A Wimp’s Strategy Guide to Conquer the Tower (Novel) - Chapter 228
Chapter 228
===================
Translated by Jinmu
Read it only at Novelbyu.com & Utoon.net
===================
Spot!
Joo-hyuk and the summoned entities revealing their appearances.
[You have arrived at the starting point of the Grand Journey.]
Starting point.
Although I don’t know where the end is.
Journey (ì—¬ì •(旅程)).
The process of traveling.
Traveling means leaving home.
So I had made a guess that we might ‘leave our Earth’s Black Tower’ and proceed with the mission in a different location.
But what in the world is this place?
It was a simple yet mysterious space.
“Wow…….”
“What a spectacular sight.”
“I am truly seeing something like this for the first time, sir.”
A brightly shining sky.
A large planet encircled by a ring band, a swirling spiral galaxy, countless shooting stars falling frequently.
It was no different from a sci-fi movie.
The stars look incredibly close.
Would it look like that if Saturn was in the Moon’s position?
Does something like gravity not even apply?
“Sseub-ha, sseub-ha!”
“What are you doing?”
“I experimented to see if breathing is possible, sir.”
“You do not necessarily have to experiment… since you are breathing even now.”
Honestly, Joo-hyuk also secretly tried to see if breathing was possible.
There’s no oxygen in space, so you can’t breathe, right.
It’s strange that we can breathe.
‘It means there is oxygen.’
And the ground we stepped on and stood.
A blue path stretching in a straight line on the red earth.
At that moment!
Tti-ring!
[Mission : Follow the blue path and arrive at the crossroads.]
[Completion Time Limit : None.]
[Completion Reward : Mission Save Point Designation Ticket.]
“Hmm.”
This is a mission?
Going to the crossroads.
It’s simple.
It will definitely be boring too.
Something will probably come out when we arrive at the crossroads.
Since it says it also gives a Mission Save Point Designation Ticket.
“I expected a little, but it’s not grand at all.”
“It was merely wordplay.”
“This old man’s thoughts are different. It is right that it is grand.”
“Why?”
“Because the Summoner himself is a grand existence anyway.”
“…….”
Why is Mad Demon-nim being like this again?
Making my face hot.
“Ayu, Old Man Mad Demon flatters well too, sir. When a grand person takes a step, isn’t that precisely a grand journey, sir? Hehehe.”
“Heo-heo-heo, you still have a long way to go to catch up to this guy.”
Right, let’s go grandly.
The summoned entities here, those who each decorated a page of history in their own dimensions.
All of them are grand.
A grand journey of grand people.
“Let’s go for now.”
“Yep!”
It’s easy, right?
We just have to follow the path.
So the moment I tried to move my steps.
“Is there a need to necessarily walk? Let’s fly.”
Eung?
Fly, you say.
We didn’t bring an airplane though.
“There’s Green Airplane, sir. He got accepted as a converted defector and hasn’t really done much until now, sir. We must work him frugally, sir.”
Aha!
Come to think of it.
Crackus just has to transform into his main body and we can ride him.
But would a Dragon give us a ride?
For a Dragon who makes a living solely on pride to act merely as a mount…….
“Welcome to Crackus Airplane. I will operate safely for your comfortable trip.”
So he can do it.
An expression rather pleased that he was given a role.
Quickly distanced himself to secure space and.
Peong!
Crackus transforming into his Green Dragon main body.
“Oh!”
He’s big.
There would be room left even if 30 people got on.
“The back is spacious, sir. We could even go lying down, sir.”
At that moment!
[It is a no-fly zone until the crossroads.]
“Eung?”
Furthermore.
[Levitation and Movement Speed Increase skills are also restricted.]
What’s this?
Are they telling us to trudge along (ttu-beok-ttu-beok) walking without even using skills?
“Greenie, try flying once.”
“Understood.”
Peol-leok-peol-leok.
Crackus moving his wings.
“Ggeu-eung!”
However, he didn’t float up.
Not even 1cm, that is.
“Tsk tsk, he’s useless. A Dragon can’t even fly?”
“If he can’t even be a mount, what does that guy do?”
“We accepted his defection for nothing.”
“Always holed up in the White Tower just watching TV.”
“I am disappointed. He was a freeloader who only wastes food.”
“As a fellow summoned entity, even I am embarrassed.”
“Ey, Greenie doesn’t belong to the Catalog, sir. He belongs to the converted defectors, sir.”
Then corner Alchemist Mari, who mustered courage and participated in this 91st floor expedition.
Chwa-reu-reu-reu-reuk.
Moving the sesame seed-like Homunculi to create letters.
– It’s not too late even now. Shall we extract the Dragon Heart? You saw the Enhancement Elixir effect, right? Let’s make more additionally.
“An additional elixir, huh. Oh my! It’s tempting.”
“The effect was good.”
“It’s about time to experiment at this point.”
“What experiment?”
“Whether a deceased converted defector can revive if a Resurrection Rune is applied.”
“Wouldn’t it just be impossible? For us, since we are summoned entities who started as souls, we just need bodies made, but these guys…….”
“There’s nothing bad about experimenting. If he comes back to life, he becomes a Heart vending machine.”
“If he dies, it’s just clearing away a freeloader.”
Crackus didn’t know what to do.
Extracting the Heart?
“No, when it plainly says it’s a no-fly zone, how can I fly?”
He tried protesting with a serious look but.
“Haa, a Dragon bastard who is the宗主 (Sovereign/Origin) of magic can’t even overcome this kind of limitation?”
“If you’re a Dragon, you must unconditionally do it.”
“Strongest existence my foot.”
“That guy probably isn’t a Dragon.”
What about them?
How many guys here can fly.
While they can’t fly either…….
Crackus felt wronged.
So to request help from Diamart, a fellow converted defector, he met his eyes but…….
Seu-euk.
Diamart stealthily averting his gaze elsewhere.
“Heo-heo-heo,”
Was he cut off (sonjeol)?
He was a despicable and petty Incubus.
It was just a few days ago they pledged together to work hard and catch the Summoner’s eye.
“Hey! You damn bitch! You got promoted to monarch, right? If you stay silent like this, my next turn is you!”
“…W, what are you talking about? I, I’m still a nobody (jjeo-ri).”
“After ingesting the Demon King’s Heart and recovering the monarch qualification, you feign ignorance (o-ri-bal-eul nae-mil-eo)?”
At Crackus’s words, the summoned entities stared at Diamart with profound gazes.
Jjeop-jjeop, even smacking their lips.
“Ho-o, our Incubus-nim became a monarch?”
“It’s a Succubus Queen, isn’t it?”
“A high-quality ingredient.”
“Since the abilities rose, the seduction skills must have improved too.”
“That won’t do, sir. Our Bong Summoner-nim, who already lacks immunity, would fall for it instantly (hol-la-dang), sir. We must clear that away first, sir.”
Crackus and Diamart glaring at each other with blazing eyes.
The Crack-Dia Alliance.
Blitz disbandment in 3 days.
Anyway, they bite each other whenever there’s a chance.
I can never let my guard down.
“Now, now, let’s not fight and just go for now. What does it matter if we can’t fly?”
Then Magi-Engineer El.
“How about riding the Gigant? Its stride is large, so it’s fast.”
“Not recommended, sir. The ride quality is completely crushed (gae-bbah-at-seum-da), sir. It’s a tailbone fracture, sir.”
That’s right.
How can one ride a thumping, walking Gigant?
But we aren’t going to walk either.
I prepared this knowing this would happen… not at all, but.
“Rajix-ssi.”
“Ho-e?”
“Release 5 SUVs.”
“Ho-eng!”
Seu-seu-seu-seu-seut!
Off-road cars I put in just in case.
Surely this wouldn’t be banned too.
It’s not flying in the sky, and it’s not a skill either.
“Kyaa! As expected, the greatness of Earth’s civilization!”
“Can’t cars be sold at the auction house?”
“If we can sell them, we’d pull in about 100 million Topmost-Grade magic crystals instantly, sir.”
Come to think of it, that’s right.
Cars would be quite popular too.
Even the Sword Immortal went crazy over just one motorcycle right away.
However, we can’t take a car and ride the elevator.
Is there no way to sell them?
Like putting them in an auction item storage ticket or something.
In the meantime, the summoned entities divided and got into the cars.
Bu-reu-reung.
Fortunately, the engine started.
Seu-reu-reuk.
They also moved.
“Let’s ride and go.”
“I will take the lead as Car No. 1, sir.”
“For Car No. 2, this girl will…….”
“Car No. 3, dibs!”
Driving is no problem.
Everyone knows how to at least drive.
Because there are roads and cars in the White Tower too.
Thus, with the space sky as the background.
In a single file column, a total of 5 SUVs ran rapidly on the blue path of the red earth.
* * *
Bu-u-ung!
The 5 dashing SUVs.
The car Cossack drives is the vanguard.
The car Major Bae drives is the very rear.
The car Joo-hyuk rode is in the center.
But the end is not visible.
Just where is the crossroads?
In terms of time, it feels like about 5 days have passed.
I know the reason the completion time limit was deleted.
They want us to collapse from exhaustion while walking here.
Succumbing to physical limitations, boredom, and hunger.
Of course, giving up would be possible.
We just have to abandon the mission and exit.
However.
‘I can’t do that.’
Just how far have we come until now.
Even if we have to go, we must designate a save point before going.
‘It’s not even that hard. It feels like we came on a picnic too.’
We are moving by riding cars.
At this level, it’s a long-distance drive.
Stopping the cars while going to gather closely together and eat meals too.
When bored, taking out the beam projector and watching a movie too.
Riding the cars and departing again.
Doing this for another few days.
Around when unbearable boredom was slowly rushing in.
Ggi-i-i-ik!
Cossack’s vanguard vehicle stopping.
Beol-keok! He opened the door, came out, and then.
“It’s the crossroads, sir. We’ve arrived, sir.”
It was visible to Joo-hyuk’s eyes too.
Two diverging paths.
Tti-ring!
[You have arrived at the crossroads.]
[A Tower Mission Save Ticket is provided to the tower-exclusive inventory.]
Hyu-u, now saving is possible.
It truly took a long time.
Now, since we’ve come, what’s next?
Did we succeed in the raid?
[Mission : Please select a path at the crossroads.]
[Receive 10 billion kg of Topmost-Grade magic crystals and undergo dimensional naturalization – Right Path]
[VS]
[Destroy the Dimensional Energy Storage and live as is – Left Path]
What is this again?
A balance game out of the blue?
“Heol…….”
Dimensional naturalization?
It means to completely switch worlds?
It was then.
Spot!
[Let me explain in detail.]
Someone appearing in front of Joo-hyuk and the summoned entities.
This is very familiar.
[Hyu-u, you are truly amazing as the rumors say. To think you would use cars.]
Pure white skin.
Red pupils and a bald head.
A hologram without physical substance.
“…Manager?”
However, he is quite different from the Earth No. 675 and No. 1,001 Black Tower Managers encountered so far.
There was a fundamental difference in the aura he exuded.
“Excuse me, by any chance what number Earth?”
The manager replying with a smirk (pik!) at Joo-hyuk’s words.
[I am not a Black Tower Manager. My rank is higher than that. If I had to compare… if a Black Tower Manager is about an assistant manager at a large corporation, I would be about a section chief level.]
Assistant manager and section chief, huh.
[Well, assistant manager level is an important resource too. Just as in Earth’s world, a company doesn’t run without assistant managers, right.]
Is it an appropriate comparison?
[I also started as an entry-level employee, went through assistant manager, and rose to the section chief level.]
‘…….’
Judging by that guy’s words.
Black Tower Managers are usually assistant manager level.
Saying he was promoted to section chief means he built up a track record.
Then what would that track record be?
It means he ruined one world with a Black Tower.
This bastard, he’s a very bad guy.
Like an action captain of dimensional destruction.
Kwak! I want to strike him once, but since he’s an insubstantial hologram I can’t do anything and.
“So? What are you trying to explain.”
[Because it’s not easy to judge just by looking at the mission text. Let me show you in more detail. It’s the right path. Receive 10 billion kg of Topmost-Grade magic crystals and undergo dimensional naturalization.]
At that moment!
Su-ung!
Chi-ji-jiyk!
A video revealed before Joo-hyuk’s eyes.
It played rapidly like a panorama.
I know what it is.
Undergo dimensional naturalization after receiving 10 billion kg of Topmost-Grade magic crystals.
First, the dimension to be naturalized in?
A same parallel universe Earth existing somewhere.
The speed of civilization development is also similar to our Earth.
If there’s a difference, it’s a one or two generation difference in smartphone release versions.
And the most important point.
It’s a world without a Black Tower.
Of course, conflicts existed, but at least it’s a world where one wouldn’t have to worry about threats caused by Black Towers.
Additionally, the benefits granted to Joo-hyuk,
Maintenance of player awakening, and the summoned entities can also be called.
What about the White Tower?
Naturally available for use.
Only, the connected world will not be Earth No. 1,001, but the world Joo-hyuk naturalized to.
Simply put, you can consider all connections with Earth No. 1,001 to be severed.
Because that is exactly what dimensional naturalization is.
[Is it because of your family or acquaintances? Please take as many as you want and leave. I can handle up to 10,000 people.]
The transaction conditions are no joke, befitting his section chief level rank.
The 10 billion kilograms of Topmost-Grade magic crystals too.
‘I could plant 10 World Trees.’
Also, dimensional naturalization accompanied by 10,000 acquaintances is possible.
Well, even if I call them acquaintances, I don’t know if there would even be 100, no, 50 though.
The reason for doing this?
It means they will clear me away and comfortably take over our Earth.
A kind of appeasement policy.
[I am not saying you should execute it right now. If you select the right path now, I will give you a grace period of about a month. Please sufficiently persuade your family and acquaintances and…….]
“Cut the crap.”
[…Yes?]
“The left path, try explaining the Dimensional Energy Storage destruction instead. Do Dimensional Energy Storages appear if we go straight down this path?”
The section chief level manager remaining silent with a cold gaze.
He is expressing with his whole body that he is angry but.
So what?
What do you want me to do?
Did you think I would shout ‘Eolsigu-na’ and naturalize?
When I didn’t even want to do temporary naturalization within Earth.
[Are you saying you will eventually go left?]
At that moment, Cossack shouting with a flared-up voice.
“Our Bong Summoner-nim is a left-winger (jwapa), Manager bastard! Even when walking, he takes the left side, huh? His left eye has better vision, huh? Did you not know he looks better in photos from the left? Huh? He’s extreme left (geukjwa), sir!”
Hmm.
It’s a political statement but.
Well, anyway, a left-winger for this moment at least.
[The left path, huh. Have you decided?]
Right.
So get lost.
[As I mentioned a little while ago, I am section chief level, though.]
And?
[Compared to the assistant manager level, the authority I can wield is unimaginably huge, you see.]
Oops!
I’m so scared.
[It seems you lack fear, thinking it’s nothing after dealing with a mere single Ancient Dragon and coming up…….]
Yeah.
I lack fear.
So to the left.
‘Do I trust myself? I trust these people.’
Joo-hyuk trudged (ttu-beok-ttu-beok) down the left path.
Ah-ah-ah!
The vigorous footsteps of a macho man who overcomes fear and endures the path of hardship.
The moment the tip of his toes reached the entrance of the left crossroads!
Tti-ring!
[Main Mission : Dimensional Energy Storage Destruction.]
[Completion Time Limit : None.]
[Completion Condition : Dimensional Energy Storage Destruction 0/146]
The mission popped up.
Cheu-ji-jik!
The section chief level manager hologram disappearing without even a greeting.
But then?
“…Wait!”
Completion condition.
146 Dimensional Energy Storages destroyed.
“Uh…….”
No, if it’s this number, you should have told me in advance.
‘I thought it was 1.’
Furthermore, an extremely familiar number.
Unless one is an idiot, there’s no way not to know that the storages are related to the Black Towers.
And beyond the left path.
Countless structures were visible to Joo-hyuk’s eyes.
‘So those are the Dimensional Energy Storages.’
The shape is a pyramid.
The size is as small as a 2-story building.
‘We have to destroy 146 of those things?’
Right at that exact moment!
Seu-seu-seu-seu-seu…….
Bizarre large lifeforms revealing their appearances around the pyramids.
Looking exactly like a combination of a centipede and a scorpion, with terrifying teeth, and hundreds of legs equipped with sharp claws.
‘Oh my (Om-ma).’
Since my abilities improved with the Enhancement Elixir, I can tell.
Just how terrifying those monsters are.
‘Each and every single one is at least Sub-Dragon Sand Dragon class.’
A whopping thousands of those things.
Haa.
Anyway, since I already chose.
‘Let’s destroy a few and designate a save.’
Ssu-u-u-u-uk!
Rajix took out the No. 3 unit Gigant equipped with a giant Dark Sword and Dark Shield from the subspace backpack.
Crackus manifested as his Green Dragon main body.
When Ten Thousand-Year-ie manifested cold energy, Major Bae absorbed the attribute.
Gyeon Dal-rae prepared talismans and an invocation ritual.
At the same time, the Mad Demon, Gobang, Cossack, Mackenzie…….
Ku-kung! Ku-kung! Ku-kung! Ku-kung!
The No. 3 unit advancing majestically.
Thus, it begins.
The Grand Journey, the Grand War.