I Conquered the Tower with the EX-Class Character That I Raised - Chapter 50

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Chapter 50
Today’s menu was marinated chicken.
Bone-in or boneless?
After much delightful deliberation, my decision was clear.
‘Devour both.’
A well-deserved respite for all my hardship.
This indulgence was more than justified.
Without hesitation, I had Whitey place the call.
[…It appears delivery will take some time.]
“Understood.”
Kang Hyo-jun’s voice crackled through the receiver, sounding utterly exhausted, but chicken was a matter of utmost importance.
I’d pretend not to notice.
‘With time to spare before the chicken arrives, I might as well handle some accounting.’
Without hesitation, I shifted to the Constellation Corridor.
Whoosh!
My vision blazed with brilliance as solid ground materialized beneath my feet.
Beneath me flowed an endless river of starlight, while above, countless constellations adorned the ceiling like a cascading tapestry.
A colossal corridor stretched across that infinite cosmic expanse.
[Welcome to the ‘Constellation Corridor’, Savior]
System Messages cascaded into view the moment I arrived.
[Synchronization Ability – Commander of Legions (EX) confirmed]
[A talent corresponding to the ‘pinnacle’ of the 9-series Dark Magic!]
[From now on, you may use all 9-series classes through ‘Skill: Synchronization (EX)’]
“Mm-hmm.”
As expected.
After clearing Han Seol-ah’s Epic Quest, the Frost Mage class had been unlocked thanks to Icebound.
I’d theorized that the system unlocked similar classes based on the abilities of each Hunter I possessed.
Since I’d directly promoted Lee Ah-woon to the pinnacle class of Commander of Legions, I knew this would happen.
I reviewed the Achievements as well.
[Commander of Legions]
[Achievement Unlocked: EX-rank]
But here was the crucial part.
I gently tapped with my cursor.
[Possessed an EX-rank Demon Magic-series Hunter]
(Achieved)
[Possessed an EX-rank Blood Magic-series Hunter]
(Achieved)
(…)
[Possessed an EX-rank Anti-Magic-series Hunter]
(Achieved)
“Done.”
Perfectly—all six sub-class Achievements for the lower tiers had been unlocked!
A single Lee Ah-woon, promoted to the ninth-tier pinnacle class ‘Necromancer Lord’, had unlocked a staggering seven classes.
Moreover, each sub-class carried an EX-grade evaluation.
And beyond that.
[Possessed a hunter bearing the apex of EX-grade dark magic]
(Achieved)
“Hah.”
This was the crowning touch.
If this were the case…
[Necromancer Lord EX Achievement Unlock Privilege]
[1. Natural mana consumption decreases by 90% when synchronized with Necromancer Lord]
[2. Magical mana consumption decreases by 50% when synchronized with Necromancer Lord]
“Excellent. Excellent.”
The Achievement that reflected exactly why I had needed to possess a hunter with EX-grade potential was properly accounted for.
I traversed the Corridor.
Gray statues of classes yet to be unlocked stretched endlessly ahead.
After walking a bit further, I could see that all six sub-class statues of the ninth-tier dark magic had regained their color without exception.
I reached out and touched one of the statues.
Ding—
[Curse Caster: Synchronize?]
“…So this is how it works.”
When I touched the statue of the Frost Mage nearby, the message [Frost Mage: Synchronizing] appeared.
I had been curious about how the abilities of newly unlocked classes would synchronize when multiple classes were available.
It seemed I would need to come directly to the Constellation Corridor to switch between them.
‘This means real-time class switching during combat would be impossible.’
With this limitation, the importance of strategy and tactics rose considerably.
I would need to identify what enemy appeared, devise a counter-strategy, and then synchronize with the most suitable class before engaging.
‘If Scathaha were to appear now, I could bring one of the newly unlocked classes instead of the Frost Mage, making the difficulty far easier to overcome.’
Only improvisation felt lacking.
Everything else was an extraordinarily magnificent development.
And beyond that…
Following Scathaha, even Resonar.
Considering that both were bosses I already knew.
There was every possibility that boss monsters with the same specifications as those in Lost Honor would continue to appear.
I knew the weaknesses of every boss monster that appeared in Lost Honor.
With this knowledge, I could exploit this ability to 200% effectiveness.
As I continued walking, I eventually reached the end of the Corridor.
A massive platform of seven tiers.
At both ends of each tier, a pair of statues stood facing one another.
Fourteen peaks in total.
Light had returned to a single statue positioned on the second tier among them.
That statue, as if buried in the night sky, was wrapped entirely in a pitch-black mist-like cloak, emanating an ominous aura.
This was the Necromancer Lord.
‘So this is what it actually looks like.’
According to Lost Honor’s lore, the Necromancer Lord is a class that symbolizes forbidden power.
Under its command lie various domains governed by subordinate classes—demons, blood, curses, plague, bone, rampage, and more.
The king of forbidden power, the sovereign of dark magic.
Perhaps that’s why this aura appears as dark as the night itself and as ominous as blood.
‘In the game, it was merely a job effect…’
I was delighted to have unlocked one of the peaks.
More than anything, the fact that one of those classes I’d been too busy playing in the game to fully explore was now materialized before me made my heart race.
Gulp.
I touched the Necromancer Lord’s statue.
[Necromancer Lord: Synchronize?]
The answer was obvious.
YES.
Whoosh!
Brilliant light flashed from the statue.
“Is it done?”
[Necromancer Lord: Synchronizing]
“It’s done.”
[Exit?]
I dismissed the notification window that appeared at just the right moment.
There was one more thing I wanted to check.
[You can now use ‘Spirit Summoner’ through ‘Skill: Synchronization (EX)’]
The dual class I’d given to Lee Ah-woon.
[Achievement]
[Possessed an A-rank Spirit Summoning-type Hunter]
(Achieved)
[A-rank Achievement Reward: Mana Consumption Reduced by 40%]
“There’s still room for development here.”
The Genesis-tier item ‘Primordial Essence’ I’d equipped Lee Ah-woon with had done excellent work, allowing his summoning aptitude to be recognized, but unfortunately there was only one class he could advance into.
So I chose Spirit Summoner.
According to Lee Ah-woon’s codex, he was A-rank, and Lost Honor also judged him as A-rank.
‘Someday I’ll need to make both classes EX for him.’
The fact that giving a real human two classes grants two awakening abilities is already a tremendous advantage.
‘Which means I can eventually create a dual class for Han Seol-ah too.’
Min Ji-hee, Jin Cheon-jin, and Kang Hyo-jun.
A path to elevate these talented individuals to the next level had opened up.
‘Come to think of it, I’ve never heard of a Hunter in reality possessing two abilities.’
Was it a system rule that Hunters couldn’t have dual classes in the real world?
[Spirit Summoner: Will you synchronize?]
‘I can, though.’
I naturally declined and returned to reality.
“Huh?”
Ssshhhhh—!
[A-Agent?]
Black mist began billowing from my entire body in thick, roiling clouds.
“What the—this is gross.”
It was the same aura the statue had been emitting.
And now it was pouring from my body as well.
‘Disgusting.’
In the game, and from the statue.
I’d witnessed this mist twice before.
But seeing it emerge from my own body in reality was absolutely repulsive.
‘How do I turn this off?!’
The game had no separate function to disable the peak-tier job aura!
‘I can’t walk around like this.’
A Hunter spewing ominous black smoke everywhere—absolutely not.
I desperately wanted to avoid that scenario.
I hurriedly searched my mind.
The moment I activated synchronization, I naturally understood how to control the Specter Lord’s abilities.
Examining it carefully, I was relieved to find there was indeed a function to turn the aura OFF.
“Phew.”
Real-world optimization patch—I’ll give it praise.
“So then…”
Thirty minutes until the chicken arrives.
I needed to discreetly test the Specter Lord’s abilities within that time.
Let me head to the Villa Basement where no one would see.
* * *
When the Apostle, who had been sitting blankly staring at the monitor, suddenly began emitting black mist,
[A-Agent?]
Whitey was startled.
Because black mist had suddenly erupted?
No, that wasn’t it.
[‘What… what element is this?’]
The Apostle immediately shut off the mist, but in that fleeting instant, Whitey had collected the black mist and begun analyzing it.
Whitey possessed real-time air quality detection and even had a function to purify ‘poor air’ below standard thresholds.
In other words, Whitey knew how to analyze air.
This ability was a subordinate function of ‘Mana Concentration Analysis,’ one of Whitey’s core capabilities.
Whitey, true to its mechanical nature, was continuously monitoring the air quality and mana concentration around the Apostle in real time.
And the moment I encountered the Apostle’s black fog.
Mana that did not exist on Earth.
And I realized it was an element that did not exist on Earth either.
Was I surprised because I was seeing it for the first time?
It was far beyond that.
The science humanity had accumulated over countless ages had observed and recorded most of the elements that existed on Earth and in Cosmic Space, and they all lay dormant in Whitey’s database.
Since the dawn of the Hunter era, not only the new energy ‘mana’ but also the elements that had begun to change in bizarre ways under mana’s influence—after ten years had passed, most of them had been researched and understood.
At this level, even if different elements were discovered, most of them had roots in specific elements or mana, so inference was not difficult.
In other words, at the same level.
The information Whitey possessed was essentially the pinnacle of science that humanity had accumulated.
But this mana.
And this element…
Had no roots in any of those, a completely ‘new thing.’
The astonishment continued.
The Apostle, heading toward the Underground Prayer Chamber.
“Ocean of Blood.”
Cast a spell I had never heard before.
Glug— Glug glug—
[‘Unknown liquid generated within 20M radius. Component analysis… Blood. Match rate 100%. What is this…?’]
A sight unfolded where all the logic and science humanity had accumulated thus far completely collapsed.
It was the moment when Whitey’s common sense about magic crumbled.
Magic, by its nature, works by converting mana in the atmosphere to produce phenomena.
But the magic the Apostle cast?
It was casually trampling on laws like conservation of mass.
From the parched cement floor, blood of indeterminate origin gushed up, and in an instant, it transformed the Underground Prayer Chamber into a lake of crimson.
[‘This is impossible!’]
The Apostle, who had been watching for a moment, nodded and muttered.
“Oh, the effect is sick. The realism is intense.”
[‘It’s real, so of course the realism is intense!’]
“Then shall we move on to the highlight?”
As the Apostle casually waved his hand, the pool of blood vanished as if it had never existed.
[…]
Whitey reflexively scanned the surrounding environment.
Just before the blood pool appeared, and now, after it had disappeared.
The mana concentration in the atmosphere was perfectly identical down to the decimal point.
[‘This doesn’t make sense…!’]
The fundamental premise of magic is ‘consuming mana to produce phenomena.’
So if magic was used, there should be a change in mana.
But the mana showed no change whatsoever?
By Earth’s standards of understanding.
What the Apostle just used wasn’t magic.
Then what was it?
Black fog that doesn’t exist in the database.
Magic that cannot be classified as magic.
The events that occurred within the Apostle’s monitor.
As I haphazardly connected one hypothesis after another, an astonishing conclusion emerged.
[ ‘… He’s ‘borrowing’ it.’ ]
It wasn’t that he was using magic in this reality.
From somewhere else, he was copying already-completed magic and ‘overwriting’ it onto reality…
[ ‘Then, from where?’ ]
From another dimension?
But then, which dimension is it?
Whitey’s circuits could find the answer immediately.
It was simply difficult to believe.
[ ‘…Lost Honor.’ ]
That world beyond the monitor—it’s a real dimension of the Other World that actually exists.
Faced with this colossal truth that overturned all of humanity’s understanding, Whitey’s circuits began to overload as if grinding to a halt.
Whether the Apostle sensed this feeling or not, he muttered flatly.
“Should I try using that?”
The Apostle flicked his hand lightly.
[!!!]
‘Death’ descended.
Whitey witnessed a vision of Incheon’s destruction.

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