Chapter 4.
Ten Thousand Demon Battle.
The place where the Goblin Chief was dragged to after shouting ‘Heavenly Demon Eternal, Ten Thousand Demons Prostrate‘ and surrendering.
After actually dragging him there.
I was a bit disappointed when it said this function could only be used from level 5.
‘Let me take a look.‘
Lee Ganghan examined the newly appeared Ten Thousand Demon Battle.
[Ten Thousand Demon Battle 萬魔殿]
The dwelling of ten thousand demons who have surrendered to the Heavenly Demon.
The player’s status is too low, so the Ten Thousand Demon Battle cannot perform its original function.
Current capacity – 1/10,000
Then a new screen appeared next to the chat window.
Against a pitch-black background.
A goblin that had shrunk like an SD character was wandering around with a frowning face.
‘This must be the Goblin Chief, right?‘
Tap.
When Lee Ganghan clicked on him.
[Castrated Goblin Chief]
[Status: Confusion, Fear, Frustration, Recovering……]
Only information related to the goblin’s status appeared.
Nothing special.
Just as Lee Ganghan was thinking that.
Swoosh.
[Summon]
[Worship]
[Banish]
Below the Goblin Chief.
Three clickable options appeared.
‘Oh. I can summon too.‘
Lee Ganghan was about to try summoning right away, but first clicked on Worship in the middle.
Then.
Swish, Swish.
The Goblin Chief, who had been alone moving his head back and forth in the dark background.
Suddenly started bowing.
[You have received worship from an existence in the Ten Thousand Demon Battle.]
[The cooldown time of skill ‘Heavenly Demon Divine Art’ is reduced.]
When I first made the boss monster surrender, there were all sorts of effects.
When monsters in the Ten Thousand Demon Battle worship, does it only reduce cooldown?
‘Let me see how much it was reduced.‘
Lee Ganghan opened the skill window to examine the Heavenly Demon Divine Art.
[Heavenly Demon Divine Art – Beginner]
The divine art of the Heavenly Demon.
Drawing forth all the power of the Heavenly Demon, manifests the demonic power that will rule the heavens.
Can only be used by those who possess the Heavenly Demon Constitution.
Compatibility with Heavenly Demon Constitution is over 90%.
Even when Heavenly Demon Divine Art is on cooldown, 10% of its power can be used constantly.
This is the beginner stage.
Skill duration is extremely short.
Cooldown time is 24 hours.
Skill duration: 10 minutes
Cooldown time: 22:09:43
Auto setting: On
The Heavenly Demon Divine Art had quite a long description.
To summarize, when the skill is activated, you become very powerful for 10 minutes.
And the cooldown is 24 hours.
Plus, because Lee Ganghan’s compatibility with the Heavenly Demon Constitution is good.
Being able to draw 10% of its power even during cooldown seemed good too.
‘It was definitely 95% compatibility.‘
No wonder the goblin heads were popping like balloons – the Heavenly Demon Divine Art must have played a part.
The physical stats showing 10+ also seemed related to the Heavenly Demon Divine Art.
Lee Ganghan continued examining the skill description related to the Heavenly Demon Divine Art.
‘I won easily against the Goblin Chief thanks to auto setting. Let me turn it off now.‘
He changed the auto setting to Off and calculated the time.
The fact that about 22 hours and 10 minutes of cooldown remained meant.
‘It’s been 1 hour and 50 minutes since I used Heavenly Demon Divine Art.‘
Comparing this with the actual time that passed.
I should be able to calculate how effective the worship is.
Lee Ganghan looked toward the chat window.
“How much time has passed now?”
-1 hour 45 minutes passed
-Wow but about to break through the 4th floor in just 1 hour 45 minutes? That’s insane ㄷㄷ
Then worship in the Ten Thousand Demon Battle reduces cooldown by about 5 minutes?
‘A bit disappointing.‘
Click.
Lee Ganghan tried clicking worship once more, but.
[This existence has already worshipped.]
[Cooldown time: 23:59:30]
The worship effect doesn’t stack.
Only the cooldown time appeared.
‘I need to gather more monsters in the Ten Thousand Demon Battle to get a definite effect.‘
As Lee Ganghan stood still, testing the newly created Ten Thousand Demon Battle function.
-But why aren’t you going up? If you go up now you’ll be 1st place
-ㄹㅇ why are you spacing out in front of the portal
-You’re going to lose 1st place if you keep being leisurely like this;
-There’s still time ㅋㅋ The current 1st place guy ran out of arrows and is struggling hard
-Others are playing a survival game while he’s massacring alone ㅋㅋㅋ
The chat was flooded with questions about why he wasn’t going up and just standing still.
Come to think of it.
‘These people treated me like a liar, didn’t they?‘
Of course, they judged based on ‘common sense’, but.
I can’t become a pathological liar like this.
Lee Ganghan grinned.
“Wait a moment. I’ll show you something interesting.”
-Something interesting?
-How can you show us when there are no mobs?
At first, people mistook Lee Ganghan for a mage because he had no equipment.
But after seeing him beat up goblins, they definitely thought of him as a warrior-type class.
But in the current situation with no enemies.
How is he going to show something interesting?
People expressed such doubts, but.
Click.
Lee Ganghan pressed [Summon] and.
Paaaaat……!
A blood-red portal opened behind him.
-?????
-What???
-Wasn’t this person a warrior?
Viewers doubted their own eyes.
And soon.
When the ‘Castrated Goblin Chief’ walked out of that portal.
-Huh? What’s that…
-Isn’t that the castrated goblin???
-Hul ㄷㄷㄷ
-Crazy ㅅㅂㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-What, he really caught it???
Intense reactions began pouring out in the chat.
***
Castrated Goblin Chief.
Among the tutorial bosses that appear in the Beginner’s Tower, one of the most powerful opponents.
Rather than killing beginners immediately after subduing them.
It cuts and eats flesh piece by piece, causing pain until the very end.
Making players give up on the ‘Tower of Infinity’.
It was famous as the boss with the worst survival rate.
But that very boss.
Thud! Thud!
As soon as it came out of the portal, it immediately prostrated itself and bowed to Lee Ganghan.
-Wow is this real footage? Not a deepfake?
-How can you run deepfakes on TowerTube; it’s a live broadcast
-Crazy ㅅㅂ for real ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-So the weapon storage disappearing wasn’t a lie…
-We wrongly accused him of being a liar ㅎㅎ
Seeing the Goblin Chief’s submission.
Viewers realized that at least half of what Lee Ganghan had been saying was definitely true.
However,
-But then is the story about gaining muscle just by sleeping also true???
-Nah that must be a lie ㅋㅋㅋ
-ㄹㅇ Even with drugs you need to stimulate the body for muscles to grow, right?
The story about gaining muscle just by sleeping.
Still no one believed it.
It doesn’t make physiological sense.
“Actually, I work out 3 hours every day.”
Only after Lee Ganghan told this white lie.
-Ah as expected ㅋㅋㅋ
-You have to do that much for muscles to develop like that
-Now you’re finally being honest
People actually trusted him more.
Meanwhile.
The Goblin Chief, even after bowing, got no particular reaction from Lee Ganghan.
After rolling his eyes for a moment.
“Heavenly Demon Eternal! Ten Thousand Demons Prostrate!”
Using the line he learned earlier, he bowed again.
“Hey, that’s enough. Stop it.”
“Is, is it alright to stop?”
“Yeah. Bowing has a one-day cooldown, so there’s no point doing it more.”
“Ah. I see.”
The Goblin Chief nodded at Lee Ganghan’s words.
“Then want to go back? I’ve proven my innocence.”
“Back, back to that darkness?”
“Yeah.”
At this, the Goblin Chief’s face turned pale.
“I, I fight well! Even as an arrow catcher is fine, so please let me fight! Please don’t make me go back to that place!”
“Why the Ten Thousand Demon Battle. Is there some problem?”
“Please, please spare me…… Anywhere but that place, please……!”
When I tried to listen to the Ten Thousand Demon Battle resident’s grievances.
The chief trembled all over, expressing with his whole body that he didn’t want to go back.
-Why is he so scared ㅋㅋㅋ
-Fake? ㄷㄷ Doesn’t seem like the castrated bastard who peeled flesh
-Come to think of it, he only has one horn;
-But what is Heavenly Demon Eternal, Ten Thousand Demons Prostrate
-Heavenly Demon live for a thousand years, ten thousand demons bow down in reverence, roughly that meaning
-So it’s a Heavenly Demon worship chant?
The Goblin Chief’s words automatically translated to Korean.
Viewers clearly heard him shout Heavenly Demon Eternal, Ten Thousand Demons Prostrate and were interpreting its meaning.
“Ah…… so that’s what it meant?”
And seeing this, Lee Ganghan clearly understood the meaning of Heavenly Demon Eternal Ten Thousand Demons Prostrate.
“The name was so long I thought it was a special move, but it was a worship chant.”
-You mistook it for a special move? ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-8 characters would be super special move level
-You’d know right away if you watched some martial arts…
-But are you the Heavenly Demon? Why do you have such skills?
Lee Ganghan shrugged at the question asking if he was the Heavenly Demon.
“Who knows?”
Though the connection to the Heavenly Demon was clearly revealed by the Goblin Chief shouting Heavenly Demon Eternal, Ten Thousand Demons Prostrate.
There’s no need to reveal all information.
As Lee Ganghan smiled and brushed it off.
-Reveal your trait ㄱㄱㄱ
-We’ll calculate your salary
-There are probably some guild officials here too ㅋㅋ
-100% there are, probably foreign scouts too right?
-They’ll have to search what Heavenly Demon means first ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-I didn’t know either so I searched and Heavenly Demon Gastrodia came up? Is it herbal medicine?
-Sigh please, if you’re Korean you should know what Heavenly Demon is…
In the chat, public opinion was pouring in demanding he reveal his trait.
“Alright, alright, I’ll go to the next floor as you all want.”
But Lee Ganghan lightly brushed off such demands.
He took the portal and went up to the 5th floor.
Then.
Bzzzzt……!
His rank rose from 8th to 1st place.
-Finally got 1st place ㄷㄷㄷ
-He’s literally playing a different game…
-If you look at the original 1st place guy fighting goblins right now, it’s quite a sight
-ㄹㅇ doesn’t seem like he belongs at this level ㅋㅋ
Among the 10,000 Korean newbies this time.
Lee Ganghan, who reached the 5th floor first, said.
“Let’s see how well our chief fights?”
He gave the Goblin Chief the vanguard position as desired.
Then.
Step, Step.
“Kieek! Kieek, kieek, kieeeeek!”
Instead of breaking through the Goblin Defense Formation.
The chief started shouting something at the goblins.
Then.
“Kieeek……!”
“Kieek, kieek!”
Stopping mid-defensive stance.
The goblins started talking among themselves.
Then some drew their weapons and.
“Kieeeeek!”
They started fighting each other.
-Why are they fighting each other?
-Don’t know, they’re just going kieek, kieek ㅡㅡ;
-But wasn’t the castrated chief’s speech auto-translated to Korean?
-Seems like their conversations among themselves don’t get translated
-Some monsters do get auto-translated though, interesting… don’t know the criteria ㅋㅋ
-Strong mobs do get translated ㅋㅋ
Viewers watched the goblin group in civil war.
They couldn’t understand why they were doing that, but.
‘Since I summoned the Goblin Chief, I can understand what the goblins are saying.‘
Lee Ganghan, watching from afar.
Understood what the goblins’ kieek kieek meant.
-You bastards! Come back under me!
-Chief? Let’s go to the chief!
-What chief! We have to guard this place!
Roughly this kind of conversation was going on.
With the go-to-chief faction vs. guard-here faction fighting each other.
Meanwhile.
Grind, grind, grind.
The Goblin Chief, grinding his teeth watching this.
“Heavenly Demon…… may I clean this up?”
Calling Lee Ganghan the Heavenly Demon.
He wanted to jump into that pandemonium.
“Yeah. Go ahead.”
Just how much power could the Goblin Chief, belonging to the Ten Thousand Demon Battle, display compared to his original might?
Curious about this, Lee Ganghan readily allowed him to take the vanguard.
“Thank you!”
The Goblin Chief’s face lit up as he leaped into the defense formation.
Thud! Thud!
His 2-meter tall massive frame struck the Goblin Defense Formation.
As he massacred goblins who wouldn’t follow his commands.
-That bastard is still the same?
-Still insanely strong ㅋㅋㅋ
-How did a level 1 subdue such a guy? ㄷㄷ
Viewers realized the Castrated Goblin Chief’s power remained the same as before.
Goblins falling like autumn leaves.
And the chief, having regained his composure in the midst of this.
“Kihihihi! Traitors deserve death!”
He was carrying around subdued goblins, slicing their flesh with a knife like sashimi.
-Ugh flesh-peeling PTSD coming ㅡㅡ
-I quit even after getting an A-grade trait because of that bastard ㅅㅂ
-You’re an idiot? Why quit after getting A-grade ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-ㅅㅂ He lick lick licked my wounds with that long tongue, I still dream about that sensation
-Newbie crusher, that bastard ㅋㅋㅋ
Viewers complained of trauma seeing the Goblin Chief’s actions.
The chief carried around traitor goblins and tearing off their flesh.
Just looked like a complete lunatic.
‘But he’s clearing the path well.‘
This summoned creature.
Might be better than I thought?
Lee Ganghan walked straight along the path the Goblin Chief had carved out.
Without swinging his wooden stick even once.
[‘Beginner’s Tower’ 5th floor cleared.]
[Advancing to the next stage.]
[‘Beginner’s Tower’ 6th floor cleared.]
[Advancing to the next stage.]
.
.
.
[‘Beginner’s Tower’ 9th floor cleared.]
[Reaching the final floor, 10th floor.]
And by the time he…
Reached the 10th floor, the final stage of the Beginner’s Tower.
“Kieek, Kieeek!”
“Kieek kik kik!”
Behind him was not only the Castrated Goblin Chief.
But also about 50 regular goblins following along.
