Climbing the Mythic Tower as a Cheating Administrator - Chapter 80

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Admin with Cheat Code Climbing Mythic Tower (80)
The moment Moo-saeng heard the story from the Five-Ring Eye, he made his decision.
The Thousand-Mile Eye is watching this place.
It knows the composition of personnel.
But it doesn’t know faces. Doesn’t know any other distinguishing features.
So then?!
“Call everyone with a build similar to mine and black hair. All of them. Right now.”
He could fool it!
Robert Kay grasped Moo-saeng’s sudden request with equal speed.
“……Ah. Yes!”
Personnel with similar builds and similar attire are summoned.
All at once, as quickly as possible.
“Oh, and on your way, grab a formal suit for me. One I can wear. The Association staff keep spares in the office, don’t they?”
“Of, of course. Yes. I’ll have mine brought.”
The moment Moo-saeng changed into clothes as well, everything became certain.
With a rumbling sound, twenty-seven Association Awakeners filed into the Secret Conference Room.
Now in this space were two Awakeners with the Possession ability.
And if you excluded Robert Kay…….
“The preparations are complete, but-.”
“They all came in with their faces covered.”
“Is there anything else you’d like us to do, Team Leader Kay?”
Thirty identically similar Awakeners swarmed the space!
Robert Kay looked at Moo-saeng, who had changed into a formal suit in an instant.
That single glance. With it alone, all the Awakeners who entered the conference room caught on.
Whose orders they should follow now.
Who had proposed this sudden summons.
“Everyone.”
Moo-saeng spoke.
“Today is an early leave. Call it paid half-day. Exit one person at three-minute intervals!”
It was an instruction office workers loved most.
* * *
“The, the personnel numbers have suddenly increased.”
―Increased? Are you saying they teleported or something?
“No. They suddenly came rushing in indiscriminately-. And yet…….”
They came charging in with their faces covered.
What that action signified was clear.
‘They realized I was watching……?’
Normally, the Thousand-Mile Eye and the Five-Ring Eye could sense each other.
But now it was different.
Wasn’t the Possession ability being used?
That is, the ability couldn’t be activated or sensed.
But they detected that the Thousand-Mile Eye’s ability was clearly directed at that conference room?
‘The [Brain], perhaps.’
The Brain is there.
At this point it became certain.
Such rapid detection, such rapid response.
They’re acting in response, aware they’ve become the target and taking measures not to be tracked.
‘A far more capable individual than the Five-Ring Eye……perhaps.’
Compared to the Five-Ring Eye, who enjoys the Association’s protection.
The [Brain] likely had a high chance of being someone who’d crawled and struggled in the wild.
Whether they’ll fully join hands with the Association or not, remains unclear.
But…….
‘An individual like this.’
The Thousand-Mile Eye swallowed hard.
―And yet?
The mechanical voice waited for him to finish, as if asking.
The Thousand-Mile Eye spoke.
“They’re coming out. In identical clothing……. One by one.”
Not a deduction he’d reasoned through.
Only the bare fact unfolding before him: people emerging from the conference room one at a time.
―Hmm, so the Five-Ring Eye managed to counter it.
“I cannot say for certain.”
―I see. Those bastards……. Fine. Order an increase in trackers at once. But it will take some time inevitably……. Make absolutely certain how many comrades there are, what their external characteristics are, and what their movements are like.
The total number of targets to track: thirty.
The trackers sent by the Party will pursue them tenaciously and work to uncover what their Awakening Ability is.
“……Understood.”
The Thousand-Mile Eye responded.
What would the Brain do, then?
How would he handle the Party’s contact and proposal?
A subtle tension and anticipation bloomed quietly within him.
* * *
Kim Moo-saeng slipped out of the Office Building where the Association was located for the twenty-second time.
‘According to Geum Soo-ah, around seven or eight people suspected of being affiliated with the Central Party have entered the country…….’
Leaving neither dead last nor right in the middle—somewhere just after the midpoint—would be safest.
[Kreeheehee! Always scheming, aren’t you…… The left eye’s still on you, but it looks like the other tail isn’t picking you up, Kim Moo-saeng.]
Wash confirmed that no surveillance had attached itself to them.
Moo-saeng exhaled a long, weary sigh.
“I’ve taken some weight off my shoulders, but I’m far from safe. Thank goodness they can’t pick up sound unless they concentrate fully.”
If the Thousand-Mile Eye had focused on exactly three people as originally intended—
they might have been able to hear as well. In that case, conversations with Wash would be forbidden too.
But once it climbed past ten, twenty, that level of concentration became impossible—a consensus between the Five-Ring Eye and Wash.
Simultaneous observation was possible, but eavesdropping was not.
And yet there was a clear reason he couldn’t relax.
“But over ten days? That doesn’t make sense……. Then the Thousand-Mile Eye would need at least fifteen days. Unless—do they never sleep?”
The Five-Ring Eye had described their ability maintenance period as “over ten days.”
They hadn’t given an exact number of days, but they wouldn’t have called twenty or thirty days “over ten days.” So somewhere between ten and fifteen days.
If the Thousand-Mile Eye was similar, especially with a conservative stance on vigilance, fifteen days was the appropriate baseline.
For a full fifteen days, the Thousand-Mile Eye would not fall away.
At Moo-saeng’s complaints and grumbling, Wash laughed heartily.
[Kreeheehee! Have you ever seen me sleep, Kim Moo-saeng?]
“Ah.”
Wash doesn’t sleep.
Which meant the Thousand-Mile Eye and Five-Ring Eye had similar functions?
‘Freedom from sleep—immunity to fatigue, or limited in some way? Or else—.’
Perhaps there existed Awakeners with an Awakening Ability that allowed sleep-like recovery even without sleep.
Much like the Possession that had been nothing but rumor until he’d seen it with his own eyes.
“……The world really is vast. I thought I knew quite a bit, but……”
Moo-saeng chuckled to himself.
He had a track record of scraping together all manner of information during his work as a Sherpa in Dungeons—enough that Robert Kay had been surprised at what Moo-saeng knew about Possession.
Yet the world of Awakening Abilities, the world of Awakeners, remained so impossibly wide.
Hollowness?
It wasn’t an emotion Moo-saeng would have felt.
Rather, excitement and anticipation were rousing his senses for the first time in ages.
‘All right, then—.’
Moo-saeng picked up his smartphone right there.
―Kim Moo-saeng! When are you coming? Oh, did I send you the address? Not there—the Underground Space somewhere else—.
“I don’t think I can make it today. Something’s come up.”
The afternoon meeting with Hildegard Schmidt.
As long as the Thousand-Mile Eye was watching, he couldn’t keep that appointment.
Hildegard reacted with a startled voice.
―What? Something? More serious than Wash’s……physical descent? I understand. I’ll compile the details and send them to you.
Then, as if she’d realized something mid-sentence, her voice shifted to a serious tone in an instant.
Today’s appointment had been planning and strategizing Wash’s download operation.
It was overwhelmingly more important than any ordinary “circumstance.”
That he would still say “something’s come up,” unable to explain further, meant Moo-saeng was caught in a situation closer to a threat.
“Well, anyway, that’s convincing enough. Oh, and there’s something I wanted to ask you about.”
Marveling at the flow of her reasoning, Moo-saeng posed his question.
Or rather, he hadn’t asked a question at all.
―What is it?
“That workspace exploded, so things got a bit messy…… but it’s been three days now, hasn’t it?”
A fact stated with quiet, understated simplicity.
Yet Hildegard was not one to miss the intention woven through such words.
―…Surely. You’re not asking me to hand over finished work if I have it, are you?
Beyond Wash’s download, there was another reason Kim Moo-saeng had sought out Hildegard.
Precisely: to press her for that result.
“Say the word and it’s done—that’s what I’m telling you.”
The moment Kim Moo-saeng smiled and answered, Hildegard’s voice shot out like a bullet.
―That’s too much! Because of what you did last time, you destroyed everything! And now with this new space I’m creating, how much time do you think—
“Come on, that was beyond my control! It couldn’t be helped. What else could I do about Lee Jeong-gi? You didn’t help me either. Strictly speaking, wasn’t it all part of the effort to conceal your identity? That’s the situation, so…… you understand, right?”
But it was futile resistance.
Hildegard had no rebuttal to Kim Moo-saeng’s flawless logic.
―Anyway…… fine. So I just need to prepare and bring it by tomorrow?
“Yes. Tomorrow. Though, maybe things worked out well after all?”
―Hmm? What do you mean?
“Oh, never mind. Never mind. Anyway, tomorrow. We’ll meet there.”
As Kim Moo-saeng ended the call with Hildegard, he grinned.
Wash, who had been floating lazily around Kim Moo-saeng’s shoulders, tilted his head.
[So you’ve taken a liking to the slightly less barbaric female, have you, Kim Moo-saeng?]
“Huh? What nonsense are you spouting?”
[Then why are you smiling?]
“Well, living in this world, I’ve come to realize anew…… that fortune favors the lucky, that disaster can turn to blessing, that the lucky man stumbles into fortune itself.”
Kim Moo-saeng spoke.
And that very thing was something Kim Moo-saeng himself still did not understand, even after his battle with Lee Jeong-gi.
[Kekekeke, you fool. Think about your ‘luck,’ Kim Moo-saeng!]
“……Ah, my Stat?”
Ability points.
The Stat called “luck”—one most people never even touch.
Kim Moo-saeng, who had continuously received all-stat increases through additional conditions and hidden condition clears, had raised his luck to a level comparable to the specialized stats of typical Awakeners, hadn’t he?
And all while under the influence of Strong Bone, no less!
“I’m… speechless. I was worried just about how I’d manage to enter alongside Hildegard, and yet…… I solve it with luck. Haha.”
The call was to Geum Soo-ah.
* * *
Geum Soo-ah asked back with a troubled expression.
“What? Separately?”
―Because of you selling me out to the Five-Ring Eye people—
“Se, selling out? When did I ever? Besides, I didn’t even know the reason myself! And since it’s good to have connections with Association people, it shouldn’t be bad for you either—”
―Ah, ah, sorry. That was a slip of the tongue just now. Anyway, I had a meeting with the Five-Ring Eye people and then got spotted by the Thousand-Mile Eye faction…… you know what I mean? So if I show up tomorrow meeting with you, all armed to the teeth? That wouldn’t look good, would it?
Yet there was no ready rebuttal in Kim Moo-saeng’s voice.
In fact, it was Geum Soo-ah herself who had thought the Association was looking for Kim Moo-saeng.
How could she say anything more to Kim Moo-saeng, now being tracked even by the Thousand-Mile Eye?
“I see…… fine. Then we’ll enter at exactly 11:10, so you absolutely must be inside Dungeon 67 by 11:30. Absolutely!”
Geum Soo-ah could only quietly reaffirm the changed appointment for tomorrow.
All entry procedures for the estimated Dungeon 67 were already complete.
If Kim Moo-saeng entered within twenty minutes, they would still be classified under the same dungeon and able to proceed together.
―Okay, okay. See you tomorrow! I’ll take care of the preparations myself!
“Huh? What kind of prep—”
The phone line went dead, and Geum Soo-ah frowned at the darkened screen.
Preparations? What kind of preparations for going to Dungeon 67?
There was something subtly different about Kim Moo-saeng’s tone—not merely the nuance of gathering old Sherpa equipment.
“As if he already knew something about Dungeon 67……”
Geum Soo-ah was not one to forget events from just two days ago.
She remembered not only the main conversations, but also the very rhythm and breathing of every person in the Underground Space, including Kim Moo-saeng.
“Emma, was it? That woman.”
After Lee Jeong-gi died.
After the police arrived.
In the chaos that followed…… that woman had pulled something out.
An Artifact containing her own Awakening Ability, which she had drawn and detonated.
“A duck.”
A word she had heard clearly, even through Lee Jeong-gi’s irregular breathing as he fought Kim Moo-saeng.
A Yellow Rubber Duck.
A duck.
‘Why would Emma take out a duck-shaped explosive Artifact and deliberately detonate it right in front of me…?’
Geum Soo-ah bit her lower lip for a moment.
Then she began to move.
Her destination was the director’s office of the Strategy Headquarters.
Tap, tap, tap—. Her quick footsteps carried her forward as her mind raced.
‘But what exactly is that woman? What dungeon did she go to with Kim Moo-saeng, anyway?’
It bothered her far more than any unusual occurrence she’d have to report to Yoon Pyo.

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