The Heavenly Demon Destroys the Tower - Chapter 60

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Episode 60
“Hiss. Did you call me, Cheonma?”
Karana stepped through the crimson portal, pushing back the hood that had half-concealed her face.
“Hmm?”
She caught sight of Hilde beyond and her brow furrowed.
“Hiss. An elf, then?”
“Yes.”
“Krrkk. Not exactly pleasant company…….”
Karana had always hated being compared to an elf.
But did she actually dislike elves themselves?
“Hiss. Well, lucky for us. I’ll burn the elf myself…….”
Crackle-crackle……!
As she spoke, her palm blazed with pure white lightning.
Was she about to unleash her specialty, Thunder Sorcery?
Her readiness to strike was already evident.
Then.
Hilde let out a sharp cry.
“You!!! What on earth are you doing?!”
“Hiss. Me?”
“From the moment you showed up…… why are you grunting like some vulgar orc?”
“Vulgar?! I am a descendant of the proud Gersh royal house, student of a great sorcerer!”
“Gersh orc? No, that makes no sense! Look in a mirror!”
“Hiss. Regardless of my appearance, as a member of the Imperial Orc race……!”
Karana declared herself an orc without a shred of hesitation.
Hilde, exasperated, tapped the end of her staff against the ground.
-Finally, someone said it… that’s exactly what I wanted to say
-Right, she’s making those hiss-krrkk sounds with that face, it’s so infuriating lmao
-But she uses casual speech with Cheonma yet formal speech with the elf
-Same race, so that’s probably why? lmao
As the viewers voiced their agreement with Hilde’s reaction,
she caught sight of Karana’s tattoo and went pale.
“That tattoo—what in the world……! Isn’t that an orc sorcerer’s mark?! What on earth happened to……!”
“Oh. You know your stuff?”
“You human……! Is that what you are?! How dare you, a lesser creature, treat an elf in such a manner?!”
Hilde, whose gaze had already been tinged with murderous intent,
seemed to have her killing intent amplified tenfold ever since summoning Karana.
“Spirits, tear that human to shreds this instant!”
At Hilde’s command,
forty spirits came rushing forth all at once.
They all took the form of small humanoid figures no larger than children, so at first glance they didn’t seem particularly threatening.
Whoosh!
Yet as they charged, their speed proved faster than expected.
‘So spirits are her main strength, not the spear art?’
Lee Kang-han gathered energy in his fists to engage the spirits,
Sizzzzz…….
when one of the charging spirits—a red one—suddenly began to dissolve.
And then.
Whoooosh!
The stick-figure form ignited completely in flame,
and from within burst spheres of fire.
They took on the shapes of lizards and birds, rushing toward Karana as one.
‘At least five seem to emerge from each stick-figure.’
So many spirits had been compressed into a single stick-figure form?
As Lee Kang-han observed this curiously,
the fire spirits began pressing toward Karana in earnest.
As if their true master had never been Hilde, but Karana all along.
“Hiss. What now. Why again?”
Yet when the fire spirits drew near, Karana’s brow knitted,
and she made a gesture—once, twice—
waving them away.
“Don’t come near! Yes, that’s it—go explode on them!”
And so the fire spirits obeyed the command faithfully.
They hurled themselves at the other spirits.
Boom-boom-boom!
They detonated in unison.
By the numbers alone,
ten fire spirits launching themselves at thirty should have been woefully insufficient to stop them entirely—or so it would have seemed.
Whoooosh…….
The spirits that caught the brunt of the fire spirits’ self-destruction
ignited violently and vanished from existence entirely.
-That’s too harsh…
-Did you see the bird crying just now?
-Crying? It’s a spirit, come on ㅋㅋㅋ get real
-The one who should be crying is that elf on the other side
-ㄹㅇㅋㅋ
“Ah…….”
Hilde stood dazed, taking in the scene before her.
Forty spirits she’d summoned with such confidence had simply vanished.
Her composure was crumbling.
She glanced back and forth between the absent spirits and Karana,
“Release him. Now.”
“What?”
“Stop this pathetic orc charade and release him at once!”
She suddenly leveled her spear point at Lee Kang-han,
demanding curtly that he set Karana free.
“Your pronoun just shifted from ‘you’ to ‘him.’ Why the change?”
“……He is not someone who should be in a place like this. Release him.”
“Why? I need a reason before I’ll let anyone go.”
The sudden shift in how she referred to Karana had to mean something,
and Lee Kang-han probed for answers with his question.
“Tsk. Cheonma, do you mean to abandon me……? Surely you’re not thinking of handing me over to them just because I bear some resemblance to an elf?”
Karana, listening nearby, grew visibly anxious.
“No, please! Come to your senses! You are no orc! Among elves, you might even be……!”
“Might be?”
“Stop! Don’t probe! Come to us! You’ll be treated with the utmost reverence!”
“Tsk. Enough noise. Cheonma treats me well.”
Karana began folding her fingers one by one.
“He supplies me with orc essence, builds me altars for sorcery, and lets me tend the flames.”
“What good is any of that?! That vile orc nature, that crude and tainted influence—it all needs to be purged!”
“You dare mock the orc thus. Tsk…… How distasteful! I will not go!”
Karana’s identity as an orc remained unshaken.
When Hilde disparaged orcs, her displeasure only deepened,
and she made clear her intention to remain in the Demon Realm Territory.
-Phew, at least she’s not going with the elf…
-Though I’d like to see Karana without the orc speech too ㅋㅋㅋ
-But if she went with the elf, we’d barely see her anyway, right? Just purging the orc would take ages
-ㄹㅇㅋㅋ Better to let Cheonma slowly educate her
-But the way that elf’s acting makes me think she’s hiding something. Like a high elf or something ㅋㅋ
It was true that ever since Hilde had summoned those fire spirits,
her demeanor had grown noticeably more reverent—something was definitely there.
‘I doubt she’ll volunteer anything today.’
Even when Lee Kang-han tried to gently probe, she shut him down firmly, refusing to divulge.
It seemed he wouldn’t be able to extract Karana’s true identity from Hilde today.
And besides,
‘I’ve already spent too much time here.’
To raise his Arena Tier,
he needed to subdue his opponent quickly.
From 5-Star onward, the time limit was five minutes.
Now that he’d reached 10-Star, the limit might have extended,
but lingering in conversation like this would easily eat through whatever time remained.
“Well, if that’s what you want, we’ll call it here for today?”
“You……!”
“Besides, we’re running short on time, it seems.”
Lee Kang-han’s smile widened.
“Shall we end this?”
“What……?”
“Cheonma Divine Arts.”
At those four words alone.
Lee Kang-han’s momentum transformed entirely.
As an intense aura erupted from his opponent, Hilde’s expression hardened like stone, her grip tightening on her spear—but.
Whoosh!
Before she could even react.
“Ugh……!”
Hilde’s throat was seized by Lee Kang-han’s hand.
She’d known he was strong.
But to be caught without even a chance to resist—
Hilde’s face flushed crimson with fury and self-loathing, but.
Whoosh!
Lee Kang-han paid it no mind, sprinting toward the stands.
“Take care, then.”
And with that, he hurled Hilde directly into the stands.
Perhaps it was the power of the Cheonma Divine Arts.
Before Hilde could even mount a response.
Her body had already landed near the spectator section.
“Mark my words! Next time, I swear……!”
With those parting words.
Flash……!
Hilde vanished in a burst of light.
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-The Elf just left like that…
-The way she said “mark my words” means she’ll be back next time, ready for round two lol
-But isn’t she pretty capable too? Lee Kang-han’s Rank 10, so they matched Rank 10s right
-Right? This is his first match after the promotion tournament, so it looks like she climbed up here too with her own streak
Hilde, who had even summoned a Spirit yet failed to mount any real resistance, departed the Arena.
Still, thinking about it—she’d also climbed here through her own Consecutive Win Record.
‘Our conditions were identical, weren’t they? Both Bronze.’
Since their first meeting had been during the Iron promotion tournament.
Hilde had risen from Iron to Bronze.
And surely reached Rank 10 after her own long streak of victories.
Her misfortune was simply meeting me.
‘Well, Hilde’s settled for now……. Will my Rank go up this time?’
They’d exchanged some words, yes.
But he’d still subdued her quickly.
He’d met the time limit, so a Rank-up message seemed likely, and anticipation flickered—but.
[You have subdued your opponent within 10 minutes.]
[Your Arena Tier has already reached Rank 10.]
[Instead of advancing your star level, your Consecutive Win Record now stands at 2 wins.]
So Arena Tier had a ceiling at Rank 10.
Instead of gaining a star, his Consecutive Win Record had increased by 2 wins.
Given it was 2 wins, it seemed that after Rank 10, the counter reset and began anew.
‘A Consecutive Win Record……. What’s the point of accumulating that?’
The fact that it was called a “record”.
Suggested it had some significance.
And given that a sub-10-minute victory added 2 wins, it looked like going over would net only 1.
As Lee Kang-han studied the message intently.
[Set a new Consecutive Win Record within the 101 Universe!]
Along with this message.
Bzzzzzzt…….
A massive display panel materialized before Lee Kang-han’s eyes.
-Huh? What’s this
—We can see it too
—Consecutive Win Record?
Unlike the other message windows.
A scoreboard visible to viewers without needing to click the camera icon.
There, moments later, text appeared.
[101 Universe Arena Consecutive Win Record]
1st Place: Sun Wukong – 102 Wins
2nd Place: Heracles – 89 Wins
3rd Place: …… – 75 Wins
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Unranked: Lee Kang-han – 2 Wins
Except for 1st place Sun Wukong and 2nd place Heracles.
The scoreboard showed no other names.
And at the very end, only Lee Kang-han appeared, meagerly.
Listed as unranked with a record of 2 wins.
—Sun Wukong?
—Sun Wukong is here too?
—Heracles shows up here as well ㅋㅋ
Meanwhile, the viewers fell into confusion upon seeing the scoreboard.
Setting aside the Heracles they’d seen before.
Sun Wukong, of all people.
Why would that name appear here?
‘Does 101 Universe have Sun Wukong here too?’
Heracles had seemed quite formidable already.
So just how strong was Sun Wukong, who’d accumulated far more consecutive wins than him?
As Lee Kang-han quietly regarded Sun Wukong’s record.
—But why doesn’t the scoreboard show names from 3rd place onward?
—Isn’t Lee Kang-han supposed to have a 10-win streak? Why does it show only 2 wins?
—Isn’t this discrimination against humans?
Chat messages flooded in questioning why Lee Kang-han had only 2 wins.
“After reaching 10-Stars, even if you win quickly, the rank doesn’t go up—it only counts as 2 wins. It seems the consecutive win record is being counted from that baseline.”
—Ah, I see…
—So that’s why it’s 2 wins
—Looks like the consecutive win record only starts counting from 10-Stars
—So Sun Wukong’s got a 102-win streak? That’s insane ㅋㅋ
—But you can only get 10 wins per match, right?
—The consecutive streak would keep building across multiple matches ㅋㅋ
—If you win fast you get 2 wins, so do you get 1 win if you win slowly?
To break the consecutive win record.
Sun Wukong loomed before him like an insurmountable mountain.
‘Hmm… this could be interesting.’
Yet as Lee Kang-han gazed upon those overwhelming achievements.
He felt something else stir within him—a peculiar competitive fire, alongside the stimulation.
Hilde had been far too weak, certainly.
To be worth challenging, you had to be at least on that level, didn’t you?
‘Good. My target in the Arena is Sun Wukong.’
When Lee Kang-han thus set his aim on the 1st-place holder who’d achieved a 102-win streak.
Ding.
[You have achieved 10 wins.]
[Bronze Tower No.56 results are being calculated……]
As the Arena was cleared.
The results were tallied.
[You cleared the Arena with 2 losses or fewer.]
[You achieved 5 or more consecutive wins.]
[You achieved victory in combat against a rival species.]
[You reached 10-Stars for the first time.]
[Clear Rating – EX]
‘Huh… another EX?’
After the Tower of Infinity during the Iron Rank.
Lee Kang-han received an EX rating once more.
Looking at the displayed items, the top three seemed to be SSS+ conditions.
“First reaching 10 Stars” appeared to be the condition for advancing one full Rank into EX tier.
‘If that’s the case, I might not receive an EX reward next time, since I’ve already reached 10 Stars.’
Around the time Lee Kang-han was committing the measured performance metrics to memory.
[Clear Rewards are now available.]
The EX reward opened immediately after.
The Cheonma Demolishes the Tower (Serialized)
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