I Conquered the Tower with the EX-Class Character That I Raised - Chapter 45

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Chapter 45
Most people would have cheered and clicked [1. Yes] to save six months of grinding. But my choice was different.
“My answer is obviously, ‘No.'”
[Job Change has been cancelled]
“You’re not ready yet.”
I dragged Lee Ah-woon out of the Job Change Hall.
[Fairy… Fairy? Where did you go?]
“Are you dreaming?”
I was in a good mood.
My meticulously laid plan was unfolding without a single deviation.
Emperor Cultivation Phase 1.
Using the loophole of a ‘curse,’ I was preparing to transition Lee Ah-woon to the apex of dark magic.
So far, everything had progressed without issue.
Now came Phase 2.
“This is where things get intense…”
In Lost Honor, there exists a realm granted only to an extremely select few NPCs.
A supreme realm that only NPCs bearing the evaluation of ‘genius’ could ever step foot in.
The ability to simultaneously possess two classes!
Dual Class.
I wanted to explain just how shocking this was, but…
Let me compress it into exactly two points.
1. There are only two Dual Class NPCs in my world
2. Dual Class has never been granted to players.
That’s about the extent of it.
Only two beings possessed Dual Class.
One was Artier, the manager NPC of my Safe House.
The other was the Hero, set as the strongest being in my world.
Of these two, only the Hero had legitimately achieved Dual Class.
‘I forcibly granted Artier her Dual Class.’
In other words, within this vast world and its countless NPCs…
Only a select few with the right ‘aptitude’ could undergo a class change.
And among that select few, only a handful could reach the ‘apex.’
And from that handful who reached the apex, only a single individual could possess Dual Class.
It was absolutely insane difficulty.
“Hmm.”
I pondered while surveying the Warehouse.
In this world, one could only change classes in fields where they possessed aptitude.
But this aptitude had an extraordinarily high threshold.
Considering Lee Ah-woon’s case.
He was a man marked as a sacrifice by an Outer God, and a prime specimen with a ‘pure soul’ recognized by the system of reality itself.
In Lost Honor, I was merely a mediocre talent with three aptitudes.
I managed to forcibly create the remaining three aptitudes and reach the ‘pinnacle,’ but…
This was only possible because Lee Ah-woon possessed an aptitude for dark magic.
Creating an aptitude that doesn’t exist at all is, frankly speaking, impossible.
But!
In this world, there exists a method that transforms even the impossible into the possible.
Just one.
A Genesis-tier item.
In other words, if I equip Lee Ah-woon with a Genesis-tier item possessing a ‘Genesis Trait’ that creates aptitudes, the problem is solved.
The only issue was that I lacked the materials right now.
But there is a solution.
* * *
Lee Ah-woon felt as though his mind was slipping away.
—■■■
Uuuuuu—
‘Please, just shut up!’
A droning voice reverberated inside his skull, subjecting him to the horrifying sensation of something kneading his brain.
It was a voice, yet he couldn’t comprehend the words.
It felt as though an enormously massive whale was blasting ultrasonic frequencies directly into his ears.
The strange part was that he could understand the meaning behind it.
The intent conveyed by that colossal voice consisted of two primary elements.
An overwhelming hunger. And the sound of ‘licking its lips.’
‘Hrrgh…’
The moment he was cast out from the space where that fairy—who called itself a god—resided, something immense and malevolent fixed its gaze upon him and licked its lips.
He felt like meat laid out on a table.
Amid that terror and revulsion, Lee Ah-woon’s consciousness teetered precariously.
—■■■
Uuuuuu—
Lee Ah-woon was being hauled along like cargo by his brother’s character.
The black man leaped through empty space repeatedly, traversing dimensions and covering what seemed like an astronomical distance.
Exhausted, Lee Ah-woon desperately prayed for this agony to end quickly.
The reason Lee Ah-woon’s mind hadn’t completely shattered was that golden energy surged forth from the depths of his soul each time the voice opened its maw with a ‘crunch,’ protecting him.
Each time, the voice would lick its lips and retreat, but the problem was that the golden energy’s momentum was steadily weakening.
‘This is… the power from that elixir my brother first gave me to drink.’
Now, gradually… it’s becoming dangerous.
The moment Lee Ah-woon broke into a cold sweat.
Whoosh.
“Ugh!”
Lee Ah-woon was hurled away from the black man.
Rolling across the ground, Lee Ah-woon hastily surveyed his surroundings.
It was a dark and ominous space.
And an extraordinarily vast open field.
Thud. Thud.
Two golden spirit elixirs fell before Lee Ah-woon.
‘That’s it!’
Those elixirs!
‘If I’m late, I’ll be consumed!’
Desperate as a hunted beast, Lee Ah-woon frantically shoved the two elixirs that had fallen to the ground into his mouth.
Immediately after swallowing them all, Lee Ah-woon felt a wave of nausea.
‘Ugh.’
My stomach churned with discomfort.
My head spun dizzily.
‘All of a sudden?’
My body swayed side to side while my soul seemed to lurch up and down.
A sickening sensation of my body and soul separating washed over me abruptly.
A feeling as though my body no longer belonged to me.
A sense of ‘wrongness’ on an entirely different level than a mana backflow seizure.
“Ack…!”
With a single anguished cry, the moment Lee Ah-woon collapsed to the ground.
Uuuuuung-!
A violent tremor erupted, and pitch-black energy surged forth from every inch of Lee Ah-woon’s body.
Whoosh!
The black energy stretched skyward like a tree growing from Lee Ah-woon as its root, spreading rapidly upward.
And as the endlessly lengthening energy unfurled like an umbrella, it blanketed the entire open field.
Screeeech-!
With a bone-chilling sound as though space itself were being torn, black cracks materialized in the void.
Screeeee!
The fissures twisted into grotesque, incomprehensible shapes as they wrenched open a dimensional gateway.
From beyond, something utterly indescribable and malevolent began to crawl through.
‘Gasp…!’
Its form could not be determined.
It resembled a mass of shadows that shifted moment by moment.
At times it appeared as twisted flesh studded with countless eyeballs.
Other times it seemed like pure, empty void itself.
As though existence itself were an error and revulsion incarnate, witnessing it unleashed an indescribable abhorrence that surged within me.
“Ahhh… Ack!”
Searing agony welled up from the depths of my soul.
Thump- Thump-!
The pain pulsed with a rhythmic, measured cadence like a beating heart.
Lee Ah-woon instinctively understood.
When I first possessed this world, at the boundary between dream and reality, the source of that sticky, ominous whisper that had been consuming me was none other than ‘that thing’.
“Aaaahhh···!”
The ‘curse’ embedded deep within my soul seemed to wail.
—My seed… how dare you…
What reached me was an incomprehensible language.
But its meaning burrowed directly into Lee Ah-woon’s soul.
That was why I could understand what it meant.
Relief. Joy. Indignation. Rage.
Countless emotions that defied words came flooding in.
“Gaaahhh!”
Lee Ah-woon collapsed, vomiting blood.
My entire body convulsed as if my soul were being torn to shreds, the agony unbearable.
‘It’s… it’s over… everything’s finished.’
What flooded in was not merely emotion.
I felt the screams of everything that creature had consumed until now.
So I understood what that ‘Outer God’ had been feeding on.
The death cries of stars.
Predators that drifted through the Cosmic Space, devouring planets.
If strength had ranks, they were absolute beings corresponding to the highest ‘divine’ tier.
Amid the flooding emotions and information, I experienced their strength indirectly.
The rift closed.
The god from beyond the Cosmic Space stretched like awakening from sleep, its undulating form swelling massively.
—This star is… where am I… how very… interesting…
In that moment.
The black man stepped forward.
—Uh…um?
Kiiiiing—!
Tremendous mana began to surge violently.
And without warning, a pitch-black sphere suddenly materialized before the black man.
‘What… is that?’
The moment I saw that sphere, I felt as though time had stopped.
The black man pushed it gently.
The sphere glided forth smoothly.
—Fascinating…
The instant it touched the god from beyond the Cosmic Space.
—Eeeeeek!!! Gyaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
The god from beyond the Cosmic Space shrieked in desperation.
Kuwaaaaaa!!!
The god from beyond the Cosmic Space screamed in horror, unleashing thousands upon thousands of colossal tentacles as if to devour the world itself.
Space shattered, and the onslaught descended like the end of all creation.
Yet those tentacles shattered the moment they touched the sphere.
The divine flesh that made contact with the sphere met the same fate.
Or rather, it wasn’t shattering—it was being erased.
Without the slightest sound.
As if it had never existed from the beginning.
Like black ink dissolving into water…
—Guhhh…
At last.
The Outer God melted away into the void.
—Ahhh… this is… O great one…
And that was the end.
“….”
Lee Ah-woon stared blankly at the sight before me.
The entity that had been radiating terror capable of annihilating the world mere moments ago—like dust, like a mirage—
vanished without even putting up a semblance of resistance.
And as if it were a lie, the curse’s aura and the repugnant sensation that had been suffocating me disappeared in an instant.
“…Ah.”
And like a viewer of a gore film regaining consciousness,
the moment I suddenly became aware of reality again.
“Huh.”
[You have overcome the Curse: Outer God’s Mark]
[You have overcome the Curse: Outer God’s Sacrifice]
[You have overcome the Curse: Outer God’s Vessel]
[You have overcome the Curse: Twisted Fate]
[You have overcome the Curse: Misfortune]
[You have overcome the Curse: Corruption]
[You have overcome the Curse: Ill-fated Destiny]
Countless message windows flooded my vision.
And I felt what the protagonists in manga feel when they remove their weighted training gear—
a brilliant flash!
[You have been ‘completely’ restored]
An overwhelming sense of liberation washed over me.
* * *
Thud.
The raid ended as Lee Ah-woon, glowing brilliantly with golden light, collapsed.
“…One is all it takes?”
How disappointing.
“Why so anticlimactic? Back then, I’d send out ten, twenty of those things at a time.”
Sigh. Tsk tsk.
Let me check the quest rewards.
[Emergency Quest – Invasion of the Outer Cosmic Space]
[Eliminate all enemies threatening the world!]
[Quest Reward: Differential payment based on performance]
Gods of the outer cosmic space. Outer Gods.
These creatures exist as a concept in Lost Honor as well.
Considering the similarities between reality and Lost Honor.
There’s a high probability these Outer Gods exist in reality too.
So, I had planned to perform an Outer God summoning ritual using Lee Ah-woon as a sacrifice.
And it worked perfectly.
An emergency Quest that only activates when Outer Gods appear—’Invasion of the Outer Cosmic Space’.
This was exactly what I needed.
This is an incredibly sweet Quest.
Outer God materials are extremely difficult to obtain.
Outer Gods are too strong to catch? That’s not it.
Just like I took one down with a single ultimate ability from the Hollow Knight, catching them isn’t difficult for me.
The real difficulty is that the spawn rate of Outer Gods is abysmal.
They appear only very, very rarely—with an astronomically low probability.
The silver lining is that they always drop Outer God materials when defeated.
‘Let’s see what we’ve got.’
The moment I tried to check the Quest reward.
[Emergency Epic Quest: ‘Save South Korea from the Brink of Destruction 3’ Complete!]
“?”
What does this mean?
I immediately opened the Quest window.
[Emergency Epic Quest]
[Save South Korea from the Brink of Destruction 3]
[Quest Objective]
[Awaken ‘Lee Ah-woon’ to EX-grade]
“… Awaken Lee Ah-woon to EX-grade, is it?”
Just by defeating one Outer God, he became EX-grade?
“Huh? Why is he acting like that?”
Lee Ah-woon, enveloped in light, began to levitate into the air.
[Complete the Quest and receive your reward?]
[Quest Reward]
[Constellation Corridor – ‘Possession’ Enhancement]
[Possession Ticket]
[1. Yes] [2. No]
“Hey, I haven’t even started raising the Emperor yet!”

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