The Heavenly Demon Destroys the Tower - Chapter 34

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Episode 34
‘Snake’s Pursuit.’
Finally, I understood what this floor was meant to do.
After confirming the message, Lee Gang-han surveyed Floor 1.
Damp earthen ground pooled with water.
Faint light glimmered from the ceiling.
In the narrow passage ahead—
“Ksss… ksss….”
A monster shaped like a green lizard.
A Lizardman stood alone, staring in his direction.
Slightly smaller than a human.
But the equipment it was wearing seemed serviceable enough.
It looked stronger than the Orcs he’d subdued on the Forest Path.
Of course.
‘Is it just one?’
Standing alone in the passage without any allies—
it didn’t look like it would be that difficult an opponent.
Meanwhile.
Ksss. Ksss.
When Lee Gang-han had first ascended to Floor 1.
The Lizardman’s eyes had gleamed ominously, fixed upon him.
As if it thought him easy prey.
Evidently, the Lizardman had also underestimated Lee Gang-han, who had come up without any special equipment.
But then.
Flash! Flash!
Light continued to flicker from the Portal connecting Floor 0 and Floor 1.
“Ksss?”
The Lizardman blinked.
What?
Why do they keep coming?
And soon, a legion of Goblins came into view.
“Oh. A Lizardman?”
From behind Lee Gang-han, the Goblin Chief extended a finger.
Dread washed over the creature.
No, why are so many of them pouring out like this?
“Celestial Demon, this one should yield much gold. May I have permission to dismantle it?”
Gold, he said.
Was that the same thing—scraping flesh and mining gold?
‘It doesn’t look like a Named creature at all, so I can’t put it to work.’
In that case, I should focus on TowerTube for now.
Better to leave opening the path to the Chief.
“Yeah, go ahead.”
“Thank you! Let’s move, everyone!”
The Goblin Chief charged forward, leading every last Goblin with him.
The Lizardman struggled to swing its blade in resistance.
But.
“Not so fast!”
Clang!
The Goblin Chief knocked the blade aside.
Goblins from all sides stabbed through the Lizardman’s body in an instant.
Thunk! Thunk!
“K-ksss…?”
The Lizardman, neutralized in moments by the sheer overwhelming assault.
“I’ll dismantle it as quickly as possible!”
While the Goblin Chief was tearing into it—
-Snake Tower it is
-A million? Can we hit a million?
-So many people;;;
-Look at how fast the chat’s scrolling lmao
The chat window, which had already approached 950,000 concurrent viewers—
Chat messages were streaming in at a pace that made it nearly impossible to read them one by one.
Of course, Lee Gang-han could parse them with his natural dynamic visual acuity.
But if the volume increased any further, reading every single message would become genuinely difficult, no matter how sharp his eyes were.
‘Well, this spike in concurrent viewers is just today’s special event. Once things settle down, the channel will return to its peaceful state from before.’
The concurrent viewer count had ballooned overnight after he destroyed the tower and revealed his characteristic.
Once this spectacle ended, the inflated numbers would deflate along with it.
Thinking as much,
he turned smoothly
to look behind him.
“You mentioned a snake pursuing us, but I don’t see it anywhere.”
Water dripped steadily from the ceiling.
Deep darkness stretched endlessly into the distance behind them.
A colossal serpent ought to be chasing after him from somewhere in that murk.
Yet so far, there was no sign of it.
-You gotta kill more Lizardmen first
-Doesn’t it start with three?
-Yeah, three
-No way you’re actually gonna hunt it? Scary
The snake that would only appear after three Lizardmen were eliminated.
Even after the Lizardmen were disposed of, Lee Gang-han stood still.
The viewers, wondering if perhaps he would hunt the colossal serpent, asked him directly.
“Let me take a look first.”
There was no need to launch into a chase.
Once he caught a glimpse of the snake and determined if it was worth killing, he could wrap everything up right here.
‘It might be one of the SSS+ Rank conditions, after all.’
In every tower he had cleared thus far,
whenever he’d earned an SSS+ Rank rating, there had often been special conditions attached.
In fact, if he’d simply prioritized clearing the Forest Path map without searching for rare species,
he would have failed to meet one of the SSS+ Rank achievement conditions: encountering the Hybrid Elf Karana.
‘The time constraint for clearing isn’t as tight as I need to make it, so let me push forward with the subordinates.’
Among the conditions that emerged in SSS+ Rank runs, the time component actually had more leeway than expected.
So Lee Gang-han decided to focus on eliminating the colossal snake.
-At this pace, the snake’ll show up around a million viewers
-What if the snake kills you? It’s not like it was designed to be beaten
-Nah, with the Celestial Demon Divine Technique you could handle it…
-You gotta reveal your characteristic, don’t die to the snake
-For real, if you die on this map to the snake, you don’t revive, so be careful
-Show us the Non-face-to-face Worship too, I skipped class to see that
A time-attack map where being chased by the snake meant the end.
If swallowed by the serpent, even within the Infinite Tower, there would be no resurrection.
So the viewers worried—wondering if perhaps Lee Gang-han might actually perish to the snake.
“Come on. I’ll size it up and handle it carefully.”
Lee Gang-han said that while
“Celestial Demon! The dismantling is complete. We advance further!”
watching the Goblin forces press ahead.
‘Regular Goblins seem useful enough only in the early game. The Chief is definitely strong, but I’m not sure how far his abilities will take us.’
The neutered Goblin Chief was noticeably different from common Goblins.
Superior physical prowess, resurrection ability and all.
The Chief certainly seemed capable of holding his own even past the early stages.
As for the subordinate Goblins, he could retrain them as merchants later and find them a second path.
“Karana, what kind of abilities do you have?”
“Chirp. Me?”
Karana, who had been watching the Goblin Chief dismantle the Lizardmen,
tilted her head slightly at Lee Gang-han’s question.
“Yes.”
“I am a shaman. I can handle shamanic arts up to intermediate level.”
“What kinds of shamanic arts do Orcs have?”
“The varieties are numerous… but the primary shamanic arts include the Lightning Strike Attack and Target Enhancement.”
And with that,
she moved smoothly.
Karana rolled up the robe’s sleeve.
Revealing an alabaster right arm completely covered in tattoos.
“Why would you cover your body with so many tattoos ——”
“Orc shamans are usually like this.”
“Still, there’s no gap in the design…”
Last time too, I caught a glimpse of tattoos below her neck.
This exposed arm was completely filled with them.
Lee Gang-han stared at them intently.
“The next Lizardman — I’ll handle it.”
Whoosh!
Karana dashed forward rapidly.
‘The giant serpent — I’ll need to face that again later.’
Lee Gang-han followed behind her to observe her abilities.
Soon after.
“Elf! Get out of the way! This one’s mine! I need the gold!”
“Hiss. Quiet, Goblin.”
The Goblin Chief and Karana began bickering over a single Lizardman.
Crackle-crackle……!
Brilliant white electricity began to flash across Karana’s right arm.
Then.
Flash!
As her arm blazed white in brilliant pulses.
Lightning struck the Lizardman with tremendous force.
Then.
Sizzle…….
The creature fell to the ground charred completely black.
The Lizardman collapsed.
‘Huh. That’s strong.’
Why didn’t she use that when she was being chased on the Forest Path?
Lee Gang-han asked immediately.
“Why didn’t you use that when we first met?”
“Hiss. I didn’t have the tattoos then. I’d used them all up.”
As she spoke, Karana showed him her right arm.
The tattoos that had covered her arm earlier were indeed partially faded.
“I see. So they disappear when you use them like that?”
“Yes. At the Shaman’s Altar, the tattoos can be rewritten.”
The Shaman’s Altar.
So it had legitimate effects beyond just Orc experiments.
‘Good thing I created it.’
As Lee Gang-han moved forward with that thought.
-Oh the million-viewer mark’s coming soon
-One million one million!
-Lol we’re gonna hit a million before even reaching Floor 2
-Didn’t know we were streaming so we didn’t tune in, but honestly we were planning to cross it today anyway
-fr fr lol
The concurrent viewer count had crept up close to one million.
And then.
[Concurrent viewers have surpassed one million.]
[The special ability ‘Non-face-to-face Worship’ of the Celestial Demon Divine Technique has been unlocked.]
The ability Lee Gang-han had been waiting for.
Non-face-to-face Worship was now available.
* * *
[Non-face-to-face Worship]
[From now on, you can receive the effects of the Celestial Demon Divine Technique through TowerTube without direct in-person contact.]
[Compared to receiving worship directly and in person, the efficiency drops dramatically to 0.01%.]
‘0.01%?’
He’d expected the effect to be weaker compared to receiving worship in person.
But 0.01% seemed excessive.
Lee Gang-han recalled the time he’d received worship from Kim Joo-young.
Since it wasn’t genuine worship, the Celestial Demon Divine Technique cooldown had only been reduced by one minute.
‘But at 0.01% efficiency here…… it’s barely a second, essentially meaningless in terms of time saved.’
Of course, the advantage of Non-face-to-face Worship would be
that I could receive worship simultaneously through TowerTube.
But would people really bow while watching TowerTube?
Lee Gang-han felt a twinge of disappointment watching the Non-face-to-face Worship yield only 0.01% efficiency.
Just then.
Ding.
[When there are many worshippers of the Celestial Demon, the efficiency of Non-face-to-face Worship increases.]
[When receiving Non-face-to-face Worship, the worshipper’s name appears in the TowerTube chat window.]
[Current human worshippers: 1.]
A message followed explaining that efficiency rises with more worshippers.
‘So Kim Joo-young counts as a worshipper even if he’s doing it half-heartedly.’
As Lee Gang-han examined the messages and grasped how Non-face-to-face Worship worked,
-Hit 1 million!
-Reveal it reveal it
-Come on, let’s reveal the grade now!
-Ugh you’ve already given us everything we asked for!!!
-CH111 went dark though
-That bastard disappeared ages ago lol
The chat erupted with demands to reveal his grade.
‘Right, I should show that first.’
The grade he’d meant to reveal right away.
It’d taken a detour thanks to CH111,
but he’d made plenty of TP and gained Non-face-to-face Worship in the bargain, so he’d come out well ahead.
It was time to make the revelation.
“Alright. Here you go.”
Ding.
Lee Gang-han opened his status window and revealed the grade section.
-Wow…
-DDDDDD!!!
-No way that’s D?
-Wait how’d it go up? Does that mean it’s not temporary?
-Did you unlock an achievement or something???
The chat flooded with D’s
as questions poured in about how it had risen.
“I’m not sure? It was already up by the time I noticed.”
He didn’t elaborate on the details.
Lee Gang-han simply shrugged.
There was no need to dredge up the story of the first tower right now.
The moment Lee Gang-han revealed his grade,
[‘SCT3455’ has sponsored 10,000 TP.]
[Celestial Demon, I’d like to contact you regarding naturalization.]
High-value sponsorships like this began flooding in.
The possibility that he might not be temporary opened new doors.
Foreign interests, which had wavered on whether to make naturalization proposals, now showed serious intent.
“Ah, please discuss that matter with my agent GLASS.”
While Lee Gang-han was delegating all contract negotiations to his agent,
“Screeeech!!!”
The Goblin unit he’d advanced caught another Lizardman.
A long shriek pierced the air.
That made three Lizardmen down.
And then.
[The snake opens its eyes.]
Flicker……!
From the darkness behind, a pair of sickly yellow eyes gleamed,
and soon the massive head of a snake began to emerge.
‘I was going to test Non-face-to-face Worship once, and here it comes right on schedule.’
Hiss. Hiss…….
The snake, which had first appeared at the starting point,
was slowly moving in this direction.
‘Takes forever for it to get here.’
I’d thought about fighting it, but at that speed, who knows when it’ll actually arrive.
Seems like the Iron Tower is generous with its timing.
Well then.
‘I’ll go to it instead.’
Step. Step.
Lee Gang-han walked backward.
And there—the serpent’s head, looming larger with each passing moment.
True to form for a chase-mode boss, it looked formidable enough.
‘Don’t even need the Celestial Demon Divine Technique.’
This wasn’t worth going all out.
Whoosh!
The moment Lee Gang-han charged forward instead, the serpent’s eyes snapped wide open.
Before the sluggish creature could even open its maw—
Lee Gang-han’s fist slammed into its head.
Then.
Boom……!
The serpent’s skull simply exploded.
-Holy crap ㄷㄷㄷ
-What the… one shot?
-Without even using the Celestial Demon Divine Technique?
-Has he gotten stronger since D-Grade? ㄷㄷㄷ
The massive serpent’s body went limp.
The viewers viscerally felt the Celestial Demon’s power anew.
The monster that handles the ‘chase’ in a chase-mode map like this—
should be an enemy the fleeing side can’t possibly stand against.
So how could he turn around and obliterate it in a single blow?
-If the Celestial Demon trait keeps climbing like this…
-Isn’t humanity’s #1 spot already reserved?
-I reckon they’d recruit him even if it meant taking on risk
The Celestial Demon, Lee Gang-han.
A player whose overwhelming power had seemed to come with an obvious cost—that he was temporary-grade.
But now that his grade had risen to D—
that assumption had begun to crack.
What if the Celestial Demon wasn’t temporary-grade after all?
What if his grade climbed again beyond D?
Would any player even exist who could defeat Lee Gang-han?
The moment the risk of being ‘temporary-grade’ eased thanks to the grade reveal—
it was only natural that scouts from around the world began seriously considering his naturalization.
Ding. Ding.
‘Ever since revealing the grade, it’s been absolute chaos.’
Sponsorships pouring in endlessly from every nation.
The amounts were vastly inflated compared to what he usually received.
Did I just become rich overnight?
As Lee Gang-han’s eyes fluttered at the torrent of TP—
[‘CH111’ has sponsored 20,000 TP.]
[Celestial Demon, thank you for the reveal! Sending the TP I couldn’t give you last time due to that sudden issue!]
CH111 had sent a respectfully worded sponsorship message.
-Quiet for a while, now they’re sponsoring again ㅋㅋㅋ
-Probably making contact now that D-Grade is out in the open
-CH… must be Chinese, right?
-Heard it was Japanese ㅋㅋ
-Hope it’s neither of those countries ㅡㅡ
-10K was late so we should charge interest ㄱㄱ
The viewers erupted at the belated sponsorship message.
Lee Gang-han saw this and broke into a broad smile.
‘Interest’ — that word sparked an idea.
“Well, just because it’s a few days late hardly warrants interest. But rather… yes. CH111, you were hoping to scout me all along, weren’t you?”
And with that—
“Then I suppose I’ll need to demonstrate all my abilities?”
A slow exhale.
She folded her arms across her chest, her expression unhurried.
“Let’s run a test of Non-face-to-face Worship together, shall we?”
The Celestial Demon Shatters the Tower (Serialized)
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