Chapter 2 – 002

-“Even if you clear only Easy difficulty, your level will be around 10. This makes the human body truly healthy. Would you say it almost feels like living a new life? Some say you become a semi-superhuman. Ah… This is really good… You have to experience it to know…”-

-“A video on the Internet showing an experiment by shooting a survivor who cleared the normal difficulty level is becoming a hot topic. It is said that the American survivor who participated in this experiment cleared the course and gained the trait of having a very strengthened outer shell. “It blocks not only regular pistol bullets but also 5.56mm and 7.62mm rifle bullets from a distance of 10m, and even when hit, there was no significant damage.”-

-“According to the claims of normal difficulty survivors, normal difficulty survivors usually reach level 30, and when they reach level 30, they enter the ranks of superhumans who are almost impervious to bullets. There are some differences in level from case to case, but it is said that once you are level 30, you can easily block pistol bullets.”-

-“The President issued an emergency order to teach all elementary, middle, high schools, kindergartens, and daycare centers to set the difficulty level of the Top Trial to Easy or Easy. This is the second time this has happened in the history of the 6th Republic, and if it is considered a general emergency order rather than an emergency financial order, it is the first since the Constitutional Amendment of the 6th Republic. The opposition party criticized this as a general measure that can be easily implemented without an emergency order, but that the president is abusing the emergency order due to a national crisis and trying to establish a dictatorship by strengthening his private power.”-

-“There are also rumors going around that there is one more level of difficulty in the tower. There is a random difficulty level… , What… , These are the rumors. The authenticity has not yet been confirmed. However, if there were truly random difficulties, there would be a total of 6 difficulties instead of 5. Regarding this, administrative ministries including the President’s Office, the Ministry of National Defense, and the Ministry of Education have stated that there has been no official confirmation, and that, in accordance with the existing government position, all citizens must select the Easy difficulty level to ensure the minimum possibility of survival.”-

-“This is news that just came in. After listening to the clearing methods and know-hows of Easy survivor difficulty at the United Nations, we decided to create an Easy difficulty strategy and distribute it around the world. The purpose is to maximize the survival rate of humanity.”-

-“There is this saying among the words of the survivors who lived in the tower. The tower does not take the survivors all at once, but takes them one by one. Well, it’s like this. But time doesn’t pass in the world inside the tower, right? So, in our eyes, it feels as if the tower is kidnapping people almost all at once.”-

-“It has been reported that the Ministry of National Defense is considering a plan to grant a special rank within the military to those who have cleared the Top Trial on Normal difficulty or higher. This is the following the example of the United States, which currently plans to operate a special unit made up of top clear survivors and has submitted an application for prior approval to the U.S. Congress. An anonymous Ministry of Defense official said that all neighboring countries, including North Korea, China, and Japan, are on the verge of creating a superhuman special force comprised of top survivors, and that Korea must also create a superhuman special force in preparation for the rapidly changing security situation around the world. “I said I would.”-

-“It was officially announced that the world’s first Top Trial Very Hard difficulty survivor appeared in the United States. The survivor, Christopher Garcia, was born in Mexico and had officially become a naturalized citizen of the United States a few days ago, U.S. The authorities said. U.S. Authorities officially announced that they were able to confirm that Christopher Garcia was a Very Hard difficulty survivor after checking with other top clear survivors in the United States. Christopher Garcia revealed that his final level was 72 before he cleared the final trial on the 70th floor. It is known that ordinary bullets do not work at level 30, and even anti-tank weapons do not work at all at level 50. Attention is being paid to what level 70 is.”-

-“The Mexican government criticized the U.S. Government for the naturalization of Christopher Garcia, saying it was a blatant attempt to steal talent from the U.S. And that this was not just a Mexican problem. In fact, the United States is currently encouraging naturalization around the world by granting American citizenship, various benefits, and immigration incentives to survivors of the Tower Trials on Normal difficulty or higher. It has been reported that many survivors of the Tower Trials on Normal difficulty or higher from Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Central and South America have become naturalized citizens of the United States. “Governments around the world are expressing concern and regret about the United States’ talent recruitment policy.”-

The difficulty of the tower itself varies depending on the difficulty level selected, but the number of floors that must be cleared also seems to change.

That’s probably why those who survived should choose the easy difficulty level.

Easy difficulty is level 10.

Normal difficulty level is 30 floors.

Hard difficulty level is 50 floors.

Very Hard difficulty level is 70.

Hell difficulty is… , Maybe the 90th or 99th floor? Or the 100th floor?

Just make an estimate. Because no one woke up.

‘… When you enter the tower, each floor is another world… It’s like a fucking fantasy novel.’

Like the so-called tower climbing web novel famous in Korea, the world inside the tower is said to be a completely different world.

On each floor, you have to enter another dimension and clear the trials given by the tower…

-[ Don’t worry about conscience or ethics in the tower. Just think about completing the trial. ]

-(Author) The ordeal I experienced on the 9th floor on normal difficulty was assassinating a 7-year-old prince who had been enthroned by rebel leaders. After all, it is known that the world inside the tower is virtual… , I felt a little sympathy for him, but I ended up killing him. The little prince of Arantia. I’m sorry.

-Uh? Did you experience that on the 9th floor? I experienced this in the last mission on the 10th floor, perhaps because it was on Easy difficulty. You’re Prince Hoseno of Arantia, right?

-(Author) Yes. You’re right. Joseno Arantia. When I see someone who has overcome a similar ordeal, it really dawns on me that it is a virtual existence, so I feel less guilty.

-Ah, you don’t have to have any remorse at all. Just think of it as an NPC in a very realistic virtual reality game.

-Nowadays, you can do all kinds of things inside the tower, so I guess there are people who do all kinds of things. All sorts of unspeakable crimes.

-Well… I guess you can do anything inside the tower as long as you complete the trials. Honestly, aren’t there rare people who haven’t committed a crime? They are all virtual beings anyway. Once the ordeal is complete, you will never see the people on that floor again.

-If you’re considering whether it’s a crime in the first place, killing someone for breaking an ordeal in the tower is itself the biggest crime, murder.

-[ It seems like there really is a random difficulty level. I just found a suicide note on the body of someone who died in a tower trial, and I chose a random difficulty level. ]

-What exactly is random difficulty?

-(Author) It’s probably just my opinion… It seems to pop up if certain conditions are met.

-What conditions?

-(Author) I don’t know that. Mol?Ru?

-What are the contents of the will? Can you make it public? I’m going crazy wondering what the random difficulty level is.

-(Author) It was written that the will should be made public, so I was able to see it. I feel like I got hit harder than Hell difficulty.

-How do you know that? I haven’t even seen the Hell difficulty level. There are no survivors.

-(Author) Because that was also revealed through the will. Look it up on the internet. Hell difficulty level 1 to 3 trials have already been released.

-(Author) There was at least one person who managed to get up to the 3rd floor on the Hell difficulty level, right? But Random dies on the first floor.

-(Author) Random The first floor was a stone slab barely floating on a lump of lava. Gradually sinking into lava. He probably died right after writing his will.

-Crazy…

-(Author) In Hell, it feels like the difficulty increases exponentially, but in Random, the difficulty trial is lowered from the 1st floor to the 50th floor. Since it’s random, it seems like each floor’s individual difficulty level is also random? Are you going to give me 50 floors on the 1st floor, and 1 floor on the 50th floor?

-If it was on lava, wouldn’t the corpses all burn up? How is it that the will is still intact?

-You don’t even know that? The body and belongings are restored to the most intact condition and sent out.

-The tower is the part with a conscience.

-My conscience is a mess. They even captured them and left them to die. Crazy top bastard.

-That’s why I said it was ‘at least’ the part where I have a conscience.

-But how does the author know all this? What’s your occupation? Do you work for the government?

-(Author) No. I work at a funeral home. I’m out of work clothes these days… There’s too much work.