I'm the Only Wizard Climbing the Tower - Chapter 160

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Chapter 160

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Right after returning to reality, I opened my status window.

[Baek Jiho (Republic of Korea: Floor 49)]

[13,716,000 Points]

And there it was.

The colossal number of 13,716,000 Points!

I clenched my fist.

“At last... I have saved even Chad Gyeonggi!”

Gyeonggi Province, the region with the largest population in our country.

With a population of 13.6 million, I had earned enough Points in a single day to save every last one of them, with plenty to spare!

There were no regions left to save now.

My heart swelled with emotion.

“Heh heh... At last, I have saved all of King Korea...! The journey of salvation that began in Busan has finally reached Chad Gyeonggi! I, the Extreme Lunatic Hell Patriotic Admiral Yi Hunter, have saved every citizen on the Korean Peninsula!!! Citizens, rest easy! King Korea is safe!!!”

“...Sigh. At least I won’t have to listen to you reciting regional names every time we finish a clear anymore.”

“Having saved the Korean Peninsula, next comes the world! I shall go beyond King Korea and become a world-class savior Hunter! A country with a population of around ten to twenty million would make a suitable comparison-”

“No, you crazy bastard. You’re going beyond regional jokes and making world jokes now?”

As I celebrated enthusiastically, Choi Yejin threw cold water on it from beside me.

Apparently, my ambition to save the entire world beyond King Korea did not sit well with her.

Tsk, tsk.

Such possessiveness...

As an Extreme Lunatic Hell Wizard Hunter, I could not be satisfied with saving only King Korea.

Anyway... 13.6 million Points.

‘But I’m earning Points in the tens of millions per floor now. If I keep climbing like this, couldn’t I really save the whole world?’

Honestly, I had only brought up the world as a joke.

But perhaps because I was in the latter half of the Highest Floors, the rate at which my Point income increased was getting steeper and steeper.

Could saving the entire world actually be possible?

I would shoulder the burden of every person on Earth’s Points by myself.

I imagined it.

The sheer coolness of me feeding all four billion people in the world, not just King Korea.

My overwhelming majesty as the man who saved every person on Earth...!

Khh!

Cool as hell!

“People of Earth! Just wait a little longer! I have saved King Korea, so I’ll save the world next! Hurry and appoint me commander-in-chief of the United Earth Directorate! Be loyal to the Directorate! Be loyal to humanity! Nothing but victory matters!!!”

“What the hell is the United Earth Directorate, you fucking nerd?”

I was getting high on humanity!

Just imagining becoming a global savior rather than merely a nationwide one made my chest swell.

For now, I was only a pathetic scrub who could save fifty million citizens.

But later, I would be able to save even more people, right?

Anyway!

“I should leave a record of my future deeds, when I save even the world...!”

“You’re going on Hunter Gallery, right?”

“Yes.”

“Ugh.”

We had safely finished today’s climb too.

Now it was time for my post-climb routine!

I raised my smartphone to take a photo...

“Miss Hyeji. What loot did we bring back today?”

Then I froze.

I could not see any loot to include in my proof shot.

Hyeji answered with an indifferent expression.

“There isn’t any loot today.”

“No loot... why?”

“There was nothing to take. Only Wyverns showed up today, and you said the warehouse was already overflowing with Wyvern materials from last time.”

“...”

That was right.

There had not been anything worth taking on Floor 48.

The monster byproducts used for alchemy had already filled the basement warehouse to the brim.

And there was nothing worth farming in the city either.

As a result, we had returned empty-handed today.

Thanks to that, Hyeji’s Spatial Bag was completely empty.

I despaired.

“How... how could this happen... I earned thirteen million Points, yet I have no proof shot to show for it! For an Extreme Lunatic Hell intellectual like myself to make such a fatal mistake...! O heavens! O Primordial Heavenly Venerable!!!”

“Seriously. Why is he making such a fuss over a photo? I don’t get it.”

“He bought a mansion with a yard specifically so he could take pictures of loot and brag about it. I understand how he feels.”

“...You understand?”

While Choi Yejin stared at Hyeji in shock for some reason, I swallowed my disappointment.

I posted every time after climbing, along with a photo.

A post without one would feel a little empty.

But there was nothing I could do.

Today, I would just have to write a post without a photo...!

Anyway, I raised my smartphone and made a post.

[Post Title: (Info) How to Clear Floor 48!]

[Author: Blue Dot]

Hunter who isn’t a newbie here...

Went to Floor 48 today.

Went to check on my city as soon as I entered.

Then some bright-red liquid came rushing in from the north.

Turns out there was a lava flood in the north!

Fuck, my carefully raised city almost got roasted in lava all at once.

So I built another wall to block it!

By the way, the wall’s called Wall-Iing Iing.

I named it after our Iing Iing and she really liked it.

Cute as fuck.

You guys should raise a fairy too, they’re seriously cute.

They’re healing every time you see them, for real.

Anyway, then I went north to look around.

There was some completely fucked-up lava zone there.

I saw something like an egg beyond the map boundary, and I’ve got a feeling it’s a Dragon egg.

Tomorrow, if I can swipe the Dragon egg, I’ll try swiping it.

I’m so excited imagining myself as an Extreme Lunatic Hell Dragon Rider!

Anyway, today’s earnings!

Defeated 4,572 Wyverns.

13,716,000 Points.

Total earnings, 137.16 billion won...!!!

With this, I have earned enough Points for every citizen to survive!

Citizens, rest easy!

King Korea is safe!

Make Korea Safe Again!!!

I took care of the Point shortage that threatened the Republic of Korea, so relax already!

Oh right, the Floor 48 strategy is just kill every Wyvern you see.

All right, later.

...

Right after I made the post, comments began pouring in.

└Another dizzying post today, Blue Dot...

└What the fuck is a Dragon egg now

└The strategy guide is literally just the last line lol

└Hello, this is FFF Daily. We would like to request an interview.

└What the hell is Wall-Iing Iing... Is that some kind of meme? I don’t get it.

└Why does this guy add more weird words every time he posts... Saving Korea is great, but save your mental health too, Blue Dot. As a practicing psychiatrist, I’m concerned.

└Why no photo today? I was curious what idiotic junk you’d haul back to show off this time.

└I am Lee Junyoung from Anyang, Gyeonggi Province!!!

└Wait, were there only Wyverns on this floor? You killed only Wyverns, with no other monsters.

└└But what the hell are 4,500 Wyverns lol Were you fighting a war inside the Tower or something? That number is ridiculous.

└└For real lol Four thousand Wyverns, what the fuck lol How did you kill them, you bastard?

The comments began coming in every direction.

I clicked my tongue.

They were as chaotic as ever!

Anyway.

I began replying one by one to the comments that caught my eye.

└Wait, were there only Wyverns on this floor? You killed only Wyverns, with no other monsters.

└└Blue Dot: Yeah. Maybe because lava covered the ground like a giant hazard zone, there weren’t any land monsters. So there were only Wyverns, and I just killed Wyverns nonstop.

└└But how do you kill thousands of them? Is that physically possible? Even if you’re a strong Hunter, killing thousands of Wyverns in one day seems hard.

└└Blue Dot: Nah, totally possible. As Mao Zedong hyung’s successor, I have perfectly inherited the Four Pests Campaign! For a master of the Four Pests Campaign like me, killing thousands of sparrows, I mean Wyverns, is nothing!

└└Why does this crazy bastard like Mao Zedong so much?

└└At first I thought it was just an insane joke, but isn’t he actually into him at this point?;

└└Come on, no way lol Blue Dot, the Chink Slayer, liking the Chink leader makes no sense lol It’s just a bit, right, Blue Dot...?

└Why no photo today? I was curious what idiotic junk you’d haul back to show off this time.

└└Blue Dot: There wasn’t much to take from this floor... I did find a Dragon egg, supposedly, but it was outside the map boundary so I couldn’t bring it back.

└└What the hell is a Dragon egg?

└└Blue Dot: There was one fucking huge egg beyond the map boundary that could only be a Dragon egg. This is one hundred percent Dragon egg territory. I’m a wizard, so my magical instincts are fucking accurate. It is definitely a Dragon egg. Looks like I’ll have a Dragon pet before long hehe. Feeling good, I’m a pet owner now! Ah, naturally, an Extreme Lunatic Hell wizard like me should have at least one Dragon pet! I can’t be satisfied with someone like Sans!

└└What the fuck is Sans now? Stop throwing around proper nouns only you know.

└You’ve been going on about Iing Iing since last time, but what the hell is Iing Iing?

└└Blue Dot: Iing Iing is a fairy my porter carries around. She’s fucking cute, flies around in the air, and moves stuff with psychokinesis and all that. She’s a really kind, cute, and admirable fairy.

└└I see. Take your meds properly, and if you keep seeing weird things, make sure you visit a psychiatrist.

└└Blue Dot: I’m perfectly fine, so why would I go to a psychiatrist?

└└Saving Korea is great, but save your own mental health too, Crazy Dot...

...

As I diligently typed replies, I suddenly felt proud.

“The Hunter Gallery crowd enjoying peace today is so bright and cheerful. Saving the Republic of Korea was worth it! Look how brightly and energetically they’re enjoying their online community!”

“You’re finding fulfillment in some seriously stupid shit. Hey. Doesn’t it annoy you that they casually talk down to you and leave sarcastic comments like that? Your behavior is kind of idiotic, sure, but you’ve actually done a lot. It pisses me off that they seem to take you so lightly.”

“What? They’re just cute, like ants doing tricks.”

“Ants doing tricks? What kind of comparison is that...?”

Seeing the Hunter Gallery crowd enjoy their online community brightly and cheerfully, without worrying about the country collapsing, made me feel good.

The gloomy atmosphere of impending ruin had completely disappeared!

Ordinary people should live bright, energetic lives! Exactly!

As I grinned while reading the comments...

└Wait. The post was so chaotic that I almost skipped over it, but didn’t he say he earned 13.71 million Points today?

└└Yeah, 13,716,000.

└└In one day?

└└Read the damn post lol

└So exactly how many Points has Blue Dot earned this month?

└└No idea? He’s earned so much lately that I can’t even estimate it.

└└Wait. I’ll calculate it.

I saw Hunter Gallery users discussing the Points I had earned.

The Points I had earned this month.

I had never calculated them exactly either.

I only knew I had accumulated just under sixty million Points.

How much could it be?

A little later...

└Calculated it. He reached Floor 30 on the first of this month, so I added everything from then through Floor 48 today.

└└How much?

└└58,099,700 Points.

└└???

└└Fifty-eight million, ninety-nine thousand, seven hundred Points?

└└Yeah. I added every Point payout written in his posts since his Floor 30 clear on the first of this month.

└└Holy shit, fifty-eight million Points?

└Wait, Korea needs 51.1 million Points to last a month.

└└Yeah.

└└Then he earned Korea’s entire monthly amount by himself this month?

└└He did?

└└Fuck lolololololololol

A Hunter Gallery user had rummaged through my posts and gone so far as to calculate my Point earnings.

Even I was secretly surprised.

“Oh. Looking at it this way, I really have earned a lot over the past month...!”

When I was crawling around the Middle Floors last month, I could only earn a few hundred thousand Points at most...

Now I was casually pulling in over ten million Points.

It really hit me again just how incredible my growth rate had been.

My income had increased several times over in just two weeks?

I kept reading the comments.

└He said he’d save King Korea, and he actually did it, holy shit lolololol

└That doesn’t even include the combined income of the other Hunters, right?

└└Yeah, that can all be stockpiled as-is.

└Holy shit. We used to shake with fear that we might not have enough Points next month.

└I remember waiting for the balance announcement on the first of every month...

└└Now the Point balance duplicates itself whenever Blue Dot’s strategy posts appear lol

└The Republic of Korea is open for business as usual!!! Flutter~

└King Dot has saved the Republic of Korea!

└Ah, surviving in the Tower era is so easy lol You just have to own a Blue Dot, is that really so hard? I seriously don’t get it lol

└Damn it, Big Dot again. Now I have no choice but to worship him.

└We suddenly became a great power... America is courting us, Japan is watching its step, and China is trembling...

└Thank you so fucking much for saving our country.

Half joking, half serious.

There were comments lavishly praising me.

And beyond that...

└Thank you so much, Blue Dot. Thanks to you, I no longer have to worry that we’ll disappear overnight.

└Hyung, thank you. Thanks to the power plant you built, our factory did not go under. It was the last legacy my father left me, and I wanted to protect it properly. Thanks to you, I was able to hold out without going bankrupt. Thank you so much. Kiss kiss.

└I run a hospital outside Seoul. The blackouts kept happening, and it had become difficult even to get fuel for our emergency generator. I had no idea how we would protect the babies in the incubators. But thanks to the power plant you built, we were able to endure until the end. One of the children from the neonatal ward was recently discharged in their mother’s arms. That is a child you saved. Thank you so much.

└Hello, Blue Dot. I’m a father of many children...

There were even people thanking me with complete sincerity!

Feeling proud, I brushed beneath my nose.

“Heh heh... The ordinary people praise me. What is this? Dad usually doesn’t cry easily, but I’m tearing up.”

“...Well, it is something to be proud of. You really did save our country. You actually made the thing you always said come true.”

“That was me.”

Just a month ago, the Republic of Korea had been suffering under the threat of destruction.

All fifty million citizens had been struggling before the overwhelming crisis of Point depletion.

But now, that was over.

Because I, Baek Jiho, the Extreme Lunatic Hell Patriotic Admiral Yi Hunter, had completely kimchi’d the Tower’s Points and saved King Korea!

But I would not stop here.

“I have saved King Korea. Now I must save the sekai too...!”

“Jesus fucking Christ, here he goes again.”

I would not be satisfied with saving the Republic of Korea.

One day, I would save every person in the entire world!

Because that was what it meant to be...

Extreme. Lunatic. Hell.

I nodded.

“All right. Let’s have a party to celebrate saving the Republic of Korea! Sis! Help!”

“Jiho, you’re going to ask Jiye to cook again instead of eating out, right? Just order something... Jiye has a hard time every time she cooks.”

“My sister’s cooking is the best in the world, so why would I spend precious money buying food? Seriously, I don’t get it.”

“I feel sorry for Jiye...”

Anyway.

That was how the Republic of Korea finally achieved a complete Point surplus.

Tomorrow would be Floor 49.

* * *

At that time.

Inside a National Intelligence Service facility.

Kerrk... kerrrrk...!

A hoarse cry echoed through the room.

Beyond a thick observation window, a small monster with its hands and feet restrained twisted its entire body.

Green skin.

Long ears and skinny limbs.

Even yellow teeth exposed between its lips.

It was none other than a Goblin.

“Have you finished confirming it?”

A man stood beyond the observation window, watching the Goblin.

Han Jiwon, First Deputy Director of the National Intelligence Service, asked quietly.

The agent assisting him nodded.

“Yes. The examination is complete. There was no artifact interference. It is not an illusion, brainwashing, puppet control, or anything of the sort. That is definitely a Goblin.”

Kieeeek!!!

“I mean... a living Goblin.”

Kiaaaah!!!

“Hmm.”

Han Jiwon adjusted his glasses.

His blunt gaze turned toward the Goblin.

A green monster bound in restraints, thrashing as if possessed.

To ordinary people, Goblins were known only as low-level fodder monsters from the Lower Floors.

But their murderous urges and sadism were real.

The creature glared at Han Jiwon beyond the observation window, filled with blind murderous intent.

The drool streaming from its mouth and the bloodshot eyes were chilling.

Tsk.