Climbing the Tower with Multidimensional Avatars - Chapter 21

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Chapter 21. The Galaxy Divine Temple – Amusement Park Abduction Incident (4)

Siu purchased an ion drink and headed toward the bench where Cheon Ji-woo was resting.
It had taken quite a while just to buy a beverage.
The distance between Cheon Ji-woo’s resting spot and the concession stand was considerable, but along the way, she encountered various obstacles—repair signs blocking certain pathways, a fire hydrant malfunctioning—forcing her to take detours.
Upon returning with the drink, Siu noticed a couple who appeared to be husband and wife examining the area near the bench where Cheon Ji-woo had been resting, their expressions grave.
The couple’s anxious movements around the bench vicinity troubled her.
The real problem was that Cheon Ji-woo, who should have been quietly resting on the bench, was nowhere to be seen.
“This is strange. Young Master wouldn’t leave without a word.”
Cheon Ji-woo was not the type to wander off alone.
Rather, he found movement tedious and preferred reading or studying something, managing to keep up with training only with reluctance.
Though merely three years old, his intellectual capacity was already at an adult level, so if he had gone somewhere, he would have at least called first.
Sensing something amiss, Siu immediately called Cheon Ji-woo.
But she heard only a ringing tone—no answer.
Realizing the situation was wrong, Siu tracked the location of Cheon Ji-woo’s phone.
“System error?”
The GPS signal was detected, but the map application wouldn’t zoom in, preventing her from pinpointing the exact location.
While the precise GPS coordinates remained unclear, it was certain the signal was still within the amusement park.
Siu furrowed her brow and called Cheon Ji-woo’s phone again, tracking the call signal.
As an android, she possessed the ability to detect nearby electronic devices; if they weren’t too far away, she could sense the unique signals of registered electronics.
Following that signal, she detected an incoming transmission from the bushes beneath a statue behind the bench.
Siu hurried past the anxious couple and searched through the vegetation, discovering a broken brooch and two band-shaped phones.
One belonged to someone unknown, but the other was Cheon Ji-woo’s.
“That—that’s our daughter’s phone!”
The anxious couple cried out upon seeing the phone in Siu’s hands.
Looking closely, the name “Cheon So-yeon” was written on the corner of the device.
“Our young master’s phone has been found destroyed alongside your daughter’s. Do you have any idea what might have happened?”
At Siu’s question, the husband of the couple searching for their daughter regarded her warily.
“You….”
“Oh! There was a young child who taught our daughter how to use a phone! We hadn’t fully taught her yet, and worried she might get lost, so we were only using it as a GPS tracker… but….”
Siu spoke coldly to the rambling wife.
“Calm yourself and speak slowly.”
“We came to the amusement park for our daughter, but she suddenly disappeared.”
Her hands trembled, but she struggled to maintain her composure.
“We were searching for her, worried she might have been kidnapped, when she suddenly received a call. A child’s voice on the other end told her the location and asked her to come. Our daughter, not knowing how to end the call, kept talking to that child. As we listened, we came here, but then we suddenly heard something break….”
The couple’s gaze turned toward the broken phones.
The phones were sturdy enough not to be completely destroyed, but their calling functions appeared to be lost.
Siu sensed something odd in the wife’s account and asked a question.
“Why were you worried about your daughter being abducted rather than simply going missing?”
At those words, the couple fell silent and exchanged glances with each other.
Watching the couple’s hesitation, Siu narrowed her brows.
“There’s a high possibility that our young master has become entangled in your daughter’s abduction case. If she was truly kidnapped, wasting time will cost us the golden window of opportunity. We must seal off the Amusement Park before the perpetrators can escape. So I need at least some reason to justify a forced lockdown.”
It was an overreach of authority, but Siu intended to borrow Cheon Gyeong-ho’s power—Cheon Ji-woo’s grandfather—to execute it.
Facing consequences afterward wouldn’t be easy, but it was infinitely lighter compared to losing my precious young master.
At the mention of sealing off the amusement park, the wife spoke up.
“Our… our daughter is a Celestial Martial Body!”
“You!”
The husband called out to his wife in shock.
A Celestial Martial Body was a precious constitution that carried enormous risk of abduction if word ever leaked out.
“Sealing off the amusement park is more urgent than keeping So-yeon’s constitution secret! You can do it, right?”
At the desperate plea, Siu nodded.
“Emergency Protocol Activation! Protocol Code Blue! Issuing Organization: Martial God Cheon Family! Mali World Amusement Park system, respond!”
At Siu’s command, the amusement park’s lights shifted uniformly to a crimson hue, and a hologram materialized before her.
-Mali Cap, the system administrator AI of Mali World, responding. I acknowledge the emergency protocol from the Martial God Cheon Family. What is the situation?
“By the authority of Cheon Gyeong-ho, Outer Patriarch of the Martial God Cheon Family, I command the immediate lockdown of all entrances to the amusement park. Command Code ‘Car Parade 001’.”
-Command code verified. Authority confirmed: Cheon Gyeong-ho, Outer Patriarch of the Martial God Cheon Family. Pursuant to emergency protocol, all entrances to Mali World are now sealed.
“Additionally, transmit all surveillance system data, including CCTV footage from this vicinity, directly to me.”
-Pursuant to emergency protocol, all surveillance system data from Mali World is now being transmitted to the authorized recipient.
Upon obtaining the CCTV footage, Siu confirmed that approximately five minutes ago, someone had abducted what appeared to be Cheon Ji-woo and Cheon So-yeon—both children.
When Siu showed the footage to Cheon So-yeon’s Parents, they were shocked.
“Oh my So-yeon!”
“I knew something felt off from the moment we entered the park! They were deliberately targeting So-yeon!”
Watching the couple’s reaction, Siu felt inwardly relieved.
If the abduction of a Celestial Martial Body was confirmed, this overreach of authority would likely be quietly overlooked.
In fact, considering the importance of a Celestial Martial Body, this hardly qualified as an overreach at all.
Even if one estimated that only thousands of individuals across the entire universe possessed such a constitution, it remained mere speculation.
Among a population exceeding 320 billion, the odds of such a rare constitution being identified through precise examination immediately after birth were “one in hundreds times the birth probability.”
Even if someone was born with the talent, the probability of it never manifesting due to unfavorable circumstances was far higher.
Since ancient times, wealth disparity had existed, and even within Orthodox Faction territories, there were lawless zones comparable to Heterodox Faction regions.
Above all, the probability of a Celestial Martial Body being born as a direct descendant of the Cheon Family was literally one in 320 billion.
Given the gravity of the situation, any disciplinary action would amount to little more than confiscation of the command code.
In the first place, Cheon Gyeong-ho had granted the command code as a political gesture—”compassion for a grandson raised without parents”—intending it for emergency contact only, not for wielding authority directly like this.
Yet Siu harbored not a shred of regret for this overreach.
Had she contacted Cheon Gyeong-ho first, the odds of missing the golden window of opportunity were overwhelmingly high given the circumstances.
In truth, if not for Cheon So-yeon—the couple’s daughter standing before her—Cheon Ji-woo would never have been abducted in the first place.
She had merely wasted an emergency code.
Now that emergency measures were complete, Siu proceeded to use the code according to its original intended purpose.
“Mali Cap.”
-Yes, you called for me.
“Emergency Protocol, Command Code ‘Car Parade 001’. Sender: Siu, Recipient: Patriarch Cheon Gyeong-ho, Message: ‘Cheon Ji-woo, the grandson of Cheon So-yeon and Patriarch Cheon Gyeong-ho of the direct line of the Martial God Cheon Family, has been abducted by an unknown kidnapper at the Amusement Park Mali World. The amusement park vicinity has been sealed off. This requires urgent attention. Please dispatch support.’ Send the message.”
-Command code confirmed. Message will be transmitted according to Emergency Protocol.
Siu had no system connected to the Cheon Family Clan.
Therefore, the command code existed to use an ultra-massive system connected to the Cheon Family Clan for emergency contact purposes.
I disliked having to treat Cheon So-yeon as more important than Cheon Ji-woo simply because she was a Martial God Body, but since I had already overstepped my authority, I had no choice but to first clarify the reason why that overstepping was permitted.
“I will not forgive the kidnappers.”
Siu’s voice turned cold as she radiated killing intent.
A combat-capable android could harm even humans if it meant protecting a VIP.

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I awoke from unconsciousness, gathered my senses, and opened my ability window to check the time.
I roughly calculated how much time had passed since creating the two-slot clones.
The calculation suggested I’d been unconscious for quite a while, but I’d only slept for about twenty minutes.
Well, if you misuse anesthetics, they can be lethal, so they must have used just enough to knock me out briefly.
“Mmph, mmph, mmph.”
Not only were my limbs bound, but a gag was stuffed in my mouth.
Right in front of me, Cheon So-yeon was bound identically.
Cheon So-yeon noticed I’d awakened and suddenly dislocated her own arm.
Crack!
Then, wincing in pain, she loosened the binding on her now-slack arm and freed herself, before relocating her arm back into place.
…What is this kid? I’m terrified without understanding why.
A three-year-old who casually dislocated her own arm to escape her restraints was far more frightening than the kidnappers.
“Shh. I’m going to remove your gag, so stay quiet.”
At Cheon So-yeon’s whisper, I nodded.
Cheon So-yeon removed the gag and restraints from my mouth.
“I’m sorry.”
“Huh?”
Looking up at Cheon So-yeon, who suddenly apologized, I saw tears glistening at the corners of her eyes.
“You were kidnapped because of me. Because I’m a Martial God Body, you got caught up in this too. I’m really sorry.”
At Cheon So-yeon’s words, I surveyed my surroundings.
“Apologies later. This doesn’t look like a car trunk or anything—have we already left the amusement park and reached the kidnappers’ hideout?”
“Oh, no. We haven’t left the amusement park yet. I woke up about half an hour after being hit with the anesthetic, and the kidnappers were saying that all the exits have been sealed off.”
Sealed off? Ah! Siu must have activated the Emergency Protocol.
But that’s supposed to be just for communication—sealing off the area would be a serious overreach of authority, wouldn’t it?
“Wait, you said you’re a Martial God Body?”
“Huh? Oh, yes.”
A Martial God Body is extremely rare.
Good. In that case, I’ll overlook this as long as the emergency code doesn’t get stolen.
Compared to being kidnapped, overstepping authority was hardly worth calling an overstepping at all.
Recalling the situation before the abduction, Cheon So-yeon’s Parents were on their way to where we were, and judging by my phone disappearing, they must have left it behind to prevent location tracking.
So if Siu, who returned late from the convenience store, discovered my phone and met with Cheon So-yeon’s Parents to assess the situation, she would have activated the emergency protocol without hesitation.
When I laughed, Cheon So-yeon looked flustered.
“You’re laughing right now?”
“Should I cry instead?”
“No, that’s not it either.”
I pulled out my backup phone from my inventory.
“What…! The kidnappers definitely smashed it and left it there?”
I vaguely remembered it too.
Even in my hazy state as I lost consciousness, the sound of my phone being destroyed was unmistakably clear.
“Of course I hid this one so they couldn’t find it.”
Even masters of the Fire Realm couldn’t locate my inventory.
Perhaps even a Martial God couldn’t find it.
This backup phone was one I’d secretly purchased without Siu knowing while my main body trained martial arts, loading it with music, movies, and dramas to send to my original body for entertainment.
Since I had no parents’ vengeance to avenge, I needed music while exercising.
Even music from the 50th century was quite enjoyable.
I’d even duplicated my main phone’s SIM card and inserted it as a backup in case the main phone broke, but I never expected the main phone to be destroyed in this manner.
I called Siu.
-Young Master?
“No, it’s Cheon Gyeong-ho.”

(Continued in the next chapter)

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