100 Floors All Master - Chapter 17

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All Master of 100 Floors Episode 017

Strategy Guide (1)

The next day.

Kang Jun-hyeok scratched his head as he woke up.

There were roughly two days left until he could re-enter the Tower.

He had nothing else to do during that time.

Since he remembered the general flow of events, he knew there wouldn’t be anything special happening at this point. There were minor incidents, but they weren’t in his area of concern.

‘I’m bored.’

Needing something to kill time, Kang Jun-hyeok opened the community.

As a result, one piece of information caught his eye.

[A strategy guide has been sold. Please check the sales details.]

“Huh?”

Kang Jun-hyeok made a sound. A strategy guide was sold? The 10,000 gold strategy guide?

He checked the system window with confusion.

[Title: 2nd Floor Perfect Clear Strategy Guide.]

[Buyers: 10 people]

[Gold Earned: 100,000]

“…Hm?”

Kang Jun-hyeok couldn’t understand for a moment.

He narrowed his eyes to see if he was reading it correctly.

But no matter how much he looked, the system window remained unchanged.

[Gold Earned: 100,000]

“…Wait.”

Kang Jun-hyeok was genuinely flustered. One hundred thousand gold? No. Ten buyers?

“What is this?”

The price of the 2nd Floor strategy guide was 10,000 gold. It was an amount that even the current Kang Jun-hyeok couldn’t gather, so Floor 1 players couldn’t possibly afford it.

As Kang Jun-hyeok was panicking, he suddenly realized.

Strategy guides weren’t exclusively purchasable by latecomers.

Even the frontrunners who had already cleared floors and moved to higher levels could purchase strategy guides for lower floors.

The current top players had reached the mid-30s. They would likely possess around 10,000 gold. If they were the buyers, it wasn’t impossible.

But Kang Jun-hyeok hadn’t considered that possibility.

The reason was quite simple.

“Spending 10,000 gold on a 2nd Floor strategy guide?”

Even for players above the 30th Floor, 10,000 gold wasn’t a small amount. No. It was an enormous amount of gold. Considering that the only source of gold was clearing floors, it was extremely precious.

It was literally earned through blood, sweat, and tears, and would be used very carefully.

There was no reason to spend such gold on a strategy guide for the 2nd Floor they had already passed.

Yet they bought the strategy guide.

And not just one person, but ten people.

“Why?”

Kang Jun-hyeok couldn’t understand.

And to Kang Jun-hyeok’s reaction, Manbyeonggi spoke as if it were natural.

[It’s a natural occurrence.]

“Natural?”

[What you uploaded isn’t just a simple 2nd Floor clear strategy guide. It’s a perfect strategy guide. That itself is information about the Tower.]

“…Ah.”

At those words, Kang Jun-hyeok belatedly realized.

The current world was close to the early stages.

It had only been ten years since the Master of the Universe changed and the Tower appeared. Even the top players had barely reached around the 30th Floor. There were quite a few who hadn’t even gained the right to challenge the Tower.

Since it was the very early stages before the first test or universal integration, there was almost no information available.

In other words, the world still didn’t properly understand what the Tower even was.

They were simply climbing because it was given to them, lacking fundamental information. It was no different from walking through a jungle without any equipment.

They didn’t know methods for acquiring Passive Skills, achievement rates, or ways to increase proficiency. They had rough ideas, but these were merely speculation, not certainty.

In such a situation, a strategy guide for perfect clearing the 2nd Floor was uploaded.

For players, that wasn’t just a 2nd Floor strategy guide.

It was information about the Tower’s system and structure.

It contained answers on how to reach 100% achievement rate and how to proceed to the next Quest.

Thinking about it that way, its value was overflowing. Rather, it was strange that only ten people bought it. Manbyeonggi spoke as if surprised.

[You didn’t expect this? So that’s why you were disappointed.]

“What did you think it was about?”

[I thought you were disappointed about it being the 2nd Floor. You could make money, but it would definitely be less than higher floors. Surprising. I thought you would naturally know this would happen.]

“…Right.”

Not just as a 2nd Floor strategy guide, but as information about the Tower’s system and structure, it had sufficient value in these early stages.

But Kang Jun-hyeok had forgotten that. In the future, it was common knowledge like the Earth being round. He thought it had no particular value.

“This is definitely my mistake.”

[So you do make mistakes too.]

“Of course I do. What did you think I was?”

[An avatar sent down by the Master of the Universe to test the Tower.]

Manbyeonggi’s voice was quite serious. Kang Jun-hyeok chuckled and opened the community.

The community was naturally in chaos. The usually quite noisy community was five times faster.

[Kim Min-jun(4th Floor): What is this? What is this?]

[Shizuka Haruto(10th Floor): Perfect clear was possible? I thought it was like the story about not being able to use 100% of your brain, absolutely impossible to fill?]

[Albert Josh(11th Floor): No. More than that, was it possible to have conversations with the Captain NPC on the 2nd Floor like that? He always told me to get lost, not to waste food uselessly and at least serve as goblin bait.]

[Kang Hyeok(5th Floor): He did that to me too… So that was possible…]

The community was very noisy due to the strategy guide Kang Jun-hyeok uploaded. Most of them were low-floor players without 10,000 gold, yet they spoke as if they knew all about the strategy guide’s contents.

As Kang Jun-hyeok browsed the community, he soon realized the reason.

“Some kind soul made it public.”

Latecomers couldn’t know floor strategy guides unless they directly purchased the strategy writing rights.

But frontrunners who had already cleared floors had no such restrictions. Someone who bought the strategy guide could freely discuss it in the community.

Indeed, when he searched through the community, someone had copied and uploaded his strategy guide exactly as it was.

[Title: 2nd Floor Perfect Clear Strategy Guide Contents.]

“That’s why it stopped at one hundred thousand.”

If not for that, it would have been double.

It was disappointing, but since there was no enforcement, it couldn’t be helped. As he scrolled down through the content, there was a sentence added by the author at the end.

[Hello. This is Olivia Turner. After purchasing and reading the 2nd Floor strategy guide, I found much content that would help everyone, so I decided to share this information.

And to the player who uploaded this strategy guide, I am truly sorry. Though it’s for everyone’s benefit, I have posted your valuable information without permission.

If you contact me separately, I will do my best to compensate you. Once again, I apologize.]

It was a pathetic apology directed at Kang Jun-hyeok. Kang Jun-hyeok let out a quiet chuckle.

“Olivia, huh.”

Olivia Turner.

A top-tier player who had reached beyond the 80th Floor.

Even at this point in time, she was one of the few who had cleared the 32nd Floor.

A woman called a saint who gave everything to everyone.

Until the very end, she had sacrificed herself as bait for the weak players.

In his previous life, she was a woman who had gotten along quite well with him.

‘This time will be different though.’

Reading more of the community, stories about him were gradually starting to emerge.

[Kim Min-jun (4th Floor): But what the hell is this person who got a perfect clear? I’m not sure I could do it even after reading that strategy guide.]

[Kim Min-ji (24th Floor): …I feel the same way. I don’t think I could do it even if I tried again after looking at the guide. I might be able to win their favor somehow… but I’m not sure about rescuing the hostage.]

[Irina Pavlova (11th Floor): That level might be impossible for me… but I might be able to progress through quests to some degree. Similar methods should work on other floors too. It’s definitely helpful.]

The bewilderment and shock that had spread throughout the community slowly subsided. And the emotion that spread next was curiosity.

[Albert Josh (11th Floor): So who’s the person who got the perfect clear?]

[Shizuka Haruto (10th Floor): Isn’t it the person who perfect cleared Floor 1?]

Perfect clears triggered universe-wide announcements. After the Floor 1 perfect clear, about a week later came the 2nd Floor perfect clear announcement. It wasn’t hard to deduce they were the same person.

But there was no information beyond that. People made various speculations.

An enlightened genius. No, a being from another planet, not Earth. A manifestation of the Administrator. And so on. Since none of it was particularly useful, Kang Jun-hyeok closed the community.

Just before closing it, one person’s question caught Kang Jun-hyeok’s eye.

[Pham Min Deuk (23rd Floor): Then just how strong is that person?]

Kang Jun-hyeok closed the community and quietly stroked his chin.

All the players on Earth now knew.

What a perfect clear was.

How to raise completion rates.

What they needed to do to advance to the next quest.

Children who didn’t know how to find their way had learned how to use a compass. Several times faster than in his previous life.

‘Not bad.’

In this life, he had no intention of yielding anymore. He planned to take everything for himself.

But this wasn’t bad.

People would now follow the method he had shown them, each thinking about how they could reach higher levels.

If in his previous life he had directly given people fish, this time he had taught them how to catch fish.

Most importantly, he had already gained plenty for himself.

“Hmm.”

After thinking for a moment, Kang Jun-hyeok shook his head. These weren’t thoughts he needed to have right now. What mattered now was what he had gained.

[Sales Gold: 100,000]

“Haha.”

He couldn’t help but laugh. Of course, the commission was 90%. The gold given to him was only 1/10 of that.

But still, 10,000 gold.

It was an amount that made him laugh. It was more than twice the amount of gold he had earned so far.

With this much. Kang Jun-hyeok’s eyes gleamed.

A short while later, Kang Jun-hyeok opened the shop.

The world split apart, revealing a space like the universe. There, the shop owner, Pixie, appeared. Contrasting with her fairy-tale-like appearance was her grim expression and the cigar in one hand.

Pixie looked at Kang Jun-hyeok and lit her cigar as if she had expected this.

[Yeah… there’s no way a bastard like you would die on the 2nd Floor.]

“I want to buy an Active Skill.”

[…You got over 1,000 gold again?]

Pixie shook her head in disbelief. To clear the 2nd Floor and earn enough gold to buy skills. It was amazing.

[Fine. Considering the gold you had before… if you’re lucky, you might get two Lowest Grade Skills.]

“No.”

[…No?]

What Kang Jun-hyeok wanted wasn’t a Lowest Grade Skill.

“I want to buy a Low Grade Skill.”

Kang Jun-hyeok said cheerfully.

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