The Heavenly Demon Destroys the Tower - Chapter 3

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Episode 3
First Floor of the Beginner’s Tower.
It was like stepping into a dimly lit cave.
Torches mounted sporadically on the walls cast light around them, revealing only what lay in their immediate glow.
Anywhere beyond the torches’ reach was impossible to make out.
And from there.
Whoosh!
Goblins lurched from the darkness, launching their ambush at Lee Gang-han.
The ambush pattern that beginners despised most.
-Damn these goblins. They’re a pain from the moment they first spawn, and it only gets worse
-Facts. The goblin cavern map is absolutely infuriating
-Does the tutorial boss have anything to do with the map layout?
-Yeah, the map changes depending on which boss appears
-You move slowly to be careful and you waste time that way
Among the maps that appeared in the Beginner’s Tower, the one colloquially known as the “Goblin Cavern” was considered the most difficult.
There was good reason for that.
But.
“About time they showed up.”
Crack!
As if he’d been waiting for it, Lee Gang-han stomped a goblin flat under his boot.
“Great, my shoes are dirty now.”
He frowned as he looked at the green goblin blood smeared across his sole.
Did these things have soft skulls?
Why did they burst open every time he kicked them?
‘Well, it’ll clean itself when I log out anyway. Might as well deal with it for now.’
Thinking this to himself,
Bang! Bang!
he crushed the goblins that came at him one after another.
After how long had he pushed forward like this,
[Your Level has increased by 1.]
[Your physical capabilities rise in proportion to your Stats.]
a level-up message appeared.
‘My body feels lighter.’
Lee Gang-han opened his status window.
Name: Lee Gang-han
Level: 2
Trait: Heavenly Demon Body (Grade: F~SSS)
Strength: 10+
Agility: 10+
Vitality: 10+
Mana: 7
Except for mana, all his stats were at 10.
Behind Strength, Agility, and Vitality was a plus sign—Lee Gang-han’s unusual Stats.
He reached for the plus sign,
but the numbers didn’t increase.
Instead,
[This is a body that has transcended the standards of the human race.]
a message appeared when he tapped the plus.
Except for mana,
his Strength, Agility, and Vitality had all transcended human norms.
‘Am I really at that level?’
Lee Gang-han tilted his head in confusion.
Player Stats.
He knew something about this.
-Ugh, my strength-agility-vitality is only 5. I’m actually trash lol
└Just start working out, you pig
└ㅅㅂ I’m basically skin and bones?
-Another 5-minus Class here lol
└What’s 5-minus Class?
└Don’t know 5-minus? It means your body’s garbage
Stats that vary based on a Player’s original physical condition.
Those who never exercised and pushed their bodies recklessly
often found themselves not just at the minimum stat of 5, but with a minus sign beside it.
That’s how the term 5-minus Class came into use.
When a minus showed up, it meant the body was devastatingly frail.
Those who became Players did everything they could to escape that state.
So wasn’t it natural that gym booms erupted after the Infinite Tower appeared?
‘Though I heard you need to be at least athlete-level to hit 9 and above.’
Lee Gang-han looked down at his own body.
190 centimeters, 82 kilograms.
His frame was packed solid with muscle, not a trace of flab—objectively speaking, an excellent physique.
Even when he’d acquired the Heavenly Demon Body,
a message had appeared: [You possess the physiology of the top 0.01% of humanity.]
That’s what it said.
And yet.
“I don’t think I’m at 10-plus level.”
Crack! Crack!
Lee Gang-han muttered to himself as he crushed another goblin’s skull.
Athletes hit 9.
So to reach 10, let alone plus, wouldn’t you have to be at least an Olympic national champion in your field?
‘The body changed by Tower Syndrome is definitely healthy, but I’m wondering if it’s really this strong.’
Could the Heavenly Demon Body have made it even better?
Lee Gang-han mulled this over as he trudged forward.
Now at level 2, the goblins’ heads burst apart even more spectacularly.
“Kee…….”
“Ki, hisss…….”
Before long, the enemies didn’t dare approach Lee Gang-han anymore.
They hid their bodies in the darkness instead.
They’d only have the nerve to charge if they could land even a scratch.
But their heads were exploding the moment they attacked, so they had no stomach for it.
‘If only they could talk, I’d make them bow down.’
The Goblin Chieftain had spoken well enough.
But these ones only chittered and squeaked—no real communication.
Even when he’d gestured for them to prostrate themselves, they’d just rolled their eyes without understanding.
‘Should I just hunt them all down?’
Lee Gang-han was considering sweeping up every goblin in the darkness when
he caught sight of his ranking in the corner of his vision: 1,524th.
‘No. Let’s just move to the next floor.’
The difficulty was too easy anyway—might as well aim for the upper ranks.
With that thought, Lee Gang-han pressed forward.
Soon after,
a blue portal came into view.
‘So I just step in to go to the next floor?’
He entered.
Whoooosh…….
[You have cleared Floor 1 of the Beginner’s Tower.]
[Advancing to the next stage.]
Lee Gang-han progressed to the next floor.
‘Pretty much the same as before.’
The Beginner’s Tower’s second floor just had more goblins; the map itself was identical.
All he had to do was push straight ahead.
[You have cleared Floor 2 of the Beginner’s Tower.]
[Advancing to the next stage.]
[You have cleared Floor 3 of the Beginner’s Tower.]
[Advancing to the next stage.]
When Lee Gang-han reached the fourth floor,
his ranking had skyrocketed from 1,524th when he cleared the second floor to 822nd.
Then from 822nd to 101st when he cleared the third floor.
‘Eighth place?’
By the fourth floor, his ranking had shifted to 8th.
Even after progressing through the tutorial, I was catching up to the players ahead surprisingly fast.
It was then that Lee Gang-han thought this.
Zing…….
[You have entered the Top 10 Promising Players.]
[You have been recognized as one of the Top 10 Promising Players.]
[Your gameplay is now being broadcast live on the TowerTube channel.]
A message from the system appeared, announcing the live broadcast.
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TowerTube.
After the Infinite Tower appeared in the capitals of every nation worldwide.
A native streaming system emerged simultaneously.
TowerTube, which displayed technological prowess that humanity could never hope to imitate.
Handled almost all content related to the Infinite Tower.
‘I thought not just anyone could access TowerTube…… So they do broadcast live if you crack the top ten.’
As Lee Gang-han gazed at the message with newfound fascination.
Zing…….
Beside his line of sight.
A window with a green background materialized.
And from within it.
-Oh, 8th place suddenly jumped up
-Ugh, I was watching the 10th place girl and now she got knocked out of the broadcast because of this guy
-T-shirt and running shoes, what is this lol did you get dragged here from a jog
Viewer chat began pouring in rapidly.
“Oh…… The chat moves this fast? Can you hear what I’m saying too?”
-Yeah we can hear
-lolol newbie is cute
-But why no weapon? Are you a mage?
-Shame to waste that build on a mage though
-Real talk, the body type screams pure Korean
The live broadcast had only just begun.
Above the chat window, the viewer count displayed: ‘621 viewers’.
‘Is it because I’m in the top ten promising players? That seems like quite a lot already.’
And it didn’t stop there.
The viewer count climbing rapidly in real time.
Lee Gang-han watched it for a moment before answering the earlier question.
“A weapon? I supposedly defeated the tutorial boss, so my gear disappeared.”
-You beat the boss?
-Don’t start lying just because you’re on broadcast now
-Defeated the tutorial boss lolol how even lol
-Nah it does happen sometimes but players like that are all competing for 1st place in real time
-The Goblin Chieftain is supposed to be so hard there hasn’t been a single player to defeat it yet right?
The viewers didn’t easily believe his claim of defeating a tutorial boss.
And for good reason.
Among all the tutorial bosses.
The ‘Castrated Goblin Chieftain’ was notorious not only for tormenting players viciously.
But also for being the most difficult in terms of sheer difficulty.
Even if by some miracle Lee Gang-han had defeated the Goblin Chieftain.
With such skill, he should obviously be competing for 1st place in the tutorial.
No one expected Lee Gang-han to have cleared the tutorial.
-His proportions look fine though…
-Shame about the face
-You don’t need to pump up your PR like that, guilds will scout you anyway if you just keep top ten status
-Real, just reveal your traits already so we can measure your salary lol
‘They don’t believe me.’
The viewers had already decided it was a lie.
And were now asking Lee Gang-han to reveal his traits.
The viewers’ perception began to shift.
When Lee Gang-han walked into the ‘Goblin Fortress’ that appeared starting from the 4th floor of the Beginner’s Tower.
“Oh. Things changed a bit from the 4th floor on.”
Until now, the goblins had been ambushing from the darkness.
But starting from the fourth floor, they’d constructed small wooden fortifications at the chokepoints.
They were designed to prevent Players from passing through.
Of course, to the human eye it was crudely built at best.
Still, logs effectively blocked the narrow passage, and
behind the defensive line, Goblin archers were positioned in formation—
it didn’t look easy to breach alone.
The textbook approach was to use ranged projectiles.
Fire arrows from a distance, or throw spears, stones—anything to
lure the Goblins out from their fortification.
But then.
Crunch. Crunch.
Lee Gang-han walked forward with unhurried confidence toward the defensive line.
-What’s he doing? Goblins stomped him and he’s just walking up the front gate lol
-Wait, if he just walks there like that, how does that help; he needs ranged weapons to lure them
-Nah he’s prob gonna use magic, no way he got this far without gear
-lol let’s just watch what kind of magic he uses
The viewers assumed he’d close the distance first, then cast magic.
Without gear, Lee Gang-han’s strategy seemed
to have only one viable option.
Whoosh!
He simply charged straight into the fortification.
“Screeee……!”
Crack! Crack!
He kicked a Goblin’s head clean off, and
Snap!
crushed a spear to pieces in his bare hand—
nobody had seen that coming.
-???
-What is this?
-Why is he so strong? I thought he was a newbie?
-Wait, are Goblin heads that fragile?
-Nah I’m comparing him to 7th place and that guy couldn’t even crack one with a mace…
-Oh so his shoes were all dirty ’cause of this, busting Goblin skulls lmaooo
While viewers watched Lee Gang-han tear through the Goblin fortification in disbelief,
“Eeeeek! Eeeeek……!”
“Screeeee!!!”
The Goblins who’d mounted their offensive
began abandoning their line and fleeing as their comrades were crushed without resistance.
-The Goblins are just running away lol
-They normally do that anyway, but it’s rare in the tutorial; usually they hold kkk
-If you’re getting wrecked that badly, you’d run too oo
-Still, wouldn’t using a weapon be better? He could at least grab a Goblin weapon
“A weapon? Their stuff’s too small…….”
Lee Gang-han smiled and glanced around the fortification.
It was littered with Goblin corpses.
At the entrance to this place, he spotted a large wooden pole with the tribe’s flag attached.
‘That should be manageable.’
When he gripped it in his hand,
Wrench!
The Wooden Flag Pole came free in one motion.
Crack!
He snapped off the flag end and slung it over his shoulder.
He’d fashioned a decent wooden club out of it.
“This should do the job, yes?”
With a weapon now in hand,
Crack! Crack! Crack!
his assault grew even faster.
The Goblins had fortified the next chokepoint as well, but
far more swiftly than before, they were helplessly crushed to pieces.
-This guy’s seriously playing a different game altogether…
-Wow, blows ’em up so easily lol
-Dude… what’s your Strength stat?
“Strength? It’s 10.”
Lee Gang-han glanced at the chat window asking about his stats.
He decided to state it without the plus sign.
-10???
-Whoa… for real 10?
-Are you an athlete? 10 is like national team level, right?
The viewers immediately started asking if he was an athlete.
“No, I’m unemployed. Well, when I run out of living expenses I work at a logistics warehouse.”
-How does an unemployed guy have 10 strength lol
-I would’ve switched channels if I hadn’t seen those goblin heads explode lol
-Okay, maybe not an athlete, but… what kind of exercise do you do?
“I sleep a lot.”
At Lee Gang-han’s answer,
-No way, that body came from just sleeping?
-Those muscles are insane, quit joking
-I saw the abs under his shirt earlier, looked crazy lol
-Why build a body like that and then pretend you don’t work out? Makes no sense;
The chat spiraled into chaos.
‘Most people won’t believe me even if I mention Tower Syndrome.’
Cases of people gaining or losing weight from sleeping twelve hours due to Tower Syndrome were well-known enough in the world.
But no known case had ever developed muscle mass like this except Lee Gang-han.
‘At this point I should be getting sleepy though… but I’m not?’
Twelve hours of sleep.
Lee Gang-han’s sleep schedule was fixed from 8 PM to 8 AM.
But in his actual daily life, drowsiness would start creeping in around 5 PM.
Yet now, inside the Infinite Tower,
both his body and mind felt completely clear.
‘There’s definitely a connection. Between the Tower and Tower Syndrome.’
Even the system in the tutorial had acknowledged it.
Before that, truth was, the other patients aside from Lee Gang-han had simply recovered on their own at some point.
Except for when the illness first appeared,
there had been no evidence establishing a direct link to the Tower.
But now that he’d become a Player today,
he could distinctly feel a change unlike anything before.
‘Now that I know there’s a connection to the Tower, I need to find a solution here.’
With that resolve, Lee Gang-han
proceeded to slaughter goblins as he had before.
As he charged through regardless of enemy formations, breaking through their ranks,
-Seriously this guy’s insane lol just steamrolling through
-Feels like this guy’s gonna take first place
-First place for sure, I got all 10 live broadcasts open right now and he’s literally playing a different game from everyone else
-Finally getting a promising talent out of Korea after all this time?
The viewer count began climbing noticeably.
Among the ten Top 10 Promising Players being broadcast live from Korea,
Lee Gang-han was displaying by far the most overwhelming performance.
-So what’s this guy’s trait anyway?
-Haven’t revealed it yet
-Just spitting lies, the whole thing’s BS lol sleeping and getting muscles apparently
-He pulled that crap about castrating goblins too lol
Lee Gang-han had told nothing but the truth.
Yet already he’d earned a strong reputation as a liar.
‘This is pretty unfair, to be honest.’
Should he tell a white lie next time—that he does three hours of gym work a day?
As Lee Gang-han pondered this,
Bang!
He broke through the final goblin defensive line.
Then,
[Your Level has increased by 1.]
[Physical ability increases in proportion to your Stats.]
[Your Level has become 5.]
A message appeared announcing that his level had reached 5.
[You can now use functions related to the Demon-Slaying Technique.]
The Demon-Slaying Technique functions opened next.
The Heavenly Demon Shatters the Tower (Ongoing Series)
Author | Yeom Bi
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