The Heavenly Demon Destroys the Tower - Chapter 9

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Episode 9
[Tower of Infinity, Stage 2.]
[Entering Iron Tower No. 31.]
Lee Gang-han read the message floating before his eyes.
‘Iron Grade, then.’
The Iron Tower.
It was the tower that players who had conquered the Beginner’s Tower, the first stage of the Tower of Infinity, would enter next.
The progression tower for those who had proven themselves.
Tower grades began with Iron and ascended in sequence:
Bronze → Silver → Gold → Platinum → Diamond.
Stages one through ten of the Tower of Infinity fell under the Iron Tower classification.
Stages eleven through twenty shifted to Bronze, and so on—
The tower’s designation changed with every ten stages cleared.
Conventional wisdom held that with sufficient effort, most climbers could reach Silver rank.
But Gold and beyond required A-Grade Traits or higher, making progression far more difficult.
‘That’s why most players get stuck cycling between Bronze and Silver, grinding Tower Points,’ he mused.
From the nation’s perspective, Bronze and Silver players were still valuable sources of Tower Points revenue.
They received less institutional support than elite Gold-tier and above players, true enough.
But if you could endure the pain of repeated deaths and keep your mental fortitude intact,
you could earn an income rivaling that of any respectable professional.
‘Right then. First thing’s first—the stream.’
After opening his TowerTube channel,
a new TowerTube window appeared in his system interface.
Lee Gang-han activated live streaming.
Instantly,
-Oh damn, Cheonma’s here
-Cleared yesterday and straight into the next stage 24 hours later, that’s hustle right there
-Opened the channel too, gotta grab those viewers while the iron’s hot lol
-Channel voucher was 50k TP though… you loaded or something?
Chat erupted instantly.
“They gave me the voucher as a reward yesterday—for hitting 50,000 viewers exactly.”
-Wait, there’s a reward like that?
-Oh I think I’ve heard about this—some foreign players maxed theirs out and got free vouchers
-So in high-population countries like China they basically hand those out for free lol, their viewer counts are insane
-Yeah but getting into their top 10 is brutal
-No joke, they had 200k people competing in the Beginner stages lmao
As viewers debated the merits of Channel Creation Vouchers,
new visitors began pouring in steadily.
‘Roughly a thousand viewers. Not exactly packed.’
Having witnessed 50,000 spectators the day before,
Lee Gang-han found himself unimpressed by a mere thousand.
Yet for an Iron-Grade player’s stream,
breaking a thousand viewers mere hours after launch was genuinely unprecedented.
He simply wasn’t tuned to the entertainment industry to know it.
So while he fielded questions from the ascending chat,
Pop-pop-pop!
A new sound effect chimed from the chat window.
[Ilseong Guild Scout J has donated 1,000 TP.]
[This is Ilseong Guild. We attempted to send you a guild contract proposal, but the system returned an error stating contracts cannot be issued. Have you already joined another guild?]
A massive donation of 1,000 TP arrived
alongside the sponsored message.
-1k TP as a first donation, that’s insane
-130 grand… Ilseong showing off their class
-Cheonma is definitely a prize catch after all this time
-Bet international scouts are gonna throw even bigger donations
-Wait, you already joined a guild?
Kim Ju-young must have proposed guild membership.
So the Ilseong Guild—created by the nation’s dominant corporate conglomerate—had made an offer.
He’d just received over a million won; courtesy demanded a response.
“I opened the guild system earlier. It appears Cheonma cannot serve beneath others—the system won’t permit guild membership.”
-???
-Stop spouting nonsense, seriously
-What are you talking about? There’s no such thing lol
-Players with solo traits join guilds all the time
-You’re just inflating your value, right? We all know the score haha
He’d told the truth, and still no one believed him.
It felt disturbingly similar to when they’d branded him a liar before.
“Ah, I can’t show you the system window either.”
-No, you can
-There’s a camera icon above the system window. Tap that and we can see it too
-This is something we really gotta see lol
-Wait, does this remind anyone of that whole sleeping-and-getting-ripped lie?
-Show us
-Show us
The chat window flooded with demands to see.
Lee Gang-han chuckled and opened the guild system window again.
Then, following the viewers’ advice, he tapped the camera button.
[The Cheonma does not bow beneath another’s authority.]
[Only the founding of the ‘Cheonma Faith’ is permitted.]
The message was shared with everyone.
-Wow, seriously…?
-Is this real…?
-You really were the Cheonma…
-Screw it, since we’re here anyway—let’s just build the Cheonma Faith?
“That’s 100 million TP.”
-100 million lmaoooo
-Before founding the Cheonma Faith, I’d build a Gangnam skyscraper lol
-The Cheonma trait is ridiculously broken, but honestly it’s just a handicap
-Real talk, climbing one extra floor beats any money or experience buff
The public sentiment about building the Cheonma Faith for 100 million TP evaporated instantly.
Lee Gang-han smiled and gazed forward.
Excluding the Beginner’s Tower.
The starting point of every tower: floor zero.
He’d finished his preparations on the bare earth with nothing around him.
Once he opened the wooden door beyond,
he would begin his ascent of the assigned tower.
“Guess we’re heading in.”
Thud. Thud.
Lee Gang-han walked toward the wooden door.
-Which tower number are we talking about?
-We can give you some tips haha
-The Iron Tower only goes up to 99, so there’s actually some strategy guides out there
The viewers offered help while asking which tower he’d been assigned.
“Tower number 31.”
-Wait, 31?
-That’s a maze tower…
-You good at problem-solving?
“High school education, that’s all.”
-That’s like the worst matchup for the Cheonma…
-How are you supposed to set new records? haha
-But just keep walking and you’ll level up eventually
-I’m drawing the map from here
No. 31 consisted entirely of maze terrain.
The moment Lee Gang-han stepped onto floor one,
he understood why they’d said it was his worst matchup.
All he saw instead of enemies were thick stone walls.
[Iron Tower No. 31 tests your wisdom!]
[Navigate the maze and ascend to the next floor!]
And then.
Along with the message to use his ‘head’,
Lee Gang-han stood motionless before the maze.
* * *
‘I can’t stand this sort of thing.’
Puzzles, riddles, pathfinding.
These were not Lee Gang-han’s preferred types of challenges.
Back when he played games, he’d delete them out of frustration the moment a maze got tedious.
Yet here he was, possessing the power of Cheonma.
No combat tower appears, and instead I get this.
-Honestly if another player got stuck on Tower 31 we’d be laughing our heads off lol
-Totally a bonus mission lol
-Either way you’ll clear it just by walking around, no monsters even spawn
-This is where I healed my body and mind from the wounds of the Beginner’s Tower
A maze map with no monsters.
Most players had died once to the tutorial boss in the Beginner’s Tower.
Even after that, they’d faced brushes with death countless times while climbing the towers.
For them, a maze tower like No. 31 was nothing short of a blessing.
Regardless, simply by walking and walking and walking again.
It would eventually carry them up to the tenth floor and let them conquer the tower.
But for Lee Gang-han, who wanted to seriously build out his channel, getting Tower 31 was hardly good news.
He wouldn’t be able to display the power of Cheonma here.
All he’d show instead was himself fumbling around trying to find the way.
‘Hmm…… I suppose I could summon the Chief at least.’
Pathfinding.
Two people working on it would be better than one.
With that resolve, Lee Gang-han opened the Manmajeon and summoned the Goblin Chief.
“Cheonma Blessing! A thousand goblins at your service!”
The Chief immediately dropped into a deep bow.
“Great Cheonma, we have received such profound grace from you! That you would provide us goblins with a place to dwell……!”
“You mean the Manmajeon?”
“Yes!”
“That’s right. I invested quite a bit to set it up, so live well there.”
“Understood! Thank you, thank you endlessly!”
The Goblin Chief began praising him passionately the moment he appeared.
If loyalty were quantified, it’d probably score above ninety.
That’s what Lee Gang-han thought to himself.
‘Oh. The horn.’
He suddenly recalled the Castrated Goblin Chief’s Horn he’d received before.
An S-Grade item that shone brilliantly.
But there was the disadvantage that it had to be equipped in a rather sensitive location.
So he’d been torn between simply selling it or giving it to this one.
‘But if I give him the horn, they said it would establish a Goblin Territory in the Manmajeon…… hasn’t that already been built?’
The Goblin Settlement he’d created by investing forty thousand Tower Points.
Wasn’t that essentially no different from a Territory?
While he had the Chief summoned, Lee Gang-han decided to ask him about it.
“Your horn was given to me as a reward, you know.”
“My…… horn?”
“Yeah. But you’ve regrown them, haven’t you?”
Lee Gang-han glanced down at the Goblin Chief’s lower half.
Unlike when he’d been subdued,
all three horns had regrown on the Goblin Chief.
“Ah. My horns regenerate over time, you see.”
So they regenerate with time.
Would he be able to keep benefiting from that resurrection effect?
“Then you don’t need the horn?”
“No…… This is only a copy, but if I obtain the genuine one, I would be greatly strengthened.”
“Is that so? They say if I give you the horn, you can establish a Goblin Territory. What’s the difference between a Territory and a Settlement?”
“Ah…… That would be…….”
The Goblin Chief, who’d been restless since hearing from Lee Gang-han that he possessed the horn,
answered his question immediately.
“With a Territory, we would be able to grow.”
“Growth?”
“Yes. Right now, in the settlement, we merely survive without dying…… but if we gain our own territory, the goblins of Manmajeon will have the chance to grow.”
“So you’re saying they level up?”
In the settlement, there’s only survival.
They remain at a low level, trapped as they are.
But if I give the goblin chief this horn and establish ‘Goblin’s Territory,’
then they gain the ability to grow.
“Yes. And as a side effect…… I will no longer appear in the Beginner’s Tower that humanity faces. Once I obtain this horn, I become ‘real.'”
“I see. But that’s a shame in a way—losing the Goblin’s Tower entirely.”
The pack of goblins that had been stationed with the chief.
Lee Gang-han, who had swept through them so easily,
found himself doubting whether it was right to strip this lowest-difficulty tower from humanity.
“I was thinking of giving the horn to the chief…… but it’d be better to leave the Goblin’s Tower as it is, don’t you think? For the sake of the beginners, at least.”
-Wait what are you saying are you serious!!!-
-Please please just get rid of that castrated goblin ㅠㅠㅠㅠ-
-Dude you could literally get a line in the Tower of Infinity textbooks just for this ㅋㅋㅋ-
-Fr how many newbies has that castrated goblin dropped ㅡㅡ-
-But what does the horn’s ability do that it’s this good???-
Amid a flood of complaints begging for the castrated goblin chief to be removed,
a few people were asking about the horn’s power.
‘Might as well check the market rate.’
If he leveraged collective intelligence, pricing would be easier.
With that thought, Lee Gang-han described the item’s options.
“When equipped, Mana +1, and resurrection effect if you die while wearing it. It shatters after you revive, though.”
-Oh that’s sick-
-That’d sell for a pretty penny-
-Fr +1 stat plus resurrection effect, even Diamond players would buy that-
“But you have to equip it on your groin, like he does.”
-Oh…-
-That’s a bit…-
-High-rank players are basically idols one and all, so showing up like that is kinda off isn’t it ㅋㅋㅋ-
-And with that horn on you can’t equip lower-body armor either-
-Oh right, so the value drops a bit-
‘Equipment slot: Groin’ turned out to be a real disadvantage.
After hearing Lee Gang-han’s explanation, public opinion about the horn reversed just like that.
‘Might as well give it to him.’
He was curious about Goblin’s Territory, anyway.
And the horn didn’t seem like it would sell for much anyway.
Lee Gang-han pulled the horn from his inventory
and handed it to the castrated goblin chief.
“L-Lord Cheonma, are you truly giving this to me?”
“Yeah.”
“But how can you part with such a precious thing…… This horn—a dragon personally refined it from a unicorn’s horn. A treasure that even reverses death itself, and you bestow it upon me!”
“Hey, if you say things like that it starts to feel wasteful. Just take it quietly.”
“C-Cheonma Blessing! My eternal gratitude!!!”
Without being told to do so,
the goblin chief wept freely and bowed again and again.
Giving him this ‘horn’
seemed to hold immense value in his eyes.
And then.
[You present the horn to the Castrated Goblin Chief.]
After that message appeared,
immediately after,
a brilliant flash—!
Intense light blazed across the castrated goblin chief’s form.
[The ‘Castrated Goblin Chief’ transforms into a ‘Unique Being.’]
[The Beginner’s Tower, ‘Goblin’s Tower,’ vanishes.]
[The tutorial boss, the ‘Castrated Goblin Chief,’ will no longer appear to humanity.]
Just as the goblin chief had said,
Goblin’s Tower disappeared after the horn was bestowed.
And it seemed this message wasn’t only appearing to Lee Gang-han.
-Oh shit? I’m getting a message too lol
-Me too, message saying Goblin’s Tower disappeared lol
-Wait, is the Goblin Tower actually disappearing???
-This is crazy…
-Damn, should I give it another shot… I quit because of PTSD from watching that bastard peel and eat flesh
-Real talk, this feels like newbie retention is about to jump like 1%
The chat window was in complete chaos.
Cheonma Wrecks the Tower (Ongoing Series)
Author │ Yeom Bi
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