I Got a Monster Spaceship from the Tutorial Tower - Chapter 5

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Episode 5
Chapter 5
The next day.
Pleasant sunlight coaxed open Yeon-u’s eyelids.
“Mmm-yawn.”
Yeon-u stretched luxuriously and mumbled with half-open eyes.
“Strange—now that a billion won is sitting in my account, I’m already dreading leaving the house.”
Should he skip the Tower altogether?
‘No, come on—I can’t do that.’
There were monsters waiting for him inside the Tower, if not people.
Certainly not a fox-like wife and rabbit-like children.
Just goblins that were genuinely goblin-like, and harpies that were harpies.
‘Though the harpy isn’t exactly harpy-like, is she.’
Where in this world did you find a harpy with a fear of flying?
No matter how many times he turned it over in his mind, it still seemed absurd.
After a bracing shower, Yeon-u prepared to enter the Tutorial Tower.
‘Sigh—I need to steel myself for this.’
The reason was simple.
“Will you enter the Tutorial Tower Platform?”
The Platform.
It was like a vast square where combat pilots from all over the world gathered before entering the Tutorial Tower.
Here pilots recruited Party Raids, conversed with pilots from other nations.
It was a space where pilots built camaraderie and comradeship, but for Yeon-u it was nothing but burdensome.
Yet he couldn’t avoid passing through the Platform.
“I’ll just move through it as fast as I can… Let’s go.”
Right after Yeon-u made his decision.
He found himself back in the bridge of the familiar warship.
“Welcome back, Captain.”
Urelka, who had been waiting for him, greeted him formally.
“Anything happen while I was gone?”
“All has been peaceful.”
While the pilot is away, the aircraft is stored in a place called the Personal Hangar.
It was a space pilots could enter at any time to check their aircraft’s condition, even without entering the Tower.
Of course, only the owning pilot could enter.
So while Yeon-u was gone, Urelka and Makros would have to spend their time in the hangar.
‘Waiting here the whole time would get boring.’
Beyond raids, Yeon-u thought he ought to show his face around here from time to time.
“What about Makros?”
“Over there.”
Yeon-u turned his gaze to where Urelka pointed.
“Ker-her-her!”
Makros was sprawled in one of the bridge chairs, snoring loudly with his beak open.
‘What a character.’
Yeon-u’s expression grew incredulous.
The goblin was fast asleep, even his beak hanging slack.
Whoosh.
“Urelka, put the axe away for now. Use your words instead.”
The moment she’d shown it to him once, the goblin had decided there was no reason to hesitate anymore—he’d developed a habit of pulling it from his belt at every turn.
“Yes, sir.”
Urelka made a small clicking sound with her tongue, disappointed, then approached Makros and shook him.
“Makros, wake up. The Captain has arrived.”
“Ker-ugh… W-what?”
But he did wake up readily enough.
Makros blinked sleepily around the room, then spotted Yeon-u and jolted awake.
“Oh—you’re here, Captain. I was just Summoned yesterday, so I was a bit tired, I’m afraid.”
“That’s understandable.”
After all, he was currently a pilot without an aircraft.
His position wasn’t particularly helpful for raids.
‘But the real problem is…’
Yeon-u glanced quietly out the bridge viewport.
As expected, the Platform was covered with countless fighter aircraft arrayed around the space battleship.
There seemed to be even more than what he’d watched on streams.
Or perhaps the space battleship was so enormous that the other vessels simply looked tiny by comparison.
“Ha, you don’t suppose they showed up in greater numbers just to see me, do you?”
Yeon-u said this with a joking laugh.
Urelka responded with a soft “Oh.”
“Most likely, sir.”
“…Why?”
“Well…”
Urelka paused deliberately, as if to suggest he would naturally understand if he simply waited.
And then.
Whoosh.
“What the—!”
Yeon-u gasped in alarm.
Beyond the bridge, countless fighter aircraft turned their bodies toward the battleship in perfect unison, as though they’d rehearsed it.
‘Is this sci-fi or a horror film?’
Then.
Ring-ring-ring-ring!!!!
A deafening alarm began to blare through the bridge, setting it reverberating.
“It’s a communication request. It seems everyone wishes to meet you, sir.”
Urelka informed him with a smile, as though this were no bad sign at all.
‘No, this is bad. Very bad.’
Yeon-u was absolutely opposed to it.
He found their reasons for opening communications deeply suspicious.
Even if their intentions were good, complications were inevitable—he could see it coming from a mile away.
And being a foreigner only made it worse.
The auto-translator worked, certainly, but for Yeon-u, the awkwardness could literally stop his heart.
“Can you turn off the alerts?”
“Of course, sir.”
Click.
When Urelka manipulated the instruments on the vice-captain’s console, the alarm mercifully ceased.
“Phew. Now I can breathe.”
“I’m afraid you should not relax just yet, sir.”
“…Why?”
Whenever Urelka said something like that, dread washed over him immediately.
Wail-wail-wail-wail!!!!
“What—what’s this now?”
“A distress signal, sir. Because we blocked their communication requests.”
That morning, he’d seen an article saying the space battleship had claimed the number one spot in worldwide popularity rankings.
Yeon-u now realized afresh just how thoroughly he’d turned the world upside down.
The best course of action in situations like this was simply to ignore everything.
“…Let’s just head to Floor 2 and clear it.”
“Yes, Captain.”
The Master Ball in Yeon-u’s raised hand gleamed.
「Entering Tutorial Tower Floor 2.」
Along with the notification window.
The next instant, Yeon-u and the space battleship floated in the vast cosmic sea, much like on Floor 1.
Floor 2’s enemies: two unmanned aircraft.
Up through Floor 10, the pattern was either an increase in the number of drones, or an increase in their size.
For example, Floor 3 had four; Floor 4 had eight.
Starting from Floor 5, medium-sized unmanned aircraft began to appear.
Screeeech!!!
Just as on Floor 1, the unmanned aircraft began charging toward the space battleship.
But he wasn’t afraid now.
With the space battleship’s main cannon at his side, he could dispatch drones without breaking a sweat.
‘Ready…’
It was just as Yeon-u tensed his grip on the Master Ball and began rotating the gun barrel.
“Ah, Captain—there’s something I failed to mention on Floor 1, when circumstances were so urgent.”
“What is it?”
“The main cannon can only be used once per floor, and once per Raid Portal. More precisely, it requires a full day to recharge, but the meaning is much the same.”
“…….”
“The Super Carrier’s only weakness.”
Why tell him that now?
In an instant, cold sweat poured down Yeon-u’s temples and spine.
“You can only use it once?”
“Yes.”
“Then what do we do?”
“Normally there would be no problem, since we have Carrier Aircraft aboard…….”
Yeon-u’s and Urelka’s gazes snapped toward Makros, who stood rubbing his eyes.
Currently, the space battleship had zero Carrier Aircraft on board.
There was that harpy with the flight phobia, but.
“Cluck-cluck?”
Being a harpy, it produced a chicken-like sound quite naturally.
“So you’re saying we have a problem right now?”
“Yes.”
Makros seemed to be grasping the situation a moment too late, glancing back and forth between the Unmanned Aircraft outside the bridge and Yeon-u.
“Cock-a-doodle-doo! This is exactly why I’m terrified of flying! A main cannon that fires only once?! What kind of relic-class warship is this?!”
He began flapping his wings frantically, throwing a fit.
‘Is he really A-rank?’
The fear he’d felt on first seeing the harpy was ancient history now.
In Yeon-u’s mind, Makros was nothing more than a bumbling layabout.
Still, this time he had to admit the substance of what he was saying held merit.
Makros rushed toward Yeon-u, shouting.
He was practically on his knees in supplication.
“It’s actually working out well, Captain! Please, stay calm!”
You stay calm.
Yeon-u wanted to snap back, but decided to hear what his subordinate had to say anyway.
“They’re charging straight at us! Adjust the angle, adjust the trajectory—we can finish this in one shot!”
“Hmm?”
Looking at it more carefully, Makros wasn’t wrong.
The Unmanned Aircraft were approaching fast, but if he responded calmly, there was plenty of time.
If he’d tested the main cannon’s power on the first floor.
‘Then on the second floor, I test its maneuverability.’
Yeon-u began gently channeling his will into the Master Ball.
Grrroooooom…….
As if a whale that had been sleeping in the deep were awakening, the battleship began moving with ponderous, forceful grace.
Urelka nodded in approval.
“Excellent. And Pilot Makros’s assessment appears sound.”
“Aaaah! Terrifying! Faster! Faster! More smoothly, please! Adjust the angle another 3.5 degrees!”
‘Would be better if he’d just shut up.’
Makros was dashing frantically about the bridge, shrieking in every direction—quite the pathetic sight.
And yet there was something oddly meticulous about it.
Yeon-u simply decided to ignore him, calmly adjusting the angle and shifting the battleship’s position while moving the main cannon in concert.
A little more.
A little more.
‘A little more…….’
The Unmanned Aircraft were drawing rapidly closer to the battleship.
But Yeon-u’s movements, now practiced in manipulating the vessel, were faster still.
The moment of reckoning arrived swiftly.
At last the battleship reached the position where the cannon barrel and the Unmanned Aircraft aligned perfectly in a straight line.
‘Fire.’
Zzziiiiing.
Shriek!
The Unmanned Aircraft still bore down with ferocious momentum, intent on gnawing through the space battleship.
The gap between them had narrowed to a dangerous degree—or so it seemed in that instant.
BOOOOOOM!!!
At last the main cannon erupted.
The beam shot forth from the muzzle, extending in a clean, satisfying arc.
A destructive force that small drone aircraft could neither resist nor evade.
Crackle!
The unmanned aircraft, heedless and charging toward the space battleship, vanished without ever firing the machine guns mounted on either side.
「Tutorial Tower, Floor 2.
S+ Rank Clear.」
S+ Rank Clear again, as expected.
“Phew, well, at least it’s over.”
Yeon-u released his grip on the Master Ball with a relieved sigh.
If his control had slipped even slightly, he would have been left helpless against an attack.
“Haa… I thought we were in real trouble there.”
Beside him, Makros exhaled an even deeper sigh than Yeon-u.
“But your talent is truly extraordinary, Vice-Captain.”
Snap.
He flicked a feather wing at Yeon-u as he spoke.
‘If only he could just stop talking…’
Makros was somehow even more timid than Yeon-u, who had never been known for his confidence.
Watching Makros finally relax, Yeon-u was struck by a sudden curiosity.
“But technically speaking, the space battleship is flying right now too, isn’t it?”
“That’s right?”
“Doesn’t that scare you?”
“It doesn’t, because I’m not the one piloting it.”
What kind of logic was that?
Yeon-u found himself speechless at how matter-of-factly Makros answered.
In any case, a notification immediately followed that the announcement had been sent to all pilots and the footage automatically registered.
The announcement included fine print mentioning the Super Carrier.
The level-up and 50 total Scrap rewards were the same as Floor 1.
But this time, one new notification appeared that hadn’t shown on Floor 1.
「You have acquired 1 Technology Directional Point.」
“Technology Directional?”
Since this was Yeon-u’s first time hearing it, it seemed to be a unique system exclusive to the space battleship.
“That’s correct. The space battleship acquires something called Technology Directional Points each time it levels up.”
“What are they used for?”
“You use them to determine your Technology Directional path.”
“…….”
Ah, I see.
This was entirely new knowledge.
Confirming it wasn’t difficult, of course.
The moment Yeon-u thought of Technology Directional, a window materialized before his eyes.
「Technology Directional Status
Current Remaining Points: 1」
“Oh…”
It was rather like allocating points in a skill tree in a game.
The directional path began with “Super Carrier.”
After that came one slot, then two more slots connected by lines.
Though not yet visible, numerous slots branched out like the limbs of a tree.
“So what you’re saying is, we can grow through this directional path too?”
“Precisely, Captain.”
This was extraordinary.
With other fighters, the only ways to grow were rising levels with each floor clear, and occasional modifications through items or modules that dropped.
The space battleship, meanwhile, could achieve growth far more powerful than anyone else, even after clearing a single floor.
Yeon-u examined the details of the single slot he could invest his one point into.
“!”
His eyes widened in an instant.
「Algorithm Enhancement.
Effect: Adjusts Summoning probability in your favor.
Required Points: 1」
‘Ah, I can’t resist this…’
So it really was about strengthening combat capability through Summoning—just as “Super Carrier” suggested.
A Summoning Enhancement right from the first choice was no ordinary path.
Yeon-u grinned darkly as he spoke.
“If I hadn’t seen this first, things could have gone very wrong.”
Urelka nodded, her grin growing even more sinister.
“That’s correct, Captain.”
“Ugh. That face is a bit much.”
“……Such harsh words.”
“That’s right, Captain. Vice Captain’s face isn’t at fault…… oh.”
Even Makros, who’d rushed to help Urelka, flinched back at the creature’s appearance.
If he’d sprinted off the moment a summoning opportunity arose, he would’ve thrown himself on the ground in regret.
“You’ll get used to it soon enough, Vice Captain. Chin up.”
“Yes, Captain…….”
Yeon-u offered Urelka a moment of comfort, then immediately invested his points.
「Applying Technology Directional: Algorithm Enhancement.」
‘A space battleship is the best!’
Of course, it only adjusted the odds in his favor slightly—it wasn’t as if high-tier units would come pouring out relentlessly.
But still, didn’t it feel different?
Yeon-u smiled broadly and spoke.
“Well then, shall we try an enhanced summoning?”
And so he found another spacious empty room.
Zing!
Yeon-u let out a gasp as he used his summoning chance.
“Ah!”
Could the enhanced algorithm have blessed Yeon-u with something extraordinary?
Shin Ha-yun’s S+ Rank Hades that shook the world?
American ace Giselle Han’s Icarus?
It was nothing like that.
‘Lower grades have such dull coloring…….’
The portal that opened this time was unmistakably gray—all hope drained from it.
「Summoning F+ Rank Fighter Aircraft: Thunder Hound.」
System Administrator, show yourself!
System, reveal those odds at once!
But no amount of shouting would help.
Despite choosing Algorithm Enhancement, an F+ Rank had materialized.
The F-Rank Hound was a basic-of-basics fighter aircraft—small in size, equipped with two laser gatlings.
Its maneuverability was at least decent enough.
Unlike the dull gray standard Hound, the Thunder Hound was distinguished by its yellow paint job.
Urelka spoke to the disappointed Yeon-u.
“But you obtained an A-Rank pilot in the last summoning, did you not? That alone is remarkable, Captain.”
“I suppose…….”
Yeon-u nodded anyway.
The “+” still indicated a special ability grafted onto the base frame, so it wasn’t the absolute worst.
‘Does the Thunder Hound…… come equipped with Blink?’
Blink, if used properly, could be a genuinely useful skill.
Of course.
“Aaaahhh! It’s actually flying, a real fighter is actually in the air!”
How well that harpy with flight phobia would actually use the Blink skill remained to be seen.
Makros, who’d been praying earnestly since stepping into the summoning chamber.
When Yeon-u asked why he was praying, Makros admitted he’d been begging for at least another pilot or crew member useful to the Captain.
‘Bad luck because of him.’
Surely the algorithm meant to guide Yeon-u in a favorable direction.
But with someone standing beside him performing an exorcism against that very outcome, the chance had likely fizzled.
Makros looked at Yeon-u with pleading eyes and made his case.
“You won’t really deploy me starting from the third floor, will you? The third floor only has four unmanned aircraft. With the main cannon like this time, we should be fine…….”
“Want to get chopped up?”
“Co-co-ooodle…….”
It was only a joke, of course.
He had no idea how to chop up a monster anyway.
「A-Rank Pilot, Makros. Shall I de-summon?
Warning: De-summoned targets cannot be re-summoned.」
‘Ah, so this is how it works.’
It did give him pause.
Still, for now he’d hold off.
“Coooooo-ooqueeeee!!!”
Meanwhile, Makros collapsed face-down on the ground, clutching his head in despair.
“Of all things, an F-Rank aircraft! That paper airplane! What if it tears apart while I’m flying it?!”
“F+.”
“What’s the difference?!”
Even as an F+ Rank, his worries proved groundless—the aircraft wouldn’t tear apart mid-flight.
A soft rustle.
Unable to bear it any longer, Urelka reached into her robes.
‘Is she going to pull out a hand axe again?’
Yeon-u caught a sideways glimpse.
“All right, all right—maybe we can talk about this if you put the blade away, Deputy Commander?”
This time it was a sword instead of an axe.
What kind of bottomless satchel did she have? How many weapons were stuffed in there?
Makros, now aware that his own side offered him no refuge, struggled to his feet and stumbled out of the Summoning Chamber.
“Where are you going?”
Yeon-u called after him. Makros answered in a hollow voice.
“I need to prepare myself mentally…….”
“Already?”
The third floor Raid wasn’t until tomorrow.

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