Chapter 127: 27th Floor: Bicorn
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 127: 27th Floor: Bicorn
And while we were scheming with Necroumbra in a secret room, a major incident was unfolding in the real world.
[The Sword Saint and His Disciples Break Through the 79th Floor! A Declaration of Competition with the Great Guilds?!]
[The Six Great Guilds Have All Cleared the 79th Floor—When Will They Challenge the 80th?]
The 79th floor was a repeatable clear floor.
Since it was guaranteed to end in a swift battle, the Sword Saint and the members of the great guilds, all currently competing in the Tower climb, cleared it and came out within a single day.
Of course, it was nothing like the way Lee Do-hee breezed through it in one go, as if it were a weekly quest.
Repeatable floors allowed for party play of up to four people, and the monsters were appropriately challenging for that level. The great guilds reported that 3% of the members who entered this time had died.
Still, that was considered a fairly successful clear.
But the real problem was the 80th floor.
Floors in multiples of ten were guaranteed to have a boss monster. Even though the trial’s monster was fixed, these traditional boss floors always recorded the highest death rates.
So, naturally, everyone expected them to take a long break for about a year. But an announcement was made that would overturn all expectations.
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The scene was a massive auditorium in a high-end building.
The Great Guild Alliance's headquarters meeting was being broadcast live.
Dozens of cameras and reporters were visible, and figures like broadcasting station directors and national assembly members could occasionally be spotted.
And they weren't the only ones gathered.
The heads of the six great guilds were present, of course, along with every single member who would be participating in the 80th-floor conquest.
They were the very same top-tier conquerors whose familiar faces would have given Lee Do-hee PTSD.
Nearly 300 of Korea's elite conquerors from the great guilds were gathered in one place.
Most of the guild members were just supporting players who funneled all their contribution points to their guild masters, but even so, any Awakened who had made it to the 79th floor was strong.
To have survived was to be strong.
Not all trials required a party, which meant each of them was a formidable individual in their own right.
Even among them, there was a distinct hierarchy.
First were the guild masters of the great guilds, like Baek Do-hyeon, who received the bulk of the contribution points.
Second were the elite veterans who had been with the guilds since their inception. Most of the executives and top brass of each guild belonged to this group.
Third were the Awakeners who had joined the guilds on provisional contracts and grown from there. Although they were essentially slaves and true supporting players, their combat power was nearly on par with the executives. They were talented individuals who had been recruited and trained in the most efficient way under the direction of operators. Thus, in terms of pure combat ability, they were similar to the executives.
And into this gathering stepped Baek Do-hyeon, the head of the Golden Dawn Society and the leader of the Great Guild Alliance.
Click, clack, click, clack.
The sound of his pristine dress shoes silenced the hall.
Dressed in a neat suit, he nonchalantly swept back his habitually curly gray hair, then spoke with a grin.
"I will now announce the Great Guild Alliance's plan to conquer the 80th floor."
An explosion of camera flashes followed.
*
A moment later, as soon as the press conference ended, articles poured out as if they had been waiting.
[The Great Guild Alliance Declares an Immediate Conquest of the 80th Floor!!]
[Out of the Way, Japan! The Moment Korea's Hoarded Potential Explodes!]
[Baek Do-hyeon: 'We have been holding our breath for this very day.' A Chilling 20-Minute Speech, Summarized.]
[Baek Do-hyeon, Head of the Great Guilds: 'The foundation has been laid. Korea will rise once more.']
A single press conference sent the entire country into an uproar.
Not just Korea, but also the Russian and Japanese media—ranked 3rd and 4th in the world, who thought they had completely surpassed Korea—reported the news as a special bulletin.
Public opinion of the great guilds, which had been sour until recently, began to improve.
Although they had committed many misdeeds, at the end of the day, they were still our Korean guilds.
‘Well, I wasn't harmed, so what's the problem?’
There were quite a few people with that selfish mindset at the time; it just wasn't openly expressed.
And there was another factor stirring up public opinion.
The comment brigades of the great guilds active in South Korea.
Last time, they had been beaten down for trying to defend the great guilds, but this time, seeing that public sentiment was somewhat favorable, they went on a fierce offensive.
And not only did they post all sorts of positive comments about the great guilds, but they also simultaneously carried out their long-planned operation to ruin Lee Do-hee's image.
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[Tower Climbing Support Gallery]
Their target was the Tower Climbing Support Gallery, the primary habitat of Lee Do-hee's "fans."
[★Title: An update on our hope and savior.jpg]
[Content]:
(Image of Lee Do-hee getting fucked upside down.jpg)
(Image of Lee Do-hee being completely devoured.jpg)
Fuck, now she's even getting humiliated by a plant lmfaooo
[Comments]:
- The fate of the Tower Gallery's chosen one.jpg
└ She's not dead yet, you dick lmaooo
- Of all the days to be doing this, it had to be the day the great guilds announced their 80th-floor conquest lmfao
- This is our hope...?
- So fucking hot
- Who sent this to the Ascension Gallery? lmaoooo
- Who's the one who upvoted it for Ascension? lmfaooo
- I'm so fucking jealous of that plant bastard
- For the public good, they really need to legalize Lee Do-hee as an onahole
- Please let me be reborn as a Necro-whatever in my next life
- Holy shit, I'm gonna go watch the VOD
- There's a bitch who actually goes through this irl? lmfao
- She's really become a six-pot
- Our Twisted Pussy
- Why does it suit her so well? lmfao
- ??? : I will conquer the 79th floor!
- The fact is, Lee Do-hee is enjoying it too
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[Title: Upvote if you agree this six-pot bitch is useless now lol]
(Six-pot Lee Do-hee.jpg)
Upvote if you think we should just keep the pussy and ass and throw the rest away lmfao
[Comments]
- fr she should just change her profession to toilet lol
- I think she should be used as an elixir-providing toilet
- Wow... seeing something you'd only see in a manga in real life is so fucking hot
- Our elixir jug, heu-eung…
- Six-pot lmfao, it fits her so fucking well
- You can tell just from the picture that she's trembling with pleasure lmaooo
- fr Lee Do-hee loves being forced like that
- Wow... is that a woman or a toilet?
- She's getting fucked like that? lmfao
- Is it for real that she can't move at all?
- Literally a flesh toilet lol
- Look at that cunt, she's loving it to death
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The comment brigades posted all sorts of humiliating photos that made her look like a slut to ruin her image and emphasize how cheap she was, but... they felt something was off.
‘Is this actually working...?’
The directive from above was to brand her with the image of a dirty slut or a whore, but it seemed like nothing had changed.
No, looking at a few past posts, it seemed no different from before.
As expected, whenever an explicit picture of Lee Do-hee was posted, the community users were busy sexually harassing her.
But at the same time, they seemed to express an underlying fondness.
‘Why... are they so favorable towards a whore?’
These days, Lee Do-hee's porn was neatly organized in a cafe for easy viewing.
[Lee Do-hee Archive]
A forum had been created for Lee Do-hee to post freely if she felt burdened by the growth board, but her fans had turned it into something else entirely.
They had set it up so that if you just searched for a desired play, you could click a link and immediately watch the VOD at that exact moment.
It was the kind of thing you'd expect from idol fans, but the content was high-level pornography.
The view counts for the posts, not just the VODs, exceeded a million, and every other post had hundreds of thousands of views, showing that many men were already using it.
Unlike Lee Do-hee's growth board, this place had become a holy land for a different reason. While the photo board was mostly GIFs and pictures, this place was focused on video links.
And it was a rule of thumb among Korean men.
They tend to be a little more generous to women they've gotten off to for free.
Lee Do-hee had become the nation's masturbation material!
The men couldn't bring themselves to hate her.
Besides, her image couldn't be ruined any further.
The image of a whore was already widespread, and there was nothing else to criticize her for.
There were no controversies about her personality, undisclosed sponsorships, skills, or fandom.
Lee Do-hee's fans were always too busy sexually harassing her to fight with anyone.
No matter how much the trolls tried to start fights by comparing Lee Do-hee to other Awakeners, everyone would eventually end up jacking off to her together.
Online Hole-Sharing Brotherhood.
They naturally felt a sense of camaraderie, so the hostile atmosphere created by the trolls quickly dissipated.
Female-centric communities? They had defended Lee Do-hee once before as a fellow woman, so public opinion of her there wasn't particularly bad. And besides, they weren't interested in internet broadcasting, so their reactions were lukewarm.
Seeing this, the comment brigades felt their minds starting to break.
Lee Do-hee was such a unique case that they had no idea what to do.
‘Ah, fuck it. I'll just report that we successfully ruined her image.’
If you're ordered to do a job, and the job is already done, doesn't that mean the job is finished?
They had done as they were told, so the members of the comment brigade wrote up their reports accordingly.
*
Back on the 27th floor, at Kalisha's mansion.
Just as the five executives, including myself, were finishing our secret meeting, we heard that the horse had finally arrived and went outside to see.
"Oh... that looks cool."
Watching it walk slowly toward our mansion stirred a desire to ride it.
It had a dependable and massive build.
It was about 1.5 times the size of a normal horse.
It wasn't just its size that was impressive. The solid, lean muscles covering its body seemed to breathe with life.
I could also feel a refined yet instinctively leaking, ferocious aura.
It wore no saddle or any other gear and seemed to have walked here on its own, following a guide.
It looked as if it were wandering in search of a master worthy of it. No wonder people kept trying to challenge it.
‘As I thought, this is no ordinary horse.’
A horse that possessed not only physical superiority but also intelligence.
‘Don't tell me this thing is another disaster-class beast or something, is it?’
First, I had to check it out before trying to tame it.
When I showed it the location of the mansion's stable, it entered with surprising obedience.
Necroumbra didn't need supervision anymore, so I had just left it in my room. When I last saw it, it had returned to its pretty flower mode and was getting along great with the maids, even acting cute.
I soon returned to the very familiar meeting room.
Everyone sat down and looked at the intelligence chief.
"What species is that horse?"
"Ahem, how could this... I apologize. We've been mobilizing all our information sources since the first day, but we've never heard of a horse of that kind."
Our competent intelligence chief wore a slightly apologetic expression once again.
‘I've never seen a horse like that either...’
I, too, had roamed all sorts of worlds, understood the importance of information, and read various encyclopedias whenever I had the chance, yet I had no information on this horse.
In the end, I left the meeting room empty-handed and returned to my room.
I gave a perfunctory greeting to the plant that welcomed me by rustling its stem, and then I used my last resort.
My last resort.
The viewers!
‘Honestly, I'm not expecting anything.’
But contrary to my assumption that they wouldn't know, the answer came in an instant.
- That's a bicorn...
- A non-virgin detector lmfao
- No wonder it seemed to like Lee Do-hee
- The two of them are a perfect match lmaooo
- Hurry up and pussy-tame it
- First time seeing a bicorn fr
- Unicorns are rare too
- Did this fucker not even read manga as a kid?
"A bicorn... you say?"
I had heard of unicorns, of course.
A mythical creature that only allows pure virgins to ride it.
So then, a bicorn was...?
- Bicorns like more experienced women lmfaooo
- Not a non-virgin detector, more like a slut detector
- It's gonna fucking love you
- Your compatibility is off the charts lmfao
- Probably sexually compatible too
"No way... how can a creature like that exist? Isn't that just something from fantasy novels?"
I understood what a bicorn was.
But it actually exists? A non-virgin detector?
- Are you ignoring the viewers again?
- You want to get punished?
- Did you already forget the harsh lesson you learned with the plant? lmaooo
- At this rate, you're gonna get fucked by a horse dick
"N-No... I wasn't doubting you all~ I was just, you know, wondering if it was real, hahaha..."
On second thought, what the viewers were saying seemed to be true.
The subtle affection the bicorn was sending me with its gaze.
It felt like it was urging me to hurry up and get on its back.
"But how the hell does that Crown Prince bastard get his hands on such rare flora and fauna?"
It wasn't a question I expected an answer to.
Seeing is believing.
In the end, all I had to do was try riding it myself, right?
"Wait, hold on... does that Crown Prince bastard know the identity of this horse?"
After being so thoroughly screwed over by the plant trap, I was suspicious of everything.
Did he know its identity and set a trap? Or did he just not know and gave it as a test, thinking Elina would be able to tame it?
"Ugh..."
This wasn't a question I could answer.
Still, I guess I have to try riding it at least once, right?