The Heavenly Demon Destroys the Tower - Chapter 21

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Chapter 21
“Resurrection?”
“That’s right.”
Until now, the elf had shown not the slightest inclination to yield.
But at the word “resurrection,” genuine interest flickered across his face.
“Any being registered to Manma Hall will resurrect twenty-four hours after dying in the tower.”
“Manma Hall……?”
“It’s a place you belong to once you bow.”
“……So I’d be registered under you, then?”
“More or less, yeah.”
“Registration feels a bit…….”
The elf muttered this with an uncomfortable expression.
The Goblin Chieftain, who had been licking his blade, spoke up.
“Kihihi…… Do you know how merciful the Cheonma is? He’s opened us a home and the very possibility of advancement. That’s far better than rotting as meaningless phantoms in the Infinite Tower!”
“A home, you say……?”
“Exactly! And the Cheonma—he doesn’t demand twenty-two hours of labor from us worthless goblins, but only eight! Can you imagine such mercy? If you’re truly an orc, you’d understand this far better than anyone!”
“Eight, eight hours……? For goblin slaves?”
The elf stared at Lee Gang-han with astonished eyes.
“Tssss…… Unbelievable! Are you a fool? How can you assign only that much work to goblins—goblins that resurrect, no less……?”
“Kihihihi! That’s precisely why the Cheonma is the greatest master! We can’t help but bow to him!”
He hadn’t expected to be called a fool for assigning only eight hours of work.
As Lee Gang-han wore a bitter smile,
-Eight hours of labor is that surprising?
-Must be how the goblin industry works lol
-Makes sense given the chieftain throws his own people away as useless…
-But can you actually assign work like that in Manma Hall?
-Cheonma’s playing a completely different game — — how is this even E-rank?
-No wonder they’re taking the trait away soon lol
The viewers felt once again the absurd power of the Cheonma Jisae trait.
It wasn’t enough that he could subjugate monsters—there seemed to be yet another layer of content to this.
Just as comments began flooding in confirming that a time limit was definitely coming,
“……Tssss. You want me to bow in order to register me with Manma Hall, yes?”
“That’s right.”
“I have two conditions.”
“What conditions?”
“This bow will be the only one. Ever.”
“Fine.”
Once registered,
bowing again would only reduce the cooldown on the Cheonma Divine Art anyway.
There was no need to demand it.
“And the other condition?”
“Tssss…… Let me take an orc to your Manma Hall. One like this goblin chieftain.”
Bring an orc?
‘That’s more than welcome.’
No matter how he looked at it, the being before him was elf enough.
If he brought an orc to Manma Hall as well, then three different races would dwell there.
Having diverse races inhabit the hall would aid both Manma Hall’s development
and the strengthening of the Cheonma Jisae.
“Fine. But since I can’t communicate with the orc, you’ll have to interpret and make it bow. Then I’ll register it with Manma Hall.”
“Understood. So…… what should I do?”
Lee Gang-han withdrew from atop the elf’s body.
A soft rustling sound.
The silver-haired elf made no attempt to flee.
Instead, he gazed at Lee Gang-han.
His eyes gleamed a vivid crimson.
Below his face, intricate scarlet tattoos covered his neck and ran downward—unmistakably eye-catching.
-Oh, the silver-haired elf is pretty?
-But why all those tattoos on the neck? Would’ve looked clean without them, like the face…
-Iron getting an elf summon, that’s insane luck lol
-nah nah it’s an orc
She calls herself an Orc, but all the same—
an Elf whose face bears not a single trace of Orcish features.
When she fixed Lee Gang-han with a vacant stare,
he slipped forward smoothly.
He signaled the Goblin Chieftain with a glance.
“Show me.”
“Yes! Cheonma Cheonse! Manma Angbok!”
Bang!
The Goblin Chieftain drove his forehead into the floor and bellowed with fervent devotion.
The Elf observed the display with quiet attention.
“……I’ll do it once, as promised.”
“That’s all. No more after this.”
She stepped forward.
Then bowed, her voice hollow.
“Cheonma Cheonse, Manma Angbok…….”
-Why’s she sound like a mosquito lmao
-Total opposite of the Goblin Chieftain lol
-Loyalty 100 vs Loyalty 0
-Elf summon is worth getting though ngl
The Goblin Chieftain and the Elf — polar opposites.
Still, she’d made her bow, and that counted for something.
Ding!
A message window appeared before his eyes.
[You have subjugated a ‘named being’.]
[The target did not submit completely. The Cheonma Divine Art duration will not be enhanced.]
[You may register the target in Manma Hall.]
[Register ‘Half-blood Elf Karana’ to Manma Hall? (51/10,000)]
When he’d subdued the boss monster that was the Goblin Chieftain, the duration of the Cheonma Divine Art had increased.
But this Elf had submitted through trade, not conquest.
So the Divine Art hadn’t been enhanced at all.
‘Still, if she’s Half-blood, she must be connected to Orcs somehow.’
Curious, given that her appearance was entirely Elven.
Lee Gang-han thought this to himself,
then pressed ‘yes’ to the prompt asking whether to register her in Manma Hall.
And then—
A ripple of flame blazed across her forehead……!
“Urgh…….”
The Elf’s brow burned bright,
and there, a character meaning “Demon” was seared into her skin.
[You have registered ‘Half-blood Elf Karana’ to Manma Hall.]
“So this is what Manma Hall is……?”
It seemed a message had appeared in her vision.
Karana, who’d been staring into empty air,
suddenly gleamed with light
as the Demon character on her brow flashed bright.
Then, with a rush of force,
she was drawn entirely into it.
‘Let me check if she made it in safely.’
Lee Gang-han opened the Manma Hall interface.
* * *
‘It’s quite far from the Goblin domain.’
Most of Manma Hall lay shrouded in darkness.
Far from the Goblin territory where a foothold had been established,
the Elf Karana, reduced to an SD character, was examining her surroundings.
Lee Gang-han tapped on her.
[Half-blood Elf Karana]
[Status: Blind Faith, Delusion, Curiosity, Confusion, Recovering…….]
Her status displayed before him.
‘Blind Faith? Delusion?’
It didn’t mean she had blind faith in Lee Gang-han himself.
Is believing something just because you think it’s an ‘Orc’ what they call blind faith?
That’s where the misunderstanding creeps in too.
While Lee Gang-han was turning over these thoughts,
Whoosh.
[Summon]
[Worship]
[Banish]
Three directive options appeared below Karana.
Since the Goblin Chieftain had said this bow was the last, pressing Worship wouldn’t matter anyway—he wouldn’t do it.
‘If I meet an Orc on the upper floor, I should summon her and have her handle the translation.’
Lee Gang-han thought as much and closed the Manma Hall interface.
“Then I’ll head up first. Follow along at your own pace.”
“Yes! Ah, but Divine One! Just a moment…….”
Whoosh.
With that, the Goblin Chieftain pressed a chunk of gold into Lee Gang-han’s hand.
“It’s the gold we mined just now!”
“Extracted from the Orc’s body?”
“Yes! I offer it to you, Divine One!”
Presenting gold obtained from butchering a corpse.
If I take this, can I actually use it for anything?
Even as Lee Gang-han wondered, he opened his palm.
Whoosh.
The gold chunk fell into his hand,
Then sparkled and dissolved……!
The gold was absorbed into pristine white light and vanished.
[You have acquired 200 TP.]
It had been converted into Tower Points.
“Oh. 200 TP came in?”
“Next time I’ll mine more and deliver it all to you, Divine One!”
“Good. That’s the right attitude.”
It wasn’t a fortune.
But as a side income, the Goblin Chieftain’s monster butchering was quite lucrative.
-The chieftain just butchered them in seconds and brought in 260,000 won lol
-If we summon from more locations with monsters, it’d be even better
-Isn’t the summoner broken? The mobs are earning money too
-It’s not the summoner that’s broken, it’s the Cheonma Divine Art that’s broken;
‘Next time I should have them mine gold from the start.’
Thinking that, Lee Gang-han stepped through the portal and ascended to the next floor.
And in the middle of this Forest Path,
Five Orcs were already guarding the passageway from the start.
‘Good. Perfect.’
Seeing this, Lee Gang-han summoned Karana.
“Screech……! You found us already?”
Karana, now wearing her hood again,
Gazed at the Orcs before her with gleaming eyes.
“So I just need to make them shout the Cheonma Cheonse Manma Angbok phrase, right? Screech!”
“That’s it. Translate and command them.”
“Got it.”
Step. Step.
Karana moved ahead,
“Screech. Screeeech……!”
And began conversing with the Orcs.
Since the Cheonma Cheonse Manma Angbok phrase appeared in the conversation itself,
It seemed clear she was issuing orders to them.
But then.
“Screech?”
“Grrrk. Grrrrk!”
The Orcs listening to Karana’s words
Showed no sign of obedience whatsoever.
-What are they even saying now
-An elf and an orc cackling together? That’s totally unbalanced lol
-The orc’s cackle doesn’t matter, it’s the elf making that face that’s the problem ——
The viewers couldn’t understand what the orc was saying.
They were only picking up on the atmosphere.
But Lee Gang-han, who had now registered Karana to Manma Hall, could finally comprehend their exchange.
-I am a descendant of the Gersh Empire Royal Family, the apprentice of the Grand Sorcerer—Karana. This is my command. Bow before this one and chant the Sacred Oath of Cheonma!
-……What’s the elf saying? Has she lost her mind?
-Get lost, elf!
Back when the Goblin Chieftain had tried to persuade the goblins,
half had obeyed and half had rebelled.
But with Karana, the problem was simpler—no one acknowledged her as an orc at all.
In truth, aside from speaking like an orc, she shared nothing in common with them.
“Hey, they’re not listening either?”
“What—what is it? How’d you know?”
“Since I’ve registered you, I can understand what you’re all saying to each other now. Look, I’ll just beat some sense into them with my fists, so you just threaten them.”
“Chiik……! No, that won’t do. Wait just a moment! Let me handle this my own way!”
What?
Was she saying not to use violence against her own kind?
So she did have some sense of kinship as an orc, then.
That’s what Lee Gang-han thought at first.
“You don’t recognize me? You’ve all lost your senses…….”
Whoosh.
Karana drew a small bell from her sleeve.
Chime. Chime!
She shook it before them.
Then.
“What the……!”
“My, my body!”
The orcs’ skin flushed crimson in an instant.
“Obey! Bow before this one and chant the Sacred Oath of Cheonma!”
As Karana’s command fell,
the flushed orcs began prostrating themselves before Lee Gang-han one by one.
“Sacred Oath of Cheonma…… Sacred Oath of Cheonma…….”
The orcs recited the ritual words in hollow, stammering voices.
So the orcs were registered one by one as Orc and Orc, but
“Hrrgh…… kghkghkgh!”
the last orc, moving slowly to bow,
suddenly began to swell.
Burst!
It exploded instantly.
“Chiik……! Alas, one who could not inherit the glory of the Empire!”
Karana let out a sigh upon witnessing this.
She seemed genuinely lamenting over the orc that had burst.
Of course.
‘……Didn’t you just blow him up yourself?’
She rang the bell and things went haywire.
The orc exploding was ultimately Karana’s doing.
Yet there she was, acting all sorrowful about it.
‘In a way, she’s worse than the Goblin Chieftain.’
With that thought, Lee Gang-han spoke to Karana.
“Well, the orc’s registered too, so we should move on to clear the tower. We’ve wasted enough time here.”
“Chiik…… understood, Cheonma. The orc registered under you will be resurrected, yes?”
“Yeah. Probably.”
Saying this, Lee Gang-han
sprinted forward along the Forest Path at full speed.
-??? Wasted time, he says?
-This is totally speedrunning, right?
-Cheonma should really see how other players actually climb the tower ——
-Exactly, compared to other players, Cheonma’s basically just shorts content lol
Watching Lee Gang-han say they’d wasted time, the viewers could only shake their heads in disbelief.
Yet Lee Gang-han’s own mind was racing.
‘This time I need to get that SSS+ rating.’
On the tower’s clear evaluation.
The time it took mattered just as much as everything else.
With that, Lee Gang-han pressed forward without hesitation and stepped into the portal to clear floor 10.
[Iron Tower No. 4 results are being settled…….]
[You have cleared the tower within one hour.]
[You have subdued 10 or more Orcs.]
[You have encountered the hidden named character, ‘Half-blood Elf Karana’.]
[Clear Rating – SSS+ Grade]
[Clear rewards will be granted in proportion to your rating.]
[Exceeding the SSS Grade evaluation, you receive an additional special reward.]
‘Excellent. I’m back to SSS+ again.’
As Lee Gang-han gazed at his rating that had climbed to SSS+, satisfied with the result,
[‘Half-blood Elf Karana’ has been subjugated.]
[One additional choice has been granted as part of your special reward.]
‘A choice?’
Unlike usual,
one more message appeared on the screen.
The Cheonma Divine Art Shatters the Tower (Serialized)
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