I’m the Only One With Two Towers - Chapter 8

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Only I Have Two Towers Episode 008

Transfer

The Tower’s influence on the existing world can be broadly divided into two categories.

Supernatural abilities through synchronization rates and items dropped from the Tower.

But this is only the story of general cases.

There was one more major influence that appeared at unspecified times, and that was Transfer.

And this was also the current reason for the Hunter’s Guild’s existence.

“Where is it?”

“Dongdaemun Market.”

“Roll the CCTV.”

Dongdaemun Market appeared on the large monitor.

The market was currently engulfed in a black vortex.

Soon it would appear there.

An unspecified floor of the Tower.

Transfer cannot specify the timing and location of its occurrence.

It always appears suddenly and mixes up the original location with the Tower’s floors.

“First, send two hunters from the subjugation team. There’s a reconnaissance team stationed near Dongdaemun, right?”

“Yes. Three members are on standby.”

“Deploy them immediately.”

“Understood.”

Jin Yun-ho clicked his tongue.

His instructions were calm, but his heart was urgent.

When Transfer occurs, cases are broadly divided into two types.

Cases where monsters appear and cases where they don’t.

He sent subjugation team hunters to prepare for the latter.

# The reconnaissance team has arrived. Turning on cameras and entering.

The screen showed Dongdaemun Market all mixed together.

Jin Yun-ho crossed his arms and stared at the monitor.

The reconnaissance team’s most important mission was to identify which floor of the Tower had appeared through Transfer.

The personnel deployed for this were comparing the existing Tower’s terrain structure with the transferred floor.

# Confirmation complete. It’s the 45th Floor.

“Phewwww!”

Jin Yun-ho and the situation room personnel let out sighs of relief.

What determines whether monsters appear during Transfer is whether the Tower belonging to each country has been cleared.

The highest officially known cleared floor in South Korea was the 92nd floor.

Therefore, there were no monsters there.

Below the 92nd floor, no monsters would appear regardless of which floor was transferred.

‘We can breathe easy.’

Jin Yun-ho sat down and picked up a water bottle.

When the Tower first appeared, terrified people didn’t climb the unfamiliar Tower.

At that time, benefits obtainable through Tower climbing like synchronization rates or items weren’t known.

Then Transfer occurred in the middle of Seoul.

What appeared was the Tower’s 1st floor.

Goblins literally poured out from there.

While only a few come out from the actual Tower’s 1st floor, the size of floors moved by Transfer is unspecified.

If formed large, that many more damn monsters would be mass-produced.

Back then, synchronization rates weren’t known, so all personnel from police, military, and intelligence agencies came out to fight monsters.

Even so, the first Transfer resulted in an absurd number of civilian casualties.

Later, through cooperative investigation with other countries, they discovered the relationship between Tower clearing and Transfer, and from then on, the government established the Hunter’s Guild and various related agencies to actively encourage players’ Tower climbing.

‘Already the 45th Floor.’

He frowned.

As time passed, the floor numbers being transferred gradually increased.

China and the US, which had already cleared over 120 floors, had relative leeway, but Korea’s situation was different.

The moment high floors that hadn’t been cleared in the Tower were transferred, a true catastrophe would unfold.

That’s why everyone encouraged and rushed Tower climbing.

Outside conditions were inevitably weaker than when fighting in the Tower due to synchronization rates.

If possible, clearing the corresponding floor before Transfer was the best option.

“Team Leader. There’s a problem. None of the dispatched reconnaissance team or subjugation team hunters have cleared the 45th Floor. It’s known to be a maze with real-time changing structure. The existing 45th Floor’s clear mission is monster subjugation and maze escape.”

# We don’t think we can find the way on our own. Requesting support from 45th Floor cleared personnel.

Just because monsters don’t appear doesn’t mean Transfer automatically ends.

Transfer only ends when all conditions of the existing floor are completed.

Anyway, it meant one of the people who were at Dongdaemun Market had to escape from that maze.

Jin Yun-ho roughly estimated the distance and took out his phone.

# Hunter Cheon Se-yeon.

A high ranker currently trying the 83rd floor with a synchronization rate approaching 40%.

This was why they poured 100 billion won annually to recruit her for times like this.

# Yes, this is Cheon Se-yeon. You’re calling to tell me to go to Dongdaemun, right?

“Yes. Please take care of it.”

# What do you mean please? I have to earn my pay.

Jin Yun-ho finished the call and let out another deep sigh.

Then he quietly stared at the monitor.

Cheon Se-yeon had departed.

So the situation would soon be over.

‘What bad timing.’

Jinhyeok frowned.

He had cleared the 10th Floor and came to Dongdaemun Market to empty his full inventory.

But Transfer? What a damn unlucky day.

Pufffffff.

Cigarette smoke puffed out before his eyes.

“Don’t worry. Already cleared floor. No monsters.”

That speech pattern he could never get used to no matter how often he heard it.

Jinhyeok glanced at Oh Jae-gap, the General Store grandfather.

‘Speech patterns are personal freedom. But asking him to change it would go against respecting elders.’

Today too, he stopped talking and looked around quickly.

He’d only seen it on the internet, but this was his first time seeing Transfer directly.

‘It is fascinating.’

He touched a rock that had suddenly sprouted.

The rock still held an unidentified coolness and ominousness.

“Don’t touch carelessly. Become zombie.”

“Is this a floor where undead appear?”

“Actually don’t know, just saying.”

He must be quite bored.

Anyway, he carefully stored today’s purchased items in his inventory.

Thanks to selling accessories obtained while climbing to the 10th Floor, his bank balance had risen back to 4 million won.

His heart felt very secure.

Oh Jae-gap, who had been puffing cigarette smoke, squinted one eye.

‘Was he always this big?’

It wasn’t like Jinhyeok hadn’t visited in a long time.

It was only a revisit after a week and two days at most.

Compared to then, his body felt incomparably more solid.

Grumble.

Jinhyeok looked down at his loudly rumbling stomach.

Come to think of it, he had skipped both breakfast and lunch entirely after saying he’d sell items and eat something delicious.

Naturally, Seira must be terribly hungry too.

“Grandfather. I’m going now. Sell lots.”

“Where you going? This here’s a damn complicated maze floor. Only one person needs to get out anyway, so wait until a hunter comes to take you out. Don’t waste your energy wandering around lost.”

“It’s okay. I’m a genius at finding paths. Well then.”

Jinhyeok bowed and spun around, walking away without hesitation.

“Tsk.”

Oh Jae-gap clicked his tongue.

Starting from when he followed those middle schoolers last time, he’s a friend who damn well doesn’t listen.

“Ah.”

Speaking of which, that group of middle schoolers who hadn’t been seen since that day.

According to rumors circulating in Dongdaemun, someone had beaten them severely and forced them into retirement.

The one who beat them must have been that friend who had taken all their items.

A possibility floated into Oh Jae-gap’s mind as he held his long pipe.

Don’t tell me, again?

And it didn’t take long for this question to be resolved.

A message appeared before his eyes.

[Player has escaped the maze. Transfer is ending.]

‘That was quick.’

He put away the Yodel’s Compass and looked back at Dongdaemun Market that he had exited.

As soon as the message about the transfer ending appeared, the terrain of the 45th Floor began to disappear.

Thanks to this, the market was returning to its previous appearance.

‘At this rate, the whole world might turn into a Tower.’

Transfers expand as time passes, swallowing the surrounding areas.

If left uncleared, it would probably devour the entire area.

It was similar to Earth being taken over by the Zerg in StarCraft.

Grumble.

‘Let’s go. Transfer or whatever, I’m going to starve to death.’

Today he planned to let Seira experience pizza instead of chicken.

He had to get to his regular place before it closed.

“…?”

He turned to leave quickly but couldn’t take a step.

A woman standing a couple steps ahead was blocking Jinhyeok’s path.

A woman with wavy hair reaching her back, looking at Jinhyeok with narrowed eyes.

‘This might be a lucky day.’

Jinhyeok recognized the woman immediately.

Cheon Se-yeon, the high ranker who cleared the 82nd Floor, was that famous.

According to rumors, she had an unofficial contract worth tens of billions with the Hunter’s Guild.

‘I’m jealous.’

The amount was so absurd it didn’t even make him feel bitter.

Feeling pure envy, Jinhyeok lightly nodded and moved to walk around Cheon Se-yeon.

Pizza came first for now.

“Wait a moment. Did you just come out of there?”

If he said yes, it would probably become troublesome.

But this was South Korea, where CCTVs were everywhere.

To avoid more troublesome suspicion, he nodded.

“Yes.”

“How?”

“By walking?”

Cheon Se-yeon made a dumbfounded expression.

It was the right answer, but it was too absurd.

“No, that’s a maze, so I’m asking how you found the way.”

Jinhyeok pointed to his own eyes with his finger.

“I have good eyesight. So I’m good at finding paths too. Just now, I walked toward places that seemed like paths and came out.”

Se-yeon let out a quiet murmur.

This was the person who had ended the transfer she should have finished.

Though the explanation wasn’t entirely convincing, she wasn’t tactless enough to interrogate someone she was grateful to.

Instead of asking more questions, she extended her hand.

“I’m freelance hunter Cheon Se-yeon.”

“I’m Yoo Jin-hyeok. It’s an honor. You’re incredibly famous.”

“I’m just one ordinary player among many.”

Se-yeon glanced down at Jinhyeok’s hand.

Seeing calluses here and there, he seemed to use close-combat weapons.

Meanwhile, Jinhyeok had also learned something from that handshake.

‘Why are her hands so soft? Would it be weird to ask what hand cream she uses?’

He decided not to ask questions that might seem strange.

Just shaking hands with such a famous person was already a happy occasion.

Cheon Se-yeon, who had let go of his hand, spoke up.

“If it’s not rude, may I ask what floor you’ve cleared up to?”

She couldn’t help but ask this.

The 45th Floor maze was a place where even the current Cheon Se-yeon couldn’t guarantee she wouldn’t get lost.

But Jinhyeok had exited such a place as if taking a stroll.

It was inevitable that he reminded her of someone she was very curious about.

“I cleared the 10th Floor a few days ago. I’m holding off on the 11th Floor because I heard orcs appear and I’m scared.”

“I see.”

The record holder who had heated up society had cleared the 10th Floor today.

If what he said was true, Jinhyeok wasn’t the same person, but something felt off about letting him go like this.

“If it’s okay, would you like to exchange Instagram IDs?”

“I don’t use SNS.”

“Then how about KakaoTalk?”

“Sure.”

Holding out his QR code, Jinhyeok observed Cheon Se-yeon.

She clearly hadn’t let go of her suspicions.

But what could he do about it? No matter how much she suspected, there would be no way to find out.

“Thank you.”

“Don’t mention it. Well, I’ll be going now.”

“Yes. Get home safely.”

After exchanging greetings, he spun around.

Someone had started suspecting him, but Jinhyeok didn’t particularly care.

Right now, he was just.

‘Awesome. KakaoTalk friends with Cheon Se-yeon.’

He cheered inwardly at getting to know a celebrity.

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