The Heavenly Demon Destroys the Tower - Chapter 71

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Chapter 71
“……Won’t fight?”
No audience, so he won’t fight.
What in the world was he talking about?
Lee Kang-han stared at the bronze statue with bewilderment.
Zing…….
Golden light shimmered from the crouching bronze statue of Nero.
A thick protective barrier materialized.
‘This won’t be easy to break through.’
Even when he’d charged while activating the Cheonma Divine Arts before.
Lee Kang-han had bounced off Nero’s barrier uselessly.
But the barrier that had just appeared was far thicker than what he’d seen then.
Breaking through it seemed difficult.
Meanwhile.
-This isn’t the Arena… it’s a human problem
-I thought we might see a record broken, but this isn’t that kind of fight
-Disappointed. Let’s go
In the chat window with fewer than a hundred viewers.
Upon seeing the current situation, it seemed like a matter of little interest.
Viewers began leaving the room one by one.
‘These people must be interested in maps like the Arena where multiple races can share records.’
Well, humans fighting among themselves.
That’s your business—why should we care?
As the already-sparse audience disappeared further.
[No…… the few spectators we had are leaving!!! You dared challenge me with mere star power like that!?]
From within the golden barrier, Nero lectured Lee Kang-han.
Zing…….
He amplified the barrier’s thickness even further.
‘Breaking through that today is impossible.’
The duration of his Cheonma Divine Arts activation was almost spent.
He’d used a lot of the Heavenly Sword and the Sacred Flame earlier too.
Rather than push himself in combat, Lee Kang-han looked around the surroundings.
‘Since it’s come to this, I should explore the map before this ends.’
The map name for B2 was “Golden Palace.”
Right now he was facing off against that giant bronze statue in what looked like a garden.
But if he moved away from the center of the garden toward the edges, a palace would appear.
Lee Kang-han intended to explore that area.
Whoosh!
He dashed toward the palace.
[Hey, where are you going!!!]
Nero, still crouched down, shouted after the departing Lee Kang-han.
[……I never know what rhythm to follow with him. He’s an exhausting opponent.]
“Tell me about it. That guy talks too much.”
[Truly. But this place certainly lives up to its name—it’s quite lavish.]
The ghost of Shin Nyeo, who had followed Lee Kang-han.
Remarked as she gazed at the gold-plated palace walls.
Then.
[Ah, that’s right.]
She made a suggestion.
[What if you summon those thieving monsters to collect the gold?]
“Thieving monsters? You mean Goblins?”
[Yes. Those were harvesting gold from the golden statue earlier.]
Lee Kang-han looked around at her words.
Walls plated in gold.
Statues displayed lavishly and artistic paintings drawn on the walls.
There were many valuable-looking items to observe one by one.
‘Speaking of gold, the shattered statue from the Columbus area was worth more.’
Still, it never hurts to try.
Might as well summon them.
As Lee Kang-han summoned the Goblins en masse.
“Praise the Heavenly Demon! Blessings upon the Demon Realm!”
The Goblin Chief dropped into a deep bow the moment he emerged.
“Master! I was just separating and assessing the value of the golden treasures—I’ll have everything processed quickly, so please grant me a moment!”
Mistaking the summons for impatience over the delayed tribute,
he rushed to offer his excuses about the work in progress.
“That’s not why I called you.”
“Ah. Is that so……?”
“I wanted to see if there’s anything here worth taking.”
At those words,
the Goblin Chief’s expression shifted entirely as he surveyed the chamber.
“Hmm… Most of the gold is merely gilded, but these artworks do appear to hold market value.”
“Is that so?”
“Our Black Market has quite a following for exotic art pieces. Though I should warn you, moving them may take some time……”
“Time isn’t an issue. Grab whatever looks worthwhile. I won’t be staying long anyway.”
“Understood! You lot, start with the statues!”
At Lee Kang-han’s command,
the chief merrily directed his goblins toward what was to be plundered.
[You idiot! I told you to bring an audience, not a band of thieves!!!]
[Stop this foolishness and return to the garden at once!!!]
From deep within the garden’s heart, as if detecting the goblins’ larceny,
Nero’s furious bellow reached this far.
‘As if. He’s stuck behind that barrier anyway.’
Lee Kang-han dismissed the shout
and began searching the Golden Palace for anything else worth claiming.
‘These statues won’t fit in my inventory.’
The goblins managed fine enough,
but the statues wouldn’t go into Lee Kang-han’s inventory.
Should he look for something smaller instead?
With that thought, Lee Kang-han reached toward a jeweled ornament set into the wall.
[This is a precious metal that cannot be stored in your inventory.]
[You have acquired 1,000 TP.]
The jeweled ornament vanished from his palm,
converted instead into TP.
‘One thousand TP for something that looked far more elaborate and valuable than that. Seems underpriced.’
Still, the automatic conversion was convenient.
Why not collect everything while he was at it?
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Lee Kang-han began systematically stripping every precious metal from the Golden Palace.
[You wretch……!]
[How dare you desecrate my palace……!!!]
Nero’s voice erupted from beyond the walls.
[I can bear this no longer!!! You shall face execution!!!]
Rumble-rumble-rumble……!
The ground shook violently.
Lee Kang-han kept his footing with ease,
“Kyaaaah……!”
but the goblins gathering statues were sent tumbling,
thrown about by the earthquake’s powerful tremor.
‘To shake the ground like this… he’s considerably strong.’
Lee Kang-han recognized the force behind it was no trivial matter.
Crack-crack-boom!
A section of the Golden Palace’s wall collapsed,
“Gaaaahhh!”
Burst-burst-burst!
A massive bronze arm swept down, detonating the prostrate goblins in sequence.
“Ugh… u-kyaahhh……!”
The Goblin Chief rolled frantically across the floor, barely managing to survive.
‘Hmm……? The arm is larger?’
Lee Kang-han noticed the bronze arm was now considerably bigger than when he’d seen it before.
Swoosh!
He stepped outside to check for himself.
Nero’s bronze statue had grown several times larger than before.
Screeeech……!
It loomed overhead, belching smoke.
[You thief! Summon the audience at once……! Otherwise, I’ll judge you here and now!]
“Still harping on about the audience?”
Even here, Nero’s bronze statue demanded the audience be gathered.
At the sheer persistence of it, Lee Kang-han clicked his tongue.
Ding.
Before his eyes.
[Your time to remain in the First Tower has expired.]
A message appeared announcing the end of his stay.
‘I was here longer than I thought.’
He’d definitely leveled up more this time around.
His stay was far longer than the last visit.
[Returning to your original world.]
The return message flashed.
Lee Kang-han’s body turned transparent in an instant.
[You thief……! I told you to summon the audience, and you flee!]
Whoosh!
The bronze statue of Nero threw a massive fist toward him.
Crack……!
A crimson portal opened above Lee Kang-han’s head.
And swallowed him inside.
[Until next time, sir. It was an honor.]
With Shin Nyeo’s courteous farewell as his last memory.
Lee Kang-han ended his journey through the First Tower.
And returned home.
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“Phew.”
Back at home, Lee Kang-han exhaled quietly.
‘So Columbus was replaced by Nero.’
Columbus had a treacherous map, sure.
But when it came to direct confrontation, he hadn’t felt all that formidable.
This time, Nero—the bronze statue confronting him on B2—had definitely felt like genuine power.
Of course.
‘It felt stronger because I raided the palace without bothering to summon the audience, but still.’
Would things play out differently if he followed the orthodox approach—summoning the audience first?
As Lee Kang-han pondered Nero’s combat patterns.
He remembered something he’d meant to search for online earlier.
‘Right. The feathered serpent, the smoking mirror, and the southern hummingbird.’
The sealed Constellations bearing those peculiar names.
Since they were the ones he’d assigned the newly created Holy Power stat to, giving each a point.
Lee Kang-han remembered their names with perfect clarity.
He typed the names into a search engine.
“Ah…… Gods from Aztec mythology?”
The three Constellations’ names came up as Quetzalcoatl, Tezcatlipoca, and Uitzilopochtli.
The names sounded unfamiliar to his ear.
But reading the descriptions, all three seemed to be deities of considerable significance in Aztec mythology.
‘Gods of this caliber were gathering dust in seals down there.’
Based on the descriptions alone, they seemed almost like creator deities.
Lee Kang-han recalled the three Constellations that had been inside the box.
And suddenly, words Columbus had spoken came back to him.
—I am told I am a sinner who destroyed a certain ‘possibility’.
Columbus had lamented, unable to understand why he was the Warden of Greed.
He spoke of his own ‘sin’.
Back then, Lee Kang-han had no inkling what possibility Columbus meant.
‘Could those Constellations be connected to it somehow?’
Lee Kang-han thought of the three Constellations sealed in the hidden place on B1.
And wove their existence into Columbus’s words.
As the discovery of the new continent swept away the natives,
their “mythology” vanished right alongside them.
Could Columbus’s erasure of that possibility be connected to those Constellations?
‘Well… for now, it’s still purely speculation.’
Lee Kang-han turned over several possibilities in his mind
before realizing this was a problem that couldn’t be solved with his current information.
‘Right. Let me focus on the present for now.’
With the knowledge he possessed,
drawing any meaningful conclusion would be difficult.
So Lee Kang-han decided to organize what he’d obtained from his visit to the First Tower today.
‘First, the Legendary Adventurer’s Eye… that was quite a solid reward.’
That choosing the Legendary Adventurer’s Eye from among the three rewards had been an excellent decision became clear
after he left the Dark Sea map and released the Constellations.
From now on, whenever he discovered hidden locations or Clear Conditions this way,
the Legendary Adventurer’s Eye would continue to prove useful.
‘But the Holy Power… I got it, sure, but I have no idea what it does.’
There were four basic stat types in total.
Strength, Agility, Vitality, and Magic Power.
Besides these four, other stats rarely appeared in ordinary cases,
though he’d heard that occasionally, special properties could cause stat names to change.
“Holy Power doesn’t show up in any search results.”
In most games, Holy Power was an ability typically granted to healers,
but since the Tower of Infinity was fundamentally designed for solo play,
there was no “Healer” class.
In the Tower, you had to climb through sheer personal strength,
and a class dedicated solely to healing would struggle to defeat monsters alone and ascend.
‘There might be classes like Paladin, but they didn’t have a Holy Power stat either.’
No matter how much he searched, the “Holy Power” stat simply didn’t exist.
After searching for a while without finding an answer, Lee Kang-han gave up.
Instead,
‘I should check the Demon Realm Territory.’
The Spirit of Heavenly Sword had said that quite a bit of Sacred Flame had been consumed from the Heavenly Sword.
He needed to see how long it would take to replenish it.
As Lee Kang-han thought this and opened the Demon Realm Territory,
a soft crackling sound erupted—!
At the heart of the Demon Realm Territory,
the Sacred Flame burned far more intensely than when he’d last seen it.
‘The firepower increased?’
But the Spirit of Heavenly Sword had definitely said it consumed quite a bit of the Sacred Flame’s power…
Lee Kang-han pressed the Sacred Flame with a puzzled expression,
and its status appeared before him.
[Sacred Flame]
The fire that became the origin of the Heavenly Demon Cult.
When the Player challenges the First Tower, the spark of the Sacred Flame is transmitted anew to the Cheonma.
As the flame grows stronger, the functions of the Demon Realm Territory are restored,
and the TP cost required to establish the “Heavenly Demon Cult” is greatly reduced.
Current status: “Faint Flame”.
The Player has obtained Holy Power.
The firepower of the Sacred Flame increases proportionally with the Holy Power stat.
Through Holy Power, the TP cost required to establish the “Heavenly Demon Cult” is greatly reduced.
‘Ah… so that’s what the Holy Power effect was.’
He’d wondered what Holy Power was for,
never imagining it would act so directly on the Sacred Flame.
Even with a stat of only 1, the enhancement seemed substantial,
and the Sacred Flame burned more fiercely than ever before.
‘And the TP cost for establishing the Heavenly Demon Cult is dropping too.’
Last time, the cost of founding the Heavenly Demon Cult had been reduced to fifty million TP.
If it dropped further, how much would it be?
Lee Kang-han opened the guild window
and pressed the option to establish a guild.
So then.
[‘Will you establish the Heavenly Demon Cult?’]
[20 million TP is required.]
The founding cost, which had once stood at 50 million,
had now dwindled to 20 million.
20 million meant……
“Can I actually… establish it?”
The Heavenly Demon Shatters the Tower (Serialized)
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