The Legendary Regressor Devours the Tower - Chapter 2

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Episode 2
Done.
Forced Awakening.
Even without entering a tower, one could achieve Awakening by severing a monster’s lifeline like this.
[How to Awaken Without an Invitation Letter]
—Hunt the monsters that emerge outside the tower directly. Don’t be picky about method or means—just kill them, and you’ll awaken. But remember: you must solo a monster at full health and bring it down yourself.
Back when Seong-un was still in elementary school.
Not long after towers appeared, a tip thread had been posted on a community forum.
It was a guide on how ordinary people could awaken without an Invitation Letter.
└Wait…… how are ordinary people supposed to hunt monsters?
└dude, one hit and you’re dead. Even a goblin’s swing sends a utility pole flying like it’s nothing—get close and you’re screwed.
└If you see this and think goblins might be manageable, give up right now…… civilians aren’t at that level.
└Just shoot them with a gun, duh.
└Idiot. And you think anyone in our country is walking around with firearms like that?
└lol from what I’ve seen in other countries, even guns don’t work that well? Looks like the only answer is to handle them with power you get from awakening……
The method had been known for ages, but few had the means to actually carry it out.
Seong-un himself had never once stood face-to-face with a monster before receiving his Invitation Letter.
The moment he stepped before those grotesque creatures, the terror of death consumed him—his body froze as if broken, unable to move.
His will to fight had abandoned him entirely; he could only pray desperately for an Awakened One to appear and erase them.
But this life was different.
Thwack!
“Gaaak!”
Having completed his Awakening, Seong-un wielded the Mana acquired through the system, mercilessly cutting short the goblin’s breath.
The woman who’d been paralyzed with fear had fled and was nowhere to be seen; thanks to that, Seong-un reached the 5-Story Building ahead, having hunted the goblin alone.
Originally a building that housed a PC bang, a billiard hall, and a board game café, debris had transformed it into a tower.
‘This is the place.’
When an Opportunity had appeared in this small tower, news outlets had been plastered with coverage.
He felt a twinge of guilt—as if snatching something meant for another—but to climb the tower, there was no choice but to be selfish about it.
‘I have to become incomparably stronger than before the Regression.’
The Transcendent Species Colossal Soldiers dwelling on the eightieth floor.
To defeat them and ascend further, he had to grow stronger.
[Entry to the Instant Tower is possible without an Invitation Letter.]
[The body of the entrant will be scanned once.]
Whirrrr—
[You are an Awakened One. Entry is permitted.]
[Do you wish to enter the Instant Tower?]
‘Enter.’
The moment he affirmed his intention, the first-floor door swung wide open.
Seong-un stepped inside the building, and the door that had opened shut behind him.
“Grrrkk.”
The monsters inhabiting this small tower were goblins.
Those loitering outside had been the lowest rank of the pack; the goblin warriors who wielded swords and bows had established the tower as their stronghold and adopted a defensive strategy to block intruders.
Though they wouldn’t last even two days before being exterminated, or so it went.
For creatures like these, two days was actually quite a long hold.
In this life, they wouldn’t survive three hours before being exterminated.
Slice!
Seong-un’s dagger carved through the goblin’s throat.
“Gack!”
As he felled goblin after goblin, goblin swordsmen wielding crude blades emerged in succession.
They shielded themselves with crude, uneven bucklers as they closed in on Seong-un.
But it made no difference to him.
Seong-un grabbed the edge of the shield before him and wrenched it backward.
As the goblin’s center of gravity lurched forward in an instant, it stumbled, its feet losing purchase, and tumbled headlong to the ground.
He spun the dagger and reversed his grip, then drove it downward at the nape of the goblin’s neck.
Squelch!
“Gack!”
“Thanks for the shield.”
As the goblin’s strength drained away, Seong-un lifted the shield and hurled it at the others.
As the shield flew toward them, they scrambled to block it—and seizing that moment, Seong-un rushed in, methodically piercing throats and dispatching them one by one.
* * *
The first floor fell in an instant, and as Seong-un climbed to the second level, arrows rained down upon him like a downpour.
Whoosh!
But the arrows never reached Seong-un—his shield caught them all.
He had anticipated their volley and entered the second floor with his body shielded behind his defense.
Shield raised, Seong-un charged toward the archers, and as the distance narrowed, they fell within his strike range—the goblin archers met their end at his hands.
“Phew.”
Third floor.
Fourth floor.
Having culled every last goblin, Seong-un paused to catch his breath.
“I have to admit, this body of mine is struggling a bit.”
[User Information]
-Name: Seong-un
-Level: 1
[Detailed Stats]
-Strength: 5
-Agility: 5
-Stamina: 5
-Sense: 5
-Mana: 5
Level 1, stripped down to bare minimum stats—an empty shell with nothing else to his name.
Even hunting a handful of goblins left him gasping for breath, his stamina utterly spent.
“But I can’t give up now.”
The final floor lay ahead—the fifth.
Somewhere in that fifth level, a boss monster commanded the others.
Defeat it, and the Opportunity waiting here would be his.
Seong-un wiped the green blood from his dagger and climbed the stairs to the fifth floor.
“Krrawk! Human!”
There, a handful of goblin swordsmen and their leader—a Goblin Shaman boss—glared down at him with murderous intent.
[Lv. 5 Goblin Shaman]
‘So that’s the one.’
Yet Seong-un did not advance toward the Shaman—his eyes were fixed on the treasure chest behind it.
The Opportunity he sought slumbered within that chest.
Crackle—
“Die!”
The Goblin Shaman raised his staff, and a fireball the size of his head materialized above Seong-un before hurtling downward.
Seong-un pivoted his left foot back, sidestepped the inferno, then burst forward.
“Krrawk!”
As he closed on the Shaman, the goblin warriors moved to intercept him, raising their shields as a wall.
But Seong-un slipped past them effortlessly and appeared before the Shaman in the span of a heartbeat.
“Krrawk! Die!”
The Goblin Shaman thrust his staff toward Seong-un, and a lightning bolt erupted from its tip.
Crackle—
Slash.
Seong-un dropped low, evading the bolt, and whipped his dagger across the Shaman’s wrist.
His strength fell short of a clean severing, so he aimed instead for the tendons and cut them clean through.
As the tendons snapped, the staff tumbled from the Shaman’s grip.
“Krrk! Damn!”
The Shaman lunged desperately for his fallen staff, but it was already too late.
Thud!
Seong-un’s dagger pierced straight through the Shaman’s throat.
With his vital point struck, the Shaman’s eyes rolled back, his body convulsing violently before going slack.
[You have defeated the Tower Master, the Goblin Shaman.]
[You gain 250 Experience Points.]
[Your Level has increased.]
[No additional resources can be obtained.]
[A Transcendent Being recognizes you. A qualified player is deemed worthy to ascend the Tower. Accordingly, an Invitation Letter has been awarded.]
Done.
He had just moved up his Tower ascent by five years.
[Clear Evaluation is being tallied.]
[Clear Score: S+]
Every tower’s clear evaluation is tallied in precisely this manner.
Even if you succeed in climbing, a low score means no additional rewards, but a perfect clear yields bonus compensation like this.
‘Back then, I never managed to earn these rewards properly.’
Knowing the information and actually executing it flawlessly to achieve a high score were two entirely different matters.
That’s why in the early days I received ordinary scores and gained almost no additional rewards—only after I’d built up sufficient experience could I earn the bonuses.
But this life is different.
I won’t lose additional rewards to inexperience this time.
[You have received 1 Gold as an additional reward based on your Clear Evaluation.]
Still, the bonus rewards from small-scale towers are meager at best.
Had the rewards been generous, climbers would have rushed these towers the moment they appeared, but since the compensation was virtually nonexistent, delays in climbing them happened frequently.
“Huff!”
Seong-un slew the remaining goblins before approaching the treasure chest.
So that’s where it’s kept, then?
Click.
With trembling hands, he opened the chest slowly.
Inside lay various items, but what Seong-un wanted was a worn book tucked in the corner.
“Found it.”
A smile deepened across Seong-un’s lips at the sight of the tome.
[Gregorian’s Eye-Opening Record]
-Type: Skill Book
-Grade: SS
-The sole record left behind by Gregorian in life
-Within these pages lies his vision of the world’s hidden seams and the flow of mana—all who open this book may glimpse them, if only for a moment.
-Upon using this Skill Book, you acquire [Hyper Sense].
He had no idea how goblins came to possess something so precious, but this was a Skill Book harboring an SS-grade ability.
‘SS grade has only appeared eight times up to this point in history.’
The fact that such a rarity lay hidden in this dinky tower—he could only imagine the shock others must have felt.
When it was discovered in South Korea among all those nations, several climbers momentarily turned their attention to small-scale towers, and the frequency of monsters roaming the streets plummeted dramatically.
‘If I remember correctly, it was actually found by someone performing official duties.’
A climber affiliated with the Hunter Association.
Among their countless divisions, there existed a branch dedicated exclusively to conquering small-scale towers.
In exchange for receiving substantial compensation, all items acquired within fell under the Association’s ownership.
From SS-grade onward, once a certain period elapsed after discovery, notification went to all climbers, so it never remained in private hands—it reverted to the Association.
‘All skills grow with their user, after all.’
An SS-grade doesn’t unleash SS-grade power the moment you wield it.
It begins at a lower rank, developing alongside its user.
Moreover, a skill’s potency varies based on the user’s capacity.
Had this Skill Book been used earlier and grown all the way to SS-grade, it would have altered the course of history.
“So I’ll be the one to use it.”
[You are using Gregorian’s Eye-Opening Record.]
The aged tome blazed with light before vanishing entirely.
[You have acquired Hyper Sense.]
His heart thundered in his chest.
To obtain an SS-grade Hyper Sense the moment after regression—his fortune seemed boundless.
[Hyper Sense]
-Type: Passive
-Grade: E
-Maximum Growth Grade: SS
-You detect subtle shifts in presence, mana flow, and danger signals around you.
Your senses grow acute.
Sounds that went unheard before now come through with crystalline clarity.
No danger signals registered since he’d dispatched all the goblins, but this Hyper Sense would prove invaluable throughout his tower climbs.
* * *
Having secured the opportunity, Seong-un returned home and rested.
[72 hours remain until tower entry.]
Receiving an Invitation Letter didn’t grant immediate entry.
Access was only possible after a minimum of 24 hours had elapsed.
[Tutorial Mode Clear Strategy?]
-I got an Invitation Letter, but I think I’ll be forcibly pulled in within a day? Give me some info on Tutorial Mode
└That info’s just circulating around out there—look it up yourself
└That attitude of just steamrolling through regardless is repulsive lol
└Besides, Tutorial Mode doesn’t matter whether you do well or fail, right?
└You come back to life even if you die in the tutorial, so no worries
Tutorial Mode.
The only place free from death.
Climbers called this Tutorial Mode the 0th Floor.
‘It’s not just about hunting monsters—it’s a place where you can learn the fundamentals of the Tower itself.’
Before his Regression, Seong-un had completed this Tutorial Mode with a respectable B-Rank evaluation.
If he hadn’t read the strategy guide meticulously compiled by someone who’d earned an S-Rank, he wouldn’t have managed even a C, let alone a B.
But this life would be different.
Five years from now, a climber would complete the Tutorial with an insane SSS-Rank evaluation, and that’s when the entire world would erupt into chaos.
The world goes mad over it.
Not merely because of the SSS-Rank completion itself, but because of the additional reward that came with it.
‘She earned an S+ Grade Title.’
The holder of that Title was known as the Extreme Mage—Rosalein.
It was widely known that this Title played a crucial role in laying the foundation for her early growth.
Of course, Seong-un had no intention of stealing Rosalein’s Title.
It wasn’t awarded only to the first person to record it anyway—anyone who reached that benchmark could claim the reward.
“What I’m after is something more.”
Most would think SSS was the pinnacle, but in truth, there existed one evaluation tier above it.
EX.
That was the Clear Evaluation score Seong-un was aiming for.
An Unparalleled Returner Devours the Tower (Serialized)
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