Chapter 189 - Chapter 189

Chapter 189

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Translated by Jinmu

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White Tower 1st floor.

Everyone was exhausted.

Not to mention Mackenzie, the subject of the meteor summon, but all the summoned entities who engaged in fierce combat as well.

The only people somewhat fine were.......

"Rest comfortably."

"Ho-e!"

Just Joo-hyuk and Rajix.

Well, there has to be something they did.

Let's wait now and confirm.

The power of the meteor that dropped onto the outside world.

I'm anticipating it.

I heard it's hundreds of times the power of a nuclear bomb.

'I should take the elevator only after seeing that.'

Actually, we've been here for too long.

There are too many things to do on our Earth too.

We have to finish the fire engine tactic on the 2nd Tower's 86th floor too, and and we have to secure as much High-Grade and Top-grade Mana Stones as possible.
Especially Top-grade Mana Stones.

With the elevator operation, the places to use it increased by one more.

Although it's said Mari can make artificial Top-grade Mana Stones, it takes a lot of effort and takes a long time so.......
Mining natural Top-grade Mana Stones is the fastest.
Currently, natural Top-grade Mana Stones are mined in small quantities from the 84th floor ice wall mines.
When the Korean Black Tower No. 1 and No. 2 veins are depleted, where do we mine them from now?

In the end, there's no choice but to use other towers.

To do that, the path up to the 84th floor of other countries' Black Towers must also be opened.
Excluding Korea, the currently fastest place is the US.

Since it's challenging the 81st floor, reaching the 84th floor will be soon.

For that purpose, the completion of Magical Engineer El's magic gun for giant monsters is urgent.

First off, making it so that players of other countries can clear up to the 84th floor through magic gun rentals.

After doing that, we just have to go and mine Top-grade and High-Grade Mana Stones from other countries' 84th floor veins with the multinational tower usage tickets.

It's not like they'd even know there's a vein on the 84th floor anyway.

Even if they knew, there wouldn't be a way to mine it either.

Only Joo-hyuk's party can tie down the Colossus Condor in one spot, go to the mine, and mine Top-grade and High-Grade Mana Stones.

'I should complete it quickly and start renting out the magic guns.'

According to El's words, it's almost in the completion stage.

Since she said the magic guns and bullets for coping with Behemoths can be rented out right away.

The moment he was thinking about the schedule like that!

Tti-ring!

'...Eung?'

Is it a system message?

[Ach : For the fir —† Ad—† D—† Cartos... Jji-ji-jik!]
[A ewrd is giv... Jji-jik! Jji-ji-jik!]
[...Pla—†r... Jji-jik!]
[Jji-ji-jik! Title acquired.]

'What's this? This thing?'

Tti-ring!

[An unknown error has occurred in the system.]
[Message transmission is temporarily suspended to fix the error.]

'It's making a fuss beating the drum and playing the hourglass drum all by itself.'

I don't really know what the error message that just popped up means.

Because the content is too sparse, it's also difficult to deduce the content.

I might be able to know once it's fixed.

Anyway, has everyone recovered?

Mackenzie collapsed in the central plaza of the city gasping for breath.

And the summoned entities.

'It was very hard on you.'

Indeed.

Is creating a meteor and dropping it an easy task?

"I'm sorry. Saying let's summon a meteor for no reason so."

"A, no, sir. It was something that absolutely had to be done."

After catching his breath for a moment.

"How could we just stand by and watch those filthy things spreading their wings in the world? It does not matter even if the circles of my heart break into fragments. Please give me an order at any time."

Then Cossack.

"It's admirable, sir. This number 2 Cossack, I shall acknowledge Old man Mack for this one time, sir. You've climbed up to 6th in the hierarchy, sir. Isn't that above average, sir? Please rejoice, sir."

Clap-clap-clap-clap-clap!

Applause followed.

However, Mackenzie whose expression isn't very good.

It seems the blabbering about number 6 was displeasing to his mood.

"...Shouldn't I be at least number 3?"

"Wake up from your dream, sir. Can you handle Master Sergeant Be, sir?"

"Eum."

Aigo.

From Joo-hyuk's perspective, a meaningless competition.

What hierarchy fight is this?

Since everyone below Rajix is a mob anyway.

Leaving them to compete or not.

Joo-hyuk checked his inventory.

The legacy inherited from Max.

Various tickets, runes, High-Grade Mana Stones, potions, etc.

Among them, the most important thing.

'Rune of Trait Enhancement.'

What's the point of keeping it inside?

I have to consume it right away.

Gulp.

Joo-hyuk swallowed the rune.

The status window?

[Trait] : Summoning (Simultaneous Summons : 12)

I feel proud.

If I continue to increase it like this, someday 20 people would be possible too, right?

And one more thing.

The weapon of the Hammer Master Max that Joo-hyuk inherited.

Effect : Indestructible, attack power and defense power improved during one-to-many combat, wide-area seismic waves generated upon smashing the ground, magnification, probabilty of strong strike increased.
Limitation : When using the magnification option, the weight corresponding to the size of the hammer becomes drastically heavier.
Characteristic : The larger the hammer gets, the more the destructive power also increases.

The owner for this is set.

There was something I had in mind since hearing the name Magnification Hammer.

Who would use this if not Gobang?

How pitiful was he a moment ago?

To think a person fights while holding a person.

Gobang too, and Bardin too.

Joo-hyuk took out the Grand Earthquake Magnification Hammer of Annihilation.

In the shape of a sledgehammer, the handle, shaft, and hammer head were integrated into a single metal.

Even though it was before magnification, how heavy it was.

Kung!

Putting it down on the ground and.

"Gobang-ssi."

"Did you call? Summoner?"

"This hammer, please use it Gobang-ssi."

"...This?"

"Yes, it's a present I give you."

Gobang with a fascinated expression.

Walking hesitantly, picking up the hammer.

"A warrior received a weapon from the Summoner."

At that moment!

Ssu-u-u-u-uk!

Gobang's magnification.

Simultaneously, the hammer magnified too.

"A warrior devotes his life for the Summoner."

Ah-ah-ah!

The aesthetics are nice.

A giant barbarian warrior and a giant hammer.

A match made in heaven.

"Then you won't hold Bardin-ssi in your hands, right? Since you got a weapon."

Flinch!

Bardin reacting.

Disappointment rising on his face.

Gobang steadily gazing at such Bardin.

Presently.

"A warrior... has two hands."

Therefore?

"It is entirely sufficient holding the hammer with one hand. I can hold another weapon with the other hand."

Nem?

What did you say?

You want to hold dual weapons?

So a hammer in one hand, and Bardin in the other hand?

Bardin smiling beamingly at Gobang's words.

'This is driving me crazy.'

Are you a pervert? Or are you a true extreme efficiency addict?

Gobang is the same too.

Should I just snatch the hammer away?

I shouldn't.

"Bardin-ssi."

"Chung! Please command me. My liege."

"Please prepare for grade breakthrough as soon as we return."

"...Yes?"

"We should go to LSSR."

"Ah, eu-eum. A, understood."

If he becomes an LSSR Holy Knight, he'll likely take on a different role.

Not the Human Holy Sword role.

However, an ominous premonition.

It's drawn in my eyes.

The sight of Gobang sweeping away monsters while holding dual weapons, a giant magnification hammer and an LSSR human Holy Sword of radiance.

'Ugh, this is not right.'

Joo-hyuk shook his head vigorously.

Let's not imagine it.

Because it might come true just like that.

'Shall we try returning slowly?'

However, before that.

"I will go outside for a moment and come back. I should confirm what happened."

"Hmm, this old man is also curious about the destructive power of the meteor summon, but please wait just a little longer. When the summon waiting time is over."

"Yep!"

After time had passed like that.

"White Tower 1st floor exit."

Spot!

Joo-hyuk went outside.

The cold feeling felt from the head as soon as he came out.

'Um?'

Hu-du-duk, hu-du-duk, hu-du-du-du-duk.

Rain falling from the sky.

'It's raining?'

It wasn't just rain.

It was dark grey muddy rain.

It seems to be the aftereffect of the meteor summon.

Ji-i-ing!

Blocking the rain with an energy shield and.

Slowly looking around the surroundings but.

"...Uh."

What is this?

Is this the same place from before?

The place he's currently standing is a tremendously large pit.

The tall high-rise building completely disappeared.

'Wow! It swept everything away?'

With one single meteor shot?

'Crazy.'

Although it has the weakness of taking a long time, the destructive power of a meteor drop that brings ruin once it drops.

Let's show the summoned entities too.

Summon everyone.

Spot, spot, spot.......

"Heo-eo."

"This place is......."

"Euing? Is this really the place from before, sir?"

"It's a large pit."

"It is the crater where the meteor fell."

"Let's go up first."

Going up with Shadow Step.

Pat-pat-pat-pat!

Then the sight returning into his eyes.

"Heol!"

Joo-hyuk could not conceal his astonishment.

He had no choice but to be surprised.

Just a few hours ago, it was a place equipped with the shape of a city.

However, now there was nothing.

That many monsters on the ground and in the sky also disappeared completely, and.

And the gigantic pits created here and there.

Seemingly hit directly by meteor fragments.

"Ooh-ol! I've seen Old man Mack in a new light, sir. The meteor summon is amazing, sir. I'll raise you to the 5th place in the hierarchy, sir."

"Tsk tsk, that damn hierarchy, anyway, Magician! This old man apologizes for implicitly looking down on you all this time."

"This girl agrees as well. It is a truly terrifying magic."

"Master Sergeant Veronica Caliber, I acknowledge that the meteor summon is second only to a nuclear bomb."

"Ho-e!"

Mackenzie whose mood improved.

A smile he couldn't hide, grinning broadly.

Joo-hyuk is also pleased.

He was a summoned entity with tremendous experience who even served as a Magic Tower Master in his previous life, but was criticized like a neighborhood punching bag here, and ended up being treated as an attention-seeking Magician, so how bad must he have felt?

He made up for it with this single blow.

'Since we confirmed it, shall we return now?'

Rain continuously pouring.

The ground also became muddy, and.

In the midst of the muddy rain gradually turning into ordinary streaks of rain with a clear color.

"Eung?"

Something entering Joo-hyuk's eyes.

"This is......."

It was the ground.

Things that are only finally revealed as the rainwater flows in the muddy puddle.

Pebbles spread out innumerably.

However, they were not simple pebbles.

Twinkling effortlessly, a shining luster.

A substance emitting light on its own.

"...Top-grade Mana Stones?"

Then the summoned entities too.

"Heok!"

"Oh!"

"Wow!"

"This is, don't tell me?"

The entire ground was sparkling.

Every single bit was a Top-grade Mana Stone.
Here and there, quite a bit of High-Grade Mana Stones were also mixed in.
"...Why are Top-grade Mana Stones here?"

Mackenzie, popping an exclamation mark above his head as if he understood something, and.

"Originally, a thing called mana stone is an item where energy condenses. When magical beasts or monsters die, the magic power they possessed condenses and produces crystals like this."

Aha!

"It is presumed that these mana stones are what the monsters left behind as they were eradicated by the shockwave of the meteor summon."

Meaning.

If you catch a monster inside the tower, you receive it as a reward by the system, but if you catch it outside the tower, magic power directly condenses and drops in the form of a crystal like this.

'Approximately how much quantity would it be?'

If Rajix-ssi sucks it all up cleanly with his vacuum cleaner ability.......

"Euing?"

Where did our dimensional farmhand go again?

"Rajix-ssi! Where did he go... Ah!"

A predetermined cliché.

It wasn't just once or twice.

Rajix is missing.

If he's missing, he is in the middle of digging the ground somewhere.

Or searching.

If you dig the ground, something good comes out.

If so?

Kwak-kwak-kwak-kwak-kwak!

The sound of a pickaxe heard from the pit they first came out from.

Fortunately, he didn't go far.

"What are you doing over there?"

"Ho-ek!"

Kwak-kwak-kwak-kwak-kwak!

Rajix was frantically digging the ground.

"Hu-e-e-e, hu-e-ek!"

Madness flowing in his eyes.

The platinum pickaxe digging into the ground continuously.

He definitely found something.

His eyes are unusual.

Just what could it be?

He finally stopped pickaxing, and

Rajix stuck his hands into the ground and hoisted up a large crystal half his body size with both hands.

"Ho-rat!!!"

What in the world......?

Is it a mana stone?

High-Grade Mana Stone, no, Top-grade Mana Stone?

It is not.

Unlike mana stones that do not have a specific shape, the thing Rajix just dug up has a shape.

A three-dimensional rhombus shape.

An octahedral crystal.

"Heo-eo-eok!"

Mackenzie widening his surprised eyes roundly.

Pointing at the octahedral crystal Rajix was holding with a trembling hand bu-deul-bu-deul.

"D, Dragon Heart?"

What?

Ey.

This gentleman making an obvious joke.

'Is this a hidden camera prank? Who would fall for it?'

However, Mackenzie's expression was more serious than ever.

Don't tell me?

"...Really?"

Nod-nod.

"R, a real Dragon Heart?"

Nod-nod.

"Uh-uh-uh......."

Crazy!

"No, why is that here?"

"Ho-rat!"

"Aigo, now he's digging out Dragon Hearts completely from the ground."

"Ho-rat!"

"Rajix just did a Rajix thing."

"Ho-rat!"

"Please put him in quickly, sir. Rajix Ultra Unlimited God-God Dimensional Farmhand."

"Ho-rat!"

It's absurd.

Is a Dragon Heart something that comes out just by digging the ground pak-pak?

* * *

The party returning to White Tower 1st floor.

A completely unexpected acquired item.

There was no way to know how the Dragon Heart was buried there.

However, as the most probable speculation.......

"The Dragon that came out from the Black Tower was roaming the ruined world and would have 'coincidentally' stopped by the ruined city for a moment."

"Hmm."

That could be so.

Since monsters come outside when the boundary between the tower and reality disappears.

Although I don't know which floor that punk came out from, it would probably be higher than the 86th floor.

"The time that punk stopped by that city was 'coincidentally' the point when I completed the meteor summon spell."

"Aha."

"And when the meteor approached close to the ground, it was probably already after it was too late."

"Oho!"

"Ultimately, it got hit 'coincidentally' by this Magician's meteor and spat out a Dragon Heart as it was eradicated."

"I see!"

At Mackenzie's speculation, Joo-hyuk chimed in and nodded his head.

It somehow makes sense.

However, Cossack was seemingly displeased.

In a sarcastic tone.

"So Old man Mack's argument is that the Dragon got hit by a meteor and died a dog's death at a 'coincidental' time and a 'coincidental' place, is that it, sir?"

"Right."

"Honestly, do you think this sounds like it makes sense, sir?"

"Uh-eum, i, is there any reason it shouldn't make sense?"

"Oh please! Does it all work out if you claim it's a coincidence, sir? Where did you sell off plausibility, sir?"

Is that so?

"Even if a fantasy novel is written like this, it gets cursed at, sir. Comments will run raining down saying it's an author-convenient idea, it's contrived, hmm... is this right? I'm dropping this, Author-nim you should just go do loading and unloading labor, sir."

Joo-hyuk nodded his head at Cossack's argument too.

Coincidence isn't an omnipotent sword after all.

"Then why do you think a Dragon Heart was there?"

"You just have to think simply, sir. Our dimensional farmhand dug the ground and found it, sir. Please give Rajix 3 badges, sir."

Eu-deu-deuk!

Mackenzie glaring at Cossack while grinding his teeth.

A trick to pass the merit to the number 1 dimensional farmhand to degrade him somehow.

"Right, it is true that the dimensional farmhand found it. However, why was a Dragon Heart there? It's not like that gets created naturally like some ore."

"......."

Cossack unable to answer.

"Do not look down on coincidences. Because originally, there are many massive historical events that originated from coincidences."

Joo-hyuk nodding his head again.

This sounds right too. That sounds right too.

At that moment!

Tti-ring!

A message rang.

[The error has been fixed.]
[Player awakening confirmed.]
[Registering a new nationality. The target player's Black Tower affiliation is Germany.]

Ah!

So the error from earlier was because of awakening and nationality registration not being done.

Because that makes sense.

Since he's not a person from this world.

But?

[Applying achievements retroactively.]
[Achievement : You are the first to kill the adult Dragon Karatos.]

"Heol!"

[An achievement reward is issued.]
[You have acquired the title Dragon Slayer.]
[Going forward, your attack power and defense power increases in battles against all types of dragons. This applies to summoned entities as well.]

It was this kind of thing?

Mackenzie-ssi's words were right.

It was something a dead Dragon spat out.

Then why would it have died?

It probably died from being hit by a meteor.

Wa-rak!

Joo-hyuk hugging Mackenzie.

"You're amazing. 9-circle Great Magician-nim! To think you'd even clear a dragon with a meteor."

Mackenzie's bright smile.

A spotlight falling from above.

And fireworks exploding peong-peong.

Conversely, Cossack's expression rotted away.

He can't deny it now.

Mackenzie's merit, I mean.

As they say, form is temporary, class is permanent; the 9-circle Great Magician chasing right up bit by bit.

Is class permanent as expected?

With this, the White Tower 1st floor schedule ends.

Let's return home.

I should try having the Dragon Heart appraised by an expert.

* * *

Earth No. 675.

A world where the boundary between the tower and reality had collapsed.

So the Managers of this dimension could know everything that occurred in reality.

[Who is that?]

[Looks like the Summoner.......]

[Which is why I'm asking why the Summoner is here?]

[How should I know?]