Chapter 7
“Huh!?”
Park Il-chim was stunned. 1,000 DP is worth a whopping 14 million won. But to place a mission for 10,000 DP?
That’s 140 million won in Korean currency!
“Is he an agent for some major corporation? No. It makes no sense unless he’s an agent, one hundred percent.”
That was it.
Betting 140 million won just to verify something? That’s not an action an ordinary person would dare to take.
Park Il-chim.
And the man who called himself the Necrotic Martial Sovereign in front of the viewers opened his mouth on the screen.
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Wow.
I don’t know where this person came from, but they’ve got guts. They threw 1,000 DP at once, and then even set a mission.
But was it really necessary to go that far?
Can’t you tell just by looking?
It’s an Internal Energy technique, isn’t it?
I know that among the Awakened, there are some bizarre occupations like "Jianghu Wanderer," "Low-level Martial Artist of the Namgung Clan," or "Shaolin Novice Monk."
Honestly, the Jianghu Wanderer is one thing, but what on earth is a Shaolin Novice Monk? Are they supposed to live their whole lives as a little brat?
Regardless of that. Awakened skills that are called martial arts are quite widely known.
There are quite a few Awakened who use Internal Energy techniques, too.
So, shouldn’t you be able to tell just by looking?
Well… I don’t know which agency you’re from.
But I’ll say thank you for the free money.
“You’re a big spender! If you’re that curious about my secret, it’s only natural that I answer!”
-Old man.
-Is he a boomer?
-Are you really making a Pocket Monster reference here?
The viewers are picking on my little joke. How insolent… but I still have to do what I have to do.
“The method is simple. My undead used an Internal Energy technique to blow its head off. You all know what an Internal Energy technique is, right? Among martial arts skills, there are those that specialize in destroying the inside. Do you understand?”
[You have succeeded in the mission from Big-Hand Old Man.]
[You have acquired 10,000 DP.]
The system message pops up.
In the Dimensional Tower broadcasting system, it’s impossible to run away with a mission reward. The system itself judges whether a mission is a success or failure.
My answer was deemed the correct one, so it was processed as a mission success.
Anyway.
Today is a total jackpot, isn’t it?
-Wait, since when did undead use Internal Energy techniques?
-Sir, how did you teach martial arts to an undead?
-LOL Internal Energy technique LOL is this for real LOL
-I am surprised. How do you do this?
[GanjangGongjang donated 1 DP!]
[TimeFishingAngler donated 1 DP!]
[ElectricShockConstruction donated 1 DP!]
[ㅇㅇㅁㅁ donated 1 DP!]
Donations are pouring in, too. The donations alone are already over 120 DP.
Considering the DP I earned from the betting results earlier was over 20,000, the DP I made today was astronomical.
Is this the life of a popular hunter?
I can’t help but express my gratitude.
“Thanks for all the donations, everyone! Now, let’s all look at the rewards together. Aren’t you curious about what rewards I got?”
-Ohhhhhhhhh finally the rewards.
-What comes out for a first-clear reward?
-So cool. An old man from our country taking a world-first title….
-Mom! I’m happy to be Korean! Mom! I’m happy to be Korean!
While the viewers were still in a state of frenzy.
A new message window appeared.
[You have cleared all the trials of the tutorial for the first time.]
[First-clear rewards are being generated.]
[Accumulated additional rewards are being generated.]
[Confirming that the Awakened’s occupation is ‘Necromancer’.]
First-clear rewards. It seems the rewards are being generated by combining everything, including the stages I cleared.
I wonder.
What will come out?
While I was thinking that I hoped it would allow me to practice martial arts like in my past life.
The rewards appeared.
[A marvelous and astonishing achievement!]
[You have acquired a Genesis-grade reward.]
Are you crazy?
Why is a Genesis-grade reward popping up here?
Even as someone who was a Martial God in my past life, I was so surprised that I was momentarily speechless.
There are a total of 6 tiers of rewards in the Dimensional Tower.
Common -> Special -> Rare -> Legendary -> Mythic -> Genesis.
Genesis-grade has only appeared once in the entire world so far, and even Mythic-grade is a tier that hasn’t appeared many times.
[Awakened Lee Mu-seon’s occupation is changed from ‘Necromancer’ to ‘Necron Emperor’.]
A Genesis-grade reward.
It was a change of occupation.
It’s not surprising since there have been many cases where your occupation gets better if you do well on the placement test, but… the problem is that this is a Genesis-grade reward.
It doesn’t seem like just a higher-tier occupation, but a terminal-grade occupation in the Necromancer line, right?
I do feel good. I do, but….
Just change it to Jianghu Wanderer instead!
While I was thinking that.
Another reward came out.
What is this.
Wasn’t it supposed to end with getting the terminal Necro occupation?
[You have acquired a Mythic-grade reward.]
My jaw dropped at this, too.
Giving a Mythic-grade reward for the second time? Is this… is this right? No. Isn’t it giving away too much?
[You can command 1 undead outside the Dimensional Tower.]
Are you kidding me!? You’re letting me… use an undead in reality?
Haa… this is… excessive.
It was definitely excessive.
This feels even more excessive than becoming the Necron Emperor. In reality, the power of the Dimensional Tower is used in a extremely limited way.
If it weren’t, the world would already be in chaos. The world would have ended up completely different from what it is now.
But you’re letting me command 1 undead?
There’s not even a restriction on ‘what kind’ of undead it is.
To put it bluntly, if I grow later and summon something like a Death Knight or a Necrotic Heavenly Zombie and carry it around?
I could overthrow a small dictatorship all by myself and just sit there.
I was so surprised by this that I ended up making a blank face I never even made in my past life.
I had never been this surprised in my past life, either….
Then, a thought suddenly occurred to me.
The current population of Earth is in the billions. If you compare the Jianghu Murim of my past life to the Earth’s history of this life, the population numbers don’t even compare.
I lived my life dozing off a bit during history class, but I remember hearing that the population around the 14th century was less than 500 million.
A population difference of almost ten times.
In this era where so many people are swarming, no one had cleared the 10th trial of the tutorial….
So perhaps it’s only natural that the reward is this sweet.
While I was thinking that.
I was surprised once more.
[You have acquired a Legendary-grade reward.]
Is it a Legendary-grade reward this time?
The stage before Genesis is Mythic. The stage before that is Legendary.
Without even going as far as Genesis or Mythic, it’s rare to even see a Legendary-grade reward. Once a Legendary-grade appears, it causes a stir on a national level.
It’s to the point where various news outlets play patriotic videos saying, ‘We, Korea, have done it! A Legendary reward has appeared!’
But right now, I’m getting Genesis-grade, Mythic-grade, and even Legendary-grade.
This means… it’s impossible for me to live quietly, right?
I might as well just say I was a Martial God in my past life, right?
I’m a guy who ate Genesis, Mythic, and Legendary rewards in the tutorial, so what does it matter if I was a Martial God or whatever in my past life?
[Small Undead Sub-dimension is upgraded to Undead Sub-dimension.]
[Undead Sub-dimension is upgraded to Second-grade Undead Sub-dimension.]
[Second-grade Undead Sub-dimension is upgraded to Myeon-grade Undead Sub-dimension.]
You said it was a Legendary-grade reward….
This is interesting, too.
The Small Undead Sub-dimension is literally an undead storage space. I heard that if you grow later, you can build undead-related buildings or research facilities here.
But its size has increased several times over.
In the countryside, they use units like Eup, Myeon, and Ri, and it seems this Undead Sub-dimension is being labeled like that now.
So what is this.
Am I… the owner of a Myeon? I’m not a village head, but am I something like a Myeon head?
The occupation title says Necron Emperor, but in reality, I’m a Myeon head.
When I checked up to the third reward.
The final message appeared.
[The tutorial is ending.]
[One random skill is given as a tutorial completion reward.]
[You have acquired the skill ‘Majesty of the Corpse Monarch’ of the occupation ‘Necron Emperor’.]
[Skill: Majesty of the Corpse Monarch]
Transforms dead corpses within a 10-meter radius into the lowest-grade undead ‘Walking Corpse’.
There is no limit to the number of ‘Walking Corpses’ you can control.
Ack. This is also something… quite a crazy skill that popped out?
-What did I just see?
-Isn’t this a jackpot?
-Is it true that you can use 1 undead in reality earlier?
-OMG LOL
[May luck be with you.]
The astonishment of the viewers. And even the closing remark of the Dimensional Tower system.
The tutorial ended just like that.
And my body returned to my room in reality with a flash of light.
This is something. It ended without even having time to say goodbye to the people.
“Whew. This is something. It was fun for the first time in a while.”
I’m very satisfied.
The moment I looked ahead while thinking that, a curse word popped out.
“F*ck.”
The chicken has all gone cold!
Damn Dimensional Tower.
You should have called me after I finished the chicken.
“Still… it felt good to run wild for the first time in a while.”
I picked up the cold chicken and moved to the microwave.
I should heat it up.
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Park Kang-chan.
He was attending a party for networking at his boss’s command.
It’s a place where figures from political and business circles come, and naturally, many hunters like Park Kang-chan are there, too.
Famous celebrities come to put on shows, and while pretending to laugh and chat with others, they also talk about industry matters.
Actually, Park Kang-chan didn’t want to come to a place like this, but what can you do? He’s the only one among his colleagues who is even remotely sociable.
‘If I knew it would be like this, I should have acted like a lunatic, too.’
Park Kang-chan sighed.
The life of an Awakened is not easy.
It’s not that you really die if you die inside the Dimensional Tower, but it’s not just that you don’t die; the Dimensional Tower is a place where you experience all sorts of terrible things.
Thanks to that, there were plenty of people who didn’t climb the tower even after awakening.
As a result, most of those who desperately clawed their way up the Dimensional Tower were people who had some sort of twist or deficiency in their character as normal members of society.
‘Sigh. I suppose all of this is also a blessing from Master.’
In truth, Park Kang-chan was one of those people.
A few years ago.
If he hadn’t met Lee Mu-seon, whom he now served as his master, and been taught a proper lesson, he might still be living a life of complete disarray.
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