Climbing the Mythic Tower as a Cheating Administrator - Chapter 29

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Cheating Administrator’s Mythic Tower Climb (29)
The three of them walked to the dungeon gate in silence.
For Geum Sua, the situation was relatively straightforward.
‘Good. If it’s like this, then things worked out better anyway.’
She’d already experienced it once in the 22nd Dungeon.
She didn’t try to understand what couldn’t be understood.
She simply accepted it and moved on.
After all, it wasn’t her responsibility to make a careful judgment about Moo Saeng here.
That’s what Geum Sua believed.
Yoon Pyo, who had taken on that very ‘careful judgment,’ was simply suffering.
‘……How exactly…….’
He’d seen it through Geum Sua’s report.
The 66th Dungeon’s Artifacts numbered at least two, possibly even three.
But that alone shouldn’t account for it!
The Boss of the 55th Dungeon, commonly called Maia.
Its conquest difficulty was rated as high as the upper 50s, perhaps even the low 60s and beyond.
‘Fundamentally, it’s skilled in visual disruption using optics, creating illusions and duplicates, concealing its own form…… and to find the true body, you have to deal with an endless stream of Guardians.’
And what of those Guardians?
Many Awakeners even use the term “museum” to describe it.
It’s not just humanoid forms—there are Guardians that shoot from unexpected places, explode, fly, and charge from nowhere.
Sometimes they resemble beasts, and sometimes they have terrifying forms beyond imagination.
‘But that…….’
He killed Maia by breaking through all those difficulties?
Even with Artifacts from the 66th Dungeon?
Coming from a Dungeon Sherpa background who couldn’t even climb past the 10th floor?
The fact that he had explored the 51st Dungeon in the past or how he endured the Magical Pressure of the 55th Dungeon no longer even crossed his mind—he was in a state of shock.
“Deputy Director.”
“Yes, Director.”
Therefore, Yoon Pyo was able to reach a decision.
“I’ll approve the previous report. I will inform the Chairman.”
“……Ah, yes!”
Moo Saeng’s value exceeded fifteen billion won, and more.
They had to do their best to bring him into Gumseong Guild.
While only those two could understand the conversation that passed between them, Moo Saeng quietly followed at their heels.
To grasp the content of their talk?
Or to avoid being interrogated if he opened his mouth carelessly?
It was neither.
The Transparent Goggles that wrapped around Moo Saeng’s eyes.
Maia was the Boss of the 55th floor.
Even though something unknown had occurred here in the 55th Dungeon, it meant she couldn’t exceed the level of the 55th floor.
Yet despite that, Maia had seen W.A.S.H. She had tried to speak with W.A.S.H.
At that moment, Moo Saeng had caught on.
[Yoon Pyo]
―Age: 37
―Awakening Ability: 〈Absolute Zero (SR)〉
―Skills: [Unable to confirm due to user’s low ability.]
―Resistance: Cold (SSR), Confusion (SR), Heat (S), Poison (A), Lightning (A), Bleeding (B), Fear (C), Light (C), Darkness (D)
―Climbing Record: Maximum 66th Floor
There had to be something on the goggles that the Last Sorcerer Maia had been wearing.
It wasn’t something she’d put on just as a toy or for fashion.
‘Insane, this is insane. What kind of Resistance is this…… having all four major attack attributes and the key mental-type immunities too? No, what kind of life do you have to live to end up like this? Light and Darkness resistances even exist as an attribute?’
Typically, the Status Window can only be seen by the person themselves.
Even using cutting-edge technology developed by the World Awakeners Association, all you could confirm was the type and rank of an Awakening Ability!
Goggles that could steal a view of another person’s Status Window!?
‘Stats seem to be invisible from the start…… but complaining about this deserves divine punishment, honestly.’
Moreover, it was even written helpfully next to the skill window.
That additional information couldn’t be confirmed because the wearer Moo Saeng’s ability was too low.
Which meant that if his ability increased…… wouldn’t he be able to see even other people’s skills!?
―Special Notes: Additional attack power against small monsters +150%
Additional attack power against large monsters +100%
Additional attack power against artificial monsters +85%
Additional attack power against beast-type monsters +50%
Additional attack power against plant-type monsters +40%
Able to breathe underwater
[Unable to confirm due to insufficient user ability.]
‘Huh…. So he really is the Gumseong Guild’s strategy chief. But wait—able to breathe underwater? Is he a mermaid? Is he even human?’
Moo Saeng nearly let out an involuntary gasp when he saw this section with its additional special properties.
Just how many more special traits did Yoon Pyo possess?
How formidable was his true power?
Even reading the numbers with his own eyes, he couldn’t grasp the sheer magnitude of his strength.
It was around this thought—*this* is Yoon Pyo*—that the three of them arrived at the gate.
They had reached the gate by then.
“H-Head Chief!”
Seo Young Hwa was about to explain that she hadn’t been able to complete her assigned task.
The man Moo Saeng couldn’t help but admire—Gumseong Guild’s strategy chief!
“Since we’ve encountered Moo Saeng, let’s prepare to depart, Seo.”
Yoon Pyo had to manage his expression, somehow concealing the awkwardness and embarrassment of not being able to say “we secured him.”
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Park Jin Chul, the section chief of Gumseong’s Dungeon Management Division, was equally flustered.
“The goggles…”
He managed entry and exit to the 55th Dungeon.
He knew who entered with what.
He knew who left with what.
As a field operator and manager, he had visibility over that entire flow.
But goggles? You could obtain something like that inside the 55th Dungeon?
Maia the Sorceress gave something like that? He’d never seen it before.
Park Jin Chul swallowed dryly.
If he’d only been a clerk or assistant manager—
Actually, even at the deputy level, he would have asked about it.
“Yes. Is there some problem?”
“Oh no, not at all. It just suits you well. Haha.”
But he was, after all, a section chief.
The strategy chief and vice-chief had been with them from the start.
Whether those goggles had some special function or were just fashionable sunglasses—
Whether he’d obtained them from Maia or been gifted them—what did it matter?
He knew well enough that sticking his nose into ‘another department’s’ affairs would do him no good, so he reached his own judgment.
‘There’s no problem, then.’
‘Hmm, so goggles are one of the artifacts that drop here, I guess?’
At the entry manager’s judgment—tinged with a touch of levity—Yoon Pyo and Geum Sua simply nodded.
The result was that no one suspected Moo Saeng’s goggles at all.
“Thank you for your cooperation, Section Chief. The chairman gave us urgent orders, so we didn’t have proper documentation to—”
“Please, don’t mention it. Who doesn’t know the strategy chief’s schedule is packed these days? I should be the one asking the chairman to remember us. Lately the Dungeon Management Division has been a bit short-handed, haha, though I probably shouldn’t be saying this to the strategy chief…”
After all, they too had lives to live.
In the fierce struggle for survival and advancement within guild hierarchy, Park Jin Chul was doing his utmost in his own way.
Geum Sua felt somewhat burdened by Park Jin Chul’s impeccable courtesy even as they departed in the vehicle.
As a result, the three who had cleared the 55th Dungeon faced no further obstacles.
“Then we’ll escort you to Gumseong Guild Headquarters, Moo Saeng. You may be tired, but—”
“Not at all, not at all. Yes, I’m thrilled at the thought of meeting the chairman.”
The destination: Gumseong Guild Headquarters.
The purpose: a meeting with Geum Byung Chul.
Moo Saeng couldn’t hide his excitement like a child.
Geum Sua, sitting in the passenger seat, even tilted her head slightly at how brightly he seemed.
‘Most people would be nervous about meeting their father. His composure really is something else. He’s no ordinary person.’
If someone were to pose the question: name the five strongest Awakeners in South Korea, there would admittedly be some deliberation.
Yet there was overwhelming consensus that Geum Byung Chul would *absolutely* be among those five fingers—a transcendent Awakener, undisputedly Korea’s strongest.
And he was excited at the prospect of meeting such a man?
‘How high did Geum Byung Chul climb…? The Gumseong side announced it themselves, but basically no one believed it. At minimum, seeing it for myself will be worthwhile.’
The reason was, naturally, only one.
What information about Geum Byung Chul would appear in Maia’s goggles?
Moo Saeng was now climbing the tower as an Awakener, but for thirteen years prior he had worked as a Dungeon Sherpa.
Gossip, rumor, information—these were the very things she had trained herself to absorb with keen attention, and now her blood could not help but quicken at the prospect.
In truth, she was restraining an excitement far greater than what showed on the surface.
[Does this vehicle have fixed seating arrangements? I sat in the same spot both on the way here and on the way back? Is that what it is, Moo Saeng? Is the cushioning of the seat different? Why would that be?]
W.A.S.H, oblivious to the concepts of driver’s seat, passenger seat, and upper seat, continued to float dreamily through the cabin, chattering away.
[W.A.S.H]
[Information cannot be displayed.]
W.A.S.H’s data did not appear on Maia’s Transparent Goggles either.
Perhaps it was because no information surfaced at all that she had come to think of W.A.S.H as a being connected to the Tower.
‘Still, W.A.S.H—well, if it’s W.A.S.H, then it’s W.A.S.H.’
Moo Saeng remembered the moment W.A.S.H had been transmitted to him.
CX-Ω-74 Tower Administrator: codename ‘W.A.S.H’.
So that had been its name.
If W.A.S.H was an acronym from initials, what would the full expansion mean?
‘……Well, the name hardly matters in the end.’
Yoon Pyo sat beside him anyway, and Geum Sua occupied the passenger seat.
There was no asking about it in a car full of people, but Moo Saeng found himself thinking that someday, if the opportunity presented itself, he might ask.
Whoooosh…….
The vehicle began to slow.
A tall office building with glass curtain walls.
Among the many office buildings that lined Eulji-ro, the most striking and resplendent was unmistakably distinguished by its golden ornaments.
Gumseong—Venus.
Even the hearts of those who beheld it grew warm.
“We’ve arrived, Moo Saeng. Shall we step out?”
Yoon Pyo spoke.
Click—before his words had even finished, the car door opened from the outside.
It was so swift and flawless that Moo Saeng flinched slightly.
“Ah, I can manage on my own—.”
“That’s not how we treat our guests. Don’t worry about it.”
And figures who looked like security personnel naturally drew close to Moo Saeng’s side.
Though he tried to wave them off, Geum Sua had already appeared at his elbow, smiling brightly as she fell into step beside him with practiced ease.
Yoon Pyo did the same.
“Info.”
The single word, spoken quietly into his earpiece the moment they passed through the revolving doors.
The personnel at the information desk moved at once.
The main lobby of the Guild headquarters was filled with members of Gumseong as well as numerous others conducting business, yet not a single person crossed Moo Saeng’s path.
Ding—!
Their flawless coordination was so precise that when they reached the elevator zone, the express elevator doors opened exactly on cue.
“Please board, Moo Saeng.”
“Ha, Gumseong really is something…… Wait? Geum Sua—aren’t you coming with me?”
“Today’s meeting between the Chairman and Moo Saeng will be conducted privately. I will escort you to the Chairman’s office and then return to the first floor.”
It was Yoon Pyo who answered the question directed at Geum Sua, who waited outside the elevator doors.
Such meticulous attention to detail.
And such confidence.
“Security…… won’t be necessary, I suppose.”
Moo Saeng felt a chill run through him at the very name Gumseong.
More precisely, at the name Geum Byung Chul.
“Still, we’ll be waiting outside…… Once you’re done, why don’t we grab a coffee, Moo Saeng?”
Geum Sua smiled, looking somewhat reluctant but determined not to let this pass her by.
Before Moo Saeng could respond, the elevator doors closed.
And then whirrrrr…….
The private elevator, which serviced only the Chairman’s office and the first floor, rose swiftly.
A clear chime sounded.
The elevator doors opened.
Moo Saeng finally came face to face with him.
One of South Korea’s first-generation Awakeners and a Ranker of the highest caliber.
The man who had built Gumseong, a preeminent Guild counted among the top ten in the entire world.
“……So, you didn’t do this alone, did you?”
Geum Byung Chul.
He spoke.

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