The Heavenly Demon Destroys the Tower - Chapter 86

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Chapter 86
The heart of Demon Heaven Temple.
Kim Ju-young stepped into the Sacred Flame Zone for the first time, his face flushed with excitement as he surveyed his surroundings.
“Wow…… So this is the Heavenly Demon Temple? Incredible.”
Click. Click.
He snapped a few photos, then checked them on the display.
“The photos turned out great.”
“Yeah? Perfect. Start recording video then. Full coverage.”
“Now? Are there any classified things I shouldn’t film?”
“Hmm…… Recording is fine, but let’s keep the Chinese agents locked up out of the public eye for now.”
“Got it. I’ll just film without them in frame.”
As Kim Ju-young began the recording,
Footsteps approached. Steady footsteps.
“Hiss. Did the Cheonma bring another human?”
Karana, who had been near the Sacred Flame, drew closer to Lee Kang-han.
“Oh, oh, an elf! An elf!!!”
His excitement mounting,
Kim Ju-young fixed the camera’s focus on Karana.
“Hiss! Not an elf!”
“Ah, right. Right, an orc, isn’t it……? Wow. Seeing an orc like this in person is unreal. I’ve never encountered a being—well, not a person—this extraordinary in my life.”
Catching sight of Karana’s actual form, Kim Ju-young stood mesmerized.
She scowled.
“Cheonma…… What is this human? It bothers me.”
“He’s my friend, but the kid lacks discipline—he gets distracted by appearances.”
“Appearances?”
Karana’s eyebrows twitched at that.
“Hiss. Are you saying I’m ugly right now?”
“By human standards, you’re beautiful.”
“This face? Heh. Our standards are complete opposites…”
She shook her head as if bewildered,
“Um…… wait, orc! I’m curious—what’s your ideal type?”
Kim Ju-young, still filming her, threw out the sudden question.
“Ideal type?”
“Yes! What kind of man’s appearance do you prefer?”
Karana’s expression darkened abruptly.
She pulled her hood deep over her face, as if to hide.
“Hiss…… No orc looks at me as a potential mate, no matter how I look…”
“B-but you must have some preference in appearance, right?”
“If I had an ideal…… I’d want my lower tusks to grow so large they reach my nose. Hiss.”
Lower tusks large enough to reach the nose.
Would that mean tusks that jut out like elephant ivory?
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen an orc quite that impressive among all the ones I’ve encountered.”
“It’s just an ideal. Hiss. Such orcs aren’t common.”
“So your standards are pretty high by orc measures.”
“Is it wrong to dream of an ideal?”
Karana scratched her cheek, looking embarrassed.
“Hiss. I’ll be going then.”
“Right. See you next time.”
She turned back toward the Sacred Flame.
“Ah, I wanted to interview the orc more. Too bad…… But, um, why isn’t that flame showing up on camera?”
“It’s not?”
“No. It just looks like light. Strange—to my eye it’s pure white fire.”
Kim Ju-young turned the camera display toward him.
The recording showed something entirely different from what he saw with his naked eye.
On the display, the Sacred Flame appeared as nothing but pure white luminescence.
“Fascinating.”
Unlike other entities,
the Sacred Flame refused to be captured by the camera.
Lee Kang-han tilted his head in puzzlement,
but he could find no clear answer at present.
“Well, I can just film something else instead.”
And so Kim Ju-young began his tour of the Demon Heaven Temple.
At first.
“Now that I’m actually here…… there really isn’t much to see, is there?”
Once the massive story that was Karana disappeared.
There honestly wasn’t much worth filming inside the Demon Heaven Temple.
Around the Sacred Flame at best.
There was Karana, who played the role of a priestess and tended the Sacred Flame.
And the Spirit of the Heavenly Sword, still planted nearby and sleeping without interruption.
And then the Heavenly Fate Tower building, which marked the end of it all.
“Was this building here originally?”
“The Heavenly Fate Tower? I built it for a million TP.”
“A million? For this single-story pavilion?”
At those words, Kim Ju-young briefly aimed the camera at the Heavenly Fate Tower.
But since it wasn’t a particularly large structure.
It took less than ten seconds to film.
‘Now that I’m seeing it with my own eyes, the Demon Heaven Temple really is desolate.’
Unlike when he’d opened the Demon Heaven Temple functions to construct buildings before.
Coming inside directly and looking around, he could certainly feel that the Demon Heaven Temple.
Was utterly empty.
Once the flames of the Sacred Flame grew stronger.
And once he welcomed more races to the Demon Heaven Temple, perhaps there would be more grand structures to build?
As Lee Kang-han stood surveying the surroundings with this thought.
“Ah. Where did the Chieftain go? Doesn’t he live here?”
Kim Ju-young asked about the Goblin Chieftain.
“The Goblin Chieftain? He’s stationed a bit away from here.”
“Oh?”
“The Goblin Territory has more going on. There’s a black market there, and a training ground too.”
“Ooh……!”
At those words, Kim Ju-young’s interest sparked.
“But it’s pretty far from here…… wait a second.”
Lee Kang-han opened the Demon Heaven Temple functions.
And then.
On the map, in addition to the existing members of the Demon Heaven Temple.
Lee Kang-han and Kim Ju-young appeared as SD Characters in their own separate markers.
‘I remember—using the movement function opens a portal.’
Lee Kang-han tapped his own character on the map.
[Move]
[Return]
Unlike the other summoned creatures.
Only two functions appeared.
‘Summoning and communication are only for summons, so that makes sense.’
And if he pressed return here.
Would he go back to the Outer Pavilion of Heavenly Demon Temple?
Lee Kang-han familiarized himself with his character’s functions and pressed move.
[Please designate your destination. A portal will open leading to that destination.]
Lee Kang-han selected the region where goblins gathered on the map.
The Goblin Training Ground.
Whoooosh……!
A crimson portal bloomed before his eyes.
“Oh…… you can travel through portals?”
“Yeah. Let’s go.”
Whoosh.
Lee Kang-han stepped through first.
This time, Kim Ju-young entered the portal without hesitation.
And then.
“Kee-kee-kee…… you lot, stop lounging about and get up this instant!”
From beyond the portal.
The voice of the Goblin Chieftain spurring on the goblins came immediately.
“Are they training?”
Lee Kang-han spoke to the Goblin Chieftain from behind.
“W-wait, the Heavenly Demon Lord?!”
The startled Goblin Chieftain immediately
“Hail the Heavenly Demon! Glory to the Demon Realm!”
began to bow.
* * *
‘This one bows every time I see him.’
Among the residents of Demon Heaven Temple,
‘bowing’ aside, the Goblin Chieftain was the most well-mannered.
“All of you, show proper respect to the Heavenly Demon Lord!”
He barked at the goblins who were staring at Lee Kang-han with startled eyes,
commanding them to bow.
“Hail the Heavenly Demon! Glory to the Demon Realm!”
Then fifty goblins bowed in unison.
Whoosh.
Kim Ju-young captured the entire scene within his camera.
“Heavenly Demon Lord! Can you now enter Demon Heaven Temple?!”
“Yeah. But for now, I can only stay about ten minutes a day. Today I came to look around a bit with this one here.”
“This person is……?”
“A friend of mine. Treat him well.”
“A friend of the Heavenly Demon Lord, you say? You must be far, far above me! I shall serve with utmost dedication!”
The moment Lee Kang-han introduced Kim Ju-young, the Goblin Chieftain approached
with smooth, ingratiating courtesy.
Only—
“Oh, yes, yes…….”
Kim Ju-young found himself instinctively shrinking back,
doing his best to nod along.
“What’s wrong with you?”
“Ugh. Standing in front of the chieftain, his presence is so overwhelming…… I can’t help but feel nervous.”
“Kiki… I’ll be more careful!”
As if used to such reactions,
the Chieftain stepped back a pace.
“So goblins train too.”
With the tension eased, Kim Ju-young panned his camera smoothly,
capturing the sight of the Goblin Training Ground.
“Yeah. To build a training ground, the species needs to be properly settled in Demon Heaven Temple, and right now only goblins fit that bill.”
“Is that so? Didn’t you bring quite a few orcs?”
“The orcs—Karana’s been experimenting on turning them into Imperial Orcs, but they keep failing.”
“I see…… do they disappear if the experiment fails?”
“It’s fine the first few times, but if failures keep piling up, they vanish.”
With each failed experiment, their level would drop,
and when they died at level one, their existence would be erased.
‘But when does that evolution finally succeed?’
He’d supplied quite a large number of orcs up to now,
yet Karana’s attempts had never succeeded even once.
She seemed rather discouraged by it too;
these days she was rarely at the Shaman’s Altar, spending most of her time in the Sacred Flame Zone.
“Ah. Heavenly Demon Lord, I had something to report to you.”
“Yeah? What is it?”
“The goblins’ average level has reached thirty—we achieved it just a moment ago!”
“Oh, really? Then the Black Market can be upgraded.”
“Yes, yes. That’s right.”
The moment the subject of upgrading the Black Market came up,
rub, rub.
The Goblin Chieftain rubbed his palms together, a thick smile spreading across his face.
He looked rather like a scheming courtier.
“Let’s do it right now.”
Whoosh.
Lee Kang-han pulled up the Demon Heaven Temple interface
and tapped on the Black Market.
Very well.
[‘Upgrade Goblin’s Black Market to Level 2?’]
[120,000 TP will be consumed.]
A message appeared stating the upgrade would cost 120,000 TP.
‘So the goblin prices really are cheaper than expected.’
Building the Black Market initially cost 60,000.
If the upgrade costs twice that, it’s well worth the expense.
Lee Kang-han approved the Black Market upgrade immediately.
A brilliant light flashed—!
The shabby, ramshackle stall market that had sat beside the training ground
shimmered with radiance as wooden structures began to appear.
Tap. Tap…….
With the sound of hammers, wooden buildings started forming one after another, rising as if by their own accord.
“Incredible! The buildings are going up!”
“Wow, fascinating…… So this is how they construct things here.”
All at once, the goblins stopped their training
and turned their gaze toward the Black Market.
“Stop gawking and go see how much it’s changed.”
The moment Lee Kang-han gave permission,
the goblins rushed toward the Black Market in a wave.
‘Now that I think about it, didn’t the description say goblins find valuable items at the Black Market?’
Perhaps because the market was only Level 1 before,
the goblins hadn’t discovered a single valuable item yet.
Now that the level had increased, perhaps the frequency of item appearances would rise.
Lee Kang-han headed to the market with these expectations in mind.
At the center stood an enormous crimson Portal.
A stall market had formed around it as its focal point.
“That Portal is floating there even though you didn’t summon it?”
“Right. That’s been there since we first built the Black Market.”
As Kim Ju-young filmed the Portal with her camera,
light leaked forth—!
The crimson Portal blazed with radiance, and
“Kee-kee. Kee-kee.”
“Kee-kee-kee……!”
goblins dressed in flamboyant garb began pouring out one by one.
“What the—who are these guys? Their clothes are all flashy and gaudy.”
“I have no idea. I’ve never seen them work before.”
“Those are goblin merchants, sir. This Black Market is a zone for exchanging goods with goblins from multiple dimensions, so the merchants come here to trade items with one another.”
I see.
So the goblin merchants conducted their business here.
“The goblins working here sort through the goods those merchants bring and facilitate the exchanges. In return, they receive payment from the merchants.”
“Ah, I see. But when I first built the Black Market, the description mentioned that valuable items would occasionally be discovered—how does that work?”
“I’m afraid I don’t know about that…… Looking at what these merchants are trading now, it all appears to be worthless items.”
Finding valuable items.
If even the Chieftain didn’t know, it seemed more difficult than anticipated.
As Lee Kang-han nodded,
“How much time is left?”
“Two minutes remaining.”
“Then let’s take a look at some of the wares. Film what the goblin merchants are selling.”
“Very well.”
Time to return was approaching anyway.
Might as well spend the remaining two minutes browsing the merchants’ goods.
“Then I shall guide you to a merchant who has finished setting up their stall.”
The Goblin Chieftain walked toward where one of the merchants had already arranged their wares.
Unlike the other goblin merchants,
this one wore a dingy robe, its wrinkled face deeply creased.
“An old goblin? I’ve never seen one before.”
As Kim Ju-young filmed the creature with her camera,
he moved smoothly—
and the Elderly Goblin drew out Spectacles from within his robe and put them on.
“Hooh… A human guest, I see.”
He grinned at the sight of Lee Kang-han.
“The spoils of a perished human race… I’ve had trouble disposing of them. Care for a look?”
The Demon Smashes the Tower (Serial)
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