The Heavenly Demon Destroys the Tower - Chapter 20

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Episode 20
–Oh, an Elf
–An Elf appearing in Iron tier?
–She’s pretty, right?
–Honestly, even if she were male, it wouldn’t be strange for an Elf lol
The chat window grew louder still with the Elf’s appearance.
And with good reason—Elves only appeared sporadically from Gold tier and above.
They were creatures you didn’t normally encounter.
Yet here, in Iron tier.
And of all places, in something like the Forest Path.
Just as the viewers fixed their attention on the Elf,
“Elf? No. Screee… I’m an Orc!”
The Elf contorted her expression.
Claiming to be an Orc.
Along with “screee,” the Orc language.
–??? What Orc, dude? Don’t you own a mirror?
–An Elf’s face shrieking like that is unsettling lol
–But she’s still pretty even with that flared nose haha
–Her voice is obviously female no matter how you look at it!
An Elf claiming to be an Orc.
Lee Kanghan had been puzzled at first, but then he thought,
‘Well… that matters less than whether we can actually communicate.’
He’d focused on the fact that she understood his words.
In the Infinite Tower, communication worked with Named enemies.
Given that this Elf could converse clearly, she seemed to be something out of the ordinary.
And moreover,
‘I can make her bow.’
Rather than capturing an Orc that only screamed and shrieked,
it was better to subjugate an Elf with whom communication flowed this clearly.
To do that,
‘I’ll need to pull her down from the tree first.’
Whoosh!
Lee Kanghan rushed toward the Elf.
“Screee, screee…! Stay back!”
Bang! Bang!
Multiple explosions erupted in the empty air.
The Elf nimbly bounded across the branches, dodging left and right.
Then,
“This isn’t over!”
With those final words, she vanished into the Golden Mist.
The sudden explosions in midair had thrown off his landing, making him stumble.
In that moment, she had fled with surprising speed.
“Tch… this won’t be easy.”
She’d claimed to be an Orc in words,
but the way she bounded across the branches was unmistakably an Elf.
As Lee Kanghan regretted letting the Elf slip away,
“Master, an enemy of that caliber might appear on the upper floors as well.”
The Goblin Chieftain suggested they ascend to scout the level above.
“Right. I need to catch her and make her submit.”
–So Elves can be intimidated too?
–I’m sold on Elves ✓ Would be refreshing compared to just dragging monsters around
–But will she surrender so easily?
–How did you make the Chieftain submit?
The viewers who hadn’t seen Lee Kanghan’s subjugation of the Chieftain
began asking how he’d done it from the start.
Swish.
Lee Kanghan simply raised his fist.
–Ah…
–He persuaded (with force)…
–No match for the fists
Having convinced the viewers, Lee Kanghan pressed forward.
“I’ll go ahead—keep up on your own.”
“Yes, sir!”
He left the Goblin Chieftain behind and climbed to the next floor.
Floor Eight.
“Growwwl……”
The wolves blocking the Forest Path didn’t so much as raise their heads.
Whoosh!
Lee Kanghan vaulted straight into the forest.
He swept through the woods once with the Cheonma Dominion Technique.
‘She’s not here.’
The Elf from before was nowhere to be seen.
But when he reached the far left edge of the forest,
about a dozen Orcs were fleeing into the Golden Mist Area, their eyes blazing red.
‘Has she already run?’
The way they bolted forward with bloodshot eyes, entranced as if possessed—
it looked like the Elf had rung that bell again.
Lee Kanghan briefly considered capturing them anyway,
‘but with their eyes like that, they won’t listen. Better to catch the Elf—she at least understands words.’
He decided to focus on securing the Elf instead.
‘Last time it was also at the far left end of this Forest Path. Next floor, I need to rush straight there.’
On both the seventh and eighth floors, he’d found the Orcs in this direction,
so next floor, he’d check here first.
Lee Kanghan made up his mind and climbed higher.
“Growwwl……”
Whoosh!
He ignored the wolf blocking the path entirely
and sprinted toward the familiar location.
‘I have to catch her before the Cheonma Divine Art ends.’
Recalling how the Elf had bounced across the branches,
there was no way to capture her once the skill’s duration expired.
Now was the only chance.
As Lee Kanghan ran at full speed toward that spot,
Ding. Ding……!
The bell chime from the Elf on Floor Seven rang out again.
‘There she is.’
This time, he’d catch her.
He bolted toward the sound.
Just as before, a group of Orcs with crimson eyes
were escaping into the Golden Mist Area.
And above them,
“Eek, eek! What!? Already!?”
the Elf in the Green Robe gasped at the sight of Lee Kanghan.
“Come here.”
“Eeeek!”
Boom! Boom!
Multiple explosions tore through the air.
Last time he’d hesitated at the blasts and lost her,
‘but not this time.’
Now he ignored the explosions entirely
and kept running.
Then—
Whoooosh……!
The t-shirt he wore caught fire in the flames and burned away,
Riiip!
but he tore it off and kept charging toward the Elf.
-dude went shirtless lmao
-those muscles are insane…
-wait, you built a body like that and then claim you never worked out??? cap ㅋㅋ
-fr fr ㅋㅋ
-Yeah, but his body’s really built, I gotta say…
While the viewers marveled at Lee Kanghan’s bare chest,
“Ch-chi-eek!”
The Elf, whose robe had been grabbed, let out a startled sound.
She chittered in panic.
-Why’s she chittering like that? –;;
-She’s an Orc, remember? lol
-Why does the Elf want so badly to not be an Elf?;
-Was she raised by Orcs?
-Elf Tarzan? lolol
While the viewers struggled to process the chittering Elf,
Whoosh!
Lee Kanghan yanked the Elf down from the tree
Thud!
and slammed her straight into the ground.
“Ugh… ugh…”
“Elf.”
“Chi-eek…! Not Elf! Orc!”
“Got it, Orc.”
If she wanted so badly to be an Orc,
he’d grant her that much.
Lee Kanghan took her words in stride
“Want to live?”
“…What are you trying to say?”
“If you want to live, bow.”
“B-bow…?”
“Yeah.”
With that, Lee Kanghan struck the ground beside the Elf’s head.
Crack!
His fist sank deep into the earth,
and the ground collapsed inward.
-So that’s how he persuaded the Chieftain…
-He’s merciless even to Elves, huh?
-Not Elf but Orc lol
-Really want to know why she keeps saying she’s an Orc lol
A simple threat: bow, or he’d cave her head in just the same.
Lee Kanghan’s straightforward method of persuasion.
Except.
“Chi-eek…! I am descended from the Gershu Imperial Family! Disciple of a High Sorcerer!”
This Orc-claiming Elf was no pushover like the Goblin Chieftain.
“If I die, I die! You think I’ll surrender? Kuruk!”
She’d been chittering moments before,
but now her sounds had shifted to Orc speech.
The moment she spoke those words,
“Kuruk. Kuruk kuruk…!”
“Chi-eek chi-eek…!”
The Orcs who had been fleeing toward the Golden Mist Area
suddenly turned and began charging back toward them.
Their eyes burned red—
their very skin stained crimson with fury.
* * *
-Look at the Elf holding her ground
-So physical persuasion doesn’t work on everyone lol
-She’s actually fighting back, even rallying the Orcs
-At this rate, he’ll have to kill her, right?
The persuasion method that had worked so easily on the Goblin Chieftain
proved ineffective with this Elf.
When told she’d die unless she bowed,
she only dug in her heels further.
-But what even is the Gershu Empire? Do Orcs have empires too?
-The reinforced Orc that comes from the Gold Tower onwards is from the Gershu Imperial Family
-Ah, Red Orc?
-Yeah, they’re similar to those
A horde of Orcs with skin stained a vivid crimson came charging toward them.
Lee Kanghan furrowed his brow at the sight.
‘Not as straightforward as the Chieftain, then.’
The neutered Goblin Chieftain.
Looking back on it now, he’d turned out to be a rather exemplary Named.
The creature had complied willingly with persuasion.
‘For now, I need to hold them off.’
Lee Kanghan regarded the crimson Orcs hurtling toward him.
Whatever it was the Elf had done.
They were charging in an enhanced state.
Though the enhancement wasn’t entirely flawless, it seemed.
Pop——!
Some Orcs did burst apart mid-charge.
Still, in the current situation where he needed to keep the Elf restrained, it was quite vexing.
‘I should have the goblins handle this.’
Lee Kanghan opened the Summon function in the Manma-jeon and summoned all the goblins at once.
Whoooosh——!
A massive portal tore open behind his back, and then—
“Cheonma eternal! Manma’s blessing!”
Fifty goblins materialized without being ordered to do anything.
The moment they appeared, they threw themselves before Lee Kanghan in prostration.
“Keep those ones at bay for me.”
“Kik-kik! Kik-kik!”
The goblins surged forward at his command, vying to be first.
“You think mere goblins can hold back our Orcs? Tsk!”
The Elf laughed at the sight, sneering that they could possibly stop her Orcs—
Thunk!
Lee Kanghan grabbed her head and—
slammed it straight into the ground.
He couldn’t kill her since he needed her to bow in submission.
But he did need to knock some of that spirit out of her.
One.
“Tsk! I will not submit!”
Thunk! Thunk!
“Bow……you will!”
Her head struck the earth repeatedly, and her hood slipped back, silver hair tumbling loose and disheveled.
Yet her defiant will remained unshaken.
-She won’t break at this rate
-When’s the Chieftain coming? Looks like he’s gonna need to do some harvesting on her ㅇㅇ;
-Is he delayed following us from the seventh floor?
Watching the stubborn Elf, the viewers searching for the Goblin Chieftain—
that torture specialist—decided this approach wouldn’t work.
The Elf’s fighting spirit remained utterly unbroken.
But then something began to give her pause.
“……Tsk. What’s that?”
She’d begun to waver as she watched the battle between Orc and goblin unfold.
“Kruk. Kruk!”
“Ki-ki-kik!”
Orcs and goblins shrieked and roared, locked in a fight to the death.
Though the reinforced Orcs dominated the field—
the goblins threw themselves desperately in their path, standing their ground.
With each defiant stand, each goblin willing to die to obey the Cheonma’s command—
the Orc advance was slowed.
Pop! Pop!
One by one, the crimson-skinned Orcs began to explode.
“Tsk. What is……? These aren’t the goblins I know……?”

Seeing this, the Elf grew confused.
“What?”
“Why aren’t you running away? Goblins have always fled at the mere sight of our Orc courage!”
“Oh? Well, if they come back from the dead anyway, I guess they’ve lost their fear.”
“Screech. They resurrect…… really?”
At Lee Kanghan’s words.
The Elf stared ahead with eyes full of bewilderment.
“Cheonma, my lord! I have arrived!!!”
The Goblin Chieftain came rushing over, gasping for breath.
“Kekekeke! These fools keep backing off! Why aren’t you fighting properly?”
He bellowed at the Goblins locked in mortal combat with the Orcs.
“You’ll just come back to life anyway! So devote yourselves to Cheonma! Throw yourselves at them!”
The Goblin Chieftain stepped forward to face the Orcs.
Even for Orcs reinforced as they were.
The Goblin Chieftain, once a boss monster, proved too much for them.
“Ugh…….”
The moment he entered the fray.
The tide of battle turned swiftly in their favor.
Thud. Thud.
Apart from the Orcs that exploded on their own.
Six Orcs in total fell to the ground as corpses.
“Kekekeke…… My lord Cheonma, might I “dismember” these ones?”
“Harvesting them?”
“Yes, yes. Exactly.”
“But why do that? They’re already dead.”
“Kekeke…… I’ll show you directly, my lord!”
The Chieftain drew his blade and approached the Orc corpses.
Scrape. Scrape!
The sound of tearing flesh echoed ominously.
Whoosh.
Soon, in the Goblin Chieftain’s hand.
A gleaming golden object appeared.
“……What is that? Could it be gold?”
“Yes! It comes out even better if you cut them while they’re still alive.”
-Wait wtf where did that gold come from
-So harvesting them was just to dig up gold?
-No wonder they kept doing it during the tutorial lol
-But how do you even extract gold from a body??? ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-So the slaughterhouse is literally a gold mine for that guy?
The neutered Goblin Chieftain rolled the gold fragment in his hand.
Hehehehe.
He gazed at the Elf, pinned beneath Lee Kanghan and sprawled on the ground.
“I’ve never harvested an Elf before…… I wonder how much gold will come out. Kekeke!”
“She’s not an Elf. She’s an Orc!”
“Kehi? My lord Cheonma, leave this to me. I’ll make this mad Elf bow before Cheonma. And I’ll extract gold at the same time!”
The Goblin Chieftain aimed to kill two birds with one stone through harvesting.
But Lee Kanghan was skeptical about this.
‘The harder you pressure her, the more she resists.’
The Elf seemed like the type who’d say “Fine, just kill me” even under torture.
Right now, rather than harsh methods.
It seemed better to devise a way to win her over.
But what could he use to persuade her?
As Lee Kanghan pondered the approach.
“……Screech. Let me ask you one thing.”
The Elf, who had been staring at the fallen Goblins.
“Do those Goblins really come back from the dead?”
She showed interest in “resurrection.”
The Cheonma Destroys the Tower (Ongoing)
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