Chapter 171

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Translated by Jinmu

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Tower NO.1 84th-floor repeat clear.

Tower entry is possible 4 times a day, but the actual work is exactly once a day.

As always.

Joo-hyuk’s greatest goal is to live happily for a long, long time with the summoned entities without any worries.

So work is kept to a minimum.

And wasting time playing around recklessly with the remaining time.

‘4 times a day my foot.’

Telling us to just work in the tower until we die?

Can’t do that.

Even with just once a day, High-Grade Mana Stones pour out.

Even Top-grade Mana Stones are mined from a minimum of 15kg to 30kg in a single operation.

We don’t necessarily have to buy High-Grade Mana Stones from outside anymore.

From the start, the reason we began the bracelet business was to purchase High-Grade Mana Stones, but now we just have to mine them.

Thanks to that, we have leeway in disposable funds.

Combining the money in the existing account and the payment recently received from selling leather amounts to hundreds of billions of won.

Money enough to play and eat for a lifetime.

However, Cossack’s thoughts seemed different.

“Money is not something to let rot, sir. It must be invested, sir.”

Investment.

“Is there a need for that?”

“There is, sir. I have told you repeatedly, sir. Money is the most pure power, sir. It can make even impossible things possible, sir. We must earn as much as we can when we can, sir.”

Hmm.

What should I do?

Well, there’s nothing bad about earning a lot of money.

So I asked him where it would be good to invest.

“Genius of investment, ruler of stock charts, buying at the toes and selling at the top of the head. Is it favorable news? No, it’s a fire hazard. Checking the Han River water temperature is unnecessary. Why? Because I won’t be going in. The regressed conglomerate’s illegitimate scoundrel son who makes Wall Street tremble, that is exactly me, Cossack, sir.”

What’s he saying?

“The core of investment is future value, sir.”

“Right.”

“You must invest in a field that seems to have low value right now but will definitively flourish in the future, sir.”

“Oh!”

Cossack sounding like a real investment expert.

“So the correct answer is real estate, sir.”

“…….”

“You need to have land to do business too, sir.”

“Euhm.”

Ey.

I thought he had a brilliant idea or something.

What real estate.

Where is there even a place to invest in this already narrow land.

“It is not Korea, sir. You must invest in the place with the lowest current value, North Korea, sir.”

Eng?

North Korea?

“Unification is unconditional, sir. When unified, land prices will jump thousands of times or more, sir. Preempt it in advance, buy land, build factories there, build buildings too…….”

That’s true.

North Korea.

Since summoned entities including Cossack intervened, unification will be a matter of time.

“…Sounds good?”

“Who am I, sir? Player Bong-nim can just stay still, sir. I will multiply your assets thousands of times or more, sir. I will make you into the mastermind who holds and shakes the world economy from the shadows, sir.”

Joo-hyuk grasped Cossack’s hands tightly deop-seok and said.

“Aigoo. As expected of our Cossack-ssi, tuk! poke and the answer comes out right away.”

“Y, you overpraise me, sir. I will decide the detailed plan by discussing it directly with CEO Jeong, sir.”

“As much as you want. Cossack-ssi’s decision is exactly my decision.”

“Aiyuu, am I not the number 2 among the summoned entities, sir. Right after farmhand Rajix, sir.”

“Of course. A solid number 2 position, I acknowledge it. Ha-ha-ha-ha.”

“He-he-he-he.”

Mackenzie staring at this sight as if envious.

Simultaneously, a dark cloud floating as an image above his head.

The position of number 2 was slowly getting further away.

Has to come up with some move.

‘Huu, I should climb up to at least number three.’

It was Mackenzie’s biggest worry recently.

*

The cooldown for Master Sergeant Be’s Sub-light Speed Missile is 48 hours.

Meaning two days.

Time passed quickly.

“Commander, I am ready.”

“Is that so?”

Continuing to play around gets boring.

Repeat clears are like that too.

We should also change the mood sometimes.

A chance to witness Master Sergeant Be’s Sub-light Speed Missile once more.

Since Top-grade Mana Stone reserves are ample thanks to Rajix.

There are two choices here.

First is whether to clear tower NO.2 84th floor first.

Second is whether to clear the uncleared upper 85th floor of tower NO.1 first.

Doesn’t matter what I choose.

It’s much better than just making bracelets holed up in the White Tower.

‘If possible, to a new floor…….’

Master Sergeant Be’s Sub-light Speed Missile skill.

Will it really work on the 85th floor too?

From my perspective, it seems perfectly sufficient.

It’s still vivid in my eyes.

The sight of the aerial battleship flying monster Colossus Condor exploding peong in the sky.

Isn’t that truly the clear I wished for.

An overwhelming click clear.

If so, this time too?

I’ve decided.

Going to climb the upper floor.

Tower NO.2 will be later,

All driven together at once.

I should form a party.

But a little different from before.

A lesson learned while clearing the giant monster section in the early 80s floors.

I don’t have to summon out all of them up to the summonable number limit.

In the past, if I didn’t summon the summoned entities, they had to stand by in the world of souls.

I felt sorry about that, so I summoned all of them if possible.

Now we have the 17th floor of the White Tower.

Even if I don’t summon them, they can just play there, right.

Dividing them into a starting lineup and reserves.

An optimized starting lineup befitting each floor.

Reserves to join immediately if unexpected variables occur.

When Joo-hyuk declared the 85th-floor clear, the summoned entities flocked over u-reu-reu.

However.

“Cossack-ssi, Gobang-ssi and Bardin-ssi, farmhand Rajix, Blood Wolf, sit out this time for one turn. You are the reserves. I’ll go up to the 85th floor, assess the situation, and decide whether to summon you.”

At that.

“Ho-aek?”

Rajix shivering ba-deul-ba-deul with an unbelievable gaze in his eyes.

To think he himself is excluded.

How could this be!

“I’m sorry. We plan to quickly clear it and come out anyway, so there won’t even be time to work. Endure it just this once.”

“Hoo-e-e-e-e…….”

Cossack, Gobang, and Bardin also seemed shocked.

“No, why am I excluded, sir?”

“Since it’s a giant monster section, melee is a bit…….”

“Th, the warrior is the Summoner’s shield. Y, you must absolutely take the shield.”

“If such a situation arises, I’ll call you immediately.”

“Ah-ah, this subject shall be reflecting. This is all due to my incompetence. Let there be light!!!”

Cossack still with a sullen expression.

“Why are you taking Gepetto and Diamat, sir?”

“They’re still rookies, aren’t they. Let’s give these two a chance to grow too.”

“…….”

“They can fly around too.”

Giant monster section.

The role of melee drops significantly.

It’s even dangerous.

Getting close to a giant monster could easily get you killed.

Tower clear reset tickets can be used as much as I want.

If it gets hard, I just have to reset.

However, I don’t want to use Resurrection Runes.

Not because it’s a waste.

Because I’m afraid of seeing someone die.

Thus, the formed party.

Starting lineup: Gwangma, Gyeon Dal-rae, Be, Mackenzie, Gepetto, Diamat. Reserves: Cossack, Gobang, Bardin, Rajix, Blood Wolf.

“Old man Mae, wh, why are you smiling sil-sil, sir? Gets me in a bad mood, sir.”

“Keo-heom! When did I say I smiled?”

“Then what is that beaming smile symbol floating above your head, sir? Please erase it a bit, sir.”

Mackenzie couldn’t hide his rising the corners of his mouth.

Himself selected in the starting lineup, and on the other hand, the number 2 Cossack relegated to a reserve.

Positions reversed in a single stroke.

This is exactly what life is about.

*

[Entering the 85th floor of the Republic of Korea’s Black Tower (NO.1).]

As soon as we entered, Joo-hyuk handed over 1kg of Top-grade Mana Stone to Master Sergeant Be in advance.

“Please load it in the magic gun.”

“Master Sergeant Veronica Caliber, I will pierce it through as soon as it appears.”

The 85th-floor background is a desolate desert region.

But it wasn’t just a desert.

A ruined city entered their eyes up ahead.

‘A city?’

Human-made structures visible here and there, half-collapsed barriers, broken roads, and sunken buildings.

Now, what is it this time?

Since it’s the giant monster section, something giant will appear, right?

For example, the main culprit that ruined the city set as the background.

“Seems like the mission type is urban street warfare, but.”

“Yes, let’s go in.”

Joo-hyuk and the party slowly advanced into the city.

Then the mission popped up.

[85th Floor Mission : Kill 1 entity of the Magical Empire’s Ultimate Weapon Giant Golem Magnus Gigant.]

[Completion Time Limit : Within 15 hours.]

[Completion Condition : Giant Golem Magnus Gigant 0/1]

‘…Magnus Gigant?’

I do know very well about golems.

Since there’s a class that summons golems among summon attribute players right now.

But a giant golem Gigant,

Just how big must it be.

“Master Sergeant Be-nim, it says it’s the Magical Empire’s Ultimate Weapon Magnus Gigant. Have you perhaps heard…….”

“I haven’t. I’ve heard it for the first time.”

Eng?

Even though you belonged to the Magical Empire Ranger unit.

“At least in the era I lived in, Magnus Gigant did not exist. Such a name is a first for me too.”

Ah!

Perhaps?

“It seems to have been made after I died. Actually, this Sub-light Speed Missile magic gun I received after upgrading to LSSR was also an item that didn’t exist in my era.”

If so… the era when that Magnus Gigant was made could be a future world after Master Sergeant Be lived.

It was then.

Ku-kung, ku-ku-ku-ku-ku-ku-ku…….

The ground surface shaking strongly.

And.

Kwa-deu-deuk, ssu-uk!

Something giant and elongated soared up from underground.

‘A pillar?’

It wasn’t.

One arm made of dark gray metal.

‘Uh…….’

It was merely one arm.

Yet it’s that big.

‘Wow!’

The head following after it.

It also looked like a human.

Kkeu-deu-deu-deuk!

The head coming up.

Ku-ku-ku-ku-kuk!

As the main body came out.

Ssu-u-u-u-uk!

Even the two legs larger than the main body.

A lower-body-obese humanoid giant golem.

Its height is roughly about a 30-story building.

The body seemed to be made of metal too.

‘Is it a robot, or what?’

A nostalgic giant robot that appeared in cartoon movies when I was young.

At that moment!

– Enemy intrusion, enemy intrusion.

‘It even talks?’

A creepy mechanical sound.

– Enemy intrusion. Necessary to seek response. Response means determined.

Giant Golem Magnus Gigant completely raised its body.

Then turned its head towards Joo-hyuk.

Ppi-i-i-ing!

Magnus Gigant’s two eyes shone red.

This is unusual.

“Heok!”

“C, Commander!”

“Summoner!!!”

“No!!!”

Joo-hyuk reflexively cast Shadow Step.

Spot! Seu-pa-pa-pa-pat!

Simultaneously, Blink, the skill engraved on the ring, too.

Pat! Pat! Pat! Pat! Pat…….

Chi-ji-jik!

Right after Joo-hyuk moved, a blood-red light ray fired like a laser beam from the bastard’s two eyes.

Jjeo-jeo-jeo-jeo-jeok!

The place where the laser beam passed burned red.

“…Uh-uh.”

If I had stayed still there, I would have died.

“You bastard!!!!”

Enraged Gwangma.

U-u-ung!

Blood Jade Sword-ki manifested throughout his entire body.

Cheu-pi-pit!

Before anyone knew, Gwangma was above the Gigant’s head.

“You dare target the Summoner? I will rip your head off.”

Ji-i-ing!

Clear hand sword-ki of the Blood Jade Sword-ki.

Pu-uk!

Gwangma’s hand stabbed deeply into the bastard’s head.

Stabbed and stabbed again.

Puk-puk-puk-puk!

However, it didn’t seem to have taken any particular damage.

Is it because the stabbing depth was shallow?

Kung-kung-kung-kung.

The Gigant moving its steps nonchalantly while carrying Gwangma on its head.

– Enemy melee attack. Seeking response. Response means determined.

At that moment!

Pa-cheu-cheu-cheu-cheu-cheu-cheut!

A blue-colored current film starting to cover the Gigant’s entire body.

“My goodness!”

Seu-pa-pa-pat!

Gwangma, who sensed the crisis, hurriedly dodged his body away.

Pa-chi-chik, chi-chik, chik, chi-chik, chik, chi-chik…….

The Gigant enveloped in lighting streams on its body.

Might get electrocuted if we stick close.

Entering earnest combat.

Spot! Spot!

Gwangma moved rapidly, flashing beon-tteuk-beon-tteuk around the bastard.

Cheu-pi-pit! Cheu-pit!

Pouring crescent moon sword-ki formations.

Jjeo-jeo-jeo-jeok!

Red light rays being fired.

Kwa-kwa-kwang!

Dodging and hitting, hitting and dodging.

Every time he did, crescent moon-shaped scars getting engraved on the Gigant’s body.

But the bastard is a metal body.

It was exceedingly sturdy.

Still, we blocked the bastard’s advance.

The Gigant unable to move further, merely receiving Gwangma’s attacks.

“Master Sergeant Be! Is taking aim finished?”

“I am doing it. Please hold on a little longer.”

The Sub-light Speed Missile is only one shot.

Gwangma stepping forward alone to make Master Sergeant Be’s aiming easier.

Jji-ji-ji-ji-ji-ji-ji-ji-ji…….

The magic gun heated up brightly.

Seu-pa-pa-pa-pat!

Gwangma also dodged far away.

Aiming complete.

But then?

– Sub-light speed missile attack expected. Seeking response. Response means determined.

“…What?”

You know about the Sub-light Speed Missile?

Moreover, you have a response means too?

Master Sergeant Be’s body jolted.

Sub-light Speed Missile fired.

Simultaneously with that, a massive explosion occurred at the front of Magnus Gigant.

It was not an explosion caused by the magic gun.

An explosion the Gigant created itself.

Kwa-kwang! Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwang!

Ppa-jjyu-jjyu-jjyu-jjyu-jjyu-jjyu-jjyu-jjyuk!!!

Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa……!

A massive dust cloud rose from the aftermath of the explosion.

A moment later, the dust cleared and the Gigant’s figure was revealed.

‘Heol.’

The bastard was perfectly fine.

The confident blow ended up missing.

The Sub-light Speed Missile destroyed the building right next to the target Gigant instead.

The Sub-light Speed Missile whose direction twisted under the influence of the counter-explosion initiated by the Gigant.

‘Could it be?’

As expected, Magnus Gigant was a future Magical Empire weapon created in the same civilization as Master Sergeant Be.

Therefore, a technology capable of neutralizing Sub-light Speed Missiles also seemed to be equipped.

– Enemy suppression necessary. Seeking suppression means. Suppression means determined.

In the midst of that, Magnus Gigant commencing action.

Ku-kung! Kung-kung-kung-kung!

It charged rapidly towards the direction where Joo-hyuk was standing.

It was natural and fast as if a human was moving.

‘Physical attack, huh.’

What do I do about this?

Sword slashes won’t work either.

Still, what’s fortunate is leaving Cossack, Gobang, and Bardin behind.

If I brought them, it could have been dangerous.

‘…Should I give up the mission?’

Or reset again?

As I was standing blankly pondering like that, right then!

“Dig, dig, dig…….”

Trenches being dug deeply um-puk-um-puk on the path the Gigant was charging through.

The Gigant tripping on the trench and falling down kwa-dang.

A 9-circle magician.

The basic magic Dig that he casts.

Every time the spell was cast, a large trench formed on the ground surface.

Yes.

There’s still hope.

– Enemy mobility restriction attack. Seeking response. Response means determined.

Hwi-ri-rit!

The Gigant effortlessly jumping up readily, rolling on the ground with that massive body.

However, Mackenzie didn’t give up either.

Gwangma joined in too.

“Hellfire!”

Kwa-reu-reuk!

Lava surging from the ground surface.

– Enemy flame magic attack. Seeking response. Response means determined.

“Dig, Hellfire, Dig, Hellfire…….”

Um-puk! Kwa-reu-reuk, um-puk! Kwa-reu-reuk, um-puk! Kwa-reu-reuk…….

Kung-kung-kung-kung-kung!

The Gigant rushed forward while moving in a zigzag, adeptly dodging the lava trenches and ground trenches Mackenzie created here and there.

While receiving Gwangma’s ranged attacks too.

Wow!

It’s really fast.

What are we supposed to do if a giant bastard is even fast?

Can’t be helped.

The hidden card with still one use left.

I should completely use this too.

Our shut-in anthropophobic alchemist who recently notified via chat that she restocked explosive homunculi.

“Alia Mari designated summon.”

Hwa-a-at!

Spot!

Alia Mari, who grasped the situation as soon as she was summoned.

From within her embrace, red metal spheres popped out tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk, rolling de-gu-reu-reu.

The collapsing metal spheres.

Red-colored grains.

Explosive homunculi,

Flowing like rapids, they began to pounce towards the charging Gigant’s main body.

Da-dak! Da-da-da-dak! Da-da-da-da-dak!

– Active mini-bomb attack expected. Seeking response. Response means determined.

‘This punk?’

Cheu-cheu-cheu-cheu-cheut!

The blue-colored current covering the Gigant’s entire body changed into a dense spiderweb form and was sprayed in all directions.

Explosive homunculi stuck to it.

However, swept by the current, the homunculi couldn’t even stick to its main body and exploded before that.

Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwang!

A terrifying chain explosion.

And the bastard still charging.

There’s absolutely no answer to this.

Magnus Gigant was neutralizing all external attacks, whether physical force, magic, or explosion.

“Haa, fucking hell…….”

If I summoned all the remaining summoned entities and attached them to the bastard, there would be a method.

But if even one dies while doing that?

Just because there are Resurrection Runes, and we’d meet on the 17th floor even if they die, should I just recklessly throw them in?

How can I bear to watch them die.

I should rather give up the clear altogether instead.

Yeah, well, let’s reset.

Joo-hyuk took out a ticket from his inventory.

However.

“J, just a moment! Master.”

Succubus Diamat restraining Joo-hyuk.

“Why……?”

“I think the dream realm will work.”

What?

It’s a definitively inanimate golem Gigant, but the dream realm, or in other words a mental attack, works, you say.

“It is possible. But the opponent’s resistance is not easy, so. If only I could use a little more power.”

Gyeon Dal-rae asked with sparkling eyes.

“Is that true?”

“Yes.”

“In that case, this lady shall assist you.”

Seu-u-ung!

Sacred fairy’s aura blooming on the scene.

Pa-ra-ra-rak!

Fluttering talismans.

To the succubus Diamat, a buff talisman that elevates abilities.

Pa-ra-ra-rak!

To the Giant Golem Magnus Gigant, a debuff talisman that degrades abilities and brings a sense of helplessness.

Cha-cha-cha-cha-chak!

Two types of talismans stuck to the subjects respectively.

Succubus Diamat, an SSR with improved abilities, quietly closed her eyes and concentrated her mind.

Declaration of the dream realm.

Will it really work?

Right at that moment!

Kung-kung! Ku-gung, kung…….

The fast-charging Magnus Gigant’s footsteps slowly decelerated, then very soon began to stagger as if it would collapse.

Ku-gung!

At length, the Gigant falling to one knee.

However, standing up again, taking one step, and another step.

At that moment!

Chae-chaeng! Chae-chae-chae-chae-chaeng!

Dung-dung, du-dung-dung-dung!

Gyeon Dal-rae’s shaman gutgeori rhythm joined in.

The effect was certain.

Kung, kung, kung…….

As if losing its sense of direction, it went right, then went left, then spun in that spot like a top and then…….

Gi-u-tteung!

The Gigant falling backwards exactly like a log.

Kwa-kwang!

It worked.

Diamat, with Gyeon Dal-rae’s help, collapsed the Gigant with the dream realm skill.

That Gigant which didn’t budge at Gwangma’s martial arts, Master Sergeant Be’s Sub-light Speed Missile, Mackenzie’s flashy magic, or Alia Mari’s explosive homunculi either.

But wait, that bastard is a living organism?

How on earth?

However, the clear completion message didn’t ring yet.

Diamat shouted forcefully in a loud voice.

“Gwangma-nim, the chest, the chest! There is something in the Gigant’s chest.”

“Understood.”

Seu-pa-pa-pat!

Gwangma getting on top of the chest part of the fallen Gigant.

And tapping it tung-tung with his hand, then.

“This part is empty. There was a weak point.”

Ji-i-ing!

Manifesting Blood Jade Sword-ki,

Geu-geu-geu-geu-geuk, geu-geuk, geu-geuk.

He began to cut out a specific chest area.

After cutting for a long time like that and tearing out the chest armor plate.

Ppu-deu-deuk!

“Heo-heo.”

“What is there?”

“Let us see. What is this… a human?”

Seu-pa-pat!

Joo-hyuk hurriedly climbed onto the Gigant’s body too.

“Uh…….”

Gwangma’s words were correct.

A human-like existence was inside there.

Another small golem sleeping soundly in a place like the cockpit of the giant robot.

A golem inside a golem?

‘Information?’

– Grade : LSSR (Legend Special Super Rare)
– Type : Golem (Human)

It was a magical engineer.