I Conquered the Tower with the EX-Class Character That I Raised - Chapter 69

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Chapter 69
I handed the Immortal Vestments over to Chul-soo.
[What is this? It looks like something a fake cult leader would wear. I’m not putting this on.]
“…Shut up and just wear it.”
I input a kick command as Nebula several times, and Chul-soo reluctantly puts on the vestments.
It was like watching a father who secretly liked something but felt embarrassed, muttering “Why would you give me something like this…”
Annoyed, I kicked him once more.
[Oof!]
Chul-soo went flying.
Since it was just a gesture, there wasn’t much damage.
Probably.
[This bastard… has quite a bite to it?]
Chul-soo dusted himself off and stood up, changing into the vestments.
The vestments looked… disappointingly ordinary for a Genesis-tier item.
I wasn’t planning to design the exterior carefully since I was giving it to Chul-soo anyway.
I’d brought a papal vestment and simply copied it as-is, only changing the color pattern to white and gold.
“Well, it’s not bad.”
Since he was tall and used to boxing, the fit looked quite good on him.
Completely different from when the elderly Pope wore it.
Since I’d dumped all the Genesis traits into immortality, I couldn’t expect the kind of dramatic transformation like the fourth or fifth items…
But it was still Genesis-tier.
Even ordinary Legendary or Unique-tier items came with specs that could crush most things.
[…What is this?]
Chul-soo asked in a serious voice.
He’d felt the buff from the Genesis-tier item and was astonished.
Bang!
I threw a punch into empty air, and the sound of the air bursting echoed.
“Nice.”
Chul-soo had been a professional boxer before the Tower appeared.
Moreover, he was a gifted prospect who was predicted to become a champion—it was only a matter of when.
His punches were already decent to begin with, but now that they were enhanced, the difference was definitely noticeable.
After that, Chul-soo twisted his body this way and that, swinging his fists to test the vestments’ performance.
[I humbly accept.]
He gave Nebula a 120-degree bow.
“Good.”
Now that I’d confirmed the vestments’ basic specs.
It was time to test the Genesis trait.
I picked up Chul-soo and crossed through a dimensional gate.
The place we arrived at was…
[Bloodstained Ground]
It was a battlefield where NPCs could be legally killed.
I hurled Chul-soo forward without hesitation.
“Now then, prepare yourself. Kim Chul-soo.”
A battle with Nebula.
Han Seol-ah and Lee Ah-woon had both experienced it.
The difference was this:
In combat with Chul-soo, unlike the previous two, a ‘flag’ didn’t descend and plant itself with a resounding thud.
Because this wasn’t a sparring match—it was real combat.
In sparring, no matter how much damage approaching instant death one sustained, they could never actually die.
Lost Honor’s system provided absolute protection.
But this field—the Bloodstained Ground—was designed so that NPCs could truly be killed.
In a typical ordinary online game, this would have been designated a ‘PVP zone’.
Here, death meant real death.
[Nebula? What are you doing?]
“If you don’t dodge, you die.”
Click.
The moment I cast one of the Void Knight’s skills.
A handful of void emanating from Nebula’s fingertips silently pierced through Chul-soo’s chest.
[Gack!]
Without even a scream, Chul-soo’s pupils lost focus and went vacant.
Thump.
Like a puppet with its strings cut, his body crumpled to the ground.
“Well, he couldn’t have dodged it anyway.”
Even that great Guardian Han Seol-ah couldn’t react to it.
A spell that no developer with a sound mind would ever have implemented.
An instant-death spell, that’s why.
Having been struck by this magic, Chul-soo was certainly dead now.
Or rather, he should have been.
Twitch.
Yet the primordial trait of the Immortal Ritual.
The effect of the ‘Immortal Sun’ prevented his death.
The first effect of the Immortal Sun.
Immortality!
[What’s this? Why did I collapse?]
I confirmed that it even negated the Void Knight’s instant-death spell.
“Now it’s certain.”
As long as he wore that ritual.
Chul-soo would never die again.
* * *
The primary reason I decided to possess Chul-soo was to grant him the Immortal Ritual.
With this ritual, I could develop a strategy to clear the 94th Floor with a ‘no-death clear’.
But of course, that wasn’t my only objective.
There was something I absolutely had to discover through this possession.
Chul-soo’s possession was a significant experiment for me as well.
Chul-soo—a B-rank Hunter officially recognized by the system.
If I utilized Lost Honor’s system, could I even transform this mediocre B-rank Chul-soo into something extraordinary?
The difficulty, however, was far from trivial.
“He’s a tougher opponent than I expected.”
His unique trait was unremarkable—’the most ordinary existence’?
I never imagined he’d possess something so similar to mine.
‘How can I elevate a B-rank nobody?’
There were only two ways a Hunter’s rank could advance.
First: increasing mana capacity.
This was impossible in reality.
Mana capacity was innate at the moment of awakening, and there was no method to increase it after the fact.
Only in Lost Honor, and only through consuming high-grade elixirs laden with modifiers, was limited growth possible.
That was Han Seol-ah’s case.
Second: the growth of awakened abilities.
That was Lee Ah-woon’s case.
I forcibly granted him aptitude and orchestrated his ‘re-awakening’ through Lost Honor’s ‘class advancement’ system.
This wasn’t a typical scenario.
Lee Ah-woon’s awakened abilities had been stripped away by external interference—an Outer God.
In Lost Honor’s assessment, he was a ‘newbie’ with no abilities or class, making class advancement possible.
Most Hunters possessed their awakened abilities intact.
So the method of class advancement like Lee Ah-woon’s was only limitedly applicable.
Beyond these exceptional cases, the growth of awakened abilities occurred frequently.
While rank was fixed at awakening, there existed cases where Hunters achieved special ‘enlightenment’ through grueling effort, causing their abilities to evolve.
But since this enlightenment was vague and nebulous, cases of actual rank advancement through this method were known to be extremely rare.
The prime example was Mushin from China.
Starting as B-rank, he underwent enlightenment after enlightenment like some wuxia protagonist, eventually reaching EX—a legendary figure of self-made ascension.
‘If this world were a wuxia novel, he would’ve been the protagonist.’
So I’d start with the first method.
“Let’s expand your mana pool.”
A blessing only experienced in Lost Honor.
Let me show him the taste of ‘mana capacity increase’ first.
“Scatter forth, Elixir.”
[What is this? It’s damn delicious!]
Chul-soo’s palate was similar to Whitey’s anyway.
The moment he tasted the celestial flavor of the Elixir, his eyes widened and he began gulping it down.
Glug, glug.
“?”
As the elixir slid down my throat, I expected a brilliant flash to announce the absorption was complete—
“What the hell.”
The elixir’s spiritual pressure… vanished?
There was no effect whatsoever.
[Mmm~ gulp gulp gulp!]
Despite drinking it like that.
“It seems mana and holy power use different judgment systems.”
Appearances aside, Kim Chul-soo was a priest who wielded holy power.
Just as mana and holy power operated under different systems in Lost Honor, it appeared the same held true for priests in this reality.
“Confiscating it.”
I swept the elixir straight into my inventory.
[Hey, what are you doing?]
Even a dog gets defensive when you touch its food.
Kim Chul-soo sprang up in irritation, but—
“Split in half and die.”
Nebula’s instant-death ability dropped him like a stone.
The immortality judgment prevented actual death.
Moments later, Kim Chul-soo jolted upright and bellowed.
[Hey! Cut that out!]
Even without dying, the displeasure of being hit by an instant-death ability lingered.
The way he licked his lips with his tongue showed he was genuinely furious.
‘So when Kim Chul-soo flicks his tongue like that, he’s really pissed.’
“Understood.”
I wasn’t tormenting Kim Chul-soo for amusement.
With the situation so urgent, where did I have time for hobbies?
This was entirely an experiment in immortality—and training to help Kim Chul-soo accept immortality more easily.
That’s why I’d chosen the most efficient, painless instant-death ability—
Yet he’d chosen hell instead.
* * *
After experiencing the “spoon murderer” meta of dying from basic attacks several times, Kim Chul-soo was absolutely seething.
I’d expected him to eventually demand we “switch back to instant-death,” but stubbornness took over—he insisted on trading blows with Nebula to the bitter end.
“His guts are still intact.”
He’d earned the nickname “zombie” for charging forward without fear of being hit.
But there was zero probability of Kim Chul-soo defeating Nebula.
I switched Nebula to automatic counter mode.
[Die, you bastard!]
Despite his mind being ground down from dying and reviving repeatedly, he kept throwing punches without surrender.
With automatic basic-attack counters, this would make for a good fight.
In the meantime, I surveyed the Warehouse.
‘There’s no elixir that can increase the total amount of holy power.’
Mana is personal.
It’s stored in the body.
That’s why it’s possible to increase it by consuming elixirs.
Holy power is borrowed strength.
Since its source lies elsewhere, unlike mana, it’s impossible to increase it through elixirs.
In the end, the limit of power that the ‘divine being’ lending strength to Chul-soo permits is ‘Recovery Grade B’.
In other words, I reached the conclusion that to raise holy power, the divine being itself—the source—must be made to grant Chul-soo more strength.
“Stingy bastard.”
If the divine being just generously poured out holy power, how convenient and wonderful that would be.
“Whitey, are there any cases of a healer hunter’s rank increasing?”
[There are some promotion cases, though rare.]
Whitey displayed the information for me.
First, the Vatican case.
An A-rank priest promoted to S-rank at death’s threshold after over 100 days of fasting and prayer.
“…Rejected.”
Time is insufficient.
Fasting wouldn’t even be possible…
Chul-soo is essentially an atheist with no faith.
‘A priest who’s an atheist—good grief.’
Next case.
After over 100 days of ascetic practice through whipping and fasting, at death’s threshold…
“Rejected.”
‘What, are all the cases this extreme?’
I concluded that to raise holy power one tier, there’s no choice but to gain recognition of value from the ‘divine being’.
Whether by proving faith.
Or by proving through Achievement.
Either way, there’s no method applicable to Chul-soo right now.
“Kim Chul-soo. You’re hopeless.”
Plan A was blocked.
And, naturally.
Plan B was already prepared.
This world is overflowing with divine beings who grant power for only the most ‘trivial’ price.
Morality, goodness, justice, and light.
There are plenty of fools who, with just the simple effort of discarding these tiny, insignificant things and crying out “the light has betrayed me,” will be so moved they’ll hand over their liver, gallbladder, and everything else.
“So let’s fall into corruption!”
The Fallen God.
…In other words, the ‘Evil God’.
Though he probably won’t even hear it.
Chul-soo, who was being pummeled by Nebula’s fists, shuddered as if sensing something ominous.
* * *
I picked up Chul-soo and moved to a different location.
Thud! Thud!
Still fuming, Chul-soo swung his fists wildly while held fast in Nebula’s grip, pounding away at her armor with determination.
Rat-a-tat-tat.
Yet Nebula’s health bar didn’t even flicker.
‘His attacks do register as hits—her HP drops by 1 each time. But her automatic recovery is a hundred times faster than the damage, so it’s pointless.’
Like an egg striking stone, he kept driving his fists forward, his eyes bloodshot with rage.
Typical Kim Chul-soo.
I’ll admit—the man’s willpower is something I respect.
We passed through the Misty Gorge, thick with fog.
Crossed through a sinister gate carved to resemble a demon lord’s gaping maw…
A special area.
We’d arrived at the Heresy Hall.
[Oh! Most wicked one…!]
An NPC in a wide-brimmed hat and flowing robes.
Lilith prostrated herself before Nebula.
[Who is this one?]
After finishing her bow, Lilith pointed at Chul-soo and asked.
Her serpentine eyes curved with a sinister smile.
NPCs with such varied emotional expressions weren’t common in Lost Honor.
Since I had no dialogue options anyway, I simply moved into the hall while holding Chul-soo.
As I led the way forward with Lilith following behind, every being in the hall prostrated themselves in reverence.
Demons with horns sprouting from their heads and devil wings attached.
Sickly creatures whose grotesque forms were hidden beneath robes.
Civilized monsters.
Priests of dark gods adorned with sluggish tentacles, and so forth.
Truly, a garbage heap of villains.
[…]
Chul-soo’s expression had turned serious as he examined each one meticulously.
In the center of the hall.
There stood an altar bathed in black light.
According to the lore, it was a structure collecting energy from another world—not Lost Honor’s world, but the ‘sunlight of the Other World.’
In simpler terms, the black light filling the altar itself was the sunlight of the Other World.
A structure opposite to the goddess statue that basked abundantly in the world’s sunlight.
I clicked on the ‘Altar of Corruption’ and designated Chul-soo, whom I held in my hand, as the target.
[Huh?]
Whoosh!
Crimson veins pulsing with blood erupted from the altar, coiling around Chul-soo and dragging him up onto its surface.
[What?! Hey, let go!]
The creature thrashed violently, as if trying to tear through its own veins.
Left alone, it would bite its own tongue and resist even unto death.
I sent a whisper to Chul-soo as he began to struggle.
[/w ‘Kim Chul-soo’ You’re fine, don’t panic]
Though filtered through the system’s characteristically bland mechanical tone, he seemed to instantly recognize my blunt manner in that brief sentence.
Chul-soo’s body, which had been straining to tear through his veins, stopped abruptly as if by illusion.
‘To any observer, this is an utterly horrifying situation—being offered as a demon’s sacrifice.’
He no longer thrashed about and lay obediently upon the altar.
[…I’m not actually scared?]
“Just bluffing.”
His grumbling voice had completely shed the panic from moments before.
Next, I retrieved the items I’d brought in my inventory.
The pulsating heart of an Outer God.
Kiiieee—!
The resentment of the World Tree.
Aaaah—!
The false cross of salvation.
Craaack—!
As I laid out numerous materials symbolizing ‘corruption’ beyond these, the cursed objects shrieked and wailed, filling the soundscape to bursting.
More than mere noise—even the Heresy Hall NPCs guarding the altar were so oppressed by the malevolent density that they pressed their foreheads to the ground, trembling violently.
“This puts gore films to shame.”
[Uuuaaahhh!!!]
Kim Chul-soo, screaming amid it all, was the film’s protagonist.
Finally, I offered up an entire bottle of the Goddess’s Tears.
‘I’ve nearly exhausted the Goddess’s Tears.’
I’ll need to catch that one someday and squeeze them out all day long.
Regardless, the preparations were complete.
This was a feast of the finest quality—even ‘that creature’ would drool uncontrollably.
It wouldn’t pale in comparison to the imperial banquets the emperors once savored.
Click.
I activated the altar.
And immediately…
[The fallen divinity ‘Heaven’s Expanse Devoured by Madness’ gazes down upon the world…]
The ‘Sovereign of Fallen Gods’ descended into the cavern.
A divine being to grant Chul-soo the power of corruption!
I had specially selected the strongest among all such divinities.
“You’ve really hit the jackpot in life.”
I nodded with overwhelming emotion.
Thanks to having a brother like me, he gets to fall into corruption.
There’s no one else like me in this world.
[You crazy bastard!]
How delightful.

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