Chapter 47
Chapter 47
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 47
Chapter Title: Tower-Climbing Fox God VTuber
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Wakamo, buried in the swamp by the swamp rock spirit's blow, thrashes her way out.
Ichigo and Pilot had already scattered and started running.
Ichigo freezes the ground into ice to create footing, sliding along to maintain mobility while loading her slingshot and firing potions wildly to trigger chain explosions.
The rock spirit, made of mud from the swamp. It was just a matter of taking down the core.
Pilot slides over it as well, turning her entire body to ice and slamming her palm down on the path Ichigo had carved.
"[Elemental Transmutation]! [Double Transmutation]! [Form Substitution]!"
An ice mountain surges up abruptly, blocking the incoming mud punch and sending Ichigo flying back with the recoil. She leaps up, scattering all sorts of potions.
Right after, she spins her slingshot, loads a hook, fires it to latch onto the wall, and hangs safely as the explosion goes off.
"Hiya!"
-Ends it perfectly.
-I saw this in science class.
-Fun volcano playtime.
Not baking soda and vinegar, though.
Mixing all sorts of poisons and detonating them at once creates a spectacular fireworks display above the mud giant's head.
It transforms into various properties: lava flows, ice erupts, snow falls on the layer, steam blasts out scorching hot—and sharp steel spikes protrude from spots all over its body.
But even with a volcano erupting right above its head, the swamp rock giant moves on unfazed.
"[Forced Mutation]!"
Pilot dives low and taps its leg with her hand. A white area spreads from the point of contact, and the leg turns into an ice block as if sucking in the ice Ichigo had laid down.
"Oryaat—!!"
In that state, she switches her other hand to metal and swings with full force, smashing one leg to bits and toppling its balance.
Wakamo, who had escaped the swamp, infuses mana into Kusanagi's Sword and unleashes a slashing strike.
She takes her stance and slashes straight down from above, drawing a line straight across the swamp. Soon, the giant's body splits in half and tilts.
With one leg gone, the shorter side slides down.
But even that regenerates by absorbing the surrounding mud.
"Grooooh—"
The echo reverberating from its gaping maw spreads ominously through the cavern.
"[The swamp rock spirit is a monster that regenerates as long as there's mud. Normally, the mud would be limited, but—]"
"Ahh, thanks Manager."
So in this situation where mud is infinitely spawning, it means it can't be killed?
Looking up, only darkness fills the sky, with no clue where it's pouring from.
Plus, dragging this out would make the mud... no, the swamp level rise, slowing its movements—or if it absorbs that, it'd just grow bigger. Either way, a problem.
"No helping it."
White flames bloom from Wakamo's shoulders.
They spread to both arms, blazing fiercely and illuminating the darkness with scorching heat.
Ichigo, realizing what she's up to, jumps down only for Pilot to snag her and pull back.
The swamp rock spirit, eyes fixed on Wakamo burning through vast mana, raises its fist high.
Wakamo takes her stance against the attack, hammer-shaped and brimming with murderous intent to crush her.
She even uses VTuber Assets to form an arrow, wrapping it in white flames to hide it—
"Fuga"
-It's coming!!
-"Let's do a firepower showdown."
-I'm finally getting pumped, so shall I show you?
-Fulfilling the believers' expectations? That's the Fox God for you.
-Coming, the strongest onmyoji of the Heian era's spells...!
-Dannoura Battle was Heian era, yeah.
-Ah lol was that historical accuracy lol
[Stats]
Mana: 624,171 -> 524,143.
[Bonus Stats: 35]
"Kamino"
A white flame arrow shoots from Wakamo's fingertips. Less "shot" and more "ejected" in a brutish fashion.
Ichigo hurls power-up potions with all her might toward the flame's trajectory, boosted by Mana Manipulation as a cheat. Meanwhile, Pilot raises a mud barrier.
The arrow collides with the rock spirit—and a blinding light fills the viewers' screens white.
White flames spread everywhere amid the raging aftermath.
The idol's flames, fueled by Wakamo's mana, burn hotter than ever, engulfing the rock spirit's massive body in fire.
Like the elf sage before, the burning rock giant staggers as if it'll collapse and die if left alone.
Wrong.
"Dahyung-nim!!"
Ichigo's desperate cry rings out as a massive mud hammer crashes down on Wakamo's head.
She dodges nimbly, but the mud wave surging from the impact blocks her view.
The giant's arm swells huge by absorbing the mud wave and swats the airborne Wakamo straight into the distant wall.
-No way, it survives that..?
-Upper body vaporized and it still hits?
Whether the core moves freely inside the mud or not, even without its upper center, the swamp rock spirit lives.
Its arms, now just shoulders, move unfazed, gearing up for another strike at Wakamo.
Wakamo leaps over the swinging mud mass and eyes the rock spirit regenerating to full form by sucking in more mud.
She also sees mud pouring endlessly from above, bubbling as it fills the ground at her feet.
"Hmm— Ichigo. Any freeze potions left?"
"....Yeah! Shall I?"
"Not yet. Trap it in an ice wall on my signal."
"Yeah!"
Wakamo stabs Kusanagi's Sword into the ground and takes a deep breath.
Something she's never tried before—but with enough mana, anything's possible, right?
"—Though it'll consume an excessive amount of mana."
She'd experimented with supplies plenty of times.
Real battles often produced career-high miracles beyond practice.
"If you're fighting with environmental advantages, then I'll counter with my own domain."
A noise like mud being sucked wholesale echoes as something invisible to viewers manifests behind Wakamo.
A desperate, whatever-works ultimate technique!
"I'll invite you to my Peach Blossom Paradise beyond the world."
Ichigo tosses a freeze potion to block the mud wave with an ice wall, keeping it from spreading to the house.
She forcibly drags the swamp rock spirit into Wakamo's [My Worlds], complete with a vast yard.
A blue sky, endless green fields—a beautiful landscape.
Viewers gasp at the layer suddenly turning into a true paradise.
Deprived of its infinite mud advantage, the rock spirit curls into a ball and rolls toward Wakamo.
[Stats]
Mana: 524,143 -> 201,903
[Bonus Stats: 35]
'The mana drain is worse than expected...!'
She knew she could resize or move the portal, but it was taxing.
Still, now that it's here, Wakamo holds the overwhelming edge.
This is still inside the layer!
"Now—your fancy regeneration won't work here!!"
It's still huge—still massive—still intimidating!!
But Wakamo smirks confidently.
She didn't ask Ichigo for a flawless ice wall seal for nothing.
With Pilot reinforcing it, Wakamo channels her mana.
This area's power—and the Capital too—is supplied by her mana.
Her mana drains at an insane rate as the ground beneath her feet begins to swell.
"Sal-su tang-tang yang byeok-heo (薩水湯湯漾碧虛)!!"
-Sal-su Great Victory!
-Casting this level of water control in a place with no water...!
-Three women in a yuri VTuber group? Possible.
-All from polar bear tears...?
Reciting a line from Anju's Reflections on the Past—"Sal-su's mighty waves ripple in the empty sky"—water pillars erupt, and the area floods at tremendous speed.
Wakamo, who can breathe underwater, versus the rock spirit with mud washing away in the water.
No need to think which side's disadvantaged.
"Now!!!"
"Freeze it all at once, no hard feelings, boss."
Breath fogs from Pilot's mouth.
Following her, whose lower body is ice, the water Wakamo unleashed freezes solid.
In an instant, the mud giant looks like an ice spirit itself, and a shadow looms over its head.
Ichigo, who climbed the ice wall using its recoil, dives at the spirit's core gathering mud, grabbing a metal plate from her belt.
Her hand alchemizes it into a sword via alchemy skill.
"Eyaap—!!"
With an adorably weak kiai, the steel greatsword cleaves the core in two.
"Hoo... hoo...."
A performance made possible by chugging two [Body Enhancement] potions from the Association.
The heavy recoil leaves her pale-faced, collapsing and panting.
Wakamo shifts the portal again, ejecting all the mud and ice walls outside before closing it.
-Guild leader, you knew Domain Expansion too???
-What was that place earlier?
-Wait, she can do water control but can't swim?
-Captain "Ice Age" lololol
-Navy admiral as expected!! Knew it!!
-Why no praise for our Ichigo.
-Ah, your crescent moon... I saw it clear...
-Not yet time for world-submerging...
-These guys so harsh on Ichigo only.
-Blame League for ruining supports.
[Incheon Tower Layer 29 achieves Platinum conditions and opens to all humanity!!]
[Tower Platinum clear: settling rewards]
"...Huh? Just stats..?"
"Nahdu...but...?"
"What is it?"
Wakamo transfers 5 points as usual, but rewards for the two suddenly dropped too.
No, 15 stat points is at least a 5-layer tower reward—not bad.... Maybe no low-layer teaching skills or something?
Then what's mine?
Why's the tower so harsh only on me──!!!!
"You two good till next layer?"
"Fine."
"Heals on ascent, no issue! Let's go!"
Climbers' ascents aren't usually this brutal.
At least not till 30!!
With fans fired up over Wakamo's flashy show burning up communities, and friends bickering flames over Ichigo's exploits, her head throbs just thinking about it.
And Ichigo's original song drops soon...!!
'Clear to 30 first, then think...'
The trio heads to the final low-layer co-op floor.
An unbelievably vast field greets them.
Vast to excess—distant mountains visible.
[Climbing Incheon Tower Layer 30 World]
-Trials befitting sturdy climbers.
-Unite your strength against it and overcome.
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Defeat the [Super Elite Boss Monster]!
[Platinum Achievement Conditions]
-Defeat [Lesser Titan] (0/1)
-Defeat within 1 minute limit (0:01)
'....Super?'
Not just elite monster, elite boss, or once-in-a-millennium legendary super elite boss!!! Right..??
A monster grade even the Climbers' Association hasn't seen.
"Anyone know lesser titan?"
-Greek 60-layer boss yeah.
"Thaaanks~ believer."
"This is only layer 30!!!!"
"Ugh."
The ground begins to shake.
Then the mountain moves.
No, it just feels close.
A giant reaching the distant sky.
Apartment-sized... about 18 stories? Around 50m tall?
-Super giant...?
-No way... that wall's 50m!!
-Wow, sending Greece's worst bullshit bastards to Korea.
-But these guys just big, so merciful ㅇㅇ
-Pour on DPS and it'll work?
-I'll build for you... not leaving one behind...!!
Wakamo's own 2m frame looks like a cute hamster next to the 50m lesser titan.
So overwhelmingly huge it's beyond daunting—straight to despair.
Lesser titan just big? That's an understatement...
Ichigo aims well and fires a potion; it arcs and hits, but no visible damage.
-Did it pop?
-Hyegi can't help it....
-Ichigo, you're a stone Buddha.
-Quite the dire straits....
-Crazy? Alchemist's DPS sucks. Support only...
-Don't be mean to Ichigo!! We're friends!!!
-No choice, gotta use Moon-Piercing Worm...
-Tiger form's under Royal Speed Special Forces!!
"Sssip...."
At this point, not "only 1 min to beat it?"
The tower raised the bar because this team can beat it in 1 min.
'Feels like a loss every layer'
Squeezed for content, huh.
Wanna save it but gotta burn through now...
Outside tower, mana too precious for practice, but fine here.
Wakamo slowly draws her sword from its sheath, building tension.
Just standing silently exudes intangible pressure, making one feel the force—Wakamo's got that aura!!
In the suffocating silence, Wakamo finally speaks.
"Bankai"
-Guild leader, what?
-What'd she say lol
-Dragging Ichigo around for this??
Ground rumbles.
Like when the giant rose.
But this time it's close—way closer than thought.
Behind Wakamo, gripping Kusanagi's Sword, something takes form.
Far bigger than Wakamo— not titan-sized but 20m-class giant.
Clad in child armor with brass scales like fish, dragon on shoulder shining gold, ornate yet sturdy two-layered armor with helmet— the iconic vibrant Joseon armor. It rises in the same pose as Wakamo.
Camera tries to capture it all but fails, switching to low-angle for max impact.
Even the far camera struggles to frame the emerging giant for viewers.
The divine general, sword drawn, radiates majestic authority.
"【Army Hero God Sword Dance God General Dragon General God】"
Poseur pose.
A grandiose name smashing cool words together.
But long and fancy always looks badass.
For VTuber stream clout, Wakamo feels no shame as [Idol's Flames] ignite her sword.
Soon, white flames rise on the Sword Dance God General's blade too—Wakamo's [Idol's Body] avatar.
'Mana use way down! Humanoid's easy to control! Unlike VTuber Model, infuse mana to buff...! Damage feedbacks to main body?'
Acting chill, but brain's analyzing hard.
Honestly, dreamed of prettier VTuber Model, but chose reality..!!
Vision splits dual, senses overlap, but.
Multitasking pro Wakamo adapts quick.
No "quick" needed—synced perfectly, Sword Dance God General mirrors her flawlessly.
Titan senses danger late, hurls a rock, but Wakamo cleaves it mid-throw with her ready sword.
'Blade manifestation works perfect!'
Sword fused to arm's fatal flaw spotted, but combat-only, cuts fine—laugh it off.
"I'll guide you to defeat."
Aiming her flame-wrapped blade, grips two-handed, raises high, and slashes down mana-charged like before.
"Chesuto—!!!"
Pilot and Ichigo, awed by the giant, just stare as the slash swings.
Titan raises arm to block.
But Sword Dance God General presses the flat with hand, brute-forces through, cleaving from head to body and slamming sword-tip into ground.
Boom! Earth splits with thunderous roar.
Even avatar damage feedbacks—Wakamo swallows blood, keeps cool, sheathes sword.
"Pathetic. Sliced."
Random thought: Why every swordsman character got one of these?
Finally, no env immunity, physics/magic resist bs.
Just... big. Wakamo inwardly thanks nonstop, awaits alert.
[Incheon Tower Layer 30 achieves Platinum conditions and opens to all humanity!!]
[Tower Platinum clear: settling rewards]
Wonder what reward now.
Not transfer again—hoping when—
"Meaning☆Unknown"
Beyond absurd, now routine, Wakamo chuckles at the cryptic reward.