Wimp's Strategy Guide to Conquer the Tower

Chapter 270 CHAPTER 269

Acquiring nationality and completing the forward base.

The time it took was almost a full day.

Because of that, before he knew it, it was already dawn.

First, they needed to adjust the schedule.

Juhyeok was talking with Jeon Seong-il.

"Today, we'll go up five floors for now."

"Ah! Y-yes.""

"And tomorrow, up to the 70th floor…."

For a moment, Martial Law Commander Jeon Seong-il hesitated.

It looked like he had something to say.

"Um, about tomorrow….""

"Why? Is something wrong?"

"The Chuncheon sinkhole wave—"

"Ah!"

Right.

Korea had three holes.

Since Seoul collapsed last, if you go back to the beginning, it would be Chuncheon's turn.

"What time does it start?""

"From noon to noon the next day."

A full 24-hour wave.

That needed to be handled too.

If it wasn't a Dark Wave, the Awakened Corps alone would be enough to block it, but—

'Undead will come out again.'

That premonition felt strong.

Busy. So busy.

Tomorrow morning was tower climbing.

In the afternoon, conquering the sinkhole wave.

At this rate, even ten bodies wouldn't be enough.

'I need to come up with some kind of method.'

After discussing the schedule a bit more with Captain Jeon Seong-il, Juhyeok decided—

'First, let's bring people over.'

Juhyeok entered the White Tower's 6th floor, took the elevator, and went up to the 17th floor.

There, he explained the existence of Earth No. 843 and the current situation to the summoned beings who were waiting.

….

Earth No. 843 of the parallel universe also had a Black Tower.

Our decision was a complete conquest of the tower.

The summoned beings immediately began preparing to relocate.

The summoner had decided.

They had to follow unconditionally.

Everyone was filled with anticipation.

Although the Black Tower of Earth No. 1,001 had been fully conquered, they themselves hadn't really done much.

They had just holed up on the 17th floor and raised their ranks.

But now, an opportunity had come.

A chance to save a world suffering under the Black Tower.

The summoned beings moved from the White Tower's 17th floor to the 6th floor.

Because of elevator capacity, it ran with 30 people at a time.

Each person carried their own belongings and equipment.

"Huh? It's really exactly the same as the 17th floor.""

"It suddenly became a twin landmark."

"By the way, when do we enter the tower?""

"I heard we might be deployed not only for tower missions but also for sinkhole waves."

"Since even veterans have manifestation limits, if the summoner rotates us—?"

"Haah, I'd be happy even if it's outside. I just want to be summoned."

"Me too."

Meanwhile, Juhyeok was discussing the strategy for conquering the Black Tower of Earth No. 843 with the White Tower's strategist Kosak, the White Tower's chief administrator Gyeon Dallae, and the seasoned veteran Mad Demon.

"Should we assign the rookies to wave defense?""

"No, they should be given a chance at tower conquest too."

"Even if it's an undead section, there's a saintess, and they all have at least some holy power from training, so it won't be difficult."

"What danger would there be? They'll all do their part."

It was heartwarming.

Seniors looking out for their juniors.

"Anyway, shall we start with number five today?""

"Yes. We'll interview Kabalon first."

Some insignificant bastard was hiding in the tower and spreading curses.

They needed to find the original and lift the curse.

Nationality had been acquired.

Therefore, entry into the Black Tower was possible.

The place where the 70th floor was unlocked was the Eastern U.S. Tower.

"We'll use the multinational tower access ticket."

"How many people?""

"Only the veterans."

"Understood!"

"We'll prepare.""

Tower conquest would begin with the American tower.

The forward base for Black Tower conquest was the White Tower's 6th floor.

However, there also needed to be a foothold in the real world of Earth No. 843.

For now, Seoul.

They planned to move later to the Joint Chiefs headquarters.

Seoul.

An empty city.

From here, they would summon the summoned beings—

Spot!

Juhyeok entered the Eastern Tower's 70th floor using the multinational tower access ticket.

Duke Kabalon, a high-ranking demon noble.

But a soul bound to the tower.

You could call it an AI NPC from a game.

An entity preprogrammed to react according to each player's actions.

That's why the dialogue differed for each player.

The Kabalon of Earth No. 843's Black Tower was the same.

A solitary, old-fashioned mansion standing on the 70th floor.

When they went inside, Kabalon was sitting on a lavish chair.

What would he say?

Would he remember him at all?

"Welcome."

He recognizes me?

We've met before.

"You are a Dimension Summoner, a dimensional summoner."

He spoke as if he knew him, but—

"It's exactly the same dialogue as last time.""

"It must be programmed to respond according to Young Master's traits."

"It's an NPC. It reacts exactly as input."

Kabalon smirked.

"You're overflowing with confidence. But do you know this? You're caught. That is—"

Those words were exactly the same as before too.

Kabalon spread his wings and sprang to his feet.

"You've fallen into a trap."

Clang! The iron doors slammed shut.

From his memories of Earth No. 1,001, the original would soon descend upon the copy.

[The soul of the true Archdemon Duke Kabalon descends upon the body of the copied Kabalon.]

Back then, Bardin and Mad Demon had captured and interrogated him.

It took quite some time.

But now, there was no need for that.

"You bastard!!!"

Juhyeok pulled out the Judge's Hammer.

"You have confessed your own sins!!!"

In an instant!

Zzzrrriiiing!

Energy shot out from the hammer and tightly wrapped around Kabalon's body.

"Huk! Th-this is—uh, wh-what? … Ah, why? Kheuk, kek?"

There was nothing better than the Judge's Hammer for interrogation.

Even if he was an NPC, he would have a soul.

After all, his true nature was a demon of the Demon Realm.

But after being bound by the Black Tower, his soul would have been overlaid, reset, copied, and put through all sorts of processes.

'Will interrogation be possible?'

Of course it would.

Was Juhyeok's hammer just any hammer?

It was Yama's hammer itself.

A divine tool that reveals every sin committed throughout one's life.

The effect was certain.

Like digital forensics, it carefully extracted and restored Kabalon's soul.

Pabat!

An image rose from behind him.

"… Ghk? Gghhhhhh."

It started in the Demon Realm.

Kabalon, who had been a high-ranking noble but was offered to the Black Tower by great demons—a tragic fate.

Originally, there was only one original.

Then why did so many Kabalons exist?

He existed simultaneously on Earth No. 1,001, Earth No. 675, Earth No. 943.

The reason was simple.

From the original, true originals were branched out.

In truth, even the "true original" was a clone.

Then what was a copy?

It wasn't a first clone from the original soul, but a second copy cloned from the true original.

A copy of a copy.

So, when the Black Tower was first established, they brought a first-cloned true original soul from the original.

Then, from that true original, they made second clones equal to the number of towers and placed them on each Black Tower's 70th floor.

That's why each entity's soul was connected.

In fact, it was information that didn't even need to be known.

What Juhyeok wanted was the location of the true Kabalon in Earth No. 843's Black Tower.

"Where did you descend from?""

The sin-recording footage continued to play.

It even showed the moment he first spread the curse.

An American player.

An encounter with Lumitri Romenkopf, the CEO of a massive distribution company.

Through his eyes, he observed the world and cast the Curse of Mediocrity.

"They said that player Lumitri enhanced his traits 25 times, but he's weaker than expected."

That was true.

Even facing a second-copy Kabalon—weak beyond belief—he didn't know what to do.

"He is still a high-ranking demon in name, and his talent doesn't seem particularly outstanding."

Having just money wasn't enough.

If those 25 trait enhancement runes he consumed had been given to another player, the situation would have turned out very differently.

"Still, he managed to escape somehow."

After using a few skills and realizing they weren't effective, Lumitri quickly fled to a safe zone and abandoned the mission.

They had already seen the footage of the curse being spread.

Was that the end of it?

Kabalon's face was twisted.

He looked extremely flustered.

Of course he would be.

An unidentified, irresistible force was probing his soul.

And then—

"… Huh?"

"Eh?""

"Ah."

"Oh ho."

They figured it out.

"It's Korea.""

"Korea."

"Korea."

"Korea again?""

"The original is in Korea. Looks like that's the default value."

Was it because it was a parallel universe?

He had been hiding in Korea on Earth No. 1,001, and now again on Earth No. 843.

That made things easier.

Let's go catch him.

This one wouldn't be killed.

Why bother clearing it?

The American Kabalon was America's problem.

Use a mission reset ticket.

If he exited without using one, the entry count would be consumed, leaving only four remaining entries.

Then he wouldn't be able to finish the 70th floor within two days.

Of course, dealing with things quickly was important, but rushing too much wasn't good either.

The boundary between the tower and reality had collapsed, so he couldn't focus only on tower conquest anymore.

The sinkhole waves were an immediate concern as well.

There were many things to try.

Things he couldn't do because Earth No. 1,001 had already been fully conquered.

He needed to apply them on Earth No. 843.

Riiip!

Juhyeok tore the mission reset ticket.

The current situation in the Republic of Korea.

A wartime system due to three sinkholes.

The communications network was still alive.

Even during war, national systems had to operate normally.

Otherwise, the country would fall into panic.

Well, if wave defense failed and the Korean Peninsula became a monster-infested wasteland, communications, power—everything would shut down anyway.

The day after Bong Juhyeok acquired nationality.

One hour after finishing Kabalon's interrogation and stepping outside.

As the Martial Law Commander, Jeon Seong-il delivered an emergency national address.

It broke as urgent news during the morning broadcast.

It was probably an announcement related to being included in the 11th tower-climbing promotion target.

L What's it about?

L Obviously about being selected for the 11th climbing promotion, right?

L Damn it. How are we supposed to clear the 61st floor?

L Another hole's going to open, isn't it?

L Are they telling us to evacuate?

L Sigh, should we leave Korea?

L Go where? Korea's basically an island. If you were going to leave, you should've done it earlier.

L Still, we succeeded in defending the Seoul wave, didn't we? There were even rumors it was a Dark Wave.

L Yeah right. If it were a Dark Wave, everything would've been destroyed by now.

Daejeon Joint Chiefs of Staff Headquarters press briefing room.

Jeon Seong-il stepped up to the podium before a crowd of reporters.

"Respected citizens, yesterday, thanks to the efforts of players and the Awakened Corps, the Republic of Korea safely overcame the Seoul sinkhole wave."

But the atmosphere was heavy.

The reporters all looked extremely uneasy.

So what if they succeeded in defending a sinkhole wave?

They had still been included again as the 11th target nation under the Curse of Mediocrity's climbing promotion.

And waves weren't the only problem.

They wouldn't just end—perhaps they would continue forever until the world itself collapsed.

"There is another piece of good news."

Good news?

"Using a tower jumping ticket to forcibly raise Korea's tower progress to the 61st floor, making it impossible to clear and eventually collapsing the tower—

we have arrested the shameless criminal Ryu Chenming responsible for this."

Ryu Chenming was arrested?

"This man right here."

Ryu Chenming was dragged into the briefing room, bound tightly with ropes.

Chak-chak-chak-chak!

Camera flashes exploded nonstop.

"I would like nothing more than to tear him apart immediately without a trial, but procedures must be followed. However, do not worry. He will absolutely be sentenced to death."

Ryu Chenming had been caught.

The community exploded.

L That fucking bastard!!!

L You piece of trash! You're dead!

L He shouldn't be allowed to die peacefully. Torture him until the end.

L Start by pulling out his fingernails. Toenails too. And castrate him.

L Tear out his tongue and eyeballs as well!

L I'm worried he'll escape into the tower.

L If he enters, he'll just come right back out anyway.

L No, it's because he might die to monsters inside the tower.

The nation's anger was immense.

The current situation of South Korea was all because of Ryu Chenming.

If he hadn't used the tower jumping ticket, the country wouldn't have ended up like this.

No one knew how he was caught, but he was caught nonetheless.

That alone was worth celebrating.

But they couldn't rejoice wholeheartedly.

If only they hadn't been selected again as an 11th target nation, they could at least smile.

"And the good news doesn't end there."

What?

There's more?

"Unfortunately, Korea's Black Tower has indeed been selected as the 11th target nation under Kabalon's Curse of Mediocrity."

What?

This is good news?

Had Martial Law Commander Jeon Seong-il lost his mind?

"However, the curse ends with the 11th cycle. As of today, the Korean Martial Law Command declares the conquest of the Black Tower's 61st floor."

What?!

So suddenly?

A declaration to conquer the 61st floor?

Is that even possible?

Murmurs spread.

The briefing room grew noisy.

Then reporters shot their hands up and began firing questions.

"Is this really possible? Are you lying just to reassure the public—"

"Absolutely not. This is not a lie. I stake my life on it."

"Is it temporary naturalization? China? Or maybe Jeju Island?""

"No. A Korean player. And the cession of Jeju Island will never happen."

"Um, as far as I know, Korea's top player is Colonel Lee Min-seon of the Awakened Corps, level 57—"

"That has changed recently."

"Who…?"*

"I'm afraid it's difficult to disclose at the moment."

The reporters were bewildered.

Jeon Seong-il's integrity as Martial Law Commander was well known.

He wasn't the kind of man to lie.

Was he bluffing?

What would he even gain from that?

Another reporter raised his hand.

"If it's going to be cleared, when approximately—"

That was when it happened.

Ding!

"Huh?"

"Ah!"

"Mm?"

"… A, announcement?""

"Hm."

Everyone in the briefing room heard it.

There was only one possibility.

[World Announcement: Republic of Korea Black Tower 61st Floor Conquered! A player of Korean nationality has conquered the 61st floor of the Black Tower with astonishing ability, achieving an S+++ rank.]

Silence filled the briefing room.

No one spoke.

Then—

"Crazy!"

"T-this kind of world announcement existed?""

"I've never heard of this either. It's the first time."

"My god?"

Up until now, the only world announcements they'd heard were about Kabalon's Curse of Mediocrity.

So what was this?

A Korean-nationality player with astonishing ability?

"C-check it! Is it really cleared?""

"Any players here? Is the progress real?""

"H-hold on, let me make a call.""

"Oh, it's me. What happened—really?""

"It's really cleared?"

"So the curse is actually gone?"

The press conference descended into chaos.

As reporters frantically sent out breaking news articles—

Ding!

The second world announcement.

"W-wait—"

"Again?"

"What is it this time…?"*

[World Announcement: Republic of Korea Black Tower 62nd Floor Conquered! A player of Korean nationality has conquered the 62nd floor of the Black Tower with astonishing ability, achieving an S+++ rank.]

… Up to the 62nd floor.

Why did it ring twice?

In a clear, ringing voice, Jeon Seong-il continued speaking.

"The planned climbing target for today is the 65th floor."

The 65th floor?

That meant five climbs in a single day.

No way—

"… A jumping ticket?""

"No. This is completely different."

"Right. Jumping doesn't proceed like this.""

"There's no jumping ticket that triggers world announcements."

"And the time gaps between clears too.""

That's right.

It definitely wasn't a jumping ticket.

"Citizens, please do not worry. This is not a loophole-based conquest using a tower jumping ticket. This is a legitimate climb."

Then, with overwhelming confidence in both tone and expression—

"As the Martial Law Commander of the Republic of Korea, I once again declare to the citizens of all nations. Our top player will climb five floors per day, reaching the 70th floor tomorrow."

He drove the point home.

"Within two days, the Curse of Mediocrity that has tormented us will be permanently ended by a proud player of the Republic of Korea."

"And tomorrow's scheduled Chuncheon sinkhole wave will also be successfully defended. Please watch closely."

Ding!

The moment he finished speaking, the third world announcement rang out.

[World Announcement: Republic of Korea Black Tower 63rd Floor Conquered! A player of Korean nationality has conquered the 63rd floor of the Black Tower with astonishing ability, achieving an S+++ rank.]

Announcements for the 64th and 65th floors followed in quick succession, at roughly ten-minute intervals.

It was a shock.

The entire world was stunned.

Governments across the globe turned their eyes toward the Republic of Korea.

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