The Heavenly Demon Destroys the Tower - Chapter 6

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Episode 6
Castrated Goblin Chieftain’s Horn.
Lee Ganghan knew exactly what this item was.
‘It was hanging from the chieftain right there.’
Castrated, they’d said—and in place of that part, a horn had grown.
During the Tutorial, one horn disappeared each time he died, only to regrow when he respawned.
Before his eyes now.
The item description materialized.
[Castrated Goblin Chieftain’s Horn]
Grade: S
A horn growing from the crotch of a castrated goblin chieftain.
When equipped at the crotch, Magic increases by 1.
Upon death while equipped, you gain 1 resurrection opportunity.
Choosing resurrection destroys the item.
Magic +1, and a resurrection function to boot.
In the Infinite Tower, where a single stat point held high value,
this qualified as solid equipment.
However.
‘The equipment slot is rather… awkward.’
It had to be equipped at the crotch to work—
Did he really need to go that far for a single point of Magic?
Lee Ganghan, who hadn’t yet grasped the true importance of Magic,
felt a strong aversion to equipping the horn at his crotch.
‘Maybe I should just sell it.’
As Lee Ganghan deliberated,
Whoooosh—
an additional window appeared below the item description.
[If you grant this item to the Goblin Chieftain in the Ten Thousand Demons Hall, the chieftain will be strengthened, and the Goblin Domain will be established within the Hall.]
‘A Goblin Domain constructed on top of the chieftain’s enhancement…’
The chieftain had said the Ten Thousand Demons Hall contained only deep darkness.
If a Goblin Domain were newly created there, change would certainly come.
But then.
‘The last Beginner’s Tower had goblins, so Auto Hunt was possible—but wouldn’t that become useless in a tower with no goblins?’
The Goblin Chieftain had brought fifty goblin subordinates despite having almost nothing to his name.
But that was only possible because it was a goblin-spawning tower.
If he went to a tower packed with different monsters, recruitment like that would be impossible.
‘Hmm. I need to think this through.’
Lee Ganghan decided to keep the horn in storage for now.
Once he closed the special reward window,
[Opening Clear Reward.]
[Level increased by 5.]
[Obtained 10,000 TP.]
The Clear Reward then appeared.
Rewards scaled proportionally with the evaluation grade.
TP stood for Tower Point—
a currency used across all Infinite Tower–related content.
‘They said 1 TP could be exchanged for 1 dollar.’
He’d heard the Beginner’s Tower was beginner-level and didn’t give substantial rewards even after clearing,
but maybe receiving an SSS+ grade made the difference.
The reward was more generous than expected.
Ten thousand TP meant roughly 13 million won.
And beyond that.
[You’ve entered Korea’s “10 Most Promising Players”.]
[You receive TP rewards proportional to TowerTube viewer count.]
[Obtained 50,000 TP.]
[Viewer count has reached maximum capacity.]
[Obtained TowerTube Channel Opening Right.]
Setting a new record seemed to have filled the viewer count to capacity,
and as TowerTube content rewards,
he’d earned 50,000 TP and a Channel Opening Right.
‘Sixty thousand TP… that’s around seventy-eight million won? I won’t need to set foot in a logistics center again.’
Now I understand why people keep going on about being a Player.
It was around then that Lee Ganghan began to think he wouldn’t have to worry about living expenses for a while.
[All rewards have been collected.]
[Logging out from the Beginner’s Tower.]
He accepted all his rewards.
Lee Ganghan’s body flared with light, then vanished into the portal.
* * *
A park somewhere in Gyeonggi Province.
Whoosh!
Lee Ganghan suddenly burst forth from thin air.
A passing pedestrian flinched.
“Oh, scared me.”
“Must be a Player.”
“Oh, is it the first of the month? Looks like they picked a new initiate.”
“Yeah. I didn’t get selected again this time…… What a shame.”
The first of every month.
This was the day the Infinite Tower selected new Players from among the candidates.
It had been ten years already since the Infinite Tower appeared.
If you counted the sheer number of people who’d become Players, the figure should have been 1.44 million.
“Even if you’d been selected, you’d have quit halfway through anyway. You can’t handle pain, remember?”
“You got me there.”
Some quit during the Tutorial.
And a considerable number dropped out even after that.
So Korea’s Player population fell short of one million.
Meanwhile.
‘My shoes are clean now.’
The moment Lee Ganghan emerged from the tower, he checked his shoes first.
The shoes that had been stained green with goblin blood
were now pristine white again.
‘I don’t have much time before sleep…… do I.’
He noticed the sky had already turned to sunset, the whole expanse bathed in crimson.
Normally, he left the logistics center at four in the afternoon.
But he’d spent a little over three hours in the Infinite Tower.
Which meant it was now just past seven in the evening.
‘I left the Auto Hunt running on the goblins for too long—it was just too convenient.’
Because he slept twelve hours a day, Lee Ganghan would collapse at eight in the evening.
Now he realized how little time remained.
‘Better run.’
Swish.
Lee Ganghan kicked off hard.
Whoosh!
His body crossed the park in an instant.
“Wow, that’s incredibly fast…… .”
“Is he a sprinter?”
The strollers around him watched with wonder
as Lee Ganghan moved at a stunning speed.
‘My body feels lighter than usual. Is it because I became a Player?’
He’d always had an excellent physique.
But compared to before he awakened as a Player, his body felt far more agile now.
He tilted his head in confusion.
‘I heard that Player abilities don’t affect reality.’
As Players leveled up, they ascended toward superhuman heights.
But their abilities only activated within the Infinite Tower itself.
If they could use their tower abilities in reality as well,
the world wouldn’t be as peaceful as it was.
Public order would have collapsed under all the incidents and accidents Players would cause.
The ability most closely related to reality, if anything,
was the Base Stat.
After all, physical prowess—strength, agility, stamina—
Because my physical body followed that path.
But this was an element through which reality influenced the Tower.
It wasn’t an element through which the Tower influenced reality in reverse.
In the Infinite Tower, even if your level rose, you couldn’t increase your Base Stat numbers.
That’s why people who normally didn’t exercise
began brutal training regimens after becoming Players.
They had to build their real-world abilities and raise their Base Stats.
That was the typical pattern.
‘It’s strange that my basic physical abilities have a plus attached… but did this actually influence reality too?’
Lee Ganghan’s situation was different.
He’d achieved 10+ in all his Base Stats—Strength, Agility, and Stamina.
Even athletes struggle to reach 10.
The plus sign attached to it surely had something to do with the Heavenly Demon Physique.
And it seemed the plus element he’d gained through his trait
was influencing reality in turn.
‘Well, at least I’m healthier now. That’s good enough.’
Lee Ganghan accepted the situation with that mindset and headed home.
A fairly old detached house located in the Yongin Villa District.
As he stepped inside,
the clock on the living room wall already showed eight o’clock.
‘It’s about time to collapse… but I’m not sleepy at all.’
He hadn’t felt drowsy even while in the Tower.
Was the connection to the Tower still affecting him now that he’d returned to reality?
Lee Ganghan washed up and entered his room.
In an old house,
this room alone had state-of-the-art soundproofing installed, giving it an incongruous feel.
This was from when he’d fallen into Tower Syndrome, sleeping twelve hours a day.
At some point, he’d started screaming like a madman during sleep, so his parents had no choice but to install it.
They’d lived in an apartment before,
but complaints from neighbors came in so constantly that his parents moved to this house.
‘It’s about time to fall asleep, but….’
He steeled himself to drift off, switched off the light, and lay down on his bed,
‘…What’s this?’
Blink. Blink.
He opened and closed his eyes repeatedly.
The clock hand clearly showed eight o’clock,
yet sleep wouldn’t come.
‘…So this is what insomnia feels like.’
He’d only heard stories about it.
Lee Ganghan had never actually experienced insomnia before.
No matter how much coffee he drank, sleep would overwhelm him like a madness after twelve hours passed.
But now his mind was completely clear.
This had to be
‘because I became a Player?’
They said there was a connection.
Experiencing it for real was strange.
For ten years, Lee Ganghan hadn’t opened his eyes after eight at night.
He rolled around on the floor several times, then grabbed his smartphone.
Since it had come to this,
he might as well gather some information about the Infinite Tower.
‘I should also look up how to exchange TP.’
Lee Ganghan opened an internet community dedicated to the Infinite Tower.
And there he found
[Player ‘Lee Ganghan’ Sets New Record in Beginner’s Tower!!!!!!]
[Analysis of Heavenly Demon Ver.1]
[Heavenly Demon Even Made News ㄷㄷㄷ]
[Mike, Who Lost His Record, Posts ‘Fake News’ on SNS]
[‘Growing Muscle While Just Sleeping’ — Let’s Examine Why This Is a Lie]
Posts related to Lee Ganghan were all piled up at the top.
‘…What?’
No.
Why is everything in such an uproar?
Scrolling past the top recommendation boards over and over, there was nothing but content related to him.
Lee Ganghan tilted his head.
He’d set a new record, sure.
But wasn’t it just a beginner-level record?
‘I get that this is a Tower community site, but articles about it? Is it really worth making such a fuss over?’
Click. Click.
Following links led him to an article.
A Korean had broken the record, and major news outlets were running stories about him.
Lee Ganghan shook his head slowly.
Had Korea really run out of promising prospects?
Why all this overblown excitement?
[What is the Heavenly Demon? Origins and Etymology]
‘I should look into this.’
Lee Ganghan had obtained the Heavenly Demon Physique, but he knew little about the Heavenly Demon itself.
The results were good, so it didn’t matter.
But hadn’t he chosen “Heavenly Demon Eternal Reign Ten Thousand Demons Prosperity” out of ignorance as well?
Honestly, if he’d known it was a worship phrase, he wouldn’t have picked it.
‘Let’s see. The Heavenly Demon is…….’
As he slowly read through the analysis post about the Heavenly Demon.
Buzz. Buzz.
His phone vibrated.
A messenger notification came through.
Kim Jooyoung: Hey
Kim Jooyoung: Hey
Kim Jooyoung: Is that you, the new record guy? What happened?
Kim Jooyoung: Oh, are you sleeping?
Kim Jooyoung: I’ll call tomorrow k
Lee Ganghan, who slept twelve hours a day, had a narrow social circle.
Kim Jooyoung, his middle and high school classmate, was his closest friend.
This guy.
Now that he thought about it, after his military service he’d dropped out of university and joined a major corporation’s guild recruitment team.
‘My head’s clear, so I should give him a call.’
Whoosh.
Lee Ganghan called Kim Jooyoung right away.
“I’m not asleep.”
[What’s got into you, not sleeping?]
“Yeah, I know. I just couldn’t fall asleep.”
[That’s weird. Is it because you’re a Player now?]
“I’m trying to figure some things out.”
[But how’d you even do it?]
How did he do it?
He just took the traits they gave him.
Lee Ganghan talked for a bit about climbing the Tower.
“Hey, how do you exchange TP?”
[TP? You can exchange it at the Tower Management Bureau, or sell it through a guild — they give you a better rate. TP is tied to guild performance. If you join a guild and exchange through them, you’ll get better returns.]
“Yeah? Is your guild any good?”
[Our guild?]
At Lee Ganghan’s question.
Kim Jooyoung answered bluntly.
[It’s a complete dumpster fire. Don’t even think about it.]
“……Right.”
Kim Jooyoung, despite being part of the recruitment team, was ruthlessly honest about his own company.
Or maybe that’s exactly why, as an insider, he knew better.
[Honestly, for your level, foreign guilds would probably come knocking. Unless you’re desperate for cash, wait a bit. Just go to the Bureau and do a small exchange.]
“That sounds better.”
[Want to meet tomorrow? I’ll swing by your place.]
“Sure. Fair warning though — I have no idea when I’ll wake up. Come by after lunch, take your time.”
[Got it.]
And so he hung up the phone with his friend.
Unable to sleep, he stared blankly at the ceiling until past eleven o’clock.
Then.
‘Ah…… I’m finally getting drowsy.’
He’d spent just over three hours in the Beginner’s Tower.
His sleep had been delayed by exactly that amount of time.
Lee Ganghan resolved today’s mystery and fell asleep.
And the next morning.
“Ugh……? What’s this?”
When he woke up.
His body bore wounds that hadn’t been there yesterday.
The Heavenly Demon Shatters the Tower (Serialization)
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