A distance not far from the police station. Arriving at the destination in an instant.
She stops in front of a stylish, state-of-the-art house about 4 stories high.
"Well~ This is the house Ms. Do-hee will be staying in~ It's completely free for a year, and electricity and water are all free. If you want to keep living here after that, you can sign a separate contract~"
Following her guidance, I went inside and found a nice family home with 4 rooms, giving off the feeling of a moderately wealthy family's home.
Too good of a house for me to use alone.
It doesn't seem like anyone was living here before, but the house is equipped with all the necessary items such as a state-of-the-art computer, washing machine, dryer, and refrigerator.
When I asked how such a good house could be rented for free, this lady said she was the building owner...
She says she cooperates with the police in the feeling of a kind of donor or sponsor. So the whole house is a building where only women live, and she emphasizes several times that it is safe.
And what surprised me was not only the house.
The closet was full of clothes and underwear, and strangely enough, they fit my body perfectly.
'How did she know the size?'
Underwear that clung to my body when I put it on.
'Could it be...?'
When I looked at the landlady, she was smiling contentedly, seeing me wearing the clothes.
"It looks like the size fits perfectly. I had some I bought and hadn't worn yet. Is it okay?"
Ah...
This is..... rather disappointing.....
"Ah, yes, it's okay. Rather.... No, it's nothing."
"Hahaha.... You don't have to feel burdened. I think of you as my daughter... It's something I'm doing to make myself feel better."
'Madam...'
She says that if her child had grown up, she would have a daughter my age, but I honestly don't really believe it.
"Oh right, here's a cell phone! You know how to use it, right?"
"Yes. Thank you."
A cell phone that looks better than the one I used to use.
In that way, I receive explanations about the house and all the essential items for modern people, such as ID, bankbook, and card, and the rough organization is finished.
"Oh my, our Do-hee... No matter what happens, living is important. Whenever it's hard! Don't be afraid and contact me~! Contact me even if you're bored. I'm someone with a lot of time, so anytime is fine. Got it?"
"Yes!"
She must have misunderstood that I had suffered something bad after reading my statement. Of course, the owner of this body may have actually suffered such a thing.
In the first place, does it make sense that a person is thrown away in a landfill wrapped in layers of plastic?
-Thump...
After the madam leaves, I roughly organize the house and turn on the computer.
I want to take revenge as soon as possible.
But first, research is first. In this body, I can't do anything.
What happened to my body after I died?
What about my assets?
Are the hidden treasures safe?
Did they conquer the next floor well without me?
And as soon as I turn on the computer, I realize a shocking fact.
'What? The date is strange?'
2028. September 17th.
And the year I died was 2023.
'5 years have passed...?'
'It took 5 years for me to come back to life?'
Yes, that's possible.
I was even possessed by a woman's body, so 5 years passing is nothing.
'Then how is the Korean Tower conquest progressing during that time?'
There are so many things I'm curious about.
The last tower I conquered was the 72nd floor.
And according to the rules of the tower, it collapses the moment you fail to break through at least one floor per year.
Of course, it doesn't matter if you go up more, but just because you went up 10 floors at once doesn't mean you're safe for 10 years. The timer starts as soon as you break through a new floor.
And the moment the tower collapses.
The surrounding area becomes a magical zone to the point where it is impossible to restore it.
So most other countries safely climbed only 1-2 floors a year from the 50th floor onwards to conquer the tower.
'Of course, I was different...'
Maybe that's why I was betrayed.
I broke through the 70th floor alone, which everyone said was impossible, and ignored the words to conquer it safely and kept going up...
Although I had confidence and a plan that it was possible, I was treated like a madman not only in other countries but even in Korea.
'Hoo... Still, I've done some things, so our country is still number 1 in the world, right?'
I thought.
But what's this?
[World Tower Ranking Chart]
United States - 91st floor
China - 88th floor
Japan 81st floor
Russia 79th floor
Korea - 78th floor
Germany - 78th floor
'What...? Where is our great Korea?'
That's right.
During my absence, our country has only climbed about 1 floor per year. The remaining personnel, except for me, only climbed enough so that the tower would not collapse.
The glorious period when countless people around the world watched our country, saying it would become the best country in the world. Nationalistic news overflowed, and many scholars predicted that Korean would become the standard language of the world after English.
And except for the United States, which was closely following our country, China and Japan often begged our country's awakeners and government to help them.
'Haa... In the end, did those guys choose to settle?'
It may have become easier to take revenge, but I'm not that comfortable.
'Okay, let's see what those bastards have been doing.'
Of course, most of the data was confidential, but the articles floating around in communities could be easily found.
[Tower Climbing Support Gallery]
[Title]: The reason why our country's Awakeners became cowards
[Content]: I respect the Raiders who risk their lives to climb the tower.
But I have to say what I have to say.
Everyone became a coward after many casualties on the 72nd floor.
Now, rather than being tower raiders, they have just become the vested interests.
They safely conquer from behind, grinding the lives of young newcomers who come in hoping to turn their lives around. And you can often see them picking fights with hostile guilds or harassing neutral Awakeners.
Even the 6 guild leaders have all advanced into the political and business world and are taking up positions
They are no longer tower raiders. They are just tower vested interests.
Comments:
- What do you want me to do? Climb it yourself if you're upset
- But Korea can't conquer the tower anyway unless it's the 6 major guilds. We have no choice but to beg those bastards to do it.
- The large guild bastards control information among themselves and control skill and elixir manufacturing methods. In addition, they don't party with neutral users and only go up among themselves, so it's structurally very difficult for new guilds to emerge.
-Korea should just fail.
- Fact) 5th place is doing well.
↳ In reality, it's 6th place⇒⇒
Expert's comment) Korea will be pushed out of the top 10 in 5 years.
- This looks like it's from that bastard's guild
Real) The only guild that was kicked out of the 7th guild¬¬¬
Those guys are really pitiful
That blind swordsman?AA
'Are they practically conquering it out of a sense of duty...?'
But that was the thought of the general public, and when I looked at other data, they also had reasons.
First of all, the official reason for the delay in conquest is that there were too many deaths of major forces on the 72nd floor. So they are raising newcomers and slowly going up together, but this method obviously can't be fast.
'Did I kill that many?'
I don't remember well because I fought almost unconsciously at the end. And if that's not the case, my death may have been the problem.
Even the distribution of spoils according to the contribution to the conquest became a problem, so the guilds are not on good terms with each other.
'The public thinks that the big guilds have become vested interests and only pursue safety, but the reality is a little different...'
Rather, they are barely able to maintain those vested interests, so they are barely climbing one floor at a time. Advancing into the political and business world also costs a lot to
nurture newcomers, so it was likely an unavoidable choice.
They didn't expect it, but when I saw it, this was a natural result.
'Yeah, that's right, because I... wasn't there.'
Without me, the commander who controlled all 7 guilds, and the most powerful force, casualties were bound to occur and they were bound to be divided.
'Stupid bastards....'
Maybe they are already paying the price for betrayal little by little.
***
This is the Yongsan Police Station in Seoul.
"Officer Kim, have the investigation results come out?"
Based on Do-hee's statement, they began investigating how she ended up in the junkyard.
"Yes, Inspector Park. The Violent Crimes Unit gave me the results, but how do I..."
"What is it? Give it to me."
They traced who threw away the plastic that Lee Do-hee took off in the junkyard, and the result was shocking.
"Lee Seong-yong's mansion, a strong successor of the current Ohsung Group...? Wait a minute..."
Ohsung Group.
There is no need for words.
It is an overwhelming number 1 global mega-corporation in Korea that everyone knows, and Ohsung Guild is the number 1 guild representing Korea.
This is a super super huge incident.
Nothing has been revealed yet, but if the search for this case continues, there will naturally be talk about the owner family of Ohsung Group.
"Uh... what happens if this happens?"
"Haa...."
Inspector Park sighs deeply and worries. He is the stubble-bearded man who shouted at Do-hee at first but later treated her well.
"Let's cover it up. The Violent Crimes Unit also said they won't investigate anymore, right?"
"Yes? Of course, that's true, but isn't this too much? Even if it's a chaebol family, if the news breaks..."
Officer Kim, who is still a rookie, is at the time when he is full of justice.
"Stop it. Of course, I might have done that if that woman had been found dead. But think about it. The guys now think that woman is dead, but who do you think will be the most
dangerous if the investigation starts in earnest?"
He wrapped a person in a plastic bag and threw it away in a junkyard.
This is an act of abandoning a body no matter who sees it. They are not fools, so they would not have thrown it away while knowing that the person was alive. Moreover, the fact
that they don't even think about looking for her separately seems to be that they believe they have handled it perfectly.
"That.... that is...."
"Let's cover it up. Cover it up as if nothing happened so that the guys in charge of Ohsung Group's cleanup don't know. I'll request that the things that were posted on SNS and the
news be deleted."
It was the moment when Lee Do-hee's past was laundered without her knowing.
"Maybe she was pretending not to remember to survive..."
His intuition noticed that she was lying. It wasn't for nothing that he pushed her.
"Was she kidnapped when she was young...?"
He thought that she had been kidnapped without even registering her identity, and now he could only hope that she would forget everything and be happy.
***
Lee Do-hee's room.
"I can't see a way out...."
It definitely looked easy a while ago, but the more I know, the more difficult it feels.
"I can't do anything just by climbing the tower recklessly, can I?"
All 6 major guilds have roots all over Korea.
The moment I attack them, I will become a target for the entire nation.
"And what if I know, I can't even use it?"
Awakener Market]
I can't use it yet because I haven't climbed the tower yet, but I can window shop.
[Hob Goblin's Inner Core]: 20 million won
[Blue Wolf's Heart]: 50 million won
[Meyer Family's Breathing Method]: 300 million won
Unlike in the past when I climbed the tower recklessly, there are elixirs, equipment, and skills that are efficient to eat on the lower floors, but I don't have the money to buy them.
"I need money..... and a reason for revenge....."
The answer doesn't come out easily.
There's no way to get a conclusion by worrying about something I can't solve.
First, I go outside to train my basic physical strength to climb the tower.
***
A month later.
"Hoo..... Is this enough?"
Although I have become an ordinary woman from the strongest in the world, I have been exercising to build my basic physical strength and collecting information that has
changed through
Internet to create a decent body.
'Honestly, climbing the tower with this body is the worst...'
My height of 185cm and muscular body as a man have been reduced to almost 170cm, so the martial arts I used to use have been completely reset, and my center of gravity sways
every time I move because of my unnecessarily large breasts and buttocks.
No matter how hard I try to build muscle, the problem is my nature, and these wobbly fleshy masses don't disappear at all.
To put it bluntly, it can be said that it is an individual specialized in reproduction rather than combat.
'But I won't give up.'
My goal is only the tower.
Revenge. The glory of Korea. Wealthy movie. The origin of the tower.
All of that is on top of that tower.
I have no intention of living like a stupid female, being giddy because I became a woman.
"Let's go."
Since floors 1-10 are tutorial floors anyway, and personal equipment is all restricted, there is no need for preparations.
I tie my fluttering pink hair back and leave the house in light training clothes.
The house I live in is less than 30 minutes away from Seoul Tower.
Seoul Tower was built where Namsan Tower used to be, and my house is right below it, so I could go to the tower very comfortably as if I were commuting to work. It is a very
good location where you can go to the tower as if you were taking a walk in the neighborhood back mountain.
'It really doesn't seem to end.'
A huge tower with a diameter of about 1 km and a height of 20 km.
The huge tower that seems to have no end when viewed from below finally begins to appear.
"Hoo..."
I run out in a light jog to shake off the tension.