The Return Of The Genius Ranker Of All Times [EN]: Chapter 71

The Tower of Disaster.

The sanctuary of trolls, the stage for lawlessness, a tower that lives up to its name, a tower that manufactures social phobias, a tower of misanthropy, and so on.

Called by various names, this place simultaneously offered joy and despair to users.

The reason for despair was obvious.

The trolls who popped up almost daily were as endless as cockroaches.

This was unavoidable due to the structure.

[You have entered the 1st floor of the Tower of Disaster.]

[The challenge of the 1st floor will begin in 5 minutes, and the test will be conducted in units of 10,000 people.]

[You can only ascend the Tower of Disaster by forming a party.]

[A party can have up to 3 members.]

You can only enter by forming a party?

So far, so good.

From the beginning, it was common to form a party with like-minded people and enter.

The problem was the number of people: 10,000.

[The dice are rolling.]

[Among the dice rolled by 10,000 users, the concept of the 1st floor is determined by the most frequent number.]

[The concept has been decided.]

[The concept of this challenge is ‘Let’s All Cha-Cha-Cha Together’.]

[Work together to avoid traps and escape the maze.]

[If you successfully break through the traps, the entire group will receive a buff, and conversely, if someone gets caught in a trap, everyone will receive a debuff together.]

And it was a random theme determined randomly.

A certain sage once said:

If five people gather, one of them is bound to be a troll.

If that’s the case with five people, what would happen if 10,000 people gathered in one place, not 100 or 1,000?

“Damn it!! You goddamn troll bastards!”

“Where do you live? Let’s have a real-life fight, you X-year-old.”

“I really want to do some reality [PK: Player Killing]. When I was your age, huh? If you played the game like that, I would have immediately flying kicked first. You should have gone to the arcade to know…….”

“Ah, yeah yeah. It must be nice to be old.”

“Let’s cooperate! Cooperate…… you sons of bitches. Damn it, I don’t know anymore. Cooperation or whatever, I don’t care, everyone attack!”

Inevitably, chaos ensues.

99 times out of 100 or more.

You can’t help but naturally find out how this extremely low probability, which can be said to be over 90%, was born the moment you participate.

“Ah, so much fun. Look at them screaming when I touch the traps.”

“Hehehe, that’s why I spin [deliberately cause chaos] the Tower of Disaster.”

“Of course, rankers or whatever, everyone is equal here. If you want to clear [complete the level] well, beg me? Can’t do that because of your pride?”

“Ah! I, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to touch the traps, but I accidentally…… Ah, I touched it again…… I’m sorry!”

Intentional trolls and users who unintentionally troll because they are purely unskilled.

“Hahaha! Die, everyone!”

“Wanna bet how many people I can kill by activating the traps?”

“Those guys are having fun? We can’t lose, can we? Wanna bet too?”

“Traps? Just kill everyone you see. Who knows, if you stand out, you might get scouted in the lawless zone [area where PvP is allowed without penalty]?”

“Ah, right. That’s better.”

Users whose purpose was fun or massacre, not clearing from the beginning.

“Oh well, I’m just going to give up.”

“I can’t just give up, it’s too unfair. I’m just going to kill that bastard and leave.”

“Bullshit, I can’t do this because it’s too dirty.”

“Oh, you want to try, huh?”

Users who finally lose their minds and throw away the game after holding back.

In that sense, users taste hell at the same time as starting the first challenge of the Tower of Disaster due to a disastrous collaboration.

As far as this place is concerned, there was no special treatment for named players or anything.

“You bastards, do you know who I am!? I’m an executive of the 100th largest guild, Phoenix, you motherfuckers!”

“Let’s go out and see, I’ll issue a kill order right away.”

“My cousin is a member of the top 10 guild, you bastards. You messed with the wrong person. I’ll make you quit the game.”

It was the same even if they threatened with words that would normally make them tremble.

The users who were trolling just picked their ears and showed a nonchalant look.

No, it would be fortunate if it ended there, but there were quite a few who provoked them instead.

“Ah, look at them huffing and puffing. So much fun.”

“It’s like watching my cousin tremble, hehehe. Cute, cute.”

“Our 100th largest guild executive is angry? Aww, here’s something sweet for you, dickhead you bastard.”

The reason why this was possible was due to the special system here.

That system was none other than…….

“Kill order? How are you going to issue it when you don’t even know our names?”

“How many God of Creation players are there, hehehe, even if you search for users in Ellanis, there are hundreds of thousands, so go ahead and find them.”

Anonymity.

Is it because 10,000 people participate?

Or is it intentional to encourage this phenomenon?

Here, whether you kill a player or do anything, you can’t see the name of a user who is not a party member.

There was only one way to check the name.

[The ranking will be revealed when the number of people drops below 1,000.]

The number of people ascending the Tower of Disaster falls below 1,000.

Although it depends on the concept, it is revealed within 10 floors at the latest.

However, this also meant that you wouldn’t get caught if you just covered your face with something like a mask, no matter what you did before that.

“2,000 people have already fallen. If you go up a little more, all your names will be revealed…….”

“Yeah, I’m going to leave before that~ I came to mess with you, why would I go up to the 10th floor?”

“Ah, I feel so relieved.”

“Seeing you walking around with your shoulders straight all this time made me so jealous…… Don’t think too badly of us. We have to vent our anger here once in a while to make life worth living, right?”

For this reason, the Tower of Disaster was disadvantageous to named users, and thanks to that, many named users climbed the tower while hiding their identities.

A tower of ‘disaster’ where both named and ordinary users suffer.

[It has been confirmed that you have entered the Tower of Disaster.]

[It will be recorded in the Book of Adventures.]

[The current location of the Kaiser Party is the 1st floor of the Tower of Disaster.]

“……Just listening to it makes me dizzy?”

-Wow, I’m not the only one who doesn’t want to climb already, right, Master?

-Lizariza…… Liza…….

-Hmm, in short, it means that it is a place swarming with bugs full of inferiority complexes.

Where they had entered.

As Do-hyun and the Guardians, who had been listening to the explanation silently, frowned and said a word each, Ast sighed deeply and looked around.

“Hmm.”

Do-hyun also looked around.

This was an ordinary black tower interior, and the number of users filling the hall, which was at least two or three times larger than a school playground, was quite a sight.

Are they all trying to hide their identities?

Each of them was wearing large robes and masks, or armor and helmets, which made it feel even more impactful.

‘I don’t think there have been many contents with this many participants even in Demlock.’

Even that was on a world quest basis, not in the form of climbing the tower together like this.

I was 괜히 [unnecessarily] excited by the taste of a new large-scale event.

Of course, the 아재 [middle-aged man] didn’t seem to feel that way.

“Sigh…… I didn’t want to come here again, but I’m coming here again.”

Excitement, what excitement.

Perhaps because he was disgusted just thinking about it, the 아재’s complexion was turning black in real time.

“……Was it that terrible?”

“Hey, look at my size. Can my identity be hidden? Other guys can just stay quiet until the number of people decreases, but I just breathe and they recognize me and run at me.”

“Puhuh.”

Do-hyun, who instinctively scanned the 아재 up and down, tried hard to hold back the laughter that was about to burst out.

That huge muscular 덩치 [build] was 아재 no matter how you looked at it from the front or the back.

“Just in case, I didn’t bring a 철퇴 [mace] and went with an ordinary club, but they recognized me like ghosts and ran at me.”

“……I don’t think the 철퇴 is the problem.”

“I don’t know why they only pick on me so much…… I don’t usually control the field or control items, but I don’t know why they do that.”

“Hmm, I see.”

The 아재 continued to complain about the injustice for a long time without knowing that.

How many minutes had passed while listening to it with one ear and 흘려내리고 [letting it flow out]?

Ast also seemed to be exhausted on his own, and ended his words by letting out a few sighs from his 단전 [lower abdomen, source of energy].

“Haa, I really wouldn’t have come if it wasn’t for your request. You know?”

“Of course, I know. Let’s do well since we came all this way.”

“Sigh, you’re just saying that, and after a while, you’ll forget about me again and be busy focusing on something weird on your own.”

“……Hey, no.”

……Is this a vibe that comes from experience?

Do-hyun, who was startled for a moment by the sharp 촉 [intuition], gritted his teeth and pretended not to know when it was.

-Um, but Master. Why is this 막장 [awful] place so popular?

“Huh?”

-We came to find a person named Great Hyunja, but the apostles don’t have to come to suffer if they don’t want to, right?

Jihad asked a question with good timing.

-Liza! Lizariza!

-Um, to be sure, this humble sword was also wondering.

And Eliza, who was 맞장구를치는 [agreeing] next to him as if she was also curious, and Charlie, who was speaking quietly.

Thanks to that, the gaze of the 아재 who was suspiciously looking at Do-hyun was taken away, and the topic naturally turned.

Why do users bother to come even though they say they are going to get social phobia?

“Gamers…… Ahem, I mean, why would apostles bother to suffer? It’s because of the rewards.”

-Rewards?

“Yeah, the rewards here are amazing.”

That’s because the rewards here were a big catch worth coveting even after enduring all the humiliation.

-What the heck is that?

-Lizariza?

The answer to the two guys’ questions, which seemed to be sparkling with curiosity, came from Do-hyun.

This was information that Do-hyun also knew.

“Additional ability of the skill.”

-Additional ability? What is that?

“It literally means that you can give an additional ability to one of the skills you own. For example…….”

Giving an attribute to a non-attribute skill.

From adding effects such as striking to acceleration skills, to strengthening the power of Sword Aura significantly.

“Or you can reduce the cooldown or increase additional hits instead of adding anything.”

-……Wow, then isn’t that too OP [overpowered]? If it’s possible to create a legion commander, can’t you increase one more legion commander?

“……There’s a possibility?”

Do-hyun stroked his chin at Do-hyun’s admiring words.

I hadn’t thought about it, but if that happened, Jihad’s combat power would increase ridiculously.

However…….

‘……I haven’t heard of strengthening 신수 [divine beast] skills. Jihad uses the same skills that users use anyway, so would it be okay?’

I guess I’ll have to try it to know.

Honestly, before I even know if that will work, I have to think more about whether I should give it to Jihad.

‘I already have a skill in mind. It would be better to invest in that if possible.’

And the rewards of the Tower of Disaster were not the end of this.

It wasn’t a reward that Do-hyun knew.

“Look at this guy? You don’t know this? The real thing is separate.”

Ast, who had been listening to the story, suddenly made a playful face and made a meaningful voice.

“……There’s something like that? I’ve never heard of it.”

As Do-hyun looked at him in surprise, Ast raised the corners of his mouth with a smirk.

“Well, you can’t help but not know. This is not a known reward. Maybe only a few people know it except for the top 10 guilds? It’s information that they are thoroughly hiding.”

“What is it?”

“Hmm, should I tell you this or not?”

“Hey, 아재, are you doing this? Stop joking and hurry up.”

“Hmm…….”

How many seconds had passed while he was playfully crossing his arms and stalling despite Do-hyun’s urging?

“Well, okay. I’ll tell you specially.”

Only after seeing Do-hyun’s anxious face, Ast, who had a satisfied face, finally opened his mouth.