The Legendary Regressor Devours the Tower - Chapter 20

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Episode 20
Clearing the Hidden Mid-Boss Litri.
Eliminating Dante, the Iron Art’s lackey.
Healing the dying elder Brahman and earning his recognition.
All of this was for advancing to EX Grade.
‘Everything’s going smoothly.’
Being in the lower floors, there was nothing difficult yet.
After receiving Brahman’s acknowledgment, Seong Un quickly left that place, passed through the labyrinth leading to the final gate, and subjugated the boss of the second floor.
[You have defeated the Poison Goblin Shaman.]
The boss monster lurking beyond the labyrinth was a Poison Goblin Shaman.
It was a goblin specialized in handling poison, and its level was 10.
Though its level was five points lower than the goblin chieftain faced on the first floor, because it wielded poison, those without immunity found the Poison Goblin Shaman far more troublesome.
The death rate on the second floor being higher than the first was proof of exactly that.
[You have achieved a remarkable feat.]
[Your health did not fall below 70%. A Bonus Score has been added.]
[Your Level has increased.]
[You have obtained 4 E-rank Magic Stones.]
[You have obtained 2 Poison Cores.]
With Poison Resistance at 45% and leveraging deep toxin, he finished the battle in under ten minutes.
Seong Un’s health exceeded 90%, so he met the conditions for the Bonus Score addition.
The rewards were far from over.
[You have successfully ascended the second floor of the Tower of Ruin!]
[Due to the effect of the Blessing of Aodius (Beginner) title, a 20% Clear Bonus Score is applied.]
[You belong to the Association. The Tower acknowledges this. A 2% Clear Bonus Score is applied.]
[Your Clear Evaluation is being calculated.]
[Clear Score: EX+]
[Rewards will be issued. Please wait a moment.]
A smile played at the corners of Seong Un’s mouth.
Like the first floor, he had finished the second floor with an EX+ rating as well.
‘Now let me collect the mission rewards.’
There was time before the reward settlement.
Seong Un recovered the 3,000 Gold that had been staked on the missions.
[You have succeeded in your mission.]
[1,000 Gold has been issued.]
[1,000 Gold has been issued.]
[1,000 Gold has been issued.]
Three portions of 1,000 Gold each.
It was impossible not to feel a twinge of regret.
Had there been no ceiling, he could have claimed far more Gold.
-Wow… damn, that’s insane
-EX+ again this time?
-Is it because he killed the hidden boss? Why’s the Poison Goblin Shaman’s share so small lol, it’s supposed to be the final boss
-Don’t end the broadcast!
-Show us the rewards this time
-If you don’t reveal the rewards, you’ll get hit with a baldness curse all the way to your third generation lmao
-That curse doesn’t even have a cure lmao
How desperately curious they must be to hurl such curses.
“No, that won’t happen.”
In his past life, Seong Un’s hair had been so voluminous it reached down to his waist.
Knowing the future as he did, Seong Un, untroubled by any such threat, ended the broadcast without hesitation.
[Broadcast ended.]
Part of it was to avoid showing the rewards, but there was something far more important.
[For the first time across all races, you have completed an ascent with an EX+ Grade result. We will grant you a “truly special” reward for this remarkable achievement.]
Like the first floor, he had become the first of all races to achieve an EX+ Grade on the second floor as well.
[You have obtained a Golden Dice (SSS).]
A Golden Dice of SSS Rank, no less.
Seong Un’s lips curved upward.
The main reward for the second floor was Ability Stats.
Upon completing an ascent, a dice would be granted as a reward, and because he finished with an EX+ Grade, a Golden Dice was issued.
[Golden Dice]
-Category: Consumable
-Grade: SSS Rank
-When the dice is used, Ability Stats increase according to the result.
-When the dice is used, a random skill is acquired along with the Ability Stats increase.
The dice I’d obtained in my previous life.
It would raise one random Ability Stat by the amount shown on each face—numbered one through six.
Seong Un examined the faces of the Golden Dice he’d been awarded.
‘Not one through six, then.’
The six faces were identical in shape, but the numbers differed.
The minimum was 10.
The maximum went as high as 60.
It meant the dice would grant stat increases ten times higher than an ordinary one.
And the rewards didn’t stop there.
[Your Level has increased by 5.]
[876 Sponsorship Gold has been awarded.]
[“First Climber” title has been upgraded to Tier 2.]
Five additional levels gained, 876 Sponsorship Gold awarded.
The “First Climber” title had similarly climbed one tier.
He hadn’t acquired any separate bonus rewards, but it was more than satisfying.
[You have achieved a legendary milestone.]
[You have completed three consecutive floors at EX Grade or higher.]
The reason was precisely that he’d achieved the legendary milestone of three consecutive completions at EX Grade or above.
[You may now exercise the “Three-Step Skip” Privilege!]
The achievement reward was a privilege allowing him to leap up three entire floors.
In his previous life, Seong Un had only been able to use this privilege once.
Even then it had yielded poor results—worse than useless—but this time would be different.
[The Privilege may be activated upon entering the next floor. You will decide whether to use it then.]
[If unused, the Privilege will be automatically deleted.]
* * *
[Congratulations! Climber (South Korea – Seoul) has completed Floor 2 of the Tower of Ruin with an EX+ Grade evaluation.]
The Tutorial, Floor 1, and now Floor 2.
As EX Grade or better continued to appear in succession, over 90 percent of Climbers worldwide reached the same certainty.
‘That’s not coincidence.’
They thought.
Once or twice, people might excuse it as luck, but from the third time onward, it’s different.
The third time is skill, not chance.
Especially among Korean Climbers who’d watched the broadcast, many insisted his every move had been calculated.
[Honestly, even if I gave him credit for beating the Hidden Mid-Boss somehow, the NPC slaughter afterward makes zero sense ㅇㅇ]
-What kind of person would call that luck? I’m convinced he has an unpublished strategy guide
└Strategy guide? Then EX Grade should’ve appeared before this guy
└So how does he pull off plays like that?
└ㄹㅇ They need to make a strategy guide for this
└The Association should force them to make one ㅋㅋㅋ
└Honestly it’s a problem if they don’t
└That’s ridiculous lol ㅋㅋㅋㅋ Whether he writes a guide or not is his business. What’s it to you?
└└Oh lol ㅋㅋㅋ Association Director just showed up? Go tell them to hurry up and make a guide~
“How did they figure it out?!”
Choi Hyuk’s eyes trembled.
After the broadcast ended, he’d sat in a daze until a nagging thought drove him to check the community forum.
As expected, the forum was plastered with posts about EX+ Grade.
Posts praising the Climber, complaints about his not revealing rewards, and venomous personal attacks fueled by jealousy.
He’d tried ignoring them, but when he left a comment to argue back, he was identified on the spot.
“Are they unusually perceptive?”
Knock. Knock.
As he tilted his head in confusion, the sound of knocking reached him.
“Come in.”
At his permission, the door opened and a man in his early forties rushed inside urgently.
“…The calls are relentless, aren’t they?”
He was Lee Ji Hoon, director of the Awakener Situation Management Team.
Awakener civil complaints, anomalies, danger reports—everything funneled through him.
The Awakener Situation Management Team was the hub that oversaw all these operations.
Lee Ji Hoon’s unannounced visit to the Chairman’s office had to concern Seong Un, who belonged to the Association.
The assumption proved precisely correct.
“Yes. Currently, several guild masters are requesting a meeting with the Chairman.”
“Hmm…….”
Every one of them was a named guild.
‘They’re not trying to recruit him. Unless they’re fools, they’d know that even a named guild can’t protect what they claim to own.’
Not that it would come to that, but suppose they somehow managed to recruit Seong Un with an exceptional offer.
There’d be no time to celebrate—only to fret constantly about keeping him from being stolen away.
After all, it wasn’t just South Korea that had its eyes on him.
“……I wish his remarkable achievements had never reached the climbers in the first place,” Lee Ji Hoon muttered quietly.
The acquisition of hidden opportunities. The recording of overwhelming records.
What if none of it had become known?
Better yet, what if the climber’s nationality and city had come back as unknown?
Then none of this would be happening.
“It’s been this way from the beginning anyway. In any case, let’s arrange a meeting with the guild masters.”
“Understood.”
Choi Hyuk had watched Seong Un’s play and become certain of one thing.
Only a tiny fraction of climbers follow a strategy guide one hundred percent.
When anyone begins climbing for the first time, there’s always some point where they stumble.
But Seong Un was different.
His play was flawless—entirely without excess.
There was no way America, China, or Russia would sit idle while such an Irregular emerged.
Doubtless many powers had already begun working to bring him into their ranks.
‘The Association alone won’t suffice.’
Until Seong Un himself agreed to an exceptional offer, they had to do everything possible to let him focus solely on climbing.
If the named guilds joined forces, they could construct a far more solid defensive wall than they had now.
* * *
Once Seong Un finished climbing and returned home, he switched on his computer immediately.
“It’s absolute chaos.”
Not just the community forums.
The entire internet was plastered with talk of Seong Un.
Following the EX Grade clear, consecutive EX+ Grade clears had come back to back—a natural reaction.
[Cleared Floors 2 Through EX+ Grade! The Mystery Climber Is a South Korean Resident of Seoul?!]
Seong Un laughed softly at the prominently posted news.
“The Association’s going to have their hands full.”
Other powers would never let an Irregular slip through their fingers.
Yet Seong Un had no intention of hiding his identity.
‘The newly obtainable Prestige when I reach floor ten.’
Initial Prestige is determined by climbers worldwide becoming conscious of the existence called Seong Un.
Moreover, through broadcasts—the number of viewers and Sponsorship Gold—additional Bonus Scores become possible, granting extra Prestige acquisition.
This aspect had long since been disseminated through strategy guides.
“Well then, I should use the Golden Dice first?”
[User Information]
-Name: Seong Un
-Level: 18
[Detailed Ability Stats]
-Strength: 25
-Agility: 25
-Vitality: 25
-Sense: 25
-Magic Power: 25
His current level was eighteen.
And all his ability stats were aligned at exactly twenty-five.
Normally such numbers would be more than sufficient to challenge floor three, but Seong Un’s next objective was to use a Privilege.
If he succeeded, he could leap three floors at once and clear floor five in one go, moving directly to challenge floor six.
‘The rewards from floors three through five are worth skipping.’
The rewards he’d receive upon clearing floors three through five with an EX+ Grade evaluation.
By using a Privilege, he’d forfeit the qualification for a first clear—and if he failed, he’d have to climb floors three through five with no rewards at all.

Still, there was reason to attempt it.
The rewards from succeeding at the Privilege far exceeded the combined rewards from three floors.
Before rolling the Golden Dice, Seong Un made a phone call on his smartphone.
[Yes.]
The call connected on the first ring.
“I need you to do something for me.”
[I’m about to challenge the first floor right now…….]
The one who answered was Han Geon Woo.
While Seong Un had been subjugating the second floor, Han Geon Woo, with support from the Association, had been preparing for his own first-floor challenge.
“I’ll give you an A-rank Sword.”
An A-rank Sword that the Association had provided.
Seong Un could receive such a thing, but Han Geon Woo would have been given, at best, a C-rank sword.
[What do I need to do to get it?!]
Han Geon Woo’s voice pitched up an octave, his hunger for the A-rank weapon unmistakable.
“Just bring me back one elixir.”
[An elixir……?]
The Legendary Returnee Devours the Tower (Serialized)
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