The Heavenly Demon Destroys the Tower - Chapter 22

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Episode 22
‘This is the first time I’ve been able to choose a special reward.’
Until now, I’d always accepted whatever reward the tower granted.
But subduing Karana had apparently changed the rules.
This time, unlike before, I was given a choice.
[100,000 TP]
[Orc Shaman’s Altar Blueprint]
‘The standard reward was 100,000 TP, but it looks like the Orc Shaman’s Altar got added to the pool.’
Given that it’s called a blueprint,
it seems like something I’d install in Manmajeon, similar to how the goblin’s pawn market works.
‘I’ve already received contract money, so TP isn’t urgent. For the long term, the blueprint is the better choice.’
100,000 TP certainly wasn’t a small amount,
but securing the blueprint would be wiser if I wanted to settle Karana—the half-elf—properly in Manmajeon.
Lee Ganghan chose the blueprint.
[You have acquired the Orc Shaman’s Altar Blueprint.]
[Construction options available in Manmajeon will increase.]
A message appeared notifying him of the expanded options,
[Clear Rewards are now being distributed.]
[Your Level has increased by 2.]
[You have gained 30,000 TP.]
The clear rewards followed in succession.
‘Level nineteen, then.’
To advance from Iron Grade to Bronze in the Beginner’s Tower, there were two requirements.
He had to climb the tower to the tenth floor,
and his Level also needed to reach 25.
‘I’ve heard most players reach level 25 after getting to the tenth floor, but at this rate, I might make it sooner.’
Achieving SSS+ rankings as routinely as Lee Ganghan did was an anomaly.
Most ordinary players managed clear grades of A at best,
or averaged somewhere around C.
And when a player received such middling grades, they’d get no level-up rewards, or at most one.
So Iron Grade players would find their way to the tenth floor of the Infinite Tower by any means necessary,
hunting monsters there and collecting tower clear rewards to grind their way to level 25.
‘If I hit level 25 before floor 10, I’ll need to focus on strengthening the inhabitants of Manmajeon instead.’
With that thought, Lee Ganghan collected all his rewards.
Then,
[All rewards have been collected.]
[Logging out from Iron Tower No.4.]
Flash!
His body shimmered, and Lee Ganghan found himself back inside his house.
The moment he arrived, he opened Manmajeon.
[Manmajeon]
The dwelling of the ten thousand demons who submitted to the Heavenly Demon.
Due to your low player rank, Manmajeon cannot yet function at full capacity.
Current occupancy — 56/10,000
With Karana and four orcs added, the occupancy of Manmajeon had grown.
Lee Ganghan examined the screen that appeared before his eyes.
‘Karana and the orcs are in different sections?’
Within the Manmajeon interface,
the four orcs and Karana were separated into distinct zones.
Karana stood alone at a considerable distance,
while the goblins and orcs were clustered so closely together they might as well have been neighbors.
‘Hmm. The Manmajeon system must be classifying Karana as an elf, then.’
She had nothing in common with the orcs aside from those clicking sounds she made.
Still, if that was how it worked,
‘then I’ve now got three races in Manmajeon. That’s good.’
Only two races had been needed to raise the Cheonma Body Grade to D, but
in the future, I might be asked to bind more races to it.
So having as many different races in Manmajeon as possible was an advantage.
‘First, I need to set up a proper settlement for them.’
Unlike the goblins, these newcomer races were trapped in the darkness of Manmajeon.
Lee Ganghan decided to do what he’d done before.
First, he would build a settlement.
‘Right. Before that, I need to convert my TP to cash.’
Lee Ganghan currently held 30,200 TP.
He’d exchange this with Shin Yuri at a 120% rate.
For the Manmajeon upgrades, he’d have to buy TP with money instead.
‘Since I need to invest in both races… I’ll convert about 130 million.’
First, he secured 100,000 TP.
He’d decide on further investment as the situation developed.
Lee Ganghan went to TowerTube and proceeded with the TP conversion.
[You have obtained 100,000 TP.]
Cash drained from his account and flowed into his TowerTube balance as TP.
The system window reflected the change in real time.
‘Remarkable.’
He marveled briefly at the hyper-technology of the Infinite Tower.
Then Lee Ganghan got down to serious investment.
Click.
He tapped on the location where Karana was.
[Will you construct an Elf settlement?]
[200,000 TP will be consumed.]
‘Two hundred thousand?’
With the goblins, it had definitely been only 20,000.
Lee Ganghan’s brow furrowed at the price that had skyrocketed tenfold.
‘Why is elf land so expensive?’
And thinking back to the goblin settlement, building it alone wasn’t the end of it—
They’d demand additional TP for food and basic resources.
If he recalled correctly, it had been 20,000, then another 20,000.
‘At this rate, I’ll blow through the contract deposit.’
Lee Ganghan felt a creeping unease and
decided to check on the orc situation first.
After all, compared to Karana, who had come of her own volition,
the orc situation was far worse off.
Lee Ganghan pulled up the orc information.
[Orc Tribe]
[Status: Confusion, Berserk, death in 2 hours]
Their condition was much worse than the goblins had been.
‘No starvation at least, but they’ll be dead in two hours.’
The reddened skin probably meant Berserk, didn’t it?
And as a side effect, death within two hours.
He’d have to tend to them first.
[The Orc settlement does not exist.]
[Without a settlement, orcs who die in Manmajeon cannot resurrect.]
[Will you construct an Orc settlement?]
[50,000 TP will be consumed.]
Before Lee Ganghan’s eyes,
the construction cost of 50,000 TP registered.
‘Orcs are 50,000 too…. So goblins were just cheap.’
The fact that goblins were the first he’d subjugated
seemed like a blessing in retrospect.
Because the creatures were so weak,
the TP investment wasn’t heavy to begin with.
‘Let me handle the orcs first.’
Karana’s status showed no death marker,
so she could hold out a bit longer.
Lee Ganghan made up his mind to prioritize the orcs over the elves and invested the TP.
[You have constructed the ‘Orc settlement’.]
As the orc settlement was built,
darkness receded and a barren wasteland took shape.
[Will you add food and basic resources to the settlement?]
[50,000 TP will be consumed.]
I added resources here.
A patch of green sprouted in the wasteland.
Soon, herbivores of various sizes began to appear.
‘So I’ve secured a way for the orcs to survive.’
The 130 million I’d converted.
I’d spent it all keeping four orcs alive.
Just as Lee Ganghan let out a bitter chuckle.
[“Half-elf Karana wishes to speak with you.]
[Will you accept the call?]
A message came through from the true money sink herself.
* * *
[Screech. Cheonma, thank you for taking my inquiry.]
“I brought you here—of course I have to accept you.”
Karana stood steady even in the darkness of Manmajeon.
Recalling how terrified the goblin chieftain had been at first,
her mental fortitude seemed remarkably strong.
[Where are the orcs?]
“The orcs? I was just preparing their settlement.”
[I see. They weren’t visible to me, so I wondered.]
“You’re assigned to a different area. You get the elf territory, and the orcs get theirs.”
[Screech. What?! Something’s not right here. How could you assign me to the elf territory?]
As Lee Ganghan revealed the truth, Karana began to rage.
The Manmajeon system had clearly classified her as an elf.
But Karana, caught between blind conviction and self-deception, didn’t seem ready to accept it.
‘I’ll have to play along a bit here.’
There was no point in trying to convince her that she was an elf.
So Lee Ganghan spoke gently instead.
“Really? Manmajeon’s still not perfect yet, so the classification system must’ve glitched.”
[Screech! Exactly! I am a descendant of the Gersha Empire’s royal bloodline……! Though I may look similar to an elf on the outside, my core is completely orc!]
“Got it. So you want to go to the orc settlement?”
[Screech! Of course!]
So he didn’t need to build an elf territory after all.
He’d saved 200,000 TP.
‘But how do I get her there?’
Tap. Tap.
Lee Ganghan tried touching Karana, wondering if he could drag her by tapping the screen,
but only options for [Summon], [Worship], and [Banish] appeared.
There was no movement function.
‘It’s quite a distance to make her walk…….’
Was there any other way?
As Lee Ganghan alternated tapping between the orc and elf territories, searching for a solution,
a chime rang out.
When he touched the orc wasteland,
a system message appeared.
[The orc settlement is not currently in “Orc Territory” status.]
>[Cannot construct “Orc Training Hall”.]
‘Right—it needs to be a proper territory before leveling up is possible.’
The goblin lands had been upgraded only after he gave the chieftain a horn.
But the orcs had no such event trigger, it seemed,
so he couldn’t construct a “Training Hall” to enable leveling.
However,
[“Orc Shaman’s Altar” blueprint acquired.]
[“Orc Shaman’s Altar” can now be constructed.]
Ah—it must have been because he’d selected the blueprint earlier.
Every other building was impossible,
but the Orc Shaman’s Altar alone could be built.
[“Orc Shaman’s Altar” construction confirmed?]
[200,000 TP will be consumed.]
‘200,000…… that’s elf territory prices.’
The cost was steep, but
Even so, once the contract advance is cashed, it’s still a manageable sum.
Lee Ganghan then read the description of the Orc Shaman’s Altar that came to mind.
[Orc Shaman’s Altar Lv.1]
Construct an altar used by orc shamans.
In the altar created for the resurrection of Gersha Empire Orcs,
terrible experiments to create Red Orcs are conducted.
Most experiments fail,
but occasionally successful cases do emerge.
Orcs subjected to experimentation drop in Level each time they die,
and their loyalty and motivation decline significantly.
If an experiment fails while the orc’s Level is 1, the orc vanishes.
If the experiment succeeds, the orc evolves into a Gersha Empire Orc and becomes obedient to the master of Manmajeon and the shaman.
Only the class ‘Orc Shaman’ can be stationed at the Orc Shaman’s Altar.
When orcs are assigned to a stationed Orc Shaman,
the evolution experiment begins.
If the Orc Shaman’s Altar is upgraded,
the probability of the shaman’s experiment succeeding increases.
When the Orc Shaman’s Altar reaches Level 5,
the altar is reorganized into a Grand Shaman’s Laboratory.
‘So the orcs at this altar are nothing but test subjects.’
Altar in name, but really—
a laboratory for turning existing orcs into Red Orcs.
‘Right now it’s not an orc territory, so I can’t level them up…. If the experiments keep failing, their Levels just plummet and eventually the orcs disappear. Do I need to keep procuring new ones?’
Lee Ganghan analyzed the details carefully,
and took note of the fact that an ‘Orc Shaman’ could be stationed at the altar.
‘The altar is the reward I got after pulling Karana into Manmajeon. If she’s really a disciple of the Grand Shaman as she said, couldn’t she be stationed there?’
Would they have given me this as a reward if there was no connection?
But just to be safe—
if Karana isn’t classified as an Orc Shaman, it’s just burning 200,000 TP for nothing.
200,000 TP meant 260 million won.
More than half the contract advance he’d received—Lee Ganghan hesitated for a moment,
“Karana.”
[……Cheonma, how do you know my name?]
Come to think of it, they’d never actually introduced themselves formally.
When Karana looked at Lee Ganghan with startled eyes,
he broached the subject as if it were nothing.
“It shows up on the Manmajeon system window. But that’s not the important part—you’re an Orc Shaman, right?”
[……Tsk. Yes. I am a disciple of the Grand Shaman, a descendant of the Gersha Empire royal family.]
“You trust me?”
[Why ask that?]
“Because I’m about to invest more than half my entire fortune.”
[More than half your entire fortune……?]
When Karana’s eyes widened at those words,
‘Let’s do it.’
Lee Ganghan cashed 200,000 TP through TowerTube,
and with a click,
immediately constructed the Orc Shaman’s Altar.
Then,
in the heart of the orc territory,
a structure made of ominous blood-colored bone rose up.
Just looking at it, you could sense that some terrible experiment was about to unfold.
‘So… will it work?’
When Lee Ganghan pressed the altar,
[Do you wish to station an Orc Shaman?]
[You can currently station ‘Half-Elf Karana’.]
Despite her body being that of an elf,
her class truly held the ‘Orc Shaman’ designation,
and Karana could indeed be stationed.
‘Excellent.’
Lee Ganghan stationed Karana at the altar.
A flash……!
Karana, trapped in the darkness,
teleported to the center of the altar in an instant.
[Gasp?]
At first she was startled by the abrupt teleportation,
[The, the altar……!?]
but when she saw the Orc Shaman’s Altar before her eyes,
[G, gasp…….]
Thump.
she collapsed to the ground right there.
The Cheonma Shatters the Tower (Serial)
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