The Heavenly Demon Destroys the Tower - Chapter 110

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Episode 110
Karana examined the description of the item Lee Kang-han had given her.
[Earring of Shaman’s Blessing]
Rank: A
An earring blessed through ritual by a high-ranking shaman.
When equipped by the race ‘Orc’, Strength increases by +1 and health recovery speed increases.
An accessory that raises Strength when equipped by an Orc.
If I put this on, I’ll know for certain whether I’m an Orc or not.
“…….”
She stared quietly at the earring resting in her palm.
A crude white earring carved from bone.
It looked a bit large for Karana’s thin, elongated ears, but—
it seemed like she could still wear it.
‘If the effect doesn’t activate when I equip it, then I’m not an Orc.’
Karana had believed unquestioningly that she was an Orc all this time.
But after what had happened, her certainty was already wavering considerably.
If her Strength didn’t increase even after putting on the earring here—
then it would be confirmed she wasn’t an Orc.
“Hah…….”
Karana exhaled deeply,
squeezed her eyes shut, and brought the earring to her ear.
Then—
Click.
The white earring adhered to her ear of its own accord.
As she equipped it, Karana thought,
‘It won’t increase…….’
Deep down, she expected the Ability Stat increase corresponding to ‘Orc’ wouldn’t apply.
But—
Whoooosh…….
The earring’s size shrank to fit her ear,
and then—Ding.
[Strength increases by 1.]
[Health recovery speed increases.]
“Huh?”
As those messages appeared before her eyes,
Karana blinked repeatedly, her expression one of pure disbelief.
“What’s wrong?”
“I…… my Ability Stats went up?”
“Huh?”
Her stats went up?
Lee Kang-han was utterly startled by the unexpected result.
“Wait. So you’re saying you’re an Orc?”
“Y-yes! Chee-eck!”
As the earring caused her abilities to rise,
Karana’s face suddenly brightened, and she began chittering again.
“I knew it……! I am an Orc! Chee-eck! The System wouldn’t lie, would it!”
All trace of her dejected demeanor had vanished.
She straightened her shoulders and brimmed with confidence.
“Right. Congratulations. But want to verify once more?”
“Chee-eck. Verify again?”
“Yeah. I have two S-Grade Equipment pieces from the Warlord we took down at the Black Market.”
“Hmm…….”
Karana hesitated for a moment,
“Let’s go! Chee-eck! I want to confirm it myself!”
She agreed to visit the Black Market,
her voice now firm with purpose.
But—
“Uh, Demon Celestial, the S-Grade Equipment has already…… been sold, I’m afraid…….”
“Ah. Already?”
“Yes. There was a merchant watching intently from the moment those pieces appeared.”
The Warlord’s two S-Grade Equipment pieces had already sold.
“Should we repurchase them?”
“No, there’s no need. I was just double-checking on the off chance.”
“They sold? Darn! What a shame!”
At the news that two S-Grade Equipment pieces had gone out,
Karana seemed disappointed, yet somehow relieved at the same time.
“……Why does she seem so delighted about this?”
The Goblin Chieftain eyed the cheerful Karana with bewilderment.
“Once she put on the earring, it was confirmed that she’s an Orc.”
“Ah…… So that’s why. An Orc, looking like that…….”
He tilted his head in disbelief,
yet still said, “But if the system judged her to be an Orc, then that must be accurate.”
Convinced that the system couldn’t be wrong,
he accepted Karana as an ‘Orc’ without further question.
“Hehehehe! For the first time, I actually like you, Goblin Chieftain!”
“Stop your noise, Orc. So when are you returning that earring?”
“What?”
“That earring—it was put up for sale by Lee Kang-han. Now that it’s confirmed you’re an Orc, return it at once.”
“Ah…….”
At this, Karana’s hands moved to her ears.
The earring, now perfectly sized to fit her ear—unlike when she’d first put it on—
she held it firmly in place.
“But…….”
“Ha. Don’t tell me you’re getting greedy. It’s an A-Grade item!”
“That is…… well…….”
“The option just increases Strength anyway, which you don’t even need. Hand it over right now!”
The Goblin Chieftain clearly understood the item’s properties well.
He pointed out that the item was completely mismatched with Karana, who served as a shaman,
and demanded she return it immediately.
“But…… could I not buy it myself?”
“Ha. Buy it? Do you have any idea what it costs?”
“This earring…… is proof that I’m an Orc. Hehehehe. No matter the price, I must have it……!”
“The merchant mentioned 7 million TP earlier—do you have that much?”
“S-seven million?!”
So she’d said she wanted it no matter what the price was.
At the mention of 7 million TP, Karana fell silent.
“I…… understand…… I’ll return it…….”
She reached to take off the earring, her face growing doleful.
‘7 million TP must be quite a sum for her,’ Lee Kang-han thought,
quietly observing the exchange.
Just as she moved to remove the earring and hand it over, he waved his hand.
“Never mind, Karana.”
“Hehehehe……?”
“Keep it, and bring me an A-Grade item later. That’ll settle it.”
“Really……?”
7 million TP was no small sum, true enough.
But two S-Grade Equipment pieces had already sold.
‘Since Karana treasures it as proof of who she is…… I might as well give it to her and put her to work.’
Besides, earlier
there had been talk of having Karana serve as an advertisement model.
Now that he’d saddled her with this ‘debt’ through the earring,
it would be all the easier to move forward with such plans.
“Right. In exchange, when I make requests or commissions come in, do them with me. I expect quite a few advertisement model requests to come through.”
“Hehehehe. Advertisement model…… what is that?”
“It’s a role where you promote products.”
“W-whatever it is, I’ll do it……!”
Gripping the earring tightly,
Karana nodded eagerly.
“My, Lee Kang-han is far too merciful.”
The Goblin Chieftain lamented from behind,
Since Lee Kang-han had already made his decision.
He didn’t ask for the earring back again.
“Thank you. Demon Celestial… I’m so glad I met you, that I came here…….”
She was so grateful for the earring.
Karana’s eyes were glistening with tears.
“This time, I’ll definitely succeed at Orc Evolution!”
“There you go again with the talk. You’ll only fail anyway, won’t you?”
“No! After meeting my master, so much came back to me. I hadn’t tried the experiment because my identity as an orc was confused, but now I think I can do it! Chirp!”
Karana held firm in her newfound confidence despite the Goblin Chieftain’s mockery.
“All right. I’ll open a portal to the altar for you.”
Lee Kang-han sent her, now brimming with self-assurance, to the Orc Shaman’s Altar.
“Then I’ll be heading out too. Please handle the purchase of human equipment.”
“Understood, Demon Celestial!”
After reminding the Goblin Chieftain of the purchase task, he reflected.
‘There’s no need to check on the lowest-rank believers right now.’
The lowest-rank believers were already engaged in construction work at the Shrine’s Central Area.
Seonghwa was managing their oversight quite well on her own.
There was no need to visit them daily just to check what they were doing.
‘The First Tower. I should enter it now.’
Originally, he’d planned to deposit money in the Demon Realm Territory and leave.
But somehow, his entry into the First Tower had been delayed more than expected.
‘But can I even enter from the Demon Realm Territory?’
Lee Kang-han opened his inventory and tried pressing the First Tower Seal.
[‘First Tower Seal’ cannot be used in this location.]
A message appeared saying the seal couldn’t be used here.
‘I’ll have to use it after returning to reality.’
Lee Kang-han exited the Demon Realm Territory and returned home.
There, he tried pressing the seal again.
Then.
A brilliant flash—!
The seal worked properly, opening a crimson portal.
As Lee Kang-han stepped through.
[The Pride Jester summons a battlefield suited to you…….]
[The B2 battlefield is Domus Aurea.]
Just as it had been back during Columbus.
A message appeared announcing the battlefield the moment he entered.
‘The Pride Jester…… his real name was definitely Nero.’
At first, he hadn’t wanted to reveal his name.
But later, when he said there was no audience, he readily admitted his identity himself—Nero.
As Lee Kang-han recalled that bronze statue who seemed to be missing a few screws.
Ding.
[The Pride Jester denies the Player entry.]
“What?”
An unexpected message appeared.
Thump!
Lee Kang-han’s body plummeted into a pitch-black space.
* * *
A space of darkness where light was scarcely visible.
Yet.
‘There’s ground to stand on.’
Lee Kang-han took a few steps forward.
Soon he understood where he was.
“This is…… where I chose from the Seven Deadly Sins.”
The first roulette on B1 had been Greed.
The second was Pride.
As Lee Kang-han recalled those events.
[Demon Celestial!!!]
Flash!
Light sparkled in the empty air.
And from it, the spirit of Shin Nyeo burst forth.
“Ah. It’s been a while, Shin Nyeo.”
[What on earth is happening? How can they refuse entry like this…….]
“Right? This is where we spun the roulette back then, remember?”
[That’s right! And this creeping dread—I can feel it again.]
Shin Nyeo glanced around, her guard visibly raised.
Now that he thought about it, for a ghost, she was oddly unsettled by dark spaces.
‘But looking at it now, it wasn’t simply the darkness itself.’
He’d never noticed it before.
Now, in the gloom, he felt a subtle pressure bearing down on his body.
Was this creeping dread what the ghost spirit meant?
Then.
Whoooosh……!
[Huh? A portal!]
A vast golden portal materialized in the central area.
‘So they won’t allow entry, but they’ll open a portal?’
He couldn’t quite figure out their game.
As Lee Kang-han stepped toward the portal with that thought,
Bwooooong……!
A translucent barrier materialized across it.
Ding.
A message window appeared above.
[‘The Pride of the Jester’ declares the following conditions must be met before entry is permitted:
1. An apology for the plundering of the Domus Aurea and the execution of all goblin thieves
2. Simultaneous viewership of 100,000 or more
If both conditions are not satisfied, entry to the Domus Aurea cannot be granted.]
Nero—the one who wouldn’t fight without viewers.
So instead, he’d ransacked the Domus Aurea alongside the goblins.
It seemed he hadn’t forgotten that incident.
And besides,
‘These 100,000 simultaneous viewers—that has to mean extraterrestrial viewers.’
If human viewers were counted as well, it might’ve been manageable.
But at the First Tower, only extraterrestrial viewers could watch.
100,000 was simply an impossible figure by any measure.
[The conditions are absurd. Isn’t this just another way of saying we can’t enter?]
Shin Nyeo, having glimpsed the message window,
reacted with disbelief at the terms Nero had set.
“Exactly. When Columbus had his turn, he was desperate to lock me out of his arena, but Nero’s playing it differently.”
[So what do we do?]
“Hmm…… Let’s try firing up TowerTube first.”
Last time, the viewer count was pitiful.
But this time, with the accomplishment of defeating Gershu, the numbers might’ve improved somewhat, right?
‘Ah. But before that…….’
Before turning on the broadcast,
Lee Kang-han turned to look at Shin Nyeo.
“Shin Nyeo, do you happen to know anything about the Demon Celestial Blood Formation?”
[Yes. When the Demon Lord’s successor ascends to the Demon Lord’s seat, they undergo a ritual to inherit power within the Demon Celestial Blood Formation.]
“A ritual?”
[Yes. And while it’s the shrine maiden’s duty to activate it, what actually happens inside—I don’t really know. Only the Demon Lord can experience what occurs within the formation, and everyone is sworn to silence on the matter.]
The shrine maiden simply draws the formation.
What actually transpires inside the Demon Celestial Blood Formation remains a mystery to her.
‘Then…… I wonder if she’ll know about this too?’
Swish.
Lee Kang-han suddenly pulled his upper garment up.
[W-what are you doing all of a sudden?! Why are you—!]
Shin Nyeo reflexively shrieked at his sudden undressing,
[……Huh?]
but the moment she saw the character for ‘Demon’ carved into his chest,
[How is this possible……?]
her voice took on a grave tone.
The Demon Lord Smashes the Tower (Serialization)
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