I Conquered the Tower with the EX-Class Character That I Raised - Chapter 81

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Chapter 81
While planning to clear the Tower, there was one thing that had always nagged at me.
The power I gained within the Tower surpassed any combination of Hunters that existed on Earth.
It wasn’t boasting—it was simply fact.
China’s Mushin, who achieved EX-rank through martial arts?
I’m sorry, but there’s no basis for comparison between us.
Only after I ‘suspended’ my clear of Floor 94 did the Tower manifest in reality.
In that process, I had to leave my power behind within the Tower and emerge into reality.
Then, what happens when I clear Floor 94?
What becomes of me?
Will I move directly to the waiting room of the next floor, just as I did during my initial Tower ascent, and begin tackling Floor 95?
Or will I be expelled to the reality outside the Tower, like other Hunters?
And, most importantly…
What becomes of my power?
I could finally resolve that long-standing curiosity.
Upon clearing Floor 94, I would be expelled outside, just like other Hunters.
My power would remain within the Tower.
I couldn’t bring it out with me.
‘That’s probably how it works.’
Before the Tower appeared—that is, before I abandoned Floor 94—I would have continued my ascent by moving directly to the Floor 95 waiting room without ever leaving the Tower.
But I already had a history of suspending my Floor 94 ascent once.
And as a result of that, didn’t the Tower manifest in reality?
The circumstances had changed from when I was climbing as the first ascender.
So then.
Had my Floor 94 ascent been of no help to me whatsoever?
Of course not.
That wasn’t the case at all.
* * *
I returned to my room and logged into Lost Honor.
Despite it not being that long ago, accessing the game on my PC felt like an ancient memory.
Boom—
In that brief moment as the monitor brightened with a grand opening theme.
Suddenly, the memory of the day I first powered on that mysterious PC with only Lost Honor installed flickered through my mind.
When I first encountered the login screen, what greeted me wasn’t a typical username and password input field.
[Q1. Describe the penalty incurred when abandoning or temporarily suspending the Tower’s trials (commonly known as ‘suspension’)]
Followed by a series of bizarre questions below it.
Questions that ordinary people or those blessed by the Tower would never discover in their lifetime.
A cipher that only the handful of people like me who chose ‘suspension’ in the Tower and were expelled could possibly decipher.
Only after perfectly passing through those exam-like security conditions could I finally earn the right to play this game.
From what I remembered, fourteen people had climbed the Tower.
How many people across the entire world would truly be unable to awaken?
‘Most of them would have experienced not a ‘suspension’ but an outright ‘failure’…
There couldn’t be more than five of them.
This game was created for just that tiny handful of people.
‘When I first encountered this game, it had the exact same pattern as The Tower’s trials, so I thought it was just a simulator made by some obsessive developer. But after clearing Floor 94 and looking back, the puzzle pieces fit together.’
But after clearing Floor 94 and looking back, the puzzle pieces fit together.
‘Those unable to awaken. In other words, an artifact designed to be opened only by those whose trials in The Tower were suspended.’
That must be the true identity of Lost Honor.
Ding.
The moment my suspicion ripened into certainty, a new system window materialized at the center of the monitor.
[You have recovered a portion of your lost power]
“As expected, you recognize it.”
I knew it would be like this.
Pop!
My vision shifted.
The familiar scenery—the Constellation Corridor.
But I was standing in a different place.
Suspended in empty space above the Corridor below my feet.
[…Assessing aptitude…]
Boom boom boom!
A loud fanfare erupted as notification windows flooded the screen.
[Sword aptitude fully satisfied]
[Spear aptitude fully satisfied]
[Blunt weapon/Axe aptitude fully satisfied]
[Shield/Guardian aptitude fully satisfied]
[Martial arts aptitude fully satisfied]
[Bow aptitude fully satisfied]
[Assassination aptitude fully satisfied]
“That’s impressive.”
Exactly seven.
Half of the fourteen total lineages that exist in Lost Honor—those corresponding to martial prowess.
The verdict declared that I possessed the aptitude for all of them.
In that instant, the faces of the hunters I had possessed flashed through my mind.
Even Lee Ah-woon, who possessed qualities that would make an Outer God covet him, initially had only ‘partial’ aptitude for dark magic.
Moreover, only after receiving buffs from an Outer God and equipping cursed items to fill the gaps could he unlock ‘Apex: Lich Lord’.
But what about me?
Without any groundwork whatsoever, I pierced through seven lineages simultaneously through nothing but the enlightenment I achieved in The Tower.
Flash!
Golden light burst forth as seven apex classes unlocked in unison.
[Apex: Sword Saint]
[Peak: Genesis]
[Peak: Destroyer]
[Peak: Aegis]
[Peak: Divine Warrior]
[Peak: Divine Archer]
[Peak: Spirit King]
“This is me.”
This was precisely why I hadn’t even considered using the possession ticket on hunters like Mushin or Jin Cheon-jin.
At Earth’s level, no matter how exceptional they were, they were merely inferior versions of myself.
[Crossroads of Destiny]
[The Tower’s scales gaze down upon you…]
“Huh?”
Crossroads of Destiny? Why is this appearing now?
It was like a choice quest you’d commonly see in games.
Among them, an exceptionally crucial selection that profoundly influenced the game’s ending.
A scale the size of a person suddenly materialized before my eyes with a pop.
The left pan held the seven stars I had just witnessed.
[1. Unlock 7 Peak Jobs] (Existing)
A choice appeared above it.
‘If I choose this, it means they’ll unlock all the jobs as planned.’
Was there any need to choose anything else?
I looked to the right.
‘…!’
There lay my cherished blade, Constellation, transformed into a miniature size and resting on the pan.
[2. Accumulate Contribution Points for Extracting ‘Constellation’ Outside the Tower] (New)
“Hah.”
My breath caught in my throat.
Constellation was my other self.
It was a blade into which an enormous amount of effort and resources had been invested—enough to justify calling it that.
To take it with me outside?
Without exaggeration, I would become a being capable of cutting through anything.
Even in a state of desynchronization where awakening was impossible, if I could only land the blade’s edge, I would possess the lethality to kill anyone.
That wasn’t all.
Constellation was the sole weapon capable of containing all my abilities, and simultaneously…
It was a broken item with specs exceeding even Genesis-grade equipment in its own right.
Even in a synchronized state, I could expect meaningful stat increases.
‘The problem is whether I’d have to abandon all the Peak jobs I’d painstakingly unlocked if I chose Constellation.’
As I carefully pressed the right option, my dilemma dissolved.
[Select the Contribution Points to Offer]
[1. Unlock Sword Deity] □
[2. Unlocking Creation’s Seal] □
(…)
[7. Unlocking the Shadow King’s Seal] □
[※ Suspended classes are not permanently lost and can be unlocked again or reselected through contribution conversion each time you clear the next floor]
“Huh?”
So I don’t have to permanently abandon one or the other—I can choose freely with peace of mind.
Seven unlockable classes floated before my eyes, each with a checkbox beside it.
Checking a class would cancel its unlock and convert it to ‘contribution points’ instead.
‘What should I pick?’
I deliberated for a moment.
What would be the best choice?
South Korea’s current situation.
The path I must walk forward.
The anticipated problems and obstacles ahead…
A cascade of worries threatened to make my head spin, but I steadied myself.
“I’ve decided.”
My resolve crystallized.
Most problems crumble
in the face of overwhelming power.
So then.
This is my choice.
Tap-tap-tap-tap.
I rapidly checked six boxes in succession and pressed confirm.
[Pinnacle: Sword God has been unlocked]
[Bright light seeps into the ‘Constellation’]
As for the rest, I could unlock them as needed while climbing the Tower, or simply convert them to Constellation contribution points.
“Excellent.”
* * *
Next came the Quest window.
“I cleared Floor 94 of the Tower—why no Epic Quest reward?”
Surprisingly, the Epic Quests had been silent this time.
Back when the Frost Dragon, Scathaha, and Resonar appeared, the system had hurled ‘Prevent the Apocalypse’ quests at me relentlessly with generous rewards…
but this unlimited wave had shown no such sign whatsoever.
‘Maybe the two-hour limit was too brutal even for the developers?’
It would be strange to issue a quest for something already completed anyway.
“But still, not giving one at all?”
Clearing Floor 94 of the Tower was no trivial matter.
I had completely destroyed the core problem that had pushed South Korea to the brink of annihilation.
“I refuse to believe the system would spout something holy like ‘There is no apocalypse threat now, so no quest for you!'”
I opened the Quest window and stared at the screen with my arms crossed.
[Urgent Epic Quest]
[Save South Korea from the Brink of Destruction 5]
“Oh.”
The Quest appeared at just the right moment.
“I had faith in you.”
You’re not planning to run a business for just a day or two, are you?
Conduct yourself well.
“However, I regret to inform you. The crisis threatening South Korea’s destruction—I’ve already dealt with it myself.”
[Objective]
‘Of course the objective must be to clear Floor 94.’
The moment I read the next line.
[Subjugate the Fallen Divinity ‘Madness-Consumed Heavens’]
“Huh?”
Did I misread that?
…No, that clearly wasn’t the case.
The event that actually occurred in reality was an infinite monster wave.
Not the descent of the fallen god ‘Cheon-kong’ or anything like that.
[Quest objective has been updated]
[Subjugate the Fallen Divinity ‘Madness-Consumed Heavens’]
(Cancelled)
“Cancelled?”
Before I could even process my confusion, the Quest continued updating.
[Subjugate the Unlimited Monster Wave]
“You told me not to stop it, so how am I supposed to subjugate it? This doesn’t make sense. Developers, seriously.”
How could annihilating a wave that doesn’t end until Floor 94 is cleared make any sense as an objective?
In that moment of bewilderment.
[Subjugate the Unlimited Monster Wave]
(Cancelled)
A second strikethrough appeared.
[Clear Korean Tower Floor 94] (Achieved)
The final updated Quest objective was exactly as I’d anticipated.
“Hmm.”
Normally, it’s only two lines.
The Quest window that usually displayed only [Objective] and [Details]…
was now covered in strikethroughs, looking like a tattered rag.
Was this an error from Lost Honor?
‘…That couldn’t be.’
Lost Honor doesn’t make such ‘human’ mistakes.
There must be intention behind this.
So what intention could be hidden in this patchwork?
‘Could it be?’
They waited for me to log into Lost Honor.
And now they’re showing me past events ‘as if they were mistakes’?
If that’s the case, there’s only one thing this means.
‘They’re showing me something.’
The boss that was originally scheduled to appear.
If that was truly the fallen divinity Cheon-kong?
“The Tower, you absolute lunatics.”
They’ve lost their minds.
A divinity is an existence that cannot be harmed no matter what humans do.
Because they are fundamentally in a different class.
Between humans and gods, there exists an absolute gap in rank that cannot be crossed by ordinary means.
Just as a character in a game cannot attack a real human.
The difference is as vast as existing in entirely different dimensions.
Only an extremely limited number of methods specifically designed to combat divinity can land effective blows against them.
Such methods?
They don’t exist on Earth.
Even I, who can now summon a handful of Constellations, am powerless against divinity.
‘Later, I’ll need to be able to synchronize Nebula’s Void Knight, or at least bring out my own blade, the Constellation, from within the Tower.’
The difficulty is truly hopeless.
‘So they were originally planning to send something like that, but it changed…’
Seeing that they tried to send such a thing as a boss, the Tower clearly has no conscience.
There must have been some other condition that prevented them from sending out the divinity.
‘Golden letters.’
I have a suspicion.
The burning golden letters I saw during the Resonar conquest and the Floor 94 ‘scapegoat’ mechanic conquest.
An unidentified transcendent being who views my conquest methods positively and acknowledges them.
For now, I can only assume the intervention of that existence.
A chill ran down my spine.
‘I nearly broke before even attempting the Tower challenge, accepting destruction itself.’
[Rewards]
Anyway. This is what matters.
[Sub Quest Complete]
[Reality: Additional Sub Quest Granted]
[Possession Ticket]
“Hm?”
Additional Sub Quest granted.
I’ve seen this before.
When I awakened Lee Ah-woon to EX-rank, I obtained the ‘Party’ function along with this notification.
‘Afterward, a completion window appeared before my eyes in reality with the Quest name and objectives left blank.’
Pop!
[Sub Quest: ‘ ‘]
[Quest Objective: ‘ ‘]
‘Same as expected.’
[You have completed ‘ ‘!]
[Quest Reward]
[Aggro Radar]
‘Aggro Radar?’
It’s a feature that doesn’t exist in Lost Honor.
But it’s not an unfamiliar feature either.
It existed in the online games I used to enjoy before the world fell into this state.
Aggro, in short, refers to a monster’s hostility.
When you “pull aggro,” the tank draws the monster’s hostility toward themselves, protecting allies from harm.
With an Aggro Radar, I’d be able to tell which monsters harbor ill intent toward me and which don’t.
‘It wasn’t awarded to Nebula, but to the real me—Ha Sung-woon.’
One thing became certain with this.
Synchronization-related rewards are granted directly by Lost Honor itself.
Rewards for the real ‘Ha Sung-woon’ are distributed indirectly through Sub Quests.
A dual-track system.
The rewards didn’t end there.
[Hidden Quest: No Death Clear]
“Right. There should be a Hidden Quest.”
I cleared the Tower’s own Hidden Quest.
And I cleared Lost Honor’s Hidden Quest too.
Two birds with one stone.
[Reward]
[Reality: Additional Sub Quest Reward]
[Possession Ticket]
[Possession Ticket] (new!)
[Possession Ticket] (new!)
[Possession Ticket] (new!)
“Huh?”
The Hidden Quest reward is… remarkably straightforward.
Three additional Possession Tickets.
“Hmm…”
I can’t shake the question of why now.
I reflected on the rewards I’d received from clearing Epic Quests so far.
I elevated Han Seol-ah to EX-rank and gained synchronization.
Thanks to that, I was able to come this far.
I protected South Korea and cleared up to Floor 94.
After obtaining the Codex, I confirmed that Lee Ah-woon’s latent potential was EX-rank, and thanks to that, I was able to use him effectively in the subsequent Resonar subjugation campaign.
Thus, the rewards from Epic Quests became the key to solving the trials that followed.
Which meant, conversely, that I could anticipate the nature of upcoming obstacles by examining the rewards.
‘A situation where I’ll need to use Possession extensively?’
For now, that was the best assumption I could make.
‘Not a bad thing.’
Possession Tickets were precious.
You could see it from the cases of Han Seol-ah, Lee Ah-woon, and Kim Chul-soo, who had experienced Possession.
Hunters who experienced Possession grew stronger, transcending their limits.
At the same time, I too could grow stronger once my Synchronization class was unlocked.
Because the supply was meager—only one per Quest clear—I had to use them sparingly.
It felt like a weight had been lifted from my chest.
Though I couldn’t use it at that moment, I had received ‘Possession Enhancement’ as a reward when I awakened Lee Ah-woon to EX-rank.
The existing Possession Tickets required listing the affiliated nation, Hunter rank, epithet, and real name without omission, and had the cumbersome condition that only Hunters from the same nation could be possessed.
‘Possession’ being enhanced would presumably relax these conditions, but I hadn’t experienced it firsthand yet.
‘So who should I…’
Ding—!
Just as I was about to sink into thought.
‘Hm?’
A message came from Min Ji-hee.
[Apostle, I have an urgent matter to report.]
[Major powers, including the United States, have begun pressuring us under the guise of the High-Floor Tower Farming Alliance.]
Beep—! Beep beep—!
Sharp warning sounds erupted, and a crimson alert materialized in the air.
[Massive hostility directed at you has been detected]
“Oho…”
The radar that appeared in the corner of my vision flashed red, pinpointing the locations of the entities.
Beyond the Pacific Ocean, on a distant continent.
And in the middle of the West Sea.
The presence of those baring their fangs at me and South Korea was clearly marked on the map.
“Look at these bastards…”
After grinding through Floor 94, these hyenas caught my scent and thought I was an easy honey pot to dip their spoons into?
I touched my fingertips, which tingled with the aura of the ‘Sword God’ I had just synchronized, and let out a cold laugh.
“Come on then.”

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