Chapter 112: 25th Floor: The Pig Legion Deploys.
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 112: 25th Floor: The Pig Legion Deploys.
I couldn't contain my excitement.
This was basically the same as me being able to use magic now.
"Yes, this is it!!!"
And that wasn't all.
'Ah! This should work too, right?'
It was my precious Skill Growth Ticket, but I decided to use one for the sake of an experiment.
When I clicked to use the Skill Growth Ticket, the available skills began to blink.
"Ooh! Just as I thought!"
The Magician Pig's skill on the status window was glowing, as if to say it could be used.
Click!
I used it without hesitation.
<Fireball Lv.1> → <Fireball Lv.2>
It leveled up.
My summons can grow, too!
"Kuh... This is the real joy of climbing the Tower!!"
The pigs could even be buffed.
My buff could only be given to those I've had sex with, and hadn't I just had relations with the pigs?
It would have been great if it even applied to our shared holes, but unfortunately, it didn't. This buff only worked on humans.
'If this had worked, their stats would've gone up by 330%... What a shame.'
As my Lewd Power had increased, the shared holes effect had become a broken trait. I was already looking forward to seeing how strong my guild members would be when we teamed up later.
'Phew... I have a mountain of things to test. Let's get the reward and get out of here. Oh, right, I still have to clear the 25th floor, don't I?'
I wanted to test if I could use various items on my summons, like equipment, secret manuals, and skill books, but I'd have to wait until I was outside to find out.
Now, I calmed my excitement a little and opened the chat window.
"Hehehe... Did you all see that? My pig is a magician now."
- Whoa...
- How the hell is a pig using magic?
- This is just absurd.
- I'm a magician who's past the 30th floor, and I think I'd lose to that pig...
- That's a level 1 Fireball?
- It'll look so badass later if it starts flying around and spamming spells.
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"Ahem, mating? It was taming! T.A.M.I.N.G! Taming! Anyway, I'll check my rewards now!"
As I interacted with the viewers, the pigs beside me stared at me curiously.
- Look how cute the pigs are.
- Unni! Can you give me a pig too?
- They look like they'd be so soft to the touch.
- Makes me want to grill some pork belly.
- Let's just catch one and have a meat party, yeah?
- Thinking of eating them... you're not human...
"Ahem, I'll explain this later. Go rest in that empty space over there. I'll summon you again later."
"Yes, Savior."
The King Pig led the rest of the pigs away.
The pig that had been rolled up in the mat was now right beside the king.
"Now it's my turn to get stronger, right? Let's see the rewards."
Tiring~
[You have obtained an SS-rank reward. Please choose one.]
"Kyah~ Fighting those Kaliph tribe guys really was an S-rank Ordeal after all."
I'd gotten so strong that the difficulty felt a bit confusing, but for a party on the 24th floor, it was definitely S-rank.
First, the first card.
[SS-rank Excellent Seedbed]
Fertility +500%
A very simple description.
Fertility, as we've seen before, is the speed at which a conceived baby grows.
"Ugh... I'll pass on this one~"
- She's passing on that?
- Where's the seedbed for the prosperity of the species?
- This bitch is infertile anyway lol
- Can't they just extract her eggs and get her pregnant separately?
- Bear my child!
- She needs to be producing one goblin a week.
The second card.
[SS-rank Rider]
Corrects posture and balance when on a mount. (Limited to living creatures)
The final defense of the mount and rider increases by 1.5 times.
"Ooh!! This one's good, isn't it?"
I knew how to ride a horse, but I couldn't ride other animals yet. Plus, a 1.5x increase in final defense had to be a multiplicative calculation. It was a pretty good trait.
But I had no intention of riding a pig.
Their limbs were so short, they were probably slower than me, and most importantly, it wouldn't look cool!
Mounts have been ridden by generals and high-status people since ancient times. While it was partly about combat power and the difficulty of walking, it was also about dignity and the feeling of looking down on everyone from above.
Therefore, a mount is a symbol of high status and dignity!
But look at those pigs!
The moment I started riding one, people would see me as an attention seeker at best, or as the bitch who fucks pigs at worst.
'Wait, the latter is true, isn't it?'
The former was also true.
"......"
Anyway, in many ways, pigs are not good animals to ride. Besides, these guys weren't even real pigs; they were a hybrid species called the Pukteu tribe that walked upright.
Of course, I was just saying riding a pig would be lame. It'd be a different story if I tamed another, better summon. Wouldn't it be fun to ride a fine horse or a wolf?
'Wait, does that mean with dogs too...'
No, I'll leave future matters to my future self and erase the thought from my mind.
"I'll keep it on hold for now. Let's see the last option."
The last, third card.
[SS-rank Life is a Gamble]
The Tower clear rewards will change.
One random option's rank will increase by one, while the other two will decrease by one.
"Huh?"
- Ooh?
- Crazy lol
- Why is that SS-rank? Isn't that a huge loss?
- Seems like total trash.
- That's fucking good, you guys.
- Wow, this thing shows up here?
- Fuck, she's getting all the cheat items again.
- That's good? Isn't it a self-debuff?
- Hmm... Is it really that good?
- No, how can these muggle bastards not know about that?
- Argh, I'm telling you, it's really good!
- Hmm... No matter how I look at it, it seems like a huge loss.
- Kraaaaaak!!
Life is a Gamble.
It was a trait with a strong gambling element, just as the name suggested.
Of course, when you first read it, you might think, "Isn't this basically a debuff?" It could seem that way since it lowered the rank of two options and only raised one.
But that wasn't the case.
It was, without a doubt, a completely fucking broken trait!!
It wasn't something that appeared often like Inventory, and I never even saw it once in my past life.
Why was it so broken?
'Because the difference between ranks gets bigger the higher you go...'
In fact, more than half of the EX-rank holders on Earth obtained their rank because they had this trait.
It wasn't always the case, but usually, one SS-rank was better than two S-ranks.
And one SSS-rank was better than three SS-ranks.
Then what about EX-rank?
It was on a completely different level. It was probably at least five to ten times better.
It was a shame you couldn't choose which reward got upgraded, but it was an almost essential trait if you wanted to pull an EX-rank.
It might not be great for people who get mediocre B~A ranks, but for someone like me who always aims for high ranks, it was a fantastic trait.
That's why some guilds told their regular members not to pick this trait if they got it, but in most cases, it was the right choice.
Besides, you weren't throwing away the other two options; a one-rank drop was a manageable price to pay.
No, in the first place, you'd always profit just by mindlessly picking the upgraded option. Since you could only choose one reward in the end, it didn't matter if the other two were downgraded.
"Hahahahahaha!!! Rider is a bit of a shame~~ but life is a gamble, isn't it? Kuhuhu..."
- Is that really good?
- I told you it's good, you idiots!
- Fuck lol
- Why are you the only one doing well why are you the only one doing well why are you the only one doing well
- I guess it really is good...
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We don't know yet. There's a 99% chance only the super sexy traits will get upgraded for this bitch lol
- Oh...
- Then she'll have to pick that one, huh?
- If something like Fertility gets upgraded, she has to pick it, yeah, yeah.
- Aha!
"Huh? Wait... Nah, that can't be possible, right? Hahaha!!"
Could there be a happier day than this?
I cast aside such doubts. Surely it wouldn't be that only the lewd traits got upgraded while the others kept getting downgraded, right?
'Nah, no way~'
Bad thoughts. Delete, delete.
The Tower is fair.
After going through hardship, I'd solved my weakness—the lack of AoE magic—with summons, and even gained a trait that was considered extremely good.
'As expected, happiness comes after hardship...'
"Hehehe... It wouldn't be okay for me to just keep running to the 30th floor, would it?"
- It is.
- P-I-G Lee Do-hee
- I'm leaving the guild out of a sense of deprivation.
- I'm on my 4th attempt!!
- Hey, the 2nd attempt has been delayed for over a month~
- Let's give it a run, shall we?
- Yep, I already got my elixir~ It was fucking delicious!
- Sounds fine to me. Is there anything to do outside?
- This bitch has nothing to do outside besides hand out elixirs.
"Well then! I'm off to the 25th floor~!"
- This bitch's high energy is so tilting, argh lol
- fr lol
Shwoop!
*
The 25th floor was a mini-boss battle.
There was no special meaning to it.
It just meant that the boss was fixed, like on the floors ending in zero.
But there were always people who fell for it even when they knew what was coming.
The reasons for defeat were varied: some people froze up, overwhelmed by the boss monster's unexpectedly huge size, while others made mistakes they normally wouldn't.
The creature that had claimed the lives of so many was the Drake.
A subspecies of dragon, known as the wingless dragon.
The Awakened also nicknamed it "T-Rex" because it resembled a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
'Huh? The 25th floor T-Rex?'
'A Complete Guide to Countering the T-Rex's 25 Patterns!'
It didn't actually have an official name given by the Tower, so this was what it was called in the Awakened community forums.
I opened my eyes and looked ahead.
A dry, brown wasteland.
Down the hill, I could see the T-Rex in the distance.
Of course, it was much stronger than the T-Rex from the movies.
It shot fireballs from its mouth, and its hide was so tough that weapons like bullets were useless against it.
I could have just run in and finished it in one shot, but I decided to use my summons to test their combat strength.
"Alright, now it's your turn."
I summoned a whole drove of pigs.
A subspace portal opened near me, and the pigs descended.
"All units, attention!"
At the Guard Captain's command, the pigs, looking quite disciplined, gathered. After they finished their preparations, the crown-wearing King Pig approached me.
"Savior. What must we do?"
"Go and defeat the enemy!"
I commanded them in what I hoped was a dignified and commanding voice.
Of course, to the viewers, it just looked like my sexy chest was jiggling.
A sight completely devoid of any dignity.
Still, there was some weight to it.
The King Pig followed my finger, and his gaze landed on the giant, 12-meter-tall T-Rex.
"Th-that thing?"
Perhaps the King Pig's coward trait had activated, as his eyes trembled violently while looking at the T-Rex.
"Yes. You are more than capable of defeating it. This is an order! Defeat the enemy, and I shall grant you strength!!"
I gave the order with a serious tone. I glanced at the chat and saw it was in an uproar about me doing something weird again, but I ignored it and cast two stacks of buffs on everyone.
The divine power required to cast Haste and Strength up to level 2 was 65.
Casting it on all 33 of them consumed about 2,000.
'The efficiency is terrible... I need to learn an AoE buff skill.'
Still, it was a good thing I realized it now.
Anyway, with a 40 Strength and 60 Agility boost, the pigs' stats were already approaching triple digits.
If the King Pig used Battle Cry to increase all stats by 22, their Strength and Agility would easily surpass 100!
This was slightly higher than the average stats of a challenger on the 25th floor. It would be strange if they lost.
Watching the pigs charge forward vigorously, I sat back comfortably to watch.
*
And they lost.
"Eh...?"
The pigs, having been utterly defeated, were unsummoned and disappeared.
"Wh-why...?"
Our great magician fought hard, but the fireball spewing from the Drake's mouth was more powerful.
The regular pigs just milled around the Drake before getting hit by its tail and sent flying with their comrades, stepped on and crushed, bitten and eaten, or burned to death.
Stat-wise, they should have been able to handle it, but what unfolded was a gruesome pig barbecue party!
- Wow
- The Drake is a good griller.
- They've become a handful of pork belly!!
- What's the point of high stats lol
- They fight so fucking badly.
- I'm not even Awakened, and I think I could beat the pigs.
- They have absolutely no combat sense lol
"No, this is... Right. They don't have weapons or combat skills, do they? Stats aren't everything, so it's possible for them to lose."
But to say that... they had a magician and there were over 30 of them, yet they lost without dealing any real damage.
'Right, I should just tell the pigs to farm in the waiting room...'
The Savior is disappointed!
All of them except the Magician Pig were now useless laborers!
'Wait, can't I just make them work in the mines in the neutral zone on the 20th floor?'
Since they were phantom bodies, they could work 24 hours a day without sleeping or eating. I could even work them without pay!
Money-printing mine-slave pigs...!!
'Why was the summoner class so unpopular? You can make a huge profit just by making them do manual labor.'
Such were the terrifying thoughts of Lee Do-hee.
In truth, the pigs would have felt it was very unfair if they had known the details of this battle.
Even with their high stats, it wasn't enough to pierce the Drake's hide. How could they penetrate that thick skin with just trotter punches and no weapons?
And Lee Do-hee was the strange one; normally, when stats increase or decrease drastically, the body struggles to adapt to the new power.
This was why buffers were less popular than you'd think. The sudden stat increase could throw off the body's balance, causing them to fight worse than usual.
The Awakened who challenged this floor barely won by memorizing all the patterns beforehand, forming parties with tanks, DPS, ranged dealers, and healers, and relying on items and skills. The pigs, knowing nothing, died a classic "if you don't know, you die" death.
Moreover, Lee Do-hee never even told them it breathed fire. So, when they charged in a dense formation at the start, they were hit by a huge fireball, and about half of them were killed or seriously injured.
The Guard Captain was among the dead, so once their commander was gone, they instantly became a disorderly mob. How could they possibly win?
[Savior is mean, oink!]
- I felt like a pig was shouting that from somewhere, but I casually ignored it.
The only one left was the King Pig.
As expected of a coward, he ran away. At least he managed to preserve his authority as king by secretly fleeing after almost all the other pigs were dead.
"S-sorry, Savior..."
"Huuu.... Watch closely."
I cast the same two stacks of buffs on myself as I did on them and charged forward. In reality, the difference in Strength and Agility between me and the pigs was only about double.
However, the contents within were completely different.
Kwwwaaaaaaang!!!
As the Drake shot a fireball, I lightly dodged to the side and continued charging forward at the same speed.
I used the shockwave from the explosion behind me as propulsion to run even faster.
Underestimating me, it opened its maw wide, trying to swallow me in one bite.
However,
Third of a Second Style: Straight Spear.
Puuuk!!!
My rapidly accelerating body entered its open mouth in the blink of an eye, and I thrust my spear. The spear cleanly pierced through the roof of its mouth and into its brain.
As its jaw closed from inertia, I grabbed its teeth, flipped out like an acrobat, and landed safely on the bridge of its nose.
Thud......
A perfectly clean kill, without a single drop of blood on me.
The 25th-floor boss.
A one-shot kill, as expected.
"That was easy!"
- Wow...
- So tilting.
- What was that?
- Argh...
- Why am I so annoyed?
- That's your inferiority complex. Of course, I'm feeling it too.
- I went through hell to clear that...
- I just feel bad for the pigs...
[You have cleared the Ordeal. The reward rank has increased due to solo play.]
Normally, a basic boss ordeal was A-rank at best.
[The reward rank is S. Please choose one.]
"Hehehe... Let's see!!!"
It was finally time for Life is a Gamble to shine.
The broken trait that turned an S-rank into an SS-rank!
Planning to pick the SS-rank anyway, I flipped over all the face-down cards at once.
"Let's goooo!!!"
[A-rank Bad Summoner]
Absorb 0.1 times the final stats of a dead summon.
This effect lasts until the summon is revived.
<Gills Breathing Lv.2>
Allows you to breathe underwater.
Consumes 6 Divine Power and lasts for 6 minutes.
[SS-rank Secret Water Tank]
Creates a subspace that can store any liquid that touches your body.
Maximum capacity is 1000L.
Can absorb through any orifice, as well as through the skin or hair.
However, the only outlet is the womb.
Lee Do-hee froze as if time had stopped, only her eyes moving as she read the descriptions again.
Scroll, scroll...
Her eyes moved from top to bottom, then from top to bottom again...
She read it over and over as if in disbelief, but rereading it wouldn't change the rewards that had already been decided.
Why, just why?
Why was something like that SS-rank? Just why...?
"Aah... heavens above!!"
- Do-hee's world is crumbling lol
- Wow, the first one is fucking good. If that had been the SS-rank lol
- lolololol
- I knew this would happen.
- The water tank is good, though? She can store semen and convert it all into divine power.
- Not milliliters, but just liters?
- Idk, it's good then lol
- You said you'd pick the SS-rank, right?
- Kyah, as expected of an SS-rank! Pick it now, right?
- Is she gonna shoot a water cannon from her pussy? lol
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The Tower is fair.
"......"
- Energetic Do-hee is all deflated now.
- lololololol
- Pussy water cannon, let's go!
- Who made the water cannon joke lol
- Humanity's first advance to Mars via pussy water cannon!
- I'm goin' to Mars~ (with my pussy)
- Pshhhhhhhh~~~!!
- Hehe~ Fire the water cannon! (with my pussy)
- You crazy bastards lol
"No..."
Pat, pat...
The King Pig patted my shoulder with his trotter as if to console me.