Heavenly Blessing
Knowledge and Wisdom stats 3x amplified
Remaining Duration: 3 minutes 1 second
BOOM!
The final tower sector of Lumentia.
He slammed a meteor into the monster horde.
Flying swarm?
He charged them head-on aboard a magic carpet shielded by a barrier, smashing them all into each other.
The bigger ones, he lured into one spot and swallowed them with a black hole.
Monsters defeated: 357,523
All monsters in the Karpel sector have been eliminated. You can now use restoration energy to purify the tower in this sector.
"Master! It's the last tower!"
"Today, another feat for our Pope that will be recorded across the universe nears completion?"
It was a genuine achievement.
About 25 minutes left on the buff.
In that short time, he'd bulldozed through every remaining infested sector of Lumentia.
Total monsters taken down? Probably close to three million.
Thanks to ripping skill cooldown reset scrolls nonstop, spamming meteors and black holes like crazy.
"How many did we use?"
"Eight!"
"And we've still got five left."
That reckless spending paid off.
The restoration rate skyrocketed.
From 62% to 95%.
Playing a game with cheat keys activated.
Boring? Hell no.
"Free wins are the best, right?"
"Free wins ftw!"
They arrived at the final tower like that.
Palm to the structure—purification complete.
Restoration Increase: 5%
Current Cumulative Restoration: 100%
The moment he received the stat and coin bonuses.
Planet Lumentia has achieved complete restoration.
A powerful recovery effect is applied across the entire planet Lumentia.
Towers across all of Lumentia resonated with a chime, flickering with a soft white light.
A sight truly like a miracle.
Residents halting reconstruction, dropping to their knees in prayer.
"Prayers of thanks to our Pope."
"Aigoo, what did I even do?"
All he did was hurl meteors, suck stuff into black holes, and beat down monsters.
Anyway, day 17 of restoration.
Initial estimate? Two months.
He'd slashed it massively.
Complete Restoration Rewards
Galaxy Traveler and ally Yulia's all stats permanently +100%.
300,000 Tower Coins awarded.
Stats are always right.
And 300,000 tower coins.
Nosferatu? 100,000 coins.
Seemed scaled to planet size.
—O God! Thank you!
—Holy glory of Lumentia!
He didn't bother descending to the tower base.
No way he was getting stuck in days of fanatical full-course worship.
Whoosh!
Back to his room via dimensional gate.
Well past midnight, but his mind was razor-sharp.
Complete restoration of previous planet unlocks new planet exploration.
Gift boxes kept popping up.
No sleep till they were all open.
"Let's go right now."
"Who might come this time?"
"Whoever it is, I'll lay down the law!"
"Hehe, establishing hierarchy is important."
Uh, put away the staff and hammer first.
If he had to pick a desired role...
Attacker or supporter.
Honestly, Carmina and Yulia alone made tower climbs no big deal.
Offense and defense perfectly balanced.
The only downside? Mid-layers taking longer as they pushed deeper.
Yulia tanked fine, so he needed more DPS.
Or buffers/debuffers.
"Planet Exploration, summon ally."
Searching destroyed planets.
Planets scanned: 35,778,283
Definitely more than last time.
Towers were wiping out planets in real-time.
Checking compatibility with current era Earth's environment and culture.
Planets selected: 58,261
Displaying 3 planets at random.
1.Exploration — Planet of those who live pursuing ultimate strength amid blood and madness.
Keywords: Combat / Charge-type Attacker
2.Exploration — Planet of those pursuing immortality amid advanced science and technology.
Keywords: Recovery / Support-type Defender
3.Exploration — Planet of those traversing the boundary between material and immaterial, seeking balance.
Keywords: Combat / Buff-type Supporter
All the descriptions were cryptic as hell?
Still, let's guess.
"Number 1 is a berserker."
"Number 2 is a mad scientist!"
"Number 3? No clue. Ghost? Spirit?"
He glanced at Carmina.
"Number 1? The one you said you'd sort the hierarchy for?"
"Ah, no way! Blood-mad? Gotta be some terrifying monster! Eek! Blood!"
She'd totally forgotten she was a vampire herself?
Now to Yulia.
"What about number 2?"
"If it's what Your Holiness desires, I have no issue. Though our roles overlap, making it inefficient for party comp. Advanced science clashes with the Dopamine Church doctrine anyway. And—"
Basically, she didn't want to lose her job.
Number 3 it was.
1 sounded too crazy.
2 overlapped with Yulia.
"Going with 3."
"Sounds good!"
"Hehe, as Your Holiness wills."
Planet select: 3.
Exploring planet of those traversing the boundary between material and immaterial, seeking balance.
Planet registered in codex.
Spirit selected.
Reviving spirit as ally.
Hummm!
A swirl of light appeared in the room's center.
Senior allies gripping staff and hammer, ready to enforce discipline.
But what materialized was...
"A fox?"
"It's a fox! Little prince!"
"A fox, huh?"
A silver-furred fox, body not fully grown.
It stared at them, tongue lolling from innocent eyes.
Tilt.
"Gasp!"
"So cuuute!"
"This... is devastating."
All three clutched their hearts in unison.
The two allies forgot all about discipline, too busy petting the fox.
"Appointed mascot of Dopamine Inc.!"
"Adorable. What's that orb in its mouth?"
He petted it blankly too.
Pat pat.
Ahh, purifying.
Cuteness really saves the world?
Not that his grueling tower-climbing days felt wasted...
All that blood, sweat, and tears.
He snapped to and checked the codex.
Planet of those traversing the boundary between material and immaterial, seeking balance.
Material and immaterial. Balance.
What kind of traits?
No real sense of it.
Ally for sure, but no speech ability?
Right then.
"Huh?"
"Master! It's going transparent!"
"Whoa? My hand passed through?"
The fox's body cycled through colorful auras: transparent, solid, repeat.
Pets too.
"Touched it!"
"Passed through this time!"
Spirit? Fox spirit?
It eyed their faces in turn, accepting probabilistic pets.
"Ah! Something on our faces?"
"Gauging hierarchy? Your Holiness, me, Carmina in order, right?"
"Ah! Ah! Ah! Can't accept that—"
Then its gaze locked on him.
Hopped onto his lap, dropped the blue orb from its mouth into his palm.
Shiiiine—
The orb melted into his skin.
In progress.
Current Progress: 1%
Spirit confirmed.
Soul link—not bad, right?
He opened a dimensional gate to Spiritia.
What he saw?
A forest of pure darkness.
Bare trees. Eerie silence.
The distant tower, barely visible in moonlight, wrapped in black vines.
"Looks super dangerous...!"
"I sense an unusual aura."
Unlike Nosferatu or Lumentia.
Best to gather intel before diving in.
Hummm! Whoosh!
Gate closed, on to the next task.
All Phase 1 missions cleared. "Planet Development" function added to Planet Exploration skill.
Third planet explored, all missions cleared.
Check it out.
Consume Tower Coins to reactivate towers on fully restored planets.
(...)
Summary?
"The moment the first tower reactivates, all residents of that planet can awaken again and climb."
"Rampage system gone! Free entry/exit anytime! Just level up, farm items, done! Happy climbing!"
And the key point.
"Contribution points all aggregate to Your Holiness? More precisely, to Earth's Hitchhiker?"
Chills.
This function for real?
Just set up the system, and points copy over passively.
Unknown how much per planet, but conservatively? Massive help.
Korea, struggling with low awakener rates.
Now adding Nosferatu and Lumentia populations wholesale.
If played right...
This round, Korea could go solo—no alliance needed?
Thrilling.
Cuteness or dopamine? Dopamine wins.
Next menu.
Tip 1: 100,000 Tower Coins consumed per tower reactivation.
Tip 2: Number of reactivated towers unlocks max floors and increases simultaneous users.
Tip 3: Train planet residents via tower climbs to prepare for looming threats.
Looming threats. Unknown what.
But awakening and leveling would make them way stronger.
And.
100,000 coins per tower.
Time to use those stockpiled resources.
"Nosferatu first."
Dimensional gate to there.
Kasabla, in a ROKA vest like a foreman, greeted warmly.
"Oho! You've come! Our foolish daughter and Lady Yulia too!"
Explained the situation to Kasabla, mid-shin-kick from filial piety.
His jaw dropped.
"S-such a thing is possible? Re-awaken and enter towers? No rampage risk at all?"
"Yeah, seems the black towers turned white and purified."
"No downside for us. A blessing! Tower drops like hides and metals are huge for daily life!"
While Kasabla gathered residents, he flew high on the magic carpet.
12 towers across the territory.
Headed to the central 6th sector tower.
Reactivate Sector 6 Tower?
Aigoo, if you insist.
100,000 Tower Coins consumed.
Sector 6 Tower reactivated.
A massive bell-like toll rang out.
Back on the ground...
"Wh-what? Awakening?"
"Status window?"
"We can enter towers again?"
Vampires staring blankly at the sky.
Quick census.
Population: 3,624.
All awakened.
S-rank 1. A-rank 362. B-rank 3,261.
No C or below.
"Everyone! Try entering now!"
"Rachel vanished!"
"She's in the tower!"
"Simultaneous entry limit? Can't get in?"
Excited residents in uproar.
He whispered to Carmina.
"They're thrilled. Good, but..."
"Vampires are a competitive, thrill-seeking race by nature!"
He knew that, but not to this extent.
Thinking about it...
Dry culture, mid-restoration—no entertainment.
Killing time with Earth movies or board games on big screens.
Tower climbing? Dopamine explosion inevitable.
Reactivated the rest, returned amid anticipation.
Blank slate since round start—no tower entries yet.
But.
"Master! It's moving! Points! They're moving!"
"Going up! It's going up!"
10s, 100s, 1,000s.
Score balance seems similar to Earth's.
Points small? Floor 1 stuff.
But as more residents hit mid-layers?
Gulp.
Huge.
Snowballing scores.
His brain spun with plans for the point factory.
Lumentia population now?
Need more coins.
Support for residents?
Then the message.
Soul connection complete.
He gazed at the silver-furred fox nestled in Carmina's arms.