Chapter 65
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 65
Chapter Title: True Ultimate Savior
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‘Not sure if this’ll be all that useful either.
Maybe try it out if a real detective story pops up in the trial selection later?
…Nah, if it’s from inside the Tower, I’d already know who the culprit is….’
Pretty much any famous work, you could just search online for the culprit and find out.
In the end, it meant it was only useful for obscure works that wouldn’t show up online or in real life.
But I probably wouldn’t pick some unknown detective story for the next trial anyway.
The next trial on the 5th floor has five options.
As the floors stack up, the choices will keep expanding. Six on the 6th, seven on the 7th, and so on.
So there’s no need to force myself to pick something weird.
Which basically made it synonymous with “only useful in real life.”
My job isn’t detective or anything,
and right now, I couldn’t really see the utility.
Plus, it doesn’t pop up reliably every time—just occasionally with a low probability.
‘Skill level might raise the odds, but blowing 200,000 points just to boost this probability feels like a waste.’
You have completed the third hidden trial of the 4th floor: ‘Uncover the Culprit’s True Identity’.
As a completion reward for the third hidden trial of the 4th floor, you have received the ‘Spacetime Transcendence Stone’.
Spacetime Transcendence Stone: Can become an incredible item with proper smelting, polishing, or combination. Non-shop item.
‘A non-shop item…’
This was my first non-shop item.
For skills, you could estimate the original price from upgrade costs.
But non-shop items didn’t even show up in the shop, so no way to gauge their value with tricks like that.
‘Spacetime Transcendence Stone, huh…
The name sounds impressive, but it could just as easily be flashy trash with no substance…
Without a price, I can’t tell its true worth.
It says it becomes something incredible with proper smelting, polishing, or combination, so maybe it’s really good?’
Spacetime transcendence—maybe it enables something like a time machine?
But how the hell do you smelt and polish something like this?
‘Buy a blacksmith skill or something…? Up to what level? 10? 20? 50?’
What if I screw it up half-assing it…?
And since it’s a non-shop item, who knows if I can even get another one.
It might be completely unique.
I don’t know how to do it and have no confidence, so I’d need to outsource it,
but I don’t even know who to ask or where.
And if it turns out to be super valuable,
I could get backstabbed and lose the item after handing it over.
‘Hmm, for now, stash it in the Subspace Storage. It’ll come in handy eventually.’
You have completed the fourth hidden trial of the 4th floor: ‘Keep Everyone Alive’.
As a completion reward for the fourth hidden trial of the 4th floor, you have received ‘True Ultimate Savior Lv.1’.
True Ultimate Savior Lv.1: Heals all wounds and status ailments on one designated target and grants 10 seconds of invincibility. Cooldown: 240 hours. Non-shop skill.
‘Kuh… this is it. This is why I came in here.’
My spare life skill.
The cooldown was insanely long, but the effect was god-tier.
‘Whoa, my first active skill. Historic moment. Wonder what it costs?’
I checked the upgrade cost in the shop.
It was surprisingly cheap.
Probably a 1 million point skill, since the upgrade to Lv.2 cost 2 million.
But the upgrade effect was total garbage.
True Ultimate Savior Lv.2: Heals all wounds and status ailments on one designated target and grants 10 seconds of invincibility. Cooldown: 239 hours.
Upgrade Cost: 2,000,000 points
‘Burn 2 million points just to shave off 1 hour on the cooldown? What the fuck? The upgrade is dogshit?’
It didn’t increase the number of targets or the invincibility time.
It was pure trash—2 million points for a measly 1-hour cooldown reduction.
‘Fuck no. Maybe if I’m drowning in points later.’
You have acquired a non-shop skill.
Non-shop skills cannot be purchased in the shop window. They can only be upgraded there after acquisition through various means.
You have completed all trials on the 4th floor. No more trials can be performed here, but since it’s Very Very Special Easy difficulty, you may continue to stay.
Entry to the 5th floor trials is now possible.
All 4th floor trials completed.
By my original plan, there’d be no reason to stick around the 4th floor anymore.
The Tower was meant for tackling trials on each floor, after all.
But I was different.
“Now it’s time to have some real fun. Heh heh.”
I glanced at Jun-chang in front of me—bullet in his thigh, groaning and tied up tight with rope and tape.
I considered just killing the guy now that his usefulness was spent… but then it hit me when I could use him.
‘Maybe run some experiments here with the zombie virus from Project Zombie World?
Test all sorts of things to figure out the virus’s traits and weaknesses.
I know there’s a confinement room and lab in the underground space…
Lock the girls up in the confinement cells, fuck them while I enjoy,
and turn the guys into test subjects for zombie research.’
Having found a use for him, I smashed the back of his head to knock him out and hoisted him over my shoulder.
I retraced my steps back to the underground secret passage.
From there, I took the elevator—now granting access to the vast underground complex—and descended to a deeper level.
Per the game’s lore, the mansion’s underground was ridiculously expansive.
Underground Level 1 beneath the mansion was a massive network of tunnels spiderwebbing out around the property.
Dozens of motorcycles for quick travel—the culprit Jun-chang’s alibi setup.
Underground Level 2 was a colossal auditorium, like dozens of gymnasiums fused into a shelter-sized space.
Honestly, no clue why it was there.
Probably the creator Jun-chang figured a gigantic empty space like this belonged in one layer of his massive underground setup.
Underground Level 3: Confinement cells. Prison-sized, complete with a torture room.
As far as I knew, this was where he kidnapped and locked up girls for his creepy deeds.
Underground Level 4: Laboratory. Absurdly set as the size of a national research institute.
Jun-chang, the creator and self-insert protagonist, made himself a super-genius scientist, developer, and programmer—hence the lab.
Underground Level 5: Central control room. The hub monitoring CCTVs across the mansion and grounds.
Controlled jamming signals, power, water cutoffs—everything.
“Sticking all this into a shitty RPG Maker game… you sure wasted your imagination on useless crap, huh.”
I locked Jun-chang in a Level 3 confinement cell.
Double- and triple-checked to ensure no escape, even if I missed something.
Felt like a good time for it, so I pulled out the Underworld Binding Rope and wrapped him up like a sushi roll.
‘Time to experiment with Project Zombie World’s zombie infection. Keh heh heh. You’re Test Subject #1, Jun-chang. Sacrifice for another world’s humanity.’
I personally toured Levels 5, 4, and the rest, inspecting everything with my own eyes.
Entering a password for each floor got annoying.
The facilities were way bigger and better than I’d imagined.
Totally nonsensical setup.
But if it exists, best to make good use of it, right?
“Come to think of it, I originally planned different passwords for each level, but testers and even creator Jun-chang got lazy later and unified them all to **000505.”
The creator Jun-chang had intended unique passwords for each underground level.
But as a tester, multiple codes were a pain in the ass.
And sure enough, after complaints, he’d standardized them to **000505.
“Convenient. Real-life Jun-chang probably couldn’t remember if they were all different even now.”
With that sorted, I left the underground and headed to the mansion’s first-floor living room where the others were hanging out.
The friends assumed I’d just been resting in my room,
so they paid me no mind, playing board and card games among themselves.
Oblivious to what just happened, they chattered loudly just like in the original plot, radiating youthful, innocent vibes.
‘Heh heh, now what should I do with you all….’