I Got a Monster Spaceship from the Tutorial Tower - Chapter 40

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Episode 40
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[(Urgent) Space Battleship 20th Floor Solo Clear Achieved! Iron-Blood Assault Squad Decimated!]
└ This is absolutely insane;;
└ Did anyone NOT watch this live?
└ That was insane. He charged in and isolated the Bloody Hawk by himself
└ If you didn’t see it, what percentage of your life are you wasting?
└ Dude, forget commenting and go watch it already;
The conquest of the Space Battleship’s 20th Floor spread across global news outlets and internet portals in seconds.
Then again, anyone worth watching had probably caught the live stream already.
Peak concurrent viewers: 100 million.
Yet it still dominated the breaking news charts overwhelmingly as number one.
Meanwhile, in the private room of an old-fashioned tea house in Seoul.
Three figures sat around a table centered in a room decorated with peach-blossom paintings on the walls.
A man with unusually long earlobes among them raised his teacup, took a measured sip, and spoke.
“So the Space Battleship broke through the 20th Floor after all…….”
A short-haired woman sitting beside him cried out with resolute fervor.
“Brother, are we really just going to sit and watch?”
And the third man, a figure of stern bearing, rebuked her gravely.
“Now, now, sister. Don’t act rashly on impulse. Even if we cannot simply sit idle, what exactly can we do in our current position?”
“Well…….”
The woman, struck by his point, fell silent and settled back properly into her chair.
The first man’s eyes gleamed with clarity as he looked between his two companions.
“Even if there is nothing we can do, shouldn’t we at least try rather than sit idle?”
“Brother!”
“That would mean…….”
Both of them turned to him with expressions suddenly alight.
The first man nodded slowly.
“To secure talent, three attempts of pursuit is hardly excessive. Let us first seek him out at a place where he might be found.”
“Excellent idea, brother!”
“If you speak thus, brother…….”
The man rose from his seat, and the other two followed in his wake.
Their names were Yu Hyun-su, Jung Gwan-u, and Jang Chae-bin, respectively.
Though they had awakened on different dates and belonged to different Clans, they were promising young pilots currently ranked among the most talented in the 20th Floor range.
Having awakened around the same period and teamed up to clear the 3rd Floor together, they had become Sworn Siblings—a bond sealed on that occasion.
It was in this very tea house with the peach-blossom paintings that they had sworn their oath.
Their respective Clan Leaders had nagged them relentlessly, saying that if they were going to stick together like this, they might as well join one Clan.
=Should we really do that?
=……I suppose we could?
The three of them, oblivious to irony, had nearly actually transferred to a single Clan, forcing their leaders to hastily dissuade them.
As these anecdotes grew famous, their admirers bestowed upon them a name.
For reasons unknown, they called them the Yuguanjang Trio—reborn in Korea as it were.
* * *
Yeon-u exited the Tower and returned to the Hangar, where he summoned the crew once more.
“Thank you all for your hard work. I know you must be exhausted, and I’m sorry to call you back.”
“No trouble.”
“Of course, Captain. We should come running whenever you call.”
“Then perhaps you should go rest…….”
Whoosh.
“S-sorry. Don’t go, Vice Captain.”
Urelka’s hand axe, drawn for the first time in a while.
Not that Yeon-u had summoned the crew for nothing.
He had obtained a high-grade Summon opportunity as a reward for clearing the 20th Floor.
But Yeon-u laid out the item he’d received as his S+ Clear reward: a Clan Banner.
It was a type of item Yeon-u had never seen before.
“It’s called the Iron-Blood Assault Squad Clan Banner, but I’m not entirely sure what it’s used for.”
「Iron-Blood Assault Squad Clan Banner
Grade: Clan Banner
Description: A Clan Banner symbolizing the Iron-Blood Assault Squad. It carries their history and spirit within it.」
Even consulting the system description did little to clarify matters.
Rustle.
The Clan Banner’s form was not so different from what one would ordinarily imagine of a flag.
A shield-shaped banner hung horizontally from a pole slightly longer than Yeon-u’s height.
Against a blood-red background, an axe and a dagger were drawn crossing diagonally.
The lower edge was not finished cleanly but frayed as though torn, yet this only lent it a fiercer presence.
“This is…….”
Urelka, who had always harbored peculiar feelings toward the Iron-Blood Assault Squad, regarded the Clan Banner with an odd gleam in his eyes.
Unable to find words easily, as though greeting a glory from ages past.
Surika and Sureka, the goblin brothers, felt much the same.
Instead, Lapis swelled himself up and floated words within his form.
— The Clan Banner is a testament to the warriors’ souls!
“A testament to their souls?”
Urelka continued his explanation.
“In itself, it is a tremendous treasure to us goblins…… but aboard the Space Battleship, it functions as a ticket of sorts.”
“A ticket? You don’t mean……?!”
Yeon-u turned to Urelka with an expression asking whether his suspicion was correct.
Urelka smiled wryly and nodded.
“Once you try using it in the Summoning Chamber, you’ll understand.”
!
Summoning.
The most direct and powerful means of strengthening the Space Battleship.
Until now, it had been one summon per Tutorial Tower floor or Raid Portal obtained, and one advanced summon per five S+ Clears.
Could there truly be another way to use the summoning system?
“It is a summoning performed in exchange for a great treasure. The history of the Iron-Blood Assault Squad contained within the Clan Banner might even be summoned forth. I never imagined such a treasure would actually appear.”
There was no reason to delay any longer.
Yeon-u promptly led the crew toward the Summoning Chamber.
Though he had no idea how the Clan Banner was actually used for summoning.
「Clan Banner recognized. Iron-Blood Assault Squad acknowledged.
Performing Special Summon.」
After all, Yeon-u knew nothing of the Space Battleship to begin with.
The moment Yeon-u held his will, the system showed him the way.
Whirr!
A portal of deep, heavy black—something he had never witnessed before.
Yeon-u cried out in surprise.
“Could it be S-Grade?”
“That it is not.”
“…… So not that.”
Not S-Grade, then.
That was disappointing.
But regardless of the portal’s color, a sound of footsteps echoed from within moments later.
Tap, tap.
By now, even Yeon-u could guess the species from footsteps alone.
“A goblin.”
Light, brisk footsteps.
It was only natural for the Clan Banner of the goblin elite unit, the Iron-Blood Assault Squad.
Just as Yeon-u had guessed, as the portal grew smaller, its visitor came into view.
“Huh…….”
The atmosphere was completely different from Urelka or the goblin brothers.
A goblin dressed neatly in a black uniform with metal plates reinforcing the shoulders and elbows.
A black eye patch covered one eye.
More than anything, since Yeon-u had now seen his fourth goblin, he could discern the detail clearly.
‘He looks quite aged.’
Wrinkles marked his face in places, and though it appeared he had shaved, silver whiskers showed beneath his nose and on his chin.
The goblin glanced around briefly, then laid eyes on Yeon-u.
Click!
With a formal military salute, he introduced himself in a disciplined voice.
“Fifty-eighth Clan Leader of the Iron-Blood Assault Squad, Webrelko Torca, at your service.”
“Ah…… I am Yeon-u, captain of the Space Battleship.”
Struck by the bearing of a soldier through and through, Yeon-u found himself deepening his own voice in reply.
Just then, a notification window appeared before Yeon-u.
“Relic Grade Pilot summoned: the goblin Webrelko Torca.”
Relic Grade.
A tier that existed outside the conventional range from F to S+.
It was the emergence of a rank that had long been thought the exclusive province of the Space Battleship.
‘Why? Why this?’ Yeon-u’s eyes flickered with uncertainty.
Was it because of the Clan Banner—that vessel of connection?
As Yeon-u confirmed Torca’s rank, his gaze wavered uncontrollably.
From the moment they’d spoken of it as something holding soul and history, he’d sensed something extraordinary, yet he’d never imagined this could actually unfold.
“Vice-captain, did you say Webrelko Torca? Surely not…?”
“Yes, it seems…”
Yeon-u was not alone in his confusion.
The moment they heard Torca’s name, Urelka, Sureka, and Surika began murmuring among themselves.
“What is it? Why the fuss?”
“A remarkable goblin. We know little.”
Macross and Gudru, equally bewildered like Yeon-u, exchanged glances around the chamber.
Urelka, whose expression had grown grave, nodded briefly before addressing Torca first.
“Your reputation precedes you, Pilot Torca. I am Vice-captain of this vessel, Urelka. This is Pilot Sureka and Technician Surika.”
“Ah, a pleasure. I never thought I’d meet my own kind again.”
The two goblins exchanged formal greetings and shook hands.
Afterward, Urelka turned to Yeon-u.
“I myself did not anticipate a Relic Grade appearing…”
“What’s so special about Relic Grade?”
Perhaps he should have asked this back when he first obtained the Space Battleship.
At the time, he’d thought it merely symbolic—a mark of the ship’s uniqueness.
But if another Relic Grade existed, everything changed.
It meant the Relic Grade itself held some meaning altogether different from what came before.
“Relic Grade means, quite literally, a relic.”
Urelka steadied his breath and continued.
“Things that no longer exist in the present age—beings who have already passed into the realm of the ancient.”
“Then what about Lapis?”
Poing.
At Yeon-u’s gesture, Lapis’s body jostled lightly.
Lapis too had been described as royalty of a forgotten slime race—shouldn’t they have appeared as Relic Grade?
But Urelka shook his head.
“We believed Lapis to have vanished, but this is a case of actual existence. Pilot Torca, however…”
He glanced back toward Torca.
“Was confirmed to have fallen in battle roughly a thousand years ago. As Clan Leader of the Iron-Blood Assault Squad.”
“Bawk-bawk! A th-thousand years!”
“One, two, three… Gudru does not understand numbers well.”
…
Yeon-u found himself at a loss for words.
A thousand years—that was time enough to be erased even from history books.
‘So Relic Grade truly is relic…’
And if a figure still spoke of among goblins after all that time, they must have proven their worth across that long span of history.
Moreover, if that was the definition of Relic Grade…
“Then could the Space Battleship also…?”
Had the battleship itself been destroyed a thousand years ago, or perhaps even before?
Urelka shook his head.
“The Space Battleship’s case is somewhat different. The ship is more accurately described as having buried itself.”
To summarize what Urelka explained next:
Relic Grade, in simple terms, was a tier determined by present existence.
It was not proof of superiority over S Grade.
Whether it surpassed Macross, who held A Grade, remained uncertain.
A thousand years represented such a vast temporal gulf that countless things had transformed in the interim.
Torca himself nodded and affirmed this point.
“I likewise do not grasp the situation. Such a span of time has passed, and to pilot a fighter once more…”
Torca rotated both wrists, his eyes betraying fresh wonder.
Perhaps he had never imagined he would be revived in this manner.
After all, what living being has ever expected resurrection when death comes?
‘Is it even wise to deploy someone—or rather, a goblin—like that into combat?’
As Yeon-u listened to the explanation, unease settled over him.
Webrelko Torca had already fallen in battle, and the thought of sending him back to the battlefield didn’t sit right.
But Torca spoke as though he had read Yeon-u’s mind, his expression hardened.
“That said, Captain, my resurrection here means my mission is far from over.”
His tone was firm, as if dismissing Yeon-u’s concern as evidence of weakness.
“If I’m given another chance to strike down our enemies, I will gladly accept it. For your honor, Captain.”
A grim resolve flickered in his eyes and resonated in his voice—a depth impossible to fully measure.
“Hmm…….”
Yeon-u hesitated for a moment, then glanced sideways at Sureka before speaking with evident reluctance.
“I’m grateful for your help, but…….”
“Please speak freely, Captain. I am ready for anything.”
“The only combat craft left are a D-Grade Goliath and an F+-Grade Thunder Hound. Will that suffice?”
“…….”
Torca’s expression grew even more solemn, as if confronted with an unforeseen turn.
“……It will suffice. A will finds a way.”
“Then I’ll assign you the Thunder Hound, which is at least comparable to the goblin mechs…….”
“I will take the Goliath.”
His resolve remained unshaken, though disappointment showed through all the same.
Yeon-u resolved then and there to secure better combat craft as quickly as possible.
‘But still—a D-Grade should be decent enough by external standards, shouldn’t it?’

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