The Heavenly Demon Destroys the Tower - Chapter 28

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Episode 28
‘Eleven floors?’
Except for Rank Promotion Battles, where there was no ceiling.
The Infinite Tower had a fixed upper limit across every rank:
ten floors.
As you climbed to higher ranks, each floor’s world grew vaster,
and maps often came with various attached conditions.
But when it came to the sheer number of floors, ten was an absolute law.
And yet—eleven?
‘Well, I’ve come this far. I have to see what’s up there.’
He’d already wasted one SSS+ Clear Reward on the Forest Path Tower trap,
so he had to confirm exactly what awaited on the eleventh floor.
Lee Gang-han made his resolution and claimed his Clear Reward.
[Clear Reward opened.]
[Level increased by 2.]
[Tower Points acquired: 32,000.]
‘Two thousand more TP than last time.’
Even though it was the same Forest Path Tower, the difficulty had climbed another notch.
The Clear Reward had granted him an extra two thousand TP.
‘If I don’t spend TP at Ten Thousand Demon Hall, I’ll be rich in no time.’
Still, if there were upgrades worth pursuing at the hall, he’d keep investing.
After all, strengthening the hall ultimately meant strengthening himself.
‘Tomorrow I’ll clear a tower and reach out to Yuri about exchanging some TP.’
With that thought, Lee Gang-han returned home.
Thanks to hunting down orcs alongside Kara Na, today’s tower climb had cleared in under thirty minutes.
As usual, he finished managing his TowerTube channel footage,
then checked his own channel’s video status—and his eyes widened.
‘……The elf video already broke a million views?’
Kim Joo-young had said to row when the tide comes in,
and had rushed an edited elf special his way.
Somehow, the video had caught fire.
-It’s an elf! A real elf!
-An elf that actually talks to humans…
-But why’s she imitating an orc?
-Actually, I don’t think it’s so bad 🙂
-An elf reveal!!! Would you bring her to Japan?
-The ability’s temporary, it’ll disappear soon
-Even if the ability disappears, I hope we keep seeing the elf…
Comments from overseas viewers were auto-translated and rolling in live.
‘The tide really did come in.’
When he’d been top of the Tutorial World, he’d briefly caught public attention,
but after receiving an E-rank evaluation, the public interest had cooled just as quickly.
Yet thanks to the elf, he was drawing eyes again—
all within the span of nearly a week.
‘If it hit a million, shouldn’t I be getting TP payouts?’
Upgrading Ten Thousand Demon Hall consumed staggering amounts of Tower Points,
so Lee Gang-han searched for a way
to settle and cash out TP directly through TowerTube.
And soon enough,
[TowerTube Settlement Policy]
Within TowerTube’s settings,
he found payout-related information.
Race: Human
Infinite Tower Entry Experience: Newcomer
Non-human viewers cannot access newcomer channels.
External advertising is prohibited.
Settlement is 0.001 TP per view.
Your current rank allows up to 1,000 TP settlement per video.
As your rank increases, the TP cap per video will rise accordingly.
Settlement is processed at month’s end.
Ads that don’t convert.
The per-view rate calculated at 0.001 TP.
In Korean won, that came to about 1.3 won per view.
And then.
‘Even at best, it caps out at 1,000 TP.’
Of course, even 1,000 TP by that standard
required hitting a million views.
That’s stingy no matter how you look at it.
‘No wonder the top-tier players slap ads all over their gear.’
Whenever you watched Diamond-rank players,
you’d often see corporate logos plastered across their equipment and clothes.
There was a reason for that.
Views alone couldn’t be relied on for any substantial TP payout.
‘Still, the elf video hit 1,000 TP.’
And thanks to Kara Na, the viewers she brought in were boosting the view counts on his other videos too.
By month-end settlement, it should add up to something decent.
“Well then, I’ll count this as a future bonus…”
Lee Gang-han closed the TowerTube settings menu
and checked his phone.
He’d hoped for a call from his father,
but nothing came.
‘Must be swamped with work. I shouldn’t just wait for him to call—maybe I should poke around the house a bit.’
His mother’s belongings, left scattered in the inner room.
Could there be anything to learn from them?
Lee Gang-han went into the room with that thought,
but all he found was dust settled thick on every surface.
‘Nothing here.’
Nothing jumped out at him.
‘…Right. Maybe she was just mimicking my mother to confuse me—maybe she’s not actually connected to this at all.’
No matter how he thought about it, his mother had been ordinary.
The idea that she had any connection to the First Tower made no sense.
With that reasoning, Lee Gang-han abandoned his search of the inner room.
‘But now that I’m not being dragged into the First Tower anymore… what happens with sleep?’
The Sleeping Sickness—sleeping twelve hours a day.
Except for when time got pushed back because of the Tower,
he’d always fallen asleep at eight in the evening.
Based on that pattern,
tonight he should have gotten drowsy about thirty minutes late.
‘But the way I woke up at noon… and everything else… something’s definitely changed.’
When he’d come to consciousness and emerged from Celestial Demon Valley,
the time had been noon.
His waking time had shifted like that,
and the Divine Protection that had been forcibly pulling him away was shattered, so something had to be different, right?
‘I’ll just wait and see, going through the day as normal.’
Lee Gang-han tidied up the house on a whim,
picked up groceries at the mart, and spent time that way.
Before he knew it, the clock read eight o’clock.
‘Not drowsy at all.’
Sure, thirty minutes from now he’d probably crash like a felled tree,
but he should have been getting drowsy before that.
Those warning signs didn’t come.
And then.
‘It’s already past eight-thirty…’
By the time it reached eight-thirty,
his mind was sharp as a tack.
‘Hmm, who knows. I woke up at noon today… maybe I’ll get drowsy at half past midnight.’
Based on the twelve-hour pattern,
if he’d woken at noon, he might get drowsy at half past midnight.
Lee Gang-han passed the time quietly with that thought,
occasionally watching other people’s TowerTube videos.
[The Celestial Demon’s powers still haven’t disappeared today.GIF]
└Ah, I was going to post with this title but damn
└When the hell do the powers disappear anyway? lol
└In 80 years, apparently
└Then I bet the US would throw in a hundred billion won offer right now lol
[In the tower, the elf kidnaps orcs.]
└It’s not kidnapping, it’s rescuing kinfolk?
└That… that’s a rescue, right?
└The Celestial Demon told the elf to go easy on the orcs lol
He spent his time watching videos related to today’s gameplay and scrolling through community posts about it.
Hours slipped away endlessly.
Then 1 a.m. arrived.
“Wow….”
Lee Gang-han rose from his computer like a man entranced.
How was he awake at dawn with eyes so bright and clear?
How long had it been since the last time?
“Wow….”
He slipped on his slippers.
And walked aimlessly toward the convenience store.
“Is this what a late-night street feels like…?”
He muttered to himself.
Gazing blankly at the lamplight.
“That’ll be 75,200 won.”
“Yeah.”
He bought alcohol and snacks at random from the convenience store.
And returned home.
“So… this is night.”
Glug, glug….
As Lee Gang-han drank, he sank into a strange nostalgia.
Ten years of Sleeping Sickness had suppressed him, and now it vanished in a single blow.
Even awake, reality felt utterly unreal.
“It’s funny—no matter how much I drink, I’m still fine….”
No matter how high the alcohol content.
His mind grew clearer instead—a phenomenon that defied reason.
Lee Gang-han stared vacantly into the darkness of his room.
‘…Well, the sun came up.’
That night.
He stayed awake for the first time in his life.
* * *
His first all-nighter.
Lee Gang-han’s condition—fortified with potent alcohol—was.
‘My… my condition is too good?’
Surprisingly, he felt perfectly fine.
Was it because his vitality was 17?
His body accumulated no fatigue whatsoever.
It seemed he could pull another all-nighter without any problem.
‘Still, I should try to sleep starting today.’
He’d already savored yesterday’s liberation from Sleeping Sickness enough.
From now on, he needed to restore his sleep cycle to normal.
Lee Gang-han waited for his entry time into the tower while thinking this.
“In the beginning, essence, qi, and spirit were not yet separated….”
While waiting for the entry time.
Lee Gang-han hummed the Celestial Demon Divine Art without realizing it as he prepared breakfast.
The authentic incantation transmitted by the Divine Maiden Spirit.
Remained vivid in his memory even after drinking all night yesterday.
‘Since I have time now, should I try training the Celestial Demon Divine Art?’
For now, he could only memorize the incantations.
But once he visited Celestial Demon Valley next and received training methods from the Divine Maiden Spirit, couldn’t he attempt it here as well?
Lee Gang-han thought this.
Until 12:30.
He recited all the incantations of the Celestial Demon Divine Art.
Until finally.
“……Successor, draw down the heavens and achieve unity. That is the burden given to the Celestial Demon.”
Even the words the first Celestial Demon had passed to his successor—all of it.
“It’s remarkable that I remember all of this.”
As Lee Gang-han finished reading through the entire incantation and marveled at his own state,
the time had already become half past twelve.
Lee Gang-han, who had been waiting, entered the tower.
[Infinite Tower, 5th Stage.]
[Entering Iron Tower No.4.]
‘Good.’
Whether because of Kara Na’s quest,
he had been assigned to the Forest Path again.
-So it’s survival again today
-??? Why Forest Path again?
-Has there ever been three consecutive runs on the same map?
-Actually it’s good, I saw the orc kidnapping scene ㅇㅇ
-Still, I want to see the Celestial Demon clear other maps too…
The viewers, seeing three consecutive Forest Path runs, wondered if such a thing was even possible.
“Hello everyone. Well, we’ve survived another day. I’ll proceed the same way as yesterday by kidnapping orcs~.”
After saying this to the viewers, Lee Gang-han
began climbing with unstoppable momentum.
Already the third Forest Path map.
Doing an easy map three times over meant
there was no way the clear would take time.
-Wow he’s insanely fast lol
-Even at tower stage 5, it’s just nothing for the Celestial Demon
-The Celestial Demon is basically complete except for being limited-time lol
-It’s limited-time right? Or not?
-If that ability isn’t limited-time, all players should forfeit their abilities…
-Real talk I’m Korean too but it’s way too broken
Watching Lee Gang-han’s ultra-fast tower ascent, the viewers became convinced once more
that this ability had to be limited-time.
“Good work.”
“Chiii…… I should thank you. Over thirty orcs today.”
After exchanging farewells with Kara Na, the orc kidnapper,
Lee Gang-han cleared the tower.
[Calculating Iron Tower No.4 performance…….]
[Tower cleared within one hour.]
[Subdued ten or more orcs.]
[Encountered hidden Named Character, ‘Kara Na’.]
[Clear Evaluation – SSS+]
The same message appeared as last time.
[Special rewards are given in proportion to Evaluation Score.]
[Exceeding SSS-grade Evaluation Score, additional special rewards are granted.]
[You have already received the special reward for this tower.]
[Special reward cannot be obtained.]
The message about being unable to receive rewards came up identically.
But one thing.
[You have received a Clear Evaluation of SSS+ three times on one map.]
[Will you ascend to Floor 11 of Iron Tower No.4?]
The message that appeared next
was asking whether he would climb to Floor 11.
-Ah I just came back after lunch and it looks like it’s already over?
-Isn’t the clear too fast?
-Real talk I should just watch the uploaded video…
Seeing Lee Gang-han clear the Forest Path in just twenty minutes,
the viewers who had arrived late expressed disappointment.
“No. It’s not over yet.”
Lee Gang-han smiled deeply,
“I’m going up to the 11th floor.”
He pointed upward with his finger.
-???
-The 11th floor?
-Sir, there is no 11th floor ㅡㅡ
-Here we go again, the Celestial Demon saying something crazy…
The viewers dismissed it as nonsense.
“Let’s see.”
Whoosh!
Lee Gang-han and
“W-wait?”
Kara Na, who had been standing beside him, flashed with light and vanished.
[Notice: Player ‘Lee Gang-han’ has become the first human to reach the 11th floor.]
[Notice: The target tower is Iron Tower No.4.]
A notification appeared to all of humanity.
The Celestial Demon Shatters the Tower (Serialized)
Author | Yeom Bi
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