Chapter 200: Those Who Are After Lee Do-hee
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 200: Those Who Are After Lee Do-hee
"Hyaa!!"
Tatat!
I wonder what S-rank reward I'll get!
[Strength Stat +4]
[A-rank Feast Lover]
Your stats increase when you are full.
Conversely, they decrease when you are hungry.
Max Stat Fluctuation: +/- 20%
[S-rank Celestia's Mana Cultivation Secret Manual]
A mana cultivation method for women, created by the Archmage Celestia herself.
Exceptionally effective at increasing maximum mana.
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"Oh...? A secret manual? I got a secret manual!!!"
- ???
- A secret manual?
- You can actually get this?
- Is this really a reward from a B-rank trial?
- Ah
- No way
- Why is it always you!
The rewards from Tower Climbing are random, but even within that randomness, there's a certain hierarchy. Even among items of the same grade, there's a rough ranking of what's considered good.
At the very top of that list are secret manuals.
Next are traits.
Then come equipment, skills, skill enhancement tickets, pure stats, and disposable items, in that order.
Of course, what's necessary and what's good differs from person to person, so there's no single right answer, but every Awakened would agree with that ranking.
As proof, the repeatable floors that end in the number nine don't drop secret manuals, traits, or skills as rewards.
Furthermore, clearing the Tower in other regions also doesn't yield traits or secret manuals.
What are Towers in other regions, you ask?
Literally, they are Towers in other countries. For the highest floor you've reached, you can challenge that same floor in another country's Tower.
For example, if my current highest floor is 37, I can't re-enter the normal floors below it, aside from the repeatable ones. However, if the highest floor cleared in another country is 25, I can go there and clear their 25th floor.
This was how I gathered a ton of skill enhancement tickets and equipment in the past, traveling through various countries under the pretext of preventing the Tower Collapse. It's also the very reason the World Awakener Association exists.
Anyway, sensing a jackpot, I took a closer look at the secret manual... and noticed a catch.
[S-rank Celestia's Secret Manual]
A mana cultivation method for women, created by the Archmage Celestia herself.
Exceptionally effective at increasing maximum mana.
"Mana? Wait a minute, why does this show up as mana?"
Normally, if mana and divine power are compatible, the description adapts to the user's own energy type.
So...
"It's useless to me?"
Occasionally, secret manuals like this exist—ones you can't learn unless you have the right attribute or energy type. And sometimes, they even appear as rewards.
- Oh
- A dud, lol. Serves you right~
- Unni! Give it to me!
- Unni~~ (dangles dangles)
- I'll buy it.
- Me!
- Got what you deserved, lol.
- raises hand
- Unni! Me, me!!
"Hey, now... Where do you think you're getting a freebie? This is a secret manual! An S-rank one at that! And it's a mana cultivation method! Besides, you're all guys!!"
It's a bit of a shame that only women can use it, but a restriction like that usually means its performance is that much better.
"Hoo... I guess it can't be helped. I'll just learn it for now, okay? It doesn't seem to have a user limit."
Every secret manual is different.
Some, like Irene's, can only be passed down to a single person, while others can be used by anyone. That's what makes them so valuable.
If you get your hands on a good secret manual with no user limit, you can just charge people money to learn it, then take the manual back.
You could call it a money-duplicating bug, but surprisingly, almost all publicly shared secret manuals are B-rank or lower.
Most guilds keep the good ones to themselves, just like a popular restaurant hiding its secret sauce recipe.
And Lee Do-hee is no different.
This will be a unique merit, exclusive to our guild.
"It's a shame that people who use martial arts or divine power can't use this since it's a mana cultivation method, but most people use mana, so it shouldn't be a huge problem. I don't know if we even have... any female members in our guild, but I'll provide this for free for them to use! Ladies! Please join our guild!!"
- Oh?
- Are there any women?
- As if.
- No way......
- That's not true. I saw some woman use the onahole and leave.
- Oh?
- Really?
- A real woman? Ehehe...
- Everyone, stop the sexual harassment!
- Female guild member, come here!
- A woman? Get over here!!
- These bastards aren't the type to stop...
"...When the hell did she come and go?"
What a shame.
I could have synchronized and enjoyed some scissoring!!
I should have pretended to be asleep and felt her clumsily, breathlessly grinding her pussy against my onahole!!
It's a pity, but what's past is past.
Still, just the fact that a woman joined our guild is a good thing.
There's no particular reason. It's just nice to have women around!
And it's also great if we get more people in classes that men don't often choose, like priests, healers, and buffers. But really, just having women is good enough.
And now, it's about time to start climbing the Tower again.
"Ah, by the way, have you found people for the 38th floor? What's the status, Manager?"
- Manager: We've found two. One is about to finish up the 37th floor.
"Is that so? Then... I guess we'll have to wait a bit. I'll get some sleep first and take my time."
Managing my condition is essential.
Especially since the 38th floor is an incredibly fierce one.
This time, it's not a floor where you just hunt monsters with your party.
It's the Tower's first-ever competitive battle.
Sixteen parties of four compete, and rewards are given based on rank. And it's a tournament format!
1st place gets an SSS-rank reward.
2nd place gets an SS-rank reward.
3rd place gets an S-rank reward.
4th place gets an A-rank reward.
Teams that make it to the quarterfinals get a B-rank reward.
Teams eliminated in the round of 16 get a C-rank reward.
A very brutal competition system.
You don't do missions; you just fight directly.
You're randomly placed in a tournament bracket and have to fight. The map also changes randomly, and you have to either kill all your opponents or force them to surrender.
Doesn't that result in too many casualties?
It does.
That's why, following a storm of complaints from the Awakened, the rules were changed to allow for revival after death.
'It was one of the Tower's biggest design flaws...'
What's more, the very first teams to reach this floor had no opponents and had to just sit around and wait.
I almost tried to destroy the Tower back then, too, which led to a confrontation with the administrator.
After that, the matchmaking was expanded to include not just people from all over the world, but also intelligent life forms from other dimensions.
It became a trial where you could see beings from various dimensions for the first time: blue-skinned aliens, jellyfish-like aliens, orcs with intelligence, and more. Most opponents are humanoid, and people from Earth are prioritized for matchmaking, but there's always a chance of running into a strange species like that.
It becomes a common sight after the 50th floor, but back then, people were shocked, thinking, 'The Tower doesn't just exist on Earth?'
Of course, with my current skills, first place is pretty much guaranteed, but you never know.
I have no idea what might happen if I run into some weird aliens or a party formed by super rookies from around the world.
"Well then... I'm trusting you, Manager, and going to sleep! Keep up the good work!!"
- She's just leaving it all to him and sleeping...?
- Do-hee will win anyway.
- Is Dotamuk gonna show up again?
- I bet that Ilbon-do guy will be there too.
- Aren't there any women?
- Dotamuk, stop showing up already.
- A female magician, please!
- A 4P orgy, please!
The viewers chattered, guessing at the party members, while I pushed the King Pig occupying my bed to the corner and lay down.
"Hwaaaaaaawn!!"
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Meanwhile, at that very moment, the world's Great Guilds were watching Lee Do-hee's broadcast.
As if they had been waiting for her to reach the 38th floor, they were preparing to greet her.
In a dimly lit room, six figures sat around a round table. They were the familiar guild masters of the Great Guilds alliance.
"You get revived on the 38th floor anyway, right? Is there any point to this?"
"There is. Look at the titles that bitch has taken. And do you have any idea how many new Awakened are flocking to her?"
Naturally, all Awakened used to want to join a Great Guild as their first choice.
That was, of course, before they knew about the sub-contracts that drove them to their deaths. But even with them being driven to death and ground into dust, the survival rate in the Great Guilds was overwhelmingly higher than in smaller ones. The preference for Great Guilds had diminished, but it hadn't hit rock bottom.
Their real-time strategies provided by their own operators, their incredible equipment, secret manuals, and elixirs were things no one else could easily replicate.
But that was all in the past. Lee Do-hee had shattered everything.
A 100% survival rate on the 1st floor.
Not just Koreans, but foreigners too—the whole world was in an uproar.
Lee Do-hee herself was largely unaware of the situation, as she was too busy getting fucked by a demon while crying "Eungit!" and enjoying passionate lesbian sex with an elf. But the news was flooded with stories of national pride day after day. Big money from the US and China, as well as royalty and high-ranking officials from various nations, had even come to visit her landlady in person, bearing piles of gifts to try and persuade her.
And what about the breast milk she had recently acquired?
Currently, her breast milk was being sold for 2 billion won per 200ml.
The problem, however, was that Lee Do-hee wasn't the one getting the money.
It was the fact that you could buy it for 200 Faith.
And, of course, you could sell what you bought instead of drinking it. While the first portion given was mandatory to consume, a rule was announced that anything bought with one's own Faith could be used however one pleased.
To earn 2 billion, a man would only need to sleep with about 30 to 40 prostitutes, assuming he was single.
If Lee Do-hee knew this, she'd raise the price, but seeing this as a golden opportunity to cash in, countless Awakened were flooding her guild with applications.
Isn't prostitution illegal? In Korea, that's been an open secret for a long time. Anyone who really wants to can do it.
Thanks to this, there was now a shortage of women selling their bodies near Seoul.
This information was already out, and Awakened who learned that just joining Lee Do-hee's guild meant a shower of money no longer gave the Great Guilds a second glance.
Even some of the political and business figures they thought they had in their pockets were caught secretly contacting Lee Do-hee's guild. The reason they hadn't climbed the Tower before was that more than half of the newcomers died before the 10th floor. But now that this risk was gone and the survival rate was effectively 100%, they were spending fortunes to secretly turn themselves and their families into Awakened.
In any case, the Great Guilds had taken a hit from all this.
They could no longer stand by and watch.
And she even became a god and started a religious reformation?
"Faster than me...? Ha. This is driving me crazy."
"First, let's capture her regular guild members! How dare that fucking bitch ignore me?" the Ohsung Guild Master, who had been denied his "rightful" use of Lee Do-hee's onahole, spat out in fury.
"That has already failed."
But the master of the Black Veil Guild, the representative of assassins, reported their failure.
"What?"
Surprisingly, they had already attempted to take hostages but had failed.
The reason was Necroumbra.
With a being superior to most assassins standing guard at the guild house, they were utterly helpless.
And what about sending a high-ranking Awakened to kidnap a regular person? Success would be guaranteed, but most high-ranking Awakened were well-known, either by face or by the skills they used.
What if they were caught?
"Can't we just force our way through? South Korea is in our hands anyway. Why do we have to care about these small fry?"
"Hmph... You've forgotten what we talked about last week. Just wait a little. They'll all be our slaves soon. In the meantime, there is a way to handle this quietly."
Baek Do-hyeon always had a way.
"We just need to beat her once. We'll use this."
Baek Do-hyeon took an artifact from his inventory, one with several golden orbs rotating within it.
<Golden Orb of Common Sense Alteration>
Edits the target's common sense.
Can only be used on a defeated target.
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"Isn't that... the item from clearing the 78th floor?"
The floors ending in 8, which were said to give you what you needed most.
When he got this, Baek Do-hyeon had been quite puzzled. Although it had a condition, he was already capable of brainwashing and altering common sense as easily as breathing.
So he'd been wondering how to use it and had just stored it away. But wasn't it perfect for use on Lee Do-hee, who lived hidden away in the Tower?
Baek Do-hyeon knew that Lee Do-hee had a resistance to brainwashing.
But this item radiated an immense power. He was confident that an item of this caliber would be able to break through her defenses to some extent.
"Our super rookie was waiting on the 38th floor, right? Get him ready. You all should prepare to lend him one of your equipment items. Let's end this now. If we do this right, we'll get a cute little sex slave who shits money for us. Cooperate with all you've got."
"Ooh...! Finally!"
"Haa... This had better work this time."
"Men will be men... I can at least cut off her arms and legs, right?"
The Great Guilds were plotting to deal with Lee Do-hee through some underhanded scheme.
They were planning to crush her, even if it meant lending out their own precious equipment.
And the Great Guilds weren't the only ones with a score to settle with Lee Do-hee.
Do you remember?
America's Super Rookie.
The most anticipated figure in America, the one who had earned the official recognition of the World Awakener Association by immediately applying Lee Do-hee's hidden ending strategy for defeating the commander on the 4th floor.
He was harboring a significant grudge, as all the spotlight that should have been his was now shining on Lee Do-hee.
"I'm stronger, so why her?"
He, too, had traits that were almost all SSS- and SS-rank, and he was equipped with incredible gear thanks to the focused support of America's #1 guild.
And he was waiting for Lee Do-hee on the 38th floor.
"I will defeat that whore and prove that I am the best. Prepare the best party members for me."
But it didn't end there.
There were the Arabs, enraged by the perceived suppression of Islam.
The Christians, who believed there is only one God.
And beyond them, the orcs of some alien planet. They were joining the fray because their Constellation had ordered them to "definitely fuck the woman who shows up this time."
Some for honor, some to fuck Lee Do-hee, and some just to get her breast milk.
Countless elite Awakened were gathering on the 38th floor.
And while all these incredible events were unfolding, Lee Do-hee was fast asleep, hugging the fluffy King Pig.
As a bonus, her t-shirt had ridden up, leaving her large, bare breasts completely exposed.
- So that's what happens when you have big boobs...
- I want to sneak in, squeeze out 200ml of milk, and run.
- Her defenseless appearance is so hot...
- If I stick my dick in her mouth, she'll probably think it's an ice cream and start sucking, right?
And as another bonus, they were sexually harassing her while monitoring the broadcast.