The Heavenly Demon Destroys the Tower - Chapter 44

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Episode 44
—Why is there a kid inside the sword?
—Cute looking too haha
A small child dwelling inside the blade.
Until now, the sword had shattered in an instant, so viewers hadn’t even noticed.
But when Lee Gang-han activated the Heavenly Demon Divine Sword,
and the child rose from its crouched position, people finally caught sight of its existence.
—Looking at that short hair, is it a boy?
—How are you determining gender from that alone lol
—Why couldn’t we see it before now?
Inside the Sword of Light.
The child glowing white
shimmered with that same luminescence, yet formed a distinct shape within the blade.
Though it had only become this clear once the child stood up.
Before that, its presence had been faint, translucent.
‘That must be why the viewers are only noticing it now.’
As Lee Gang-han thought this,
Poke.
The child poked its face out from within the sword.
The blade’s surface warped,
and the child’s head and upper body jutted out from the sword’s body.
“Um… excuse me… I’m sorry, but…”
The child immediately began with an apology.
“As the Spirit, could I… say just one thing?”
So it really was a Spirit after all.
When Lee Gang-han nodded at the child’s request to speak,
“Have you… learned swordplay?”
The Spirit broached the topic of swordplay without preamble.
“Swordplay?”
“Yes… but it’s not enough to have awakened me…”
The Spirit, awakened by the activation of the Heavenly Demon Divine Sword,
spoke haltingly despite its careful demeanor,
and offered an assessment of Lee Gang-han’s sword skill.
“Out of ten… I’d give you a one…”
The Spirit extended just one finger, its index stretched straight.
The message was unmistakable: you’re worth a one.
—Why is this squirt starting a fight the moment it wakes up lmao
—Looks so innocent looking though lol
—Wait, there’s a Spirit inside the sword?
—High-level Spirit Summoners do have weird spirits like that lol
The viewers were bewildered by the Spirit’s words.
Lee Gang-han felt the same way.
‘The Heavenly Demon Divine Sword gets a one?’
Never before had a Heavenly Demon-related skill been rated so poorly.
Just as he was about to say something,
Whoosh!
The Swords of Light that had been pressing him from all sides
came flying at him with far greater speed than before.
‘This time, I won’t be able to catch it so easily.’
Since awakening the Spirit,
the remaining Sword’s attacks had accelerated at least three times over.
The assault was so fast that he couldn’t leisurely grab the hilt like he had before.
Lee Gang-han struck the incoming sword with the blade in his hand.
Crack—!
As sword met sword, sparks exploded,
and with a swoosh,
the opposing blade was pulled into the Spirit.
‘It wasn’t absorbed into the core—it went to the Spirit instead.’
Lee Gang-han watched silently as the Spirit devoured his own blade.
“You don’t… understand?”
“What?”
“Then let me share this carefully…… Posture: minus one point. Sword Qi: three points. Artistry: minus one point. Beauty: minus one point…….”
The spirit folded her fingers as she spoke.
“Ah, that comes to zero…… Then add two points for Sword Qi…… and minus one for elegance…….”
Once the score hit zero, she kept adjusting it up and down.
She ultimately settled on giving Lee Gang-han exactly one point.
-So there were scoring criteria?
-What’s the difference between artistry and beauty lol
-Isn’t elegance the same thing?
–One point deductions everywhere lol
Her scoring system seemed utterly arbitrary.
She had a habit of slashing points based almost entirely on aesthetic judgment.
Of course.
“I mean…… I’ve never actually learned swordsmanship before.”
When would I have ever needed to swing a blade in my life?
I’d just flailed it about like I would a wooden staff.
Even the Heavenly Demon Divine Sword had only activated because the sacred energy flowed backward through me.
I understood why she’d give the technique itself a zero.
But still.
“Wait…… really?”
“…You asked if you’d learned swordsmanship, didn’t you?”
“That was just…… me joking around…….”
The moment I actually admitted that swordsmanship was new to me.
The spirit herself seemed taken aback.
“But how are you even using Sword Qi……?”
“I have no idea.”
“…… A prodigy?”
“Just skill power carrying me through.”
Whoosh!
Lee Gang-han continued bursting the blades as he spoke.
By now, the number of swords attacking him had dwindled dramatically.
Fewer than ten remained intact.
“Your sword path is crude…… but your body control is solid.”
“Your Sword Qi is pure, at least…… that might not be bad?”
“Hmm…… if you’re truly a beginner, does that make me your first teacher……?”
Boom! Boom!
While Lee Gang-han destroyed the remaining blades.
The spirit kept murmuring to herself, poking just her head out from inside the Sword of Light.
-She’s suddenly holding a Heavenly Demon critique session
-But why is she muttering about being his teacher lol
-This one’s got a screw loose I think
By the time the viewers had heard everything the spirit said, they were left speechless.
Fwooosh…….
As Lee Gang-han eliminated the last blade.
“That was good…….”
Swoosh!
The spirit burst out from the Sword of Light and floated freely in the air.
“I’ll grant you a special opportunity…… to take me as your teacher.”
“My teacher?”
“Don’t you want to learn swordsmanship……?”
“Swordsmanship, huh.”
“I can teach you here as a bonus skill…….”
The spirit folded her arms across her chest.
Her blank expression shifted, and a peculiar smile played across her face.
“If you want to learn…….”
Swish.
The spirit pointed downward with her finger.
The place she indicated was.
The support structure surrounding the chest where Lee Gang-han stood.
“Bow to me.”
“A bow?”
“Yes… Well, then I’ll teach you.”
Lee Gang-han looked at the Spirit before him—the one asking him to bow.
A wry smile crossed his face.
He’d demanded bows from opponents countless times before.
Now that the tables had turned and he was being asked to bow, the feeling was oddly amusing.
Of course, Lee Gang-han had no intention of bowing.
“You’re the one who should bow.”
Instead.
“Me……? Why? You’re my master.”
“That’s how you can leave this place.”
He was trying to draw the Spirit into Manma Hall.
‘I’m not sure if spirits count as a race or not… but either way, the more the better.’
Despite running several additional games up to this point.
Named Entities—they simply hadn’t appeared.
Considering the tower’s system where nothing could communicate without being a Named Entity or boss-class monster.
When a conversant opponent finally showed up, he had to try coaxing them first.
“I can leave……?”
Meanwhile, at Lee Gang-han’s words about being able to leave after bowing.
The Spirit’s eyes merely blinked.
The concept of “leaving” made no sense to the Spirit.
“Let me give you an example.”
Lee Gang-han summoned the Goblin Patriarch.
A crimson portal opened, and the Patriarch stepped through.
“Heavenly Demon! You called for me!”
“Yeah. Show this spirit what bowing looks like, would you?”
“Understood!”
The Goblin Patriarch immediately began kowtowing at Lee Gang-han’s word.
“Eternal Heavenly Demon, Ten Thousand Demons Prosperity!”
“Well done.”
The Goblin Patriarch’s shoulders rose with pride at Lee Gang-han’s praise.
The horns on his lower body stood tall and erect.
The Spirit’s expression twisted in disgust.
“What is this… foul creature…….”
“What, what?! Foul?”
“Yes…… Why do you have horns there…….”
“These are the very source of life!”
“…….”
The Spirit, who had been staring coldly at the Patriarch.
“I don’t understand what bowing has to do with leaving…… Could you explain that for me…….”
Asked Lee Gang-han in a weary voice.
* * *
A few minutes later.
“I see…… So I would be joining something called Manma Hall…….”
After hearing from Lee Gang-han about “Eternal Heavenly Demon, Ten Thousand Demons Prosperity” and Manma Hall.
The Spirit nodded, its expression curious.
“Such a thing exists…… Are you some sort of special being?”
“I don’t really know, to be honest.”
“Hmm…… I was originally just going to implant sword skills…….”
Implanting sword skills.
‘If I took them as a “master,” would they have granted me sword-related abilities?’
But seeing how they said “implant.”
They might have given me some kind of unusual skill.
“Mmm…… Mmmmm…….”
The Spirit spun slowly through the air.
“Guardian…… A slave’s life isn’t so bad…… The sunlight is warm…… Sleep comes easy…… But rotting away here might be worse than leaving…… Or is rotting really so terrible……?”
The Spirit agonized over the choice.
Then.
Swish.
It looked back and forth between Lee Gang-han and the Goblin Patriarch.
“Is Manma Hall… cramped?”
“Why?”
“If I have to live with that… I don’t want to go. I hate seeing filthy things……”
“It’s not filthy!”
“I want to cut them off……”
The spirit’s disgust flickered across its face as it fixed its gaze on the Goblin Patriarch’s horns.
The two seemed poorly matched indeed.
“Manma Hall spacious. Elves and orcs live separate.”
“Oh… Elves?”
Meanwhile, the spirit’s demeanor toward the elves differed markedly from its treatment of the Goblin Patriarch.
It showed a favorable attitude.
Did spirits truly prefer elves?
‘Though Karana didn’t seem to care much for the spirit, if I recall….’
Still, there was no need
to ramble on here about the fact that the elf living in Manma Hall actually believed Lee Gang-han was an orc.
No point in dwelling on it.
As Lee Gang-han pondered this,
“I see. If there are elves, then… it might be worth staying. I mean, they’re such particular creatures anyway.”
The mention of elves seemed to matter greatly.
The spirit, which had been spinning slowly in midair, stilled itself and straightened, then
“Eternal Heavenly Demon… Ten Thousand Demons Prosperity……”
bowed in the air with a languid voice.
[You have subdued a Named Entity.]
[The target has not submitted perfectly. Heavenly Demon Divine Technique has not been strengthened.]
[You may register the entity in Manma Hall.]
[Register ‘the Spirit of the Heavenly Sword’ in Manma Hall? (62/10,000)]
‘So the spirit got “Heavenly” added to its name.’
The Spirit of the Heavenly Sword, it was called.
That sounded better than merely the spirit of a sword.
Lee Gang-han pressed yes.
Whoosh!
“Ow……”
The character for Demon was etched onto the spirit’s forehead.
[You have registered ‘the Spirit of the Heavenly Sword’ in Manma Hall.]
“Manma Hall……”
The spirit’s eyes blinked slowly.
Flare!
Red light blazed from the character.
Whoooosh……
Along with the sword Lee Gang-han was holding,
it was drawn inside and vanished.
‘Hmm. It went in fine?’
Lee Gang-han opened Manma Hall.
There was the sword he had been holding until moments before—
the Spirit of the Heavenly Sword, shaped like the Sword of Light, planted near a sacred flame.
Lee Gang-han pressed on the sword.
[Spirit of the Heavenly Sword]
[Status: Slothful, Content, Sleeping]
The sword had already fallen asleep, not long after entering.
For something that had entered upon hearing about elves,
it paid no attention to Karana, who stood near the sacred flame,
and remained in a state of restful sleep.
‘Unlike other species, does it not have a separate area?’
Lee Gang-han watched as the spirit made itself at home as if it already owned the place,
“Master! The portal’s light is growing weaker!”
At the Goblin Patriarch’s warning, Lee Gang-han turned toward the return portal.
The blue portal was indeed fading, growing more translucent than before.
‘Time to escape.’
He had obtained the Heavenly Demon Divine Sword.
And on top of that, he had accepted the Spirit of the Heavenly Sword into Manma Hall.
He’d gathered everything worth taking from this place.
‘Tomorrow I’ll use that last 777 Ticket and see if I can acquire another Spirit of Cheon Geom.’
He decided to put that remaining 777 Ticket to good use.
Lee Gang-han leaped toward the exit portal.
The moment he made his escape.
[Settling your performance in Iron Tower No-777…….]
[You opened 30 or more treasure chests.]
[You encountered the Spirit of the Sword.]
[You opened the Heavenly Treasure Chest.]
[Clear Evaluation – SSS+]
[Rewards are distributed proportional to your evaluation score.]
[Exceeding SSS-rank evaluation, you receive additional special rewards.]
‘Excellent. SSS+.’
A far cry from the S-rank he’d received last time.
This time, an SSS+ evaluation had appeared.
‘So the hidden condition was opening the Heavenly Treasure Chest.’
The Heavenly Treasure Chest that existed beyond the return portal.
You couldn’t just dash out—you had to secure that treasure too if you wanted to earn SSS+.
‘Come to think of it, when I subjugated Karana, they gave me an extra choice option from the special rewards…….’
As Lee Gang-han pondered this.
[You have subjugated ‘the Spirit of Cheon Geom’.]
[An additional choice option is granted from the special rewards.]
A message materialized on cue.
‘I see…… so subjugating a Named Entity grants one more choice option.’
As Lee Gang-han grew increasingly familiar with the pattern of how rewards were distributed.
[500,000 TP]
[Installation: Sunstone]
Before his eyes.
Two choices appeared.
The Heavenly Demon Wrecks the Tower (Serialization)
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