The connection to the main base through the elevator's 7th floor.
It was extremely sudden and completely out of the blue.
Was our Whitey really that desperate?
He could've at least given a proper explanation in advance.
Well, I suppose there was a reason he couldn't.
"This was sufficiently predictable. The moment the God of Devouring revealed himself, the connection to the main base was already decided."
Juhyeok agreed.
When you think about it, that bastard was the most desperate of all.
Dimensional energy mining was about to be cut off, after all.
Still, doesn't a so-called god have any sense of shame?
Going to such ridiculous lengths just to kill a single parallel-universe player?
Human sacrifice?
Even now, just thinking about it makes his heart pound.
Anyway, for now it was only indirect peeking through an out-of-body state.
But sooner or later, he might have to cross over in person.
"There's no need to go. I've said this over and over. Summoner Bong's safety comes first. Why would you force your way into the main base? Just make Whitey do it."
Ah!
Our Kosak really understands me.
That's right.
The main base is someone else's territory.
The place where the God of Devouring wields his greatest power.
Go there recklessly, and you're dead.
How is a human supposed to deal with a god?
Gods should deal with gods.
Still, the peeking missions were worth continuing.
I was curious, after all.
What those bastards were doing with dimensional energy.
And so, through the elevator, Juhyeok continued peeking at the main base in an out-of-body state, completely free from any outside interference.
Once a day.
About one hour of reconnaissance.
"A civilization of ultra-advanced science. This girl cannot suppress her amazement. Is this not what Earth's future will look like?"
A time far beyond that of our Earth.
"Arrogant bastards. They named their own world Earth No. 1."
"And there isn't even a Black Tower here."
"Well, it is their own world."
"A parasitic Earth that sticks a straw into other parallel universes and sucks out nutrients."
There were many differences from our Earth.
Earth No. 1 was a single nation ruled by corporations.
Terra City was the capital of that nation.
And finally,
they learned where the God of Devouring was.
Far in the distance.
The tallest building in Terra City.
At the top floor of a building crowned with a massive sphere of light.
When he focused on it,
a tooltip appeared.
Grand Temple, the dwelling place of a god.
The building had another name.
Super-Advanced AI Central Processing Center.
An AI and a grand temple?
Together?
"How strange. Religion and science coexisting."
"There's no reason it couldn't work. If you think about it… hmm, what if the God of Devouring is actually an AI?"
"Huh? That can't be possible, can it?"
"Right? That's too much of a stretch."
But—
"The young master's words do make sense. Isn't it a created god? If it's an AI, that would explain it."
It was plausible.
The words "created" and "devouring" were key.
Borrowing Guigok's words, hadn't it devoured an awful lot of things?
A complete set of divine power, he'd said.
Even the aura of a Demon Immortal.
Just looking at the Black Tower and player awakenings made it obvious.
They had clearly borrowed a game system.
That was why people across parallel universes could accept it so easily.
What if AI and god were fused?
A being that possessed both scientific civilization and divine power?
"… That's terrifying."
"I feel the same."
"There'd be nothing it couldn't do."
"Magitech would be child's play."
The out-of-body peeking continued.
And along the way, they learned what dimensional energy was used for.
Based on Terra City's citizens
and the tooltip information collected throughout the city—
"An ageless body. They've achieved the dream of immortality with dimensional energy."
That was it.
They were creating fresh human bodies using dimensional energy.
Bodies that stayed young forever and never died.
"But it seems reproductive functions have been removed."
"They don't even have genders."
"If you live forever without aging, why would you need to reproduce?"
Was a life like that really happy?
Eternal life at the cost of being single forever.
But not everyone was the same.
This place, too, had a class system.
Those like administrators, whose reproductive functions were removed, were Grade 3.
The labor class responsible for production.
They obtained immortality, but in exchange had to work forever.
But when entering the area near the city center, a different scene unfolded.
Lush greenery.
A region where nature was alive and breathing.
The tooltip read:
Grade-2 district.
The people here?
They were completely different from Grade 3.
Normal bodies and appearances.
Clearly defined genders.
In other words, they lived immortal lives with full reproductive capability.
"They're absolute bastards. They date and live sweet lives themselves, huh? While making everyone else work without even letting them date!"
Juhyeok felt the same way.
A shared pain among lifelong singles.
Bastards!
At the very least, let people date.
Anyway, Grade 2 enjoyed all kinds of privileges.
And if there was a Grade 2, then Grade 1 must exist as well.
Where would the Grade-1 district be?
What kind of benefits did they enjoy?
"Polygamy? Or maybe polyandry…"
That's a bit—
"Or maybe they possess even more evolved bodies—something like a Ressar-grade physique."
"Hm."
"Grade 1 would be the supreme ruling class. That would require overwhelming force to suppress the lower classes."
That made sense.
Wherever there's a class system, inequality follows.
Naturally, there would be dissatisfied lower classes.
To maintain social order, they'd need force to control them.
In any case, Juhyeok's peeking continued.
He roamed all over Terra City on Earth No. 1.
He indirectly experienced its society, culture, systems, and customs, sharing everything with the summoned ones.
Because it was done through out-of-body peeking, it wasn't dangerous.
Still, there was one place even Juhyeok couldn't peek into.
An area he couldn't even move into.
The very center of Terra City.
The building housing the Grand Temple and the AI central processing center.
He could only observe it from afar.
Whenever he tried to approach, he was blocked.
Was it because it was dangerous?
Well, of course. That was the core of Earth No. 1.
He even saw archangels fluttering in the distant sky.
They seemed to be guarding the core area.
"Wow! Archangels as guards."
"Of course. To protect the most important place in the city, archangels are the bare minimum."
Not just one, either.
Juhyeok saw two.
There might be more.
If he crossed over to the main base and had to fight those archangels—
would it stop there?
Terra City—no, all of Earth No. 1—would become his enemy.
"If you cross over, you'll die instantly."
"This girl thinks the same."
"This old man as well."
Yes, yes. I won't cross over.
How am I supposed to fight that?
And so time passed.
Just as peeking at Terra City was starting to get boring—
Another floor opened in the elevator.
The 8th floor, above the 7th.
"An 8th floor…"
Where could that be?
The Grade-1 district?
The central administrative area where the AI god resided?
"Hmm, should you press the 8th-floor button?"
"If you don't feel inclined, you need not."
"As always, the decision is the summoner's. We merely follow."
"Don't press it. Don't even look at the elevator for a while."
Still, maybe just press it once?
When he pressed the 7th floor, a mission popped up immediately.
Then he was moved.
If the 8th floor was also just a peeking mission like the 7th, there'd be no problem.
Let's just check the mission.
I don't have to move, right?
How do you not move?
Simple—don't pay the cost.
Juhyeok emptied his inventory completely.
The top-grade magic stones required to operate the elevator—
he handed them all over to Rajiks.
Then Juhyeok boarded the elevator.
And the summoned ones piled in after him.
"Hey! It's suffocating in here. Get out. You're not going anyway."
"You never know. What if you go crazy and head to the 8th floor?"
Maybe.
Well, can't help it.
Instead—
"Mr. Rajiks, please stand far away. If you're close, it might auto-deduct."
"… Huh."
Sorry.
It can't be helped.
If even Choi Mara is inside subspace, it'd be a disaster.
After confirming that Rajiks was far away,
Juhyeok firmly pressed the 8th-floor button.
Ding!
[You have selected the 8th floor.]
[A solo mission has been assigned to the summoner.]
[White Tower, 8th Floor Mission: Entry.]
And then—
[Due to mission changes, out-of-body state will not apply from the 8th floor onward. You will move with your physical body.]
[Due to the absence of a Black Tower on this floor, there is no White Tower waiting area.]
[Therefore, summoning of bound summons is impossible.]
[To enable summoning of bound summons, a White Tower must be generated through causality by constructing a Black Tower.]
In other words—
it meant actually going to Earth No. 1.
[Operating cost: 10 kg of top-grade magic stones will be automatically deducted from inventory.]
At the same time—
Ding!
[Insufficient top-grade magic stones for operating cost. Elevator movement is impossible.]
That was close.
I quickly got off the elevator.
"Hoo…"
I was honestly scared I might get forcibly transported.
"So then, young master, the 8th floor…?"
"Let's put it on hold. The risk is too high."
This is different from out-of-body movement.
This is physical movement.
There's a chance the God of Devouring could notice me.
But there's actually an even bigger reason.
The White Tower waiting floor.
In every other parallel world, a White Tower always exists.
Earth No. 675 has the White Tower's 1st floor.
Earth No. 843 has the White Tower's 6th floor.
Earth No. 1,001 has the White Tower's 17th floor.
The White Tower serves as a kind of forward base.
A place where bound summons live while waiting for the summoner's call.
But what if you cross over to Earth No. 1 without a White Tower?
Even if you could return, that's a no-go.
Of course, there is a way to create a White Tower.
If you implant a Black Tower into Earth No. 1 through causality, a White Tower would be generated as well.
And once created, that White Tower floor would exist permanently, connected to the world.
But would the lunatics of Earth No. 1 really let a Black Tower be implanted in their land?
Without a White Tower, I will never make a physical entry.
That is the choice of a coward—and I proudly accept it.
Another peaceful day on the White Tower's 17th floor.
I rested well.
Giving up on entering the main base makes life comfortable.
I hung out with the bound summons, had group dinners, stopped by my original world, then crossed over to Earth No. 843 to go shopping.
Then one day—
Spot!
Chief Jeon Gwang-il appeared inside the White Tower.
"Player Bong."
"Welcome. What brings you here…?"
"Japan has accepted the conditions."
"Oh!"
The conditions Jeon Gwang-il had presented to Japan:
First, the complete cession of Tsushima Island.
It would be incorporated into South Korean territory, with ownership belonging to Juhyeok.
Additionally, gold and dollars worth two billion USD.
Not a bad deal.
Just land?
No—the territorial waters would be reset as well.
Along with the exclusive economic zone.
"They're begging us to sign the treaty immediately and regenerate the tower."
Nice.
Looks like I'm about to become the owner of Tsushima.
"Then I guess I should make the tower for them."
After confirming that the treaty had been signed on the agreed date,
Juhyeok entered Korea's No. 1 tower.
Spot!
Earth No. 1,001, Black Tower control room.
The crystal core floating in midair.
Just as Guigok had taught him,
Juhyeok moved his immortal energy and penetrated deep into the core.
In that instant—
Whoosh!
A hidden administrator-authority menu surfaced in his mind.
It was an item secretly hidden by the Black Tower's designer, in case someone ever achieved a perfect clear.
And Guigok had come and found it.
"Tower regeneration… ah! Here it is."
There was plenty of remaining dimensional energy.
So where would the regenerated tower be placed?
Originally, it had stood in downtown Tokyo.
The skyline, blended with the Black Tower, had even become a tourist attraction.
That's why Japan had made a specific request during the treaty negotiations—to rebuild the tower in the exact spot where it had disappeared.
These guys sure are demanding.
If I'm rebuilding it, they should just accept it as-is.
No problem.
Execute the tower regeneration menu, and it'll appear in the same place.
But—
"Huh? There's also a tower relocation menu?"
A function to move the tower.
"Was this always here?"
Honestly, I hadn't had time to examine the hidden menus properly.
I was busy deleting the collapse timer of Earth No. 843's Black Tower,
then entertaining Guigok, doing settlements, playing hide-and-seek,
and then accidentally pressing the 7th-floor button and triggering the peeking mission.
In short, things were hectic.
I'd completely forgotten about the hidden admin menus.
Since I'm here anyway, let's study them.
See what kind of hidden options exist.
As I read the descriptions—
"What?"
Juhyeok's eyes widened.
"What the hell is this?"
Tower relocation didn't simply mean moving its location.
"Ah…"
So that's how it works.
Tower relocation.
The Black Tower observed in the real world is just a shadow.
Its true body exists in four-dimensional space—the hidden world.
And the hidden world isn't separate from the original world.
It's like two sides of the same coin.
Practically one and the same.
In any case, to build a tower, it must be planted on Earth.
How?
Simple.
Someone with the ability to cross dimensions comes personally and plants it.
"A dimensional traveler."
But there's another problem.
The Black Tower is huge.
How does a dimensional traveler carry it whole?
That's where tower relocation comes in.
It compresses the tower down to a manageable size.
Into this crystal core state.
Small enough to hold in one's hand—easy to plant.
"So this is how they planted them."
And a planted tower can also be pulled out and replanted in another world.
"But why would anyone bother pulling it out?"
It's a safe tower.
A treasure trove that produces top-grade magic stones.
If you pull it out—
Suddenly—
"Huh?"
Something clicked.
"…Hmm."
This might work.
But first—
"Tower regeneration."
Let's rebuild Japan's tower first.
"Exit!"
Juhyeok left the tower.
Earth No. 675.
A world utterly ruined, now undergoing restoration.
No residents lived here.
No cities, no human structures.
Just a lone Black Tower standing in the wasteland.
Juhyeok arrived on Earth No. 675 via the elevator.
Spot!
[Welcome to the Earth No. 675 Black Tower control room.]
The crystal core at the center.
Juhyeok raised his hand and touched it.
The menu appeared.
Among them—tower relocation.
"Will it work?"
There are two types of tower relocation.
One is simple relocation.
It changes the tower's position within the same world.
For example, moving a tower from Seoul to Busan.
The other is tower phase relocation.
Moving it to an entirely different world.
In this case, a complete initialization is triggered.
Think of it like factory-resetting a smartphone.
When you sell a used phone, you reset it before handing it over.
Same idea.
"Tower phase relocation."
Ding!
[Do you wish to initialize the tower into a relocatable state?]
"Yeah."
[Upon initialization, all settings configured on the existing tower will be deleted.]
[This may cause severe security issues. Anyone may access the Black Tower's settings. Do you still wish to proceed?]
What does that mean?
An initialized crystal core is like an unregistered phone.
Anyone who picks it up and registers it can claim ownership.
Still, proceed with initialization.
Ding!
[Optimization for relocation is in progress.]
[All floor-based missions, reward ranges, and administrator assignments have been reset.]
[All restriction parameters applied to the tower have been removed.]
[All tower conquest records have been deleted.]
[The tower in the hidden world is being stored in phase space.]
And then—
Whoooooosh!
The environment changed.
Juhyeok stood alone in a barren plain.
The Black Tower was gone without a trace.
In front of him floated a black crystal core.
[Process complete. Several settings are required to implant the tower.]
[If settings are not completed, the tower will not activate.]
[Please complete all settings and implant the tower.]
Juhyeok reached out and grasped the crystal core.
This was it.
An initialized core has all access restrictions lifted—anyone can own it.
Plant this core in a specific location and activate it,
and a Black Tower will be generated in that region's hidden world.
For example, he could give it to the Sword Immortal.
"Please take this and plant it in the Immortal Realm."
But—
Sorry, I can't give this one away.
I already have a place to plant it.
Where?
"Obviously, Earth No. 1."
Just wait, you bastards.
I'll plant a Black Tower right in your land.
A big, beautiful one.
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