The Heavenly Demon Destroys the Tower - Chapter 74

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Chapter 74
[What……!]
[A Barrier? A Barrier?]
The Chinese intelligence agents gasped at the sight of the protective shield shimmering into existence.
They had all become aware of such shields through TowerTube after the Infinite Tower became widespread, but.
They had never dreamed it could be activated in the real world.
[……Switch ammunition! Live rounds!]
Meanwhile.
A scarred woman—Director Jin—assessed the situation with cold precision.
She swapped her tranquilizer gun for a handgun.
The objective: destroy the Barrier.
[Once the Barrier breaks, cease fire immediately.]
She had already accounted for what would happen after the Barrier shattered, issuing the order to her agents, but.
“……What. Chinese?”
Lee Kang-han glared at the intruders with a chilling gaze.
Whoosh!
Then he charged straight at the cluster of agents.
[Th-the speed……!]
Bang! Bang!
Even with suppressors attached, the gunshots rang out with violent force.
The agents opened fire at Lee Kang-han as he rushed toward them, but.
Ping!
The Barrier proved sturdier than expected, deflecting every bullet that flew its way.
And in the same instant.
Crack!
Lee Kang-han seized one of the agents.
Slam!
He drove him hard into the floor.
“Ugh, gah…….”
Despite considerable training, the agent was incapacitated in a single blow.
Blood trickled from the impact point on the floor where his head had struck.
An impact of that magnitude—he might not be incapacitated at all. He might be dead.
But.
‘There’s no time to worry about that now.’
Against an opponent wielding guns.
Fretting over whether someone’s skull cracks was a luxury he couldn’t afford.
Lee Kang-han pressed forward with everything he had.
[Insane……! Far too fast!]
[How is he using Player abilities in reality?!]
[Shoot, shoot!]
Bang! Bang!
Despite their return fire.
Lee Kang-han deflected every round while subduing the agents.
He moved like a lion that had thrown itself into a flock of sheep.
Director Jin bit her lip.
‘I expected superior physical ability, but this…… far transcends the bounds of humanity.’
She had anticipated strength.
That’s why she’d staked out his home in advance.
Why she had coordinated the tranquilizer fire at the optimal moment.
A concentration that could kill through shock if it hit an ordinary person.
But she had proceeded betting on the monstrous physical prowess of the ‘Heavenly Demon.’
Yet now.
That power, combined with a Barrier……!
Then.
‘Hm……?’
A flicker of interest crossed Director Jin’s eyes as she watched Lee Kang-han with growing dismay.
He was crushing the agents’ skulls while the Barrier enveloped him.
But whenever he reached out to grab an agent by the collar.
The Barrier would flicker and vanish at the point of contact.
‘If the Barrier blocks attacks from their side too…… it disappears briefly like that as a countermeasure.’
In that case, there had to be a way to strike back at the opponent.
It wasn’t as though there were no options at all.
Just as Director Jin settled her gaze with that thought.
Whoosh!
Lee Kang-han, having subdued all the remaining informants.
came charging toward her.
Even watching him with both eyes wide open, his speed was unbelievable.
“You’re the last one.”
Lee Kang-han said, extending his right hand.
The moment before his grip could close around her collar, Director Jin pulled out an Electric Shock Device.
Crackle-crackle-crackle!
The electric shock struck Lee Kang-han’s arm dead-on.
‘That’s it……!’
Director Jin’s gambit: exploiting the gap when the Barrier flickered away.
But.
“Hmm……?”
Lee Kang-han merely flinched for a moment.
“Quite the fighter, aren’t you.”
He furrowed his brow.
Crack!
His grip tightened around her collar even harder.
‘What? It definitely made contact……?’
She’d used a military-grade Electric Shock Device.
The kind no ordinary person could possibly endure.
How could this be happening?
Director Jin’s face drained of color in shock.
Swoosh.
With her body lifted into the air.
Bang! Bang!
Even harder than he’d struck the other informants.
she was punished against the floor, over and over.
“Agh…….”
With a low moan as her last sound.
Director Jin’s head fell slack.
“……Hmm. Dead, I suppose.”
Lee Kang-han released his grip on the scar-marked woman’s collar.
Then surveyed the room around him.
A glance was enough to count dozens of people.
Bleeding from their heads, they stained the floor.
Some were still breathing.
But far more lay limp than those who drew breath.
‘This was the first time anyone tried to shoot me, so I gave it everything I had.’
When he unleashed the full power of the Cheonma Divine Arts.
people died this easily.
‘It’s technically self-defense, but still…….’
What was he supposed to do with these people?
As Lee Kang-han looked down at the scattered bodies, his brow deepened in a furrow.
[The Heavenly Demon Divine Religion has been established.]
[Please designate an Outer Hall through which members may enter the Heavenly Demon Divine Religion.]
[Would you like to designate the current location as the Outer Hall?]
System messages that had been scrolling before his eyes finally registered.
‘I think I just kept hitting yes to the repeated prompts.’
With bullets flying everywhere, he’d had no time to read the system windows.
So he’d hit yes carelessly, and apparently this place had become the Outer Hall?
‘But how do you actually enter the Heavenly Demon Divine Religion from the Outer Hall?’
This living room, with the cracked skulls, seemed to be the Outer Hall now.
Yet there was no clear information on how to proceed from here.
to the Heavenly Demon Divine Religion.
Just then.
[Multiple candidates for ‘Lowest-Rank Initiate’ have been detected in the Outer Hall.]
[Will you accept 21 ‘humans’ as Lowest-Rank Initiates?]
A message regarding Lowest-Rank Initiates appeared.
* * *
“Lowest-Rank Initiates……?”
The Heavenly Demon Divine Religion guild.
It had cost an astronomical sum to create, so it didn’t seem like an ordinary guild.
I had no idea it had this function.
The moment Lee Kang-han brought up Lowest-Rank Initiates.
Zing…….
An explanation of Lowest-Rank Initiates appeared.
[Lowest-Rank Initiate]
The lowest-ranking initiates recruited from the ‘Outer Hall’ of the Heavenly Demon Divine Religion.
In exchange for granting these individuals—those recently deceased or on the brink of death—a single chance at resurrection.
The revived will be eternally bound to the Heavenly Demon Divine Religion, serving as payment for their new life.
Upon accepting Lowest-Rank Initiates, the firepower of the ‘Holy Flame’ will be significantly consumed.
‘So they save people’s lives, but turn them into slaves of the Heavenly Demon Divine Religion.’
They call them Lowest-Rank Initiates.
But looking at it—eternally bound to serve—it’s just slavery, isn’t it?
Still, it might be better than death.
For those who’ve already fallen.
‘And for me too.’
It was self-defense, but I’d killed more than ten people. Remaining a ‘murderer’ in the eyes of the law.
It seemed better to accept them as Lowest-Rank Initiates and preserve their lives.
Lee Kang-han pressed yes to the message asking whether to accept them as Lowest-Rank Initiates.
Whoooosh……!
A massive crimson portal rose up from the center of the house’s living room.
Soft…….
One by one, people began to float upward, then were pulled into the portal.
As the last person—the woman he’d pressed down most forcefully—entered the portal.
Zing…….
The portal’s size shrank noticeably.
‘Hmm. I should step through myself.’
That portal certainly seemed to lead to the Heavenly Demon Divine Religion.
As the guild’s founder, I needed to go in and verify.
With that thought, Lee Kang-han stepped into the portal.
Then.
“……Ch-chi? Cheonma?”
On the other side of the portal.
Karana’s face appeared first, her expression bewildered.
‘Karana being here means…….’
Swiftly.
Lee Kang-han looked around the surroundings.
A world shrouded in thick darkness.
Yet at its center, pure white flames rose high into the air.
And beside those flames, a sword of light was planted.
‘Even Cheon Myeong-ru…….’
This place.
The heart of the Palace of Ten Thousand Demons.
The region where the Holy Flame exists.
‘So the Palace of Ten Thousand Demons was the Heavenly Demon Divine Religion all along.’
They’d mentioned that the Holy Flame’s firepower would be consumed upon accepting Lowest-Rank Initiates.
I’d had my suspicions.
But arriving at the Palace of Ten Thousand Demons for real—the sensation was peculiar.
Then.
“Chi-chi. Cheonma, what’s happening? Who are those humans?”
Karana pointed toward the Holy Flame, her expression alarmed.
And there.
The twenty-one people floating around the Holy Flame.
Crackle crackle……!
Were burning, engulfed in pure white flames.
‘No… they said rebirth was possible, and instead they’re being cremated.’
But looking more closely.
Though their bodies were engulfed in flame, the flesh itself seemed perfectly intact.
Those who had been burning around the Holy Flame.
[Lowest-Rank Initiates accepted.]
[Twenty-one Lowest-Rank Initiates now belong to the Palace of Ten Thousand Demons.]
[Holy Flame output decreases sharply.]
The moment these messages appeared.
Whoosh.
The twenty-one figures descended back to the ground.
Then.
“Ugh, u-uh…?”
“What? How am I alive…?”
People slowly regaining consciousness one by one.
‘Strange. They’re speaking Chinese, but it’s being translated in real time.’
They were definitely speaking Chinese to each other.
Yet her mind automatically rendered the meaning—she understood it instantly.
It was as if incorporating a race into the Palace of Ten Thousand Demons granted understanding of that race’s language.
The speech of the ‘Lowest-Rank Initiates’ came through with the same simultaneous interpretation.
“Where exactly is this place?”
“Wait… those can’t be elves, can they?!”
“The Heavenly Demon is over there!”
“Then this place… it belongs to the Heavenly Demon?”
Meanwhile.
Those surveying their surroundings spotted Lee Kang-han and Karana.
They began to suspect this place was connected to the Heavenly Demon.
But before they could speak further.
Sizzzzzzzzz!
“Ngh, ngh-ahhhhh!”
“M-my forehead!”
As their foreheads burned.
Characters began etching themselves in real time.
Just as all members of the Palace of Ten Thousand Demons bore the character for Demon on their brows.
On their foreheads.
The characters for Lowest-Rank were inscribed.
Those wracked with intense pain curled their bodies on the ground for a while.
“Guh, g-uhhhhh!”
“Lowest-Rank…?”
“What—what in the world have you done, Heavenly Demon?!”
Seeing the characters inscribed on each other’s foreheads.
They approached Lee Kang-han and pressed him for answers.
However.
[Lowest-Rank Initiates must not dare commit disrespect toward the Heavenly Demon.]
[Bone-Splitting Punishment is imposed.]
The moment these messages appeared simultaneously for Lee Kang-han and the one who had protested.
“Wh-what?! Ahhhhhhh!!!”
The man who had pointed fell to the ground.
His entire body swelled and contracted, swelled and contracted in rapid succession.
“Ahh, a-ahhh…! P-please… save me…!”
Despite being an elite member of a somewhat trained intelligence organization.
The pain was so overwhelming that tears streamed uncontrollably from his eyes.
The black clothes he wore tore apart as his body expanded and shrank repeatedly.
About ten minutes passed.
“Ugh, w-wheeze… wheeze…”
Still, at least his life was spared.
Tears and snot streaming, the man lay sprawled on the ground.
“M-monster…”
One of those watching muttered thus.
[Lowest-Rank Initiates must not dare commit disrespect toward the Heavenly Demon.]
[Bone-Splitting Punishment is imposed.]
“W-what? No, no, that’s all I meant—monsters, I only said monsters! I wasn’t being disrespectful!!! That’s… aaahhhhh!!!”
The same message appeared for him too.
Just like the earlier victim of the Bone-Splitting Punishment, he began convulsing across the floor.
His body swelling like a balloon, then shriveling, over and over again.
His screams echoed through the world.
“…….”
“…….”
The remaining informants pressed their lips shut.
They stared only at each other.
Every word spoken was branded disrespect.
They’d decided silence was the only way.
Then.
[A Lowest-Rank Initiate has failed to show proper deference to the Heavenly Demon.]
[The Bone-Splitting Punishment is hereby imposed.]
“N-no, what am I supposed to—!!! Aaaahhhhh!!!”
The third victim, accused of failing to show deference, bloated grotesquely.
‘I have to admit, the training system for Lowest-Rank Initiates is remarkably thorough……’
Even Lee Kang-han himself, the actual Heavenly Demon, was struggling to keep up.
The Heavenly Demon Divine Religion’s system for controlling Lowest-Rank Initiates was flawless.
While he was assessing the situation,
a grinding sound—
Jin, the department head, who had been clenching his teeth this whole time,
“……Long live the Heavenly Demon! Eternal glory to the Demon Realm!”
stepped forward and began prostrating himself before Lee Kang-han.
The Heavenly Demon Destroys the Tower (Serialization)
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