A Wimp’s Strategy Guide to Conquer the Tower (Novel) - Chapter 199
Chapter 199
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Translated by Jinmu
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Chinese State Councilor Wei Kuan entered South Korea through an unofficial route.
And immediately visited the Awakening Management Agency to meet with Commissioner Jeon Gwang-il.
The purpose was bringing magic power sealing scrolls into China.
It must be accomplished unconditionally.
Thus, as soon as Wei Kuan met Jeon Gwang-il, he raised the white flag and surrendered.
“I came representing the Chinese government. We will accept all your conditions.”
The conditions he would accept.
Withdrawal of surveillance and oppression of general Chinese players, immediate release of illegally imprisoned players, and allowing asylum exclusively for players who desire it.
However, excluding criminal villain players.
Because they must pay the price for their crimes.
Agonizing Jeon Gwang-il.
He seemed to think for a moment and then.
“Approximately how many sheets of scrolls do you need?”
“For now, just about 100 million sheets…….”
“Eum.”
100 million sheets is 10 trillion won in Korean money.
China is certainly China.
The basic unit itself is different.
“Is 100 million sheets difficult?”
“Even if we cannot print them out in a short time, we have some pre-made ones too, and if the printing workers work some overtime… one or two months?”
“Ah! Then the export is?”
Actually, he had already discussed it with Player Bong Joo-hyuk.
To export them to them if possible.
Although the Chinese government isn’t to his liking, he can’t just leave the chaotic situation as it is.
What if right off the bat setbacks occur in the tower clears?
Tower collapses must be prevented.
It’s not like China is an isolated island country; knowing the truth, they are on the same continent.
“How would you like the payment, shall we give it in Yuan? Or…….”
He seemed extremely urgent.
It couldn’t be helped.
While all of China’s public power is focusing on responding to the liberated players, how could state administration run properly?
The economy is also suffering a tremendous blow.
Drop in the stock index, shrinking consumer sentiment, decline in productivity, and foreign investors are also pulling out.
“The money can be deposited immediately. The goods quickly, even if it’s just the first batch.”
“It’s not because of the money.”
“Then?”
“Since there’s a place I have to get final approval from.”
No matter how much he was delegated full authority, the final OK sign must drop.
Wei Kuan with a perplexed expression.
“Eum, as fa, fast as possible…….”
“Let’s make a verbal contract for now, and I will prepare the quantity so it can be processed immediately once the decision is made.”
“We will also have an aircraft ready at Pyongyang Airport to load the scrolls immediately. You absolutely must do this.”
“Yes.”
After parting with Wei Kuan, Jeon Gwang-il immediately went to the White Tower 17th floor.
To get the final approval from Player Bong Joo-hyuk.
Spot!
‘Is no one here?’
The quiet White Tower 17th floor.
The only things present were Magnus Gigants standing tall… wait!
‘Gigants? …s? Plural?’
What is this?
‘…….’
Do I have astigmatism?
It wasn’t one unit.
Gigants erected in a column of 3 lines in the White Tower plaza.
Like soldiers waiting for battle.
One, two, three, four…….
15 units in total.
“My, my goodness!”
It’s as if the Gigant underwent cellular division.
Naturally, that couldn’t be the case.
Player Bong probably brought them.
“…Haha.”
With this level of Gigant military force, conquering Earth would also be possible.
‘I’ll come back next time.’
Because he seems to be away from his seat to clear the tower right now.
“Exit.”
Spot!
* * *
Transcendence, Beyond Summoned Entity.
There is no word grade either.
Literally an expression of having transcended.
‘Since it said the skill was registered…….’
What about the status window?
[Trait Skill] : Designated Summon/ Random Summon/ Unsummon/ Transcendence (Beyond) Random Summon (1-time)
It became like this.
Transcendence is Transcendence but random.
Then it means the number of transcendents is also multiple.
I need a bit more information.
I wonder if the summoned entities know?
Therefore.
“Everyone, come here for a bit.”
U-reu-reu-reu-reu.
The summoned entities gathered in a circle.
“Does anyone happen to have heard about the Transcendence, Beyond Summoned Entity?”
Joo-hyuk explained about the achievement reward he had just received.
At that.
“Eum, I mentioned it to you once before, sir. Do you remember, sir?”
“…What did you say?”
“What I told you about how somewhere in the world, there are also a few unclassified, demigod-class monsters that transcend the status of human.”
“Ah!”
Come to think of it, I have heard it.
Very early on.
When I was not yet certain about tower clearing.
In the early climbing period, while I was agonizing over ‘Will I be able to climb the tower safely without dying or getting hurt?’, the words Cossack had told me.
“Then does it mean Transcendence Summoned Entities are unclassified, demigod-class?”
“That would be it, sir.”
“Where are they? In the World of Souls?”
“That I don’t know either, sir. There is almost no known information, sir. Since it’s a story floating around like a legend even among us summoned entities.”
A legend within a legend.
Merely at the level of having heard the story.
My heart is thumping (kong-dak-geo-ri-da).
Doesn’t it mean I can summon beings approaching the level of gods?
However.
“10 minutes is too short. And the fact that it’s a 1-time thing too.”
At that, Gwangma.
“The status of the soul itself will be so powerful that it will probably only be able to stay in the world for about 10 minutes. Well, 10 minutes is long too. Since if a demigod-class being manifests, they will clear an ordinary tower floor in an instant.”
Mackenzie too.
“That is correct. Will there be any beings capable of opposing them? Even if it is the Ancient Dragon Lord.”
“Ancient Dragon Lord?”
“It is the strongest Dragon. The one that cannot be killed even with Meteor Summon, but the expression demigod is not used even for that Dragon Lord.”
“Aha!”
The Dragon Lord does not belong to the demigod-class either.
Therefore, if caught, puk! jjik! (t/n: stab/squash)
However, Gyeon Dal-rae’s opinion seemed different.
“However, you must be cautious, Young Master. You must bear in mind that the transcendents are beings who might even transcend the three principles of summoned entities, Young Master.”
Eolle?
That is true too.
It means I called them out, but I might be the one who gets harmed instead.
‘I shouldn’t use it recklessly.’
Exactly 1 chance.
And the risk that might arise when summoned.
I must use it at a decisive moment, when I judge it to be utterly impossible to clear.
Anyway, deciding to do so and.
Next is the special privilege rewards.
10 in total.
To summarize it.
1 Additional Item Acquisition Ticket, 1 LSSR Grade Guaranteed Summon Ticket, 1 Rune of Summoned Entity Grade Ascension, 1 Tower Floor Intrusion Ticket, besides that the Tower Clear Mission Reset Ticket and Multinational Tower Access Ticket as duplicates 2 of each, additionally Summoned Entity Skill Copy.
“…Wow!”
There’s no Rune of Trait Enhancement.
Even though it’s 10 consecutive draws.
Well, it’s likely proof of how precious the Trait Enhancement Rune is.
Still, if there’s one singularity…….
‘Summoned Entity Skill Copy popped up?’
This is a good thing.
Because its value changes depending on who the target of copying is.
“I was rewarded a chance to copy one of the skills you all possess as a special privilege. So…….”
At that moment!
Before anyone could say first, the summoned entities raising their hands flashingly (beon-jjeok-beon-jjeok).
“Please learn mine, sir. Stealth, stealth I say, sir.”
“Hmph! As for stealth, since there is the Concealment Veil, Summoner-nim, how about Meteor Summon?”
“Oh Light!!! Please learn Radiance. People will come to revere the Liege.”
“This girl’s Talisman Arts… the uses will undoubtedly be plentiful.”
“Master Sergeant Veronica Caliber, a soldier is about marksmanship.”
“How about the Domain of Dreams. A sweet dream together with me.”
“Learn Size Enlargement. You get taller.”
“Keong-keong-keong-keong!”
“Ho-a-a-at!”
Tti-ring!
: Alchemy is good™¡™¬
However.
“I am thankful for the words but I have already decided on something.”
Joo-hyuk spoke while looking at Rajix.
“I can copy one of our Dimensional Farmhand’s skills, right?”
“Ho-e?”
“I am planning to copy the Subspace Backpack.”
“Ho-eng!”
He permitted it.
Then shall I try it?
Simultaneously.
Tti-ring!
A popping up message.
[Special Privilege : You can copy 1 of the skills possessed by a summoned entity.]
[Please select a target.]
After selecting Rajix from the targets, pointing (kok) at the Subspace Backpack in his skill list and.
‘Subspace Backpack Copy Acquisition.’
However?
[Summoned Entity Rajix’s Subspace Backpack skill is impossible to copy.]
“…Eng?”
I can’t?
Why?
“It seems the Subspace Backpack can’t be copied.”
“Hu-e.”
Rajix with a disappointed expression.
It’s a pity but it can’t be helped.
Then?
“…Shall I try learning Meteor Summon?”
[Summoned Entity Mackenzie’s Meteor Summon skill is impossible to copy.]
This is impossible too?
“The Talisman Arts…….”
[Summoned Entity Gyeon Dal-rae’s Talisman Arts skill is impossible to copy.]
“…….”
Gwangma nodding his head as if he understood the reason.
“You probably won’t be able to learn the specific intrinsic skills of each summoned entity. Something like Bardin’s Radiance, or Gobang’s Size Enlargement skill.”
Is that so?
Come to think of it, is the Subspace Backpack an ordinary skill?
Regardless of Earth items or tower items, indiscriminately putting in nuclear warheads, storing that large Gigant, a firetruck, there’s nothing that doesn’t go in.
‘Just because it’s a copy doesn’t mean everything works.’
Well, if even this worked, it would be eating it too raw.
Honestly, as long as I keep Rajix by my side, there’s no need to necessarily learn it either.
“General combat skills will be possible. This old man recommends Magician Mac’s Barrier skill to you.”
“I agree, sir. As expected, self-protection skills are the best, sir. With an energy protective shield and Barrier magic, you will be even safer, sir.”
“This girl agrees as well.”
Mackenzie smiled pleasingly and spoke.
“Although this Magician specializes in Fire Magic, Barrier Magic is also usable. Please hurry and learn it.”
Joo-hyuk agreed too.
If I learn Barrier magic, I can cast it not only on myself but also on other people too.
[Skill : Acquiring the Barrier Protective Shield skill.]
[The Barrier Protective Shield skill has been registered in the Status Window.]
In the status window too.
[Combat Skill] : Shadow Step / Hunyuan Thunderbolt Cudgel / Blood Prison Sword Aura / Ice Spear / Barrier Protective Shield.
Now today’s schedule is over.
“Now! Let’s do our badge conferment ceremony…….”
However.
“Ey, we don’t need to receive the badges, sir. Please keep them, sir.”
“That is correct, Young Master. Please save the badges.”
“Now is the time you must rethink the usage of the badges.”
“Ho-e-e-e!”
I can tell why everyone is acting like this.
The path to Transcendence, Beyond Summon has opened.
It’s 1-time-use right now, but there might be more chances later.
However, the summoning cost is 30 Platinum Badges.
So it seems they consider the badges must be saved but.
‘Where is such a thing?’
The summoned entities currently by my side are much more important than a transcendent whose identity I don’t even know.
“Take exactly one each, all of you.”
All 13 people.
Even the Blood Wolf, the dog gets one.
For that reason, the remaining badges are 80 minus 13, 67.
‘Oh right! I must go outside and summon Gepetto too.’
Since I have to tell him about the process of the Earth No. 675 Black Tower clear this time, and attach a badge to him.
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The next day.
Joo-hyuk met Commissioner Jeon Gwang-il who entered the White Tower.
“Player Bong-nim.”
“Welcome.”
“You weren’t here yesterday, I saw.”
“Ah… I was doing some tower climbing.”
In another world.
Even detonated nuclear bombs too.
A whopping 10 shots.
‘I should tell him depending on the situation.’
Since we’re between those that know everything about each other.
There’s no reason to keep it a secret again either.
First, after talking about how much the Demonic Sword production has progressed.
Jeon Gwang-il explained regarding the magic power sealing scroll export contract with China.
“It’s a pre-order of 100 million sheets in total. Saying they could order more depending on the situation.”
“Ah, yes yes.”
“It’s roughly 10 trillion in Korean Won, shall we receive it in Yuan, or in Dollars…….”
Heol.
Sales of 10 trillion won at once.
It is a tremendous amount of money.
However, perhaps because my sense of money has dulled lately, I didn’t think of it as that big a sum.
Furthermore, money is sufficient.
Therefore.
“Could we perhaps receive something else instead of money?”
“Something else……?”
What is there?
What is the most representative thing among what the neighboring country, the People’s Republic of China, owns?
Population, natural resources, and vast territory.
‘Land, huh.’
It’s nice.
Let’s receive land.
While we’re at it, in a way of being permanently ceded through the conclusion of a treaty between the countries.
“For example, something like land.”
“Ah!”
“Try asking for China’s territory of Mt. Baekdu. I think it’s worth receiving to that extent.”
Currently, half of Mt. Baekdu is North Korean land, half is Chinese land.
Commissioner Jeon Gwang-il nodded his head as well.
“Are you saying in a way that fully reverts Mt. Baekdu to North Korea?”
“Yes, since it will be unified anyway.”
It’s a fine idea.
Since Chinese Special Envoy Wei Kuan is still staying in South Korea for the final contract.
“Understood. I will sound out their intentions.”
“If it doesn’t go well, please add a few more things. Priority reservation for magic guns, or that we’ll also do tower clears for them.”
It will definitely work.
They won’t be able to refuse.
Because there is a precedent.
Land ceding between countries.
Something that happens extremely commonly since the creation of the Black Towers.
It was like that during the temporary naturalization contract between China and Russia in the past too.
In exchange for a Russian player simultaneously clearing 3 Chinese towers, the Chinese government handed over parts of the Heilongjiang providence to Russia.
If it’s half of Mt. Baekdu, it’s a trade worth trying.
Since it’s smaller than the land conceded to Russia.
Let’s receive it unconditionally.
‘Me, my liver has gotten really big lately.’
A subordinate man even eating up a great nation’s land at random.
“Ah right! Also, I plan to do the firefighting clear one more time, so could you please prepare for it?”
“If it’s the firefighting clear… where?”
The 2 Republic of Korea Towers 86th floors were cleared previously.
Other countries’ Black Towers are still far off.
“Because there is one more tower to clear. Though I did detonate about 10 nukes, it wasn’t to my satisfaction, because they’re very bad scrubs.”
“…Yes?”
Just what?
“Nukes, you say? Are those the nukes I’m thinking of?”
“Yep! Those nukes.”
Although he did hear the fact that Player Bong had caught a super-giant monster with a nuke in the past.
“Are you saying the use of nukes has become possible inside the tower? Wa, wasn’t it banned?”
“The managers banned it on Earth No. 1,001, but Earth No. 675 hasn’t been patched yet.”
“…Eh?”
Jeon Gwang-il with a dumbfounded expression.
He completely couldn’t understand the circumstances.
Earth No. 1,001? Earth No. 675?
“As for how that happened…….”
Joo-hyuk explained to Commissioner Jeon Gwang-il the process of how he crossed over to another world.
Additionally, that beings called managers exist as well.
Jeon Gwang-il with a shocked expression.
Dimensional travel, another world, a ruined world, and the Black Tower there.
However, the most astonishing fact above all was.
“Th, the managers?”
You’re saying there are people managing the tower too?
He even met them 3 times, he says.
Here, and over there too.
“…What kind of scrubs are they?”
“I don’t know either. Actually, nothing has been revealed. Neither identity, nor purpose.”
Joo-hyuk continued his words while shaking his head.
“I merely exclusively know the fact that they have contacted me and are constantly interfering with tower clearing.”
“…….”
Goosebumps broke out all over Jeon Gwang-il’s body.
The fact he found out was so colossal that he didn’t know what to do.
“Is this a confidential matter?”
“Not at all. I don’t care if you disclose it. Though I don’t know if people will believe it.”
“Aha…….”
After a short silence flowed.
“You must have had a hard time in the meanwhile. To think you suffered so much…….”
“Ey, what suffering! I came back having blown off stress refreshingly this time too”
And then turning on the power of the laptop next to him and.
“Would you like to watch a video of the nukes detonating?”
“Y, you filmed it?”
“Of course I had to film it.”
Joo-hyuk connected the laptop to a large monitor and played the video.
“The scrubs visible over there are super-giant monsters. Titan Behemoth, Mega Mutant Apophis, Demonic Arachnoid.”
“…Oh, my goodness!”
A size to the extent that one’s mouth gapes wide open.
For example, if a normal Behemoth is a Chihuahua, the Titan Behemoth is at the level of an elephant.
The other super-giant monsters were no different.
‘How can you clear that?’
However, he cleared it.
Player Bong’s Gigant advancing while holding 10 medium-sized tactical nuclear warheads in both hands like grenades.
As it approached closely, beon-jjeok!
Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwang!!!!
And a blackout.
“Hahaha…….”
“Isn’t it amazing?”
“Yes, th, truly, haa, it is amazing.”
It’s not the sight of the nuke detonating that’s amazing, but Player Bong Joo-hyuk himself.
The more he looks at him, the more amazing a person he is.
On our Earth too, and on another world’s Earth too.
He crushed all sorts of tricks and interferences of the managers managing the Black Towers for all to see.
“In that sense, shall we disclose one of our videos?”
“Are you talking about the nuclear explosion?”
“No. Not this one.”
He will not disclose the nuclear explosion video.
Because the source of the bombs and everything are extremely sensitive matters.
“The clash video between our Gigant and the Behemoth that we filmed previously.”
Containing the great active performance of our Unit 1 Gigant turning the Behemoth into a bloody pulp.
“Aha, that one?”
Jeon Gwang-il has also watched it.
“Yes, we’ll disclose it on the Awakening Management Agency’s You-Tube channel.”
Our pitiful Unit 1 Gigant.
It must be remembered forever.
As the appearance of a victor trampling over a Behemoth.
You’re asking if isn’t it petty to empathize with an inanimate object?
They say deeply sensitive people even shed tears when scrapping the car they used to drive around in.
If it’s Unit 1 Gigant that excellently carried out its mission holding 10 atomic bombs, it has sufficient qualifications.
Time passed and.
After Joo-hyuk crossed over to another world for the Earth No. 675 Black Tower 86th floor Phoenix firefighting clear.
One video popped up on You-Tube.
The title was.
Video description : You will watch an incredibly awesome video of the deceased during its lifetime.
The reaction was explosive.