Chapter 8
Chapter 8
Episode 8
'I should ask Coach to teach me more feints and variations....'
He was thinking about that as he took a sip of low-alcohol wine.
A message appeared.
[The first awakened person to completely clear all tutorial trials has appeared.]
[That awakened person is Korean.]
[All Korean awakened currently undergoing the tutorial will permanently receive rewards one grade higher.]
"Pfft!"
He spat out what he was drinking.
"What the hell is this!?"
"First tutorial clear?"
"Team Leader Kim! Look up the data right now!"
An uproar erupted from all directions.
Park Kang-chan's brain also kicked into full gear at once.
'A complete clear? That only appears when you completely deal with everything on a floor, doesn't it? The tutorial can be completely cleared too? A Korean? A new awakened is that incredible?'
Park Kang-chan himself had cleared the seventh, but died on the eighth.
That alone had made him a super rookie, and by now he was ranked in Korea's top 100.
That was when.
"Team Leader. Please take a look at this."
Park Kang-chan's manager Shin A-rim approached and handed Park Kang-chan her phone.
"Is it about this situation right now?"
"Yes. You need to see it, Team Leader."
"I do need to see it, but that isn't the tone you'd use just for that. Is there something unusu—huh? What's this?"
It was a video by a fairly famous GodTuber.
It was Dimensional Glasses, a GodTuber who mainly did in-depth reviews of Dimensional Tower awakened or comedy bits.
He was quite popular, and GodTube's built-in Dimensional Tower translation system helped make him a major creator with 7.6 million subscribers.
That was proof foreigners subscribed too, not just Koreans.
It was a video uploaded by that Dimensional Glasses... and the problem was that there was a very familiar face in that video.
"Why is Coach showing up here?"
Park Kang-chan.
One of twelve team leaders in the Dimensional Tower Conquest Division at Ungnyeok, one of South Korea's top ten corporations.
Ungnyeok's Dimensional Tower Conquest Division was a department directly under the chairman of the major corporation Ungnyeok, and obeyed no one's orders except the chairman's.
The head of Ungnyeok's division was the chairman's granddaughter, herself one of the highest-ranking awakened.
In other words, Park Kang-chan was one of Korea's more prominent awakened.
It was not for nothing that he placed within the top 100 in the Korean rankings.
The martial arts school where Park Kang-chan trained under the man he called Coach was actually famous among those in the know.
That Park Kang-chan served him as his master? That Park Kang-chan couldn't beat him bare-handed? Even though a ranker could use some of the Dimensional Tower's power in reality?
That was the reputation Lee Mu-seon's martial arts school had acquired.
But.
Why is Coach showing up here?
"Master Lee Mu-seon has awakened. And he was the first to completely clear the tutorial."
"It's real...."
The video.
It was a video of Lee Mu-seon's tutorial run.
A video of him controlling the undead Walking Corpses and making them use martial arts.
Even seeing it with his own eyes, Park Kang-chan could hardly believe it.
"I know you can awaken even at an older age... but this is a bit...."
"What's wrong?"
"Come on. You know how skilled Coach is too, A-rim. So... why a Necromancer?"
Park Kang-chan stared intently at the video, then turned off the phone.
"Let's go to the martial arts school right now. We can't let other bastards steal Coach away."
"Let's move immediately. I'll report to the president."
"Okay. That's A-rim for you. Bold!"
The two of them hurried off.
The world erupted into an uproar.
Of course it did. Someone had achieved the first complete tutorial clear, and the reward was staggering.
Lee Mu-seon, who called himself the Corpse-Spirit Martial Sovereign.
Who was this person?
Intelligence networks all over the world sprang into action.
Naturally.
South Korea, his home turf, would naturally find him first.
And even faster than that.
The people who'd already been learning martial arts under Lee Mu-seon.
* * *
"It actually works."
The undead "Walking Corpse" gifted by the Dimensional Tower was exactly what its name said. It was a corpse, but it walked around and attacked people and such.
A downgraded version of a zombie, you could say?
That thing was now standing in front of me.
"Graaah."
The Walking Corpse's physical ability was said to be worse than in life, but even so, it was stronger than a living person.
The reason was simple.
First, it felt no pain and never tired.
That meant it could always move at full power.
An ordinary human inevitably tired quickly when using their muscles at full strength.
For example, if you ran 100 meters at full speed.
Even running for just 10 seconds, an ordinary person would inevitably be gasping.
Maintaining a full-speed run for 10 minutes had to be considered nearly impossible.
But this fellow was undead, so even if it ran at full speed for an hour, there was no problem.
Well... its body would take damage and break down, but if I infused it with Necromantic Mana to strengthen it, that might not be a problem either.
"Anyway... my level is 1 now, huh?"
I turned my eyes away from the Walking Corpse and looked at the status window.
Name: Lee Mu-seon
Class: Necron Emperor
Level: 1
Skills: Corpse Control / Town-Grade Undead Subdimension / Necromantic Mana Arrow / Necromantic Mana Manipulation / Dignity of the Corpse Lord
Pretty bare-bones.
There were no stats like mana or stamina from a web novel. From what I'd heard, leveling up automatically improved the abilities associated with your class.
So that was why the system window was this sparse?
Hmm.
I ate some reheated chicken while thinking things over. It wasn't quite as good after going cold and being reheated.
Should I just order another one?
Bang bang bang!
"Coach! Are you there? Coach! Open the door!"
Along with the knock, I heard Park Kang-chan's voice from outside. He was one of my students.
"What's this? Didn't you say you were going to a party?"
When I opened the door and asked, Park Kang-chan stood in front of me dressed sharply in a suit. Behind him was Shin A-rim.
Shin A-rim always wore a suit, so that was nothing new, but Park Kang-chan had styled his hair too, clearly all dressed up.
"Coach! This is you, right?"
Park Kang-chan thrust his phone toward me.
Good grief, this guy.
So he came after seeing this?
"Oh? You saw it? Well, things did get pretty crazy this time, so I guess you would have."
The internet was already blazing with stories about me.
I also usually watched GodTube and checked the [Dimensional Tower Community] as a hobby.
So I was well aware of what was happening.
A super rookie had burst onto the scene, that was it.
Well, if someone had achieved the first complete tutorial clear, of course they'd be the hottest new star around.
"It really was you, Coach! Coach! Our company is really great! If you come to our company...."
"Team Leader. Let's go inside first."
Shin A-rim cut in quickly. Right. What were we doing standing around in the doorway?
"Come in."
I let the two of them inside.
"Whoa!?"
Park Kang-chan made a fuss.
In fact, he had good reason.
"Graaah."
With a Walking Corpse standing there, how could he not be startled?
Mm-hm.
Well now.
I'd startled him without meaning to. Heh.
Actually, I had wanted to see him get startled.
"Coach! This is that thing, right? The Mythic Grade reward!"
"That's right. With the Mythic Grade reward, I became able to use one undead in reality."
"Whoa, sh—... this is seriously going to cause a huge stir. There's no restriction on this, right?"
"Yes."
"Insane... could you bring out something like a death knight too?"
"I don't know about that. I don't have a death knight yet."
Actually, rather than a death knight, I wanted an Asura Blood Jiangshi. Or a Corpse-Spirit Heavenly Jiangshi.
Since I had been the Martial God in my former life, I suppose Jiangshi appealed to me a bit more.
Come to think of it... between a death knight and a Corpse-Spirit Heavenly Jiangshi, which was stronger?
A Corpse-Spirit Heavenly Jiangshi was a so-called Flying Jiangshi, and it even had the ability to fly through the sky.
Of course, it was fundamentally impervious to blades, and its Corpse-Spirit True Qi had become Gang Qi. Even an absolute master of the Transformation Realm would have to risk their life for a chance to defeat such a monstrous entity.
That Corpse-Spirit Demon Lord bastard had barely managed to make a single Corpse-Spirit Heavenly Jiangshi and strutted around so much.
Then when the Corpse-Spirit Heavenly Jiangshi was smashed to pieces by my hands, how he had wailed and wept....
"Coach! Sign with us right now! Our company will treat you well!"
Park Kang-chan, this guy was still impatient.
That was why he kept throwing telegraphed punches and getting beaten up.
"I can't sign a contract without hearing the terms."
There was an order to things.
How could I sign a contract without hearing the terms?
"I'm your number-one disciple, aren't I? Don't you trust me!?"
"Calling you my top disciple is a bit...."
Honestly... calling someone who still threw telegraphed punches my top disciple was a bit much.
Seeing my expression, Park Kang-chan looked as devastated as if his country had just fallen.
"Coach. I'm hurt."
"Sure, sure. Be as hurt as you like. Anyway, Shin A-rim."
"Yes, Master."
"Since we already know each other, I'd like you to bring me the company's terms, A-rim. Kang-chan just isn't very reliable with this sort of thing...."
"Aww~ That's too mean, Coach!"
Park Kang-chan whined beside me, but I ignored him.
Ding-dong, ding-dong.
The bell rang at that moment.
Who else was coming at this late hour?
"Excuse me for a moment."
Excusing myself, I went to the door to see who it was.
"Master. You've finally awakened. Congratulations."
Another awakened who attended my martial arts school.
Yoo Hye-yeon had appeared.