The Heavenly Demon Destroys the Tower - Chapter 109

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Episode 109
“0.1 percent… it seems the Gold Dragon Lord holds you in remarkably high regard, Heavenly Demon.”
“Is that considered high?”
“From what I understand, there are only a handful of talents assessed at this level of value. And they all serve as Dragon Knights in the central hierarchy of Golden향.”
Dragon Knight—what’s that supposed to be?
Was he asking if Lee Kang-han wanted to become a knight of dragons?
Since Lee Kang-han didn’t know much about this, his reaction was lukewarm.
“Becoming a Dragon Knight, you say……”
“A human?”
“Isn’t the Gold Dragon Lord overestimating him?”
“No… considering how he stood against the Transcendent Gersh, I’d say this level of assessment is appropriate.”
“Right. If he truly has the makings of a Transcendent, wouldn’t 0.1 percent be worth the investment?”
“But he’s human, though?”
The goblin merchants gathered nearby grew excited as they listened, and soon they were debating among themselves.
The arguments went back and forth.
Meanwhile.
“W-well, Heavenly Demon, wouldn’t it be excellent to head to Golden향? If you become a Dragon Knight, you’d ascend to the highest echelon of Golden향. You’d serve at the Gold Dragon Lord’s side and gain an ageless body!”
The Goblin Chieftain, growing even more excited,
began passionately explaining to Lee Kang-han what the benefits of becoming a Dragon Knight would be.
From what he could gather,
aging would cease, and he’d live in a healthy state,
and since the Gold Dragon Lord would provide support, there would be no financial worries whatsoever.
“And on top of that, you could keep as many concubines as you wish! Absolutely no restrictions!”
“That doesn’t seem particularly important.”
“How can that be…! That’s the best benefit!”
“Pay him no mind. He caused trouble and got expelled because of it.”
The Gold-Toothed Goblin said this while fixing the Chieftain with a pointed stare.
The Chieftain’s mouth snapped shut in flustered haste.
‘The Gold-Toothed one clearly has more authority than the Chieftain.’
Lee Kang-han observed the two of them for a moment, then
“Inventory.”
opened his inventory.
“I’ll store it in the inventory for now.”
“Ah…! Heavenly Demon! Won’t you go now?”
“No.”
He understood that the Gold Dragon Lord held him in high regard,
but there was no pressing reason to leave Earth and go to another world.
Still, since he’d already received the invitation, he might as well keep it in his inventory.
“Golden향 is truly a wonderful place……. Especially if you go as a Dragon Knight, it would be paradise……!”
The Goblin Chieftain, reluctant to let the matter rest, tried once more to extol the virtues of Golden향,
but Lee Kang-han spoke to him.
“I have no intention of going now, so drop the subject.”
“Yes, yes!”
“There is no need to use the invitation immediately. Should humanity ever face dire straits with no escape in sight, you may use it then—it will not be too late. It is best to exhaust every effort on behalf of humanity first; only then will you avoid homesickness when the time comes.”
In other words, commit fully to humanity for now,
and if things look hopeless, break the invitation and escape.
‘It sounds like he’s certain humanity will face hardship.’
Well, given how heavily the other races had placed their occupation reservations,
it wasn’t unreasonable to make such a prediction.
“Understood.”
“Then, now that I have delivered the invitation, I shall take my leave……”
With a soft whoosh,
the Gold-Toothed Goblin bowed his head in salute, and then
light blazed forth—
his body suffused with golden radiance before his form vanished entirely.
‘I came to entrust TP to the Chieftain, but quite a lot happened.’
He’d learned that the third-ranked team in the Reserve League was ‘Golden향’,
and he’d come to know that its leader was the Gold Dragon Lord.
Lee Kang-han felt satisfied that he’d stopped by Manma Hall before entering the First Tower.
“Chieftain, sell me a bit more from your black market inventory. I’ll leave TP with you.”
He accomplished his original purpose for the visit.
“Ah! Yes, of course! Should I look for some high-Rank equipment this time as well?”
“Sure. If you find anything decent, pick it up for me. And go ahead and purchase C and D-Rank equipment too—there are people who need it.”
“Ah, yes. Understood. But…….”
The Goblin Chieftain’s gaze swept across the surrounding merchants.
His expression seemed troubled, somehow.
He wondered what was wrong.
“Keke. Chieftain, there’s no need to worry so much,” Lee Kang-han chuckled.
“We wouldn’t dare charge a future Dragon Knight premium prices.”
“We’ll supply human-race goods at the same rates as before—just expand your warehouse, won’t you?”
Hearing the goblin merchants speak, he understood why the Chieftain had been uneasy.
‘Ah. I see—I basically just broadcast to all the merchants that I need equipment.’
From the goblins’ perspective, human-race gear was the sort of thing that moved slowly, always marked down to clear space.
The fact that Lee Kang-han had openly said he needed it would normally make them want to raise the price.
But because of the Invitation he’d received earlier,
the goblin merchants were now certain he’d eventually come to Golden-향 and become a Dragon Knight. So they’d offered him fair prices instead.
‘So Dragon Knight must carry real weight in Golden-향, then.’
The Invitation.
He’d need to keep it in his inventory for now.
As Lee Kang-han thought this, his mind turned to the orc-tribe equipment.
“Oh, right. Will you buy these from me as well?”
He pulled out two S-Grade items and one A-Grade Accessory that he’d obtained from the Orc Warlord.
“Ooh…….”
“This is Orc Warlord equipment.”
“Did it drop from an invasion they went on and got suppressed?”
“I’ll take this!”
The goblin merchants showed keen interest in the gear.
“Orc equipment really sells well.”
“Yes, orcs have steady demand, so it always moves.”
That made sense.
If they ranked fourth, they’d have stable supply chains.
“If I deposit TP here too, we could acquire quite a lot of equipment, right?”
“Ah, Lord, if you’re selling orc equipment, I don’t think you’ll need to deposit TP. The truth is, our warehouse space isn’t that generous—the proceeds from selling orc gear alone should be more than enough to stock equipment.”
“Is that so?”
Then there was no need to deposit it for now.
As Lee Kang-han nodded, the Goblin Chieftain seemed to remember something and made a request.
“Ah. By the way, would it be possible to upgrade the Black Market further from here? It would be nice if we could expand the warehouse and grow the market’s scale.”
“Hold on.”
Lee Kang-han opened the Manma Hall functions and tapped on the Black Market.
[To upgrade the Goblin’s Black Market to Level 3, the following conditions must be met:]
1. Achieve daily Black Market transaction volume of 1,000,000 TP or more
2. Player Rank of Silver or higher
The upgrade conditions appeared.
‘The 1,000,000 TP in daily volume should be covered if I sell the orc equipment. And I can hit Silver by running the tower tomorrow.’
The Black Market upgrade conditions certainly seemed achievable.
Lee Kang-han examined the two requirements and opened his mouth.
“I need to reach Silver first before I can upgrade. I’ll do it tomorrow.”
“Yes, understood!”
“Then go ahead and process the transaction. I’m entrusting you with it.”
“Yes! I’ll give my utmost effort to close this deal!”
The Goblin Chieftain’s spirit was fully charged.
Lee Kang-han gave his shoulders a light pat, then
‘While I’m here, I should take a walk around.’
opened Manma Hall and created a portal to the center where the Sacred Flame burned.
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The heart of Manma Hall.
‘The Sacred Flame has definitely grown larger.’
It had looked bigger even in the Manma Hall display.

Entering the chamber directly and beholding the white flame with his own eyes.
He grasped the true scale of its magnitude.
Before, it had been no more than an oversized campfire.
Now the flames surged skyward as if intent on breaching heaven itself, burning with ferocious intensity.
As Lee Kang-han gazed upon the Sacred Flame,
a chime sounded.
[The Sacred Flame is evolving from ‘Faint Flicker’ to ‘Vivid Inferno’……]
[88 hours remain until the upgrade completes.]
A message about the flame’s status appeared before him.
Compared to when he’d checked immediately after his fight with Gersh,
twelve hours had already elapsed.
‘It’ll be upgraded before long.’
Lee Kang-han thought this while surveying the area surrounding the Sacred Flame.
Regardless of whether the flame’s intensity grew or diminished,
the Spirit of Heavenly Sword remained embedded in the ground, deep in slumber.
‘Not waking up this time.’
When he’d emerged from being trapped for a week, the spirit had at least withdrawn from the blade to speak with him.
But now it slept soundly without interruption.
‘Let it rest.’
He’d summon it from the First Tower in a moment anyway.
It could grow in the meantime.
Lee Kang-han departed the blade and walked toward Heavenly Life Tower.
“M-master!”
Karana, who had been crouched nearby with a pallid face, sprang to her feet.
“You’re alive! And you met him too……!”
When he’d entered near the tower core,
Karana had been blocked at the door and unable to enter.
The Goblin Chieftain, having exchanged information with the goblin merchants, had clearly known of the victory in advance and bowed reverently—in sharp contrast to Karana’s anxious pacing.
Only when she caught sight of Lee Kang-han did her worry finally ease.
“Well, I was lucky enough to win.”
“Won…… against him?”
Knowing the transcendent strength Gersh possessed,
Karana’s eyes widened when Lee Kang-han claimed victory.
“Well, to be honest, it was less about defeating him than destroying the core, but the tower counted it as a victory regardless.”
“Ah. I see…… Thank goodness…….”
Once he explained that the victory came from shattering the tower core,
she seemed to accept it, nodding dumbly.
“Do you remember anything, then?”
Gersh, who called Karana his ‘daughter’ yet spoke casually of discarding her as worthless,
left Lee Kang-han curious about what she might recall.
To his question, her face fell and she shook her head.
“I…… remember so little. It’s true that my master abandoned me, but I don’t recall the specifics.”
“Hmm. So you were discarded?”
“Yes…….”
“Strange—calling you his daughter while being so heartless.”
“My master…… regarded all his disciples as his own children. Though of course, no shaman under him would dare call him father.”
Only Gersh referred to his disciples as sons and daughters.
Yet every shaman who served under him consistently addressed him as master.
So they weren’t bound by blood, then.
“But when I first saw you, didn’t you say you were descended from Gersh’s royal house? Wouldn’t that make you blood relatives?”
“When one becomes the disciples of the Great Shaman, one’s name is inscribed in the royal house. To be a shaman is to belong to the royal line.”
“I see.”
As Lee Kang-han conversed with her, something odd suddenly struck him.
“You’re not making that clicking sound.”
“Huh? Oh…?”
“I mean, you used to make that orcish noise.”
“Ah…… that’s….”
Karana lowered her head shamefully at his words.
“…… I was confused about whether I was truly an orc. The truth is, I wasn’t making that clicking sound naturally—I was forcing it intentionally.”
“Well, I knew that from the start.”
“Did I… really do that?”
Karana bared her teeth, pointing to her lower canines.
“An orc’s tusks are more developed in the lower jaw. That’s why when the mouth closes, a slight gap remains between the teeth. Air escapes through it, and that chittering sound emerges naturally.”
“Ah… yes. You know your details well.”
“That’s not all! My nose is flat on the outside, but the nasal cavity inside is broad and flat, so when air passes through, it makes that chittering, hissing sound on the exhale. A nose like mine doesn’t produce that.”
That chittering, guttural sound that orcs made.
She’d analyzed it so thoroughly because she couldn’t produce it naturally.
Karana possessed a delicate, straight nose that met human aesthetic standards.
Yet she pressed at her nose now with dissatisfaction, her expression clouding over.
“… Am I really not an orc? Am I truly an elf?”
“By appearance alone, yes.”
“But from birth, I belonged to the orcs… I can’t remember the details clearly, but I have the feeling I did quite a lot of things as part of the orc tribe…”
Even though Fanatical Belief had been lifted from her condition.
It seemed her identity as an orc hadn’t entirely faded away.
‘And when I brought her to Manma Hall, it showed she’s a Half-Elf.’
The title “Half-Elf” didn’t seem to have been assigned without reason.
Lee Kang-han watched Karana, her face dark, staring only at the ground.
‘Right.’
He suddenly remembered one of the orc-exclusive items he’d handed over to the chieftain earlier.
‘The Earring of Shaman’s Blessing—if she equips it, she’ll know for certain.’
That earring, which increased Strength by 1 and accelerated health recovery when equipped by the orc race.
If she put it on.
She’d be able to feel whether the orc racial trait actually worked on her.
“Wait here for a moment. I’ll be right back.”
“Huh…?”
Flash!
As Lee Kang-han opened a portal, Karana’s eyes only blinked.
Whoosh…!
Before long, he emerged from the portal again.
“… What are you trying to do?”
She spoke in a hollow voice.
Lee Kang-han turned to her.
Swish.
“Try putting this on.”
He held out the Earring of Shaman’s Blessing.
The Heavenly Demon Breaks the Tower (Serialized)
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