Chapter 175
Chapter 175
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Translator: Ace
Chapter: 175
Chapter Title: Ordinary Guy's Tower Conquest Strategy 175
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Obesity Escape Bracelet.
Handmade enchantment production was temporarily halted.
It was time to switch to a mechanical mass enchantment production system.
For that purpose, a dedicated group chat was created.
9th Circle Mage Mackenzie, shut-in alchemist Aliamari, magic engineer El, businessman Kosak, Chief Jeon Gwang-il, and Rajiks Goods representative Jung Dong-hoon were all in it.
It was always the same thought, but the White Tower's communication tower was truly cheat-level.
People inside the tower and outside could chat in real-time SNS group rooms.
They didn't spend the whole day just discussing.
They also climbed the tower.
Because there were things to check.
First, Tower 2, Floor 84.
Whether Tower 2 also had a high-grade magic stone vein, and if there were natural top-grade demon cores there too.
As expected, same environment as Tower 1.
Snowfield background, massive ice walls, hidden cave with a superior demon vein, and natural top-grade demon cores embedded in the cave walls.
Check complete.
Leave this one alone for now.
Mine it when the Tower 1 Floor 84 vein runs dry.
Next, Tower 2 Floor 85.
Collect the magic core engine and see if other giant parts could be gathered too.
El had to take another magic EMP hit, unavoidably.
She said it could be postponed, but they decided on consecutive climbs per El's opinion to just get it over with quickly.
Razix and El, Gobang and Kosak, Gwang-ma, and Bardin made the advance team roster.
"The warrior is filled with emotion. Feels like I've finally found my place."
"This humble one can finally earn his keep. Glory be."
"Ho-eh!"
Meanwhile, Kosak was,
"Haa, so busy I'm dying here, gotta finish quick. Need to go to North Korea and supervise construction sites. Time is money."
He seemed fully possessed by a businessman now.
A few days ago, he was throwing a fit about his being stolen.
One day hot, next day cold.
And so, Joo-hyuk and the summoned entered Floor 85 again.
Preparation for conquest.
El stepped forward again this time.
Just one more hit.
Only one magic EMP round was left.
The one stored in El's left thigh compartment.
Well, she said she could make more later.
Next time, it would be modified so the user isn't affected by the EMP.
Thud thud thud thud!
The Ego Magnus Gigant charging headlong.
Even with an Ego mounted, it didn't seem that smart.
Intelligence far below Earth's AI tech.
Rumble!
Flash! Zap! Zap zap!
Exploding waves of light.
Stutter! Stutter!
The giant and El froze simultaneously.
"5 minutes. Let's work."
First, finger separation.
Squelch!
Gigantified Gobang and Bardin yanked the giant's fingers.
Screeech!
Swoosh!
Swordmaster Kosak's sword beam.
Plus Gwang-ma's blood jade aura.
Crunch, crrrunch, slice slice!
Cut off easily,
Each finger segment with joint was car-sized.
"Ho-eh!"
Razix stuffed it into his subspace backpack.
Next, open the armor plates.
The Heart section contained the core engine and giant's key parts.
Time was short.
Before the conquest complete message pops up, quick quick.
The close-combat summoned, active after a while.
Combined strength to carefully dismantle parts and gear.
What they took was a tiny fraction of the whole giant.
But it was just the start.
Someday, they'd haul the whole thing out.
They returned to White Tower after mission complete message.
Shh, shh, shh...,
Razix pulled out the giant's finger, core engine, and parts gathered from Floor 85.
A moment later.
Magic engineer El woke from her blackout.
She was staring at the piled-up giant parts.
"Aaaah."
El's expression was still in disbelief.
Now 10 magic core engines.
From the magic empire's ultimate weapon, Magnus Gigant cores, no less.
"Surprised?"
"...Who wouldn't be."
"This is our Summoner Bong's tower conquest method. Free lunch."
Right.
Swallowed it for free.
Who knew conquests like this existed.
"Now we complete the Obesity Escape Bracelet mass production system. Gotta make money to eat, drink, buy clothes, do everything."
"Don't worry. With these parts secured, it won't even take a month."
"Aww, our factory chief's got big ambitions. I'll gift you top-grade lubricant later."
Honestly, at this point, they thought the first joint product of Ma Yeon-gong would be the Obesity Escape Bracelet.
But the first mass-produced item wasn't the bracelet.
It was something completely unexpected.
Chongqing, China.
A metropolis of 30 million people.
Registered general Players in Chongqing alone numbered between 3,000 and 6,000.
Hao Ren lived in Chongqing too.
A Level 58 general Player.
He had some talent, even got an offer for national nurturing Player.
But hating restraints, he signed a relatively free general Player contract.
Lately, Hao Ren's dissatisfaction peaked.
Due to excessive surveillance and interference from Chongqing public security.
They'd barge into his home anytime to check his location, tower access, and rewards if any.
Today too.
Two armed public security officers.
"Hao Ren, home as usual."
"Have to be. Obvious I'd be tailed if I went out."
"Hmph, still prickly. Can't you cooperate a bit?"
"More like, why do you keep coming? You were here yesterday, isn't this too much?"
"You're the highest level general Player in Chongqing."
"Sigh."
His guts were twisting.
High level should mean respect, not surveillance target.
Truth is, to public security, high-level general Players were threats.
If any had a Liberation Rune Necklace in their inventory, they were very dangerous.
He understood at first.
But this was too much?
When did this Player suppression start?
It ahd been quite a while.
When China's top Player Bai Long first climbed to Floor 71.
Bai Long got the Floor 71 4-kind gift set with tower jump ticket.
But then-Chairman Wang Yuan tried to forcibly take the items.
Offended, Bai Long assassinated Chairman Wang Yuan and fled.
Plus the Beijing crisis HQ bombing happened.
To China's political powers, Players became potential risks.
Thus, vigilance against Players maxed out.
What if they got a Liberation Rune Necklace as reward?
Hiding it in their inventory, waiting to overthrow the state?
"What floor today?"
"Didn't climb."
"...Today too?"
"Yes."
"Suspicious."
Hao Ren was floored.
"Ridiculous. You check my inventory if I climbed, you're suspicious if I don't."
The Chongqing public security smirked slyly.
"Some guys climb to sell high-grade magic stones to overseas brokers. High-grade stones are national assets."
"..."
Now anger boiled up.
"What do I have to do?"
"Figure it out yourself."
He knew it.
They wanted money.
Another reason public security harassed Players.
Government directives too, but mostly to grab a cut.
Players earned well.
"How much?"
"Hmm, openly offering bribe?"
"Isn't that what you want?"
"Cheeky peasant-turned-worker scum, got cocky after awakening by luck?"
"..."
"You hit the jackpot today. Time to teach a lesson. Cuff him!"
Something off.
Usually they'd take money and leave.
Click!
Handcuffs on his wrists.
Even leg restraints on ankles.
"Check his neck! Any equipped items?"
"None."
"Really?"
Then.
Like they'd been waiting, armed troops stormed his house.
Waiting outside apparently.
"Huh? ...Why?"
Sudden mood shift.
"Hao Ren! Chongqing branch chief of China Player Association! Thought we didn't know?"
"Ah..."
Busted.
They knew all along.
The pointless climb interrogation was a ploy to cuff his limbs.
'How'd they find out?'
One of two ways.
Superior public security investigation, or internal betrayal.
Hao Ren closed his eyes.
Deep breath,
Yeah.
He'd endured enough.
He'd be dragged off now, it meant execution anyway.
Better cause a scene and flee China than die pointlessly.
Shh!
He opened his inventory.
With the Liberation Rune Necklace in his hand, unknown to all.
You didn't have to wear it on your neck.
'Activate.'
Swoosh!
Surging intense magic power.
Magic power.
The key difference inside and outside tower.
Having magic power or not.
Now he was a Player conquering monsters.
And here.
Public security were outside-tower monsters.
Hao Ren opened his eyes again.
Fierce killing intent overflowed.
Public security startled.
Sensed the atmosphere change.
"Hao Ren, you..."
Crack! Crack!
Hand and leg restraints snapped in a blink.
Public security hurriedly aimed pistols at Hao Ren.
"Kill him!!!"
Bang bang! Rat-a-tat!
Reflexive pistol shots.
Armed troops with automatics pulled triggers nonstop.
Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat!
But Hao Ren was already gone from there.
Zip! Zippit! Slice slice! Slash!
Hao Ren's horse-slaying blade was flashing everywhere.
The Tower-exclusive modifier was absent from the item too.
So its options worked fully in reality.
Thud, thud thud,
Roll roll roll.
Severed heads tumbled across Hao Ren's floor.
Level 58.
Hao Ren was conquering terrifying wyverns mid-climb.
How could ordinary public security handle his liberated power?
"Urk,"
Hao Ren wasn't unscathed.
A few bullets hit chest and thigh.
He pulled a red-liquid vial from his inventory,
And sprinkled it on his wounds,
Sizzle!
Then drank the rest.
Gulp.
Tower-exclusive modifier absent healing potion.
So it was effective in reality too.
Bullets were pushed out of body.
The bleeding stopped.
his body fine, as if nothing happened.
"Hoo,"
He Finally saw the blood.
But water was already spilled.
And it was not over yet.
Armed troops were still outside the house too.
"Everyone snap to!!!"
"Don't let him escape."
"No need to capture him alive. Kill on sight."
Liberation Rune duration: 1 hour.
2 uses left.
Only 1 spare healing potion.
He had to somehow escape here and flee China.
His eyes were bloodshot.
Splat! Whoosh!
"There!"
"Rooftop!"
"He's fleeing!"
Rat-a-tat! Bang bang!
Hailing bullets.
Dozens of helicopters in sky.
That day.
Chongqing city plunged into chaos from one liberated Player.
50 armed public security dead in Chongqing.
Hao Ren didn't survive either.
Ultimately he was killed.
No matter that he was a liberated Player, he couldn't evade hundreds on ground, and dozens of choppers in air.
Chongqing catastrophe.
But that was just the beginning.
Similar incidents erupted across China.
And this spread worldwide.
Via foreign media and SNS.
White Tower Floor 17.
Joo-hyuk had a serious expression on his face.
He couldn't delay anymore.
Razix's grade breakthrough.
He probably won't see him for 7 to 14 days, it wasn't a short or long time.
But he can't hold him back just 'cause it'd be a shame.
When would he ever breakthrough then?
Could he leave him as an SSR forever?
It was better to send him now.
The Badge ceremony in the landmark high-rise lobby on White Tower Floor 17.
Razix's accumulated badges: 23 now.
2 more for 25.
They were not just handed out.
But were given by a summoner-recognized merit system.
And the summoned's own standards of being deserving.
They were given by mutual agreement.
Razix was the first to reach 25 this way.
Others all used breakthrough runes for shortcut grade-ups.
Honestly, there was still no full confidence.
Can he breakthrough with just 25 badges, no rune?
Well, if it fails, he'd hand him a breakthrough rune.
Instead of the main ceremony,
There wa a Preliminary event first.
"Defector Diarmat, step forward."
"Yes!"
Her contributions were significant too.
"You enabled Magnus Gigant conquest via Dream Realm deployment, providing a key chance to recruit magic engineer El, you are hereby awarded a Platinum Badge."
Diarmat giggled, twisting her body slightly, subtly thrusting her chest toward Joo-hyuk.
Then.
"Hey hey, you succubus, no skills!"
"... I didn't use any?"
Diarmat was wide-eyed, like what's the problem.
"What? No skill? Hilarious. Then why twist your body?"
"Old habits die hard, a succubus acts as expected."
"Think you're some grandmaster?"
"Tricking our pure summoner for an extra badge later."
"Our Summoner Bong has bottom-tier woman immunity, a virgin whose never dated. He's not received the vaccine yet. If you skill hits, there will be big trouble."
There were attacks from all sides.
Honestly, Diarmat felt wronged.
Seducing men was succubus instinct, what could she do?
"Jeez! Why are all ganging up? Huh? Me, having no woman resistance? Am I that easy?"
Summoned quieted as Joo-hyuk yelled.
"Diarmat."
"Yes!"
"Come closer. I'll attach the badge."
Joo-hyuk held badge to Diarmat's chest area.
Seductive scent pierced nose.
his mind reeled.
Shake shake shake.
His hand was trembling.
Sweat beaded on his forehead.
'Ugh.'
No way.
Not on the chest, but the side instead.
Poke!
Attached.
"See? Totally fine."
"..."
"..."
"..."
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"Next, Ultimate Worker Razix."
"Ho-eng!"
Huge merits this time too.
3 badges plenty, but.
"You discovered massive superior demon magic stone vein on Black Tower Floor 84, even mined natural top-grade demon cores, laying foundation for White Tower's future development, hereby awarded Platinum Badge."
"Ho-eh!"
Clap clap clap clap!
Unlike Diarmat, thunderous applause.
Now 24.
One more.
"You stored Magnus Gigant's magic core engine in the subspace backpack from Black Tower Floor 85, making immense contribution to Earth's magic science progress, you are hereby awarded a Platinum Badge."
"Hweh."
What happens now?
Breakthrough start right away?
Poke!
25.
Then.
Whoosh!
Razix's body floated slightly into air with light.
"Ho-et!"
It was similar to Bardin's radiance.
No, even more brilliant, dazzling.
The Light continued.
Meanwhile, a circular halo gathered at the back of Razix's,
A Halo, like a saint.
Time passed,
His floating body descended to ground.
Razix toddled off alone.
Destination: elevator in landmark lobby.
Probably heading to top floor like Veronica did.
He hopped up, his short hand pressed button.
Slide, the doors opened.
He hopped in and pressed the 61st floor button,
He beamed brightly, waved.
"Ho-eh,"
Come back soon.
Wait.
Joo-hyuk waved too.
Come back safe.
Slide.
The doors closed as the elevator went up to the top floor.
"Hoo."
Instant regret.
He shouldn't have sent him.
What fun was there without Razix?