I Conquered the Tower with the EX-Class Character That I Raised - Chapter 47

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Chapter 47
‘You are the master of this world.’
In a dream.
Lee Ah-woon heard a distant voice.
‘Such a pure soul. With you, we could entrust our world without worry.’
It was a voice so faint it seemed ready to shatter at any moment.
‘But your potential is still… insufficient.’
Lee Ah-woon strained to hear the voice as it grew fainter.
‘Until we meet again.’
Flash!
My eyes snapped open.
* * *
I equipped the Primordial Essence on the unconscious Lee Ah-woon and shoved him back into the Job Change Hall.
[Available Job Classes: 9 Series—Dark Magic]
[Apex: Necromancer Lord]
[Subordinate Jobs] (Master)
That much was expected.
Now let’s wait a moment…
[Talent Bestowed by the Heavens!]
[New possibilities bloom]
[Dual Class activates]
“Perfect.”
The moment I confirmed the Primordial Essence’s Genesis trait was functioning properly.
[Available Job Classes: 11 Series—Summoning]
The Dual Class had opened.
The 11 Series governed the domain of summoners.
Now I just needed to see which subordinate jobs unlocked…
‘Two would be standard. Three would be jackpot. Four would be a miracle.’
[Spirit Summoner]
A job that summons elementals imbued with primal forces.
That’s why I included World Tree materials the elves cherish so dearly.
Confirmed.
‘And with the World Tree material…’
[Botanist]
‘Exactly as planned.’
I’d calculated this far.
‘Is this all?’
The system was still evaluating whether he had the aptitude for more.
The cursor blinked below, waiting.
‘Three would be jackpot.’
When I previously granted Artier, the NPC manager of my Safe House, a dual class, it barely stopped at two.
Artificially creating aptitudes was this exhausting.
Zing.
[Golem Master]
‘It appeared!’
A job that allows one to craft golems from ore and command them.
The reason I’d hammered in those rare ores I’d obtained by bribing the dwarves with high-proof liquor.
Clear.
‘Phew.’
I felt like collapsing from exhaustion.
I’d invested materials I’d gathered—tears of the goddess and fur from the beastkin—without restraint, so it was disappointing that nothing emerged beyond this.
Having three artificially created aptitudes recognized was an extraordinarily, incredibly, vanishingly rare possibility.
‘And I broke through that.’
At this level, I could claim the qualifications of a true veteran…
“…Huh?”
Something was odd.
Below [Golem Master], the cursor was still blinking.
“No way?”
A fourth aptitude appeared?
Zing.
[Beast Tamer]
“Insane.”
It actually appeared?
[Available Job Change List: 11 Series – Summoning]
[Spirit Sorcerer]
[Plant Sorcerer]
[Golem Master]
[Beast Tamer]
With the fourth, the aptitude evaluation concluded.
“Kya…”
My chest swelled with pride.
I’d already decided which dual class to give Lee Ah-woon.
According to my original calculations, he would have been limited to choosing between spirit and plant.
But breaking through miraculous odds, Lee Ah-woon’s aptitudes had been recognized—all four of them.
‘This will be incredibly useful.’
For my immediate plans, I already had a clear decision on which job to change him into.
But having more options was never a bad thing. No, it was pure advantage.
It meant I could deploy this whenever I needed to unlock the Constellation Corridor.
Hehehehe.
Click. Click.
I briskly manipulated the mouse and changed Lee Ah-woon’s job.
[Apex: Spirit Lord Commander]
[Dual Class: Spirit Mage]
“Perfect.”
[Will you proceed with the job change?]
This time, my answer is YES.
* * *
I’ve now done everything I can for Lee Ah-woon.
Resolved his curse, drove away the stalker—the Outer God.
Changed his job class.
Handed him a Genesis-grade item.
“I’ve done it all.”
If this were a different game, I would’ve compressed the level-grinding grind too.
Unfortunately, in Lost Honor, levels don’t mean much.
‘All that happens is magic unlocks according to level.’
I tried teaching Han Seol-ah magic and learned otherwise.
Hunters can’t use Lost Honor’s magic.
Even Han Seol-ah only managed a pale imitation after I guided her awakening and she received the blessing of Eternal Winter.
So now it’s time to graduate Lee Ah-woon.
I took one final look at Lee Ah-woon’s profile.
[Lee Ah-woon]
[Awakened Ability: Spirit Lord Commander] (EX) (new!)
[Awakened Ability: Spirit Mage] (A) (new!)
“That’s it.”
Exactly as expected.
This is Lee Ah-woon, who once had no awakened ability at all.
After I changed his job using Lost Honor’s system, his job titles appeared in the ‘Awakened Ability’ slot as if he’d naturally awakened.
“You’ve been reborn.”
Lost Honor truly is something else.
A miraculous game that transforms those incapable of awakening into hunters.
It even transforms those who were once hunters but lost their awakened abilities back into hunters.
‘I’ll keep milking this for all it’s worth. Loyalty, loyalty.’
[Current Ability: EX]
[Latent Ability: EX]
“I cleared the Epic Quest long ago.”
Let me check his unique traits.
This is important too.
[Unique Trait: Child of the Outer God] (Removed)
└[Heavenly Curse: Mark of the Outer God] (Overcome)
(…)
└[Heavenly Curse: Doomed Fate] (Overcome)
“Mm.”
A symphony of “Removed” and “Overcome” statuses everywhere.
And it didn’t stop there.
[Unique Trait: Outer God Slayer] (EX) (new!)
└[God Slayer] (?)
└[Genius: Curse Magic] (S)
└[Heavenly Curse: Outer God Abhorrence] (-)
└[Heavenly Curse: Outer God’s Twisted Brand] (-)
“Hmm.”
A new unique trait had manifested—one that looked impressive.
“Why is God Slayer even here.”
I was the one who caught the Outer God using Nebula.
Lee Ah-woon just happened to be unconscious the entire time.
‘Well, good is good.’
Acquiring genius-level talent in curse magic was excellent news.
As for the heavenly curses below it…
‘Ugh. These Outer God bastards are so clingy.’
They’re obsessed, like a bad ex-lover who won’t let go.
‘…Though I suppose we did end badly. I killed them, after all.’
When the opportunity arose, I’d overcome those heavenly curses too.
Beneath Lee Ah-woon’s original unique trait, “Pure Soul (EX)”.
[Unique Trait: Primordial Essence] (EX) (new!)
└[Genius: Spirit Affinity]
└[Genius: Plant Affinity]
└[Genius: Beast Affinity]
└[Genius: Mineral Affinity]
“Excellent.”
The primordial properties of the Genesis-tier item “Primordial Essence” had crystallized into a unique trait.
I closed the status window.
“The setup is complete.”
I pulled up the Epic Quest window that was still glimmering beside me.
[Urgent Epic Quest]
[Saving South Korea from the Brink of Destruction 3]
[Quest Objective]
[Awaken ‘Lee Ah-woon’ to EX-rank]
(Achieved)
The important part was the next line.
[Hidden Quest: Curse Removal Completed]
‘I expected as much.’
Thinking back on why Lee Ah-woon had failed, this Hidden Quest was relatively straightforward to predict.
The Outer God—the source of all corruption.
Remove that rotten root, and it’s over.
“So, what’s the reward?”
Thump-thump-thump.
[Quest Reward]
[Constellation Corridor—’Possession’ Enhancement]
[Possession Ticket]
[Reality: Additional Sub Quest Granted] (new!)
“Huh?”
‘Reality? Additional Sub Quest Granted?’
What is this?
[Will you accept the reward?]
I’d already graduated Lee Ah-woon.
And I was far too curious about the Hidden Quest reward.
I pressed ‘Yes’.
At the same time.
Ding—
A cheerful chime rang in my ears.
A System Message window appeared before my eyes in reality.
[Sub Quest: ‘ ‘]
[Quest Objective: ‘ ‘]
[Quest Reward]
[Party]
“What?”
It was a Quest message window that seemed half-finished, with crucial sections left blank.
“What is this?”
[ ‘ ‘ has been completed!]
[Quest Reward: You have acquired ‘Party’!]
“?”
The Quest cleared itself arbitrarily.
“What in the world is happening?”
This was only the second time I’d received a Sub Quest.
The first was a Sub Quest to become friends with Lee Ah-woon.
When I exceeded the requirements, I obtained Lee Ah-woon’s entry in the Codex along with the basic reward, and unlocked the ‘Whisper’ function.
And now…
‘Party?’
The ‘Party’ function—a standard feature in MMORPGs—had been unlocked.
“This can’t be real!”
Absolute astonishment!
I’ve only ever played solo from my room.
Real ‘party play’—the flower of MMORPGs where people communicate and hunt monsters together—have I ever experienced it?
Absolutely not.
When I possessed Han Seol-ah, a party window did open briefly, but that was just a veteran doing the grunt work for a newbie—’carrying’—not actual party play.
So now, in reality, I’ve gained a ‘party’ function?
Is Lost Honor trying to turn me into a social butterfly?
‘I’m genuinely grateful.’
The courage to enjoy this world like an MMORPG.
I’ve received it loud and clear.
I calmed my emotions and sat back down.
‘Strange.’
Lost Honor seems to be the real me.
It appears to be restraining itself from touching Ha Sung-woon.
Let me think back.
Excluding the case where the first Epic Quest awakened me.
For the second Epic Quest, ‘Scathach Subjugation’, Lost Honor rewarded me with ‘Constellation Corridor-Achievement Enhancement’ and ‘Constellation Corridor-Codex’ unlocked.
Both are in-game functions.
The third Epic Quest was the same.
It strengthened the ‘Constellation Corridor-Possession’ function.
And rather than directly enhancing Ha Sung-woon as a Quest reward, the proposal came first: ‘I’ll give you Sub Quests in reality.’
Moreover, the actual Sub Quest was provided blank—cleared just by breathing.
It’s like watching a gamer trying to exploit a loophole, saying ‘I’ll work around it like this~’
‘So, going forward, strengthening Nebula in-game and strengthening Ha Sung-woon in reality will happen on two separate tracks?’
There aren’t enough cases yet to be certain, but…
I had a strong intuition my prediction was correct.
‘Then what about the initial awakening?’
If I think of it like a game’s rules…
There’s something like ‘interference power’ that can manipulate reality?
It spent that interference power lavishly on awakening me initially, so it had no choice but to resort to these roundabout methods?
‘That makes sense.’
But for now, it’s just a hypothesis due to insufficient information.
Thinking about it further will only give me a headache, so let me forget it for now.
What matters right now is using the ‘party’ function.
‘There’s a reason it gave me this now.’
When it awakened me?
It was the last moment before South Korea truly fell apart—the final timing to use me as a relief pitcher.
Whisper?
It was slightly ambiguous, but I could communicate with Han Seol-ah from a distance.
Most importantly, it was the only means to communicate with Lee Ah-woon, who was possessed inside the game.
‘It was probably a function to help me counter curses and the Outer God within the game.’
Nebula was so overwhelmingly powerful that she crushed the Outer God, so there’s a slight sense that things have lost their luster.
And the party.
‘The Resonar subjugation battle coming soon.’
Resonar isn’t a boss I can solo and defeat through sheer willpower alone.
Which means the ‘party members” performance becomes incredibly crucial.
‘…Whisper is a pretty useful function for this too. Did the developer think this far ahead?’
Communication with party members through whisper will become even more important.
That developer bastard…
I have to give credit where it’s due.
And beyond that.
‘Tower conquest.’
This is the main event.
Thinking about the clear conditions for the 94th Floor…
‘…the difference between having it and not having it is absolutely massive.’
The party function, just like whisper, could be used within Lost Honor.
A new icon I’d never seen before had appeared.
An icon showing three human silhouettes overlapped together.
[Party]
“It’s been updated like a new feature.”
Click.
I tapped the icon.
[Party] (1/5)
[Me]
[Empty]
[Empty]
[Empty]
[Empty]
[Invite to Party]
[Leave Party]
A simple interface greeted me.
‘Thank goodness it just shows “Me” instead of Ha Sung-woon or Nebula or Apostle or Special One or whatever—I don’t have to worry about hiding identities.’
Next to [Me], I could see a red bar representing HP and a blue bar representing MP.
I clicked on [Invite to Party] below.
[Who?]
[ ]
A window appeared asking for the target.
But…
“This guy?”
The wording is pretty terse.
Sigh.
Trivial, utterly trivial.
Who should I invite to the party first?
That’s already been decided.
Tap. Tap.
[Han Seol-ah]
You, of course.
* * *
At that same moment, in the Hunter Association Training Grounds.
Geometric letters of light materialized in the empty space before Han Seol-ah, who sat cross-legged gathering her mana.
“Huh?”
[Destiny calls upon you…]
[Yes] [No]
A message glimmering in sacred golden script.
‘What is this…!’

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