Chapter 8: Thought I Was Going to Die

“That’s the face of someone who doesn’t care and just wants me to get to the point.”

“I see.”

“I’ll cut straight to the chase. ability I want to get out of this place.”

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Whoooosh!

“….”

Iron shook his liquor bottle, realized there wasn’t much left inside, and poured the rest straight onto his own head.

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Soon after, Iron’s voice began to boom louder as well.

“I want to leave, yet I lack the skill! abstract To be exact, my technique is solid, but I lack experience. sphere Every single day, all I get to handle are pathetic lowest-floor weapons, and lately, I’m not even getting any new stock supplied.”

Like a flambé—or some kind of fire show—the flame on Iron’s head flared up massively.

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This Shop was currently struggling to stay afloat.

I understood why this place didn’t sell any cards despite bearing the title of a Shop.

The moment I heard that no weapons were being supplied,

‘So that’s why.’

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“I refuse to settle for staying stuck here… That’s why I want to get my hands on the weapons of every Elite mob on the lowest floors.”

“Yeah. autumn Honestly, it doesn’t even have to be all of them. adopt I need at least three… though the more, the better.”

“You mean Elite mobs?”

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I understood what he needed.

Then what was the corresponding reward?

This blacksmith named Iron was banking on my skills and telling me to march boldly into a death trap.

“If I bring those to you, what can you give me in return?”

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“Looking at your gear, it’s extremely beginner-level. All translations belong to Indra Translations. You can find us online at indratranslations.com amateur Of course, that’s unavoidable on the lowest floors… Still, if you fulfill my request, I’ll craft you a custom-made club, a buckler, and a full set of basic armor. absorb Good enough to carry you easily up to Floor 20 at the bare minimum.”

Now it was time to find that out.

The instant Iron finished speaking, as if right on cue,

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[ Iron’s Request ]

[ You currently possess the Red Orc Warrior’s Glaive. ]

[ Minimum Elite Mob Weapons Required: 3 ]

[ Iron wishes to hone his skills by handling the weapons of Elite mobs. ]

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a quest window popped up before my eyes.

[ Promised Reward: Weapon Enhancement + Basic Armor Set Provided ]

[ Something special will occur if you hand over a Boss Weapon. ]

[ Reward quality increases for every weapon delivered beyond the minimum requirement. ]

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Because he was an object head, I couldn’t read his facial expression.

“Will you do it?”

Checking the message, I lifted my head at Iron’s question.

Even so, for some reason, I felt like Iron was looking at me with sorrowful eyes.

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His entire face was made of roaring fire, so why did I imagine he was wearing an expression like that?

and fully aware that he had no choice but to borrow someone else’s hands to achieve it.

The face of someone who wanted to press forward toward his dream, frustrated by a bleak reality,

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[ Due to quest calibration, the number of paths leading to Elite mobs increases. ]

“I’ll do it.”

Right as the sudden thought crossed my mind that I probably would have accepted his request even if the reward had been garbage,

[ You have accepted Iron’s Request. ]

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[ You will be able to encounter Elites on Floors 7, 8, and 9. ]

Being able to run into nothing but Elites from here on out—I was so genuinely grateful I didn’t know what to do with myself.

my oh-so-kind Unique Ability completely rewrote my path, telling me to work hard on my quest.

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“You know you can only upgrade one, right?”

I immediately asked Iron to upgrade a card.

‘Well, I accepted the request.’

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“Yes, Cooper told me.”

I pondered Iron’s question for a brief moment.

‘Should I upgrade Armaments, or should I start working on upgrading Third Hand right now?’

“What are you going to upgrade?”

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The conclusion, however, came quickly.

With Third Hand, it was uncertain what form it would take once upgraded.

‘Upgrading the Armaments card is the right call.’

A moment of inner conflict.

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Armaments, on the other hand, offered clear foresight and secured my baseline consistency.

‘In a situation where I have to kill at least two more Elites right away, raising my floor is mandatory.’

Besides, since I had already confirmed that its effect stacked, upgrading it roughly three times right off the bat would save me a whopping 3 Cost.

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it was established fact that a card could only be upgraded once.

Because according to the strict laws of deck-building roguelike games,

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That’s what I would have thought in the past.

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“Got it. attic Consider it done—the upgrade will finish the instant you step out of the Shop.”

However,

[ Resonance Anvil : Upgrades a designated card alongside another card whenever the latter is upgraded. ]

[ Relic – Resonance Anvil ]

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the Relic I picked up on Floor 5 changed the entire equation.

so strictly speaking, the Resonance Anvil was hard to consider a top-tier Relic.

Normally, finding a good Relic on the lowest floors was exceedingly rare,

Even if it upgraded a designated card alongside another card,

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standard cards could only be upgraded once anyway.

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What if the designated card was a special card with no limit on how many times it could be upgraded, though?

Normally, it was just a Relic that let you upgrade two cards at the same time.

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‘In theory, every time I upgrade another card, Third Hand gets upgraded right along with it.’

Sure enough,

It freed me from the pressure of having to continuously spend upgrades on Third Hand directly.

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[ Third Hand (Upgrading) ]

[ Armaments (Upgrading) ]

the system message showed that not only Armaments, but Third Hand was also undergoing an upgrade.

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That meant if I ever drew Armaments and Third Hand in the same hand,

Both Armaments and Third Hand had their cost reduced by 1 upon upgrading.

I could activate both of them simultaneously.

‘Since both get cost reductions, upgrading them is pure profit.’

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[ Floor 7 ( E ) ( M ) ( ? ) ]

The second that thought crossed my mind,

At this rate, taking down Elite mobs might not even be that much trouble.

‘Not bad at all?’

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‘I’m going straight for the Elite.’

the choices for Floor 7 appeared.

Now, there was nothing to even think about.

Normally, I would have agonized between the question mark and the Elite.

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At the same time, however, I had realized something else entirely.

Through the Floor 4 Elite battle, I realized that even a split-second mistake could get me killed.

[ You have selected Floor 7 ( E ) Elite Battle. ]

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The difficulty of my Tower was anything but ordinary.

‘The Tower I’m climbing right now isn’t normal.’

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Which meant if I only took safe paths from here on out, I was guaranteed to die on Floor 10.

‘I have no choice but to gamble my life on a razor’s edge.’

I had already faced an enhanced version of a normal Tower’s Floor 10 boss back on Floor 4.

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yet that clearly didn’t apply to me, governed as I was by the Deck-Building Roguelike System.

Since the Floor 10 boss had popped up on Floor 4, I couldn’t even predict what the remaining Elite mobs would be.

They always said the trials handed down while climbing the Tower were the same for everyone,

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Still, it wasn’t entirely impossible to make sense of.

In my case, however, I had Relics, events, and Shops,

‘The difficulty of the Tower I’m climbing is higher than the standard level.’

Other Climbers were forced to fight every single time they ascended a floor.

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so it looked like the system was compressing the combat encounters compared to a normal Tower to balance out the overall difficulty.

‘Of course, that’s purely my own wishful thinking.’

The habit of trying to find some rational justification whenever misfortune stares you in the face—

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“Phew.”

Letting out a short breath,

wasn’t that something every human did?

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I walked straight out of the Shop.

All I could do was pray that tomorrow’s Elite battle would pass without incident.

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“A full week has passed since news of the fastest clear record broke, and there’s still zero intel.”

Around the time Kim Jin-sung was preparing to ascend to Floor 7.

“Does that even make sense?”

“Nobody’s found them? antenna Even with the #1 and #2 guilds tearing everything apart looking for them?”

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“That means they haven’t registered.”

“To think they still haven’t been exposed.”

As 1st Place Blank’s streak of fastest clear records hit five in a row,

the South Korean public was stunned to learn that 1st Place Blank’s identity still hadn’t been uncovered.

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“Climbing at that speed, unless they literally sold out the country, they’d get pardoned for anything.”

“Are they some kind of criminal working off the books?”

In fact, that was the exact reason the online communities hadn’t been overly desperate to dig up 1st Place’s identity at first.

It was standard for any Climber who stood out to be identified within a single week.

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The Tower hadn’t just appeared a year or two ago—it already had a century of history behind it.

And across that entire span of history, only a tiny handful of Climbers had ever managed to hide their identities like this.

How many countless people had risen and vanished over all those decades?

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“Yeah, one month. arctic And the only reason they got caught was because they unconsciously ripped the door clean off a convenience store fridge.”

“It always shows.”

“What was the longest record? legend One month?”

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And the longer they tried to hide it, the truer that became.

Climbers always give themselves away.

The physical abilities gained while climbing couldn’t even be compared to those of ordinary people.

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Clearing floors at record-breaking speeds meant their baseline stats had to be sky-high already,

so the fact that they still hadn’t surfaced was bizarre.

Yet nothing had happened so far.

Inevitably, accidents were bound to happen during everyday life.

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“Understood.”

“We have to find them before the guilds do. Indra Translations protects the hard work of translators and authors. ”

That was precisely why the government was growing even more anxious.

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If the state stepped in and offered to sweep all of that under the rug, they could easily lock this talent into mandatory service for at least a year.

They didn’t know the exact reason this person was hiding their identity, but one thing was certain: they clearly had something to hide from the public.

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The government desperately wanted to locate 1st Place Blank first.

Once a rookie got scooped up by a guild and fed all sorts of insider information, persuading them became infinitely harder.

‘The second they go to a guild first, we’ll have to invite them to the negotiating table. adjust Better to wrap this up before they even get a seat.’

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Meanwhile, they continued monitoring the online community reactions closely.

—

For reasons unknown, verified Rankers regularly posted on the Climber Gallery.

In fact, just right now:

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[ BabyPrincessJjojjo ]

Oppas!!! admire Just for today, Jjojjo is going to be super serious > < !!!

[ MUST READ!!! ※1st Place Blank Oppa MUST read Jjojjo’s post!!!※ ]

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I’m so, so sad that I have to send a love call like this instead~

Jjojjo tried searching for 1st Place Blank Oppa, but she couldn’t find him T_T

If 1st Place Blank Oppa reads this message, please feel free to reach out anytime~

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BabyPrincessJjojjo is always waiting for Blank Oppa T_T

## ↳ Sigh, I thought I was raised pretty well, why do I have to read posts like this

↳ Pretty sure you’re 201 cm tall and weigh around 150 kg, is it really okay for you to write stuff like this?

↳ Jjojjo, can you please stop with the gimmick? action South Korea’s street cred is gonna hit rock bottom because of you

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↳ Why is a hairy gorilla-mammoth-chimpanzee covered head-to-toe in fur acting cute?

↳ Does our country have zero talent? adapt How the hell is Jjojjo Rank #2?

↳ W e l o v e P r i n c e s s J j o j j o m u s t r e a d p o s t d e f i n i t e l y g o n n a r e a d i t

↳ Should I be grateful that South Korea’s #2 Ranker is so patriotic, or hate the fact that you’re #2?

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↳ W e l o v e y o u P r i n c e s s J j o j j o

strictly speaking, it could be considered a remarkably high-tier forum.

With South Korea’s 2nd-ranked Climber actively posting on it,

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And just as public opinion, the guilds, and the government were all scrambling to track down 1st Place Blank—

“Thought I was going to die.”

[ 1st Place: Blank ]

[ The Floor 7 Fastest Clear Record has changed. ]

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