The Heavenly Demon Destroys the Tower - Chapter 15

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Episode 15
‘A sword?’
The guardian had been shooting arrows just moments ago.
So its true form was actually a sword.
‘But what’s it planning to do from all the way over there?’
As Lee Gang-han jumped back and forth, collecting Treasure Boxes,
he’d drifted far from the starting point.
The Goblin Chieftain was one thing—even if it dropped something,
the sword shouldn’t have much trouble reaching him here.
But then.
Whoooosh!
Pure white light blazed forth from the sword,
and with a sharp whistle,
the massive luminous blade split into dozens of Light Swords,
all rushing toward Lee Gang-han at tremendous speed.
-???
-What’s the difficulty even;
-Is this… Iron Tower…?
-Gold rankers would struggle with this;
The swords bore down at nearly the same speed as Lee Gang-han using the Cheonma Gunrim Leap to jump away.
The distance was still too great for them to reach him,
but they’d catch up within minutes.
‘I don’t have much time left on the Cheonma Shingong.’
Should I fight the sword while the Cheonma Shingong is still active?
Or should I open the Treasure Boxes faster?
As Lee Gang-han stood at this crossroads,
[Return Portal has opened.]
Zing!
On the far side of the shattered cliff,
in the direction Lee Gang-han had jumped while collecting the Treasure Box,
multiple blue portals materialized.
Apparently, because this was Iron Tower,
it seemed they wouldn’t let him just die.
‘Then I’ll collect more treasure on the way out and use the portal.’
Swish!
Lee Gang-han traced an escape route in his mind
and opened a Treasure Box on the stepping-stone path.
[Treasure Box opened.]
[You gain 1,000 TP.]
[Reward acquisition is increased by 100%.]
[You gain 1,000 TP.]
Ten more Treasure Boxes to go.
Before long, Lee Gang-han arrived near the portal.
‘One more jump from here and I’m out.’
He’d used his Entry Ticket to open thirty-five boxes and earned 70,000 TP.
For Iron Tower, that was a respectable haul.
But then.
‘If I could subdue that sword next time, I could open even more boxes, couldn’t I?’
He still had two Entry Tickets left.
There was no harm in testing whether he could handle the sword this time before escaping.
Having decided as much,
Lee Gang-han stood at the Treasure Box support where the Return Portal waited,
arms crossed, and waited for the sword to arrive.
About a minute passed.
‘Here it comes.’
Whoosh!
Multiple Light Swords descended before Lee Gang-han’s eyes.
‘Up close, it really does have some presence.’
Slash!
The blades spread in all directions, enclosing the space around Lee Gang-han.
There was barely room to move, and dodging the sword’s attacks seemed nearly impossible.
Whoosh!
Lee Gang-han slipped between the blade’s strikes, weaving left and right as if dancing on its edge.
More than that—he managed to seize the sword’s hilt with his own hand.
-How is he dodging all of that?
-Is he sparring with a sword? That’s insane
-Something about his movement feels different…
-That’s why he’s Cheonma Jichae;
-Such a shame he’s Limited Term ㅠ
Even accounting for his Cheonma abilities, Lee Gang-han displayed acrobatic feats that defied expectation.
The moment he gripped the sword to clash with another blade—
[Suppressing the Sword Spirit……]
A message suddenly materialized before his eyes.
‘A Sword Spirit?’
There was such a thing?
Lee Gang-han glanced at the sword in his grasp, and there—
Wiiing……
In the center of the sword made of light—
There was a small child huddled with knees drawn up to its chest.
‘So this is the Sword Spirit.’
If he suppressed this spirit, could he wield the Light Sword?
That would be incredible.
Lee Gang-han harbored that hope for a moment, but—
[You do not possess the required sword skill.]
[You cannot suppress the Sword Spirit.]
Along with the message that he couldn’t suppress the sword—
Crack-crack-crack……
A fissure spread through the blade.
The light scattered in all directions and vanished.
‘Almost had it.’
If he could suppress the Sword Spirit—
It would be worth far more than opening a few more Treasure Boxes here.
Lee Gang-han swallowed his disappointment and continued to face the relentless swords bearing down on him.
Screech!
Even as his skin was cut several times by the sword’s fierce barrage—
He didn’t flinch once, simply seizing another blade in his grip.
He couldn’t suppress the spirit, but he could still destroy the sword.
Crack-crack-crack……!
By the time he’d seized and shattered roughly ten swords—
[Suppressing the Sword Spirit……]
[Acquiring the skill ‘Cheonma Sinsword’……]
Unlike before—
The message window displayed ‘Cheonma Sinsword’.
‘Really?’
He could gain a sword skill this way?
Then he should be able to suppress the Sword Spirit now as well.
Lee Gang-han waited for the message to fade—
Anticipating the skill acquisition confirmation to complete.
Ding.
[The minimum grade of the trait ‘Cheonma Jichae’ has not reached Grade D.]
[You cannot acquire the skill ‘Cheonma Sinsword’.]
A message appeared stating that he had failed to acquire the skill ‘Cheonma Sinsword’.
‘Ah… When I chose the bonus skill at the start, ‘Cheonma Sinsword’ was marked as Grade D or higher. So it’s connected to the minimum grade.’
The ‘Cheonma Sinsword’ that had appeared as Grade D or higher in the bonus skill selection window—
The grade that appeared here was tied to the minimum grade after all.
Lee Gang-han regretted not acquiring the Cheonma Sinsword, yet—
He could now grasp the mechanism behind Cheonma-related skill acquisition.
‘So the minimum grade of the Cheonma Jichae trait is the key.’
Just as he had acquired the Cheonma Gunrim Leap after the minimum grade of Cheonma Jichae rose to E—
Once the Cheonma Jichae minimum grade reaches D, he would obtain the Grade D Cheonma Sinsword, and—
It seemed the structure was: climb one step from C to B to reach the skill of the next tier.
But if that were the case.
‘The Cheonma Cheonse Manma Angbok was an SSS-rank skill. I made the right call picking it first.’
The SSS-rank skill, Cheonma Cheonse Manma Angbok.
It would have required Cheonma Jichae to reach at least SSS grade before acquiring it.
Fortunately, the skill gained during the tutorial was a ‘bonus skill’.
So I could obtain it without these grade restrictions.
‘Picking the lowest option was the right move.’
Lee Gang-han felt once again how prescient that choice had been.
If he hadn’t selected Cheonma Cheonse Manma Angbok back then.
He would only have been able to acquire it after reaching SSS grade.
-Half the swords disappeared lol
-This confirms it for me — the Cheonma Jichae trait really does have a time limit
-How could an E-rank ability even do that lmao
-That’s disappointing, wonder if it’ll last until Bronze
-Just a taste at Iron then it’s gone lol
Meanwhile.
Lee Gang-han drew only shallow cuts even caught in the swords’ encirclement.
As he reversed the offense and neutralized the blades one after another.
The viewers grew even more convinced that the Cheonma power had an expiration date.
Whether it would fade at Iron.
Or carry through to Bronze — the chat was in the thick of betting.
[The duration of Cheonma Shingong has ended.]
As the duration of Cheonma Shingong expired.
Lee Gang-han’s movements noticeably slowed.
‘Time to escape.’
The number of swords was less than half what it had been before.
But without the Cheonma Shingong effect, dealing with them remained difficult.
Lee Gang-han jumped toward the Return Portal.
[Calculating Iron Tower No-777 performance…….]
[Opened 30 or more Treasure Boxes.]
[Encountered a Sword Spirit.]
[Clear Rating – S]
As the tower cleared.
The Clear Rating result appeared.
* * *
‘Just an S?’
For Lee Gang-han, who had received SSS+ both times until now, it was a disappointing result.
[Clear rewards are granted in proportion to your evaluation.]
[Opening clear rewards.]
[Level increased by 1.]
[Obtained 3,000 TP.]
The clear rewards were meager compared to his previous SSS+ runs.
‘That explains why even Iron was so generous with rewards…… it was because I kept getting SSS+.’
3,000 TP converted to won was roughly 3.9 million.
A substantial amount, certainly.
If most players earned income at this rate.
Far fewer would drop out mid-game.
‘Still, it’s a shame not to get SSS+. Would the rating go up if I subdued the Sword Spirit?’
If he possessed the Cheonma Sinsword skill.
He could likely subdue the Sword Spirit without difficulty.
‘Next time, I shouldn’t use the Entry Ticket right away. I should challenge it once I qualify for the Cheonma Sinsword skill.’
Lee Gang-han laid out his next strategy and tallied today’s earnings.
35 Treasure Boxes opened for 70,000 TP.
10,000 TP from donations, plus 3,000 from the clear reward.
‘83,000 TP…… that’s over 100 million won converted.’
Even for a Treasure Box map, the income at Iron level was staggering.
‘Total TP now is 123,000…… at this point, cashing out at 100% feels wasteful.’
I need to find a way to cash out at 110% through the guild somehow.
Lee Gang-han decided to hold onto his TP for now.
‘Did the goblin come back to life?’
I opened Manmajeon to check whether the goblin was dead or alive.
Manmajeon — the dwelling place of the ten thousand demons who bowed to the Cheonma.
The dwelling place of the ten thousand demons who bowed to the Cheonma.
Your player rank is too low; Manmajeon cannot function at full capacity.
Current capacity — 51/10,000
Looking at the number of entities stored.
Just as the Chieftain said, it seemed that even if you died in the tower, you could be revived in Manmajeon.
And in the darkness of Manmajeon.
In the one brightly lit goblin zone I could see.
Several goblins lay sprawled out, their bodies turned gray.
When Lee Gang-han pressed on one of them.
[Goblin #1 — Waiting time until reactivation: 23:48:55]
A message window appeared.
‘So I can’t use them right after death, but I can after twenty-four hours.’
But thinking about how tower entry also becomes possible twenty-four hours after clearing.
This didn’t seem like much of a penalty at all.
‘But the Chieftain isn’t lying down.’
Whether the horn’s resurrection effect had been used here.
Unlike the other goblins who fell to their deaths, the castrated Goblin Chieftain was actively moving about just fine.
But unlike when he usually gave orders to the goblins.
The way he was tugging at his hair while staring down at his groin suggested something had gone wrong.
‘Hmm… is there anything else worth investing in the goblin zone?’
Not long ago, Lee Gang-han had begrudged every TP when investing forty thousand, but.
During this map 777 clear, the goblins had thrown themselves into the fray and accomplished great deeds.
As the saying goes, generosity springs from plenty.
Now that he’d gained substantial income, the desire to invest had awakened.
So as I kept tapping around the goblin zone.
Ding.
[Will you construct the ‘Goblin Training Ground’?]
[30,000 TP will be consumed.]
A message asking whether to construct the training ground appeared.
Goblin Training Ground
While awaiting in Manmajeon, the goblins gain experience through independent training.
The growth stats achievable through training scale in proportion to the player’s level.
‘So they’ll grow to match my level.’
This seemed worth building.
The goblins, already having their food and shelter taken care of, were just lounging around idle anyway.
As the master of Manmajeon.
I couldn’t just stand by and watch them laze and feast.
‘That’s right. They need to keep up with my level.’
Having resolved this, Lee Gang-han constructed the training ground.
Clack. Clack……
A campsite unfolded in the goblin zone, and.
A training ground spread with all manner of training dummies was created.
Then the Goblin Chieftain, who had been staring only at his own groin.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Gestured to the goblins and pushed them into the training ground.
‘A truly exemplary middle manager.’
Thinking so, Lee Gang-han.
touched the goblin zone again.
There was still some TP left — was there anything else worth investing in?
As I continued touching.
Ding.
[Will you construct the ‘Goblin Black Market’?]
[60,000 TP will be consumed.]
Compared to everything I’d built so far.
A much more expensive facility had appeared.
‘Sixty thousand is a bit steep…’
If I built this too, I’d be spending more than what I earned today.
He’d made a hundred million in a day and spent it just as quickly.
Wasn’t it time he calmed down a little?
‘Right… I should splash some water on my face.’
He needed a clear head to read through the facility descriptions.
He couldn’t keep throwing money around like this.
Lee Gang-han stood from his seat and walked toward the bathroom.
Ring, ring……
His phone chimed.
“Who’s calling at a time like this?”
The number on the screen was one he’d never seen before.
Lee Gang-han answered, curious who it might be.
“Hello?”
[Ah. Gang-han, it’s me—Joong-hyun from the Logistics Center.]
At the mention of Joong-hyun, Lee Gang-han placed the man at once.
Joong-hyun—they’d chatted often enough at the Logistics Center, and he’d always been around.
A considerate sort, generous with advice; Lee Gang-han had benefited from his kindness more than once.
‘But how did he get my number?’
Lee Gang-han tilted his head slightly. “Ah, yes, sir.”

[There’s someone who really wanted to get in touch with you.]
“…Get in touch?”
[Yeah! You know Shin Yu-ri, the boss, right?]
“Shin Yu-ri?”
[What, you don’t know her……? The GLASS agent CEO! Ah, hold on, I’ll put her on.]
What was this?
Lee Gang-han’s brow furrowed in confusion.
[Hello. You are Lee Gang-han, correct?]
A woman’s voice suddenly came through the phone.
“Yes.”
[This is Shin Yu-ri, representative of the Player Agent firm GLASS.]
The Celestial Demon Shatters the Tower (Ongoing)
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