Climbing the Mythic Tower as a Cheating Administrator - Chapter 70

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Climbing the Mythic Tower as a Cheating Administrator (70)
Hildegard carefully checked each of Kim Moo-saeng’s requirements.
Then she immediately assessed feasibility and organized her list.
“The total manufacturing period will take about a week.”
“Even Eight Seconds takes that long to make?”
Kim Moo-saeng voiced his disappointment at the unexpected timeframe.
The one who was actually flustered was Hildegard.
“I can’t use different equipment, so I’m making it all by myself—. No, you already know this well, don’t you? Even if it’s just a small individual barely past the hatchling stage, it’s still being made from an adult-class dragon! A week!? Normally scale sorting alone takes over a month! Just working on the talons and teeth takes more than ten days.”
How fast this actually was.
Of course, with the perfect facilities and personnel of the German Headquarters, it could be finished in three days, but that environment simply doesn’t exist right now.
The way she bristled, welling up with emotion, was no different from any other twenty-year-old.
Kim Moo-saeng made a calming gesture and soothed her.
“Okay, okay. I’ll wait. But make it perfect. Oh, and these two are broken, so fix them too. If you could duplicate a few more while you’re at it, that’d be great.”
And now additional requests on top of that?
Hildegard glared at Kim Moo-saeng.
“…You’re not asking me to do all that within a week, are you?”
Kim Moo-saeng shrugged.
“If it’s…possible?”
“Hah.”
Hildegard let out a short sigh.
Kim Moo-saeng, just in case, boosted her spirits with exaggerated gestures.
“Come on, you’ve already replicated it once before, so it should be easier, right? Isn’t that right? Metal Rhine wouldn’t be Metal Rhine for nothing. The world’s finest and largest Artifact manufacturing guild! Its superior performance speaks for itself—.”
“Got it. Stop trying to flatter me like that, it’s embarrassing. Ahem, so at least today! I absolutely must! investigate Wash, alright?”
Of course, Hildegard wasn’t the type to accept hollow compliments like that.
A thorough pragmatist, accepting all conditions and fulfilling them—in exchange!
Today, she would claim her own price.
Kim Moo-saeng nodded.
“Yes, do as much as you want. I’ve cleared my entire schedule for today anyway, so don’t worry and go ahead.”
“Perfect! That gives me so much motivation!? Wash! Over here, this way please! Let’s start with an energy-form measurement, shall we? It won’t hurt, so don’t worry!”
The moment Kim Moo-saeng gave permission, Hildegard dashed off.
The floor and walls of the spacious Underground Space flipped open, and all manner of equipment began to emerge.
And Wash muttered as he watched it unfold.
[…I think I mentioned this before. Kim Moo-saeng, why do you say things like you’re doing me a favor? Is there any particular reason I have to be measured by that female’s primitive devices?]
A matter they’d brushed past once before.
Kim Moo-saeng ended the discussion simply.
“Good faith?”
[Damn human.]
It was only natural that Wash, as a party to the contract, cooperate.
Moreover, now that Wash knew of the contract between Murometz and Kim Moo-saeng, he could do nothing more than indulge in “playful complaint.”
Kim Moo-saeng was simply driving the point home once more.
“Hurry, hurry! Just come over here, Wash!”
Hildegard spoke with the excitement of a girl who’d received a Christmas present.
Wash grumbled and flew over.
* * *
Kim Moo-saeng sat on a stool sipping tea.
He’d thought the space was rather bare for its size just moments ago.
‘Walls, floor, ceiling—they keep rotating and equipment emerges. She said they’d rushed to excavate this space.’
Using his scarab Guardian as reference, they’d hastily constructed something for Underground Space construction.
And with that, hadn’t they conducted work in secret until the conference ended?
‘After all, Metal Rhine—or rather, Eight Seconds.’
Beyond the sheer dimensions of this space, all the equipment integrated with it… what was it all?
Compared to the research lab of the sorceress Maia from Floor 55 Dungeon, it wasn’t even remotely deficient.
No, had she been given sufficient time, wouldn’t she have designed and built something even grander?
Kim Moo-saeng felt genuine admiration watching Hildegard, her reddish hair pulled back tightly, rushing about frantically.
‘The Hand of Aetri ability is one thing, but ultimately it depends on how each Awakener utilizes it. In the end, I…’
The optimal application of Awakening Abilities.
In that sense, Transmission was only used to summon Wash, and it’s difficult to create unique skills through it.
Even if he could select every Skill Tree available when clearing specific floors of the Tower, there are virtually no skills generated through the unique application of his Awakening Ability beyond that.
‘Well, there’s no point just complaining. Thanks to Wash, I learned the additional conditions and Hidden Conditions of every floor, so even the stat inflation from Strong Bones works…’
So what would be his own future combat style?
I’ll move based on all my stats elevated to overwhelming levels.
And meanwhile, I’ll need to tactically exploit the monster’s behavioral patterns, the terrain of the battle space, the fixtures within it…….
Gulp.
I know. I’ve already been doing that.
Yet Kim Moo-saeng found himself swallowing hard nonetheless.
‘That works fine for standard monsters. But what about anomalies like Murometz?’
Because this tower climb had revealed a deficiency to him instinctively.
Floors in the thirties, forties—no real problem.
But the fifties and beyond?
How do I contend with the monsters that come after that?
And when we reach the seventies—the zone where ‘probably Murometz-class’ monsters appear?
Even Steve King said there are monsters on Floor 75.
“Mmm…….”
It was natural that a groan escaped him unbidden at such thoughts.
It’s not enough.
Lost in contemplation, Kim Moo-saeng watched Hildegard dart this way and that, murmuring to herself.
“Energy form…… unreadable. Aha-ha, mana wavelength unstable? I can measure the output waveform, but can it produce this kind of result!?”
Holographic windows flickered into being at various points around her.
Kim Moo-saeng couldn’t quite grasp the content on the screens, nor did he fully understand Hildegard’s muttering.
He could sense only that things weren’t unfolding the way she wanted.
“Energy density scans spitting out such irregular data……. No, wait. Coordinate reference point mismatch? Hmm? Mm~?”
[……Noisy female, aren’t you.]
Even Wash felt compelled to interject as Hildegard spun in circles, talking to herself.
But she paid him no mind.
“Oh, then this! Wash, stay right there for a moment! Let me check the spatial distortion rate—. Yeah, yeah, if the difference in natural frequency and the warped energy density appear that way, then maybe—.”
Kim Moo-saeng nodded along.
He still couldn’t grasp a single word properly, yet that posture—it was worth studying.
Despite how desperately he’d wanted to understand Wash.
Despite the fact that the one result she sought wasn’t materializing.
The way she refused to give up, twisting the approach this way and that, holding on regardless.
‘Right, I can’t just stand here blank-faced either. If you have no teeth, you use your gums. No skill, use stats. Lack of equipment, make up for it—and this time I have the items made from Blue Dragon Materials, and what I acquired through the Murometz contract and clearing the Hidden Condition—.’
Just as Kim Moo-saeng realized he himself couldn’t afford to indulge in such self-pity.
Hildegard covered her mouth with a sharp gesture and cried out.
“Wha, what the world! No, wait. Wash!”
[What now?]
“This, this, that thing over there—I don’t know if my interpretation is right or wrong……. But you’re not the whole thing, are you!? Right?”
[What are you talking about?]
“Energy and spatial distortion and coordinate mismatch……. The intersection of moments when they align and moments when they don’t…….”
Hildegard’s emerald eyes trembled rapidly.
Kim Moo-saeng was struck by amazement on several counts.
One was that Hildegard Schmidt was more of a genius than he’d thought.
And the other was…….
A detail that Kim Moo-saeng himself had forgotten—now suddenly recalled.
“It means you exist and simultaneously don’t exist. Or rather, you’re here, but not in your entirety—you’re not fully here. Could it be that there’s another Wash somewhere else?”
Hildegard posed the question to Wash.
In that moment, Kim Moo-saeng remembered.
“……Download Rate.”
Download 73%.
Wash is not yet complete.
Kim Moo-saeng and Wash looked at each other.
There was no need to ask why he’d revealed the concept of Download at this juncture.
Worrying whether he should hide it from Hildegard? Such hesitation was pointless.
When you encounter an available resource.
“Hildegard, could you possibly bring Wash……. over?”
You make it possible.
Hearing Kim Moo-saeng’s earnest question, Hildegard swallowed hard as well.
Kim Moo-saeng was certain.
His characteristic ability meaningless? Never.
“I think maybe I could…… Is it alright if I try? Really?”
When Wash’s Download Rate reaches 100%.
“Yes. Let’s do this.”
At last, the true Awakening Ability of Transmission would manifest itself.
With Administrator Authority that no other Awakening Ability could match—something that would activate even within the Tower.
* * *
Naturally, it couldn’t be done immediately.
Data Interpretation, the preparation of new equipment, and above all, the essential process of information exchange with Wash…….
“So—your data isn’t currently remaining in the Tower, then? It’s presumed to be in transit, but you have no way of knowing where it exists……. Then how exactly would this ‘Download’ work—.”
[Squawk—how primitive, how utterly primitive. Did I not already tell you I sent the code, female? And I am here.]
“—Yes, I understand that much.”
Kim Moo-saeng found himself watching this incomprehensible process unfold once more.
Even as she conversed with Wash, Hildegard continued fashioning something from nothing.
By now, there was nothing strange about it anymore.
‘Is Eight Seconds always like this? Obsess over one thing, and she’ll just use her skills regardless of the Nevada Accord or anything else. I mean, even for a crafting-type ability, this is——.’
But thinking about it, it made perfect sense.
A ban on using Awakening Abilities outside Towers and dungeons?
If that were the case, how would Metal Rhine create Artifacts?
Not just Metal Rhine, but all the countless other Artifact-crafting guilds?
They work inside dungeons? Hardly.
In the end, tacit use had to be permitted in certain fields—and if it caused no obvious harm, the World Awakener Association’s silence was as good as a statement of consent.
Wash, bursting with frustration, let out a screech.
[Why do you keep asking?! I am here as the reference point, so all the data in transit will converge on me if you simply guide it——.]
“Ah! I understand! That’s the approach?! I’ve got it! Rather than clinging to mismatched coordinates, I extract by analyzing the signal spectrum, then funnel it along your Echo Pattern! But there’s no risk of recursive self-reference errors, is there——?”
[……None.]
Even Wash had to fall silent before Hildegard’s genius.
While she could be told the general flow, there was no way to explain the specifics—let alone in Earth’s terms.
[Less primitive than expected, female. Kyakakakak!]
“Heheh, thank you. Never thought I’d receive such praise from the Tower’s Administrator.”
Shuuuuuu……!
Equipment like two overlapping rings began assembling itself in mid-air.
Wash at its center.
Several holographic windows materialized around it in an instant.
Hildegard, her expression serious, moved swiftly through the final preparations.
What followed didn’t take long.
“Huuuu……. Shall we begin?”
Hildegard looked at Wash, then at Kim Moo-saeng.
Kim Moo-saeng and Wash exchanged a brief glance.
Wash pressed the Black Horned-Rim Glasses firmly onto his head.
Kim Moo-saeng spoke.
“Let’s begin.”
Clunk.
With the mechanical sound, the two overlapping rings began rotating around Wash.
And then.
───────────……!!!!
A halo of light wound around Wash.

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