The Heavenly Demon Destroys the Tower - Chapter 89

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Episode 89
-A Red Orc coming out of Bronze? ㄷㄷ
-Aren’t they not supposed to appear in the Prison map?
-There’s never been a player like the Celestial Demon who opens every cell door
-But that one didn’t come from a room—it came from the end of the corridor
A Gersh Empire Orc, a creature known to appear only in Gold Tower and above.
When it emerged on the Bronze Tower map, viewers were baffled.
No matter how thoroughly Lee Kang-han had thrown open every Prison door.
It shouldn’t have been the stage for a Gersh Empire Orc to appear.
-So that’s what it is?
-Yeah, definitely a rare spawn
-Looks like an Orc but the tier is different
-It even traded blows with large-scale monsters ㅋㅋㅋ
Perhaps because it was a creature that appeared in Gold tier and above,
testimony poured in about the Gersh Empire Orc’s formidable strength.
“I’ve got to take that one with me, right?”
“Y-yes, that’s right……!”
“Good. You two handle the rest and keep watch.”
Whoosh!
With that, Lee Kang-han charged at the Gersh Empire Orc.
Crack-crack-crack……!
Electric current coursed through Karana’s body.
“Hiss, hisss……!”
“A Shaman……?!”
Lightning Strike lanced out toward the Orc guards in an instant.
“Hisss. You dare rush at me unarmed?”
The Gersh Empire Orc snarled.
Brandishing an enormous axe in its grip,
Whoosh!
it met Lee Kang-han’s unarmed fist with a fist of its own.
Against an unarmed opponent—
perhaps it wounded its pride to swing an axe.
‘I could use the axe, but……’
Fist collided with fist.
Crack-crack-crack!
“Guh……?!”
With the sound of snapping bone, the Gersh Empire Orc’s fist crumpled completely.
The creature’s face contorted in an instant.
Lee Kang-han seized it by the collar and
Bang!
drove it into the ground.
-??? Red Orc was supposed to be strong though
-What the? ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-The Celestial Demon plays in a different league…
-Yeah, strong or not it’s still just an Orc
Watching the Orc subdued in an instant,
viewers no longer showed surprise at the spectacle.
As Lee Kang-han pinned the Gersh Empire Orc to the ground beneath his foot and glanced back,
“Hisss…….”
“U-ugh…….”
The Orc guards too had all collapsed to the ground,
their bodies trembling.
“Karana, seems like you’ve gotten stronger?”
It hadn’t taken much time to subdue the Gersh Empire Orc.
In that brief moment alone, she’d felled all the Orcs without exception,
and controlled her strength so well that they all still drew breath.
“Hiss… is that so? My control has gotten better than it used to be.”
“Good? Then ring the bell now. We need to collect them all.”
“Understood!”
At Lee Kang-han’s command, Karana quickly produced the bell.
Her eyes blazed with an intensity unlike any she’d shown before.
Ding. Ding……!
The sound of the bell rang out.
“Uhhh…….”
The eyes of the orc jailer group glazed over, their skin flushing red.
“Bow before this one! Prostrate yourselves and cry out your eternal submission to the Divine Demon!”
So she commanded.
The orc jailers who had been sprawled on the ground began struggling to their feet one by one.
But then.
“Snap out of it, you miserable wretches!”
The Gersh Empire Orc who lay pinned suddenly barked out the words.
“Huh……?”
“Tch. Why would I……?”
The glazed eyes of the orc jailers began to clear one by one.
-??? What is this?
-Is the hypnosis breaking?
-She tried to scam orcs with a bell lol this is going south
As the light returned to the orc jailers’ eyes.
“Huh……?”
Ding. Ding!
Panicked, Karana rang the bell again.
“An elf dares to mimic a Shaman!”
At the Gersh Empire Orc’s sharp rebuke.
“Tch……!”
“Hrgh?”
All the orc jailers came fully to their senses.
“An elf……!”
“Seize the elf!”
They turned their murderous gazes toward Karana.
“This can’t be happening……! This is the Shaman’s Authority my master passed down to me……!”
“Shaman’s Authority? More like some crude trick an outsider fumbled her way into learning!”
The Gersh Empire Orc let out a bitter laugh.
“If that were truly the Shaman’s Authority, I would have submitted as well!”
The logic was simple: since he remained unaffected, she was no true Shaman.
That seemed to be his reasoning.
Just how formidable an orc Shaman truly was, he couldn’t say.
“I…….”
For Karana, his words had struck home.
She stood frozen, staring at the bell in confusion.
‘This is getting difficult.’
If the bell wouldn’t work.
It would be nearly impossible to force all these orc jailers to kneel.
And the Gersh Empire Orc—he seemed the type to fight to the death rather than bend the knee.
Lee Kang-han considered his options.
‘Right. That’s it.’
The helmet—Quiéne—that he’d used before came to mind.
While the item description hadn’t specified it.
When he’d equipped it on the floor below.
The monsters in the prison had fled in terror or lost all composure.
‘I should try it now.’
Smoothly.
Lee Kang-han pulled Quiéne from his inventory and placed it on his head.
Immediately.
Swish-swish-swish…….
Darkness pooled thick around his body.
His clothes shifted back into a black suit.
And then.
“U-uhhh……?”
The expression of the Gersh Empire Orc—who had been shouting with confidence even while pinned beneath the heel—
Changed in an instant.
A face grimacing, forcibly suppressing fear.
The terror radiating from the Myeongwang Outfit spread contagiously in an instant.
“H-hisssss…….”
“W-what is that outfit……?”
The other orc guards found themselves shrinking back without thinking.
The Myeongwang Outfit’s fear effect.
It was definitely activating.
As Lee Kang-han felt the item’s effect firsthand once more.
“I-ieeeek……!”
The Gersh Empire Orc pinned beneath his foot.
Began thrashing desperately, trying by any means to escape the source of that terror.
Its right hand shattered moments before.
The orc threw a punch at Lee Kang-han’s leg with its intact left hand.
But.
Thud.
Before the fist could even touch the dress pants.
It struck something invisible and hung suspended in empty air.
‘Oh. So that’s the defensive effect.’
It wasn’t even reaching the fabric itself?
Lee Kang-han felt the Myeongwang Outfit’s defensive power firsthand.
“Ugh, ughhhh……!”
The orc whose attack had been blocked suddenly began trembling violently.
Hissssss…….
Accompanied by a strange splashing sound from below.
A foul stench spread in all directions.
“Ugh, seriously?”
Did it really just……?
“Ugh, ugh, ughhhh…….”
All that swagger from moments before had vanished.
The Gersh Empire Orc stood drooling, completely vacant behind the eyes.
Dripping fluids from both ends without restraint.
Lee Kang-han frowned and turned his gaze toward Karana.
“Ring the bell now.”
“Ah…… understood!”
Ding. Ding……!
Karana snapped to attention and rang the bell again.
This time, the result was entirely different from before.
“Hail the Celestial Demon…… long may the Demon Realm prosper…….”
The orc guards bowed their heads immediately, their faces blank.
“Ugh, ugh…… bow…….”
The Gersh Empire Orc that had been pinned down.
Lifted itself up once Lee Kang-han withdrew his foot.
“Hail the Celestial Demon…… long may the Demon Realm prosper…….”
Rose to its feet and began prostrating.
-Why are his pants soaked like that???
-Did he really just lose control?
-I did hear that splashing sound earlier lolol
-Never thought I’d see someone piss themselves in a tower in my life…
-Wait, don’t players usually not have the urge to go once inside the tower???
-Yeah… players don’t, but I guess mobs can lol
The viewers, catching sight of the dampened pants, realized what the Gersh Empire Orc had done.
With that, all the orc guards were subjugated to Lee Kang-han and dragged into the Demon Realm Territory.
‘Hmm. But there’s not a single orc whose body burst.’
In the past, even when he made the orcs bow after ringing the bell.
About twenty to thirty percent of them would puff up like balloons and explode.
Today, because he applied the fear effect first and then made them bow, they all submitted stably without incident.
And as all the orcs vanished.
[Performance Evaluation for Bronze Tower No.37 is being tallied…….]
[The tower has been cleared within one hour.]
[Prison doors have been opened one hundred percent.]
[You have suppressed the Orc Guard by 80% or more.]
[Clear Evaluation – SSS+]
The Performance Evaluation message followed.
* * *
[Clear rewards are now available.]
[Your level has increased by 3.]
[Your level has reached the current Rank limit. Additional experience will accumulate as ‘Score’ for the player.]
[You obtain 150,000 TP.]
‘Compared to the rewards from the cooperative match, this is disappointing.’
The ‘Garden of Death’ reward had even tacked on 2 million TP to an SSS-rank helmet.
This reward, by contrast, was painfully meager.
‘Since there was no additional reward last time, there won’t be one this time either.’
SSS+ additional rewards that sometimes appeared and sometimes didn’t.
Lee Kang-han hadn’t received an additional reward when he’d cleared the Prison map before.
So he wasn’t holding out much hope this time.
But then.
[You have suppressed a Gersh Empire Orc.]
[An additional choice option is granted for the special reward.]
‘Oh.’
So dragging the Gersh Empire Orc here had made a difference.
Unlike the last clear, a special reward appeared this time.
‘I wonder if we’ll get an Orc-related facility?’
Lee Kang-han had hoped for a facility to appear in the Manma Hall, but.
[1,000,000 TP]
[No.37 Re-entry Pass]
No blueprint came with the options that followed.
‘Ah, that’s a shame.’
He’d wanted to build more structures in the Manma Hall.
So even slaying a Gersh Empire Orc didn’t unlock a new facility.
Lee Kang-han felt a twinge of disappointment, but then.
‘The No.37 re-entry pass… if I get this and enter next time, that means I’ll challenge the Prison three times total, right?’
His eyes lit up as he studied the pass.
Running the same tower three times would let him reach the 11th floor.
And if he destroyed the Tower Core there, he could obtain a Core Fragment.
‘And since I already have four fragments… if I get one more, I can get a Celestial Coin.’
A Celestial Coin—the key to spinning the Evolution Roulette.
Last time’s effect had been ‘Accessory Slot +1’, which had benefited all of humanity quite considerably, hadn’t it?
A million TP was a large sum, certainly.
‘But the re-entry pass comes first.’
Click.
Lee Kang-han unhesitatingly selected the ‘No.37 Re-entry Pass’.
And then.
[‘No.37 Re-entry Pass’ is added to your inventory.]
[This item can only be used at the Bronze stage.]
A message appeared stating it could only be used in Bronze.
Lee Kang-han returned home.
‘I’ll use it first thing tomorrow.’
Tomorrow he’d be entering stage 19 of the tower.
And on stage 20, he’d face an Advancement Match.
The only timing to use the re-entry pass was tomorrow.
“Hrrgh, hrrgh……”
Snoring greeted him the moment he arrived home.
The sound came from Kim Ju-young, asleep on the sofa.
‘I never knew before because he always fell asleep first, but his snoring is pretty harsh.’
Falling asleep right now was going to be difficult.
Lee Kang-han opened the Manma Hall.
This time, he’d check on the Orc Shaman’s Altar where he’d brought so many Orcs.
The Orcs had gathered in a huddled group near the shaman’s altar.
Only Karana stood slightly apart from them, staring blankly ahead.
‘What’s the matter with her?’
Lee Kang-han checked Karana’s information.
[Half-Elf Karana]
[Status: Absolute Faith, Doubt, Agitation, Concern…….]
As always, Absolute Faith sat at the front of her status list.
But the word itself had grown slightly faded compared to usual.
‘The shock of the Gersh Empire Orc breaking through the Shaman’s Authority must’ve shaken her.’
At last, a thought was taking root—the possibility that she might not be an orc after all.
Even if only slightly, it seemed to be happening.
Lee Kang-han established a communication link with Karana.
[……Why did you summon me?]
“Ah. We brought in quite a few orcs this time, so I just wanted to check if they’re being managed properly.”
[Screech. No problems. The Gersh Empire Orc’s resistance was merely a temporary phenomenon. Having utterly submitted to my Authority, he will cause no further disturbances.]
“That so? Then I’m relieved.”
[Though…….]
Karana, whose expression had grown gloomy, faltered.
[……Never mind.]
She closed her mouth again.
‘She still maintains Absolute Faith for now, at least.’
She’ll need more time alone to work through this.
“Understood. I’ll leave the orcs in your hands then.”
[……Screech. Yes. Thank you.]
Lee Kang-han ended the communication with those final words.
And the next day.
“Ugh…… My head’s killing me. I completely crashed out yesterday.”
Kim Ju-young, his face dull as he sipped water,
“Wait—you cleared the tower yesterday too? And you drank that much? You’re seriously impressive.”
He glanced at Lee Kang-han with a startled expression, phone in hand, having caught something in a news article.
“You’re the one who drank more. I kept it moderate.”
“Moderate…? I was barely keeping up with your pace.”
Was that how it went?
As Lee Kang-han tried to recall yesterday’s drinking session,
[Master! Would you like to take a look at the new house today?]
a call came from Shin Yu-ri.
“Wait—is this really you, Shin Yu-ri?”
“Yes.”
“Hey, while you’ve got him, ask about that item sale yesterday too.”
Lee Kang-han nodded,
and relayed to Shin Yu-ri what had happened at Manma Hall the day before.
Then,
[My goodness…… Could I hear more details about that?]
She revealed keen interest.
[Ah. If possible, with your friend as well.]
The Demon Lord Demolishes the Tower (Serialized)
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