The Heavenly Demon Destroys the Tower - Chapter 106

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Episode 106
Yongsan, Tower Management Association.
“Please come this way.”
Lee Kang-han arrived in Shin Yu-ri’s car.
He entered the association with her and was guided to the conference room.
And there.
He came face to face with Shin Gyeong-cheol, who stood before the monitors hanging in the room with a grave expression.
“Ah, you’re here. Sorry for calling you out so early in the morning.”
“Not at all. The situation seemed serious.”
“That’s right. Ever since we officially joined Universe 101, a serious problem has emerged…….”
Shin Gyeong-cheol exhaled a low sigh.
“You know the tower with the Occupation Reservation has transformed, right?”
“Yes. I saw footage of it writhing, surrounded by dark energy. But over the phone earlier, you said…….”
“Right. Just now, it transformed again. Let me show you what it looks like now.”
Shin Gyeong-cheol manipulated the remote.
The monitors in the conference room began playing footage.
A tower surrounded by dark energy, emanating ominousness.
So far, it matched exactly what Lee Kang-han had seen on the internet.
Rumble, rumble, rumble……!
Suddenly the tower’s surroundings vibrated.
Whoosh…….
At the base of the tower.
The smoke from the first floor cleared, revealing a new form beneath it.
The original shape had vanished entirely.
From the tower’s first floor, now transformed into gleaming golden metal,
Bang! Bang!
The sharp impact of metal striking metal rang out.
Small holes began to form.
What started as dozens of holes
became hundreds within moments.
And finally, across the entire wall of the first floor,
long metal rods jutted forth.
“That’s…….”
Long, golden metal rods.
The foremost portions seemed to transform on their own, forming apertures.
“Could those be guns?”
“Does it look that way to you as well?”
Golden metal rods that had transformed into something resembling gun barrels and muzzles.
Click, click……!
Smoke billowed from the openings.
Then.
Rat-a-tat-tat……!
The metal rods burst into flame in unison.
[What the fuck……!]
The person recording the footage cried out in shock and stumbled backward.
Fortunately, his body remained unharmed.
Whoosh.
As the cameraman picked up the camera again and approached the transformed tower, breathing heavily,
the tower’s first floor, now transformed into metal,
appeared translucent, almost like a hologram.
The cameraman moved closer to examine it in detail.
But then—whoooosh……!
A golden protective barrier materialized, blocking his path.
As the footage ended there,
Shin Gyeong-cheol spoke.
“This footage was taken by a FIPA employee stationed in Malawi, Africa. For context, Malawi was the nation on the brink of the Light Tower’s explosion.”
“I see…….”
“Besides this footage, reports of the tower’s transformation have come in from multiple locations.”
Beep, beep.
As Shin Gyeong-cheol manipulated the remote, the next footage played.
There, just as before,
the tower’s form was observed to be transforming.
Only…
“It seems the other towers have only changed color, sir.”
The first footage had shown dramatic changes—the tower turning to metal, gun barrels jutting from its surface—but
from the next footage onward, the tower that had been shrouded in black energy
appeared with only its first floor partially unveiled, changed only in color.
Red, violet, white, and more.
Over ten towers had merely shifted color while retaining their original forms.
“According to FIPA’s analysis, there are seventeen nations where towers under ‘Occupation Reservation’ have changed.”
“Seventeen places…”
“One race had claimed eighteen Occupation Reservations, but thanks to your efforts, that’s down to seventeen. Destroying that tower last night was excellent work. Without it, eighteen national towers would have transformed.”
Defeating Gershu had mattered after all.
So Lee Kang-han thought,
when the screen
shifted to a report summary.
“According to FIPA’s analysis, among nations with populations exceeding ten million, the transformation phenomenon—commonly called ‘Occupation’—is first occurring in the nation with the lowest monthly Score acquisition rate last month.”
So countries that can’t generate Score are being conquered first.
“What’s peculiar about the Occupation phenomenon is that in cases like Malawi we mentioned, only that metal tower transformed.”
“What does that mean?”
“Occupation is proceeding in nations with low Score generation, but it doesn’t mean seventeen races are swallowing one country all at once. Only one race occupies each nation.”
“It’s like how the great powers used to draw lines and colonize territories among themselves.”
“Exactly, Yu-ri. It seems they’re not invading each other’s territories.”
So nations that can’t generate Score are being prioritized for Occupation,
and seventeen races each pick a country and conquer one by one.
“Most countries undergoing Occupation are African nations. Since Score acquisition is tied to economic power, African Players with any real ability all emigrate abroad.”
“I see.”
“If FIPA’s Angels Wing hadn’t been operating, frankly, several nations would have been destroyed. The Players active in Angels Wing deserve all our respect.”
Angels Wing.
A FIPA-affiliated guild that travels to high-risk nations to help Players secure Score, preventing the Light Towers from exploding.
Shin Yu-ri had said the loyalty of Players in this organization was exceptional.
It seemed connected to the being in the basement of the FIPA Building, too.
‘They’re doing good work, then.’
Come to think of it,
didn’t his father say he was coming to South Korea soon?
‘He did say the business venture was seventy percent my stake, thirty percent Angels Wing…’
What business did Angels Wing have getting involved in this?
As Lee Kang-han harbored these doubts,
Shin Gyeong-cheol opened his mouth in a grave tone.
“In truth, all the footage and photographs we’ve seen so far concern only Africa. So from a Korean perspective, you might not feel the urgency. But… the final footage involves us as well.”
“If it involves us…”
“North Korea.”
He pointed northward with his finger
and exhaled quietly.
“The seventeenth Occupation has emerged in North Korea.”
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“North Korea? Director, I believe the Light Tower in North Korea hasn’t fully charged yet…”
Perhaps because they were in an official setting,
Shin Yu-ri addressed Shin Gyeong-cheol as Director.
He looked at his daughter and nodded.
“That’s right. North Korea is a nation with severe internal control. Even more than African nations, they’ve firmly prevented Players from leaving for other countries.”
North Korea, economically on par with the poorest African nations,
should naturally see its Players fleeing abroad in search of better treatment, just as African Players did.
But due to such strict internal surveillance, North Korean Players couldn’t escape abroad and instead surrendered their TP to the state, contributing to foreign currency earnings.
Because they controlled and exploited their Players so severely,
North Korea had managed to generate Score however it could, and the Light Tower’s gauge hadn’t filled enough to cause it to explode.
However…
“What were the preconditions for Occupation again?”
“A population exceeding ten million, and… being the nation with the lowest monthly Score acquisition rate.”
“Right. North Korea met those conditions.”
“Monthly Score…… So you’re saying there was no Score earned in August?”
“Exactly. This is classified information the National Intelligence Service shared with me.”
Shin Gyeong-cheol lowered his voice as he spoke.
“The health of North Korea’s top leader has deteriorated sharply, so internal control is breaking down. Apparently, quite a few Players have escaped to China or Russia.”
“Ah…… I wasn’t aware of that.”
“Player defections have been happening intensely over the past few months…… There’s even a rumor that North Korea recently made an unofficial request for help from FIPA. Until now, they had enough resources to refuse FIPA’s involvement.”
Hearing this, Lee Kang-han recalled what his father had told him.
‘The 30% he mentioned regarding Angels Wing…… could it be related to North Korea?’
If North Korea’s Score management had developed problems and Angels Wing Players were being dispatched there,
then his father’s business trip might be connected to it.
As Lee Kang-han was thinking this,
Beep. Beep.
Shin Gyeong-cheol swiped the screen.
“The tower under Occupation Reservation in North Korea is a headache for us too.”
“Does it involve us?”
“It’s near the Demilitarized Zone.”
Then the footage appeared on screen.
[What the—hell?! Is that an earthquake?]
Familiar Korean profanity rang out,
and the camera’s focus shifted to the tower beyond the Demilitarized Zone.
The tower, wreathed in dark energy and radiating an ominous aura,
[Uh…… what the—why is it like that……?]
began to transform rapidly from its base upward.
Unlike the other footage he’d seen earlier where only the color changed,
this tower’s very form was morphing, just like in that first video he’d watched.
“This…… looks like a giant wooden pillar.”
Not a tower, but a massive tree that had taken root and settled there.
Unlike the first tower he’d seen, it wasn’t firing guns or anything threatening in appearance,
but compared to the fifteen towers that had only changed color, it didn’t bode well.
“Right. FIPA is speculating that it might be a tower under Occupation Reservation by an Elf.”
“Hmm…….”
“It’s unfortunate that the tower whose form changed is in North Korea, and right near the Demilitarized Zone too.”
“That’s why it’s a problem…….”
Shin Gyeong-cheol smiled bitterly.
“If you’re holding any stocks, sell them all. They’re saying a second panic will hit after the Mogadishu Incident.”
“I’ve never actually invested in stocks.”
“That’s the right attitude.”
The association chairman turned his gaze toward his daughter.
Shin Yu-ri bristled.
“Why are you looking at me like that, Chairman? I made a lot from stocks!”
“Made, you say…… past tense, I see, my daughter.”
“Ugh, why! I really did make a lot! How was I supposed to know something like this would happen!”
So she had significant money tied up in stocks.
Come to think of it, when she’d told Lee Kang-han before that she wanted to donate to help figure out her Trait,
she’d only had five hundred million won in her account and said she’d have to sell stocks for anything beyond that.
‘Five hundred million—back then it seemed like an enormous sum.’
Compared to those days, the scale of money he was earning now was entirely different.
It really did feel like times had changed.
As Lee Kang-han was reminiscing,
“Oh. And I heard…… Human-Only Equipment? How do you even get those?”
“Ah. There’s a Goblin’s Black Market in my Demon Realm Territory. I procure items from there.”
Lee Kang-han then thought to himself,
‘I should share the information that came up there too.’
He decided to relay everything he’d heard from the goblin merchants without holding anything back.
‘When they heard that eighteen races have placed Occupation Reservations, they even asked for a new Apocalypse in one or two months…….’
If the goblin merchants were saying that much,
the current situation
was clearly a grave crisis.
Rather than hide it away,
it was right to warn people about how dangerous the Occupation Reservation crisis truly was.
“Actually, I had a conversation with the goblin merchants yesterday about Occupation Reservations…….”
“Oh? What about?”
“Merchants discuss such things?”
Shin Gyeong-cheol and his daughter exchanged glances at Lee Kang-han’s words.
“94% voted for Apocalypse within three months……?”
“And when they heard that eighteen tribes have filed Occupation Reservations, they’re talking about establishing one-month and two-month slots as well…….”
“Apocalypse, though—it doesn’t feel real.”
Their faces grew grave as they absorbed the goblin merchants’ voting results.
Occupation Reservations.
He’d anticipated this would be serious.
But serious enough to trigger an Apocalypse?
“This matter needs to reach FIPA headquarters. Would that be all right?”
“Yes. I felt the Association should be informed, so I brought it to you.”
“But this fact mustn’t reach the public. There was already massive social chaos when the towers first appeared, with all those apocalypse cultists. If you say something like this, it’ll cause an even greater upheaval.”
“We shouldn’t mention it on TowerTube.”
Lee Kang-han was among the most influential Players on TowerTube right now.
If he were to speak of his conversation with the goblin merchant,
society would descend into chaos.
“I’ll inform FIPA immediately. Wait here a moment, would you?”
Shin Gyeong-cheol left the conference room with a grave expression.
And roughly ten minutes later,
when he returned, his face bore an uncertain look as he spoke to Lee Kang-han.
“Your father, it seems, will be arriving tomorrow night?”
“My father?”
The public announcement had pushed back his business trip four days.
Now that things were escalating, had it been moved up again?
‘FIPA work is no trivial matter.’
As he reflected on FIPA’s constantly shifting schedules,
Shin Gyeong-cheol continued.
“And…… your father is coming with ‘that person’—but the FIPA chairman wouldn’t reveal his identity at all. He said you’d probably know. Do you have any idea who it might be?”
That person?
Could it possibly be…
‘Could Angel actually be coming?’
Lee Kang-han recalled the image of Angel, whose eyes had been so intensely focused, and tilted his head in puzzlement.
The Demon King Destroys the Tower (Ongoing Serialization)
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