The Heavenly Demon Destroys the Tower - Chapter 76

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Chapter 76
Until just moments ago, she’d kept calling him the Heavenly Demon.
Now Cheon Ga-hyeon spoke his name—Lee Kang-han—as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
‘Strange how hearing it from her makes it feel almost welcome.’
Right as that thought crossed his mind.
She erupted.
“You have no right to be the Heavenly Demon! We of the Cheon Clan are the true Heavenly Demon bloodline—! That position was never meant for someone like you!”
She clung to the Heavenly Demon position as though it still belonged to her.
As though it were the birthright of the Cheon Clan alone.
“Yeah? Too bad it didn’t work out that way.”
Lee Kang-han merely shrugged.
A low, bitter laugh escaped her.
“Forget that—tell me what you know about the Heavenly Demon Religion. Your clan, everything. I’ve got questions.”
“Shut your mouth! Do you really think I’d tell the truth to someone who stole the Heavenly Demon’s seat?”
Cheon Ga-hyeon dug in her heels.
Her bowing and scraping just moments ago, the way she’d bent on her knees to survive—
it had all been a gamble to prove herself a true member of the Heavenly Demon bloodline before Seongwhwa.
Now that Seongwhwa had rejected her claim,
she no longer maintained that submissive posture.
Quite the opposite.
“Hand it over right now! The Heavenly Demon position is not yours! Do you have any idea how hard we of the Cheon Clan have struggled to hold on this long—?”
She’d lost her nerve entirely, now demanding the position as though it were still hers by right.
“An untaught fool who doesn’t even know the incantations of the Cheonma Divine Arts, gathering strength only because of the system—!”
She was essentially saying that his rise to Heavenly Demon status was nothing but the system’s doing.
‘She seems to know about the Heavenly Demon Religion itself, but nothing about the true Heavenly Demon technique.’
That explained why she kept harping on about system power alone.
Lee Kang-han studied the manic gleam in Cheon Ga-hyeon’s eyes.
“You’re in no state to have a conversation. Looks like you need some Muscle and Bone Torture before we can talk.”
[Agreed.]
“Ha—even if you torture me, what makes you think I’d spill the secrets of the Cheonma Divine Arts?”
At his mention of Muscle and Bone Torture,
Cheon Ga-hyeon shrieked with renewed venom.
Yet.
“I already know the incantation.”
“…What?”
“‘In the beginning, there was no distinction between the Righteous, the Wicked, and the Demonic’—that’s how it starts, isn’t it?”
“No, that—!”
The moment Lee Kang-han recited the opening lines of the true Cheonma Divine Arts incantation,
her face went slack with shock.
“How did you…?”
[Master, two minutes remaining.]
“Two minutes won’t get me any meaningful information.”
Smoothly,
Lee Kang-han turned his gaze away from the half-stunned Cheon Ga-hyeon.
“What about these people?”
[Through the Ten Thousand Demons Map function, you can issue orders to them at any time. They would serve well as slaves of the Religion.]
“Slaves? In the twenty-first century, no less.”
[If the term ‘slave’ is uncomfortable, I shall call them Lowest-rank Believers instead.]
Fair enough.
The terminology ought to suit the modern age, at least.
“Right. Let’s call them Lowest-rank Believers instead of anything crude like that.”
[Understood, Master.]
“Time to move on then.”
With that,
Lee Kang-han approached Karana, who’d been watching from a distance with startled eyes.
“Some unwanted guests showed up, but they’re Lowest-rank Believers now, so feel free to use them as you see fit.”
“Kree—even though they’re human? That’s all right?”
“They tried to kidnap me, so what’s the problem?”
“Understood. I’ll keep an eye on them to make sure they don’t step out of line. Kree.”
Now there was an answer he could rely on.
Lee Kang-han nodded and waved his hand.
“Then I’ll leave Seongwhwa in your care as things stand. I’ll drop by from time to time.”
“Hiss…… Understood.”
With that, his parting with Karana was complete.
A faint shimmer.
‘The spirit of the Heavenly Sword must be sleeping through all this chaos.’
He’d thought he might as well greet her while he was at it.
But Lee Kang-han saw the blade of light near Seongwhwa, utterly still.
He decided it was time to head back.
“Well then, I’ll be going.”
[I shall open a portal.]
Whoooosh……!
A crimson portal bloomed before Lee Kang-han.
Just as he was about to step through.
“Hngh……!”
Cheon Ga-hyeon, who had been lying on the ground in a daze.
Suddenly sprang to her feet and sprinted full-force toward the portal.
One.
Ping!
As though hitting a wall.
She bounced back, unable to cross into the portal.
“Even this…… won’t work…….”
Even as she rolled across the floor.
Her eyes, brimming with venom, darted between Lee Kang-han and the portal.
She certainly possessed a willpower that was far from ordinary.
“That one needs to have some of that poison wrung out of her.”
[Applying Muscle and Bone Torture to Cheon Ga-hyeon.]
The moment Lee Kang-han finished speaking, Seongwhwa’s message appeared.
“W-what……?!”
Cheon Ga-hyeon’s body.
Began to swell in various places.
……
Unlike other victims of Muscle and Bone Torture.
She bit down hard on her lips, desperately trying not to cry out.
[I shall educate you thoroughly.]
Thud-thud-thuck……!
Sickening cracks emanated from Cheon Ga-hyeon’s body.
“Ugh…….”
Her face contorted more and more severely.
And her body began to thrash across the ground.
Muscle and Bone Torture.
It was taking hold.
‘Time to leave then.’
A faint shimmer.
Lee Kang-han swept his gaze across the remaining Lowest-rank Believers once more.
Then stepped straight into the portal.
Whereupon.
[Returning to the outer sanctum of the Heavenly Demon Religion.]
Whoooosh!
On the other side of the portal.
The familiar sights of home came into view.
* * *
‘First things first—I should turn on the lights.’
Click.
Back in the living room of his house, Lee Kang-han flicked on the lights.
Then.
Blood stains scattered across every surface caught his eye first.
Along with shattered teeth, scraps of flesh.
And the firearms they’d left behind were still soiling the interior.
‘Originally, there would have been several corpses here as well.’
If the attackers hadn’t become Lowest-rank Believers,
he might be contacting the government right now, wrestling with the problem of what to do with the bodies.
Lee Kang-han found himself thinking once more that designating them as Lowest-rank Believers had been the right call.
‘I need to clean this up.’
He stripped off his suit casually
and fetched a mop to start cleaning the living room.
‘These bastards really did bleed all over the place.’
The Chinese intelligence operatives who’d lain in ambush throughout the house—
having caved in each of their skulls one by one,
the place was starting to look like it needed a thorough scrubbing.
After mopping for a while, once Lee Kang-han had wiped away a reasonable amount of blood stains,
‘I’ll gather all the firearms in one spot.’
He collected dozens of pistols and ammunition—including a tranquilizer gun—in one corner of the living room.
He’d need to contact the government later to handle the disposal.
‘But even with a silencer, gunshots are pretty loud. Still, everything’s quiet.’
Even for a detached house,
you’d think gunfire like that would prompt a police call.
‘Is it not just my room that has good soundproofing—the whole house?’
Back when he was suffering from Tower Syndrome,
his family had moved from an apartment to a detached house because he’d screamed so much in his sleep.
He’d thought only his own room had been soundproofed,
but now he wondered if the entire house had been treated that way.
Well, the cleanup was done to a reasonable degree.
‘I should check on the Lowest-rank Believers’ status too.’
He opened the Ten Thousand Demons Map to verify that all twenty-one people were there.
Then—
in the center of the Ten Thousand Demons Map,
at the edge of the Seongwhwa Domain,
SD-rendered humans were clustered together in a little huddle.
Of course, except for one.
Cheon Ga-hyeon alone was puffed up like a balloon, wedged into a corner of the Seongwhwa Domain.
When he tapped on her,
[Cheon Ga-hyeon]
[Status: Muscle and Bone Torture in progress, Despair, Hopelessness, Distrust…….]
[A Lowest-rank Believer revived by Seongwhwa. Death will occur if she leaves the Seongwhwa Domain.]
As the message about Muscle and Bone Torture in progress appeared,
an additional line of text below it emerged.
‘The Seongwhwa Domain, huh.’
Where exactly does it begin and end?
Lee Kang-han tapped on Seongwhwa.
A circular boundary line appeared on the Ten Thousand Demons Map.
The brightened central area from where Seongwhwa had taken position appeared to be the Seongwhwa Domain itself.
‘So if they leave this area, they die.’
While the dead had indeed been revived through Seongwhwa,
it seemed the revival wasn’t complete.
Lee Kang-han nodded to himself and tapped on another person.
Then—
[Lowest-rank Believer #1]
[Lowest-rank Believer #2]
Instead of names appearing for these people,
they were numbered #1, #2, like goblins or orcs.
‘Karana’s name showed up, but these people’s names don’t.’
Cheon Ga-hyeon’s name appeared too—that was strange.
What was the criterion?
‘Well… I’ll just leave them as they are for now.’
He didn’t particularly want to bother remembering their names anyway.
With that thought, Lee Kang-han swept his gaze across the Lowest-rank Believers’ statuses.
‘They’re all displaying nothing but negative states like despair and distrust.’
And for good reason.
They’d had their heads caved in by the Heavenly Demon and ended up trapped in this strange place as slaves.
Their condition couldn’t possibly be good.
But then.
‘Some of them are already showing signs of hunger.’
How long had it been since they’d eaten? Yet their hunger status was already surfacing.
Lee Kang-han furrowed his brow.
‘Should I build them a settlement too?’
It was the standard procedure whenever he accepted a foreign race.
Settlement construction, followed by additional food and basic resources.
It pained him to spend TP on Lowest-rank Believers who’d pointed guns at him.
‘If I’m going to work them like… well, like Believers, I need to at least feed them first.’
He’d think of it as an investment to extract labor from them.
His mind felt considerably lighter.
Swish.
When Lee Kang-han touched the northern edge of the Seongwhwa Domain where the humans had gathered.
[Will you construct a settlement for Lowest-rank Believers?]
[100,000 TP will be consumed.]
The system calculated the settlement construction cost at one hundred thousand.
‘Elves were twenty, orcs five. More expensive than orcs, then.’
Humans still cost more than orcs, it seemed.
Lee Kang-han, who no longer felt burdened by an expenditure of one hundred thousand TP, moved to make the investment.
Ding.
[Lowest-rank Believers can be mobilized for construction.]
[When Lowest-rank Believers are mobilized, structures can be built in the settlement.]
‘Oh.’
The system had revealed the utility of Lowest-rank Believers to him.
‘They can actually build structures?’
Settlement construction.
When you actually tried it, all you got was a barren wasteland.
But if you mobilized Lowest-rank Believers, could they actually construct buildings there?
‘I should give it a try.’
Lee Kang-han mobilized the Lowest-rank Believers.
Whoosh…
The barren ground spread across the northern section of the Seongwhwa Domain.
Thunk. Thunk.
Various construction tools—wooden planks and the like—began appearing in one corner.
‘Modern construction equipment isn’t showing up, at least.’
Just hammers and saws, it seemed.
So they were supposed to use those tools to build houses from the wooden planks?
Lee Kang-han gazed quietly at the Ten Thousand Demons Map screen.
Initially, the Lowest-rank Believers were unwilling to work.
But then.
[Muscle and Bone Torture initiated]
When that message appeared above the resistant Lowest-rank Believers.
Their bodies swelled up one by one like balloons.
[…….]
[Do it, work!]
Speech bubbles appeared above the remaining people.
One by one, they stood up and began construction.
‘They’re doing quite a serious job.’
Even if they were all former intelligence operatives.
Most of them had likely never built a house before.
Yet the Lowest-rank Believers were constructing with angles precise and confident, no hesitation whatsoever.
‘Does the system provide some kind of assistance?’
Lee Kang-han thought this while observing the condition of the Lowest-rank Believers once more.
Then.
Far more hunger status showing than before.
Though they’d only been working for a short time, they were already feeling the pangs of hunger.
‘I’ll need to add food supplies too.’
Tap.
Lee Kang-han pressed on the human settlement.
[Would you like to add food and foundational resources to the territory?]
[100,000 TP will be consumed.]
The second prompt for territory construction appeared.
‘Proportional to the land value, as expected.’
I need to feed them and put them to work.
Lee Kang-han added food and foundational resources.
Thump-thump-thump……!
Near the wasteland, fruit-bearing trees sprouted upward, forming a small forest.
A pasture rose from the earth, and dozens of cattle materialized.
‘That should be enough to handle food on their own.’
As long as they escape starvation.
He had no obligation to provide a feast for the Lowest-rank Believers who’d pointed guns at him.
Lee Kang-han checked how much TP remained after securing their living conditions.
‘Only 50,000 TP left. I’ll need to earn more.’
The TP he’d painstakingly accumulated to establish the Heavenly Demon Religion.
Spent in a single day, and the remainder used for the Lowest-rank Believers—
his fortune of hundreds of billions had evaporated, leaving him penniless in an instant.
Still.
‘Money can be earned again quickly enough.’
He had the Adventurer’s Eye as well.
With his chances of receiving an SSS+ rating now elevated.
He wasn’t particularly worried about TP.
He could always earn more.
‘Right. I need to enter the tower before it gets any later.’
The tower he’d originally intended to enter immediately after the presidential banquet and returning home.
The sudden assault had consumed considerable time converting them into Lowest-rank Believers.
But the day wasn’t over yet.
‘I’ll report the government attack tomorrow morning.’
For now, let me finish today’s work.
With that resolve, Lee Kang-han entered the tower.
[Infinite Tower — Stage 17]
[Entering Bronze Tower No.14.]
The tower, now at stage 17.
When the system message displayed the tower number, Lee Kang-han paid little attention at first.
[Entering the Garden of Death.]
[Advance to the next stage by joining forces with your allies!]
‘Allies?’
As the word appeared in the following message, his attention snapped toward it.
Up until now, there had been no maps requiring allies.
Surely not.
‘Is this a Cooperative Dungeon?’
Just as he reached that conclusion.
Flash. Flash!
Light flickered around him.
“Huh……?”
“Oh. The Heavenly Demon, the Heavenly Demon!”
Two human players, and.
“……Three humans? This is a disaster.”
A dwarf with a dissatisfied expression, arms crossed, and.
“Sniff sniff. Sniff. Why all the fuss?”
A fox-headed beastman as well.
A total of four players had been placed on Lee Kang-han’s team.
The Heavenly Demon Wrecks the Tower (Serialized)
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