The Heavenly Demon Destroys the Tower - Chapter 30

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Episode 30
A café in Seoul.
“Wow. Chang-seop, isn’t that going too far?”
“I suppose so…….”
Kim Chang-seop, working part-time at the café, watched as the Cafe Owner pointed at the monitor.
“Even if it’s a limited-duration trait, this is absurd. How can he do that? He strikes the ground and all the nearby monsters just explode?”
On the monitor was someone known to possess the Cheonma trait.
Lee Gang-han was clearing the eleventh floor.
An Iron Rank player who suppresses monsters in a wide area with a single strike.
“Isn’t this unfair? Other E Rank players awaken only to find their abilities are garbage, and they quit the game, but this guy just goes around catching everything alone. It makes no sense.”
“That’s true…….”
Come to think of it, wasn’t the Cafe Owner also E Rank? He’d said something about quitting.
Kim Chang-seop offered hollow reactions to the Cafe Owner’s complaints
while thinking to himself.
‘If you’re so unhappy about it, just don’t watch…… why are you keeping up with the live stream?’
It wasn’t that an emergency notice had come up and he’d jumped into watching.
The Cafe Owner had always been tuning into the Cheonma channel, grumbling about how there was anything like that.
And yet he’d said he’d keep watching until Cheonma lost that trait, hadn’t he?
The man certainly had a twisted temperament.
‘I suppose it’s because the Infinite Tower is hurting his business…….’
Kim Chang-seop let the Cafe Owner’s words go in one ear and out the other
as he gazed toward the café entrance.
The café, shrouded in shadow despite the midday hour.
Before it loomed the Infinite Tower.
It allowed only a narrow gap, wide enough for two or three people to squeeze through.
The tower had blocked off the building entirely.
‘Ever since that thing appeared, customers have completely dried up.’
Except for the exploding colossal tower and the tower of light,
the other Infinite Towers were still known to be harmless.
Yet there were plenty of other cafés.
Would people really choose to drink coffee near this eyesore?
Customers had dwindled sharply.
The number of part-timers had shrunk too, and there were stretches when just the Cafe Owner and Kim Chang-seop kept this sprawling place running alone.
‘Easy on the body, but hard on the mind.’
Stuck here in this empty café with the boss,
forced to listen to gossip about Cheonma.
Maybe I should just quit.
As Kim Chang-seop was seriously considering that,
“Wow, he broke through a star……. An A Rank Achievement? Huh. At least Cheonma got something done before he loses that power.”
The Cafe Owner, who’d been running Cheonma down relentlessly,
suddenly offered what was rarely praise.
‘What’s gotten into him?’
Kim Chang-seop, who’d been staring blankly out the window, was reading the announcement himself
when suddenly
Rumble, rumble, rumble……!
The ground shook as if an earthquake had struck.
Boom……!
A tremendous sound erupted from outside.
“Wh—what is this!? An earthquake?”
The Cafe Owner, clutching his head, quickly threw himself to the floor.
“H—hang on! Chang-seop! Something’s happened outside, go check it out!”
He remained cowering beneath the counter
while ordering his part-timer to go and look.
Rumble, rumble, rumble……!
Another tremor shook the building.
“H—hurry!”
The Cafe Owner urged him on faster.
‘Damn it, the moment I get my paycheck this month, I’m done with this place.’
Step. Step.
Kim Chang-seop cautiously approached the door to check outside.
There.
The black tower that had been blocking the cafe’s front entrance.
“Huh? What…?”
Bang! Bang!
It collapsed vertically downward.
Gradually shrinking and crumbling before their eyes.
“M-Mr. Owner! Something terrible is happening!”
“What! What’s wrong?!”
“The t-tower… the tower is disappearing!”
Kim Chang-seop pointed outside with an alarmed expression.
The cafe owner sprang up from behind the counter.
The tower was disappearing?
“Really? Seriously?!”
A cafe he’d opened after being forced to resign, scraping together every ounce of will to start anew.
Business had thrived for the first three months.
But then the tower’s emergence—a disaster beyond mortal control—had cut off customers entirely.
He’d been on the verge of shutting down.
And now.
That accursed tower was vanishing?
The cafe owner rushed outside.
[You have cleared a Difficulty A Achievement. Humanity’s Score acquisition will increase by 20% over the next six months.]
[All Towers belonging to No.4 will be destroyed.]
The notification that had appeared earlier came flooding back to his mind.
‘All Towers belonging to No.4… could it be…?’
The cafe owner hurried to the entrance to look outside.
Rumble, rumble, rumble…
The tower that had blocked out the sun.
Was collapsing into the ground before his eyes.
Fissures opened from the base upward.
The tower shattered and vanished, level by level, from the bottom up.
At first he’d worried it might topple toward the cafe.
‘It’s being sucked into the earth…?’
The tower caused no damage to its surroundings.
It disassembled orderly, absorbed cleanly into the ground.
“Wow, what? All of a sudden? Why is the tower disappearing?”
“I should film this.”
Passersby stopped dead in their tracks, recording the spectacle on their phones.
“Hey, the tower in front of Mega Cafe is disappearing! What? Cheonma? What did Cheonma do? Who even is Cheonma?”
“Huh, towers can just vanish like that…”
Some began making calls, urging others to come see it.
And then.
‘Bright… finally.’
As the tower vanished.
Sunlight flooded into the cafe.
Thump.
The cafe owner collapsed into a chair.
He’d thought he wouldn’t make it through the year—that closure was certain.
He’d already half-surrendered to it.
And now the tower had crumbled…
“I… I’m alive…”
Stunned by the sudden reversal of fortune, the cafe owner could only murmur those words, staring blankly at the tower’s collapse.
And towers crumbling in this manner.
Unfolded simultaneously across the entire world.
* * *
Meanwhile.
[Clear rewards are being granted.]
[Your Level increases by 4.]
[You gain 135,000 TP.]
Lee Gang-han, who had just stepped through the portal, was startled by the clear rewards cascading before him.
“What? Why are they giving me so much?”
A far more generous reward than the usual SSS+ rank he received.
Even accounting for two extra Level-ups.
The TP was already 100,000 more than he’d anticipated.
‘Is it because I cleared the eleventh floor?’
True enough.
He’d taken down quite a few orcs back then.
As Lee Gang-han recalled the moment he’d deployed the Jeol-ji-cheon-boong technique—
Buzz, buzz, buzz……
His phone vibrated.
The name on the screen: Kim Joo-young.
“Yeah?”
Lee Gang-han answered the call as he usually did.
[Yo, yo, yo! You crazy bastard…… What the hell did you do?!]
Kim Joo-young’s voice came through in a fever pitch of excitement.
“What do you mean what? I just smashed a star, that’s all.”
[It’s complete chaos right now! The tower actually collapsed?!]
“Yeah. I came out to check the chat myself to confirm. Did it really collapse?”
To Lee Gang-han’s question—
[Yeah. The full count isn’t in yet, but towers collapsed one apiece in every country around the world! The tower at Dapsimni Station in our country got destroyed too, and the footage’s already all over the place!]
“Oh. Really? I should check it out.”
[Man, this is insane, absolutely insane. I thought we’d have to go channel hunting each elf class, but you’ve gone and obliterated the tower…… The Cheonma channel is gonna blow up huge?]
“Yeah, I’m not really feeling it yet. I should go see how the tower collapsed for myself.”
As Lee Gang-han turned on his computer while still on the call—
[Hey, Manager Kim. Who are you talking to right now? During work hours.]
A third voice came through the phone, quiet but audible.
[Oh, yes?]
[From what I’m hearing, the person you’re talking to—is that the Cheonma player, by any chance?]
[Oh, ah, no, Director! That is, that’s not…… ]
[Let me…… ]
Click!
The call cut off abruptly.
‘What?’
Had he been caught sneaking a phone call from the bathroom or somewhere?
Lee Gang-han chuckled and turned his attention to the monitor.
‘News coverage is plastered with this everywhere.’
The portal site’s main page was far more chaotic than when he’d placed first in the tutorial.
And for good reason.
Tutorial rankings came out regularly every time, after all.
But clearing an A-rank Achievement.
Combined with a 20% increase in Score acquisition, an event like the collapse of a tower—
Had never happened even once before in history.
“Wow…… It really did collapse.”
Lee Gang-han watched the footage of the tower collapsing at Dapsimni Station.
Then he entered the community forums to see what collapse videos from other countries looked like.
[Cheonma destroyed the tower omg]
Starting with the footage of Lee Gang-han smashing the star—
[Let’s break down just how much economic value a 20% Score acquisition increase represents]
[Tower destruction at Dapsimni Station.AVI]
└Wow, the tower really did collapse…
└Collapsed without harming the surrounding area lol
└Why is that person crying over there?
└Apparently he’s a cafe owner lol
└Tower appeared in front of his cafe and he was on the verge of bankruptcy
└Ngl I’d be crying too lol
Along with footage of South Korea’s tower collapse—
[Came to visit Kyoto and witnessed the tower collapse]
[New York tower destruction footage omg]
[It’s collapsing in Beijing too]
Footage of towers collapsing all around the world began uploading in rapid succession.
‘So it looks like one tower collapsed in each country?’
Not concentrated in one place.
Each tower in No.4 destroyed with perfect equality.
Considering the current situation with the tower’s proliferation accelerating,
a 20% increase in Score acquisition might actually be more effective in practical terms than the destruction of a single tower.
Of course,
‘the symbolic weight of a tower’s collapse is considerable.’
The 20% increase in Score acquisition, which doesn’t feel immediate,
pales beside the tower’s destruction, which is there for all to see.
Lee Gang-han watched a few more tower collapse videos on the community forum before thinking,
‘They’re all destroyed the same way.’
There was no need to watch more, so he closed the video.
“Hmm…….”
He’d cleared the Achievement, and
it was good that all of humanity had gained the benefit, but still—
‘All I got was a Hack Fragment whose effects I don’t even understand?’
For someone who’d achieved humanity’s first-ever Achievement,
Lee Gang-han personally hadn’t gained much tangible, practical benefit.
True, he’d made the existence of Cheonma ingrain itself in people’s minds across the world,
but this wasn’t some substantial improvement in ability
or an astronomical amount of TP coming back to him.
‘Well, the TowerTube channel will grow at least.’
Thinking that much,
Lee Gang-han began his day as ordinarily as ever.
He sent the video he’d filmed today to Kim Joo-young,
“In the beginning were Jeong, Sa, and Ma…….”
and recited the true scripture of the Cheonma Divine Art once more.
Outside, the world had turned upside down because of his Achievement,
but the man himself barely felt it.
‘I need to sleep tonight.’
He was thinking he should get to bed at a reasonable hour.
The moment he finished reading through the Cheonma Divine Art,
it was already five in the evening.
Just as he was thinking he ought to start preparing dinner,
Buzz, buzz, buzz……
Lee Gang-han’s phone vibrated,
and a call came in from Shin Yu-ri, the agency representative.
‘Perfect timing—I need to exchange TP anyway.’
A lot of TP had come in today,
so it was about time he started enjoying the exchange rate benefits.
Lee Gang-han answered the call.
[Cheonma, is this a good time to talk?]
“Yes, it’s fine.”
[I watched the broadcast. Congratulations on being the first in human history to clear an Achievement. It’s truly remarkable.]
“Thank you.”
Shin Yu-ri, who had just been praising him for being truly incredible,
then broached the main topic.
[I checked earlier and noticed there are quite a few more offers coming to your channel than usual.]
“Offers?”
[Yes. Many companies want to contact you through the comments on your video……. Haven’t you checked them?]
“Ah, no. I don’t really read comments.”
Up until now, he’d been too busy sleeping anyway.
Besides, Lee Gang-han was the type who didn’t pay much attention to whatever comments appeared on his uploaded videos,
so he hadn’t even known offers were coming in.
[I was calling to ask if I could conduct negotiations with them on your behalf, Cheonma. We’d make it clear that you’re represented by our agency.]
“Yes, that sounds good. Please go ahead.”
[Understood. And…….]
The moment Lee Gang-han readily approved the matter,
Shin Yu-ri paused for a moment before bringing up another matter.
[My father—that is, Director Shin Gyeong-cheol of the Management Bureau—said he would really like to meet you once. Would you happen to be free at any time?]
“The Management Bureau Director?”
[Yes. Because of the achievement Lee Gang-han established this time, FIPA reached out to us. They say the federation is discussing compensation at the institutional level.]
FIPA?
Isn’t FIPA the International Player Federation?
[It’s not going to be something formal like taking photos or issuing certificates, apparently. They’ve prepared compensation that will have real practical value for climbing the tower…….]
“Then I should accept it.”
[Ah. You’re all right with that? Then, if I may ask, when would be convenient for you…….]
“Tomorrow would be fine.”
It’s better to handle these things quickly.
Lee Gang-han said so.
[Then, would 10 a.m. tomorrow work for you?]
“Yes. That works.”
[All right. I’ll come pick you up at that time.]
Shin Yu-ri confirmed the time.
And the next day.
“Director!”
“Y-Yu-ri?”
“I can’t accept that kind of talk as an agent.”
Lee Gang-han, invited to the administration bureau,
watched as Shin Gyeong-cheol and Shin Yu-ri—
father and daughter—argued with him between them.
‘……Why did things turn out like this?’
He blinked, watching quietly.
The Cheonma Shatters the Tower (Serialization)
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