A Wimp’s Strategy Guide to Conquer the Tower (Novel) - Chapter 233
Chapter 233
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Translated by Jinmu
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The completion condition of the mission of Earth No. 675 Black Tower 91st floor Grand Journey.
Make Great Demon Baal yield.
I succeeded in making him yield.
I also received the reward.
[A Tower Mission Save Ticket is provided to the tower-exclusive inventory.]
However, the trial was not over yet.
The Great Demon Baal screaming in pain with his chest open.
“Ggeu-a-a-a-ak!!!”
King Yama is a god, but also a judge.
When inflicting punishment on a sinner, he weighs the gravity of the sin.
“The penalty of heart extraction is not the end. Following your other crimes, I shall impose an aggravated punishment penalty.”
Just what kind of sinful karma he committed.
Whether it’s an act wicked enough to receive punishment.
There is an authority that shows that directly.
That activation word is precisely…….
“You shall confess your own sins!!!”
As King Yama’s loud rebuke fell, behind the Great Demon Baal, his sins began to unfold like a movie.
“Confess truthfully!”
Fox imitating the tiger’s majesty Cossack, who was stuck right next to King Yama like a treacherous subject, too.
“Confess them thoroughly, sir! Great King-nim is angry, sir!”
Anyone here could see it all.
The sinful karma of the Great Demon.
It flowed rapidly like a kaleidoscope, but it could be sufficiently understood.
The Demon Realm is also a single world.
It is different from the human world in many aspects, but this place is also a community.
Politics, society, economy, culture… there are villages, there are territories, and there are kingdoms.
It’s just the difference that humans live in the human realm and demons live in the Demon Realm.
If so, what is the role of Great Demons in the Demon Realm?
Governing order while maintaining harmony and balance in the Demon Realm like the dragons of the human realm.
Who bestowed that role?
Naturally, the Demon God (é”神).
That’s right.
A God (神) also existed in the Demon Realm.
Although it is a story of the long past.
However, whatever happened, the Demon God (é”神) suddenly disappeared without a trace.
Even the point in time they disappeared is unknown.
The reason they disappeared is also unknown.
They only realized it after time had passed.
That the Demon Realm had become a world that lost its god.
If the Demon God had existed, could King Yama, an Outer God (外神) of another world, have invaded the Demon Realm?
No matter how mighty an otherworldly Great Demon God he is, that would be an impossible feat.
And something that approached taking advantage of the Demon God’s disappearance.
Precisely the Black Tower.
The contract they proposed to the Great Demons.
We will give you power.
We will grant you the opportunity to break away from the law of causality and take human souls and life force as you please.
They were wary at first, but the Great Demons ended up accepting the Black Tower’s proposal eventually.
Thus, the things the Demon Realm provided to the Black Tower according to the contract.
They designed the undead section of the 60s floors and connected several monarchs with the tower.
In addition, the Great Demons decided to take charge of the upper floors, from the 91st to the 95th floor, where players would absolutely never come up and.
What they received in return?
As the world ruined by the collapse of the Black Towers completely ended, they harvested the souls and lives of the surviving humans.
It was especially very fun on Earth No. 675.
Because there were many surviving humans as they came out of the tower relatively early.
They absorb souls and lives indiscriminately.
Even though it’s picking up and eating crumbs, where else would they get even that?
There is no burden of causality, and it’s a world where even the laws to sanction their actions had collapsed.
Moreover, the Great Demons are all successors of the Demon God (é”神), in other words, those qualified to become the Demon God.
Anyone who gains power can become the next Demon God.
This was the Great Demons’ plan.
However, in the midst of that, the beings from other worlds who invaded the Demon Realm.
The Great Demon God, the God of Swords, and the God of Monkeys who possess immense power.
And the player from Earth No. 1,001 who abruptly climbed to the 91st floor.
Sensing an unusual omen, the Great Demons tried to sever the connection with the Black Tower, but eventually failed.
Finally, they confronted the player.
Simultaneously with the Great Demon God too.
Up to here is the sinful karma of Great Demon Baal.
The video ended.
Joo-hyuk and the summoned entities came to know entirely the relationship between the Demon Realm and the Black Tower.
‘Look at this guy?’
One of the ringleaders of the Black Tower was right here.
Furthermore, the bastard who helped design the 60th floor undead section.
“He’s a very bad guy. He deserves to die.”
Is that all?
The main culprit of the destruction of Earth No. 675.
The demon who broke the final hope of the survivors who lived through the tower collapse.
The summoned entities were also enraged.
“He is a great bad guy, sir.”
“You shouldn’t end it by just pulling out one heart.”
“He is a demon among demons, Young Master. Please do not kill him easily.”
“Please let me shove just one round of large-caliber ammo into his anus, sir.”
“Let’s burst his eyeballs first.”
“Ho-rat!”
King Yama also laughing fishily.
“There’s no way the verdict of this judge could be unjust. Sweetly receive your aggravated punishment penalty! I shall take your soul.”
At that moment!
Jjeo-jeo-jeo-jeo-jeo-jeok!
Great Demon Baal’s heart separating from his chest.
It’s the heart.
The heart floated up into the empty air.
Chwa-reu-reu-reuk!
Mari’s Homunculi letters engraved in the air.
– dimensional farmhand! Now!
Tae-aeng! Paeng-geu-reu-reu.
Rajix leaping swiftly.
“Ho-a-at!”
Seu-seut!
Reaching out his hand to stow the heart into the subspace.
What about Baal whose heart was pulled out?
“Ggi-o-o-o-o…….”
Jju-u-u-u-uk!
Leaving only a death agony scream, Baal’s soul became a faint figure and was sucked into King Yama’s hand.
It was then.
Ku-gu-gu-gu-gu…….
The Demonic Realm was shaking.
Jjeo-jeo-jeo-jeo-jeok!
The space is collapsing.
U-u-u-u-ung!
Demonic energy fluctuating like a whirlwind.
“This!”
King Yama had a troubled expression.
“I intervened too deeply.”
I took the soul of a Great Demon, a tuner of the Demon Realm.
And an Outer God (外神) who is no different from an outsider did it at that.
Would this normally be a case that could happen?
“Great Hero Bong.”
“Yep?”
“This judge must leave the Demon Realm now.”
“Ah!”
“In my thoughts, I want to annihilate the entire Demon Realm, but if that happens, it’s a violation of regulations so I won’t be able to stay safe either.”
Joo-hyuk also felt it.
Just looking at the atmosphere, it doesn’t seem ordinary.
If you caused an accident?
Fleeing quickly is the best policy.
“For the time being, opening the door will also be difficult. A lot of time will probably have to pass…….”
Until the disjointed laws are normalized.
“I don’t know when I will see you again though.”
King Yama took out red wooden pieces with tassels from his chest and while looking at Rajix.
“Heavenly Being Ra, quickly put these away.”
“Ho-eng!”
Hand-sized red wooden tablets (목패(木牌)).
Their appearance looked exactly like the identification tags (hopae) adult men carried around during the Joseon Dynasty.
There are quite a number of them.
Even roughly counting, about 30 pieces.
Seu-seu-seut.
The wooden tablets disappearing into the subspace.
Cossack tilted his head and asked King Yama.
“What kind of things are these, sir?”
“They are proof tablets filled plentifully with the energy of the Netherworld.”
“Eu-a, is it something like a secret royal inspector’s horse requisition tablet (mapae)? Secret royal inspector appearance?”
“It is something similar to that. Reapers or messengers of the Netherworld carry them around.”
“Then are we grim reapers too, sir?”
King Yama chuckled (pi-sik) and answered.
“No way? Not a chance. However, if you carry that tablet in your arms, you will at least not be disregarded in this Demon Realm, well, it also has a training effect.”
Training effect?
“You can receive the energy of the Netherworld. It is a miraculous energy no less than adept energy (ì„ ê¸°(仙氣)), so try utilizing it well.”
“Yep!”
It would be good to train too.
‘I should have one too.’
To have that and go “Grim Reaper appearance!!!” How fun would it be to do something like that.
But.
“Great Hero Bong, please receive this.”
Heok!
‘Mine is separate?’
As expected of King Yama-nim.
“Ayu, what is all this…….”
The item Joo-hyuk received from King Yama.
“…It’s a wooden mallet?”
“That is so. It is called the Judge’s Mallet. It is the one this judge used to use.”
It’s an item King Yama used.
Then it’s a Divine Object (ì‹ ë¬¼(神物)).
A tool a god used.
“Similarly, it is imbued with the energy of the Netherworld, and it will be helpful in punishing other Great Demons.”
Indeed.
Of course it would be.
How could this be an ordinary mallet?
“Then, I wish you continued success by all means.”
Jji-i-ing!
King Yama hurriedly opening the door and disappearing.
Then.
Seu-seu-seu-seu-seu.
The environment of the Demon Realm becoming quiet in an instant.
‘Is it over?’
[Returning to Earth No. 675 Black Tower 91st floor.]
It’s over.
Spot!
Moved back to the Black Tower.
Tti-ring!
[World Announcement : Black Tower (Germany)’s 91st floor clear grade EX has been achieved.]
A world announcement with no one to hear it.
[EX Clear Reward : Platinum Badges 2 + 30, a total of 32 are awarded.]
I received the badges too.
Tti-ring!
[Achievement : You are the first player to make a Demon Realm Great Demon yield.]
“Oh!”
It’s an achievement.
[The achievement reward is provided.]
[A new life sprouts on Earth No. 675. It changes to an optimal environment where lifeforms can grow.]
‘…Hmm.’
The achievement reward I received before was that the open holes were filled and the monsters that had come outside disappeared though.
Now, life grows, they say.
Shall we go out and check?
[Exiting the Germany Black Tower.]
Spot!
Outside the Black Tower.
‘…Wow!’
Even the air is different.
A blue and clear sky.
A coolly blowing wind.
Green grass shyly revealing their appearances from the ground.
“Heo-heo-heo, it’s good.”
“This quickly?”
“The reaction is immediate, sir.”
“It is beautiful, Young Master.”
“Ho-a-a.”
I am deeply moved (gam-gae-mu-ryang-ha-da).
To think it’s new life sprouting in a destroyed dimension.
“I feel proud.”
“This is all thanks to Young Master, Young Master.”
“Ey, it’s nothing. What is there that I even did.”
“No, sir. You must not speak like that, sir. Everything originated from Bong Summoner-nim, sir.”
Anyway, Earth No. 675 Black Tower 91st floor check complete.
And the remaining question point.
“The missions are entirely different. Even though it’s the same floor.”
Earth No. 1,001, our Earth, was Dimensional Energy Storage destruction, a mission that seems deeply related to the Black Tower.
On the other hand, Earth No. 675 Black Tower mission was a Demon Realm Great Demon yielding.
“Could it differ by world?”
“In this old man’s thought, it seems Earth No. 675 Black Tower 91st floor was the original mission.”
“It’s probably like that, right?”
“This girl also thinks so, Young Master.”
Originally, the course of the Grand Journey would be a trip to the Demon Realm.
The probability is very high that the Earth No. 1,001 Black Tower mission is a sudden mission.
You know it just by looking at the Dimensional Energy Storage facilities.
It certainly seemed to be an extremely important facility.
They wouldn’t just senselessly send a player there.
As a result, even if it’s the exact same floor, the missions were divided into two.
I have to go to the Demon Realm too, and I have to do Black Tower-related missions too.
‘At the least, it won’t be boring.’
If I do this and get sick of it, I’ll do that.
However.
“Let’s rest a bit in the White Tower for the time being.”
“Yep!”
First, let’s look into the identity of what dimensional energy is.
If we investigate the rod Rajix pulled out from the storage, wouldn’t we come to know.
* * *
A vast universe whose size cannot be known.
According to astronomers’ inferences, there are over 2 trillion galaxies existing in the universe.
Not planets, not stars, not solar systems, but a whopping 2 trillion galaxies.
For that reason, no one, probably not even a god, knows how many planets there are where lifeforms live.
Somewhere in the very distant universe.
There was a world.
People conversing with each other.
[I heard the Demon Realm pestered us to withdraw the contract.]
[Hmph! After extracting everything they could extract, now of all times?]
[Because of those bastards’ unilateral contract tear-up, an error occurred in Earth No. 1,001 Black Tower, they say.]
[Right. Originally, it was a player who should have gone to the Demon Realm, but they abruptly appeared at the Dimensional Energy Storage Base.]
[Did the White Tower intervene?]
[Unconditionally! It probably thought it was an opportunity. There’s no way the White Virus would miss a Black Tower error.]
[Anyway, how should we deal with that player guy?]
[Hyu-u, at first I just thought he was a simple variable though…….]
[He has surpassed a variable now. He’s a powerful adversary.]
[My head aches. There is no method. Method.]
[The God (神) will decide. Since we uploaded all information regarding that guy.]
[Predicting it, in a case like this, the response manual is usually two types, one is giving up dimensional energy mining on Earth No. 1,001, the other is…….]
[Archangel Transmission.]
[Sending an Archangel to Earth No. 1,001… how long will it take?]
[At least 1 year, and if we inject dimensional energy on a large scale, it could become faster too.]
[Then it’s giving up. Because we cannot recklessly use that precious dimensional energy to send an Archangel.]
[Well, they might decide on an Archangel deployment.]
[The reason you think so?]
[That guy acquired the Dimensional Traveler qualification through the White Tower. Actual travel was also achieved and.]
[And?]
[We have to keep in mind the possibility of him charging into our main base.]
[Main base? You mean here?]
[Yeah.]
[Ey, no way! Where do you think this place is? That’s impossible.]
[Why can’t he? What is the role of the White Tower elevator? It’s dimensional travel.]
[But the probability… how many worlds are there in the universe.]
[He’s a guy who cannot be explained by probability. Think about it. What if the player guy storms into our main base, what will happen then?]
[Euum.]
[If he continues to operate the elevator, he might find this place someday.]
It was then.
Wi-i-ing, wi-ing, wi-ing!
The emergency alarm sound ringing throughout the entire building.
– Announcing to the workers. The God (神) has decided on the Archangel Transmission.
[Look! It’s just as I said, right?]
– The schedule transmission area is Earth No. 1,001 Black Tower.
– Headquarters personnel are requested to suspend all currently proceeding projects and concentrate on the Archangel Transmission.
[So they decided on it after all.]
[The God (神) also finished calculating. Meaning they have no intention of giving up Earth No. 1,001.]
[Well, I acknowledge that the God’s calculations are accurate, but.]
[Just how much dimensional energy will be consumed?]
[Well, about 5% of the resources gathered so far? If we assume rapid transmission, it will be far more than that…….]
[It’s enormous.]
[Yeah, we absolutely must not fail.]
* * *
White Tower 17th floor.
We went to the Demon Realm through Earth No. 1,001 Black Tower and Earth No. 675 Black Tower, but as expected, time barely flowed.
Let’s pass some time now.
First, the identity of the cylindrical rod collected from the Dimensional Energy Storage.
The Magi-Engineering 3-person group were investigating it.
Magi-Engineer El said to Joo-hyuk.
“This rod, it seems like a medium containing energy, but it doesn’t seem to be a Magi-Engineering item.”
Not a Magi-Engineering item.
“Then magic?”
Then Mackenzie.
“It is not a magic enchantment either.”
Is it alchemy?
Tti-ring!
– It is also far from alchemy. …From my guesses, it’s somewhat close to a fuel cell, in other words a solid-state battery, which is a product of Earth’s scientific civilization but.
Eung?
It’s close to an Earth item?
Then do we need an Earth scientist?
‘I think I’ll need to get some help from former Commissioner Jeon no matter what.’
There are many rods.
As many as 146 of them.
I just have to hand over a few and ask him to research them for me.
‘Now checking the perks.’
314 accumulated.
141 physical.
13 perks.
Starting from the accumulated 250 perk.
[Perks are provided for accumulating 250 Platinum Badges.]
[Perk : One Multinational Tower Usage Ticket is provided to the inventory.]
A regular customer has arrived.
Following behind, various items appearing.
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[Perks are provided for accumulating 270 Platinum Badges.]
[Perk : Rune of Player Awakening is provided to the tower-exclusive inventory.]
Rune of Awakening.
Who should I awaken?
I have no one to awaken.
Since I don’t know if someone might come up, I’ll put it in for now and.
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[Perks are provided for accumulating 290 Platinum Badges.]
[Perk : Ticket for Additional Item Acquisition is provided to the tower-exclusive inventory.]
Ticket for Additional Item Acquisition.
There’s one I’ve already received too.
Come to think of it, I couldn’t catch the timing to use it.
There will probably be an opportunity to use it when a decisive situation comes later.
Tti-ring!
Passing 295 accumulated badges, soon 300.
[Perks are provided for accumulating 300 Platinum Badges.]
Shouldn’t ‘something’ come out?
It’s 300.
[Perk : Dimensional Traveler Exclusive Auction House Exclusive Storage Tickets (10 sheets) are provided to the tower-exclusive inventory.]
‘Eung?’
What is this?
Something like this comes out in perks too?
And in the 310 accumulated perk too.
[Perk : Dimensional Traveler Exclusive Auction House Exclusive Storage Tickets (10 sheets) are provided to the tower-exclusive inventory.]
It came out again.
A total of 20 sheets.
Item info?
Effect : You can put a large item into the ticket and sell it at the auction house. If you tear the ticket, the item appears.
Limit : You can only put in items less than 10m in width, length, and height each. You can only put one type, one single item in one ticket.
“Oh!”
If it’s under 10m, pretty much any item would fit.
Like furniture such as a sofa, large electronic product, or car.
I wonder what the Dimensional Traveler seniors would want?