Monopolizing Skills to the 666th Floor - Chapter 48
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Skill Devouring to the 666th Floor Episode 048
48. Liu Weihao
As soon as Lee Tae Seong posted his message, Transcendence Net went into chaos.
└Amon started ViewTube?
└For real? Did he film a video?
└Someone give me the link.
└What’s the channel name?
└Go check the best post. It’s all written there.
└Why is he doing ViewTube?
└He said he’ll upload videos starting from Floor 30. Says it’s hard to explain with text.
There must have been an Apostle among the reporters because it quickly made the main news.
“Look at this. Amon started ViewTube.”
“Really?”
It even caught the attention of ordinary people.
Almost everyone knew that Amon was the pioneer who had cleared up to the 66th Floor.
“Search for it on ViewTube.”
“Got it.”
When they searched for ‘Amon’, hundreds of videos poured out.
When they clicked on one of them.
[Hello, I’m Amon. I’ve been filming videos all along, but I haven’t uploaded them. However, since so many people are curious about the clearing process, I’ve decided to come to you with videos instead of text this time. I hope you enjoy watching, and let’s begin the Floor 15 clear!]
A video filmed from a first-person perspective appeared.
“Is this the right video? Other people have cleared Floor 15 too.”
“You’ll know if you check the comments.”
When they checked the comments, sure enough.
└This bastard isn’t Amon. Don’t be fooled, guys.
└You thought we’d believe you’re Amon just because you uploaded a Floor 15 clear? You beggar bastard?
└This is really pathetic. Do you want to live like this?
└Since Amon’s starting on ViewTube, they’re frantically changing their title and impersonating to leech views lol
└There are seriously so many impersonators. A whole truckload.
└If you were Amon, you should’ve uploaded a 60th Floor clear video, not 15th Floor.
└Don’t even need 60th Floor. Even 30th Floor would be believable.
└Where’s the real Amon channel besides this guy?
└I’ll post the link to Amon’s video. http://www.viewtube.net/watch?v=xgQ7RqNg
└Don’t click the link. It’s bait. Search for ‘Amon’s Labyrinth Clear’ and the channel will come up. That’s the real one.
It was a video by an impersonator, not the real one.
“Hey, this doesn’t seem to be it. Should we search for the channel?”
“Try it.”
When they searched for ‘Amon’s Labyrinth Clear’, exactly one channel came up.
Only two videos were uploaded.
One was a video titled [Amon Impersonator Arrest], and the other one was….
[Amon’s Labyrinth 30th Floor Clear Guide]
It had such a simple title.
When they clicked the video icon, the screen started playing.
“Whoa.”
The sight of quickly starting the clear without saying a word.
It was definitely different from other flashy clear videos.
“This is the real Amon.”
Although the face wasn’t visible due to the first-person perspective, no one doubted it.
He was clearing the 30th Floor that no one else had cleared yet.
“The 30th Floor seems to be a trap mission.”
“Right. But he’s clearing it so damn smoothly?”
“How did he do it? He must have entered for the first time.”
Due to the nature of the Labyrinth, re-challenges are impossible.
Once you enter, you can’t come out until you finish the clear.
Yet Amon in the video perfectly avoided all the traps.
As if he knew the answers.
[This door has a different corner part like this. If you remember this well and look for it in the next door, you can quickly break through the traps.]
The video had subtitles instead of voice.
It was informal speech like when he wrote the clear posts, but it wasn’t unpleasant.
Rather, people were grateful just for sharing the information.
└Great Amon.
└This is the real Amon. Look how smoothly he clears it.
└Thank you for the video.
└I’ll refer to this when I reach the 30th Floor.
└Watching the video makes it definitely easier and faster to understand.
└Is Amon also good at spot-the-difference games?
└His stats are probably damn high so he’d be good at hunting too, right?
└He probably has tons of skills too.
└At most he probably got sponsored about 3 skills.
└3 is already tons though?
└I’m curious what skills he has.
└At a glance, he’s wearing some good items too.
└Do equipment items even drop in the Labyrinth?
└All I get are miscellaneous items….
└Ah… I was hoping for hunting footage but it never shows up.
└Me too. I wanted to see him hunt.
└He just avoids all the traps and everything to set records.
└Overwhelming. His brain power is exceptional too.
└Passing through 50 doors in 11 minutes?
└That’s insane. He’s beyond human level.
└I don’t think I could break this record when I reach Floor 30.
└What can’t this guy do?
“Wow, is this guy just crazy?”
“This is someone clearing it for the first time?”
Throughout the Chinese Streets, people watching ViewTube videos were noticeable.
The two men currently absorbed in the screen were among them.
But their voices seemed too loud.
“What are you watching? You guys?”
A passing man approached with interest.
However, the two men didn’t hide their displeasure at his casual tone.
“Who are you?”
“Mind your own business and go on your way.”
At those words, a subtle smile appeared on the approaching man, Weihao’s lips.
“Pfft, puhuhuhkukuk!”
“What’s with that guy?”
“Isn’t he crazy?”
The men glanced at Weihao and whispered among themselves.
He didn’t look like the type to pick fights with passersby.
Rather, he gave off a smart impression with his neat attire.
Yet his behavior was completely irrational.
“Funny, so funny. If you have nothing, you should at least prostrate yourself. Like this.”
Weihao extended his hand.
“Keurk!”
“Urk!”
An invisible crushing force made both men fall flat on their faces.
Weihao smiled with satisfaction as he stepped over the two men.
“If you’re insects, crawl around like insects. Or avoid getting in the way.”
“Ugh, we were wrong!”
“P-please let us go now. Uugh….”
The men belatedly realized their opponent was an Apostle and changed their attitude.
However.
“I can ask what you’re doing, can’t I? Would it kill you to answer a little kindly? Hm?”
Weihao’s expression had already twisted like a demon’s.
Crack!
With a single gesture, one man’s head was crushed like a watermelon.
The man beside him was shocked senseless and trembled like a leaf.
“I, I was, was wrong. P-please sp-spare me….”
“I have never once.”
Snap!
At Weihao’s gesture, the man’s neck bone broke.
“Spared someone I decided to kill.”
He killed two complete strangers as easily as swatting insects.
For the trivial reason that they didn’t answer his question.
“Now I feel a bit better.”
After looking down contentedly at the two blood-soaked corpses, he looked around.
This was a slum with no CCTV and few people.
There was no worry of the murder being discovered.
Moreover, since he didn’t even use a weapon, there were no traces of the crime left behind.
‘No one can stop me.’
A perfect crime.
He turned around with confidence that there was no chance of becoming a suspect.
Just then, a smartphone lying on the ground caught his eye.
“But what were they watching?”
A strategy video was playing on the smartphone.
None other than Amon’s.
“Amon started ViewTube?”
Surprised, Weihao moved his steps.
To a secluded place without corpses.
Liu Weihao never doubted that he was the strongest in China.
This could be confirmed by looking at Transcendence Net.
【Looking for someone to clear Floor 18 together!】
【Looking for women only to clear Floor 17!】
【Floor 15 party. Currently have 3 members and urgently need one more!】
Party recruitment posts filled the bulletin board densely.
But there were no posts about Floor 20 or higher anywhere.
‘I’ve already climbed up to Floor 24, but these idiots can’t even pass Floor 20 despite moving in parties.’
He couldn’t see anyone who had cleared faster than him.
That meant he was the strongest.
The reason he could become this strong?
It was thanks to his skill.
▷Grip of the Dead (SSS)
―Effect: Can manipulate objects or subdue opponents with telekinesis. Requires extremely high mana control.
‘Other guys just show off talking about Transcendent Spirits and whatnot, but I have a god as my sponsoring spirit.’
That wasn’t the only reason he was special.
It was his nature of being numb to slaughter.
Weihao was already notorious in China as a serial killer called the ‘Death God’.
For him, the Labyrinth was like a giant playground.
A space where he could unleash violence freely without needing to suppress his murderous instincts.
However, even that was starting to bore him.
Anyone would get tired of eating the same food continuously.
The Labyrinth was now nothing more than a monotonous hunting ground for Weihao.
‘That’s why I occasionally hunt humans too. Like earlier.’
He was certain.
That no one could stop him, the strongest.
Of course, Weihao knew too.
That the term ‘strongest’ was limited to Chinese people only.
Because there was an out-of-spec existence called Amon.
‘I know who Amon is. But I didn’t know he started ViewTube.’
When he changed Transcendence Net’s country setting to Korea, he saw Amon’s post that happened to be on the best list.
He had really started ViewTube.
‘Should I check out his channel?’
When he entered the channel called [Amon’s Labyrinth Strategy], there were only two videos.
One was a video exposing imposters, and the other was a Floor 30 strategy guide.
‘Sharing a Floor 30 video so openly. Isn’t he afraid of having his Achievement stolen?’
Weihao smiled as he read Amon’s post on the screen.
If he referenced this strategy, setting a record would be a piece of cake.
‘I’ll steal your Achievement and embed my name, Liu Weihao, in the Hall of Fame.’
With his skill and abilities, he could reach Floor 30 in just a few days.
‘By the way, seeing it’s written in Korean, he must really be Korean?’
Amon’s identity was a major interest worldwide.
Especially the speculation that he was Korean was most likely, and this video seemed like evidence of that.
‘Do I need to go to Korea to meet Amon?’
The fact that such talent emerged from a small country like Korea didn’t sit well with him…
‘If I get the chance, I definitely want to ask.’
How he became so strong.
And.
‘Whether you also like killing people like me.’
[10 days have passed.]
[Since no new records appeared, you permanently acquire the ‘Explorer (F)’ Achievement effect.]
This message appeared during my strategy run.
It would probably appear once a day.
‘Since I’ve been breaking through 10 floors daily and setting records.’
Labyrinth strategy was that easy for me.
[You have cleared Labyrinth Underground 69th Floor!]
[As a Floor 69 normal clear reward, ‘Weak Essence of Strength’ is granted.]
[28,600 Credits (+6,600) are granted.]
[Booster applied floors: 4/10 floors]
After clearing the Labyrinth up to Floor 69, I returned Home and checked the reactions to the post I uploaded on Transcendence Net.
[Author: Amon]
【Title: Releasing Floor 30~39 strategy guide. This time it’s a video.】
[Views: 280,589]
[Total Comments: 789]
In less than half a day, the view count had exploded.
The comments were substantial too.
‘Looking at the comments, most reactions are of surprise.’
They probably never expected me to start ViewTube.
‘Still, this isn’t bad for a start.’
I entered the channel [Amon’s Labyrinth Strategy] and checked the statistics.
【Amon Impersonator Arrested】
Views: 217,043
Average watch time: 0:50 minutes
Likes: 24,321
Comments: 1,243
【Amon’s Labyrinth Floor 30 Strategy】
Views: 190,312
Average watch time: 9:20 minutes
Likes: 26,234
Comments: 2,521
I had only uploaded two videos, but my subscribers had already surpassed 100,000.
The view counts for each video were good too.
‘I expected more views, but this is decent for the beginning.’
I had posted promotional content on Transcendence Net, but it was limited to Korea.
Foreign comments were only a small number.
‘Well, as time passes, word will spread and views will naturally increase.’
Just as I was thinking that and about to close the Transcendence Net window.
An unexpected message appeared.
[Notice! You have exceeded the required experience points on Transcendence Net.]
[Adjusting your permissions on Transcendence Net.]
[You have been promoted from General User→Manager!]
It was a message saying I had become an administrator.
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