The Heavenly Demon Destroys the Tower - Chapter 14

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Chapter 14
Crackle…….
Left alone, the Giant Arrow looked ready to detonate like a bomb.
‘I need to deal with that first.’
Lee Gang-han reached out toward it.
Snap-crack……!
He felt the sparks arc violently and furrowed his brow.
Bare-handed contact with this arrow was far from simple.
But.
‘I can’t use the Heavenly Demon Divine Art yet.’
Lee Gang-han suppressed the current crackling from the arrow, gritting his teeth as he gripped it firmly.
‘Get it outside first.’
Whoosh!
Lee Gang-han hurled the Giant Arrow down off the Cliff.
Not long after.
Boom-boom-crash!!!
A tremendous explosion thundered from below the Cliff.
‘If I’d left that alone, the whole top of the Cliff would’ve been blown to pieces.’
Wait—wasn’t this supposed to be a Bonus Mission?
Why’s the difficulty like this?
How long has the game been running, and I’ve already nearly destroyed the ground beneath my feet?
The Treasure Chest floats suspended in the air, and I won’t be able to open it without wings.
‘Hmm. They must’ve assumed that anyone clearing the Maze Map at SSS rank could fly.’
The Maze Map was designed to be easily cleared by flying races.
Since he’d scored high there.
It seemed the Bonus Tower had generated a map that matched a flying race’s capabilities.
Except.
‘For a human, there’s no solution.’
Below this Cliff, a fall would mean certain death.
What strategy could a regular human even attempt here?
Lee Gang-han pondered for a moment.
“Times like these call for collective wisdom.”
He switched on TowerTube right away.
And then.
-Oh, the Heavenly Demon’s streaming now?
-Why didn’t you yesterday?
-ㅋㅋㅋ Got an E and went into shock?
-The Heavenly Demon getting an E-grade is just malicious rumor, right?
-Exactly, there’s no way it’s an E ㅎㅎㅎ
The flood of viewers immediately started asking whether Lee Gang-han really did receive a Grade E.
Yesterday’s news had spread this quickly.
‘Rumors travel fast.’
Lee Gang-han thought as much and gave his answer.
“Yes. When they measured it, E came up.”
-ㅎㄷㄷㄷ
-Really an E?
-Ugh……
-How is that even possible?
-So it really is a Limited-time Trait ㅡㅡ
-Just when Korea was about to have a promising new talent…
-How many times do you have to use power before the Trait disappears?
-Open your Trait window ㄱㄱ
Once he confirmed the E-grade was real.
The viewers, now nearly certain it was a Limited-time Trait, kept asking questions.
Lee Gang-han shrugged.
“No such conditions appear in the window. And when I press the Trait, it doesn’t respond.”
-The Trait window won’t open?
-What is this ㅡㅡ
-At least open your Status Window ㄱㄱ
-You’re officially Grade E by government measure, so what good will a Status Window do ㅋㅋ
Since the Trait window won’t open.
Viewers asked to see the Status Window instead.
“Well, we’ve already shown all the Trait ranks anyway. Do we really need to?”
Lee Gang-han shrugged as he spoke.
[CH111 has donated 10,000 TP.]
[Will give 10,000 more if you open it.]
As the 10,000 TP donation came through.
A message appeared saying he’d receive 10,000 more if he revealed it.
-10,000 more?
-Wait, you’re saying 13 million won just to show the Status Window? What the hell
-It’s 26 million total, they said they’d give 10,000 more
-That’s insane…
-I heard CH111 is China’s state broadcasting scout thing ㄷㄷ
-Nah supposedly it’s a Japanese team pretending to be Chinese?
-Either way sounds like a foreign team
CH111.
Whether it stood for China or was some other country’s ID masquerading as Chinese had never been confirmed.
But anyone willing to drop 10,000 TP at once on an Iron-tier streamer like Lee Gang-han
didn’t look like a private individual.
“Hmm. 10,000 is pretty steep.”
Whether they were Chinese, Japanese, or from somewhere else entirely—
they were offering 10,000 and another 10,000 on top, so it felt wrong to refuse outright.
Besides, showing the Status Window was something he did regularly as a form of self-promotion anyway.
There was no real reason to keep it hidden now.
And beyond that—
‘If I open the Status Window, will the viewers see it as E through SSS too?’
Seized by this curiosity, Lee Gang-han
said, “Understood. I’ll open it right now.”
He opened the Status Window and tapped the camera button at the top.
And then—
Name: Lee Gang-han
Level: 16
Trait: Heavenly Demon Physique (Rank: E~SSS)
Strength: 10+
Agility: 10+
Stamina: 10+
Mana: 7
Lee Gang-han’s Status Window was now broadcast to all viewers.
-??? What are those stats???
-Strength, Agility, Stamina all 10+?
-Wait, I’ve never seen a single stat with a + before, let alone three ㄷㄷ
-Is this the power of the Heavenly Demon Physique Trait?
The viewers, shocked to see all three physical stats at 10+, then
-But why is the Heavenly Demon Physique only E rank
-ㄹㅇ looks like a broken Trait…
-Pretty sure it’s gonna disappear soon;
-Giving it then taking it away is the worst part ㅠ what a waste
Viewers failed to perceive the E~SSS that Lee Gang-han could plainly see.
They only recognized it as E rank.
‘So to them it just looks like E.’
What I see and what they see are different things.
It really is a strange Trait.
After showing even that the Trait details wouldn’t open, Lee Gang-han closed the Status Window.
-So nobody even knows when the power disappears
-Ugh, what a disappointment… I’m unsubscribing from the Heavenly Demon…
-I’m gonna wait until I see the power fade before I cancel ㅋㅋ gotta watch the fall, right?
-That’s messed up;
A significant number of viewers who had harbored hopes that Lee Gang-han would become Korea’s next rising star began to leave.
Perhaps because his shockingly impressive debut had set such lofty expectations.
The moment it was revealed that the Heavenly Demon—the player everyone believed would become Korea’s pivotal force—possessed a Limited-time Trait,
His disappointment only seemed to grow deeper.
No matter what rank shows up in my eyes here—E to SSS—it’s all just pitiful display.
‘Those who want to leave will leave. That’s all there is to it.’
That was what Lee Gang-han thought at that moment.
-But why didn’t CH111 give 10k more?
-Looks like they took the money and ran lol
-Still, they gave 10k for E-rank, so cheers everyone
-Fr fr lol
The chat was searching for CH111, who had apparently pocketed the advance and vanished.
‘They must have given up on recruiting me once they checked the Status Window traits.’
If they’d really wanted to recruit me, they would have fronted another 10k Tower Points just to keep the relationship alive.
Seeing that the Heavenly Demon Physique trait had dropped to E-rank, they must have decided the ability was about to disappear.
CH111 had paid the deposit but refused to hand over the full amount.
‘I won’t be taking any offers from those people later on.’
There’s no point making deals with someone who won’t honor their promises.
With that thought, Lee Gang-han changed the subject.
“Right then. So you’ve all seen the E-rank now—let’s take a look at this place instead.”
He swept his gaze around.
Lee Gang-han surveyed his surroundings.
-Where is this?
-Never seen this map before OMG
-Iron has a place like this?
The remaining viewers began to show interest in the unfamiliar landscape.
“I got an Iron Tower 777 Entry Ticket and decided to use it—this is where it took me.”
-777? Isn’t that a treasure map?
-But Iron Tower only goes up to 99, doesn’t it?
-Could it be a new tower?
-Man, good thing I didn’t unsub, never seen anything like this before lol
At Lee Gang-han’s explanation, the viewers had been gazing at the map with fascination.
-But that treasure chest is way too high up and floating lol How are you even supposed to open it?
-In Gold Tower 777 you just pop the lid and you’re done, but Iron’s way harder
-Can’t you just use flight magic?
-Anyone who can cast flight magic is at least Gold rank lol That’s not something Iron can do
All they offered were dead ends.
The ‘collective intelligence’ Lee Gang-han had been counting on never materialized.
‘I should just summon the Chieftain.’
The Goblin Chieftain, who actually knew something about the tower, would be more useful than these viewers.
With that in mind, Lee Gang-han summoned the Goblin Chieftain.
A red portal burst open with a tremendous flash.
And from within it emerged—
The Goblin Chieftain stepped out.
“Heavenly Demon eternal reign! A thousand years of Goblin Domain prosperity!”
The moment he materialized, he dropped to his knees in reverence.
-Still can’t get used to this lol
-A castrated goblin having manners like this is wild…
-Is this gonna disappear too when the Limited-time Trait runs out
About the time the viewers had started treating Lee Gang-han as purely temporary,
the Goblin Chieftain listened to Lee Gang-han’s explanation of the situation, then—
“I have an excellent idea for you, Master.”
He immediately hatched a scheme.
Another red portal blazed into existence behind the Goblin Chieftain.
The identical crimson gate shimmered in the air.
“Kee-kee!”
“Kee-kee-kee!”
A horde of goblins began pouring through one by one.
The Goblin Chieftain grabbed one of them.
“Go! Number One!”
With a sharp whistle of motion,
he hurled the goblin beyond the cliff’s edge.
“Kee… kee-e-e-e…!”
The scream of the hurled goblin echoed through the air.
Whoooosh…….
It fell short of the Treasure Chest and vanished into the depths.
Then, before Lee Gang-han’s eyes.
[‘Goblin#1’ has perished.]
[Goblin#1’s Level decreases by 1.]
Messages like these materialized.
* * *
“Kiki-kik…… A failure, it seems. Forward, Number Two!”
The Chieftain hurled goblins in rapid succession.
Numbers Two and Three plummeted.
Only when it reached Number Four.
“Ki, kiii-eek…….”
The goblin flying through the air finally managed to clutch the Treasure Chest.
“……They’re okay dying like that?”
“Yes! Did not the Heavenly Demon create a territory for us goblins? Even when we die, our Level merely drops — we can always resurrect in the Goblin Domain!”
“But if their Level drops, they get weaker.”
“Kiki-kik…… Goblins are weak anyway! They’ll be useless later!”
The Goblin Chieftain declared his own kind useless without hesitation.
-The Chieftain’s character really needs work lol
-Lee Gang-han has already done his job just by getting this one out of the Tutorial
-For real lol
-But what if when the Limited-time Trait disappears, he gets sent back into the Tutorial too?
-Don’t jinx it ㅡㅡ
While the viewers watched the Goblin Chieftain and felt grateful he’d vanished from the Tutorial.
“Number Four! Open the chest!”
The Goblin Chieftain commanded Goblin Number Four, clinging to the Treasure Chest, to break it open.
One.
“Kii-ek. Ki-ii-eek…….”
The goblin was far too weak to open the Treasure Chest.
Struggling and straining, it couldn’t pry the chest open.
“Useless creatures, all of them!”
The Chieftain hurled Numbers Five and Six in succession.
One goblin wasn’t enough, so he was trying with multiple.
Wheeeee!
Two goblins sailed through the void.
Then dropped near the Treasure Chest.
By all appearances.
The two goblins should have fallen, naturally.
But then.
“Ki-ek?”
The two goblins that landed nearby hovered in midair, their feet planted on nothing.
Bobbing weightlessly around the Treasure Chest.
More precisely, they were suspended all around below and near the chest.
There seemed to be invisible support beneath them.
“Oh……! It looks like there’s something to brace your feet on near the chest!”
“So it is. They weren’t just floating in empty space after all.”
If there was foothold near the chest.
The strategy became much simpler.
“Guess I won’t need to throw goblins around.”
“What?”
“I’ll just go myself, one step at a time.”
Lee Gang-han said this, then.
“Heavenly Demon Divine Art.”
He activated the Heavenly Demon Divine Art.
In an instant, power exploded outward.
His body became impossibly light.
A skill he’d obtained came flooding back to Lee Gang-han’s mind.
‘The Heavenly Demon Cloud Stepping I got after waking up……that was definitely a mobility technique.’
The Heavenly Demon Cloud Stepping—a skill he’d obtained but never once activated.
But Lee Gang-han acted on pure instinct.
He figured this skill, like the Heavenly Demon Divine Art, must activate automatically.
‘Jump.’
Whoosh.
Lee Gang-han crouched for a moment,
then launched himself forward.
The instant his feet left the Cliff,
his body shot through the air like a shell.
And in that same moment, a message bloomed before him.
[The skill ‘Heavenly Demon Cloud Stepping’ activates.]
As the Heavenly Demon Cloud Stepping took hold,
Lee Gang-han understood instinctively:
suspended here in the sky,
he could move his body with perfect freedom.
Swish!
“Keek…?”
First thing he did:
he flew straight to the Treasure Chest that three goblins had been straining uselessly to pry open.
Creak!
He opened it with one hand.
Then—
[Treasure Chest opened.]
[You gain 1,000 Tower Points.]
[Reward acquisition increased by 100%.]
[You gain 1,000 Tower Points.]
With the doubled reward effect,
2,000 Tower Points flowed in.
‘One-tenth the reward of Gold Tower,’ he noted wryly.
The Maze Map itself was far harder than Gold,
yet Iron doled out rewards so stingily.
Lee Gang-han grimaced slightly,
but then shrugged. ‘Well, I’ll just keep opening them.’
There were plenty of Treasure Chests floating in the sky.
During the ten minutes his Heavenly Demon Divine Art remained active,
he resolved to open as many as he possibly could.
And so—
Whoosh…!
Lee Gang-han tore across the sky, flinging open Treasure Chests in rapid succession.
-He’s literally just flying around up there what the heck
-Starting to understand why the Heavenly Demon Physique is time-limited…
-I’m Korean and even I think this trait is broken lol
The viewers watching him operate on an entirely different level from a typical Iron player
became even more convinced the Heavenly Demon Physique had to be a Limited-time Trait.
A monster ability like that rated at E-grade?
It had to have restrictions.
As Lee Gang-han continued ransacking the sky,
‘Twenty-five now.’
When he opened the twenty-fifth Treasure Chest,
[The Guardian eyes you with great caution.]
[The Guardian descends directly upon the Heavenly Treasure Vault.]
The Guardian had shot arrows at the start,
then gone silent—until now this message appeared.
‘So it won’t just let me plunder everything.’
But where was it descending to?
As Lee Gang-han continued opening chests and scanned his surroundings,
A brilliant flash erupted from behind.
Blinding light blazed up
“Keek, keeeeek…?!”
From the Cliff—the starting point—
came the anguished shriek of the Goblin Chieftain.
And just like that.
[‘The Castrated Goblin Chieftain’ has died from a fall.]
[Revival is impossible.]
[Level decreased by 1.]
Perhaps it was the fall that did it.
The Chieftain departed without reviving.
‘What just happened?’
Lee Gang-han turned to look behind him, and there—
Crackle.
An enormous Sword of Light.
It stood embedded in the cliff face, gleaming with an austere majesty.
The Heavenly Demon Shatters the Tower (Serialization)
Author | Yeom Bi
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