The Heavenly Demon Destroys the Tower - Chapter 59

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Episode 59
The moment the Title was revealed, the crowd surged.
Though none of them had a form Lee Kang-han could distinguish.
The spectators had swelled from around ten to several dozen times that number.
‘Looks like the Record Breaker Title drew quite a bit of attention.’
But why did they all appear as ghosts?
‘I should try throwing a match opponent at the audience later.’
As Lee Kang-han observed the pale, translucent crowd and resolved to throw one again,
[No 5-Star player exists in Bronze Tier for the species ‘Humanity’.]
[Matching with a 1-Star player from the higher tier, Silver Tier.]
[Matching with player ‘Steve Kim’.]
So there was no 5-Star player in Bronze.
The system had matched him with a 1-Star player from Silver instead.
Flash!
A human player materialized across the arena.
The man in robes, wielding a magic staff,
“What? Why is the arena so huge……? Isn’t this a 5-Star arena?”
looked around in bewilderment.
The moment he spotted Lee Kang-han standing at a distance, he gasped.
“The… the Heavenly Demon……!”
An East Asian mage.
As he pointed at Lee Kang-han in shock,
Lee Kang-han gave a casual wave.
“Wait, I’m in Silver? I wasn’t in Bronze — how is the Heavenly Demon here?!”
Despite being one Tier higher than Lee Kang-han,
his opponent was panicking rather than brimming with confidence.
-Why is he matched with Silver?
-That guy looks like 1-Star… so because the Heavenly Demon is 5-Star, he’s fighting someone from a higher tier one rank below?
-Has this ever happened before?
-No, first time seeing it;;
-This is wild lol

Since this was unprecedented, the viewers watched the situation unfold with keen interest.
But then.
“Ah, come on……! Look, I’m originally Korean too, yeah? Sorry, but I’ve got 4 losses — could I maybe get a pass just this once?!”
Instead of accepting combat, the mage appealed to their shared nationality
while adopting the most deferential posture.
“R-really, I can bow! I can bow a lot!”
He was completely humbling himself now, insisting he could bow as much as needed.
His opponent clearly had no desire to fight whatsoever.
-Why’s he being such a coward lol
-Silver’s totally terrified of Bronze lol
-But I get it… honestly, I’m Gold and I still don’t wanna meet the Heavenly Demon ;;
As the chat flooded with comments about the mage’s demeanor,

‘I can’t accept his forfeit and rack up a loss. Let’s finish this quick.’
Whoosh!
Lee Kang-han charged straight at the mage.
The arena was larger now, making it difficult to close the gap instantly.
Yet with each step forward, the distance narrowed in the blink of an eye.
“How are you so fast——! Blink!”
Flash!
Light enveloped the mage’s form,
and his body teleported behind Lee Kang-han in an instant.
Blink — a spell that allowed short-range spatial jumps.
Seeing that Lee Kang-han had no mercy in mind, the mage steeled himself for real combat.
“Ice Arrow… huh?”
As he teleported backward to cast his spell,
his target had vanished from sight, and he hesitated.
Where had he gone?
Where was he?
Then.
Crack!
“Ugh…!”
Lee Kang-han appeared beside the mage in an instant.
He seized the man’s throat.
“Let me send you off quickly.”
With that, Lee Kang-han dragged the mage toward the edge of the arena.
Whoosh!
He hurled him into the spectator seats.
The mage seemed ready to be eliminated just like that.
“K-kgh…!”
But once his throat was released and he could breathe again,
his limbs flailing in midair,
“B-Blink!”
he activated Blink once more.
Compared to how readily he’d bowed at the start,
the mage was showing remarkable resolve not to yield.
But still.
“Hmm.”
Crack!
Lee Kang-han was already waiting at the landing point of the Blink.
He grabbed the mage’s throat again.
“K-kgh….”
“Listen here.”
Terror filled the mage’s eyes.
Lee Kang-han stared at him coldly.
“Do this again next time… and you die?”
“…….”
“Then.”
Whip!
Once more the mage’s body flew through the air.
At first, he still thrashed about, using Blink and trying to resist,
“D-damn it…! What rotten luck today….”
But after his Blink landing point was cut off the second time, he seemed to lose all fighting spirit.
Cursing bitterly, he plummeted toward the spectator seats.
Before his body could touch the stands,
light flashed brilliantly,
and he vanished.
-He’s 18-ranked…
-Definitely Korean lmao
-Wait, how’d he predict the Blink landing point?
“Well, I had a feeling about it.”
The magical power rippled at the landing point.
It gave him a sense that the destination of the Blink was there.
-Playing a different game again…
-High mana develops sensing ability, so is that it??
-Didn’t they say Lee Kang-han’s mana is 10+ too? That’s literally cheating lmao
-Now I get why Alfred mentions him once a day…
So that’s what happens when mana is high.
Lee Kang-han nodded and reviewed the time that had elapsed in the fight.
‘Did that go over a minute?’
The arena had expanded.
And the mage had put up some resistance with his Blink.
‘I’m worried it might have just barely scraped the condition of “suppressing in under a minute.”‘
But.
[You have suppressed your opponent within 5 minutes.]
[You can raise your Arena Rank. Will you raise it?]
‘It went from 1 minute to 5 minutes?’
Now that it was 5-star, the time limit had actually become more lenient.
Perhaps it reflected that the opponent had grown stronger too.
‘I’ll keep raising it as far as it goes.’
Lee Kang-han chose to raise his Rank.
A brilliant flash—!
Next to the materialized five-star.
Another semi-transparent golden star appeared.
-Just reached six-star lol
-How many stars is humanity’s best?
-Mike’s at seven-star
-Isn’t he about to break Mike’s record again?
-Tutorial, Tower of Eternity, Arena—keeps taking records one after another lol
Mike, humanity’s strongest player.
For a time, no other player could touch his legendary marks.
But Lee Kang-han had been breaking records Mike set ever since the Iron Rank.
‘Back in the tutorial, he called my record fake news.’
Well then, let me keep making that fake news for him.
Might as well keep it going.
Lee Kang-han smirked and waited for his next opponent.
And so the matches continued.
-Broke Mike’s star record in just one day???
-But why does one star keep adding per match? Is that normal?
-He’s throwing every opponent out of the ring… shouldn’t he still be getting stars…?
-Doesn’t this mean he’ll hit ten-star today?
-This is insane lol seriously every time I look the count goes up lol
The more opponents he hurled out of the arena,
the closer the tenth match drew near.
[You may raise your Arena Rank. Will you raise it?]
And there it was again—the Rank Up prompt before the match.
Just as Lee Kang-han had done each time, he raised his Rank.
A brilliant flash—!
Five stars merged into one.
Creating a materialized star.
Now two stars hung across his chest.
-Ten-star on the first go lol
-Two stars look cool
-So now he’ll face opponents worthy of ten-star?
-Is he fighting someone from Gold tier or something? lol
As people watched Lee Kang-han at ten-star,
they wondered who would emerge as his next opponent.
A deep rumbling echoed through the arena—
Suddenly the ground trembled,
and the Arena expanded even further.
‘This is too wide now for a one-on-one match.’
The expanded Arena,
and in the enlarged spectator seating, the crowd had grown considerably.
The number of spectators seemed to exceed a thousand.
The crowd had grown slightly with each star increase,
but reaching ten-star and the arena transforming marked the moment the audience swelled noticeably.
‘Their form still hasn’t changed, though.’
Even when he threw opponents into the spectator section, they’d vanish into thin air anyway,
and the crowd’s true nature remained shrouded in mystery.
Lee Kang-han gazed quietly at the stands
when a grinding sound split the air. Crack-crack—!
The earthen floor fractured,
and from beneath it rose pale marble flooring.
“Wait, this floor….”
This was the same flooring that appeared when he faced other species.
Could it be the same this time?
Then.
A flash of light—!
Light erupted from beyond the far side of the Arena.
[You are matched with competing species player “Hilde.”]
An elf wielding a long spear.
“You……!”
He stared at Lee Kang-han with a startled expression.
* * *
-An elf!!!!!
-YES YES YES I knew it would happen!!!
-But why does he look so familiar?
-Isn’t that the elf the Heavenly Demon stabbed last time?
-I almost unsubscribed back then lol he’s still kicking…
-But he’s gonna get stabbed again this time, right? ㅋㅋㅋ
-Today’s concept is throwing people out of bounds
The elf with the spear.
The moment Hilde appeared, the chat erupted several times more fervently than usual.
This elf obsession of theirs.
It was almost irrational.
Lee Kang-han chuckled softly as he watched the chat go wild over the elf.
“So it’s that human from back then……!”
Hilde glared at Lee Kang-han as though he wanted to kill him, walking toward him quickly.
Then.
“Actually, this works out well.”
Works out well? What does that mean?
Lee Kang-han found himself puzzled.
Swift movement.
Hilde extended his hand toward Lee Kang-han.
“Human, return the core while I’m being reasonable.”
“What core?”
“The Tower Core fragment that dropped when you killed me, human!”
“Oh.”
He was talking about the Tower Core fragment?
“I already used it.”
“Used, used it?”
“Yeah. Thanks to it, I collected all the pieces and spun the Roulette. Thanks for that, buddy.”
Without Hilde, it would’ve been just four pieces.
Back then, dropping that core fragment at just the right moment—humanity wouldn’t have gained that extra Accessory Slot without it.
“That you would dare to use it……!”
“I gave it to you, so of course I’d use it. Anyway, you dropping something today too?”
Swift movement.
Lee Kang-han raised his fist as he spoke.
“Kh……!”
Whoosh!
Hilde immediately backed away, creating distance in an instant.
-Look at him dodge lol
-Super fast ㅋㅋㅋ
-Avoiding close quarters was an excellent choice, Elf!
-Why are we cheering for the elf here? ㅡㅡ
-Gotta catch him when we can ㅎㅎ
Cheering for the elf, the enemy, on Lee Kang-han’s channel.
Did they really like the elf that much?
‘I don’t get it.’
Beautiful, sure, but this level of enthusiasm seemed excessive.
As Lee Kang-han tilted his head in confusion.
“Last time I just let my guard down……! Today is different!”
Whoosh. Whoosh!
Hilde, who had been spinning the long spear like a windmill in his hands alone,
released it.
Then.
The spear continued to rotate on its own in midair,
then transformed into light,
and created a blue portal.
“Come forth, Spirit!”
One by one, spirits began to emerge from the portal.
‘They look nothing like the spirits Karana summoned back in the Holy Flame.’
The fire spirits that had appeared in the Holy Flame came in different forms—some resembled lizards.
Others took the shape of birds, each one distinct in appearance.
But the spirits pouring through this blue portal were identical, as if stamped from the same mold in a factory.
They had thin, elongated bodies and limbs like sticks.
Their heads were perfectly round, featureless—no eyes, no nose, no mouth, no hair.
Each one stood about half Lee Kang-han’s height, roughly the size of a child.
—Stick figures???
—They said they were spirits, but they look like stickmen.
—The only difference seems to be color. Are these different attributes distinguished by color?
There were four versions: blue, red, ochre, and green.
Completely identical spirits, except for the hue.
Each color had exactly ten of them.
Forty spirits in total, standing in perfect rows and columns.
“I’ll show this inferior species what real power looks like. And I’ll take that Title of yours, along with the shard!”
He withdrew a spear from the blue portal.
Hilde advanced toward Lee Kang-han, his spear tip gleaming with confidence.
Was he really after the Record Breaker Title shimmering above his head?
‘Apart from more spectators, I don’t see anything worth getting excited about.’
Lee Kang-han let out a low chuckle.
He pointed at the spirits with one finger.
“By the way, where’d you get these spirits from? What kind of factory made them look like that?”
“Tch…… An inferior species speaking as if they know anything about spirits?”
Hilde’s sneer dripped with contempt.
“I might not know much, but I know someone who does.”
Whoosh——!
A crimson portal tore open behind Lee Kang-han.
“Hiss. Did you call, Heavenly Demon?”
Out stepped Karana, the mixed-blood elf.
“Y-you are……?”
Hilde’s eyes widened in shock.
The Heavenly Demon Wrecks the Tower (Serial)
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