The Heavenly Demon Destroys the Tower - Chapter 7

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Episode 7
Wounds on his body.
Why all of a sudden?
‘Especially the wound on his chest—it’s severe.’
The gash ran too deep to have been made by fingernails.
This was definitely a cut, a clean slice from something sharp.
Had someone broken into the house and slashed him?
Whoosh.
Lee Kanghan pushed himself up from the floor.
Given the wounds on his body, blood should have soaked into the bedding.
‘But it’s only on the T-shirt, and even then, the blood looks fresh.’
Lee Kanghan glanced quickly around the house.
The room was clean, with no sign of anyone breaking in.
So where had these wounds come from?
‘Maybe I should go to the hospital.’
In front of the bathroom mirror.
Lee Kanghan pulled off his T-shirt and frowned as he examined the wounds on his body.
Hiss…
The wounds on his body began to close in real time.
“…?”
What is this?
Lee Kanghan blinked.
A wound this deep should have left scars for sure—it was that severe.
As his body returned to its normal, unharmed state in an instant.
Tap. Tap.
Lee Kanghan ran his hands over his body, testing it.
‘It doesn’t hurt at all.’
Could this be the effect of the Celestial Demon Physique?
Lee Kanghan opened his status window to check his traits.
And there it was.
Trait: Celestial Demon Physique (Rank: E~SSS)
‘E?’
The rank of the Celestial Demon Physique trait.
It was definitely F~SSS before.
When had it changed to E?
‘It was definitely F yesterday.’
When he came home yesterday and opened the status window to browse information.
He’d clearly seen the F rating.
And after sleeping and waking, it had risen by a rank?
‘…It seems connected to those wounds from earlier, somehow.’
What on earth had happened while he slept?
Lee Kanghan mulled it over several times.
But no clear answer came.
That wasn’t surprising—he simply didn’t have enough information yet.
‘Maybe I should record myself sleeping once, at least.’
Having thought that, Lee Kanghan
checked the time.
He’d fallen asleep at 11 p.m. last night, so
he figured it should be around 11 a.m. now.
‘It’s 8 o’clock?’
He’d woken at the same time as always—8 a.m.
That meant he’d only slept nine hours.
For Lee Kanghan, nine hours of sleep was impossible—
and yet his mind felt perfectly clear.
‘The time I spent in the tower was only about three hours, too…’
The tower and his sleep.
The wounds that had appeared while he slept, and the rank increase of the Celestial Demon Physique.
They all seemed connected somehow, though he couldn’t quite see how.
“Hmm.”
On a whim, Lee Kanghan reached out and touched the Celestial Demon Physique trait in his status window.
Unlike descriptions that appeared for items or skills,
the Celestial Demon Physique only showed its grade repeatedly, offering no additional information.
‘Demanding, isn’t it.’
There was no way to learn more about the Celestial Demon Physique yet.
Lee Kanghan closed the status window.
‘I’ve got some time before Jooyoung arrives, so I should take a look at the Manmajeon.’
Originally, he’d expected to sleep in late and told him to come around lunchtime.
Now that he had the spare moment, Lee Kanghan opened the Manmajeon.
[Manmajeon]
The dwelling place of the ten thousand demons who submitted to the Celestial Demon.
Your player rank is too low; the Manmajeon cannot function at full capacity.
Current capacity — 51/10,000
‘It’s up to fifty-one now.’
The goblins the Castrated Goblin Chieftain had been dragging around must have joined up too.
The Manmajeon’s occupancy had swelled considerably.
Against the pitch-black backdrop, a drooping Castrated Goblin Chieftain stood out,
and scattered across the space were the fallen forms of the Goblin Group.
‘What’s wrong with these things?’
The chieftain, being a boss monster, held up well enough even so.
But the goblins were just common mobs—could they not endure the Manmajeon’s environment?
Lee Kanghan tapped on the Goblin Group to check.
[Goblin Group]
[Status: Confusion, Fear, Starvation, Death in 10 hours]
The text displayed far worse conditions than the chieftain’s had been.
Starvation leading to death?
They were going to starve to death?
‘Hmm……’
Still, these were the pawns who’d cleared a path through the Beginner’s Tower for him.
Watching them starve to death felt a bit cruel.
As Lee Kanghan pondered whether there was a way to feed them,
a sharp chime rang out.
[Will you construct a Goblin Settlement?]
[20,000 TP will be consumed.]
A new message materialized above the Manmajeon window.
…Above the Manmajeon window, a new message appeared.
‘Twenty thousand?’
Twenty thousand TP meant twenty-six million won.
Hmm.
Should he just let them go here?
After all, goblins were the lowest-tier common mobs—what use were they……
‘…No, wait. I’ve got plenty of TP, so let me run a test.’
Lee Kanghan had been about to cut his losses with the goblins,
but he changed his mind.
He could always earn TP again the same way he had before.
When he pressed ‘Yes’ on the message window,
a soft shimmer filled the air.
The darkness of the Manmajeon lifted partially,
and where the Goblin Group had been lying, a barren, earth-toned wasteland spread out.
The goblins began to stir, rising one by one at the sight of it.
And soon after, ‘Fear’ vanished from their status.
‘That should do it.’
He’d given them a settlement, so let them live well now.
Lee Kanghan thought he’d done right by the goblins,
but then—thud, thud—
as the goblins explored the wasteland,
they began collapsing again, one after another.
Of course.
The wasteland that spread across the settlement was literally just wasteland.
There was nothing to eat anywhere in sight.
‘……I just sank twenty thousand TP into this, and they’re going to die anyway?’
If I knew it’d be like this, I wouldn’t have invested in the first place!
Lee Kanghan’s brow furrowed.
Zzzzzziiing…….
[Add food and base resources to the settlement?]
[20,000 TP will be consumed.]
Another message floated above the settlement.
Another twenty thousand?
“Wow…… is this some kind of pyramid scheme?”
Lee Kanghan let out an exasperated sigh aloud.
No way—if it needed 40,000 total from the start, I never would’ve done it!
But.
‘……If I don’t add resources, the 20,000 I already spent goes up in smoke anyway.’
He’d laid down wasteland to save the goblins.
What good was it if everyone but the chieftain starved to death?
Lee Kanghan gnawed his lip while muttering under his breath.
“Mmgh, mmgh…… grow, will you……!”
Tap!
He invested another 20,000 TP.
Then.
Swishhhhh……!
A lush forest bloomed rapidly across the wasteland.
The Castrated Goblin Chieftain, who’d been sitting limp on the ground, sprang to his feet.
He moved swiftly through the trees, gathering fruit and feeding it to those who’d collapsed.
One by one, the Goblin Group began to recover their strength.
[Status: Confusion]
Starvation and death had vanished from the status window.
‘Ugh. Raising goblins is a pain.’
Forty thousand TP—you could pick up a decent foreign luxury car used for that money.
Lee Kanghan watched the goblins frolic across the settlement with hollow eyes.
Then, suddenly.
The Castrated Goblin Chieftain gathered all the goblins together.
And then.
Thud. Thud.
They all began bowing in unison.
[The Castrated Goblin Chieftain offers Genuine Heartfelt Reverence.]
[The Goblin Group offers Genuine Heartfelt Reverence.]
Such a message floated above the Manmajeon.
‘Genuine reverence?’
So they weren’t sincere before.
At first, Lee Kanghan regarded the message with indifferent eyes.
[Celestial Demon Physique trait is enhanced.]
[Celestial Demon Divine Art duration increases.]
[Skill “Celestial Demon Heaven Myriad Demon Prostration” is enhanced.]
But seeing the messages that followed, his eyes went wide.
‘Oh…… genuine reverence!!!’
Suddenly, the 40,000 TP didn’t feel wasted at all.
Right.
When you bring someone to the Manmajeon, you have to feed them.
You can’t just let them starve to death, even if they’re goblins.
Lee Kanghan broke into a satisfied smile.
[When receiving worship from your own kind, the effect is amplified.]
From the enhanced skill.
An unexpected message appeared.
‘……Your own kind?’
They wanted him to be worshipped by humans?
Wait—this works on people too, not just monsters?
But.
‘How am I supposed to get people to bow down to me?’
As Lee Kanghan blinked at the unforeseen message.
Ding-dong. Ding-dong.
Just then, the doorbell chimed.
I’d barely touched the Manmajeon before it was already time for my friend to arrive.
Lee Kanghan moved to greet him at the door.
‘Ah. Perfect timing—someone’s come to kneel before me.’
He smiled at the thought of Kim Jooyoung showing up so opportunely.
* * *
“……So that’s the thing.”
Lee Kanghan’s best friend, Kim Jooyoung.
“You want me to bow? Are you out of your mind?”
The moment he heard the story, he let loose a string of curses.
“Man, what’s so great about friendship?”
“What the hell—you actually want me to do that? The Celestial Demon Heaven Myriad Demon Prostration?”
“That comes after the first part.”
“No way, buddy.”
“I’ll buy you drinks. Just try it once.”
Scratch, scratch.
At that, Kim Jooyoung scratched his head for a moment.
“Look, as much as I love booze……”
“Foreign liquor. You pick it, and I’ll pay right away.”
Hearing that he’d buy imported spirits, Kim Jooyoung glanced around the room.
“I can do it here?”
“Yeah. Well, it’d be better if you put genuine heartfelt reverence into it.”
“You bought me off—what genuine feeling are you talking about?”
Yet even as he grumbled like that,
“Celestial Demon Heaven Myriad Demon Prostration!”
he shouted it out loud enough and threw himself into a full bow.
[You have received reverence from fellow human Kim Jooyoung.]
[This reverence contains no fear. The effect of Celestial Demon Heaven Myriad Demon Prostration is halved.]
[The cooldown for Celestial Demon Divine Art has been reduced by 1 minute.]
‘One minute?’
Wow.
That’s pretty stingy.
Wait—is there no stacking bonus?
“Hey, do it one more time.”
“Two bottles, you bastard. Celestial Demon Heaven Myriad Demon Prostration!”
So Kim Jooyoung bowed again, but
[This being has already offered reverence.]
[Cooldown remaining: 23:59:50]
Just like with the Castrated Goblin Chieftain, the reverence cooldown was one day.
‘Huh. When the goblin worshipped me, it cut five minutes off.’
Probably because of that message about the reverence containing no fear.
Maybe reverence bought with money wasn’t valued as highly?
‘So it’s either fear or genuine devotion—those are the paths to power.’
Is this how a Celestial Demon survives in this world?
As Lee Kanghan pondered the mechanics of the Celestial Demon Heaven Myriad Demon Prostration while reading the messages,
“So, did it work?”
“Nah. No genuine heart in it, so not much.”
“Really? But you’re still buying the drinks, right?”
“A promise is a promise. Let’s go.”
Saying he wouldn’t spend extra since it didn’t produce results,
Kim Jooyoung picked out two bottles of whisky from a nearby convenience store.
“Ah, nothing beats Saturday—afternoon drinking and all.”
“It was Saturday?”
“You still have no sense of time.”
The two of them set out drinks in Lee Kanghan’s living room.
“So, Celestial Demon, what’s the full story?”
“Nothing special—I just suddenly got the Celestial Demon Physique trait.”
“Tch…… that looks like a broken trait if I’ve ever seen one. You hit the lottery or something?”
Along with Lee Kanghan’s trait,
they began to discuss matters related to the Infinite Tower.
It was mostly Lee Kanghan who asked questions.
“Channel creation rights? Those cost 50,000 TP — you’ve already won the lottery twice over.”
“Is opening a TowerTube Channel really that expensive?”
“Yeah. We can’t let just anyone in. TowerTube is an incredibly advanced streaming channel, after all.”
As he spoke, Kim Jooyoung glanced sideways at Lee Kanghan.
“Look, if money gets tight, you could always sell it… but if I were you, I’d open the channel. You’ve got to row when the tide comes in.”
“Hmm.”
“Ask me anything you want. I’ll point you toward decent guilds too — just not our company.”
Kim Jooyoung, never once recommending his own firm.
“Oh yeah. What level are you?”
“I’m 13.”
“Once you hit Level 10, the Guild System should unlock. When you tap that, guilds will send you contract proposals. Since you mentioned your name on the broadcast yesterday, there might already be some offers waiting for you.”
He suggested Lee Kanghan open the Guild System window and take a look.
After all, he’d already shared information — Lee Kanghan, 24 years old, unemployed.
Based on that, contract offers would likely come through.
“Is it really possible to get contract offers from just that much information? That’s surprising.”
Lee Kanghan nodded and opened the system window.
Just as Kim Jooyoung had said, a Guild System icon had appeared.
But.
Unlike the other system windows, the text was much dimmer.
When Lee Kanghan tapped it.
[The Celestial Demon bows to no one.]
[Only the founding of the Celestial Demon Church is possible.]
In the guild window.
A message appeared telling him not to join under anyone else.
“…I can’t join a guild?”
“Yeah. The Celestial Demon doesn’t bow to anyone.”
“Wow. What kind of trait is that? You really are the Celestial Demon.”
Kim Jooyoung shook his head in disbelief and drank his soju.
“Still, what a shame. The guild buff effects are pretty substantial.”
“Buff effects? What kind?”
“Well, things like increased experience and TP acquisition rates, stat enhancement effects — but the extra money and experience gains are bigger than the stat boosts.”
“That does seem unfortunate.”
“Plus, guilds handle corporate advertising deals and things like that for you. Players just focus on climbing the tower, but you won’t be able to do that.”
Well, what could be done about it.
He’d just have to live with what he had.
As Lee Kanghan was thinking this.
“Then again, why don’t you try founding the Celestial Demon Church? It might have different functions than regular guilds.”
Kim Jooyoung brought up the idea.
Should he try it once?
Tap. Tap.
Lee Kanghan pressed the guild creation option in the guild menu.
[Will you found the Celestial Demon Church?]
[100 million TP is required.]
As the condition for founding a guild.
A message appeared asking for 100 million TP.
‘100 million?’
He’d already spent 40,000 TP with trembling hands earlier.
100 million?
Converted to won, that’s 1.3 trillion, isn’t it?
When Lee Kanghan let out a hollow laugh, Kim Jooyoung looked at him.
“Why are you laughing?”
“They’re asking for 100 million.”
“Won?”
“No, TP.”
“Crazy…… With that money you could buy a building in Gangnam. Man, just go solo.”
Lee Kanghan was nodding at those words when.
Ziiiiing…….
[When the Manmajeon restores itself, the required TP will decrease.]
[Each time you upgrade the Manmajeon, the required TP will decrease.]
A message appeared saying that leveling up Manmajeon would lower the required TP cost.
‘So restoring Manmajeon is the priority.’
Right.
After all, I’m still a newbie who’s only cleared the Beginner’s Tower.
Let’s take it slow.
Lee Kanghan nodded
and continued the conversation about the Infinite Tower.
“How’s the industry doing these days?”
“The industry?”
At that question, Kim Jooyoung furrowed his brow.
“Did you hear about the Phoenix Guild collapsing?”
“Oh, yeah. I heard it at the distribution center.”
I remember hearing at the time
that they disbanded the guild domestically and were starting fresh in Saudi Arabia.
Kim Jooyoung sighed deeply and poured himself another drink.
“Locking the barn door after the horse has bolted…….”
“……?”
“That’s exactly the state our country is in right now.”
The Celestial Demon Shatters the Tower (Serial)
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