The Heavenly Demon Destroys the Tower - Chapter 49

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Episode 49
A wall, obliterated by a single slash.
-Wait wait wait where did the wall go
-He can’t use a sword;
-The thrusting stance looked kinda sloppy though…
The viewers who had been making grandiose claims about what the Single Sword Heaven Cleaver was capable of fell silent in shock.
-He didn’t use the Heavenly Demon Divine Art, right?
-That’s definitely worthy of being called Single Sword Heaven Cleaver? lol
-At this rate let’s see what the Double Sword one does
-Let’s check out the Ocean Severance
And so the viewers, following up on the Single Sword Heaven Cleaver,
asked him to try the Double Sword Ocean Severance as well.
“Ah. The single sword already failed, so why would I bother with the double?”
Yet Lee Kanghan himself dismissed this attempt at the Single Sword Heaven Cleaver as a failure, clearly unsatisfied.
-???
-A failure???
-Dude he’s in Iron;
-You really thought he was actually splitting the sky huh lmao
-Technique names are basically always exaggerated advertising anyway
Iron.
Even accounting for the fact that it was a novice’s blade—one that had barely been in his grip—the destructive power it displayed was nothing short of transcendent.
Yet watching the man himself refuse to be satisfied, the viewers could only shake their heads in disbelief.
But.
‘No, that slash definitely failed.’
Lee Kanghan’s assessment was different.
When he deployed the Single Sword Heaven Cleaver to pierce his target,
the Sword Energy contained in the blade should have radiated outward in all directions without obstruction.
This time, however, the Sword Energy had traveled smoothly at first, then abruptly severed mid-course.
‘Hmm…… What went wrong?’
Whoosh. Whoosh.
With a furrowed brow, Lee Kanghan thrust into empty air again and again.
At this sight,
a soft shimmer rippled forth.
The Spirit of the Heavenly Sword poked her face out of the blade.
“Isn’t this already quite formidable…… yet you remain dissatisfied?”
“I didn’t achieve the full power I intended.”
“That’s…… true. Now that I sense it…… at full potential, it would have had enough force to obliterate the wall entirely…….”
“Exactly.”
So a spirit can even perceive the technique’s intended power?
Lee Kanghan nodded as he listened to the spirit’s words.
Gleam. Gleam.
Unlike the usual drowsy glint of her eyes,
the Spirit of the Heavenly Sword gazed at Lee Kanghan with bright, sparkling eyes.
“You…… have the makings of my foremost disciple.”
“Your foremost disciple?”
“Yes…… You’re quite ambitious, after all…….”
Is ambition what determines a foremost disciple?
Lee Kanghan tilted his head in confusion,
“Well…… then let’s start by perfecting the Single Sword technique first……. I’ll offer guidance from within the blade…….”
So saying, the Spirit of the Heavenly Sword
withdrew back into the blade.
‘Guidance, she says.’
What sort of counsel could a sword’s spirit possibly offer?
With that question forming in his mind, Lee Kanghan
walked past the destroyed wall.
Then,
a soft shimmer.
Another maze wall rose to block his path.
‘If I use the technique like before…… after three tries or so, I’ll need to wait for my Internal Energy to recover.’
Even if it counts as a failure,
In any case, the Single Sword Heaven Cleaver had brought down half the wall in one piece.
It was inevitable that using such a technique consumed tremendous energy.
No matter how high his Magic Power stat was.
Even for Lee Kanghan, who could harness the Holy Flame Power within his body.
The Internal Energy required for the Single Sword Heaven Cleaver was not easy to manage.
‘This time I’ll pour everything into it…….’
Yet despite that earlier failure.
Lee Kanghan was about to channel even more force into the Single Sword Heaven Cleaver.
[Wait. Magic Power…… or is it Internal Energy……? Either way, hold back on the force.]
“Hold back?”
[You’ll just lose control if you dump it all out anyway…… Control comes first…….]
Pouring everything out was pointless if he couldn’t maintain control over it.
So she was telling him to reduce the total amount of Internal Energy instead.
[And that way…… I can help you…… I can guide the flow of your energy…….]
“Understood.”
[Mm, and…… those sloppy stances of yours are really something I can’t abide…… Now that you’re my disciple…… I won’t tolerate that form. Start by gripping the sword properly…….]
The Spirit of the Heavenly Sword, who had done nothing but sleep during the Tower of Infinite Challenges.
But ever since entering the sword.
She had been relentlessly nagging Lee Kanghan without pause.
Still.
-Oh, the stance looks a lot better than before? lol
-Is the sword master instructing?
-I thought the spirit was lazy ’cause she was so quiet, but looks like she’s actually teaching her disciple properly lol
As Lee Kanghan adjusted his stance according to the Spirit of the Heavenly Sword’s guidance.
The viewers began flooding in with real-time feedback that he was doing significantly better than before.
‘It’s convenient having so many people watching from outside to correct me like this.’
After refining his stance, Lee Kanghan.
[Lower it more…… reduce the force…….]
[Think of it as putting in only 1/10th of your power…….]
[Can you control this? Really?]
Following her instructions to use.
Even less force.
He markedly reduced his Sword Energy output.
[Ambition is fine. But there’s a difference between ambition and recklessness.]
[Good. That’s the level. As my disciple, you should be able to manage that much control.]
Once teaching time came, the Spirit of the Heavenly Sword wasted no time with prolonged pauses.
Her instructions came rapid and sharp.
‘Reliable, isn’t she?’
Lee Kanghan thought to himself that he’d made the right choice bringing her along.
Then he drove his blade toward the wall blocking his path.
Heavenly Demon Divine Sword
Single Sword Heaven Cleaver
Thunk!
The sword buried itself in the wall.
But unlike before, apart from the point of penetration.
There was no change whatsoever to the surrounding area.
-That’s different from last time
-Failed?
-The spirit seemed kinda lazy but I guess her teaching sucks too lol
-She gave decent posture tips though, maybe that’s all she’s useful for?
Seeing this.
Impatient viewers were already declaring the sword’s instruction a “failure.”
Fwooosh……!
A flash of light flickered briefly.
Crackle, crackle, crackle…….
Just as before, half the maze wall vanished entirely.
-Ohhh…
-What? The effect disappeared? Why no flash?
-Probably ’cause he held back on the power oo
-If he held back and still got the same output, isn’t that nuts?
-Yeah, right lol
-I had a feeling something was off when those guys started trash-talking the Spirit so eagerly earlier lol
As if to prove the point, the chat reactions swung a complete one-eighty.
The moment he delivered a different result.
Praise for the Spirit of the Heavenly Sword flooded in.
“Ah…… that’s definitely better than before, isn’t it?”
[But…… you still feel it’s lacking, don’t you?]
“Yeah. I need more training.”
Whoosh.
Lee Kanghan took up the stance for the Single Sword Heaven Cleaver once more.
There were still plenty of walls left to break.
It was the optimal environment for sword training.
“All right. Again.”
Slash!
The blade point pierced through the next wall several times over.
The portion that had previously vanished halfway
grew wider with each strike.
After several more repetitions.
-Whoa… the destruction radius keeps getting bigger? Insane
-He’s not using more strength, right? The progress is too fast;
-lol isn’t he gonna destroy the whole wall?
The viewers all noticed it.
Lee Kanghan’s mastery of the Single Sword Heaven Cleaver was visibly improving,
“Huh, already done……?”
The moment the portal to the next floor came into view, he clicked his tongue in disappointment.
A bit more and he felt he could truly master the Single Sword Heaven Cleaver.
But there was nothing left to destroy.
However, once he stepped onto the fifty-first floor.
“Hm……?”
Before Lee Kanghan’s eyes,
the same wall as before blocked his vision.
* * *
-Another maze?
-Maps and monsters from the previous tier do spawn randomly… but why another maze of all things
-Climbing speed’s gonna slow down again
-Still, his sword training is really coming into its own now—isn’t this actually better? lol
The ten floors of the Infinite Tower up to Bronze.
The monsters and map features that appeared here were strengthened versions of what he’d faced in Iron.
[We need to reach the hundredth floor…… and another maze shows up…….]
“Eh, I’m fine with it. I felt like I was still falling a bit short earlier.”
[Still…… if mazes keep appearing all the way to the next floor, time might…… Should we just smash through……?]
More than Lee Kanghan himself,
the Spirit of the Heavenly Sword seemed concerned with climbing speed.
“Why not skip the Single Sword Heaven Cleaver?”
[I could carve a path just wide enough for one person without using the technique…… right?]
“That’s fair.”
Having trained in how to use the sword while employing the Single Sword Heaven Cleaver,
Lee Kanghan could now cut through walls and create a passage without relying on elaborate techniques.
But.
“Still, let me keep going until I demolish one more wall.”
Whoosh.
Rather than rushing ahead,
Lee Kanghan chose to continue refining his sword skills.
Such conveniently timed opportunities to destroy things didn’t come around often.
He decided to hone the Single Sword Heaven Cleaver further while fortune favored him.
[If that is your intention…… but there is a reason they all say to press upward…….]
“I know. I’ll move faster from the next floor onward.”
And so.
Slash!
Lee Kanghan resumed his training of the Single Sword Heaven Cleaver once more.
Each time the sword pierced through a wall.
The range of the maze that vanished expanded dramatically.
-Now there’s no effect at all
-Yeah, no flash of light, walls just disappear
-Wait, didn’t he already know how to use a sword? This is insane growth compared to floor 50;
-Compared to how flashy he was at the start, this is seriously ㅋㅋ
Even the viewers could feel it.
The Single Sword Heaven Cleaver, displayed in stark contrast to how it began.
Lee Kanghan continued to deploy the technique over and over.
‘Is this it…?’
Suddenly.
Before the Spirit even guided him.
He extended the sword without thinking.
After executing the Single Sword Heaven Cleaver more than ten times.
The instincts he had felt became embedded in the blade.
Riiip—!
Not only the wall that stood before him.
But beyond it.
The very wall that should have blocked him next vanished in a single stroke.
-Scary as hell
-The one behind it too ㄷㄷ
-3 walls just flew off?
-Ladies and gentlemen, you are now witnessing the sword skill of an Iron-tier player…
-Isn’t Gold struggling just to put on this kind of performance? ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Gold??? Where are you comparing Gold to, Diamond is struggling too ㅋㅋㅋ
With a single thrust.
Lee Kanghan obliterated three layers of the maze’s walls at once.
He gazed at the wide-open path ahead.
His expression brightening as he spoke.
“Now I’m starting to get the hang of it.”
[Surely you said this was your first time with a sword…?]
“That’s right.”
[If you have the talent of a master student… is this how it goes? I haven’t even fully grasped the basics yet, and here you are flying…]
He hadn’t grasped all the basics.
True, he had refined his attributes through the thrusting form of the Single Sword Heaven Cleaver.
But his other stances remained rough and unfinished.
The Spirit of the Heavenly Sword’s words held merit in that regard.
[Well, since you’ve mastered the Single Sword Heaven Cleaver to some degree… let’s climb faster now.]
“Sure. I’m curious about that reward on floor 100 you keep emphasizing.”
Had this been an ordinary tower and not the Infinite Tower.
He would have gone beyond the Single Sword Heaven Cleaver and trained in the Double Sword Ocean Severance as well.
But the Spirit of the Heavenly Sword, and Kara too.
Had both urged him repeatedly to climb faster.
So he decided to pick up the pace again.
And so.
-Monsters are spawning again ㅋㅋ
-Lizardmen this time?
-Feels like they’re bringing out ones we’ve seen before
Once he reached floor 52, the monsters began appearing again.
It was unfortunate that the maze walls were gone.
‘Time to kick things into high gear again.’
Whoosh!
Lee Kanghan activated the Heavenly Demon Military Spirit Dash once more.
And launched into a full-speed sprint as he had on the lower floors.
“Y-you human…!”
Compared to when they’d met in the tower before.
These Lizardmen wore even sturdier equipment.
Bang!
But still, like the monsters on the lower floors.
They couldn’t withstand Lee Kanghan’s charge and flew backward instantly.
-Wait, isn’t the first floor the same as the fifties?
-Lol he’s flying off by shoulder bumps
-Is he just going to sprint straight through to floor 100 like this?
-But it does feel like he’s getting faster somehow…
The maps grew longer the higher you climbed.
Compared to floor one, the distance to the portal on the fifties had more than doubled.
But.
Lee Kanghan, whose time to reach the escape portal had been inching upward until now.
From floor fifty-two onward, was reaching the escape portal in the same ten seconds as floor one again.
‘Hmm. I definitely trained with the sword… and the Heavenly Demon Military Spirit Dash feels lighter too.’
Whether it was from cultivating the Single Sword Heaven Cleaver on floors fifty and fifty-one while channeling his Internal Energy.
Lee Kanghan’s speed with the Heavenly Demon Military Spirit Dash had improved.
The Martial Techniques embedded in the Heavenly Demon Divine Art.
They weren’t operating independently of each other—they were organically linked, weren’t they?
‘Or maybe I’ve just gotten familiar with wielding Internal Energy through the sword in earnest now.’
Lee Kanghan felt the changes in himself that way.
And sprinted at full force toward the escape portal.
And so.
-Wait, I just went to grab chicken, when did Mike set a new record?
-He’s breaking one floor every ten seconds, where’d he go lol
-But does Mike’s record even matter? lol the old record was gonna change anyway
-For real, the question now is whether he reaches floor 100
Humanity’s greatest player.
Mike’s previous record of floor sixty-one was instantly shattered.
-Wait, I just came back from the bathroom, why are we in the eighties???
-Why? Because he’s breaking every floor in ten seconds lol
-Another maze showed up but he just swung his sword a few times and the whole path opened
-I’m getting dizzy just watching him run lol
-If you look away for a second, you’ve climbed another ten floors;
The Spirit of the Heavenly Sword screamed it that way.
To floor 100, Lee Kanghan tore through at lightning speed.
And finally.
[You have arrived at floor 100 of the Infinite Tower.]
Without a single obstruction.
He set foot on floor 100.
Then.
Ding.
[You have reached floor 100 of the Infinite Tower within one hour.]
[Among all Competing Races, this ranks in the top 0.1% of all Tower participants.]
[An additional reward will be granted upon clear.]
Additional messages appeared.
‘All Competing Races…?’
Lee Kanghan’s attention, from among those messages.
Was drawn first to Competing Races.
The Heavenly Demon Shatters the Tower (Serialization)
Author | Yeom Bi
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