The Heavenly Demon Destroys the Tower - Chapter 75

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Episode 75
‘That woman…… she resisted until the very end.’
Through the gap in the barrier.
The woman who had tried to land any blow she could through the Electric Shock Device.
The scarred face that had been so striking—even after her revival through the Sacred Flame, she bore the marks unchanged.
She was now prostrating herself in submission before Lee Kang-han.
“Director…….”
“Cough……!”
And the moment she began to bow.
The lowest-rank believers who had worn expressions of pity.
“Don’t just stand there. If you don’t want to end up like that, show reverence to the Cheonma!”
At her command.
“Glory to the Cheonma, eternal submission to the Demon Realm…….”
They began to prostrate themselves one by one.
And unlike the three who had suffered the Ligature Punishment.
The rest of them no longer swelled with that grotesque deformation.
“……Phew.”
Seeing this, Director Jin let out a breath of relief.
“If I may ask, what’s happened to us? We were certain we were dead…….”
She posed the question to Lee Kang-han carefully.
“I chose to revive you as lowest-rank believers rather than leave you as corpses. Isn’t that the better option for you?”
“Ah…….”
So in the end, the Cheonma had saved their lives in exchange.
For living out their days here as lowest-rank believers.
As these people began to grasp the situation little by little following Lee Kang-han’s words.
“I have a question too. Do you all belong to the Chinese side?”
“That is…….”
“No, no! We are from North Korea……!”
In response to Lee Kang-han’s question.
A man stepped forward, his Korean awkward, attempting to conceal their identity as North Korean.
[A lowest-rank believer has dared to speak falsehood before the Cheonma.]
[Ligature Punishment is imposed.]
“What, what? How do you even know that……?!”
Becoming the victim of the fourth Ligature Punishment.
“Gaaaahhh!”
He convulsed across the ground.
“……You’re right.”
In a situation where even lies were instantly exposed.
Director Jin nodded with a grave expression.
“So you were planning to kidnap me since recruitment wouldn’t work.”
“Yes. I led that operation before receiving approval from my superiors. The party didn’t officially sanction it.”
“You’re saying there was no higher authorization for kidnapping me? I find that hard to believe.”
“If I had lied, I’d be suffering like that.”
Certainly, seeing how the system was enforcing punishment without mercy.
This woman must have been the one in charge.
‘But if she’s a director, isn’t that a high position? Her appearance is young—strange.’
Whether she had powerful backing.
Or possessed extraordinary ability.
When he’d subdued them at the house, she’d definitely been the most persistent in her resistance.
As Lee Kang-han stared at her intently.
Swift.
She suddenly dropped to one knee.
“The kidnapping attempt—though the methods were perhaps extreme—was carried out for the sake of the Cheonma and the Demon God Cult.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“The Demon God Cult’s headquarters is located in our China.”
The Demon God Cult’s headquarters?
Could she be referring to where the Demon God Cult originally operated?
‘But then again, did it actually exist in reality?’
He’d heard that some martial sects like the Shaolin Temple actually do exist.
But they wouldn’t have been using inner energy like this.
The Demon God Cult wasn’t actually just a fictional organization, was it?
Lee Kang-han regarded Jin, the director, with a suspicious gaze.
She bowed her head deeply to him.
“I know the actual location of the Demon God Cult.”
“You do?”
“Yes. The ruins of the destroyed Demon God Cult remain there. If the Demon Lord were to go to that place, you could achieve something far greater.”
“Hmm.”
After her words ended, he waited a moment.
Seeing her condition untouched, it didn’t seem like she was lying.
Or perhaps.
‘Even if the information were actually false, if she herself believes it to be true, she might escape punishment.’
That man who’d spoken broken Korean earlier—his lie was obvious to anyone.
But someone like Director Jin, who carried such conviction herself—
the system might not punish them.
It was around the time Lee Kang-han was contemplating which cases would result in Ligature Punishment and which wouldn’t.
“The Demon God Cult actually existed……?”
“I find it hard to believe.”
“Director, how do you even know that?”
The informants behind them were murmuring quietly as they listened to this revelation.
It seemed the actual location of the Demon God Cult
was information only the director possessed.
“Where is it?”
“It lies in a secret place within the Tianshan Mountain Range. If the Demon Lord were to go to China, I would guide you there personally.”
“Go to the very country that attempted to abduct me? Why would I? You said there’s nothing but ruins there anyway.”
“However… if the Demon Lord were to go, the Sacred Flame that had been extinguished at the heart of the Demon God Cult would ignite once more. And should the Sacred Flame burn again, the Demon God Cult itself would be reborn.”
What is this woman?
‘She seems to know something about the Sacred Flame.’
TowerTube hadn’t really discussed Sacred Flame matters much, if at all.
Especially the information that the Sacred Flame exists at the heart of the Demon God Cult—
there’s no way to know that unless one opens the Demon Realm Territory itself, is there?
And where did she learn that igniting it would resurrect the Demon God Cult?
Lee Kang-han tilted his head and slowly opened his mouth.
“But there’s no need to go all that way to revive the Sacred Flame.”
“I… beg your pardon……?”
“It’s already here.”
“It’s… here……?”
Director Jin, who had looked around in shock at his words,
suddenly
caught sight of it while reviving twenty-one people—
a white flame, its spark dimmed.
“Ah. Could that possibly be… the Sacred Flame……?!”
“Yes.”
“That’s why the dead were able to be brought back to life……!”
Upon hearing Lee Kang-han’s answer, the light in her eyes transformed,
and she bolted forward
in a sudden sprint toward the flame.
Then,
“Sacred Flame! The true heir of the Cult has returned!”
Standing before the flame, Director Jin
had referred to herself as the ‘true heir.’
* * *
Jin Ga-hyeon, director of Department 1014 under the National Security Bureau.
That she had risen to the position of director at such a young age
was due to a remarkable record: a 100% mission success rate.
And the foundation beneath this 100% success rate lay in
physical abilities that far exceeded those of trained men,
coupled with a cold, calculating judgment.
And yet.
‘That’s the Sacred Flame……!’
A long-cherished wish passed down through her family line.
The moment she saw the Sacred Flame materialize before her eyes, tangible and real.
She lost her composure entirely.
In truth, if she had thought it through calmly.
She need not have cried out in front of the Demon Lord.
She could have revealed herself later, finding the right moment.
“Descendant of the Cheon Clan, I am Jin Ga-hyeon, and I command this: restore the position of Demon Lord to its true heir!”
She possessed some unshakeable certainty that the Sacred Flame would obey her words.
So she spoke her real name before the flames.
All the restraint, all the composure she had shown until then vanished.
The director’s figure, crying out with such passion before the Sacred Flame—
“What…?”
“D-director? What is this sudden outburst?”
Her subordinates from Department 1014 found it utterly unfamiliar.
As they exchanged bewildered glances among themselves.
‘What’s gotten into her?’
Lee Kang-han, who had watched the director bolt forward without warning, found himself wondering.
‘The Cheon Clan?’
Hearing her speak of herself as belonging to the Cheon Clan.
He thought of Shin Nyeo and Cheon Se-ran.
The Cheon Clan—that was the surname of the family that once reigned as Demon Lords in the ancient Demon God Cult. She’d mentioned wondering if a Cheon descendant had discovered the path into the Demon Realm Territory.
She had certainly said the Cheon Clan was the Demon Lord’s surname.
Though she herself seemed unaware that she actually bore that name.
In any case.
‘Is this woman a descendant of that Cheon Clan?’
This needed to be suppressed immediately.
If this went wrong.
It could end in complete disaster.
As Lee Kang-han moved to restrain Jin Ga-hyeon with cold eyes.
Whoooosh—!
“Gh-ghaaaah—!”
Jin Ga-hyeon’s body was suddenly engulfed and consumed by a surge of white flames.
“S-Sacred Flame, are you obeying my command?”
At first, her face had been flooded with joy.
As she gazed upon the flames wrapping her body.
[Your surname is meaningless.]
“What…? That cannot be. The Sacred Flame obeys the commands of the Cheon line…”
Seeing the message appear before her eyes, Jin Ga-hyeon fell into despair.
No.
This was completely opposite to what her father and grandfather had told her.
“You said it clearly—the Sacred Flame was the very foundation of the Cheon Clan… that it would always obey our words…!”
[This is distorted information. The Cheon Clan has no value whatsoever.]
And then.
Whoooosh—!
Jin Ga-hyeon was completely consumed by the flames of the Sacred Flame.
‘Hmm… the Sacred Flame cut her off right there.’
So even as a descendant of the Cheon Clan, she amounted to nothing.
As Lee Kang-han saw the same message appear before his own eyes, he grasped the situation.
Ding.
[A Lowest-rank Believer has committed the grave sin of Betrayal of the Demon Cult.]
[Shall the Lowest-rank Believer ‘Jin Ga-hyeon’ be subjected to Dismemberment Execution?]
Before his eyes appeared both the charge of Betrayal of the Demon Cult.
And a message asking whether to carry out Dismemberment Execution.
‘Dismemberment Execution means… severing all four limbs, doesn’t it?’
Whereas the others received only Ligature Punishment.
But because she dared demand that the Sacred Flame hand over the Demon Lord’s position, a harsher penalty was applied.
Still.
“I can’t execute her just now. I should at least hear her story—descendant of the Demon Lord, and all that.”
[Dismemberment Execution is stayed.]
[Ligature Punishment is applied.]
And so the execution was stayed for now.
A system message announcing Ligature Punishment.
“I need to hear what it’s saying first.”
[The crime committed by Lowest-rank Believer Jin Ga-hyeon is too grave. Ligature Punishment must be carried out beforehand.]
Even as Lee Kang-han spoke, a system message appeared insisting that punishment be administered immediately.
‘But this doesn’t feel like a neutral system message at all.’
Not a value-neutral notification from the system.
Rather, it felt as though something—some will—was embedded in it.
Lee Kang-han tilted his head and asked about this.
“Wait, who’s sending these messages? This doesn’t feel like a system message.”
[The will of the Sacred Flame. This is the Oracle of Fire.]
“Ah. The Oracle of Fire?”
The Oracle of Fire—one of the reasons Shin Nyeo had been assigned to the Sacred Flame.
It certainly seemed like a message Shin Nyeo would interpret.
But now that the Demon Lord Lee Kang-han had entered the Demon Realm Territory directly,
the Sacred Flame’s messages were appearing to him intuitively.
“We’ll discuss the Ligature Punishment after we’re done talking.”
[Understood. However, the time available for you to remain in the Demon Realm Territory is limited. Please be mindful of this constraint.]
“There’s a time limit on me?”
After spending all that money to establish the Demon God Cult Guild,
the owner himself can’t stay long?
Lee Kang-han tilted his head in confusion.
[If you continue to remain in the Demon Realm Territory, all of the Sacred Flame will be absorbed into you. Currently, the Sacred Flame’s power is weak, so the centripetal force drawing it toward you is stronger.]
The Sacred Flame explained the reason.
“What happens if the Sacred Flame is absorbed?”
[If you absorb the Sacred Flame now, your Demon Lord Body will immediately rise to Rank B. However, there will be no way to obtain the Sacred Flame again. The functions of the Demon Realm Territory will be diminished, and the Guild System will cease to operate normally.]
“And if I leave it?”
[If you continue to strengthen the Sacred Flame here, from a long-term perspective you will be able to raise your Demon Lord Body to an even higher Rank. The Demon Realm Territory and Guild System will function normally.]
There’s no way I’m going to sacrifice everything
just to raise my Demon Lord Body to Rank B right now.
“Understood. Let me know when the time’s up. In the meantime, I have some questions.”
[Very well.]
The moment Lee Kang-han finished speaking,
a soft thud echoed—then another.
Jin Ga-hyeon, who had been wrapped in the Sacred Flame, tumbled across the ground
and came to rest at Lee Kang-han’s feet.
“Hah… hah…”
Despite having been enveloped by the Sacred Flame for so long,
Jin Ga-hyeon bore not a single burn mark.
Yet the psychological trauma was clearly profound.
“This can’t be… it shouldn’t be like this…”
With both arms wrapped tightly around herself,
she trembled violently from head to toe.
“Father promised… he said that if we only obtained the Sacred Flame, we could revive the cult and fulfill our clan’s long-cherished wish…”
“Hey, get a grip on yourself.”
Lee Kang-han spoke to her.
Her head snapped up.
“Lee Kang-han…!”
Jin Ga-hyeon glared at him with eyes brimming with venom.
The Demon Lord Breaks the Tower (Serialized)
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