The Heavenly Demon Destroys the Tower - Chapter 88

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Chapter 88
-Are all the Chinese coming at once?
-They’re really flooding in lol
-The US supports Strong Lee!
-Cheonma, reveal the truth!
-China never attempted any kidnapping!
The chat window was split sharply down the middle.
With everyone arguing about whether the kidnapping attempt was real or not,
it had become nearly impossible to keep track of the chat messages.
‘I’d better not look at the chat today.’
Not that I could even if I wanted to—the messages were flying up too fast to read.
Lee Kang-han smiled wryly.
“I’m not sure how President Alfred obtained the information, but the kidnapping attempt did occur.”
He acknowledged the kidnapping attempt as fact.
-That’s a lie!
-Cheonma, show us the proof!
-How can you show proof here lol
-irl lol he knows it’s impossible but still
Chinese viewers who weren’t satisfied immediately demanded evidence.
They were clearly saying this because they assumed I couldn’t produce evidence here.
Lee Kang-han considered ignoring them,
‘but can I actually summon the lowest-rank followers from the tower?’
Suddenly curious, he opened the Demon Realm Territory and tried clicking on Lowest-Rank Follower #1.
Then:
[The target is not a Player.]
[The target has not fully settled into the Demon Realm Territory.]
[If you summon the target, they will not return to the Demon Realm Territory and will instead become bound to this tower.]
Lowest-Rank Follower #1.
The summon was possible, but then they’d be stuck in this tower.
‘I can’t do that.’
I couldn’t summon them as a witness just because of this noisy chat
and have them stuck in the tower.
“The chat is flooded with outside issues today, so I’ll just proceed without reading it.”
Lee Kang-han decided to ignore the chat altogether
‘and only now did I remember to check which tower I’d entered.’
He finally confirmed the tower level.
[Infinite Tower, Floor 18]
[Entering Bronze Tower No.37.]
‘Floor 37—I’ve cleared this map before.’
No.37 was one of the maps he’d encountered while stockpiling TP to establish the Celestial Demon Religion,
[You enter a ‘Prison Facility’ containing various forms of life.]
[Defeat the Orc Warden and the various monsters imprisoned here, then proceed to the next floor!]
The map was one where an Orc Warden and various monsters locked in cages appeared as enemies.
The Prison Facility was shrouded in near-total darkness.
Only the lantern held by the Orc Warden cast any light,
and they moved slowly on patrol, watching over the facility.
‘The standard strategy was to ambush the Orc Warden from the shadows.’
The cage doors were normally sealed shut.
But when the Orc Warden spotted the player and began blowing a whistle,
the cage doors on both sides of the corridor would open,
and monsters would burst out to attack the player from both sides.
So to clear this map smoothly, you had to carefully avoid detection and land an ambush on the Orc Warden, but
‘that’s just the standard approach.’
To earn an SSS+ Rank,
you had to go in a completely different direction.
Creak…
Lee Kang-han stepped up from Floor 0 to Floor 1.
The true starting point of the Prison Facility map.
In the heavily darkened space, only the light from the lantern held by the Orc Warden in the distance was visible.
Normally, the orthodox approach would be to quietly approach the Orc Warden, whose senses were dull, and ambush them.
One.
“Orc! Over here!”
Lee Kang-han waved cheerfully at the orc guard.
Then.
“Hmm……?”
Swish.
The orc turned its body
and walked slowly toward the source of the sound.
“I’m here!”
Lee Kang-han shouted plainly, but
the orc guard shuffled forward with a vacant expression.
-Why is the guard’s hearing like that lol he shouted real loud and didn’t hear it
-looks like they nerfed the senses on purpose gotta let players get the jump on them lol
-Celestial Demon apologize!!!
-ugh shut up already they’ve started climbing the tower ——
As tower-related messages began flooding the chat,
Whoosh!
Lee Kang-han closed in right before the orc guard’s eyes.
“Hey, I’m here.”
“Eek……?! I-Intruder!”
The orc guard then slowly drew something from its satchel.
What it produced was a crude whistle.
“Ah……!”
The orc guard even began to raise the whistle to its lips
but dropped it from its hand.
“Pick it up. Don’t just leave it.”
“……?”
Lee Kang-han stood with arms crossed,
calmly watching the orc guard retrieve the whistle.
-keeps giving openings lol
-actually dropping the whistle like a picture-perfect stumble
-wouldn’t be easy to ask to get hit like this either
-but it’s floor 1 he can’t get discovered yet lol bronze floor 1 gotta be easy
-Lee Kang-han stop with the absurd slander!!!
-ugh these guys still at it ——
There had been countless moments to strike.
But Lee Kang-han waited for the orc with stubborn patience.
“I-Intruder!!!”
The orc guard finally let out a loud cry
and squeeeeak!
blew the whistle hard.
Then.
[You have been discovered by the orc guard.]
[The floor 1 prison doors open.]
Rumble rumble rumble……!
The prison doors swung open in unison with the message.
From the darkness of the cells,
“Grrr…….”
various monsters burst forth, emaciated and skeletal.
Their movements weren’t particularly fast, likely due to poor nutritional condition, yet they were numerous enough to pose a threat.
They all rushed at Lee Kang-han at once, but
‘This much.’
Boom! Boom!
Lee Kang-han threw light punches,
and they burst like balloons.
“K-Kieeeek……?!”
Watching Lee Kang-han overwhelm the horde,
the orc guard quickly spun around and tried to flee,
“Not so fast.”
Smack!
Lee Kang-han stamped on his back, driving him to the ground.
Then he opened Demon Realm Territory and summoned Karana.
“Skreee. Did you call, Cheonma?”
Karana emerged through a crimson portal.
“Oh, so this is the Prison Facility!”
Her eyes sparkled as she surveyed the surroundings.
* * *
The Prison Facility, with orc guards stationed densely across ten floors.
It was one of the better maps for Karana to acquire orcs.
“Hey, will you let me try?”
“Of course!”
Lee Kang-han stepped back.
Karana approached the orc guard.
Ding-ding….
She pulled out a bell and rang it.
“Obey! Bow before this one and cry out: Long live the Cheonma! Manma’s Blessing!”
She commanded the orc guard.
“Long live the Cheonma…… Manma’s Blessing…….”
The orc guard’s skin flushed red.
Slowly, it began to bow.
-Here we go with the orc-kidnapping duo again lol
-Funny how they got that orc and haven’t summoned it once since
-lol what exactly happens to these orcs when they get dragged to Demon Realm Territory???
-But the goblins keep getting better looking while the orcs stay like this :/
-Apologize! Apologize!
-Can’t you guys get rid of those things? lol
-The apology comments are getting lazier lol
The duo who kidnap orcs the moment they lay eyes on them.
But as the viewers said, so far they hadn’t produced a single result.
‘If the orcs would just settle down, it’d be nice to build another building.’
The buildings constructed through settled goblins.
Ever since Lee Kang-han saw the jackpot potential in the Goblin’s Black Market,
he’d taken a greater interest in settling races in Demon Realm Territory than before.
With so many orcs brought in lately,
he was hoping for results soon.
“Skreee. Let’s go up and grab more!”
Karana pointed excitedly at the portal to the next floor.
Whoosh.
Confirming that all the prison doors on the first floor had opened, Lee Kang-han
“Right. Let’s go.”
moved up to the next level.
And on the second floor of the Prison Facility,
Lee Kang-han gazed at the closed iron bars lining both sides of the corridor.
‘Is it because I discovered the Clear Condition last time? Adventurer’s Eye isn’t activating.’
When he first played through the Prison Facility map before,
the Adventurer’s Eye effect had triggered across all the prison bars.
That’s how he’d figured out that opening them was the condition for an SSS+ Rank rating.
It seemed that once he’d learned something, Adventurer’s Eye wouldn’t show it again in duplicate.
‘So I just need to follow the same procedure as last time and work through it.’
The SSS+ condition for the Prison Facility was clear:
Clear within one hour.
Fully open all prison doors.
Subdue eighty percent or more of the orc guards.
So he’d go through all ten floors getting spotted by orc guards and waiting for doors to open,
then subdue the enemies.
“Intruder……!”
Beep! Beep!
He waited until the orc guard blew its whistle.
“That’ll do. Now let’s make it bow.”
“Skreee…… Understood. But do we really need to open the prison doors?”
“There’s a reason for everything.”
He accepted a bow from the orc guard.
As he repeated the pattern of suppressing monsters that burst from the prison,
before long the two of them had reached the ninth floor.
“Screech. There seem to be more orcs than last time. Satisfying.”
“Yeah? Guess the difficulty went up since last time.”
“This time I’ll definitely succeed at evolving!”
Even though it was the same Prison Facility map, they were now on the eighteenth floor of the Infinite Tower.
So there was indeed a difference in the number of monsters spawning.
Lee Kang-han watched Karana’s delight for a moment, then
‘come to think of it, I haven’t even equipped the Queene.’
The SSS+ Rank item he’d obtained last time.
He recalled the Queene.
Since the difficulty of the ‘Prison Facility’ was so easy,
he’d felt no need for armor at all and hadn’t even thought to equip the Queene.
‘I should put it on now.’
He wanted to test what kind of defense the black suit would provide.
Lee Kang-han retrieved the Queene from his inventory and placed it on his head.
Whissssh……
Darkness seemed to deepen over his body,
and his clothing transformed into a black suit.
“Your outfit changed?”
“Yeah. Got some new armor and wanted to test how much defense it has.”
“I can’t speak to the defense, but…… screech. The aura doesn’t feel good.”
The moment Lee Kang-han equipped the Queene,
Karana’s complexion turned ashen and she stepped back from him.
“What’s wrong?”
“Screech…… I sense an ominous aura from you. Just looking at it makes cold sweat break out……”
Did the Queene have this kind of effect too?
Lee Kang-han tilted his head and approached the remaining monsters in the prison.
Not all monsters burst out when the prison doors opened;
some waited inside and launched surprise attacks.
So he’d decided to approach them both to test the suit’s defense.
One.
“H-hieeeek……!”
Contrary to Lee Kang-han’s intention to get hit,
the monsters hiding in the prison either fled in terror-struck panic,
“U-ugh……”
or sat down on the spot with vacant eyes,
drooling helplessly.
‘There was no fear effect listed in the item description.’
But perhaps because it was an Underworld King’s Robe,
they all stood frozen in terror.
‘Damn, can’t get them to hit me.’
These monsters in this cell wouldn’t work.
Lee Kang-han decided to go to the next floor and get attacked there instead.
He ascended to the tenth floor.
The tenth floor of the Prison Facility.
The map layout was the same as the floors below,
but instead of cells along the corridor, there were barracks for the orc guards.
‘These fellows are quick on their feet—they’ll attack for sure.’
With such expectations,
Lee Kang-han approached an orc guard who was patrolling the corridor.
One.
“Hey, over here, over here!”
While wearing the Underworld King’s Robe,
no matter how much he called out to the orc from the darkness,
“……?”
the creature didn’t notice him at all.
Even right in front of it.
An orc standing before the lantern, even as a hand waved in front of its face, continued to stare blankly ahead.
“Why’s it like that? Right there and it still doesn’t notice;”
“Is it because of the suit?”
“I want to get hit wearing a suit, but the kids won’t oblige haha”
A situation where one wants to test defense, but the opponent refuses to cooperate.
‘I’m not even using an invisibility effect and this happens. Must be because of the darkness?’
The item’s performance was almost too good.
Lee Kang-han smiled bitterly and removed the Queene.
Then.
As his clothes returned to normal.
“Ch-ch-eek!”
The orc guard startled with a squeal.
Shrieeek……!
It blew a whistle in a hurry.
“Cheek. What’s happening!”
Bang!
Both sides of the corridor.
Doors flew open on either side and orc guards came pouring out in a rush.
They had numbers, that was all.
Unlike the starving monsters that had stumbled out weakly from the prison, these orcs clearly overflowed with vitality.
‘I’ll have to take them all.’
As Lee Kang-han looked upon them with a smile.
Thud. Thud.
From the end of the corridor.
“An intruder…… you’ve come this far!”
Unlike any orc guard he’d met until now.
An orc with crimson skin.
“Ch-ch-eek! That, that orc is……!”
Karana’s evolution target—the Gersh Empire Orc—revealed itself.
The Celestial Demon Wrecks the Tower (Ongoing)
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