Chapter 210
Chapter 210
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 210
Chapter Title: The Korean Tower Monkey's Update
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"[Ookieek]"
The current situation of the Korean Tower's monkey is—he's working hard.
The problem was that he'd crossed the line big time by deploying an [Idol] monster on the 60th floor, one that was practically impossible to conquer.
Thanks to violating a whopping 17 regulations, he got chewed out by the Arbitrator—not once, but repeatedly.
Even so, the fact that he submitted honest, thorough reports without lying earned him some leniency; the Arbitrator took into account that the guy was just plain dumb and didn't hand down severe punishment.
He'd simply followed the Tower's mandatory protocols to the letter.
When adjusting difficulty according to the rules—who would be a fitting opponent for Wakamo Inarizushi's level?—he'd met the conditions for the highest difficulty possible.
The only issue was that Wakamo Inarizushi, who couldn't even use Authorities, had a 0% chance of winning.
And it wasn't just a straight fight; there was a time limit, making it even tighter. No wonder it was deemed an impossible clear.
"Unlike the American Tower, I get that you're working openly without hiding anything."
This guy was too stupid. He didn't have intelligence, not even a shred of intellect.
He had costs piled up like mountains, enough to rank #1 among Towers in terms of wealth, and yet 70% of that revenue came from Wakamo Inarizushi? Was that right?
Even when the Korean Tower honestly admitted they'd tipped him off about the red potion because regulations left no choice, the Arbitrator could hardly believe it.
A ragtag golem would have a more decent class, and even without Authorities, the response was, "If I don't have one, I'll create it!! I died and came back to life, so the death I experienced is my Authority!!" and then fought like that.
'If this guy had lived in my era, he'd have been king outright.'
The Arbitrator wondered if there was something to his past life, but nope. No special bloodline, no innate soul talent.
This guy was just one utterly ordinary person among the masses, no matter how much you dug!!
Assuming the Korean Tower hadn't pulled any tricks.
Like the American Tower Lord, maybe he had ulterior motives? The Arbitrator had separated him from Wakamo and monitored him all day.
But all that surveillance revealed was him fumbling through preparations for the 60th floor reward at a snail's pace so infuriating it made onlookers want to explode.
Was this idiot really the head of the Tower Federation?
He'd peeked at how the [Skill] lists were made and saw him cribbing from 【Legendary Classes】, playing with modeling clay to produce garbage so astonishing it drew involuntary gasps.
The Arbitrator felt dizzy, not even knowing where to begin critiquing.
Records even showed that monsters for the Tower were borrowed from other Towers because they didn't have any. The cola he was drinking came right back up.
Wakamo had skyrocketed the difficulty into a hellfire pit, but they lacked floors and monsters to match, so they'd borrowed them.
The classes were homemade too, and to respect Wakamo's wish to somehow make it work, they'd created [Skills].
All those costs covered by ripping off 70% of Wakamo's rewards.
And from that 70%, they barely salvaged 10% to make trash.
"Ah, I quit smoking."
The Arbitrator's hands trembled as he reached for a cigarette. A few days with this guy had been no joke in terms of stress.
He was genuinely acting per Tower duties, but the rapid growth had left them scrambling to keep up, and with Wakamo causing chaos everywhere, they were swamped with work—still stuck as a monkey.
At this point, though, it almost seemed like he was staying a monkey on purpose.
Once he could create detached entities like 【Tower Lords】, he'd get beaten black and blue by Wakamo all day without a speck of dust flying—he knew that.
Acting like a dumb monkey made others give up expectations: "What can I hope for from him~?"
'He works diligently, he's genuinely dumb, but... isn't this guy actually super sly?'
The American Tower, critically wounded by a direct hit from Wakamo's 【Authority】, had fled.
With half of America's Towers crippled, the Arbitrator immediately deployed the Korean Tower to manage them.
The systems were built to run without a lord, so Americans didn't even notice anything wrong.
Now holding half of America's Towers, the Korean Tower had no guarantee a new lord wouldn't act like the American one, so they'd brought in a pinch hitter.
Because of that, Wakamo's 60th floor reward, while climbing the Korean Tower, drifted ever farther away.
The wait would be long, but the [Arbitrator] had personally devised it as a reward.
Gazing at classes that made spaghetti code look like art, drowning in booze and smokes over how to fix it all, but anyway.
"[Ookieek?]"
The American Tower was now under Korean Tower management.
The Korean Tower poked around the meticulously organized systems and macro programs designed for various scenarios.
"[Ugh?]"
It was neatly sorted for easy understanding, like stacking seven encyclopedias—thick and voluminous, considering every situation. Regrettably, born on America's vast lands with immense starting costs, the automation was beyond the Korean Tower's dim wits to grasp.
The system's sole flaw: it struggled against entirely novel opponent types with no data.
For 【Man-Eater】, records showed the 【Tower Lord】 personally prepared floors, rewards, and trials with utmost care.
Perfect skills, perfect dedicated items, appropriate difficulty.
Compared to the Korean Tower and Wakamo, the gap felt as pathetic and depressing as cockroaches.
"But it's 'cause their classes are strong, right?" The Korean Tower brushed it off casually.
At this point, even he knew Wakamo's class was regrettably utter garbage.
The Korean Tower tilted his head side to side with the world's dumbest expression.
Despite gaining incomparable power, status, and might from seizing half of America—far beyond his Korean Tower days—he remained the same.
It was like plopping a monkey in the US President's seat; too unnerving, so the sleepless Arbitrator kept watch.
Drowning in booze over Wakamo's rewards, caffeine over monitoring the Korean Tower.
The Arbitrator reflected: had work ever pissed him off this much?
"No, Towers understand all languages!! Why are you still so dumb!"
"[Kyaaak?]"
Reading language didn't mean comprehending it.
The Arbitrator clutched his neck watching the Korean Tower wail it out.
The Arbitrator's goal: build influence to conquer America, strip and nullify the American Tower's "Tower Lord" qualification.
Then, if things went smoothly, hand off Korean Tower duties to the Russian Tower Lord.
"[I'll just run the shop~ Confident I'll do great!]"
Bribing(?) him with heaps of booze upon release from underground labor, the Russian Tower Lord begged repeatedly to take the Korean Tower.
With his earnest pleas—and Korean Tower now handling America, Russian managing the massive shop—it seemed fine, so permission granted.
Now things just needed to go well.
The Korean Tower, stroking his chin this way and that, sat at the computer.
Finally getting to work?
[Author: HandsomeMonkeyBoy]
[Title: Any improvements for the Tower you'd suggest, folks?]
Anything inconvenient about the American Tower?
-We want partners too.
-Don't we get a federation?
-Our lives suck because of these shitty guardians.
-Give us some badass mounts.
Posting on [Climber Gallery] for advice was a flop for the Korean Tower.
Seeing him sit at the PC just to gal around, the Arbitrator's eyes bloodshot with rage, trembling, crawled into bed.
Believing tomorrow's self would handle it somehow, she fell asleep. She just didn't want to stay awake anymore.
Oblivious to the Arbitrator's feelings, the Korean Tower stroked his chin.
[Author: Somaru Vivi]
[Title: Debuting VTuber here, got questions]
Planning to climb as a climber to earn for VTuber streaming.
Any issues with American Tower climbs?
Gonna keep climbing steadily till stable post-debut.
Any advice?
-Wakamo) Emailed you.
ㄴAuthor) ㅠㅠ Thanks.
-First comment ghost, lmao.
-Wakamo) Sent American Tower cons right away.
-Wakamo) Shooter and clan best.
-Boss loves VTubers fr.
-But hasn't debuted yet lololol
-Smart, earning as climber while streaming.
-Best option tbh...
-Climber anytime, pretty free.
-Author) Gonna try Wakamo's advice.
-Boss does everything good for VTubers lololol
-No fr, pops up right after posting?
Using wisdom, Korean Tower easily nabbed American Tower fixes.
Even Aska couldn't sniff it out; nothing to fear.
Korean Tower meticulously checked Wakamo's golden TIPs, poured out doggedly.
Meanwhile, inter-federation match alert rang.
Uninterested in how it'd go, Korean Tower just checked Wakamo's participation.
Korean Tower can't bet costs—wait, no, participant federations barred, obviously.
Glancing at America's piled capital.
[【EU Federation】 wins: American Tower bets all costs.]
Beast souls would flee in terror at such all-in gamble!!
He was Korean Tower now, but half American too!!
Spotting instant money route, Korean Tower opened the path, netting 10x costs.
Roughly 178x the costs EU crushed from East Asia—earned free.
Why toil when easy money like this exists? he wondered.
Next, limited to his American Tower: 2x Tower Coin bonus event.
Whatever federation they joined, Korean Tower didn't care!!
Bet on EU win via American Tower for inter-fed match, profit!!
"[Resources duplicating!!!!!]"
Anyway, losses were losses; Korean Tower topped up lost costs and worked on.
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"We won."
Including engineers, Germany's ambitious team utterly smashed East Asia Federation.
Overwhelming victory; not a single East Asia climber felled an EU one.
Beyond anticlimactic—power gap exceeded expectations, morale sky-high.
Opponent too pathetic, unlike feared.
Some sneered: "Yellow monkey Asians max out there anyway."
Of course, top rankers like Japan's Fist King absent, so no wild rejoicing.
They gathered to plan Tower Coin use from the win.
Unlike win-drunk partiers, long-time climbers acted differently from the start.
Foes charged on horses swinging swords; they rolled in tanks with self-propelled guns and mortars, razing from afar.
Even with shooters, universal guns anyone could use—any breach met bullet storms, spilling blood and falling.
Inter-fed duels polled climbers' intent, then Tower-spawned massive battlefield for war.
Climbers fought via clones, sensationally.
Heard participants' outer bodies lay unconscious.
Thus, undefended bodies risked harm mid-fight.
Anyway, simple capture: smash enemy base to win.
No need for total annihilation, but EU hunted all, total wipeout for top score—showing national might.
First-win fed title plus premier bonuses raked costs.
Armed with Korean dev next-gen tanks, Ichigo's membership vid small shields surpassing [Guardians'] suits—[Item]-certified for entry/use, unstoppable.
Alchemist tank charges crushed foes under treads pathetically; hits repaired internally—drag time, gangbanged by others, down.
Individuals had shields too—unfair war.
"No, it was nothing big. Why were y'all scared? Garlic-stink monkey shits or chinks, we won regardless?"
Germany's youngest, 15yo boy, victory-high, mocked tense teammates.
Scared them shitless of instant loss, yet crushed foes.
"No matter how strong, has-beens? Insecure, didn't show~"
Crew eyed each other—what to do with this arrogant brat?—but words unheard long ago.
【Legendary Class】 power made him feel special, rampaging drunk on strength—Pirate vibes, deeply unnerving.
Warned via parents, vids multiple times; he toed line somewhat.
But consecutive wins swelling arrogance to accident... unthinkable.
Another plotted mass-producing Aska 2.0s via 【Partner System】 scraps from East Asia loss.
Win more, specialize partners to hijack networks, counter Aska's electronic warfare.
Teammates approved: fear Aska hacking their info lightly.
Engineer's counters futile; humans can't beat super AI.
Might lack quality, but quantity-overwhelm plan; foe grinned wickedly.
"Again: win while Wakamo Inarizushi sits out—that's strategy, got it?"
"Yeah, 【Idol Behavior Pattern】 for a while."
.....
...
"This is the 【Idol Behavior Pattern】 Guardians use."
"What's that?"
Ben, explaining Guardians' tools to Wakamo, showed odd item.
Wakamo's combat unmeasurable/unpredictable, no counters.
But monkey-level IQ allowed predictable patterns, he claimed.
Guardians fully grasped Wakamo "personal" actions.
Wakamo, baking Amelia cookies, speechless.
-Wakamo no intent to join fed matches.
-Dates clash with VTuber schedule.
Reason too flimsy.
How'd they read minds to write this?
Dumb-faced, read paper perfectly profiling her over herself.
Overkill rating IQ drops to 1 for VTubing—but fact, speechless.
Footnote "Prioritizes streaming/VTubing over climbing" forehead-slap worthy.
"Well, no plans to join even if fed loses."
"Skipping fine anyway. Guardians might scheme glomming EU."
Unscheduled Swiss vaca Sadako-decided, blindsiding Guardians.
"Man, like the '[Won't attack, leave VTubers alone]' bit!"
"Right? Told 'em hands off."
True, leave VTubers be, no wild rampage.
Ben: anyone not idiot knows.
.....
...
"Not adult, so no booze, no girls, watch it—boomer cunts. Over-fearing a no-show has-been?"
Ignoring elders, boy puffed cig defiantly, mocking.
"Split, home for noobtube streams," waved off rudely.
Engineer ignored brat's insolence.
Snapped at machine-fiddling can't-fight auntie to shut up early on.
Fair, 【Legendary Class】 warranted cockiness.
Claiming more climbs beat Idol worrisome—but warned repeatedly, he'd be cautious.
Lately, fed up with elders' worries, boy took hobby: torment low-viewer (1-5 avg) noob VTubers.
Pay to boss around sadistically.
Currently light poking, but planned to shake stream, crash to hell.
"Fuck, fox bitch watch 1-viewer noob stream? Leave at 2. Idiot boomers."
Cig in mouth, booze despite parents, tattooed boy laughed at mission-flailing VTuber.
'Honestly, kid's no issue.'
Meanwhile, Engineer trembled unknowingly at bigger problem(?).
Team with [Six Freaks] included "normal class" too.
Who among them [Guardian]?
Humanity's enemy aiding EU Fed—Engineer, tech lead, knew.
Still, Guardians wary, avoided provoking Wakamo.
Mutual plan: slowly extract costs/tech from East Asia, cooperate.
'Breathe shallow, fine—no Wakamo triggers yet!'
.....
...
"Why stop suddenly, President?"
Wakamo paused cooking, staring out window.
Eiva worried at oddity.
Psychic, sensed her violently shaking mind waves.
"Think I heard crying from 28-day-debuting, hard-streaming 5-avg viewer VTuber I'm watching."
"Nah, just imagination."
Hearing that worse issue?
Eiva gulped, spooked: no scary talk, psychic or not.
But Wakamo dead certain, somehow.
Too busy lately, reheating cold rice for all VTubers, but instinct said.
"No, tracking all 589 recent nationwide debuts. Waiting for clip-worthy ripeness—but feels like fruit I raised rotting pre-ripe. Idol senses say someone's bullying my cute VTuber."
"Uh..."
Eiva had words, but.
Recalled she's fox god, not human—nodded.
Idol level senses believer plights, right?
Not her business anyway—pass.
Just prayed shit-stirrer quits pre-catch.