The Heavenly Demon Destroys the Tower - Chapter 48

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Episode 48
[Infinite Tower, Floor 10.]
[Entering Iron Tower No. 2.]
No. 2.
When a player entered the rank advancement stage,
every player was assigned to a tower corresponding to the number two.
And the characteristic of Tower No. 2 was this:
[You have entered the Infinite Tower.]
[Climb as many floors as you can within the time limit.]
[Upon reaching Floor 10, you will be granted rank advancement.]
It was a tower with no upper bound.
Still, the Infinite Tower allowed advancement once you reached Floor 10.
But most players, even after reaching the tenth floor,
would continue climbing higher to earn greater rewards.
‘I’ll need to run nonstop for two hours.’
Lee Ganghan thought this upon reading the message,
and activated TowerTube.
Immediately,
—Oh, finally Floor 10! The promotion match! Lol
—Finally escaping Iron rank?
—How many floors today?
Perhaps because it was a promotion match,
more viewers than usual flocked to Lee Ganghan’s TowerTube channel.
—Won’t he break the record of 61 floors?
—Mike wasn’t even this strong imo
—Curious if he can clear 100 floors
—Given yesterday’s condition, I feel like today’s the day…
The world’s greatest player right now,
Mike, had set the current record at 61 floors.
But the performance Lee Ganghan had displayed in Iron rank
far exceeded Mike’s, which is why viewers were speculating that 100 floors might even be within reach.
“100 floors, huh… Well, let’s give it a shot.”
Lee Ganghan said this and opened the Ten Thousand Demon Palace’s functions,
then summoned the Goblin Chieftain and his goblin unit.
Whoosh. Whoosh.
“Heaven and Earth bow before the Heavenly Demon, Ten Thousand Demons in submission!”
The moment they appeared, the Goblin Chieftain threw himself into a prostration without being told.
He was definitely the most unreserved about bowing among all the Ten Thousand Demon Palace’s inhabitants.
“I’m going to clear the Infinite Tower straight through today, and I’ll be running the whole time. If you find any gold to mine, just follow behind at your own pace and keep digging.”
“Understood, sir!”
—Is he a specialist at looting or something lol
—But doesn’t the chieftain keep the gold anyway?
—The Heavenly Demon’s generosity is impressive
—Lol look at how excited that chieftain is
The Goblin Chieftain, delighted at the prospect of mining steadily for two full hours,
licked his lips eagerly.
Next, Lee Ganghan summoned the Spirit of the Holy Sword.
Then,
A flash of brilliant light—!
From the red portal, a blade of light shot forth,
“Haah… You called for me…?”
With a soft shimmer,
the spirit’s face emerged from the sword.
“This is… Tower No. 2…”
“You can tell right away?”
“Well… yes? Though I cannot speak of the details…”
At the mention of being unable to discuss the specifics,
Lee Ganghan recalled how the Goblin Chieftain had nearly ruptured trying to spoil things last time.
It seemed there were similar restrictions like this
placed on other named beings within the tower as well.
“Anyway… let’s push past 100 floors.”
“Past 100 floors? There must be some decent reward waiting up there.”
“It’s… really incredible…….”
Then I’d better make the climb.
Lee Ganghan gripped his sword.
[Skill ‘Heavenly Demon Divine Sword’ has been activated.]
The Heavenly Demon Divine Sword activated automatically.
A brilliant flash—!
Light blazed from his hand.
Then.
The wavering blade drew taut with power.
Whoosh.
The spirit of the heavenly sword, which had thrust its head outward, withdrew back inside.
[Your sword energy is passing grade…… So today, let us study proper form…….]
Though the spirit’s head had clearly sunk back into the blade,
the voice resonated through Lee Ganghan’s mind.
Was it communicating through the sword?
“We don’t have time for that today—it’s a timed attack.”
[I see…… Then we’ll study after floor 100…… You’ll need the sword there, after all.]
Did difficulty spike past the 100th floor?
Lee Ganghan entertained the question even as
“Right. For now, I run.”
he readied himself to conquer the Tower.
Whoosh.
He took a single step forward.
[Skill ‘Heavenly Demon Lordly Dash’ has been activated.]
With the activation message for the Heavenly Demon Lordly Dash,
his body shot out like a cannon round.
“Kyiieeek……?”
“Kyiek! Kyiiiek!”
Mid-way through the first floor,
the goblins that would normally seize a challenger’s ankles
cried out in shock as Lee Ganghan came hurtling at them,
Boom! Boom!
but they couldn’t withstand his charge.
All were sent flying in every direction.
Those who took the full brunt of his collision burst completely,
leaving only the remains of what had once been goblins scattered across the floor.
-This isn’t even a car crash ㄷㄷ
-They just explode???
-Why did he even draw the sword lol
-Honestly goblins were getting splattered in the tutorial too…
The first floor, cleared in a mere 10 seconds.
-Floors up to 5 are easy mode, right?
-Yeah should clear up to floor 5 in about a minute
-Looking at Ganghan’s condition yesterday, I’d say he keeps this pace until maybe floor 20…
-Honestly he’s just busted lol
True to the viewers’ prediction,
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Lee Ganghan was detonating swarms of monsters in the lower floors.
Then on the 15th floor,
“Chiiiiek! Chiek!”
he spotted a band of orcs appear.
‘These ones I need to subdue.’
Lee Ganghan halted his charge for a moment.
Orcs were hard to come by anyway—this worked out perfectly.
I’ll subdue them here and give them to Karana as a reward.
With that thought, Lee Ganghan summoned Karana, but—
“Chiiiiek…… Wait, c-could this really be the Tower……?”
“Yeah. Orcs showed up, so I called you.”
How was it that the moment they were summoned, the residents of the Ten Thousand Demon Palace simply knew this place was the “Infinite Tower”?
Karana watched as Lee Ganghan pointed at the orc with his hand.
“The Heavenly Demon… you wouldn’t be trying to bring me an orc, would you?”
“Yeah. These days there aren’t any usable orcs anyway, right? They’re all level two.”
“Tch-tch-tch! No. I can’t get held up here. I need to go up, fast, fast!”
“What, a little interpreting, a bit of bowing. It’ll just take a second?”
“No! No matter what, I can’t let anything obstruct my climb through the Infinite Tower!”
She stopped her chittering altogether.
Karana gestured urgently for him to go up.
Lee Ganghan blinked as he watched her reaction.
‘Is climbing the Infinite Tower really that important?’
The spirit of the Heavenly Sword said they’d give a decent reward if he cleared over one hundred floors.
And Karana was insisting he hurry up and climb, saying the orc was fine.
Lee Ganghan tilted his head.
“Got it. Let’s go?”
“Tch-tch! Yeah. No matter who appears this time, don’t worry about it and just climb fast!”
-What reward are they giving on the upper floors that the crazy elf is telling him to go first instead of taking the orc?
-Seriously, that’s crazy
-But he’s brought quite a few orcs so far and I’ve never actually seen one summoned ㅋㅋㅋ
-From what those two are saying, it sounds like they all died or became useless ㅋㅋ
While the viewers were startled by Karana’s refusal of the orc.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
She gestured forcefully for him to go up once more.
Then.
[Crazy elf… at least she has some sense of decency…….]
“Why?”
[Still, she’s not clinging to her own greed…… she’s telling you to go up. It must be that important…….]
The spirit of the Heavenly Sword gave a positive evaluation of Karana’s action this time.
‘What kind of reward are they giving that everyone’s going crazy?’
He really needed to push with full force then.
Lee Ganghan made up his mind.
And activated the Heavenly Demon Lordly Dash once more.
Then.
Bang! Bang!
The orc horde couldn’t block Lee Ganghan’s path and was sent flying in all directions.
He broke through the teens that way.
-Reached floor twenty
-This is where it gets hard, right?
-Huh? Hard, you say?
-They’re flying back the same way…
He cleared the twenties on the same pace.
-The thirties are genuinely hard ㅇㅇ
-ㄹㅇㅋㅋ lots of people give up here
-Even the same monsters appear as strengthened versions
-Hmm… but…
-Same as the twenties, though?
The thirties too.
-Forty is genuinely ㄹㅇ hard!!!!
-Even SSS-rank hunters give up a lot there
-No way you break through it in one go like this ㅇㅇ;
-But you do?
-Floor one or floor forty, same thing, right? Just the map got longer?
-Real psycho monster lol ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
The forties too.
Lee Ganghan broke through the monster army at the same speed.
Then, when he reached floor fifty.
“This is…….”
A massive wall.
Stood blocking his path.
* * *
-What’s with the wall all of a sudden?
-Ah… could it be a Maze Map?
-Yeah, Maze Maps do pop up randomly
-It’s showing up around the 50s
Like that maze tower I played before.
A wall that stretched all the way to the ceiling blocked Lee Ganghan’s path forward.
-For any other player, this would be an easy breather lol
-Tough luck for Heavenly Demon, can’t just power through anymore
-Made it here in 20 minutes lol is this guy actually insane…?
-The speed really is absurd;
Twenty minutes to reach the 50th floor.
He’d cleared early floors in about ten seconds each.
But as he climbed higher, the distance to the portal leading to the next floor kept stretching.
It started taking a bit longer than ten seconds.
Still, compared to how smoothly he’d been cutting through before,
this maze wall was definitely a significant obstacle.
-But couldn’t he just smash through the wall like last time?
-Fr fr lol
-Nah, the wall’s probably tougher than before
-If anything, Heavenly Demon’s even more of a monster than before
-Is he though?
The viewers who remembered Lee Ganghan’s performance on the Maze Map
suggested he could just destroy the wall and press on,
but tap. Tap.
Lee Ganghan tested the wall with his fist, gauging its strength.
“It’s definitely harder than the last one.”
And last time, he’d used Heavenly Demon Divine techniques to carve through, which had been decisive.
But this time, with no way of knowing what awaited him on higher floors,
he wanted to conserve his Heavenly Demon Divine techniques as much as possible.
“Hmm…….”
After tapping the wall several times,
Lee Ganghan suddenly
drove his fist forward.
Boom……!
The massive impact echoed,
and the wall bore the imprint of his knuckles, caving inward.
-Not as shattered as last time…
-Still, a few more hits and it should give way?
-Breaking through like on the Maze Map won’t be easy
-Why not use Heavenly Demon Divine techniques? That would shatter it
-Isn’t he saving them for upper floors?
As the viewers watched Lee Ganghan refrain from using Heavenly Demon Divine techniques,
they began to guess at his reasoning.
Whoosh.
From the sword of light in Lee Ganghan’s right hand,
the spirit of the Heavenly Sword suddenly burst forth.
“Um, excuse me…….”
“Hm?”
“What are you doing just sitting there……? At a time like this…… you should be using the sword.”
All the way up to the 50th floor,
the sword of light had barely been used.
He’d simply blown through the enemies blocking his path with Heavenly Demon Lordly Dash and surged forward without pause,
so the sword had been nothing more than dead weight in his hands until now.
But.
“Right. Now’s the time.”
Since his fist couldn’t punch through the wall in one blow,
it was time to put the sword to use.
“Before I even learn sword forms…… sword-related skills…… you have some, right?”
“Yes.”
“If you were awakened by it, it must be quite a powerful skill…… try using that skill in earnest now.”
Use the Heavenly Demon Divine Sword in earnest, you say?
‘When I grip the blade, it activates on its own, though.’
Just like how the Heavenly Demon Divine Fist triggers whenever I make a fist.
The Heavenly Demon Divine Sword had always activated automatically the moment I drew it.
But it seemed the sword spirit didn’t want that.
‘Like how I used the Absolute Ground Collapse with the Heavenly Demon Divine Fist last time—is it telling me to use a technique instead?’
Lee Ganghan searched through the core secrets of the Heavenly Demon Divine Art.
He recalled the techniques related to the sword.
That’s right.
“The first technique of the Heavenly Demon Divine Sword is One Sword Breaking Heaven, and the second is Two Swords Severing Sea.”
“…Excuse me?”
At Lee Ganghan’s words,
the sword spirit’s head began to spin in circles.
“I’m… just wondering if that translation came out right…?”
“What do you mean?”
“One Sword Breaking Heaven means shattering the sky, right? And Two Swords Severing Sea means cleaving the ocean.”
“Yeah. That’s probably it.”
“What in the—”
The sword spirit’s expression turned genuinely flabbergasted.
-KKKK look at that face that’s the real deal
-FR why are the technique names so ridiculously grandiose KKKK
-from what we saw last time with him using the demon sword i think he’d need to learn proper form first…
The viewers who had witnessed Lee Ganghan’s swordsmanship had much the same reaction.
Everyone had seen him flailing the blade around like a stick.
And now he was supposed to shatter the heavens with one strike and cleave the sea with another?
The names were absurdly, outrageously grand.
Still,
“…Fine. Let’s see…why don’t you try shattering the sky…?”
“Use One Sword Breaking Heaven?”
“Yeah… we need to test how the skill actually works…”
The sword spirit, saying it wanted to see the skill in action,
told him to use One Sword Breaking Heaven.
With the spirit retreating back into the blade,
‘One Sword Breaking Heaven—according to the technique secrets, it was definitely…’
One Sword Breaking Heaven was fundamentally a thrust.
As Lee Ganghan recalled the contents of the technique secrets,
he poured more of the Holy Fire’s power into his sword.
Whoosh. Whoosh!
After thrusting into empty air a few times,
‘Will this work?’
Slash!
With the tip of his blade,
he pierced straight through the Maze Map’s wall.
And then,
Crackle-crackle-crack…!
Electricity spread outward in an instant, centered on the sword’s point.
[Whoa…?]
An exclamation echoed from within the blade—but only briefly.
Whoooosh…!
The wall blocking his path became entirely consumed by light,
and then crumbled away…
Nearly half of the barrier
vanished altogether.
The Heavenly Demon Shatters the Tower (Serialization)
Author | Yeom Bi
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