Chapter 76
Chapter 76.
Until just a moment ago, she had been calling him Heavenly Demon without fail.
Now Tian Jiaxian was calling Lee Ganghan by his name.
'Since everyone around me calls me Heavenly Demon, this is actually refreshing.'
Just as he was thinking that,
She burst out shouting.
"You have no right to become the Heavenly Demon! We, the Tian clan, are the true family of the Heavenly Demon...! The position of Heavenly Demon was never meant to be taken by the likes of you!"
Acting as if she was holding the position of Heavenly Demon in reserve.
She declared that position belonged to the Tian clan.
"Really? But it didn't work out, did it?"
Lee Ganghan just shrugged his shoulders.
"Keuk..."
"Rather than that, why don't you tell me what you know about the Heavenly Demon Divine Sect. About your clan too - I have many questions."
"Shut up! Do you think I would tell the truth to someone who usurped the position of Heavenly Demon?"
Tian Jiaxian took a stubborn attitude toward Lee Ganghan's question.
The fact that she had bowed first earlier and bent herself to survive somehow.
That was ultimately because she had tried to prove she was from the Heavenly Demon's family in front of the Sacred Fire.
Since the Sacred Fire had denied her,
She no longer seemed to take the humble attitude she had shown earlier.
Rather.
"Right now, give it back right now. The position of Heavenly Demon is not yours! Do you know how hard we, the Tian clan, have... endured to get here?"
Whether her mental state had snapped, she was demanding the position of Heavenly Demon as if it were hers.
"A brat who doesn't even know the incantations of the Heavenly Demon Divine Art, who only gained power thanks to the system...!"
In the end, she was saying that he had only become the Heavenly Demon thanks to the system.
'She seems to know about the actual Heavenly Demon Divine Sect, but knows nothing about the Heavenly Demon Valley.'
So she's just talking about system advantages.
Lee Ganghan looked at the furious Tian Jiaxian.
"You're not ready for conversation yet. You'll need to experience some Bone-Splitting Muscle-Tearing before we can talk."
[I agree.]
"Ha... No matter how much you torture me, do you think I'll spill the incantations of the Heavenly Demon Divine Art!"
At his words about starting with Bone-Splitting Muscle-Tearing,
Tian Jiaxian continued shouting while maintaining her venomous attitude.
However,
"I know the incantations though?"
"...What?"
"It starts with 'In the beginning, righteousness, evil, and demons were not distinguished,' doesn't it?"
"No, impossible!?"
When Lee Ganghan recited the first line of the true incantations of the Heavenly Demon Divine Art,
She showed a shocked expression.
"How do you know that...?"
[Heavenly Demon, 2 minutes remaining.]
"2 minutes won't be enough to get meaningful information."
Swoosh.
Lee Ganghan turned his gaze away from the half-stunned Tian Jiaxian.
"What should I do with these people?"
[Through the Ten Thousand Demon Battle function, you can give commands to them at any time. So these people can be used as slaves of the sect.]
"Slaves? Slaves in the 21st century."
[If the word slave makes you uncomfortable, I'll call them Lowest Grade Disciples.]
Right.
We should at least use terminology that fits modern times.
"Yes. Instead of words like slaves, let's call them Lowest Grade Disciples."
[Understood, Heavenly Demon.]
"Then I should go."
Lee Ganghan said this and
Approached Karana, who was looking this way with a surprised face from afar.
"Some uninvited guests came, but those guys are sla... no, Lowest Grade Disciples, so you can work them hard."
"Chiik. Is that so? They're humans, is that okay?"
"They're the ones who tried to kidnap me, so whatever."
"Got it. I'll watch whether they're doing anything foolish or not. Chiik."
What a reliable answer.
Lee Ganghan nodded and waved his hand.
"Then please take care of the Sacred Fire management like now. I'll drop by often."
"Chiik... Got it."
And so his farewell with Karana was finished.
Swoosh.
'The Spirit of the Heavenly Sword seems to be deep in sleep despite all this commotion.'
He had thought to greet it while he was here.
Lee Ganghan looked at the motionless sword of light near the Sacred Fire and
Thought it was time to go back.
"Then let's go back."
[Opening portal.]
Paaaat...!
Then a red portal opened in front of Lee Ganghan.
As he was about to enter,
"Keuk...!"
Tian Jiaxian, who had been lying on the ground in despair,
Suddenly got up and sprinted toward the portal at full speed.
However,
Ting!
As if blocked by a wall,
She bounced off, unable to enter the portal.
"Even this won't work..."
Even while rolling on the ground,
She looked back and forth between Lee Ganghan and the portal with venomous eyes.
Her willpower certainly seems extraordinary.
"She needs to have some of that venom removed."
[Subjecting Tian Jiaxian to Bone-Splitting Muscle-Tearing.]
As soon as Lee Ganghan finished speaking, the Sacred Fire's message appeared.
"Urrgh...?!"
And Tian Jiaxian's body
Started swelling up in various places.
"..."
Unlike other victims of Bone-Splitting Muscle-Tearing,
She bit her lips tightly and tried to endure without making a sound.
[Will educate thoroughly.]
Tudutuk...!
When twisting sounds came from Tian Jiaxian's body,
"Ugh..."
Her face became increasingly distorted and
Her body began rolling on the ground.
Bone-Splitting Muscle-Tearing.
It's definitely taking effect.
'Then I should go.'
Swoosh.
Lee Ganghan glanced once at the remaining Lowest Grade Disciples and
Immediately entered the portal.
Then.
[Returning to the outer hall of the Heavenly Demon Divine Sect.]
Paaaat!
Beyond the portal,
The familiar scenery of his house came into view.
***
'First, I should turn on the lights.'
Clack.
Lee Ganghan, who had returned to his living room, turned on the lights first.
Then,
Bloodstains scattered everywhere first caught his eye.
Besides that, broken teeth and pieces of flesh.
And the firearms they had left behind were dirtying the inside of his house.
'Originally, this would have included multiple corpses.'
If the attackers hadn't become Lowest Grade Disciples,
He might have been suffering from a headache right now, contacting the government about disposing of corpses.
Lee Ganghan thought he had done well to designate them as Lowest Grade Disciples.
'I need to clean this up.'
He roughly took off his suit and
Brought a rag to start cleaning the living room.
'These bastards really spilled blood everywhere.'
The Chinese intelligence agents who had been hiding in various parts of the room.
Since he had directly smashed their heads one by one,
Somehow it was turning into a major house cleaning.
After mopping for a while, when the bloodstains were somewhat removed,
'I'll gather the firearms in one place...'
He collected dozens of pistols and bullets, including tranquilizer guns, in one corner of the living room.
He'd have to contact the government side later to handle this.
'But even with silencers, the gunshot sounds were quite loud, yet the surroundings are quiet.'
No matter how much it's a detached house,
If such sounds occurred, it would be worth reporting to the police.
'It's not just my room that has good soundproofing, but the entire house?'
During the period when he suffered from Tower Syndrome,
The family that moved from an apartment to a detached house because he screamed so much while sleeping.
He thought only his room was soundproofed,
But now it seems the entire house was like that.
Then the cleanup is somewhat done.
'I should check on the condition of the Lowest Grade Disciples too.'
He opened Ten Thousand Demon Battle to check if all 21 people were properly there.
Then,
At the center of Ten Thousand Demon Battle,
At the edge of the area where the Sacred Fire was located,
Humans turned into SD characters were huddled together.
Of course, only one person,
Tian Jiaxian was stuck in a corner of the Sacred Fire area with her body swollen like a balloon.
When he clicked on her,
[Tian Jiaxian]
[Status: Undergoing Bone-Splitting Muscle-Tearing, Frustration, Despair, Distrust...]
[Lowest Grade Disciple revived by the Sacred Fire. Will die if leaving the Sacred Fire's domain.]
A message saying "Undergoing Bone-Splitting Muscle-Tearing" appeared,
And one more line of message appeared below.
'Sacred Fire's domain.'
Where does that extend from and to?
When Lee Ganghan clicked on the Sacred Fire,
A line appeared in a circle on the Ten Thousand Demon Battle map.
The central area that had brightened after the Sacred Fire was positioned seemed to be the Sacred Fire's domain.
'If they leave this area, they die.'
Although the dead people were revived through the Sacred Fire,
It seems it wasn't complete.
Lee Ganghan nodded and clicked on another person.
Then,
[Lowest Grade Disciple #1]
[Lowest Grade Disciple #2]
Instead of names appearing for the people,
They were numbered #1, #2 like goblins and orcs.
'Karana had her name displayed, but these people don't have names.'
Tian Jiaxian still had her name displayed, which is interesting.
What's the criterion?
'Well... I'll just leave them in that state for now.'
I don't particularly want to remember their names anyway.
Lee Ganghan thought this and looked through the status of the Lowest Grade Disciples.
'They all have negative states like frustration and distrust listed.'
Well,
They got their heads smashed by the Heavenly Demon and ended up trapped in a strange place as slaves.
Their condition couldn't be good.
However,
'Some already show starvation.'
How long has it been since they last ate that starvation status is already showing?
Lee Ganghan frowned.
'Do I need to create a settlement for them too?'
The usual course when accepting different races
Was settlement construction with food and basic resource additions.
Although it felt wasteful to spend TP on Lowest Grade Disciples who had pointed guns at him,
'If I want to work them as Lowest Grade sla... no, disciples, I need to give them something to eat first.'
Let's think of this as an investment to work them hard.
His heart felt much lighter.
Swoosh.
When Lee Ganghan touched the northern edge of the Sacred Fire area where the humans had gathered,
[Would you like to construct a settlement for the Lowest Grade Disciples?]
[100,000 TP will be used.]
The settlement construction cost was calculated at 100,000.
'Elves were 20, Orcs were 5. More expensive than Orcs.'
Still, humans cost more than Orcs.
Lee Ganghan, who no longer felt much burden from 100,000 TP, was about to invest in this.
Dding.
[Lowest Grade Disciples can be mobilized for construction.]
[When mobilizing Lowest Grade Disciples, buildings can be constructed in the settlement.]
'Oh.'
The system informed him of the usefulness of Lowest Grade Disciples.
'They can do construction.'
Settlement construction.
When actually done, it was just creating wasteland.
But if Lowest Grade Disciples are mobilized, buildings can be built there too?
'I should try it once.'
When Lee Ganghan mobilized the Lowest Grade Disciples,
Sssss...
Wasteland was laid out to the north of the Sacred Fire area.
Thud, Thud.
Various construction tools including wooden boards began appearing on one side.
'Modern construction equipment doesn't appear.'
At most, only hammers and saws are visible.
So they want me to build houses using those wooden boards and construction tools.
Lee Ganghan quietly watched the Ten Thousand Demon Battle screen.
Initially, the Lowest Grade Disciples didn't want to work.
However,
[Implementing Bone-Splitting Muscle-Tearing]
Such a message appeared above the rebellious Lowest Grade Disciples.
When their bodies swelled up like balloons one by one,
[......]
[We'll do it, we'll do it!]
Speech bubbles appeared above the remaining people.
They got up one by one and started construction.
'They're doing it quite seriously.'
Even if they're former intelligence agents,
Most of them wouldn't have experience building houses.
Yet the Lowest Grade Disciples were constructing without fumbling around, measuring angles well.
'There must be system assistance.'
Lee Ganghan thought this and looked at the status of the Lowest Grade Disciples once more.
Then,
Starvation status that had increased much more than before.
Even though they hadn't been mobilized for work long, they were already feeling hunger.
'I need to add food too.'
Tadak.
When Lee Ganghan clicked on the human settlement,
[Would you like to add food and basic resources to the settlement?]
[100,000 TP will be used.]
The second sequence that appears during settlement construction appeared.
'This is also proportional to land value.'
I need to give them food and make them work.
When Lee Ganghan added food and basic resources,
Rumble...!
Fruit-bearing trees rose near the wasteland, forming a small forest.
Pastures were created and dozens of cattle appeared.
'That much should be enough for them to handle food on their own.'
They just need to escape starvation status.
There's no need to prepare a feast for Lowest Grade Disciples who pointed guns at him.
Lee Ganghan arranged these living conditions and checked how much TP he had left.
'Only 50,000 TP left. I need to collect more.'
The TP he had desperately collected to establish the Heavenly Demon Divine Sect.
After using it all up in one day and spending the remaining TP on Lowest Grade Disciples,
His fortune of hundreds of billions disappeared and he became penniless in an instant.
Still,
'Well, I can collect money quickly.'
There's also the Legendary Adventurer's Eye.
Now that the probability of receiving SSS+ has increased,
He wasn't too worried about TP.
He could just earn more.
'Right. I should enter the tower before it gets late.'
The tower he had originally planned to enter immediately after returning home from the dinner with the President.
Although much time was delayed making the attackers into Lowest Grade Disciples due to the sudden assault,
Today wasn't over yet.
'I'll tell the government about being attacked tomorrow morning.'
Let's finish today's work first.
Thinking this, Lee Ganghan entered the tower.
[Tower of Infinity Stage 17]
[Entering Bronze Tower No.14.]
The tower that had already reached stage 17.
Even when the tower number appeared in the system message, Lee Ganghan didn't pay much attention.
[Entering 'Garden of Death'.]
[Join forces with your companions to advance to the next stage!]
'Companions?'
When companions appeared in the following message, his gaze naturally went there.
There had been no maps requiring companions until now.
Could it be.
'Is this a cooperative match?'
Just as he was making that judgment,
Flash, Flash!
Light flickered around.
"Huh...?"
"Oh. It's the Heavenly Demon, the Heavenly Demon!"
Two human players.
"...Three humans. This is ruined."
A dwarf crossed his arms with a dissatisfied expression.
"Sniff, sniff, Sniff. Why is everyone making such a fuss?"
And a beastman with a fox head.
A total of four players became teammates with Lee Ganghan.