, despite his expectations.
“Tch!”
Pat!
The spotlight turned off.
[World Notice : You have achieved the 83rd floor clear grade S+++ in Black Tower NO.2 (Korea).]
[S+++ Clear Reward : 2 Platinum Badges are awarded.]
“Good work.”
The summoned entities scattering in a swarm.
They also have a lot of own work to do.
First of all, preparing the equipment for producing the bodies of the Escape Obesity Bracelets is the first thing to do.
‘By the way…….’
Since I cleared the 83rd floor of tower NO.1 and NO.2 both with an S+++ grade, I acquired a total of 4 Platinum Badges.
So 136 accumulated badges, 14 physical badges.
I can receive the accumulation perk.
‘Check!’
[A perk is distributed for the accumulation of 135 Platinum Badges.]
‘Not gonna give anything special, right?’
[Perk : A New (æ–°) Lucky Random Box is distributed to your inventory.]
‘…Eng?’
Lucky Random Box.
I think I’ve received something like this once before.
Maybe that’s why ‘New (æ–°)’ is attached.
‘Oh!’
If it’s lucky, it means there could be something good inside.
Opening the inventory.
A wooden box the size of a cake box.
It also has a lid attached to the top to open the box.
Information check.
Trait : Upon opening, 1 of the 5 fixed types of items will appear randomly.
Types : Multinational Tower Trial Ticket, Rune of Trait Enhancement, High-Grade Mana Stone (200t) Exchange Voucher, Supreme-grade Mana Stone (20kg) Exchange Voucher, 50 Platinum Badges Exchange Voucher (Not included in accumulated badges. Perk acquisition impossible).
“Heol!”
What is this?
The I received previously gave 3 tower reward items.
This one gives exactly 1.
But they’re all extraordinary.
A 200 tons High-ma or 20kg supreme-ma exchange voucher, trait enhancement rune, multinational tower trial ticket, and…….
’50 Platinum Badges Exchange Voucher, you say?’
50 badges is something you have to clear 25 uncleared floors of the Black Tower with an S+++ grade to receive.
Although there’s a limitation that it’s not included in the accumulated badges.
In other words, earning 50 of them won’t grant me a separate perk.
Still, what a huge deal that is?
‘It’s a good thing.’
I can recklessly distribute badges to our summoned entities.
Even without that, I was worried because only 14 were left.
‘If I receive this, I can even send our Sergeant Be for grade breakthrough.’
At any rate, it deserves the ‘lucky’ modifier attached to it.
Everything is good no matter what comes out.
Of course, the Rune of Trait Enhancement is the best.
However, one landmine is mixed in.
Precisely the Multinational Tower Trial Ticket.
I’m doomed if I step on this.
‘Does it mean I have a 1 in 5 chance to step on shit?’
I just need to avoid that one.
The rest are all only good things.
‘Hmph, luck? Something like that…….’
When it comes to luck, isn’t it me, Bong Joo-hyuk.
The optimal result will come out this time too.
So I eagerly grabbed the lid and tried to open the box boldly, but.
“…….”
Strange.
My hand wouldn’t move readily.
A feeling like it’s going to fail spectacularly.
‘This, I feel like the Multinational Tower Trial Ticket is going to come out.’
Ominous.
Different from usual.
Honestly, I’ve been extremely lucky so far.
Everything I attempted hit the jackpot.
But there’s no guarantee it’ll continue to be good.
Isn’t that how luck is?
It’s always good, but it’s bound to slip unconditionally at least once.
And that time seems to be now.
‘…Should I make someone else do it?’
Then even if it fails, I won’t get cursed at.
If my luck doesn’t seem like it’ll work, use someone else’s luck.
Yeah.
‘Let’s try it.’
Making a fuss with a loud voice.
“Emergency! It’s an emergency. Everyone gather.”
At Joo-hyuk’s shout, the summoned entities running u-reu-reu-reu.
“Cossack is here, sir, what is the matter, sir?”
“Sergeant Caliber! Should I pack a full military gear bag?”
“What is the matter. Summoner.”
“Gongja-nim, this girl awaits.”
“The warrior came as well.”
Joo-hyuk took out the box, held it with both hands, pushed it towards Cossack ssu-uk, and said.
“Try opening this. Hurry hurry!”
Cossack welcoming it warmly.
“Oh! Is it a gift, sir? Aiy, why give such a thing…….”
Cossack grabbed the top part of the wooden box with his hand.
And the moment he was about to open the lid!
Meom-chit!
Tilting his head.
“…Is this perhaps something like a random box, sir? If opened, a perk comes out, sir?”
How did he know?
“Euhm, ah, I do not want to open it, sir. …Could you not order Gobang to do it, sir?”
He didn’t fall for it.
He’s so quick-witted.