The Heavenly Demon Destroys the Tower - Chapter 10

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Episode 10
The Castrated Goblin Chief.
For ten years, he had earned notoriety among human players as the Newbie Smasher.
But today, without warning,
he vanished from the Beginner’s Tower by Lee Gang-han’s choice.
And now—
“Cheonma Divine Art! Ten-thousandfold blessing!!!!!”
The sole remaining Castrated Goblin Chief
continued prostrating himself even as Lee Gang-han told him to stop.
Unlike before,
one of the three horns protruding from his groin now glowed softly.
The moment Lee Gang-han had bestowed the horn upon him, without any separate equipping process,
it had transformed like this.
“Stop bowing. Let’s clear the tower now.”
“Yes…! I shall fetch the goblins!”
“Good.”
Only then did the chief rise.
Whoosh—!
He opened a portal of his own accord and brought all the goblins through.
“I shall send my subordinates to find the path! Please grant me command!”
“Alright. Do your best.”
It was better to have fifty goblins attempting the maze
than one person trying to brute force it alone.
The moment Lee Gang-han gave his permission,
Swish! Swish!
The goblins moved in perfect unison and entered the maze.
-Trying to brute-force the maze with numbers lol
-Feel bad for people out there finding the path solo…
-But their movements seem a lot sharper all of a sudden
-Same here lol must be because of the horn he gave them?
‘That’s definitely it.’
Unlike the last time at the Beginner’s Tower,
the goblins’ movements had grown noticeably swifter.
He’d heard that when goblins acquired their own territory, they gained opportunities to grow.
Was this connected to that?
‘This way, they’ll find the path much faster.’
Yet contrary to Lee Gang-han’s expectation,
the goblins that entered the maze showed no sign of returning.
“They didn’t get lost?”
“No. I can sense their traces. If even one of the fifty finds the path to the second floor, I need only follow that one’s footprints!”
“Alright. We’ll wait then.”
“Yes. I shall endeavor to earn a Clear Evaluation of A!”
Only an A?
Lee Gang-han, who had received an SSS+ last time, felt slightly disappointed at that answer.
-The Maze Tower’s notorious for stingy ratings lol
-An A with fifty goblins doing swarm tactics… is that even doable?
-Getting a C would honestly be a win
-Got to account for it being a bonus mission
Looking at the chat,
even an A seemed difficult in the ‘Maze’.
“Last time you got that horn, you got an SSS+.”
“Ah, I see…! Such a rating is why you granted me the horn.”
“Yeah. It wasn’t easy, it seems.”
“Indeed. An SSS score is only possible when one’s performance exceeds even that of the Non-human Races.”
“Compared to the Non-human Races too?”
Non-human Races.
Species other than humanity encountered in Gold-rank and higher towers.
Most of them displayed hostility toward humans rather than goodwill.
Whenever the message appeared that you were climbing the tower alongside the Non-human Races,
that run was considered a loss from the start.
But even compared to them, I’d need outstanding performance to earn an SSS rating.
‘So it was meant to be difficult after all.’
Lee Gang-han nodded to himself.
He turned his gaze on the Castrated Goblin Chief with renewed appreciation.
“But did you climb the tower too? You seem to know a lot.”
“That is…….”
The chief hesitated at the question for a moment.
“I’ve sworn loyalty to the Cheonma Divine Art, so what would I hide! The truth is…… &$%!$!”
He’d worked up the courage to say something, but then—
From “the truth is” onward, only beeping sounds came out.
And yet.
Even as the Castrated Goblin Chief’s mouth moved, his voice made no sound at all.
-What?
-Why’d he stop talking?
-There are two ways to drive a person mad. First is never finishing your sentence, and second is—
-What’s the second one?
-Doing whatever that goblin’s doing right there lol
-Ugh, seriously ㅋㅋㅋ
The viewers started complaining at first.
“Grraaahhh……!?”
The Castrated Goblin Chief’s body suddenly swelled up.
Pop-pop-pop!
It burst like a balloon popping right before their eyes.
-…Huh? What just happened?
-But that doesn’t mean he had to die…
-That’s why he looked so grave when he was talking;
-Is it related to the tower? Some kind of spoiler protection?
-So the tower explodes your body if you spoil lol
The chief’s body had burst completely.
Thud. Thud…….
At least his three horns hadn’t burst—they tumbled across the ground.
Crack!
As one horn shattered, the chief’s body regenerated.
“Kyieeeek! You think you can silence me like this!? !&&$!%$”
The Castrated Goblin Chief, brought back to life, was furious and tried to speak again.
Pop-pop-pop!
Before he could continue, his body burst apart once more.
And then one more horn vanished.
Fsssssh…….
The chief’s body regenerated again.
“…….”
Only one of his horns remained now—
The one Lee Gang-han had given him—and the chief clamped his mouth shut at the sight of it.
Losing two horns was one thing.
But if this last one shattered too, that would be something else entirely.
“Hey, that’s enough. Don’t answer. I don’t want this horn breaking too.”
“A…… Yes, sir! Understood!”
Color flushed back into the Castrated Goblin Chief’s face.
It was clear he was desperate to preserve this horn.
Then—
“Ah! I’ve found the exit!”
One of the fifty goblins he’d sent out had found the exit.
The goblin began guiding them forward.
‘This is convenient.’
He was never good at finding his way through mazes anyway.
With the goblins’ help, he’d breeze through the Maze Tower.
But if fifty goblins are needed just to aim for an A-rank evaluation—
“How do other Non-human Races even manage an SSS rating?”
At Lee Gang-han’s question—
“That would be because there are races capable of flight, sir.”
The Goblin Chief pointed upward along the maze wall with one finger.
“The wall appears to reach the ceiling, but if you look closely, you’ll notice gaps.”
“Ah, I see it now.”
The maze walls that seemed to stretch all the way to the ceiling.
Yet here and there across the ceiling were openings.
It looked as though you could squeeze through and pass if you managed it right.
-But if you’re going to block it, block it properly. Why leave gaps like that?
-Flying races just fly through and eat this for free lol
-Right like
The tower was entirely unfair.
Just as Lee Gang-han was thinking this while studying the gaps,
“The maze’s exit ultimately lies in a straight line ahead, so if you simply fly in that direction, you’ll arrive quickly.”
“The exit is in a straight line from here?”
“Yes.”
“Is it that way on every floor?”
“Well… I suspect so.”
He’d thought that because it was a maze, each exit would face a different direction.
But the Portal leading to the next level was simply on the opposite side of the starting point.
Tap. Tap.
Following behind the Goblin Chief, Lee Gang-han rapped the maze wall several times.
Stone walls that looked sturdy enough.
Yet their thickness seemed thinner than he’d expected.
‘Hmm…’
His gaze grew distant and calculating.
“We’ve arrived!”
Before long, the group stood before the Portal leading to the second floor.
-Oh that was fast
-sending 50 goblins as pathfinders was definitely the way to go
-is the chief carrying this run? wtf
-isn’t he getting an A or higher with this pace?
The viewers watched as Lee Gang-han cleared the maze in record time
and revised their score predictions upward.
Zing—
“Kek-kek-kek?”
But the moment they stepped onto the second floor,
fewer than ten goblins remained following the Goblin Chief.
This number was
exactly the same as the goblins who had joined the Chief as they cleared the maze.
-???
-where did all the other goblins go
-probably lost in the maze lmaooo
-wait but don’t Summoned Creatures follow you to the next floor?
-yeah but like… what is this?
While the viewers struggled to make sense of it,
the Goblin Chief, panic-stricken, counted the goblins trailing behind him,
then—Thump! Thump!—
drove his head straight into the ground and began prostrating himself.
“I-I’m terribly sorry, Lord, I thought the goblins would naturally follow through the Portal…!”
“The rest must still be wandering the maze.”
“Y-yes, that seems to be the case…!”
The Chief, at a loss for what to do,
received a wave of the hand from Lee Gang-han.
“It’s fine. I was planning to use a different method from the second floor anyway.”
“A… different method?”
“Yeah.”
With that, Lee Gang-han
stepped forward, step by step,
and planted himself before the wall.
* * *
The exit lies on the opposite side of the starting point.
If only there were no maze.
If only that towering wall didn’t exist, the exit wouldn’t actually be that far away.
‘And the wall—it’s solid stone, but… it’s thinner than I expected.’
Tap. Tap.
Lee Gang-han drummed his fingers against the wall.
A dark smile crossed his face.
‘It wasn’t just pathfinding I hated.’
On the first floor, the Castrated Goblin Chief had found the way for him.
He could have cleared it just by following behind.
But even so.
A part of him had burned with frustration.
Why did they build a maze when the exit was plainly visible?
Why make people walk in circles?
‘I could just smash through it.’
Whoosh!
Lee Gang-han pulled his fist back from tapping the wall.
Crack!
The wall caved inward, leaving a fist-shaped impression.
-???
-What’s he doing?
-Wait… he’s not trying to break the wall, is he? lol
-Come on, you can’t break stone with your bare fist lol
-But it did dent though, look at that impression;
As the viewers watched him strike the wall
and wondered if he was serious,
“Guess that won’t work,” he muttered.
Lee Gang-han grinned wickedly.
“Cheonma Divine Art.”
He spoke the name of the skill aloud.
[Skill ‘Cheonma Divine Art’ activates.]
A message appeared before him.
The power of the Cheonma—the force that had torn off the Castrated Goblin Chief’s head in a single blow—now surged through him.
Lee Gang-han felt his entire body explode with strength.
‘Now.’
Boom!
His fist struck the wall again.
Craaack…!
Fissures spiderwebbed across the stone wall.
The impact was utterly different from before.
But still.
‘Not enough.’
Lee Gang-han’s expression darkened with dissatisfaction.
He drove his fist forward again.
Boom. Boom. Boom!
Three strikes.
Four.
Over ten times he hammered the same spot without relenting.
[Skill ‘Cheonma Divine Fist’ activates.]
The skill he’d obtained before—Cheonma Divine Fist—
activated on its own.
A crimson aura rippled across his knuckles, and then—
Kaboom…!
The stone wall simply exploded outward.
“There we go.”
A space opened up easily wide enough for one or two people—
no, even the two-meter-tall Castrated Goblin Chief could pass through without trouble.
Lee Gang-han smiled wickedly and stepped toward the next wall.
The Cheonma Divine Art lasted ten minutes.
He had to blast through every wall in that time.
Bang! Bang!
The sound of an explosion echoed through the air.
A hole tore through the wall.
—What the hell—
—Is this guy insane?
—Wow, so he really is Cheonma…
—When he said he’d use the Cheonma Divine Art, he meant an actual skill, right?
—Yeah, looks like it; he’s just punching walls to pieces. Insane.
The viewers witnessing the Cheonma Divine Art’s power for the first time
doubted their own eyes even as they watched.
What kind of nonsense was this? In a Maze Tower,
he was punching through walls to forge ahead?
And those were solid stone walls at that.
“…Huh.”
The Goblin Chief, meanwhile,
stood frozen, speechless at the sight before him.
A soft whistle.
Lee Gang-han turned to look back.
“Hey, if we clear this, the kids trapped in the maze can escape too, right?”
“Yes, that’s correct…”
“Then let’s punch through. Come on.”
And so Lee Gang-han
pummeled a path forward.
At first, even with the Cheonma Divine Art active, he had to strike multiple times.
‘Is this the right way to do it?’
But with each successive blow,
Lee Gang-han’s movements grew more economical.
‘The power needs to flow like this, I think.’
The crimson glow wrapped around his fist deepened.
And so,
by the time he reached the end of the second floor, stone walls crumbled to dust with a single strike.
—Wait, he’s stronger than before? One hit and it’s gone?
—I thought the flying race was broken, but this guy’s even more ridiculous…
—Is he seriously going all the way to floor ten like this? For real???
The viewers watched as Lee Gang-han simply demolished walls as he ascended,
half-wondering if he’d really make it all the way to the tenth floor.
“We’re here.”
“…Yes.”
Lee Gang-han had done exactly that—
punched his way through walls all the way to the tenth floor.
[The Cheonma Divine Art has ended.]
Fading energy dissipated with a soft whisper.
As he reached the final floor, the Cheonma Divine Art’s activation came to an end at just the right moment.
[The skill ‘Cheonma Divine Fist’ has risen to 1-star.]
After seeing the upgrade message for the Cheonma Divine Fist, Lee Gang-han
surveyed the final floor.
Last time, there had been a gleaming star-shaped jewel.
This time, the uppermost chamber stood empty.
Only beyond it, a Clear Portal shimmered with azure light.
“There’s no star?”
—That only shows up in the tutorial, doesn’t it?
—Though there are rare cases when it appears…
—Still, never seen it during regular tower climbs
Chat flooded in response to Lee Gang-han’s question.
So that star could only be found in the tutorial.
‘Then I should clear this.’
Lee Gang-han stepped into the Clear Portal.
And then,
[Calculating Iron Tower No.31 results…]
[You have cleared the Maze Tower within one hour.]
[You have achieved a new Clear Evaluation record for the Human race.]
[You have entered the top 10% of all clear times recorded.]
[Clear Evaluation – SSS+]
[Rewards are granted in proportion to your evaluation score.]
[Beyond the SSS rank evaluation, you receive an additional special reward.]
‘Another SSS+ rating.’
I wonder if they’ll give me something other than horns this time.
I’d prefer something I can actually equip.
It was while Lee Gang-han was thinking this.
[You have obtained 3 entrance tickets to ‘Iron Tower No-777’.]
As your special reward.
Three entrance tickets appeared in his inventory.
Cheonma Divine Art Smashes the Tower (Ongoing)
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