Chapter 245
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Translated by Jinmu
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Ku-ku-ku-ku-ku-ku-ku-ku…….
The sound of explosions still faintly heard from far away.
The aftermath of the nuclear explosions was tremendous.
The Heavenly Realm turned into hell in an instant.
A tragedy created by Rajix under Joo-hyuk’s instructions.
Actually, with explosions of this level, Joo-hyuk and the summoned entities shouldn’t be safe either.
Just how many nukes exploded.
It’s normal that you die and I die too.
However, the explosion of Crackus’s latent power due to the whistle.
His Infinite Turbo Blink Flight was truly the speed of light.
Flash! Pa-pa-pa-pa-pat!
He didn’t even move straight ahead.
Flash! Pa-pa-pa-pa-pat!
Zigzag, circling the city once and.
Flash! Pa-pa-pa-pa-pat!
After confirming that Rajix poured out all the nuclear warheads in the subspace, evasive maneuvers at full speed straight ahead.
As expected.
At this level of speed, it’s a distance that would have easily circled half the globe.
Latent power explosion for 10 minutes.
Only about 5 minutes passed.
Nevertheless, we were far outside the area of effect of the nuclear explosions.
Only now we took a breather.
The Green Bomber in hovering flight.
The Mad Demon opened his mouth while clicking his tongue.
“From now on, do not say things to this old man like mountain of corpses and sea of blood (å±å±±è¡€æµ·) or Jianghu’s most atrocious. Since the real one is separate.”
While saying so, the Mad Demon looking at Rajix.
“From now on, the mountain of corpses and sea of blood is the dimensional farmhand.”
“Ho-e?”
“Even if I kill with Crescent Moon Sword Aura, how many would I kill? Compared to the deeds performed by the dimensional farmhand, this old man is nothing.”
“Ho-e-e-e…….”
Joo-hyuk’s mind is not at ease.
To put blood on Rajix’s hands.
Isn’t it the work he ordered?
However.
“Mad Demon Elder, please compare things that should be compared. Did the Dimensional Head Farmhand ever drop nukes on the human world? This fallen and vulgar world is also nothing but the Black Tower’s collaborators and sympathizers.”
As expected from Gyeon Dal-rae.
That wise discernment.
“Our Dimensional Head Farmhand merely diligently cleaned up the bugs. But mountain of corpses and sea of blood? If you calculate it like that, all pest control companies on Earth would become wicked people.”
“…Euum, that’s not what I meant.”
Cossack shaking his head vigorously.
“Tteut-tteut, I knew this would happen, sir. Your arrogance has soared too high lately, sir. Where do you think you’re arguing over right and wrong, sir?”
“N, no, when did I say Rajix did wrong?”
“Gal!!! Get a grip on yourself, sir! Did you think you would become an immortal just because you received a little adept energy, sir? Jianghu’s most atrocious, public enemy of the Murim old man, sir.”
“This damned bastard……?”
However, the general trend had already tilted.
Offensives pouring down as if they had been waiting.
“Is the geezer’s liver swollen from conceit? How dare you say mountain of corpses and sea of blood to the dimensional farmhand?”
“This is mutiny. It can only be seen as an intention to eliminate the number 1 and usurp power.”
“Even if he got stronger, just how strong did he get? Wanna go a round?”
“This warrior is confident.”
“One-on-one is too much, sir. Gobang, please just hold him, sir. I will do the finishing blow, sir.”
“Are you confident in dodging sub-light speed bullets?”
“Young Master, please punish the Mad Demon with the Judge’s Mallet.”
“Hu-e-e-ek!”
The Mad Demon retreating hesitantly.
An expression as if he’s extremely unfairly treated.
Actually, he didn’t mean it in a bad way, it meant he was that amazing though.
Joo-hyuk sighed lightly.
I was wondering why they weren’t fighting lately.
Slowly changing the topic and.
“Crackus-ssi.”
“…Heok-heok, yes yes, p, please speak, S, Summoner.”
He seems very exhausted.
Since he even exploded his latent power.
“You can let us off now.”
Peol-leok peol-leok.
Crackus landing.
As Joo-hyuk and the summoned entities got off his back.
Peong!
Polymorphing into humanoid form.
Joo-hyuk took out a ticket from the inventory.
A ticket capable of immediately removing penalties and status ailments inflicted on 1 summoned entity.
Jji-ik!
[All penalties from the latent power explosion inflicted on the summoned entity Crackus are removed.]
Hwa-a-a-a-at!
A cluster of light seeping into Crackus.
Is it done?
It should be done.
‘It seems the mission is over too, and it seems to be time to exit.’
The numerous system messages heard while running away.
There were definitely clear completion messages included too.
Whatever fallen angel defeated, whatever principalities defeated, whatever powers defeated, whatever building destroyed, temple destroyed, The Grand Journey mission completed, The Grand Journey mission completed, The Grand Journey mission completed…….
Roughly guessing, about 10 times?
Let’s deduce,
The mission area for floors 96 and above is the corrupted Divine Ground in the Fallen Heavenly Realm.
Doing various missions here.
Find a certain place, destroy a specific something, defeat someone, these kinds of things.
Because we grouped all of those things together and ended them at once with nuclear bombs.
It was similar to the Demon Realm.
Back then too, we finished it in one stroke in the Demon Realm (é”境), the main mission area.
Even while dealing with the Demon Realm army.
Could it be in one shot this time too?
The possibility is high.
At that moment!
Tti-ring!
Message notification sound.
“Is it clear completion, sir?”
“Probably…….”
[The Seraphim Ronseraphim, who dominates the Corrupted Divine Ground (神地), appears.]
It’s not?
Seraphim Ronseraphim appears.
“He didn’t die yet?”
“He’s persistent.”
“Is he a cockroach?”
“Since he’s a divine roach. Divine roach (shin-bak).”
“If he’s an angel roach, angel roach (cheon-bak, also means vulgar).”
“If an Archangel comes, jackpot (dae-bak).”
“Is Mad Demon-nim light roach (gwang-bak, a Go-Stop term)?”
“Geppetto is a vampire so blood roach (pi-bak, a Go-Stop term).”
“…Let’s stop.”
“Yep! Euum, Summoner-nim, simple roach (so-bak, also means simple).”
Good grief.
“I apologize, sir.”
At that moment!
As if he felt something, the Mad Demon lifted his head and.
“He’s over there.”
He raised his hand and pointed to the distant sky.
Then one small object seen.
It was slowly descending down.
Getting closer and closer.
Cheol-keok!
Major Vero, who completed preparations to fire the sub-light speed bullets.
“Shall I open fire? Just give the order.”
Heum.
End it before he comes down?
However.
“I do not know what his intention is, but there is no killing intent. It seems he probably wants conversation.”
Conversation is good.
Joo-hyuk slyly taking out the Judge’s Mallet.
The opportunity to use this has come.
“He seems stronger than a Great Demon, but he is not at a level we cannot handle.”
“Moreover, seeing as he does not look intact, there is no need to worry.”
The summoned entities took formation.
With the Mad Demon at the lead, Bardin and Gobang on both sides.
Next are Cossack, Baek Dan-ah, Man-nyeon.
At the very back are the remaining summoned entities tightly surrounding Joo-hyuk.
Seu-eu-eu-eut!
In the midst of that, the Seraphim Ronseraphim who completely descended from the sky to the ground.
His figure clearly coming into view only now.
It was a mess.
It was truly miserable.
To the point I feel sorry.
A broken left wing, disappeared left arm, melted left face, exactly as if the aftermath of the nuclear explosions swept away half of his body.
He even had only one eye.
The one remaining is his right eye.
But that right eye was facing Joo-hyuk accurately.
Whether he’s simply looking or glaring, I can’t know but.
– Did you bring down the fire of purification upon the Heavenly Realm?
It’s not purification though?
It’s radiation though?
I don’t know if you’ll know it’s a nuclear bomb.
– I see. Thanks to you, the veil of delusion has been lifted.
Eng?
A friendly feeling felt from his tone.
The anxiety that suddenly brushes past.
Isn’t this a good angel?
Heol! This is a big problem.
At this rate, I might have to use the Judge’s Mallet on myself.
“I’m sorry for doing it too severely…….”
– Thank you. For giving me an opportunity to atone.
“…….”
– I am a sinner. To have fallen for the delusion of wicked existences and lost God, I atone before you. Please forgive me.
Suddenly?
Why are you repenting your sins in front of me?
– It was a miserable Heavenly Realm. A world where the laws collapsed as a sin for losing God, pityful and twisted existences born by the authority of creation of which only dregs remained.
Is he talking about the fallen microscopic angels?
– Thank you for letting them rest in peace. Also, you have opened my eyes and my comrades’ eyes as well.
Euum.
To think I’d drop nuclear bombs and receive words of gratitude.
– Your good will and indomitable courage have led the Heavenly Realm to salvation.
Excuse me… no matter how much I think about it, I don’t think nukes are salvation though.
Did your head perhaps turn strange from the radiation.
– Chosen one, move forward. All the answers will be at that final destination.
“N, no, wait!”
At that moment!
U-u-u-u-ung!
White flames blazing fiercely from the Seraphim’s body.
Just like…….
‘Radiance?’
Bardin trembled his body and said.
“Authority of self-sacrifice…….”
What?
Sacrifice?
– I shall bestow a blessing with the one piece of divine power left to you and your comrades…….
Hwa-a-a-a-at!
– Oh Light!!! Brighten the path ahead of these beings!!!
Peo-beo-beok!
The Seraphim’s body exploded in an instant.
And turned into light and disappeared.
Pa-a-a-a-at!
The brilliant light of radiance spreading out.
The divine power seeping deep into the body.
And the adept energy of harmony benevolently welcoming and embracing the divine power.
What is this again?
Radiance shower?
No, is it a divine power shower?
It seeps in.
Because it’s divine power, it divinely seeps in (shin-myeo-deun-da).
Not a one-time thing that enters and disappears, but a permanent aura of divine power taking place and revealing its presence inside the body.
That’s right.
Now divine power has entered inside the body too.
Just how many energies have entered my body?
Internal energy, adept energy, dragon heart’s magic power, Netherworld Realm energy, and even divine power.
The continuing divine power shower.
All energies have compatibilities.
The summoned entity who grew the most from the Great Demon heart enhancement elixir, the price of the Demon Realm subjugation, was Diamart.
Then what about the divine power shower?
As expected, Paladin Bardin.
His two arms spread wide and while kneeling, he was receiving the brilliant radiance’s divine power intact.
On the other hand, Diamart and Geppetto were frowning their faces heavily and rejecting the divine power shower.
Our Bardin is going to get stronger, huh.
Isn’t he going to become an angel?
He really did.
“Ah!”
Wings of radiance sprouting from his back.
The wings flap.
Bardin’s body was floating up.
And.
Tti-ring!
[Seraphim Ronseraphim defeated 1/1]
[You have completed the ninth stage of The Grand Journey.]
Mission complete.
It jumped again.
To think it’s the ninth stage.
The Demon Realm was up to the fifth stage.
Here it’s the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth stages.
Tti-ring!
[Achievement : You have purified the Fallen Heavenly Realm.]
Not just purification, but nuclear purification.
[Distributing the achievement reward.]
[Sprouting the bud of divine power on the 17th floor of the White Tower. Bestowing divine blessings upon all life living on the 17th floor.]
I expected the achievement.
But divine blessings?
With this, the energies drifting on the 17th floor are a mix (jjam-ppong) too.
Magic power, adept energy, and divine power.
Tti-ring!
[Achievement : You have subdued a Seraphim for the first time as a player.]
Again?
[Distributing the achievement reward.]
[A 1-time-use skill that allows you to summon a Beyond summoned entity exactly once is registered to your status window.]
“Uh-uh…….”
[30 Platinum Badges are required to summon a Beyond summoned entity.]
[The Beyond Summoning 1-time-use skill will be deleted from the status window after use.]
“It popped up! Beyond Summoning!”
“Is it Beyond, sir?”
“Transcendent-nim, welcome.”
“Might Sword Immortal-nim come again?”
“Is the Sword Immortal the only Transcendent? Another person will probably come.”
“Then King Yama?”
“That person is a cliché too.”
Tti-ring!
[Returning to the 96th floor of Earth No. 675 Black Tower.]
It’s over.
The approaching time of settlement.
Spot!
Joo-hyuk and the party arriving at the 96th-floor waiting room.
The judgment?
[World Announcement: You have achieved clear grade EX on the 96th floor of the Black Tower (Germany).]
First, one.
[EX Clear Reward : Enhancing the player’s trait.]
Yeah.
Of course, you should give it to me.
EX clear reward.
“Pla… uh?”
Did I hear wrong?
Not Platinum Badges, but trait enhancement?
Tti-ring!
[Additional clear records have been discovered.]
[Entering the 97th floor of the Black Tower (Germany).]
Spot!
[World Announcement: You have achieved clear grade EX on the 97th floor of the Black Tower (Germany).]
[EX Clear Reward : Enhancing the player’s trait.]
“…Nem (Yes)?”
Really?
Trait enhancement?
[Additional clear records have been discovered.]
[Entering the 98th floor of the Black Tower (Germany).]
[World Announcement: You have achieved clear grade EX on the 98th floor of the Black Tower (Germany)…….]
[EX Clear Reward : Enhancing the player’s trait.]
“Wow!”
[Additional clear records have been discovered.]
[Entering the 99th floor of the Black Tower (Germany).]
[World Announcement: You have achieved clear grade EX on the 99th floor of the Black Tower (Germany)…….]
[EX Clear Reward : Enhancing the player’s trait.]
“…….”
It’s so astounding that words don’t come out.
The summoned entities are the same too.
“Is it the aftermath of causality?”
“I, it seems so. Since they have to pay the price for blocking entry in the first place.”
The clear rewards are crazy.
A whopping 4 trait enhancements?
If it becomes like this?
[Level] : 100LV
[Trait] : Summoning (Concurrent Summons: 20)
[Trait Skills] : Designated Summoning / Random Summoning / Summon Release / Beyond Random Summoning (1 time)
“Assa!”
Joo-hyuk raised his two arms high and fully enjoyed the joy.
Jjak-jjak-jjak-jjak-jjak-jjak-jjak-jjak!
Pouring applause.
Completed up to the 99th floor.
What’s left is the 100th floor.
Just one.
“Are we climbing right away now, sir?”
Heum.
Well, there is no problem even if we go up, but.
“Let’s rest a little. And also simultaneously check how the White Tower 17th floor has changed.”
“Yep!”
Let’s go calmly.
Calming our excitement.
Since we’ll probably need more supplies too.
[Exiting the Black Tower (Germany).]
* * *
Earth No. 675 Black Tower Administration Room.
Three people sitting in machines that look like massage chairs.
Designer, Engineer, Maker.
Originally, Managers are guaranteed eternal life.
Flesh made by God.
Not a single disease or disability arises.
If they suffer an unexpected accident?
Because they regenerate rapidly, they are healed quickly.
As long as their head isn’t cut off or their heart isn’t pulled out, you could consider them living forever.
The reason they applied to be Managers in the first place was precisely because of this.
If not for the condition of eternal life, would they have applied for Manager dispatch duty like crazy people?
Not even the main base, but on an unfamiliar parallel universe’s other Earth.
For a period that might be 100 years or 200 years.
When they have to do dispatch duty fully.
However, the Designer’s current condition is not intact.
He was dying.
[Designer?]
[Kkeu-reuk, …kkeuk, kkeu-reu-reu-reu.]
[Haa, this is making me crazy.]
There was no problem with the flesh.
However, the soul is in the middle of vanishing.
Exactly how?
The only thing that can compel a soul is a divine punishment.
The cause of the Designer becoming like this.
When he met as a hologram in the 96th-floor waiting room to stop the Earth No. 1,001 Summoner’s tower climbing.
That guy rattled on about ‘you know your own sins’ and wielded a wooden mallet.
Surprisingly, the hologram was bound.
Does that make sense?
No matter how much it’s a hologram connected to the main body, it’s essentially an illusion.
The aura of the wooden mallet traveled back through the hologram and dealt a blow to the soul of the Designer’s main body located in the Administration Room.
So currently, he’s in this state.
A more shocking fact than that.
The secrets of the Black Tower were revealed in full detail.
Even branded with the stigma of karma.
Karma?
What nonsense!
Was it a sin to manage the Black Tower as commanded by God?
Was it a sin to collapse the Black Tower as commanded by God?
Is the act of ruining the world as commanded by God a sin?
What do you want us to do?
The Managers merely faithfully fulfilled their roles they were supposed to do as Managers.
The Engineer and Maker were enraged.
They could not possibly forgive that Summoner player bastard who was driving them as sinners.
So they manipulated the system and arbitrarily severed the connection between the 96th floor and the mission area.
Making it so they can’t even enter.
For at least three months.
Of course, the storm of causality was scary but.
Well, what does it matter?
It’s a desperate situation.
Whatever will be, will be.
However, even that was broken through.
That guy was going in and out of the 96th floor at will too.
Finally, now.
96th floor clear success.
97th floor clear success.
98th floor clear success.
99th floor clear success.
[…….]
[…….]
He’s a crazy bastard.
Soon, it’s the 100th floor.
[Wh, what do we do?]
[…What can we do.]
[The Summoner will enter the 100th floor. We can’t just leave it like that.]
[Do you have a way to stop him?]
[Euum…….]
[It was wrong from the start when we came out on dispatch duty to Earth No. 675.]
[Fuck!]
[Right, let’s just swear.]
Because that’s the only thing we can do.