Chapter 51: Floor 11: Choose Your Reward
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 51: Floor 11: Choose Your Reward
“Rebecca…”
“You bitch… you're that bitch from before! Why?! Why did you do all this?! Luca, David, Feridna, Oron, Yuncheol… and the Deputy Warden… Why the hell did you kill them?!”
I could feel his rage.
An emotional transference.
Unless you’re a psychopath, humans are social animals, so it’s inevitable that you’ll be influenced to some extent by the emotions of those around you.
‘Phew… These are people from a virtual world. I can’t let it get to me.’
I deliberately ignored his words, offering no reply.
I watched for an opening, searching for a way out.
The problem wasn’t just that Rebecca had been taken hostage.
“Over there! Get her!!!”
“You bitch!!”
While I was carrying Rebecca and fighting the people outside, the prison guards who had been trapped inside had put out the fire and were now rushing toward me.
It wasn’t that I couldn’t fight them.
With the Deputy Warden dead, my chances of winning were higher.
The problem, however, was time.
The trial wouldn’t end just by walking out the main gate.
Just like on the 3rd floor, where it only ended after I handed the culprit’s body over to the city, this trial would only be cleared once I had escaped the prison and either gotten far enough away or found a safe place to hide.
It was a bit tricky, but the system wouldn’t allow for a cheap clear, like just touching the main gate after a mad dash.
So… now, I had to decide.
“Rebecca!!!”
I shouted at the top of my lungs.
Hearing my cry, Rebecca lifted her head.
She was already dying, and now she was a hostage. Perhaps feeling the misery of her situation, she looked completely drained of strength.
“Why… wh…”
“Burn it. Burn it all!!”
“What…?”
“Hey! Try anything funny and you’re dead!!” a guard threatened, shoving the barrel of his pistol against the side of Rebecca’s head.
He looked ready to shoot her if she so much as twitched.
He had once been a kind guard to the prisoners, but after seeing so many of his colleagues dead, there was no way he would forgive us.
“Rebecca, I’m sorry. Now… die for me here.”
“What…?”
“I’ll get your revenge for you. Rebecca Ignos, the last survivor of the Ignos family, who survived the Voltain Empire’s massacre! I will carry on your will!! Now… do your final job.”
“……”
She stared at me blankly for a moment.
“Heh… heheh…”
Her lips parted slightly as a laugh escaped.
The light returned to her eyes.
As if she had foreseen her own fate, tears streamed down her face.
And yet, she smiled.
“Right, this is it for me… Thank you, for giving me a reason to die, and for letting me die happy… Ah, about the first day… I was… sorry…”
“Hey, what do you think you’re—!!”
Bang!
A bullet fired without hesitation.
It pierced through her head, and the flame of her life was extinguished.
And at that very same moment,
- Fwoooosh!!!
A massive blaze erupted from her already dead body.
Her only ability was to emit fire around her.
And now, her furious flames decorated her spectacular end.
The guard standing next to her was instantly engulfed and killed, and the guards following behind were also swept away by the inferno.
“I’ll remember you, Rebecca Ignos.”
A girl with short blonde hair and red eyes.
A sharp-featured, delinquent girl with the kind of look that made you want to dominate and train her.
‘Thank you.’
I started running again.
I entered the now-empty tower, adjusted the controls, and opened the gate.
The thick steel door slowly rose upward.
The main entrance of the building was still on fire. There was no sign of anyone coming.
“Phew…”
I wasn't in good shape either.
The soles of my feet were completely blistered from the burns, oozing fluid, and my entire body was covered in burn marks.
I felt severe muscle aches and pains. Blood was flowing from the places where I’d been shot.
Still, I ran.
I tore the scraps of cloth that no longer served as clothing from my skin and ran.
‘It’s not cleared yet. I have to hide somewhere.’
Outside the detention center was nothing but mountain roads.
I sprinted down a dark road illuminated only by the faint moonlight.
I ran without rest along the bumpy mountain path, which had no streetlights.
As I was madly descending, I saw a single vehicle coming up from the opposite direction.
‘The army? The police?’
No, it was just an ordinary luxury sedan.
‘A civilian.’
Focusing my eyes, I could see a normal-looking man through the windshield.
“H-Help me!!”
I waved my hands, completely naked, and cried for help. Surely no man could just ignore a woman in my state and drive past.
As I pleaded for help, the car slowly came to a stop. The man inside rolled down his window and leaned his head out.
“My goodness, what happened? Are you alright?”
He was a scholarly-looking man, probably in his mid-to-late forties.
He wore neat clothes and a pair of round glasses.
He smelled faintly of alcohol and his hair was styled, as if he’d just come from a party.
His eyes widened in surprise as he scanned my body from top to bottom.
“Ah… in the, in the mountains… I just… had something terrible happen to me… sob.”
I acted the part of a woman who had just been gang-raped by thugs in the mountains.
I covered my face with my hands to fake tears I couldn't produce, and covered my crotch with my other hand to hide the fact that there was no semen.
Fortunately, my physical state compensated for my terrible acting. My red, burned skin and the tattered, clinging remnants of my clothes made it look like I had been beaten while rolling around in the dirt.
‘Ah, to think I’d have to resort to this kind of acting…’
I felt a pang of self-pity, but it couldn’t be helped.
‘It’s all… it’s all for the sake of clearing the Tower…’
“Oh my… what a terrible, unfortunate thing. I’d like to give you a ride myself, but… I’ll call the police for you. It’s just that I’m in a terrible hurry right now.”
He scanned my body up and down one more time, a look of disappointment on his face.
Then, still leaning out the window, he made a gesture as if he were doing something on his phone.
‘What?’
The police were not an option.
Thwack!
Without a moment’s hesitation, I chopped the back of his neck, knocking him out instantly.
“Ahem… My apologies! You should have just given me a ride…”
I dragged him out of the car and got in.
“Oh, nice.”
I turned the car around and drove down the mountain path.
After driving for a while, I reached a normal paved road where other cars were passing by.
Along the way, I saw several police cars pass and heard the sound of a helicopter flying overhead.
Of course, I drove past without being stopped for any inspection.
“Phew… Is it finally over…?”
This trial had been quite long.
The tension left my body, and I leaned back comfortably against the seat.
‘Huh…?’
As my field of vision widened, I saw a rectangular business card holder hanging in the car.
“Wait… Warden of Auguschultz Detention Center, Raymond Campbell? He was a Grade 2 psychic…?”
‘What was that, was I just lucky?’
The weakness of psychics.
With the exception of physical enhancement types, most of them had the bodies of ordinary people, so a single good hit could kill them.
I felt like I had just cleared the final boss through sheer luck.
A-rank 2 was weaker than the Deputy Warden, but in a fight where I was on a time limit and exhausted, there was no telling how it would have turned out.
I drove on and entered a nearby city.
I abandoned the warden’s car in a suitable spot and slipped into a dark alley. A system voice rang out.
[You have cleared the 11th Floor of the Tower's Trial. Your grade will be increased due to a solo play bonus.]
‘It’s a shame about the true ending, though…’
Only after it was over did I feel a slight sense of regret.
[Your reward grade is SS. Please select a piece of equipment.]
“Phew… For now, I’ll move to my personal waiting room to prepare for the next trial. I’ll choose my equipment later.”
As soon as I arrived in the 12th-floor waiting room, I could feel my injured body healing.
“Whew… That was a bit tough. Chat window!”
I brought up the chat for the first time in a while.
- She finally cleared it lmao
- Do-ha~ Congrats congrats congrats
- SS-rank congrats congrats congrats
- Do-hee, bring our Rebecca back to lifeeee T_T
- That warden is so fucking unlucky lmao. Was he like, the hidden final boss?
- He should have been suspicious, but I guess he was too distracted by Do-hee's body?
“I know, right? I got a little lucky with the warden. And as for Rebecca…”
- Bring Rebecca back!!!
- I didn't like that Rebecca bitch at first, but I felt kinda bad for her at the end
- Lee Do-hee psychopath controversy... whoa
- They should have escaped together and had some hot lesbian sex...
- ??? : Die for me!!
- ??? : Rebecca, die!
“Hey, when did I tell her to die… It was a noble sacrifice. Rebecca now lives on in my memory.”
That’s right. The virtual character Rebecca was dead, but the real Rebecca remained in my memory.
“…This is what the Tower is like. If I had challenged this with party members, the one who died would have been a real person, not a virtual character like Rebecca.”
The Tower is cruel.
No matter how strong someone is, a purely good person can never climb the Tower.
And the higher you climb, the more a person’s cruel and negative nature is revealed.
That’s why some people say things like this:
‘The higher you climb the Tower, the more you feel like you’re getting closer to your true self.’
“Uh… If I ever run into the Voltain Empire, I’ll teach them a lesson for Rebecca. Now, shall we take a look at the rewards?”
For those watching a Tower climbing stream for the first time, seeing companions die might be unfamiliar and shocking. But it’s a common occurrence.
It’s not rare to see an Awakened being massacred during a live stream.
After offering them a little comfort, I opened the rewards.
It might seem less impressive after seeing an SSS-rank reward, but an SS-rank was still an unbelievably amazing reward.
[Please select a type.]
Several cards appeared in the air before me.
Weapons, armor, necklaces, earrings, capes—all types of items that could be equipped in item slots.
“Since I already have a weapon, I’ll obviously choose armor for the best efficiency.”
When I chose armor, three face-down cards appeared in the air.
Some people say the tutorial lasts until the 11th floor, but strictly speaking, there is no tutorial from this point on.
That’s why there are a maximum of three choices!
You might get lucky and receive an option to increase the number of choices, but that’s only if you’re really lucky. Normally, from the 11th floor on, you have to pick one of the three choices.
You can’t not choose.
Even if all three options are garbage, you have to pick one.
“But it’s armor, what are the chances all the options are weird? I’ll check the first one!”
As I touched the face-down card with my hand, it flipped over, revealing a high-quality illustration.
<Asanagi's Armor>
An armor worn by the legendary kunoichi Asanagi for special missions.
Strength +10
Agility +30
Defense +10
Armor Defense 50
It has built-in auto-repair and auto-clean magic, and allows the use of the <Stealth Lv.10> skill.
“Huh? Wait a minute! What is this?”
Setting aside the unsettling feeling that the illustration was drawn from a real-life reference, this was just too…
“Lewd!”
What kind of armor was this?
There were jewels on the tits that barely covered the nipples, and the chest was see-through, making her breasts clearly visible.
And what about the lower half?
It covered her pussy, but her camel toe was visible, and her pelvis and ass were almost completely exposed. It was a vulgar piece of armor.
And why did the stockings stop halfway up? Is this what they call thigh-highs…?
- That's why it's good, though?
- Wow... look at that pussy mound lol
- You can see her whole chest?
- The Stealth skill is great. Isn't that thing worth billions?
- As expected of the administrator, what great taste lol
- The guys looking for Rebecca got buried under the armor talk and disappeared....
- This is it, pick it now!!
“No, even so, this is…”
Of course, I’d have to change my armor eventually anyway.
But with performance like this for an SS-rank reward… I probably wouldn’t need to change it until at least the 40th floor, right?
“I-I’ll choose carefully. Let’s see the next armor.”
I tapped the second card.
“No, why is this one too!!”
<Exposure Bikini Armor>
A bikini armor whose defense increases the more it is exposed.
The stats are maximized when nothing else is worn with this armor.
Defense +10~100
It has built-in auto-repair and auto-clean magic, and allows the use of the <Nudification> skill.
“Noooo!!! Please just give me some normal armor!!”
The performance was good, but… the fashion was just as insane.
If I chose this, I’d have to walk around the Tower like this from now on.
More importantly, if I chose something like that, I’d be constantly subjected to visual rape and suffer from a permanent ‘in heat’ debuff.
- Kya~ This is it~
- Go for the bikini armor, let's go
- That defense stat is broken, pick it already
- It's nice to look at, but it's really vulgar
- Personally, it's too obscene for my taste...
- A flesh toilet onahole is what you are, you bitch~
- But what's Nudification?
“Nudification…? Let’s see what it is.”
<Nudification>
Turns you completely nude. In exchange, your final defense is doubled.
“Ah…..”
- Doubled? Is that a multiplicative bonus?
- It's not like +X%, something that says 'doubled' has to be multiplicative, and it even says 'final' defense.
- Her defense will probably break 300.
- She'll be harder than a rock lmao
- I like it.
- Hard~ like Do-hee~
- SS-rank rewards really are broken.
- The penalty is exposure, but since Lee Do-hee is a pervert, it's actually a benefit for her lol
“Keuk… I-I’ll look at the last one.”
Didn’t a decent option appear last time?
Believing that a cool-looking piece of armor would be in the final option, I slowly tapped the card.
“Ah…”
<Parasitic Tentacle Armor>
A special tentacle, 'Yugusper,' that is parasitic to human females, will be hosted in your body.
It grows by consuming the human female's bodily fluids and excrement, and is capable of autonomous attack and defense.
As its main body hides within the large intestine, it is unlikely to die unless the host dies.
“……”
I felt as if the Tower was saying, ‘Not a chance!’ as it presented this option.
This was beyond the realm of normalcy; it was a completely insane piece of armor.
- LMAO
- This one's good too.
- How can an armor be named Tentacle Armor lmao
- Kya~
- It's a growth-type, so it's probably the best performance-wise.
- You have to climb the trials wearing that? You'd be mistaken for a dark magician or a witch and the trial would end as soon as it started lol
- If she picks that, does that mean she'll be going thwump thwump with the tentacle every night?
- Do-hee, let's raise that tentacle well.
- Let's go for some tentacle breeding right now!!
“Haa… Fine, I’ll pick number 1.”
- What?
- Huh?
- ?
- Hah?
Looking at it again, number 1 was a saint in comparison.
It at least covered all the important parts, and it was the only one that even looked like armor.
Number 2 was too revealing, and if I wore number 3, there was a high chance the trials wouldn’t proceed normally.
To pass the Tower’s trials, things like reputation and recruiting allies were often crucial, and wearing something like that would make normal progression impossible.
- Ah
- No fun
- Lost your touch
- -_-
- My tentacle...
- Do-hee...
- I'm disappointed in you, Lee Do-hee.
[Ara Arasa has donated 10,000 won]
You’ve really lost your touch, you fucking bitch
“Just be satisfied with the illustration!!! How am I supposed to wear something like that!!!!”
As soon as I chose number 1, I quickly equipped it.
‘Come to think of it, I’ve been talking to the viewers completely naked this whole time without even realizing it…’
Surprisingly, none of the viewers had pointed it out either.
[DoheeTunaSoDelicious has donated 500,000 won]
Turn around and show us your ass too~
“…Haa.”
A perverted customer, but since enough money came in, I turned around once.
“Here… l-look…!”
‘Ah, this feels kind of weird…?’
I turned my back to the camera and stuck my butt out slightly.
- Ooh?
- Fucking bitch...
- Hah... that's an ass that makes you wanna...
- It's plump.
- I'm so jealous of Yoon Seong-gi. What's that bastard up to these days?
- Look at her being all shy.
- This is good too, heheh...
- Why are you embarrassed about showing your ass after getting used like a flesh toilet? Lmao
- It's because she's lewd. I bet she's getting a little turned on by showing it off.
- Hehehe....
- Look at that bitch's expression.
- Again and again...
- Subtly lewd is hotter. This is more appealing than full nudity.
- Just push her over to the side and....
The horny viewers suddenly swarmed the chat with sexual harassment, toeing the line.
The viewers, who had tested the boundaries in Lee Do-hee’s channel many times before, knew exactly how far they could go without getting banned.
‘This is, more embarrassing than I thought…’
“Keuk… A-Alright!! That’s enough of that! Now it’s time to look at my overall stats, right? Shall we see how much my final stats have increased?”
If I kept showing my ass like this, I felt like I might get… wet.
I quickly changed the subject.
I equipped the <Dojester’s Spear> I got from the 10th floor, turned on all my buffs, and opened my status window.
“Status Window!!!”
- Aww, I just pulled my pants down.
- I took a screenshot, check the photo board later.
- Lmao alright, let's see the status window.
- Let's see how much Do-hee has cheated the system this time!!
- This is the part I look forward to the most lmao
- For real, it's so satisfying to watch the numbers shoot up.
[Tiring~]
<Final Stats>
Strength: 60.6 → 93.6
Agility: 30.6 → 71.5
Defense: 87.6 → 109.8
Divine Power: 720.2 → 824.2
Lewd Power: 128 → 226.8
Divine Power Recovery Rate: 2 per hour
Regeneration: 1
All-Attribute Resistance: 50
Bonus Stats: 16 → 21
“Kya….. This is the stuff!!!”
My other stats had risen a lot, but my Agility, in particular, had nearly doubled.
- Wow......
- Lee Do-hee's usual brokenness.
- The sum of her base stats... just broke four digits, didn't it...?
- ????
- How are those the stats of someone on the 11th floor?
- I guess you need stats like that for two people to take down a boss that takes 600 people to kill...
- Do-hee, did you beat the Deputy Warden without even using your bonus stats? Lmao
“Come to think of it, I didn’t use a single bonus stat. I was saving them for an emergency…”
Of course, I was going to use them all now.
“So, how much time is left?”
I had spent almost two full days in that detention center…
[Time Remaining: 124 hours 46 minutes]
“Hmm… I think I can do this.”
Looking at my status window filled me with confidence.