A Wimp's Tower Strategy Guide Chapter 218

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US White House Security Meeting.

President Lloyd, along with his aides and officials, was watching the sight of the sinkholes in India and Japan being filled through a large screen.

A few months ago, they had watched the collapse of the Black Tower near Mount Fuji, Japan live.

But that is being filled again?

Replaying the restoration process quickly at 10x speed made it feel all the more real.

Soil pushing up from the inside, the hole beginning to narrow.

US President Lloyd clucking his tongue at that astonishing sight.

And then looking at Secretary of Homeland Security Macmillan.

"It must be because Player Bong cleared the 90th floor, right?"

"Yes, the causal relationship appears to be so. The Korea Awakening Management Agency also says it is correct."

"Player Bong does the tricks, and India and Japan enjoy the benefits, huh."

"Well, when was it not like that? Which country isn't indebted to Player Bong?"

"Right, just our US alone, Player Bong is practically a benefactor."

After Player Bong appeared, the perception of Black Tower clearing itself changed.

Starting with the Holy Sword rental, the various tricks he performed.

Thanks to that, the fear of tower collapse disappeared.

Now, the Black Tower was nothing more than a mine to extract Topmost-Grade magic crystals.

"Are Japan and India just wiping their mouths shut staying still?"

"Well. No special reaction has come out yet, but."

"They probably know they have to take some kind of action, but they probably can't get a grasp on how they should do it."

"Understandable. Since a few pennies won't even be close to enough."

Not long ago, China handed over half of Baekdu Mountain to North Korea as the price for the export permit of the Magic Power Blockade Scrolls.

North Korea proclaimed unification as if they had been waiting.

"Shouldn't Japan at least hand over Daemado (Tsushima)? It's not particularly useful land there either. And it's closer to Korea than Japan."

Macmillan also agreed.

"He restored the hole created in their mainland, and even saved the life of the Japanese Prime Minister, so something like Daemado is nothing."

Then what about India?

Well, if they have nothing, they should make up for it with money.

Then as if he thought of something, President Lloyd chuckled and spoke.

"But what's the point of us talking about compensation when we aren't even the parties involved? We can't tell them to give this or give that, and if they hold out saying they can't give compensation, that's the end of it."

"They won't be able to stand not giving it."

"Is the Awakening Management Agency Commissioner Jeon Gwang-il an ordinary person? He'll undoubtedly extract something from them."

"Above all, Japan and India also have to clear the 81st floor soon."

It's already decided who is the甲 (gap - dominant party) and who is the乙 (eul - weaker party).

Isn't there a precedent too?

The past where China and Japan acted presumptuously towards Korea without fear and almost went to ruin.

"Didn't you say Dragons won't appear on the 89th and 90th floors of Black Towers of other nationalities?"

"Yes, it's said that Dragon Tooth Soldiers, similar to giant skeletons, will appear. Commissioner Jeon Gwang-il personally informed us."

"Has it gotten easier?"

"It's a piece of cake compared to Dragons."

How thankful is this.

Climbing up smoothly by himself, and swiftly dealing with the uncleareable monsters for them.

The US government also plans to hold a press conference soon.

With the content of thanking the hard work of the Best Player who contributed to world peace.

"Are we going to vaguely announce him as the Best Player this time too?"

"Yes, keeping his identity hidden is still the basic policy."

"My word, even though we know who it is, to still only have to call him the Best Player, my mouth is itching."

The reality of not being able to say the Best Player is Bong Joo-hyuk.

"Because he doesn't want it to be revealed yet."

"If it's revealed, there will be an uproar, right?"

"I can't even begin to imagine. The press, broadcasting stations, SNS... they will probably rush at him like hyenas."

"Indeed, it would be terrible."

"Commissioner Jeon Gwang-il will handle it well on his own."

"Still, we must be preparing for the time when Player Bong Joo-hyuk's identity is revealed. Especially focusing on safety issues."

"Yes. We are preparing."

There are no eternal secrets in the world.

Someday, everyone will come to know.

The fact that the world's Best Player is a 25-year-old young man from Korea, Bong Joo-hyuk.

White Tower 17th floor.

Landmark resting room.

I truly couldn't even predict it.

I thought only Baek Dan-ah was a summoned entity, to think the Ten Thousand-Year Ice Crystal was included too.

Two birds with one stone.

"Heo-heo, this old man didn't know it would be like this either."

"You can tell just by looking, sir. The Ice Crystal also has a soul, and since it has a soul, it has the qualifications of a summoned entity, sir."

"Even though it's not a human?"

"Wouldn't it have acquired a personality while parasitizing Baek Dan-ah?"

"I finally know why the Ice Crystal appeared in reality."

Looking at it, it was a simple matter.

"Two souls, therefore two physical bodies have to be created, so when her body was constructed upon summoning, the physical form of the Ten Thousand-Year Ice Crystal was also generated together."

Anyway, meaning the Ten Thousand-Year Ice Crystal also possesses the qualities of a summoned entity.

I want to have a more detailed conversation.

With the Ten Thousand-Year Ice Crystal, that is.

"...Excuse me, Summoner-nim."

Baek Dan-ah, who had escaped the freezing state and regained her complexion, spoke to Joo-hyuk.

"The Ice Crystal says it wants to talk to Summoner-nim."

"If you hold my hand and infuse Qi......."

Meaning we can communicate through Qi and Qi like earlier.

When I held out my hand to Baek Dan-ah, she grasped Joo-hyuk's hand back as if interlocking fingers.

And slowly roused her energy.

It's not heard as a voice.

The Ten Thousand-Year Ice Crystal conveying its intent just like telepathy.

- This kid is too weak. She can't handle me. So it's frustrating. Please make a body. Like a person, then I'll move to that body. I'll stay quiet. I'll do whatever you tell me. I'm confident in obeying Summoner Master-nim's words.

Wa-da-da-da, conveying its intents all at once.

It's dizzying but I understood anyway.

You mean you'll move if I make a body for you?

So I summoned El and asked.

"Golem manufacturing takes a long time. However."

"If it is a homunculus......."

"Mari is a skilled alchemist. She should be able to sufficiently transmute a human adult-sized homunculus as well."

Mari's alchemy skills are the best, of course.

: A lot of various ingredients will be needed. The Dragon corpse too.

As for ingredients, use them to your heart's content as much as you need.

Thus, initiating the plan to separate Baek Dan-ah and the Ten Thousand-Year Ice Crystal.

What will happen if the separation succeeds?

Will it be recognized as a summoned entity?

I'll only know if the separation succeeds but.

Anyway, the best result.

I practically obtained an invincible cold attribute summoned entity that can even freeze a Dragon.

Well, the biggest achievement is that Baek Dan-ah will be liberated from the suffering of seizures now though.

Rajix C&T stretching out to the world.

In the early days, it was nothing more than a company that made and sold bags from tower leather, but currently, the company grew rapidly due to the Obesity Escape Bracelets.

Neither computer manufacturing companies, smartphone manufacturing companies, nor semiconductor manufacturing companies can surpass the sales of Rajix C&T.

The company is so busy they don't even have time to open their eyes and nose.

From the lowest-ranking employee to the company CEO.

It's also been a while since Oh Jin-sook has seen CEO Jung Dong-hoon's face.

Because there are more days he's at the Pyongyang Black Tower factory in North Korea than days he's at the Gangnam headquarters.

Oh Jin-sook on a phone call with Jung Dong-hoon on her smartphone.

"CEO-nim, a lot of approvals have piled up, what should we do?

- Uh-uh, because I'm still in Pyongyang.

Meaning he can't come for the time being.

- You should leave work for today too, Jin-sook-ssi. I don't know if I'll be able to see you tomorrow either, but if I can't, I'll approve them non-face-to-face.

Oh Jin-sook got off work early for the first time in a while.

Since the CEO-nim tells her to go, she should go.

Since it turned out like this, she made an appointment with her friend.

With her high school classmate and best friend, Lee Eun-young.

Actually, among her classmates, the only friend she continues to meet with is Eun-young.

After graduation, everyone was busy making a living so they naturally drifted apart.

Among her friends, she is the most successful.

Because she was working in the secretariat of Rajix C&T, which is being reborn as the best company in Korea.

Honestly, even thinking about it herself, it doesn't make sense.

Joining a company as a high school graduate general affairs intern initially, but working as the CEO's secretary now?

She knows the reason.

It's certain that Joo-hyuk's influence played a part.

Just what is Joo-hyuk's identity?

It seems certain he's an elite player.

She had sneakily asked CEO Jung Dong-hoon about Joo-hyuk before.

Not asking openly directly, but beating around the bush.

However, every time she did, CEO Jung Dong-hoon changed the subject and gave evasive answers.

He feels burdened even bringing Joo-hyuk up.

The thought that constantly occurs to her every time.

Could it be that person she's thinking of?

The Best Player, that is.

So she decided not to ask anymore.

Since if she's not careful, the NIS or the Awakening Management Agency might come looking for her.

'I should be careful with my mouth.'

While thinking about this and that, Oh Jin-sook arrived at the bar, the appointment location.

"Uh, Eun-young-ah, did you wait lo... eung?"

Oh Jin-sook whose face blatantly scrunched up.

There were a few more people besides her friend Eun-young.

"It's been a while. You've gotten pretty?"

Friends she knew during high school.

No, not friends, just classmates who went to the same school.

They were genuinely school bullies (iljins).

Kids who went around doing all sorts of bad things.

And she had heard indirectly that they still hadn't come to their senses even as they got older.

'Does she still meet with these kinds of punks?'

It seems her friend Eun-young had been keeping in touch with them.

'Should I just leave?'

Although she even made plans to have a few drinks and go to a hunting pocha for the first time in a while.

'Let's just sit for a moment and leave.'

So Oh Jin-sook sat on the chair.

"I heard the story. Jin-sook, didn't you succeed?"

"Ey, is it an ordinary workplace? I heard you're the direct secretary to the CEO of Rajix C&T."

"Well, I'm just an office worker anyway......."

One guy uniquely trying hard to act close.

A guy she knows well.

Because he was famous during school days.

In a bad way, of course.

Was his name Jang Wan-sub?

"But what brings you here today......."

Why did you come making it burdensome?

I didn't particularly want to see you.

"You know I contact Eun-young frequently, right?"

"I told Eun-young. That I wanted to meet you"

Jang Wan-sub with a face full of pride.

You called me to brag about that?

"Yeah. Level 15 right now."

Even a kid like this awakens.

Indeed, awakening doesn't consider character.

"I had something to ask you after hearing your story from Eun-young."

"Do Awakening Management Agency employees come to your company often?"

Due to the nature of the work, they have an extremely close relationship.

Oh Jin-sook also receives phone calls from the Awakening Management Agency almost once a day.

She even spoke directly on the phone with Commissioner Jeon Gwang-il.

"Jin-sook-ah, I'm not bragging, but I'm quite talented."

"So put in a good word for me to an Awakening Management Agency employee you know."

"Well, that there's a talented friend who is good enough to sign an elite contract."

I know why he wanted to meet.

With his level, he wants to sign an elite contract.

Through solicitation, at that.

Of course, it's not something she, who got to work in the secretariat thanks to Joo-hyuk, should say but.

"Then Wan-sub-ah. You can just film your clearing process with a bodycam and send it to the Awakening Management Agency. I hear everyone contracts like that."

"I've already sent it. But there's no contact yet."

Then his gang members also added a word each.

"It was probably omitted during the delivery process, right? They probably didn't even review it."

"If they saw Wan-sub's bodycam video, it would unconditionally be an elite contract."

"It seems you need connections to get in there too."

"Right, the work our country's civil servants do is all like that."

"Jin-sook-ah, put in a good word for Wan-sub. You're close with the Awakening Management Agency employees."

Would the Management Agency leave a talented player alone?

He probably got eliminated right away during the review process.

Even if I was in a position to speak up for him, I wouldn't.

Then her friend Lee Eun-young.

"Right! Jin-sook-ah."

"Come to think of it, I just remembered, didn't you say before that there's a kid among our classmates who awakened as a player?"

Oh Jin-sook's heart plummeted with a thud.

She had mentioned it to her friend Eun-young in passing.

"You did. You said you saw him in the lobby before, and you were surprised too."

"Who was it, his last name was unique... Ah! Bong! Bong Joo-hyuk, right?"

Then Jang Wan-sub and his gang of friends with incredulous expressions.

"What? Who? ...Bong Joo-hyuk?"

"Don't tell me, that loser Bong Joo-hyuk?"

"That punk awakened?"

"I don't know the details. Jin-sook said so."

"Ha! This is interesting."

It shouldn't be interesting.

"Keu-keu-keu, Bong Joo-hyuk is a player......."

"That guy enters the tower and catches monsters?"

"That's the funniest thing I've heard in my life."

"It doesn't match at all. With the topic of being Shuttle Bong, what?" (t/n: Shuttle is slang usually in schools referring to those bullied into doing errands like buying bread, etc)

Oh Jin-sook inwardly restless.

"Hey, do any of you guys have Bong Joo-hyuk's phone number?"

"I know it. If he hasn't changed his number, we can probably reach him."

"Call that punk over once, let's confirm if he really awakened."

"Now? If I call him, he probably won't come out."

Should I advise them not to do anything foolish right now?

"Then let's just make an excuse."

"Send a text saying we should set a date and have a reunion."

"Ey, he still won't come out. You know how much of a scaredy-cat punk he is."

"So what if he doesn't come out? We can just play amongst ourselves. Just try it for now."

"Yeah, if he comes out we play with him, if he doesn't we can just have a gathering to celebrate Jang Wan-sub's awakening."

"Heu-heu-heu, alright. I'll shoot him a text."

Oh Jin-sook sighed deeply.

She couldn't even say anything.

If Joo-hyuk is the Best Player.

If those punks call Joo-hyuk and do some kind of harm to him.

If the Management Agency finds out about that and starts an investigation?

Her life might be ruined.

'Fuck, coming out for no reason.'

I thought my life was working out well.

It was the greatest crisis of Oh Jin-sook's life.

Ten Thousand-Year Ice Crystal body-making plan.

We initiated the work immediately.

Because the sooner, the better.

We began dismantling the Silver Dragon corpse to be used for materials.

First peeling off the leather and skin.

We also have to extract the fingernails, toenails, and bones.

Using those as alchemy ingredients, if Mari succeeds in transmuting a human-sized homunculus, a new body will be made right away.

The dismantling work finished quickly.

The materials were moved to Mari's workshop.

'By the way, our, Mari-ssi, has too much work to do.'

Manufacturing the amplification elixir, and even the homunculus to contain the Ten Thousand-Year Ice Crystal.

Joo-hyuk himself actually had nothing to do.

Planning to suspend climbing the tower for the time being as well.

So I was having a premature daytime drink with Gwangma, Mackenzie, and Duu but.

The notification sound ringing from Joo-hyuk's smartphone.

I opened it and checked and.

At Joo-hyuk's slightly surprised-sounding voice, Cossack ran over hurriedly.

"Bong Summoner-nim, what is the matter, sir?"

"Is it a foreign text, sir? Is it a text saying she misses oppa and will come to Korea, so come out to the airport to greet her, sir?"

Do you think I only receive those kinds of texts?

"The 21st class reunion gathering of Taechang High School, where I graduated from."

"Uh-uh-uh, r, really?"

Cossack shouting at the top of his lungs with a heavily excited expression.

"Emergency! It's an emergency, sir. Bong Summoner-nim's reunion gathering popped up, sir. It's a reunion, sir!!!"

The summoned entities swarming in u-reu-reu.

"This Cossack, has only been waiting for this day to come, sir."

"Since time immemorial, isn't taking the reunion route a cliché if you succeeded, sir?"

"Don't worry, sir. I have written all the scenarios, sir."

And then looking at Rajix.

"dimensional farmhand!"

"Go wash that Bentley over there first, sir. And prepare a wristwatch worth about 1 billion too, sir."

They're making a fuss over my reunion.

I haven't even decided whether to go or not yet.