A Wimp’s Strategy Guide to Conquer the Tower (Novel) - Chapter 227

Chapter 227

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Translated by Jinmu

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The unification work of South and North Korea was proceeding smoothly.

Free travel back and forth between South and North is possible even now, and road or railway connection work is also almost at the completion stage.

Of course, there is still a long way to go.

Establishment of an economic community, formation of an integrated National Assembly, enactment of a new unification constitution, establishment of a single or coalition government, etc.

However, not everyone agrees with unification.

In South Korea, and in North Korea too, anti-unification forces definitely exist.

Especially the pro-China faction and some hardliners in North Korea.

From their perspective, Chairman Kim In-joong and the Minister of People’s Armed Forces Go Sa-geuk were traitors and betrayers of the country.

Because it looked like they were offering the North Korean Republic to South Korea.

Chairman Kim In-joong, who rose to the No. 1 priority target for elimination.

The danger of assassination grew day by day.

There were actually such attempts too and.

Although they were discovered in advance.

In the midst of that, Cossack visited North Korea and met with Chairman Kim In-joong.

“C, Comrade Go Sa-geuk!”

“Comrade Chairman, it’s been a while (gyeok-jo-haet-so).” (t/n: North Korean dialect)

“Not at all!” (t/n: North Korean dialect)

Cossack was also too busy in the meantime.

Just how many things happened?

As for the Pyongyang factory, CEO Jeong Dong-hoon is taking care of it so…….

As the Minister of People’s Armed Forces, he should inspect how the unification is proceeding.

Who is doing all this for whose success?

“Is the great task going well?”

“There are no problems. However, it seems those anti-unification bastard (jong-gan-na ae-mi-na-i – North Korean insults) punks are plotting a wicked scheme so…….”

“Is that right? Are you saying there are still extremely (gi-ke) many reactionaries?” (t/n: North Korean dialect)

“Well (go-jo), they are swarming (ba-geul-ba-geul).” (t/n: North Korean dialect)

“Euum, you are suffering a lot.”

Cossack receiving the report.

Anti-unification forces expanding their power secretly.

Although the State Security Department is stepping forward to ferret them out, actually the State Security Department is also a place that cannot be trusted.

What if something happens to Kim In-joong’s personal safety?

All currently proceeding unification work is brought to an all-stop.

If that happens, the peace between South and North Korea deteriorates into conflict in an instant, and it could also lead to an actual war.

This is also a huge threat to Bong Summoner-nim’s safety.

So Cossack conversed with Joo-hyuk in advance before coming to North Korea.

To guarantee Kim In-joong’s safety until the unification finishes.

“Comrade Chairman, take this.”

Cossack handing a stiff cardboard paper card to Kim In-joong.

“W, what is this?”

“It’s a White Tower 17th floor Monthly Rent Ticket.”

“W, what tower did you say? White Tower? Is there such a place too?”

“You can think of it as a shelter. You will become safe for at least a month.”

Chairman Kim In-joong just blinking his eyes, still not knowing what the English means (what’s going on).

A shelter, you say.

How with this single piece of paper?

Anyway, he received it since Cossack told him to take it but.

At that moment!

Cheu-cheu-cheu…….

Letters engraved on the Monthly Rent Ticket.

“Heok!”

It was his own name.

Monthly Rent Resident Kim In-joong.

At the same time,

Tti-ring!

Even though he’s not a player, a message that some Entry and Exit skills were granted could also be heard and.

“I, is it an item?”

“If a skill has formed, try entering. I will be waiting, so.”

“R, right now, you mean?”

“Right now.”

Since he was told to do it, he has to try.

Kim In-joong shouted with a trembling voice.

“E, Entry.”

Spot!

Disappearing and.

A short while later.

Spot!

He appeared again.

With an absent-minded expression.

“Uh-uh-uh, this is, just what?”

“You’ve been and come back? Did you meet the people?”

“I m, met them.”

“Good. From now on, if anything happens, run away to the White Tower. Because your life will be safe.”

A shelter.

He realized what purpose it had.

Chairman Kim In-joong was deeply moved.

“Thank you. I will not forget this grace even if I die.”

“Isn’t it natural? Dedicate your whole body to the great task of unification from now on.”

“I will keep it in mind.”

“Depending on how you do, the Monthly Rent Ticket will be renewed every month.”

The business is finished and.

Lastly.

Cossack abruptly standing up and simultaneously raising both hands high.

“Hurrah for Joo-hyuk! (Joo-hyuk manse!)”

Then Kim In-joong also standing up and.

“Hurrah for Bong Joo-hyuk!”

Euing?

“Comrade……?”

Kim In-joong with an expression asking what the problem is.

“Isn’t the name already known anyway? There’s no need to be conscious of others.”

“Well, that is true, but still, it’s better to omit the surname.”

“I understand. Hurrah for Joo-hyuk!”

“Hurrah for Joo-hyuk!”

Cossack was satisfied.

With this, there won’t be an occasion for Kim In-joong to die, right?

Because even if he suffers a terrorist attack and sustains an injury where his life holds on by a thread, he moves to the White Tower just by shouting the Entry skill.

Then his life can be preserved.

Because there is an Alchemist, treatment is possible too.

It’s troublesome if Chairman Kim In-joong dies right now.

Maybe if he dies after finishing unification?

* * *

The World of Souls.

The souls had worries the size of a mountain.

Just around when will Random Summon take place?

Don’t tell me it ended forever?

『There’s no punk who comes to brag either.』
『Vampire, that guy isn’t coming on dispatch duty either.』
『Could it be something happened to the Summoner’s personal safety…….』
『Fuck, what kind of unlucky words are you spouting and falling over?』
『No, because we don’t know the outside situation.』

Originally, when a Summoner unsummons, the summoned entities return to the World of Souls.

The same goes even if the Summoner dies.

The place the summoned entities will return to is only here, the World of Souls.

So they could know the affairs outside through their testimonies.

However, what if it’s a Summoner who acquired the White Tower?

What if he even succeeded in issuing residency permits and the summoned entities’ residence was moved to the White Tower?

Even if the Summoner dies, they won’t return to the World of Souls.

They’ll just be trapped on the White Tower floor that became their residence.

It means there is no way to know what happened to the Summoner or what floor of the tower he is climbing.

『I wonder up to what floor he climbed.』
『Could he have climbed to the 90th floor.』
『What comes out on the 90th floor?』
『How would I know? When I couldn’t even climb to the 70th floor range.』
『You said he caught the 87th floor Undead Dragon.』
『Confirming the 88th floor Sub-Dragon Sand Dragon was the last thing.』

Geppetto said so on his last dispatch duty day in the past.

That they would prepare for the Sub-Dragon Sand Dragon raid.

『I wonder if he caught the Sub-Dragon? If he caught it, the 89th floor is…….』
『There’s a high probability it’s a Dragon. A genuine Dragon.』
『Heo-heo, a Dragon, huh.』
『Still, isn’t an adult dragon catchable?』
『Have you caught one before?』
『I caught one. Not inside the tower, but in the world I lived in. And I wasn’t alone either.』
『Since a Dragon subjugation is usually an all-out national war, the army and the Magic Tower must have been mobilized.』
『Perhaps an Ancient Dragon (고룡) might have come out around the 90th floor, an Ancient (에이션트).』
『Haa, that guy is difficult even if an entire nation jumps in.』
『Yeah, an Ancient is impossible to raid. There hasn’t been a time it was caught either.』
『Don’t tell me while dealing with an Ancient Dragon…….』
『Haa.』
『Hu-u.』
『Heo-heo-heo.』

Actually, is Random Summon the problem?

They don’t have to go out.

It’s sufficient just to cheer for the Summoner’s footsteps in the World of Souls.

Because if he achieves a great feat, the benefits return to the souls too.

The contract was like that from the beginning.

If the Summoner completely clears the Black Tower, all the souls here are liberated.

Because the Summoner is a savior.

Because he was born like that.

The reason they try to go out?

It is because they want to become even a little bit of help to his footsteps.

If they become a summoned entity, isn’t the Summoner’s achievement precisely their own achievement.

『Hui-yu…….』

The sighs of the souls filled the space fully.

But right at that moment!

『Have you all been well?』

Eung?

It’s a thoroughly familiar soul wavelength.

『Geppetto has arrived.』
『Heo-eok!』
『Oh-oh-oh!』
『Wow, you came, you came.』
『Why only now?』
『What about the Summoner? Is he well?』
『Try speaking quickly.』

Pouring cheers and interest.

Geppetto was satisfied beyond measure.

This is exactly the feeling.

Because of this, he even gave up moving into the White Tower 17th floor and returned to the World of Souls.

So what if he can’t live in the White Tower?

It’s sufficient just staying at the penthouse residence owned by Summoner-nim.

『We raided the 90th floor Ancient Dragon and are preparing to climb the 91st floor.』
『Eu-a, is i-it really true?』
『You hunted an Ancient Dragon (고룡)? You’re amazing, amazing.』
『Hahahaha! I knew it would be like this.』
『To our Summoner, something like an Ancient Dragon was merely an ingredient for a deeply boiled restorative herbal medicine.』
『Try explaining more in detail. What kind of things happened in the meantime.』
『Take your time. Dispatch duty is one month. There’s plenty of time.』

If he unravels everything too much at once, the content gets consumed quickly and he’ll run out of things to say later.

『I’ll tell you starting from the Sub-Dragon Sand Dragon Gigant raid.』
『Gi, Gigant raid?』
『As for how it happened…….』

He should unravel them leisurely one by one.

* * *

White Tower 17th floor.

The summoned entities hardening their resolve for climbing the Black Tower 91st floor.

Inspecting equipment, telling the Summoner if there’s an item they need and bidding on auction house items, or coordinating their teamwork through sparring.

A total of 17 summoned entities.

There are many.

Of course, they are all close with each other generally but…….

Still, there are pairs whose minds match.

Rajix always sticks close together with the Blood Wolf.

A beastman tribe and a demonic beast.

They can’t help but get along well.

Cossack is close with the Mad Demon, Mackenzie, mostly the old men.

Even though they fight every day.

They probably grew attached while bickering (ti-gyeok-tae-gyeok).

Gobang with his soulmate Bardin.

Gyeon Dal-rae with Major Bae.

Even the corner Alchemist Mari has a best friend.

Namely, Magi-Engineer El.

Because El is a Golem, anthropophobia doesn’t seem to apply.

Alchemy and magi-engineering, there are parts where they are intertwined professionally too.

Baek Dan-ah takes care of Ten Thousand-Year-ie, who is no different from a twin.

Ten Thousand-Year-ie’s character education and cleaning up are undertaken entirely by Baek Dan-ah.

From her perspective too, keeping Ten Thousand-Year-ie with her helps with ice arts training so.

Duu occasionally with the Summoner’s father who comes to play.

Geppetto went on dispatch duty and isn’t here.

Then what about the Green Dragon Crackus?

Naturally…….

“So you’re saying since you and I are both converted defectors, let’s get along?”

“Do you have complaints? That this body, a Dragon, would become friends with an Incubus who isn’t even a monarch, you should gratefully accept it.”

Diamart flaring up angrily.

“Greenie bastard acting arrogantly, huh? Even converted defectors have a hierarchy! Huh? I am the senior, and I’m not a monarch? If I eat the Demon King’s Heart, I rise right away! Huh?”

Crackus tilted his head and asked.

“But why aren’t you eating it? If you ingest it even right now, you would be able to recover a monarch’s qualification.”

“Euum, t, that is…….”

“Are you afraid of having your organs extracted?”

“…….”

That’s right.

Because he could become an eyeball vending machine that goes into alchemy ingredients.

“Actually, it is the same for me. A Dragon Heart vending machine, that is.”

Fellow sufferers sympathizing with each other (동병상련).

Perhaps a situation where they understand each other’s circumstances best.

“M, Master probably won’t leave it like that.”

“Do you not even know the 3rd clause of the 3 Principles of Summoned Entities?”

Right.

If he makes a mistake, he gets plucked out mercilessly.

“…We can get it from the auction house, right.”

“What will you do if they don’t come up anymore? Were Dragon Hearts and Demon King’s Hearts such common items?”

Crackus’s words are not wrong.

Occasions needing medicinal ingredients increased.

The summoned entities were currently heavily inspired by the effect of the Enhancement Elixir.

The Summoner’s abilities that changed beyond recognition.

Almost approached the LSSR grade.

Having confirmed the elixir’s effect too.

Considering the disposition of corner Alchemist Mari, she must be preparing the second elixir.

Just how many types of elixirs are there?

As many as 3 types.

Enhancement Elixir, Resurrection Elixir, Healing Elixir.

And would she make only one bottle of each?

She would probably make them in large quantities.

Would there only be elixirs?

What about Nectar?

She would probably try making that too.

In all those medicines, organs of high-ranking demonic beings and Dragon’s Hearts go in.

Even now I swept the auction house clean, but it’s still lacking.

“…So what should I do?”

“What do you mean what.”

Seu-euk, Crackus leaning his body close and whispering.

“We must firmly engrave the abilities of us converted defectors into the Summoner in this 91st floor expedition.”

“Euum.”

“If you’re afraid of becoming a vending machine, there will be no development forever. We must grow too. Me as an Ancient Dragon, you as a monarch.”

Diamart nodded his head as if agreeing.

“Until when will you live only applying techniques to the Summoner? You must become practical help.”

“If I become Master’s legal wife…….”

“Legal wife? Can you beat Major Bae?”

“…….”

Of course he has no confidence.

“Eat the Demon King’s Heart. Rise as a monarch. Since I will also rise to the Ancient Dragon class somehow.”

“O, okay.”

It’s not just Crackus and Diamart.

All the summoned entities abundantly emitted their will to raid the 91st floor.

Because they weren’t the main characters on the 90th floor.

The Earth No. 675 Black Tower was handled by the Transcendent Sword Immortal, and the Earth No. 1,001 Black Tower by the clones of the Great Sage, Heaven’s Equal.

They lost face (che-myeon-eul gu-gin sem).

However, the 91st floor will be different.

They will move proactively.

Like that, the summoned entities’ will to raid the 91st floor was burning blazing fiercely.

* * *

Joo-hyuk came to the auction house alone riding the elevator.

To receive the auction sale proceeds.

The laptop sold a week ago was about 600 thousand.

This portable Play Switch gaming console would be similar.

So I didn’t even check how much the winning bid amount was.

Well, it would be under 1 million at most even if it’s expensive.

There is exactly one goal in collecting Topmost-Grade magic crystals like this.

Namely, bidding on the World Tree sapling.

Let’s try planting one large tree on the 17th floor.

How nice would it look?

Then that means there will be 2 Landmarks.

I must diligently collect.

Registering auctions every single day and.

Joo-hyuk opened the locker.

And checked the winning bid amount but.

“Uh.”

Topmost-Grade magic crystal storage tickets piled up highly (su-buk-ha-ge).

‘…Blue Tickets?’

Eight 1 million-value Blue Tickets.

‘So many Red Tickets too…….’

Seventy-eight 10 thousand-value Red Tickets.

And 1 White Ticket for the remaining change under 10 thousand.

‘Just how much was the winning bid.’

When I called up the Auction Status Board and checked.

– Current Bid Price : 9,765,440kg of Topmost-Grade magic crystals.

‘…Wow!’

They’ve gone crazy.

About 9.7 million,

8.78 million after deducting commission.

‘Seniors, aren’t you splurging too much?’

Are Topmost-Grade magic crystals common in other worlds?

When I think about it, it seems that might be the case too.

Isn’t it a world where magic power exists.

You can mine Topmost-Grade magic crystals from mines inside the tower too, so things like Topmost-Grade magic crystal ore veins would definitely exist in other worlds too.

Just like oil fields on Earth.

Worlds that pump up Topmost-Grade magic crystals jjuk-jjuk from underground and use them.

Anyway, if they’re won at this price consistently (ggo-bak-ggo-bak) for a month, it might well exceed 200 million kg.

Well, the price won’t be like this for everything I put up though.

‘Still, it’s too much of a difference from the previous auction?’

Is it because I didn’t put anything up for a week.

‘Then should I put them up sparsely?’

Ey, let’s not do that.

When they want it this much, I should register auctions every single day unless there’s a special event.

* * *

I took care of auction house business too and.

Joo-hyuk returned to the 17th floor.

The preparation for the 91st floor raid proceeding smoothly (chak-chak).

The No. 3 unit Gigant equipped with the new Dark Sword and Dark Shield.

“Ho-a-a-at!”

Ssu-uk!

Entered Rajix’s subspace backpack.

Would only that have been put in?

Food, outdoor camping equipment, 5 off-road SUV cars… stuffed tightly until no more could go in.

If we didn’t have our Rajix, what would have happened?

We wouldn’t have even been able to pass the 81st floor Giant Monster section.

The core of this 91st floor raid is also Rajix.

The always trustworthy dimensional farmhand.

Also, his own abilities improved by taking the Enhancement Elixir.

Moreover.

[Trait] : Summon (Concurrent Summons : 16)

16 people.

Taking all summoned entities along.

There is exactly one summoned entity who will stand by on the 17th floor.

Only the non-combat hidden class Farmer Duu.

For that reason, the Black Tower 91st floor.

I’m not scared.

I’m rather looking forward to it.

Just in what manner will it proceed.

I heard time is separated.

Just like Einstein’s theory of relativity.

It means the time in the world over there flows and this world is paused.

If so, even if we conquer it and come out, it means not even 1 minute flows in this world.

In addition, the save function.

Unconditionally granting an EX grade upon clearing too.

However, I still know nothing.

There is only one way to know how the 91st floor mission proceeds.

‘Is to go in and see directly.’

* * *

[You are entering the Republic of Korea Black Tower (NO.1) 91st floor.]

We arrived at the 91st floor.

A pure white room in white color like before.

“Everyone’s ready, right?”

“Yep!”

“Please advance without hesitation. We will back you up from behind.”

“This warrior is ready to sacrifice his life.”

“Light!”

Tti-ring!

The mission floating up.

[91st Floor Mission : The Grand Journey Towards Completion – First.]

And.

[Will you accept The Grand Journey Towards Completion mission, that first stage?]

“Hu-u!”

Takes a deep breath once and.

“Accept!”

Hwa-a-a-a-ak!

A cluster of light that floated up on the 91st floor.

Spot!

Joo-hyuk and the summoned entities disappearing.

It was the beginning of the grand journey.