<Tower 25’s Superhuman Mirinae of Seoul. Who on Earth Is He?>

<Uncovering the Driving Force Behind Seoul Superhuman Mirinae’s Incomprehensible Clear Speed!>

<Everything Known About Mirinae to Date>

<Mirinae. Is He a Superhuman, or a Tower Operator?>

<101 Reasons to Transfer Your Affiliation to Seoul Tower>

<What Course Will Korea, the World’s Guaranteed Strongest Superhuman Nation, Take Next?>

Media outlets around the world splashed Mirinae across their front pages, scrambling to outdo one another in coverage.

When the Blessing of Evasion activated after 20 consecutive Amazing Achievements, the reaction had still been at the level of “Wow, amazing.” and “Wow, I’m jealous.”

But after achieving 40 consecutive Amazing Achievements, along with the Blessing of Growth—

Mirinae’s feat of blasting through 10 floors to reach the 51st floor within a single day of breaking through the 40th floor elicited a sense of awe that defied description.

Beyond the 40th floor lay the Intermediate Zone.

With top-tier gear.

Excellent skills.

And the combat prowess to match.

Clearing one floor per day wasn’t impossible.

Lee Seoah had recently accomplished exactly such a feat, after all.

But.

Clearing one floor per day.

And clearing 10 floors in the 40s range in a single day—no, in a mere two hours—were fundamentally different matters.

└ lolololol

└ lololololol

└ lolololololol

└ I literally can’t stop laughing lolololololol

└ Did you see the tower clear records? Why do the 1st floor records look copy-pasted onto the 40s?

└ Exactly lololol He cleared every floor in the 40s in under 10 seconds lololol On the 1st floor section there was a slight blip on the 9th floor at 59 seconds, but the 40s? Every single one under 10 seconds lololol

└ With Mirinae around… there’s absolutely no way the tower would ever collapse

└ Yeah, hard agree

└ ???: The 100th floor? I’ll climb it if I feel like it

└ lolol if he really set his mind to it, couldn’t he just blast through the 100th floor right now? lolol

└ 10 floors in 2 hours! So satisfying to watch!

└ At this rate, shouldn’t the government designate Mirinae as a Living National Treasure—National Treasure No. 1?

└ Seriously, just how much astronomical economic benefit is Mirinae generating all by himself?

└ We need to keep Mirinae’s identity under lock and key first. It wouldn’t even be surprising if war broke out the moment his identity goes public

└ War, seriously? lol

└ Nah, wars are fought over money to begin with. Look at what Russia and China already did to us, you know? They might send all their superhumans to infiltrate us just to grab Mirinae

└ What era do you think we’re in? Who would pull something that crazy;;;

└ You’re the one who needs to check what era you’re living in lol. Like the person above said, Russia and China are literally countries that would do any kind of insane thing

Seoul’s superhumans unanimously cried out that they, at least, needed to step up and thoroughly protect Mirinae.

If Mirinae died, it would be disastrous. If he changed his affiliation to another tower, it would be equally disastrous.

Of course, for Mirinae to enjoy the benefits of the blessings, it was better for him to remain at Seoul Tower.

But if someone emerged to harass him like they had with the Swordmaster Kim Taemin in the past, there was no telling how his mind might change.

So preventing such a situation from ever arising was crucial.

Mirinae.

He had become the cornerstone that upheld Seoul Tower.

* * *

Silence filled the room.

Lea and Maya, who had just fought ten consecutive life-and-death battles—

sat quietly at opposite ends of the sofa, resting.

Even for a Swordmaster, ten meteor impacts must have been a bit much, huh?

He considered using Summoner’s Complete Healing to restore them immediately, but—

healing only one of them would be awkward, and

they weren’t injured—just exhausted—so he left them to rest comfortably.

During the push from the 41st to the 51st floor.

A respectable haul of valuable rewards had certainly poured in.

Bonus rewards appeared roughly once every two attempts, and

the most valuable among them was undoubtedly the Tower 25 Affiliation Change Ticket.

He’d obtained no fewer than two of them—just how much money could these fetch?

Of course, back when supply was scarce, he’d sold two tickets to China for 150 billion won, but

now that reward rates had increased, if anyone could obtain Tower Affiliation Change Tickets, their value would drop considerably.

So selling them quickly before that day arrived was the prudent move.

And a total of nine Random Boxes.

The rewards here were quite generous as well.

The so-called dud—magic stones—appeared only once, but the count was a staggering 500.

That amounted to 500 million won. How could anyone call that a dud?

On top of that, two Source Stones had dropped this time, along with a variety of other useful items.

One item in particular had never been revealed before.

[Strategy Reset Ticket]

– Resets the floor currently being challenged.

Call it a sort of do-over ticket?

If it seemed difficult to achieve an Amazing Achievement on the first clear attempt, he could use the Strategy Reset Ticket to erase the attempt as if it never happened.

With this in hand, the pressure of tackling the upper floors would diminish significantly.

Up to the 70th floor, he could formulate strategies based on publicly available information.

But beyond that lay uncharted dungeons, making it difficult to judge whether an Amazing Achievement was within reach.

And then, the much-anticipated Platinum Random Box.

From it, unexpectedly, came a weapon exclusive to Lea.

[Dragon’s Whisper]

– Usage Restriction: Summoned Being Lea

– A sword that grows alongside its wielder.

– Set effect with the Dragon Scale Shield: Dragon Scales and Dragon Wings have been unlocked.

– Description: A sword presumed to have been wielded by Lea. A magical armament that forms a set with the Dragon Scale Shield. The set effect grants the use of Dragon Scales, which doubles the wearer’s defense, and Dragon Wings, which nullifies fall damage and increases movement speed by 20%.

She was already overpowered to begin with.

Now Lea had become even more absurdly overpowered.

Well…

She’d be able to block meteors more effectively now, so that was a good thing, right?

Finally, the Platinum Skill Acquisition Ticket—obtainable only from the first clear of the 50th floor boss.

He’d been hoping to finally land himself a proper attack skill, but…

[Teleport]

– Usage Count: Once per day

– Linked Towers: Tower 25 (Seoul), 19th Tower (Tokyo), 13th Tower (Shanghai), 16th Tower (Bangkok), 17th Tower (Dhaka)

– Teleports to anywhere within the domain of a linked tower.

– Cannot be used inside a tower.

A general-purpose skill with absolutely no combat application had come out instead.

But that single ability was exceptional.

Was it not?

Not just the Seoul Tower, but

he could teleport to any of the four linked towers across different countries!

He suspected that enhancing the skill would increase the number of linked towers.

Starting with those nearest to the Seoul Tower.

With this alone, there’d be no need for grueling long-distance flights—

just a *ttalkak*, and he could potentially travel from Seoul to New York in an instant.

Moreover, with a Skill Reset Ticket, he could reuse it immediately, or if he later obtained the Skill Reset Ring—a 60th floor special reward—he could use it twice a day.

These incredible rewards were likely due to the Blessing of Growth.

It even made him wonder whether he should push not just to the 60th floor but all the way to the 70th.

And it wasn’t over yet.

No fewer than three Skill Enhancement Tickets had dropped!

One of them had come not from a Random Box but as an additional tower clear reward—making this a true bonanza of loot.

Yet amid this staggering parade of loot.

Lea and Maya’s congratulations were remarkably subdued.

“Oh, Lord. Congratulations.”

*Jjak, jjak, jjak.*

“It is all thanks to Your Highness’s benevolent virtue.”

*Kkubeok.*

And then they’d gone back to the sofa, slumped down, and were resting—that was the current scene.

He’d told them to lie down and rest comfortably, but apparently, as his subjects, they couldn’t commit such disloyalty.

Although he hadn’t obtained the attack skill he wanted.

With Teleport alone, he could now easily escape from any crisis.

So.

“Lea, Maya. See you in a week, then.”

Which also meant the two’s worries had become moot.

“…Please be sure to preserve your venerable body until we meet again next week.”

“I shall pray only for Your Highness’s safe return. I beg you, please do not so much as glance at elementary schools, convenience stores, or 30 km/h speed limit zones—any place that holds even the slightest hint of danger.”

…He couldn’t even figure out where to begin arguing with that.

Shin Jungho waved lightly, then

used the Blessed Summoning Stone Enhancement Ticket to gently send the two back.

And.

“Alright, finally…!”

Will-o’-the-wisps flickered to life in Shin Jungho’s eyes.

The target those madness-soaked eyes locked onto was

none other than the Arcane Forge.

The curtain had risen on an infinite gacha rolling session.

* * *

Lately, Xiaolong had been on pins and needles.

“Isn’t this the area we already searched last time?”

At the watcher’s questioning—disguised under the title of secretary—Xiaolong produced the excuse he’d prepared in advance.

“There were areas I hadn’t fully covered. I plan to re-examine them for confirmation.”

“You haven’t already found it and are hiding it while harboring some other agenda, have you?”

“Haven’t I been with you the entire time? Are you doubting my loyalty to China now?”

“…It’s already been 50 days. The fact that you’ve far exceeded the estimated time is a problem in itself, isn’t it?”

“He’s a figure the entire world is watching. Someone like that wouldn’t be easily found, would he?”

“…You’d better do your best, if only for the sake of your sister in Shanghai.”

Xiaolong’s expression suddenly hardened as he asked,

“Do I look like I’m not giving it my all?”

The watcher finally fell silent.

Xiaolong used his skill to scan the mana fluctuations detected in the vicinity.

He had already learned what the Summoning Stone’s unique fluctuation felt like through China’s Summoning Stone.

So he believed that if he just kept scanning Seoul, he would eventually find the Summoning Stone.

Why wasn’t the fluctuation from the Summoning Stone being detected at all?

He hadn’t told the watcher, but he had already surveyed the entire Seoul Tower domain long ago.

That left two possible explanations.

One was that they were transporting the Summoning Stone in a truck.

Either they suspected him—having come from Shanghai—investigated his movements, and were driving around in circles, or they kept the stone outside Seoul entirely and only brought it into the tower domain when summoning.

The other was that there existed a method to block his detection skill.

He didn’t know what that method could be, but the arms race between spear and shield had existed since ancient times, so he couldn’t rule out the possibility.

But regardless of the cause, one thing was certain: he was the only one suffering more by the day.

If Chinese Public Security used his sister as leverage to assign him a new mission—

If he received an order like the one Jin Taiyang was presumed to have carried out—the elimination of Seoul rankers—

Could he really refuse?

While suffering in silence and climbing the tower alone, a chance arose for him to meet a Seoul ranker in private at the Superhuman Management Agency.

Park Soyul.

The former second-ranked Seoul ranker, now established as one of the most powerful figures in the scene.

Deciding the situation could wait no longer, Xiaolong approached her and revealed his true intentions.

“Is there a place where the two of us can talk privately?”

Clumsy Korean.

He didn’t understand the meaning but had memorized the phrase roughly through a translator.

Even if the Chinese watcher caught him, he could simply claim he was approaching her for spy activities.

Seeing the resolute expression on Xiaolong, a superhuman from Shanghai, Park Soyul sensed something major was at play.

However, she also had a premonition that meeting him in person, as Xiaolong requested, would entangle her in quite a headache.

Anti-Chinese sentiment was at its peak these days, after all.

Secretly meeting a Chinese superhuman in such a climate?

It was a picture-perfect recipe for scandal if caught.

So she simply smirked and pulled a business card from her wallet, handing it to him.

“Go check it out.”

She tossed the words out whether he understood or not, then walked away.

Xiaolong examined the business card.

Against a sleek black background, bright yellow text crackling like lightning displayed a web address.

When he looked up the address on his smartphone and ran it through a translator, he could see the site’s contents.

“Prestige War Cafe… Monthly Membership Application?”

It was a site guiding cafe membership registration.

Inside, there were questions to answer—

no fewer than 100 of them.