The Legendary Regressor Devours the Tower - Chapter 24

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Chapter 24
Crack—crack—crack!
The defensive barrier finally shattered under the onslaught.
The Blood Ant Queen’s true form lay exposed, and Seong-un brought his blade down mercilessly onto her head.
“Shrieeek!”
The Queen’s body convulsed violently as her skull was pierced through, and within moments, all movement ceased.
She was dead.
[You have defeated the Tower’s master, the Blood Ant Queen.]
[You have earned 25,000 Experience Points.]
[Your Level has increased.]
[No additional resources could be obtained.]
[Clear Evaluation is being calculated.]
[Clear Score: S+]
[You have received 1 Gold as a bonus reward for your Clear Evaluation.]
His level had risen to nineteen.
It was cause for celebration, yet Seong-un couldn’t shake a nagging unease.
‘Three more floors to reach the top? Still?’
He was currently on Floor 12.
A fragment had flown from Floor 8, where he lived, and instantly swallowed the entire apartment complex.
The critical issue was that the apartment, now transformed into a tower, had not reverted to its original state.
This could only mean one thing: the Small Tower was a Dual-layered Small Tower.
“Thank you all for your hard work,” Seong-un said, bowing slightly to the three employees.
He offered his gratitude to those who had fought alongside him.
“No, no—we didn’t really do much of anything…”
“That’s right. The Monster Rookie did everything. Even this fellow holding the Shield didn’t contribute much, to be honest.”
“Hey! Who are you to judge that?”
They appeared to be roommates; their rapport was clear and comfortable.
“Please wait here for now,” Seong-un instructed.
“Wait here?” one of them echoed.
All three exchanged confused glances.
The Blood Ant Queen had been defeated, and a Clear Evaluation score had appeared before them as well.
Their individual scores would differ based on their contributions, but they would certainly have registered that the floor was cleared.
“There will be another creature lurking above.”
“A-another creature?”
“Yes. Look at those stairs,” Seong-un said, pointing upward with his hand.
He gestured toward the staircase leading to the next floor.
A black door stood sealed shut, and before it, a barrier shimmered in the air.
“Wh-what…?”
The color drained from the employees’ faces.
‘A Dual-layered Small Tower.’
Normally, a Small Tower formed when a single fragment burst forth and consumed a building. But a Dual-layered Small Tower occurred when a fragment composed of two pieces fused together swallowed a structure whole.
The problem was that the tower occupying the upper levels always had dramatically higher difficulty than the one below.
Floors 1 through 12.
Those floors were controlled by the Blood Ant Queen, but the fragment above controlled only three floors.
That was far from good news.
A narrower range meant only one thing: the difficulty was brutally escalated.
“No, no—I think we should wait for reinforcements!” Lee Tae-hun, the one holding the Shield, interjected urgently, grabbing Seong-un’s arm.
He tried desperately to stop him from ascending.
He could acknowledge that the Monster Rookie had performed a solo display of overwhelming power on this floor.
But the tower above was a different matter entirely.
No matter how one looked at it, facing a monster stronger than the Blood Ant Queen while having ascended only two floors was no different from choosing to die.
“There may be people caught inside,” Seong-un said quietly.
“That’s exactly why it’s dangerous!”
He wasn’t wrong.
Seong-un himself had been drawn in while sleeping peacefully in his own home.
But that didn’t mean the Monster Rookie needed to risk his own life for them.
Simply waiting until the protective personnel arrived would surely give them a fighting chance.
“No. I’m going up now,” Seong-un replied, his tone final.
He paid no mind to their protests and moved toward the staircase.
‘It might be because of me.’
The assumption was that since he’d reaped enormous gains from the Golden Dice, the Apartment must have transformed into a Small Tower as misfortune to balance it out.
It wasn’t an entirely implausible theory, so he decided to take responsibility directly.
[Will you enter the Instance Tower?]
[Maximum entry capacity: 1 person.]
Seong-un’s face darkened.
Looking at it this way, you might assume no one was caught up in it—but what if they’d already been wiped out? Reduced to zero?
‘I hope it’s not the latter… Entry.’
* * *
Ten minutes had passed since Seong-un ascended to Floor 13.
“Damn it. How the hell are we supposed to handle this…?”
“Should we have just charged in and stopped him?”
“You got the strength for that?”
“I’m just saying, you bastard.”
The three of them remained where they were, unable to leave, wringing their hands.
In the meantime, Jang Byeong-jun and the other staff members came up from below.
Finding three survivors still alive, Jang Byeong-jun exhaled with relief.
“I’m glad you’re all safe.”
“Yes, we… we survived because the Monster Rookie helped us.”
“The Monster Rookie—where is he now?”
Jang Byeong-jun had rushed up not only to rescue the residents but also because Seong-un, who should have been on Floor 8, was nowhere to be found.
“That’s… he went up.”
“Up?”
“Yes. He said this place had transformed into a Dual-layered Small Tower.”
“A Dual-layered Small Tower?!”
Jang Byeong-jun’s face went pale with shock as he rushed frantically toward the portal leading upward.
[Entry capacity exceeded. Entry is not possible.]
Damn it.
A Dual-layered Small Tower, of all things.
A Small Tower where many could enter.
And a Small Tower where only solo climbing was permitted.
The Tower starting from Floor 13 fell into the latter category.
“Team Lead, what do we do…?”
The staff members who’d followed understood the gravity of the situation.
“We wait.”
“Wait?”
“Yes. There’s nothing we can do in this situation.”
Jang Byeong-jun maintained his composure as best he could, thinking of Seong-un beyond the entrance.
Though he’d only climbed two floors, the man had demonstrated a performance worthy of being called an Irregular.
‘He didn’t get caught up in this—he chose it deliberately.’
From his brief observation, Seong-un wasn’t the type to act recklessly without a plan.
He must have gone in with something in mind.
So now, they would trust and wait.
* * *
Floor 13.
“No monsters.”
The moment Seong-un entered Floor 13, he recognized the layout instantly—it resembled Tutorial Stage 3.
There were no monsters; instead, crimson lava boiled all around.
Small boulders drifted weightlessly overhead, defying gravity.
“The heat is tremendous.”
The mark of one who’d endured the All-Things-Accepting state leveled up to Grade D.
Even with that passive skill in his possession, the heat was nearly unbearable.
Breathing had become difficult, and his body was already drenched with sweat despite having only just arrived.
The problem was that his life force—his stamina—was rapidly draining away.
‘When stamina reaches zero, I collapse.’
His current stamina stood at 26.
If he delayed here, he’d have to face the boss with depleted stamina.
‘This is a familiar type of trial.’
The good news was that he’d faced this sort of challenge countless times before.
Seong-un stepped before the lava lake.
His body felt light.
I pushed off the ground and leaped, my jump reaching three times my normal height.
Landing on one of the floating stones, I felt it begin to sink beneath my weight.
Seong-un showed no alarm, simply vaulting to the next stone.
Crumble-crumble—
Each time Seong-un landed, stone fragments scattered downward with a dry pattering sound.
Crack—
Some stones split cleanly in half the moment he touched them.
Yet he moved with practiced ease, reaching the destination point.
‘Must’ve taken about thirty minutes.’
Even moving without hesitation, it had taken just over half an hour.
A half-hour of acrobatics where a single misstep meant death—the difficulty was staggering.
“I was right to come this way.”
Unless one had access to shortcuts like flying magic, there was no alternative.
Floor 13 couldn’t be conquered by raw Level alone.
Seong-un climbed the stairs to Floor 14.
Whoosh!
In that instant, something shot toward his head.
His Supernatural Sense detected it; he twisted his head to the side, dodging cleanly.
Boom-crash-bang!
The projectile, missing him, slammed into the wall with a violent explosion.
‘A tail? Kayak’s?’
What had been fired was indeed a tail.
More precisely, a small hole was drilled in the tail’s tip, and smoke curled from it—suggesting the next attack was already being prepared.
Seong-un recognized the owner of that tail: Kayak.
The boss monster he had once slaughtered with his own hands in his previous life, cutting off its breath.
Its Level well over 100, this version of Kayak would be overwhelming for the current Seong-un to face.
But if Kayak were the master of this Tower, that couldn’t be right.
‘Kayak lurks on Floor 33 as the final boss. It shouldn’t be here.’
Moreover, he saw no subordinate monsters under its command.
‘Ah, now I remember. This is the Lizardman Shaman.’
The boss monster.
The Lizardman Shaman.
A creature that worshipped Kayak as a god, calling it down through ritual incantation.
The reason he remembered this encounter was simple: the rewards it had dropped were spectacularly generous.
‘This isn’t a misfortune at all.’
If his memory served, this was an incredible stroke of luck.
Seong-un pushed off and charged forward.
Whoosh!
Again, an attack shot from the tail.
“!”
Seong-un’s body twisted reflexively.
A sharp pain bloomed along his ribs.
The distance had closed too much; he hadn’t dodged perfectly.
Without his Supernatural Sense, evasion would have been impossible altogether.
Thud—
The tail aimed at him suddenly fell still.
Seong-un had successfully evaded and reached the arrival point.
The challenge of Floor 14 was to survive the tail’s assault and stand before the stairs leading to Floor 15.
“So only the boss remains.”
As expected, the boss monster lurking on Floor 15 was the Lizardman Shaman.
A creature boasting Level 40 no less.
Unlike the Blood Ants, this one possessed considerable intelligence.
With Ability Stats at Level 19 except for Strength, if it discerned this weakness, it would refuse to close distance, instead concentrating on ranged attacks—a likely strategy.
Yet despite sensing Seong-un’s arrival on Floor 15, the Shaman remained focused on its ritual, showing no sign of responding.
‘Completely off guard.’
The perfect moment to make a decisive move.
One Strike, Two Severed—
A skill that, once used, locked him out for a full twenty-four hours, yet one whose destructive power was truly formidable.
‘I can’t generate full power, though.’
To achieve one hundred percent effectiveness and cleanly cleave the Lizardman Shaman in half, he needed at least 50 Magic Power.
Yet Seong-un’s current Magic Power had reached a limit of 25.
‘I can do this.’
It was only a fifty percent probability, but with Strength that exceeded his Level and an exploited weakness of the Lizardman Shaman, he could finish it in one strike.
Seong-un deliberately made his footsteps loud as he closed the distance between himself and the creature.
“Kiiirrrgh!”
Bang!
The creature brought down the Staff it was holding with tremendous force, and sparks erupted from the impact.
Crackle—
“!”
Having already grasped the creature’s ability, Seong-un retreated swiftly, as if he’d been waiting for this moment.
Crackle—
The sparks drove forward to where Seong-un had been standing, but they did not reach him.
Seong-un had already returned to the entrance of Floor 15.
The Lightning Bolt would have been impossible to evade if its range had been even slightly wider.
The Lizardman Shaman, apparently not expecting him to dodge, ceased its concentration and turned to glare at Seong-un.
“Kiiirrrgh.”
Seong-un grinned and deliberately stepped forward, leaving the entrance and advancing toward the Lizardman Shaman.
Unable to use Lightning Bolt consecutively, it seemed, the creature pointed its Staff at Seong-un.
This time, a spell called Volt Shot shot forth from the Staff.
A projectile of lightning hurtled through the air at incredible speed.
“Hup!”
Seong-un sidestepped and narrowly dodged the Volt Shot.
In the same moment, he accelerated and closed the distance between himself and the Lizardman Shaman in an instant.
“Kiir?!”
The creature, apparently not expecting to be dodged, panicked and tried to swing its Staff and prepare a spell, but Seong-un had already activated his Skill.
‘Twenty.’
Seong-un boldly invested 20 Magic Power.
The sword in his grip glowed crimson.
[You use One Stroke, Two Severed Parts.]
[The probability is 40%.]
The Legendary Regressor Devours the Tower (Serialized)
Author │ Yeon-i Yo
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