Climbing the Tower with Multidimensional Avatars - Chapter 69

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Chapter 69. The Tower – 20th Floor District (2)

While consulting the guidebook to find an inn, I noticed a section about pricing that caught my eye.
The city located in the 20th Floor District was slightly more expensive than the 10th Floor District.
Prices were roughly ten percent higher.
Whether this was due to the larger city scale or the increased number and earnings of climbers, I couldn’t say for certain, but since The Tower controlled pricing, it was likely the former reason.
From what I saw in the Community, it appeared that nine out of every ten climbers who entered The Tower reached the 20th Floor.
While I hadn’t conducted any formal statistics, the lower-level Community categories were divided into 10th Floor, 20th Floor, and 30th Floor sections, and the number of posts in the 20th Floor category was nearly six times greater than those in the 10th Floor category among the three divisions.
The number of posts in the 30th Floor category was roughly half that of the 20th Floor.
Based on post counts, I could estimate that among one hundred climbers in the lower levels, approximately ten were in the 10th Floor range, sixty in the 20th Floor range, and thirty in the 30th Floor range.
While browsing the Community, I sometimes encountered information of questionable reliability, yet occasionally found quite meaningful insights.
Generally, in the 10th Floor range, whether one succeeds in ascending a floor is determined within a day at most, but from the 20th Floor range onward, success or failure is determined at the earliest within a day, and in some cases, it can take several days.
Therefore, thorough preparation of food and water was the consensus opinion.
“I definitely need to expand my inventory.”
I secured lodging at an inn near the Climbers’ Association.
In the 10th Floor District, I had rented an inexpensive small room, but this time I chose something slightly better.
Increasing my spending wouldn’t be ideal when considering life after leaving The Tower, but still—having earned income, renting a small room seemed a bit too stingy, didn’t it?
In truth, even a “better” room only cost around 1,000 Credits per night, roughly equivalent to 100,000 won.
Still, as the room rate increased, the space nearly doubled in size.
Even if it’s double three pyeong, that’s only six pyeong.
Once I settled into the safe room, I lay on the bed and returned to my original body.

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“Ta-da~! Ta-da~! Ding ding ding! Ding ding ding! Avatar customization unlocked!”
I clapped for myself as I activated the ‘Avatar Customization’ feature.
Looking at the customization options, I could see my original appearance as first saved in my abilities, along with my appearance in Slot 1 and Slot 2.
“So I can change the saved appearance. Slot 1 and Slot 2 represent my current state—the before version—and I can modify them by comparing with the saved appearance.”
Since this was ‘Avatar’ customization, no matter how much I customized it, my original body remained untouched.
“Tsk, so free cosmetic surgery is impossible.”
Of course, I had no particular complaints about my appearance, so it didn’t really matter, though being unable to get a convenient haircut was slightly disappointing.
When I customized the saved avatar, a clone would be created in that appearance.
I sharpened the eyes of my saved avatar.

[Avatar Points Used: 5]

“Ah, so Avatar Points are used for avatar customization.”
I tinkered with my avatar, adjusting it this way and that.
Customization was surprisingly enjoyable.
It felt like character customization in a video game, and before I knew it, I’d created an absurdly elaborate build, only to reset it moments later.
“Whoa! I can even change my gender?”
When I changed my gender, the required Avatar Points skyrocketed exponentially compared to simply changing skin tone.
After experimenting, it became clear that the greater the deviation from my original appearance and the greater the difference from the avatar stored in each slot, the more Avatar Points were needed.
It seemed that Avatar Points were consumed once when I customized and regenerated the avatar, but afterward, no additional points were spent unless I made further modifications.
I reset the modified avatar and finally rid myself of that tiresome digital combat suit.
Creating clothes that didn’t exist required Avatar Points, but removing existing ones cost nothing.
After customizing the avatar, I could configure settings for each slot, and once I saved the configuration, the customization would reset.
I set Slot 1—the Tower Clone’s default regeneration—to appear in nothing but undergarments.
At last, I’d never again create a clone wearing clothes over clothes.
The summer combat suit I’d been wearing was thin, but it was still uncomfortable.
For Slot 2, the Reincarnation Clone, I simply copied and pasted its appearance.
I also configured it to update as I aged.
Though the appearance was much younger than my main body, since it matched Slot 2 perfectly with no changes, no Avatar Points were consumed.
With a racing heart, I attempted to ‘absorb’ the Reincarnation Clone.
This time, the warning message that previously appeared—stating that the clone couldn’t be regenerated in its previous form—didn’t show up, and the clone was absorbed normally.
Having always absorbed while in a clone’s body, absorbing into my main body made the process vividly tangible.
Closing my eyes and observing my body, I felt the accumulated impurities vanish, leaving behind only a pure, childlike physique.
And as the Reincarnation Clone had grown, the Multidimensional Avatar leveled up as well.

[Obtained 254,400 Avatar Points from avatar absorption.]

[Multidimensional Avatar level increased. You are now level 24.]

[Obtained 101,900 Avatar Points from Multidimensional Avatar level up.]

All the accumulated growth from not absorbing the Reincarnation Clone for so long came flooding in at once.
With this much, I could even change my gender if I wanted.
Though I’d absolutely never do such a thing.

[Multidimensional Avatar has reached level 20. Multidimensional Avatar ‘Slot 3′ is now activated.]

With my level surpassing 20, a new avatar slot appeared.
I decided to think about which world to assign to this slot later and checked my status window instead.

[Name: Han Ji-woo / Age: 21]
[Strength: 14 / Agility: 19 / Endurance: 15 / Intelligence: 23 / Mana: 39]
[Status: Normal]
[Abilities: Multidimensional Avatar Lv 24, Martial Arts Lv 29, Magic Lv 9, Spirit Arts Lv 1, Regeneration Lv 12]
[-Martial Arts: Azure Wood Sword Lv 29, Azure Wood Shield Lv 28, Azure Wood Throwing Lv 27, Wind Flame Technique Lv 39(+Azure Wood Technique Lv 30), Wind Flame Lightness Lv 23, Bone Strengthening Lv 21, Yoga Internal Energy Lv 30]

These were the stats of my Tower avatar in the first slot.

[Strength: 10 / Agility: 11 / Endurance: 10 / Intelligence: 23 / Mana: 29]

The Tower avatar’s physical abilities were essentially equivalent to my original body’s stats before absorbing the Reincarnation avatar.
“Wow, my physical abilities when I first entered Elementary School were far superior to my main body’s current stats.”
Based on the information I’d gathered before entering The Tower and what I’d seen in The Tower’s Community, the average stat for an adult male hovered around 10.
Professional athletes who trained rigorously achieved around 13 to 15, which was considered remarkable cultivation.
When I was the Reincarnation avatar, I deliberately ignored the status window’s existence, so I never realized this—it was shocking.
The status window only looked good when I could see it growing; otherwise, I hated looking at it.
I switched into the Reincarnation avatar’s body and checked its condition once more.
It was confirmed that the Reincarnation avatar’s body hadn’t changed at all from before the absorption.
“Then it’s time to verify what I’ve been suspecting all along.”
I adjusted the Tower avatar’s stats.
I could only adjust them up to my main body’s current state. I couldn’t raise the stats any higher than that.

[Strength: 14 / Agility: 19 / Endurance: 15 / Intelligence: 23 / Mana: 39]
[Avatar Points Used: 92,700]

Equalizing the Tower avatar’s stats with the Reincarnation avatar consumed an insane amount of points.
When stats were 20 or below, it cost 100 points per stat; when 30 or below, 1,000 points per stat; when 40 or below, 10,000 points per stat.
Strength 4×100, Agility 8×100, Endurance 5×100, Mana 1×1,000+9×10,000. Total: 92,700.
“I’ll raise mana through elixirs.”
Since my body couldn’t grow significantly in a short time through my talents alone, I kept the physical stats as they were.
At lower realms, physical body was far more important than internal energy.
Switching between the Reincarnation and Tower avatars to practice martial arts made me feel this painfully clear.

[Strength: 14 / Agility: 19 / Endurance: 15 / Intelligence: 23 / Mana: 29]
[Avatar Points Used: 1,700]

The required points had drastically diminished.
I had considered raising my martial arts, but honestly, if my body could support it, recreating martial techniques with my Tower avatar wasn’t particularly difficult.
After all, merely changing bodies didn’t mean my accumulated experience would change as well.
To properly test abilities, I should focus on something like supernatural powers—abilities that couldn’t be attempted without them, rather than martial arts or magic that could be learned and eventually mastered through practice.
I assigned Regeneration and Spirit Magic to my reincarnation avatar’s body.

[Regeneration Lv1, Spirit Magic Lv1]
[Avatar Points Used: 1,001,000]

“What?!”
One million points? Why?
Even if I poured all my points into it, I couldn’t grant the abilities to my avatar’s body.
I removed Regeneration first.

[Avatar Points Used: 1,000,000]

This time I removed Spirit Magic.

[Avatar Points Used: 1,000]

So Spirit Magic costs one million and Regeneration costs one thousand.
What’s the difference?
Is it a rarity difference between abilities? Or is it because the worlds are different?
For some reason, Regeneration was far more valuable to me than Spirit Magic.
Spirits are cute, but honestly, beyond being a living lighter, I couldn’t see their use.
Would it be different once I leveled the ability later?
Since it has high rarity, it should become stronger eventually.
“Well, I’ll think about it later.”
High-rarity abilities take a long time to develop early on.
I had planned to develop them using my reincarnation avatar’s body, which exists in isolated time from Earth and has spare time, but if it requires one million points, I need to change my plan.
I’ll properly work on Spirit Magic once I reach the middle floors.
Or I could practice on Tower Floor 1.
Tower Floor 1 was a special environment with isolated spacetime, perfect for practicing abilities freely.
However, spending too long in my original body in the barren, empty Tower Floor 1 felt like it would drive me insane.
Because of that, I didn’t want to stay in my original body for long except when necessary.
Still, pitching a large tent I’d procured through my reincarnation avatar and imagining the outside as a grassland or campground made it considerably better.
But rather than struggling like that, climbing The Tower with my Tower avatar or training martial arts with my reincarnation avatar was far superior.
If I just thought of Tower Floor 1 as a warehouse I visited occasionally when needed, it wasn’t bothersome at all.
Though the Climbers’ Bank on the 20th Floor had reduced Tower Floor 1’s utility, its importance as a place I could access anytime hadn’t disappeared.
“Well, I’ve confirmed the abilities, so now let me finish what I need to do on the 20th Floor.”
Upon arriving at the 20th Floor, there were several tasks I needed to complete, and I decided to finish them while exploring the City.
First, I needed to expand my inventory capacity.

(To be continued in the next chapter)

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