The Heavenly Demon Destroys the Tower - Chapter 66

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Episode 66
“Have you calmed down a bit now?”
[Yes……. Then I’ll stay inside with the sword for a while…….]
And so the Celestial Sword Spirit fell silent.
The Flame Heaven Sword.
What was she so thrilled about to cause all this fuss?
“Um…… Master, would it be alright if we fought now?”
“……Yes. I won’t get in the way anymore, I promise.”
From the seventh floor onward, the battle proceeded normally.
-Sweeping them away with flashes of light, but watching the goblins fight just makes me sigh lol
-But that sword seems decent?
-If it’s A+ in that state, wouldn’t it become an insane sword after restoration?
-lol for real, FIPA’s hype made sense
It took only one minute to reach the seventh floor with those brilliant flashes.
After that, it took forty minutes of desperate fighting for the goblins to reach the tenth floor.
Even then, Lee Kang-han had to intervene at the end to avoid falling behind on the clear time.
‘The goblins really are becoming obsolete soon.’
Once they hit Level 30, he’d upgrade the goblin Black Market.
Then he’d help them reclass as goblin merchants.
They were becoming increasingly useless for combat.
As Lee Kang-han stood watching the exhausted goblins sprawled across the floor,
the tower clear time had finally arrived.
-Already cleared it…
-This time it took a bit longer since the goblins were leveling up
-If the sword FIPA gave us hadn’t flashed like that, it probably would’ve taken even longer
-Feels like a broken item just for undead lol
Unlike before, the audience’s reactions to Lee Kang-han’s sword had turned favorable.
Indeed, watching the undead get obliterated with each brilliant flash made quite an impact.
And then.
[Bronze Tower No. 73 — Performance Evaluation in progress…….]
[Tower cleared within one hour.]
[80% or more of encountered undead have been eliminated.]
As the tower cleared,
the Performance Evaluation message appeared.
‘Two lines on the Clear Evaluation……. With this pattern, it should be S.’
Looking at the message displayed below the Performance Evaluation, Lee Kang-han felt an inexplicable unease that an S grade might come.
And just as he suspected.
[Clear Evaluation – S]
[Clear rewards are unlocked.]
[Level increases by 1.]
[Obtain 10,000 TP.]
This time’s evaluation was an S grade.
‘Wow. The rewards are on a completely different scale from EX.’
When he cleared the Arena with an EX grade, it gave 1.5 million TP.
No matter how good an S is, ten thousand TP?
‘At least gaining a Level is something.’
His current Level was 43.
The TP difference was 150 times, but the Level gain difference was only a seven-fold gap.
Lee Kang-han let out a hollow laugh and closed the system message.
‘Finding special conditions among the Clear Conditions is trickier than I thought.’
That Cemetery map from before.
Did he need to dig up every single grave?
Recalling the tower from earlier, which had been far too ordinary,
Lee Kang-han went through the goblin Levels carefully.
‘Average Level 30 — looks like they’ll reach it soon.’
Still, quite a few individuals had leveled up fighting the undead,
so the average Level seemed to be around 28 now.
Back at home, Lee Kang-han opened the Demon Realm Territory
and established a connection with the Goblin Chieftain.
“For a while, focus on leveling up at the training ground.”
“Ah…… So should I take a break from working at the Black Market?”
“Yeah. Once you hit Level 30, we need to upgrade the Black Market, so focus on training for now.”
“Understood!”
The Goblin Chieftain’s eyes lit up at the mention of the Black Market upgrade.
For him, too, it seemed to be a long-cherished goal.
“Then I’ll push hard until Level 30!”
With the goblin training instructions finished,
‘She said the Sacred Flame hasn’t recharged yet.’
Lee Kang-han shifted the Demon Realm Territory screen toward the Sacred Flame.
There, sitting quietly in place, Karana was surrounded by
fire spirits circling around her—they were the first thing his eyes caught.
‘Still a one-sided love affair, I see.’
The fire spirits were head over heels for Karana.
But he’d heard that only a small number of spirits had come from the Arena.
Yet there were easily more than ten fire spirits visible now.
Could their numbers have really grown so much in that short span of time?
‘Just how strong is her spirit affinity?’
As Lee Kang-han watched the scene for a moment,
flutter, flutter.
A bird-shaped spirit that had been circling Karana clung to her persistently, then
[Ugh, seriously!]
Whoosh!
was seized by an exasperated Karana and hurled into the Sacred Flame.
Then,
Crackle-crackle-crackle……!
the dimmed Sacred Flame blazed up intensely, and
[The Sacred Flame recovers to its original form.]
a message appeared above the flames as
it began to restore itself.
‘There should’ve been more time left until it fully recovered, but throwing the spirit in rekindled the spark.’
Just like last time.
She was completely using spirits as kindling.
But then,
[Ah…….]
perhaps feeling sorry after throwing it herself,
Karana reached toward the Sacred Flame and wore an odd expression.
Just then,
Crackle-crackle-crackle……!
flames shot up from the Sacred Flame, and
the bird that had been thrown inside burst out, now half its previous size.
[Chi, chi-ik!]
She whipped her head around and crossed her arms.
As the bird spirit rushed at her again, she waved it away dismissively.
Yet at the corners of her mouth, there seemed to be a faint smile of relief.
‘……What exactly did I just witness?’
Lee Kang-han was at a loss watching the elf and spirit bicker,
but at least the Sacred Flame had recovered, so he counted that as one win and closed the Demon Realm Territory screen.
Now then.
‘The First Tower—I need to go in.’
Lee Kang-han steadied himself mentally
and activated the First Tower Seal from his inventory.
‘I still have one entry left.’
The third candidate for Celestial Demon Valley,
the First Tower Seal had been upgraded thanks to Shin Yu-ri.
The seal, which now allowed up to two entries when fully charged, still showed [Entry 1/2].
As Lee Kang-han activated the seal from his inventory,
Whoooosh……!
a crimson portal materialized behind him, and
the entry count changed in real time to [0/2].
“…….”
Lee Kang-han paused briefly, gazing at the open portal.
Thump. Thump.
Then he stepped through.
The moment he entered the portal,
[The Guardian of Greed summons a battlefield suited to you…….]
[The B1 Floor battlefield is Mare Tenebrosum.]
The arena materialized at once.
* * *
The moment he entered the First Tower, the landscape that greeted him was an endless, limitless sea.
The only solid ground beneath his feet was the enormous boulder directly below him.
‘So this is the starting point.’
Last time he’d stood here dazed,
when Columbus’s Santa Maria had fired its cannons and obliterated the rock.
As Lee Kang-han recalled those events,
[Master!]
A shimmer rippled through the air.
The space beside him warped,
and Shin Nyeo’s spirit burst forth from within.
[You’ve arrived!]
“Yeah. How have you been?”
[Oh, I’ve been at the Celestial Demon Valley the whole time. I got automatically summoned here the moment you entered.]
“Is that so?”
So the Celestial Demon Valley was essentially Shin Nyeo’s domain.
Lee Kang-han nodded,
and a sharp hum filled the air.
A massive screen materialized before his eyes.
[So you’ve come, challenger.]
The figure that appeared
was Columbus, wine bottle in hand, his eyes glazed and unfocused as he stared at Lee Kang-han.
[Last time you got lucky and slipped away…… but this time I’ll make sure to finish you properly!]
Columbus remembered the previous battle with perfect clarity.
He raised the wine bottle to his lips like a trumpet
[Fire!]
and barked the command to launch.
Then,
a sharp hum sounded.
The screen shifted,
and the ship he’d seen before
appeared — the Santa Maria’s cannons blazing with fire.
‘Just like last time.’
Back then, he’d panicked because he couldn’t even figure out where the cannonballs were coming from.
But this time was different.
“Inventory.”
Lee Kang-han opened his inventory, drew out a sword,
and then opened the Demon Realm Territory as well.
The Demon Realm Territory function hadn’t worked inside the Celestial Demon Valley,
but on B1 Floor it opened without any trouble.
From there, Lee Kang-han summoned the Celestial Sword Spirit.
“Ugh…… you didn’t call for me just now……?”
The spirit griped about being summoned again so soon after he’d just started climbing,
its irritation painfully evident.
“Whoa……! That sword from before!”
But the moment Lee Kang-han gripped the Flame Heaven Sword in his hand,
the spirit’s attitude shifted in an instant, and it eagerly dove into the blade.
Then,
a brilliant flash burst forth!
Light blazed through the seemingly fractured sword,
and radiant sword energy surged upward with overwhelming intensity.
‘This should be more than enough to use the sword properly.’
In the Cemetery map, even a single flash of light had swept everything away, so he’d never actually gotten to wield the sword as a real weapon.
Now that he’d properly channeled his sword energy into it, the difference was undeniable.
With the Celestial Sword Spirit infused within—
This blade could actually be wielded.
Lee Kang-han gazed at the sword with a satisfied smile playing at his lips when—
Whiiiiing…….
The empty air far in the distance rippled.
A cannonball shot forth from it.
Just like before, it crossed the distance in an instant and materialized.
But—
‘This much is nothing.’
Swoosh!
Lee Kang-han swung his blade once from where he stood.
Boom!
Before the cannonball could even fall through the air—
It split cleanly in two and exploded.
[Ooh…… you, what remarkable swordsmanship! Such dazzling progress in so brief a span!]
Compared to his floundering in the waters before—
As Shin Nyeo’s ghost marveled at the tremendous strides Lee Kang-han had made—
Ziiiiing……!
A screen materialized before his eyes once more.
Columbus, having picked up a broken wine bottle—
Was now pointing it at Lee Kang-han.
[Ha. So you’ve picked up a trick or two along the way. But that won’t be enough!]
And then—
Boom. Boom-boom-boom!
The sound of cannonfire erupted without pause.
Screeeee…….
The sky warped and twisted in multiple places.
Cannonballs poured down all at once.
At a glance, there were dozens upon dozens of them.
Handling them as easily as before was no longer an option.
‘I’ll have to cleave through all of them at once.’
For that, he’d need to draw upon the Cheonma Divine Sword’s advanced techniques.
The One Sword Breaks Heaven he’d grown somewhat familiar with last time was, after all, a thrusting motion.
This time, he needed something different.
A technique specialized in cleaving.
‘The next technique…… Two Swords Sever the Sea.’
One sword breaks the heavens.
Two swords sever the sea.
A technique name of the Cheonma Divine Sword as grandiose as they come.
Yet the power behind it lived up to its name.
Fwooooosh……!
A brilliant stream of sword energy shot skyward from the Flame Heaven Sword.
Cheonma Divine Sword—
Two Swords Sever the Sea.
The technique of severing the sea with twin blades—
Turned instead toward the heavens.
Crack-crack-boom……!
Sliced in half, the cannonballs detonated in unison.
All the projectiles that the Santa Maria had fired ceaselessly vanished in an instant.
[What…… what is this……? You, you, weren’t you Iron last time……?]
Then—
On the screen still hovering before him—
Columbus stood with the broken wine bottle fallen from his hand, his eyes blinking in disbelief.
Surely last time he’d been running in the sea, only to flounder helplessly—
Getting attacked by Vengeful Spirits in the waters, saved only by dumb luck when his time expired—
What is this?
Does this even make sense?
Unable to comprehend what was happening, he panicked.
[Gah…… but you still won’t catch me!]
In the end, he abandoned the barrage of cannon fire.
Choosing instead to vanish into this vast sea.
The moment Columbus’s screen disappeared like that,
“Hmm…….”
Lee Kang-han gazed intently at the Flame Heaven Sword.
It was too soon to use the Cheonma Divine Arts, so he tried channeling the Sacred Flame’s power to its maximum and triggering the sword technique, and
the compatibility between the blade and the Sacred Flame was so excellent
that it seemed he’d deployed the Two Swords Sever the Sea far more successfully than anticipated.
‘Without the Cheonma Divine Arts, this level of power would’ve been hard to achieve.’
Had FIPA really given him such a fine blade?
While Lee Kang-han savored his satisfaction,
suddenly,
the Celestial Sword Spirit emerged from the blade, poking only her head out.
“Master…… why do you wear such a satisfied expression……?”
“Ah. The technique came through strong without using the Cheonma Divine Arts, so I figured I’d made a good choice with this blade.”
“Well…… honestly, the blade was lacking quite a bit……. I simply controlled it appropriately from within…… if I hadn’t, we would’ve missed several shells…….”
Whenever the sword technique cleaved the heavens, there’d been a subtle sensation he couldn’t quite place.
Could it be that the Celestial Sword Spirit had been helping from within?
‘Come to think of it, I’ve never even practiced the Two Swords Sever the Sea before, yet it went so remarkably well.’
Lee Kang-han simply nodded at her words,
but then, faintly,
[Hey, what did you just say?]
The Vengeful Spirit, Shin Nyeo, who’d been listening beside them, floated up in front of the Celestial Sword Spirit.
[Pardon……?]
[How dare you…… call the Master your “master”?]
With a coldness in her voice unlike anything heard before,
she pressed down upon the spirit.
The Celestial Demon Shatters the Tower (Serialization)
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