The Heavenly Demon Destroys the Tower - Chapter 35

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Episode 35
Inside the Samyoung General Trading Company office in Gyeonggi Province.
Within the sparse office—just a few desks and three computers—
a man was tearing at his hair.
“Non-face-to-face Worship? This arrogant bastard dares……!”
Zhang Wei, dispatched from China to scout promising Korean players.
He was the owner of the account ‘CH111’.
“A D-Rank nobody……! I spent 40,000 Tower Points and this is what I get!?”
The Celestial Demon Lee Gang-han had certainly impressed him thus far.
But when it came down to it, wasn’t the status window showing the Celestial Demon’s body at D-Rank?
If his superiors hadn’t shown such keen interest in the Celestial Demon,
he never would have committed such a massive sum.
As he sat scowling at the screen,
Beep-beep-beep.
his phone rang.
[Zhang Wei, handler for CH111. Am I correct?]
A woman’s voice in Mandarin, sharp and controlled.
“Yes. Who is this?”
[Bureau 1014, State Security Bureau.]
Bureau 1014.
The moment Zhang Wei heard those words, his expression went rigid.
China’s State Security Bureau.
After the Towers emerged worldwide, many new organizations had been established within the State Security Bureau to handle them.
Bureau 1014 was known as the most powerful among them.
[We’ve received reports of your actions. Why exactly did you sponsor the Celestial Demon in such a manner?]
“I, that is…….”
[You sponsored 10,000 Tower Points and yet emerged mocking him. Why? We made a substantial donation to the Celestial Demon only to gain a negative impression.]
At the woman’s reproach, Zhang Wei could only bite his lip.
The truth was, 10,000 Tower Points.
If he’d broken it into chunks of 5,000 or simply given 10,000 and asked for a demonstration, Lee Gang-han would have readily opened his traits.
But he’d promised 10,000 more for each additional revelation, then ghosted him—
leaving the Celestial Demon with a substantial donation yet a poor memory of it all.
Back then, he’d confirmed Lee Gang-han was E-Rank and thought there was no point wasting another 10,000 on someone with such a limited lifespan, so he’d withheld the payment.
‘How was I supposed to know he’d jump to D-Rank……!’
Zhang Wei ground his teeth,
[Show your reverence at once.]
“I, what……?”
[Fix what you’ve broken. That’s an order.]
“I…….”
[This is a command.]
When Bureau 1014 issued the order to show reverence,
“Yes, understood.”
Zhang Wei had no choice but to comply.
In his mind,
‘What is it about the Celestial Demon…… that they’d sponsor so much and order me to show reverence?’
‘The superiors have been far more interested in him than in other players. Why?’
‘Even if he’s reached D-Rank, it’s an ability that could vanish at any moment……!’
He didn’t understand.
What made the Celestial Demon worth such direct attention and reverence from the top, he couldn’t fathom.
“Celestial Demon’s Prosperity, Myriad Demons’ Blessings…….”
Following orders, Zhang Wei gazed at the screen and
paid reverence to the Celestial Demon.
Then,
Ding!
[‘CH111’ has shown reverence to the Celestial Demon.]
In the Celestial Demon’s chat window,
a message in bright red appeared—a notification of the reverence.
‘It reflects in real time like this…….’
He’d shown the reverence, yes,
but Zhang Wei stared in surprise, having never imagined the notification would appear so instantly.
[What? You really did it?]
On the monitor screen,
Lee Gang-han was showing a surprised reaction.
[I can’t believe you’ve done everything I asked. I’ll forget the past cleanly. Thank you again for the donation, Zhang Wei.]
The moment Lee Gang-han said he would forget the past, Zhang Wei exhaled heavily.
‘Did this just turn into a messy knot?’
Then.
Ding.
A message arrived on his phone.
[The Celestial Demon is a player under surveillance by Bureau 1014. Keep this in mind and always exercise caution.]
[Furthermore, do not involve yourself with the Celestial Demon any further. We will make direct contact.]
Even after the non-face-to-face worship had ended and Lee Gang-han had said he would forget the matter,
Bureau 1014 was issuing another warning and saying they would step in directly.
It seemed the higher-ups were genuinely serious about the Celestial Demon.
‘Stepping in directly…….’
So they wanted him out of this entirely.
Zhang Wei turned off the monitor with a dissatisfied expression.
‘……But I need to find out why the higher-ups are so interested.’
Beep.
He turned the monitor back on and kept watching Lee Gang-han’s channel.
There,
besides himself who had just finished worshipping,
[‘Caffenam12’ has worshipped the Celestial Demon.]
.
.
.
Multiple users were continuing their non-face-to-face worship.
‘What, what is this? Why are these people bowing?’
Seeing this message, Zhang Wei was taken aback.
‘Huh? What’s this???’
Lee Gang-han, the one actually receiving the worship, was equally bewildered.
* * *
Just moments before.
[You have received worship from your own kind, ‘humanity’.]
[This worship contains no fear. The effect of Celestial Demon’s Prosperity, Myriad Demons’ Blessings is halved.]
[This is non-face-to-face worship. Efficiency has dropped sharply to 0.01%.]
[The cooldown time for the Celestial Demon Divine Technique does not decrease.]
Lee Gang-han, who had received non-face-to-face worship from Zhang Wei,
‘Didn’t even reduce it by a second.’
Seeing the message that his cooldown time hadn’t decreased, he let out a quiet chuckle.
He’d hoped it might at least trim a second, but the calculation was precise as a blade.
‘I’ll need to accumulate a lot of worshippers for this to be useful.’
Of course, in this modern age, finding actual ‘worshippers’ willing to bow was difficult.
So it didn’t look like non-face-to-face worship would be very effective in practice.
Meanwhile,
-Yo, Zhang Wei really bowed lmao
-I’m more amazed that the message actually popped up
-Is there really a player who gets their own custom chat message like this…
-Is this player playing a different game or something?
-But what happens when you get worshipped?
The viewers, seeing the actual worship message appear,
were reacting in various ways.
And then, taking it further,
-Gotta try it myself lmao
-Chance to get my ID up when we hit a million lol
-Bowing just to get your ID shown? wtf
-He broke the Tower anyway, bowing’s nothing lmao doesn’t even cost money
Once an ID actually appeared,
people started volunteering to try it themselves.
[‘Caffenam12’ has worshipped the Celestial Demon.]
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.
.
Including the café user who’d made a donation saying he’d survived the tower collapse.
And adding in the curious viewers eager to make their names visible in the chat window.
Dozens upon dozens of reverence messages flooding in at once.
“What, what is this, all of a sudden.”
Lee Gang-han hadn’t asked for it, yet seeing some viewers voluntarily offering reverence left him bewildered.
[You have exceeded 100 worshippers.]
[Non-face-to-face Worship efficiency has increased to 0.1%.]
By the time his worshipper count had surpassed a hundred and the efficiency jumped tenfold, his eyes went wide.
‘Wow, that jumped fast.’
Of course, since not all a hundred worshippers were offering genuine reverence.
No message appeared saying the Celestial Demon Divine Technique cooldown had shortened.
But as more worshippers accumulated, the developmental potential of Non-face-to-face Worship didn’t look insignificant.
“I never expected so many of you to offer Celestial Demon’s Prosperity, Myriad Demons’ Blessings…… Thank you?”
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-He sounds confused too
-Who’d have thought people would bow ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-When this many people gather, you get a lot of trolls too
-But what’s the actual effect of receiving a bow?
Lee Gang-han answered the viewers’ questions.
“The Celestial Demon Divine Technique cooldown decreases. The efficiency is still low so there’s no meaningful reduction yet…… but as more worshippers join, the efficiency improves.”
-Oh cooldown reduction ㄷㄷ
-If the whole world bowed to you wouldn’t the Celestial Demon Divine Technique have infinite cooldown?
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋ if that were the case it’d be a totally broken skill ㅋㅋㅋ
-Every time he uses Celestial Demon Divine Technique it’s already insanely powerful ㄷㄷ
The viewers who’d witnessed the Celestial Demon Divine Technique’s power through the broadcast.
showed keen interest in the cooldown reduction function.
And then.
[…… has revered the Celestial Demon.]
The reverence messages, which had paused momentarily, began flowing again.
His worshipper roster had already begun crossing the three-hundred mark.
‘This is…… I didn’t ask for this, it’s rather disconcerting.’
Watching the screen to draw attention in the chat, and bowing on top of that.
By Lee Gang-han’s standards, it made no sense at all.
‘Well, with a million viewers gathered, there’s bound to be some eccentric people…… I suppose.’
Lee Gang-han, observing his worshipper count now at three hundred thirty-one, decided simply to take it in stride.
If worshippers multiply like this, only he gains anything, after all.
While he was communicating with the Tower Tube viewers that way.
“Celestial Demon! This serpent…… would you permit me to dismantle it?”
The Goblin Chief, who’d been mining gold while dismantling the Lizardmen.
fixed his gaze on the massive serpent whose head Lee Gang-han had crushed.
Could there be more ‘gold’ to extract compared to a Lizardman?
Then.
“Tsk, Celestial Demon. This wretch was pocketing some of the gold.”
Karana approached from behind the Goblin Chief.
Her eyes raked across him with undisguised contempt.
“What, what!? What are you talking about!”
“I saw it. While dismantling the Lizardmen and mining gold, you stuck pieces of gold on those filthy horns of yours, didn’t you?”
Whoosh.
And with that, Karana pointed her finger at the Goblin Chief’s groin.
Looking at where she’d indicated.
One of his three horns seemed to glimmer faintly with gold.
“Th-that’s! J-just fragments! Too small to even call gold, so I disposed of them that way!”
“Tsk. That’s not it. It was gleaming bright and clear.”
“You, you elf wench……! How dare you spread such lies!”
“What! Elf? Take that back right now!”
The quarrel between the two, sparked by Karana’s accusation.
Lee Gang-han watched it unfold with arms crossed.
I spoke softly to the Goblin Chief.
“So, did you do it or not?”
“That is…… I only attached the tiniest scraps, just a bit of gold dust that’s too ambiguous to convert into Tower Points.”
As he said this, the Goblin Chief offered up all the gold he’d mined until now.
It looked like more than what he’d mined from the orcs last time.
When Lee Gang-han touched it, the system activated.
[You have obtained 500 Tower Points.]
Five hundred Tower Points came through.
‘It’s decent supplemental income, but…… with how much I earned today, it doesn’t feel like much.’
The donations that came in today were astronomical.
Right now, 500 Tower Points was a figure that barely registered for Lee Gang-han.
He looked toward the Goblin Chief.
“What’s so good about touching gold to the horn?”
“That is…… the more my horn absorbs gold, the stronger my power becomes.”
“Really?”
This one’s pretty strange, all things considered.
The fact that he was castrated yet had three horns sprouted from his groin was odd enough.
The resurrection ability, and physical abilities far superior to ordinary goblins—it was all peculiar.
Lee Gang-han spoke to the chief, who was hanging his head as if ashamed.
“Then don’t make tribute payments for a while. Use that gold to strengthen your horns instead.”
“Y-yes……?”
“I’ve got plenty of Tower Points now, so spend the gold on getting stronger.”
“I…… are you really sure about that?”
“Yeah.”
Lee Gang-han consented readily.
Thump! Thump!
“Celestial Demon’s Prosperity!!! Myriad Demons’ Blessings!!!”
The Goblin Chief repeatedly slammed his head against the ground, chanting “Celestial Demon’s Prosperity, Myriad Demons’ Blessings” over and over.
Rather than being rebuked, he seemed moved by Lee Gang-han’s decision to let him spend the gold on himself.
“Heh. Still, he did pocket some of the gold, didn’t he?”
Beside them, Karana voiced her disapproval.
“Well, he said it was only scraps too ambiguous to convert into Tower Points. We should give him the benefit of the doubt this once.”
“L-lord Celestial Demon…….”
When Lee Gang-han said he’d let it slide this time.
The Goblin Chief’s eyes began to glisten with tears.
-In my whole life I’ve never seen a chief cry like this lol
-Can’t believe that guy is the same being as the boss who dismantled my body…
-The Celestial Demon’s being generous today cuz donations went crazy lol
-Days like this deserve compassion fr fr
As the viewers struggled to adjust to the sight of the chief like this.
With a sharp motion.
Lee Gang-han pointed at the corpse of the serpent.
“So break it down properly and follow me. We’re clearing the tower now.”
“Yes, understood!”
Before the words had even finished.
The Goblin Chief rushed toward the massive serpent’s body.
‘I’ve seen all I need to on the Tower Tube, so I need to clear this fast now.’
Lee Gang-han aimed for a Clear Evaluation of SSS+.
He decided to pick up the pace.
“Let’s go.”
And the moment he resolved to climb in earnest.
-Wait, I just got back from the bathroom and we’re already at floor 9…?
-He’s insanely fast even without using Celestial Demon Divine Technique
-The Lizardmen just got steamrolled lol
-Even the Elf can’t keep up with the Celestial Demon
The tower was conquered in an instant.
Since it was a time-attack map with the serpent chasing them down, the monsters blocking the path weren’t particularly strong.
For Lee Gang-han, they were crushed immediately.
-But why isn’t the serpent showing up?
-It died earlier so it won’t appear
-Plus, the boss didn’t even appear before we moved up to the next floor lol
-For real, you gotta give enemies time to spawn
And that massive serpent that had been chasing us earlier.
Whether it had died at the start.
It never appeared again until Lee Gang-han cleared the tower.
‘An Iron Tower—easy enough.’
At this rate, he’d cleared it quickly too.
And since he’d caught the pursuing serpent ahead of time, he’d get an SSS+ rating, right?
Lee Gang-han waited with that expectation.
For the Clear Evaluation message.
There.
[Iron Tower No.16 Clear Evaluation results…….]
[Cleared the tower within one hour.]
[Suppressed 80% or more of the encountered Lizardmen.]
[Clear Evaluation – S]
‘S?’
Against his expectations.
The evaluation from the No.16 map was only an S-Rank.
Celestial Demon Shatters the Tower (Serialized)
Author | Yeom Bi
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