Nuclear explosions were prohibited inside the Black Tower.

Because it was a place under “management.”

Rules could even be changed there.

But this was not the Black Tower.

It was the Corrupted Heavenly Realm.

A separate world connected to the Black Tower.

How could the administrators prohibit nuclear explosions here?

Blowing things up cleanly did not violate any rules.

Anyway, the micro monsters could be dealt with using nukes.

It was not a direct mission objective, but if something happened, nukes would be a huge help.

On top of that, they had stealth functionality.

The difference between having it and not having it was enormous.

Maybe that was obvious.

The core technology of cutting-edge fighter aircraft was stealth.

You can’t recognize me, but I can see you.

Thanks to that, dropping nukes was easy.

The result was horrific, but it was not even combat.

There was no hostility involved either.

At Juhyeok’s instruction, Rajix—

SSSK!

opened his subspace.

Casually, just plop.

The humanoid micro monsters would not even know where or how the explosion had happened.

In a word, total wipeout.

Everything melted away.

However, not everything was going smoothly.

Especially the mission.

Find the Corrupted Divine Land.

How on earth were we supposed to complete that?

There was no way to know where to go.

No matter how much we flew, a Ding! message never popped up.

I was starting to get tired.

Should I ask Diamat to let me sleep for about an hour?

“That’s not a good idea. She might use a technique on you.”

“Is that so?”

A great-demon-class succubus.

If she seriously applied her technique, there was no way to avoid it.

The temptation of a Great Demon Succubus Queen.

I was curious.

Would she give me good dreams?

Maybe it’s okay to pretend I can’t resist just once...

At that instant—

CLAP! THUD!

“Gah! You startled me!” 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

The sound of palms colliding.

The shockwave that followed.

Who was it?

“A warrior.”

“Ah-ha.”

It was Meatshield.

But why was he clapping?

“What are you doing?”

“A warrior catches mosquitoes.”

Meatshield stood there blankly with his body enlarged, both palms pressed together.

No, where would mosquitoes even be here?

CLAP! THUD!

Once again, the huge palms met.

And then—

“Caught it.”

Huh?

Was there really a mosquito?

“It’s a micro monster.”

“Oh!”

It seemed one straggler from the swarm had caught Meatshield’s eye.

“Let me see.”

Swarming around him,

Juhyeok and the summoned entities approached Meatshield.

A micro monster was flattened in Meatshield’s palm like a mosquito.

“It’s really small.”

SSSK.

Rajix pulled a golden magnifying glass from his subspace backpack and handed it to Juhyeok.

“Thanks, Rajix.”

“WAAH.”

Looking closely through the magnifying glass—

“Hmm.”

Just as Mad Demon had said, it was definitely a humanoid monster.

Clear facial features, and a white body and wings.

This was almost like...

...

“An angel?”

But it was a bit creepy.

Far removed from the image of angels people commonly knew.

“It’s a fallen angel. A fallen micro angel.”

Another modifier was added.

Fallen micro angel.

Well, this was the Corrupted Heavenly Realm.

If angels existed here, they were bound to have fallen.

Still, it did not explain why they were so small.

Were they malnourished?

Or was it because this was a world that had lost its god?

Feels like a mutation.

Anyway, it was definitely related to the mission.

I would find out as I progressed.

SCREEEECH!

Even amid all this, the stealth green bomber flew at high speed.

The fallen micro angels still could not recognize the stealth green bomber.

They were simply swept away by intense nuclear explosions and vanished helplessly.

SSSK!

When Rajix opened his subspace and dropped a nuclear warhead—

SHUUUUU!

FLASH! PAPAPOP!

Before the shockwave could even reach them, infinite turbo blink flight carried them out of the blast radius.

KWA-KWA-KWA-KWA-KWA-KWA-KWA-BOOM!

A mushroom cloud rose far behind them.

Triple-layer barriers were standard.

There was not even a hair’s breadth of damage.

Anyway, when would the mission be completed?

Since it was a single world rather than a Tower, it was ridiculously vast.

It would have been nice if there were arrows or something like in a game.

While they were flying along like that—

right at that moment!

TS-TS-TS-TS-TS-TS!

“Y-young master, up ahead.”

“What?”

The sight that entered Juhyeok’s eyes.

A hazy white fog blocking Crackrus’s flight path.

“Damn!”

What he had feared had happened.

TS-TS-TS-TS-TS!

A swarm of fallen micro angels was rapidly flying toward the stealth green bomber.

What was this?

We were interfering with recognition.

“The stealth function of the green servant has been nullified.”

Why?

“It seems the recognition-disruption talismans were heavily stripped away by infinite turbo blink flight. Maintenance is required.”

Talisman loss.

In other words, the stealth coating had peeled off.

Well, yeah!

With all the constant blinking around using blink magic, no matter how firmly they were attached, they were bound to fall off.

“Mr. Crackrus, emergency turn! Dodge as you see fit!”

WHOOSH!

FLASH! SPAPAPOP!

But they were already surrounded.

To the right, to the left, and overhead.

Oh boy.

Juhyeok panicked.

At this rate, we would be completely immobilized.

At that instant—

Veronica Caliber, who had been dozing, shot upright.

At the same time, she grasped the situation.

“Manyear!”

“Krrrk?”

“Release cold.”

“Kyaaaa!”

TSHSHSHSHSHSH!

A chilling frost rose from Manyear’s body.

Veronica Caliber placed the muzzle of her magic gun near it and began attribute absorption.

SHWOOOOOP!

And then—

“Load small rounds. Activate scatter function. Selector to automatic. Commence suppressive fire.”

CRACKLE!

Small pellets of cold poured out from the magic gun.

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

The fallen micro angels struck by the cold pellets froze solid and fell.

“This is bad!”

“Yes?”

“The small rounds have no recoil!”

“...What are you talking about?”

Cinematographer Mackenzie did not stay idle either.

While keeping his smartphone recording—

“Firestorm!”

FWOOOOSH!

A massive storm of flames unfolded in midair.

Mad Demon’s crescent sword energy was fired as well.

TSIPIPIPIPIT!

The crescent-shaped sword energy spun fiercely, creating a vortex.

It cut through the fallen micro angel swarm and ground them into dust.

Diamat’s abilities also shone.

Originally, demonkind and the heavenly race were natural enemies.

The strong overwhelmed and devoured the weak.

Wide-area confusion.

Dream Domain activation.

THUDUDUDUDUK.

The fallen micro angels stopped flapping their wings and fell.

And Jepetto.

The true-blood Vampire Lord.

The authority of crimson mist he unleashed—

SWOOOOOOO!

Blood vapor covered the swarm.

The micro angels lost vitality through wide-area bloodsucking.

They dried up completely and scattered.

Juhyeok was moved.

Ahhh, how much had he agonized over making Jepetto actually pull his weight?

And now, such splendid growth.

“Mr. Jepetto!!! Amazing. I should give you a badge for the first time in a while.”

“T-thank you!”

Jepetto’s eyes reddened.

It was the same for him.

Honestly, he could count on one hand the number of times he had received praise from his summoner.

The blood mist grew even thicker and spread wider.

The assault of the fallen micro angel swarm.

Blocked by the summoned entities.

But at this rate, they would not last long.

That only worked while the recognition-disruption stealth was functioning properly.

With continuous turbo blink evasive maneuvers, Crackrus’s magic power was being drained in chunks.

What about the nuclear warheads?

Were there any left?

At that, Rajix shook his head.

They’re all expended.

The mission objective—the Corrupted Divine Land—still had not been found.

Then?

Let’s rest and come back in.

Juhyeok took out a Tower Mission Save Ticket from his inventory and held it with both hands.

Ticket item information.

Effect: Separates a specific spacetime and exits the mission. Upon re-entry, the mission resumes from the separated spacetime location.

Limitation: Mission data is preserved for a maximum of 48 hours. After 48 hours, the mission is considered failed, and entry to the mission area is prohibited for 6 months.

Almost every item had limitations.

The Tower Mission Save Ticket was no exception.

[Do you wish to suspend the mission and save at the current point?]

“Save.”

RIIIP!

As he tore the ticket—

WHAAAAAA!

The world began to be dyed in black and white.

Everything stopped.

The persistently pursuing fallen micro angels.

The exploding mushroom clouds.

And the raging firestorms, Mad Demon’s crescent sword energy, and Veronica Caliber’s small rounds.

[Spacetime has been separated. Save complete.]

[Upon next entry, you will begin from the saved point.]

[Maximum save duration: 48 hours.]

[Please resume the mission within 48 hours.]

SPOT!

Juhyeok and his group vanished.

The place where they appeared—

Earth No. 675, Black Tower, Floor 96 waiting room.

They had entered via elevator, but it seemed this was where they exited.

“Hoo.”

“Haa.”

“Mmm.”

“Snrrk.”

“WAAH.”

Everyone looked exhausted.

Recharge, then come back again.

Juhyeok and his party returned to White Tower Floor 1.

A 48-hour grace period.

They rested thoroughly.

Ate properly and got some sleep.

Getting a chance to escape a fierce battlefield like that and recharge.

What would they have done without a save ticket?

“Even so, saves aren’t almighty, sir.”

“I agree. With those ravenous micro yokai swarming everywhere, what difference does a mere 48-hour grace period make?”

Juhyeok agreed.

In a way, the save ticket was like a mission reset ticket used in the Tower.

It was closer to an escape tool.

You can’t avoid Tower collapse, so get out, think it through, and give up on the raid.

Its drawbacks were clear.

Only your body escaped while spacetime remained separated.

When things merged again, you froze up—

and got hit hard.

Use it in a safe place if possible.

Not for escape, but for rest and resupply.

So what needed replenishing?

Gyeon Dallae’s recognition-disruption talismans.

She was diligently drawing them even now.

Plenty in reserve so they could be reattached if damaged.

And Rajix was loading nuclear warheads.

White Tower Floor 1 was a nuclear warhead storage site.

The number of warheads handed over to Juhyeok by countries around the world exceeded two hundred.

“Mr. Rajix.”

“WAAH?”

“Load everything that’s left. The ones from the U.S. and Russia too.”

“WAAH!”

They would turn it into a sea of fire.

There were many types of nuclear warheads.

Until now, they had mainly used tactical nukes.

From now on, they would also use strategic nuclear weapons.

The kind powerful enough to annihilate an entire nation with a single detonation.

Time passed.

They had rested enough.

Back to the elevator.

RUMBLE.

Juhyeok and the summoned entities boarded the elevator.

Their condition had been restored.

Let’s finish this.

Juhyeok re-entered through the back door via the elevator.

SPOT!

The location was the very place where he had torn the save ticket.

But he could not move.

The world was still black and white.

[Loading save point.]

[Aligning separated spacetime to the original point.]

[Time remaining until spacetime alignment: 10 seconds, 9 seconds, 8 seconds...]

The world gradually returned to full color.

And—

time, which had been stopped, began to flow again.

After all the summoned entities’ attacks that had been interrupted by the save were completed—

FLASH! PAPAPAPABAT!

Crackrus widened the distance with turbo blink flight.

“Can they recognize us?”

SSSSH...

The swarm scattered in all directions.

Thank goodness.

They could not recognize them.

The reinforced talismans worked.

“High-speed advance!”

SCREEEECH!

The stealth green bomber flew safely through the Corrupted Heavenly Realm.

The mission resumed.

They restrained the use of infinite turbo blink flight.

Since they were already in stealth, the fallen micro angels would not rush them even if they flew normally.

Fly at ordinary speed and focus on finding the Corrupted Divine Land.

They had no idea how much time passed.

They had come really far.

An extremely exhausting journey, physically and mentally.

They used save tickets three more times.

This was the hardest mission they had ever had.

Excluding the time spent resting via save tickets, it felt as if at least ten days had passed in the Corrupted Heavenly Realm alone.

The Heavenly Realm was vast beyond measure.

It seemed far larger than Earth.

Being told to find a Corrupted Divine Land in a place like this, with no clues at all.

If only they had even a hint.

Of course, they did not just fly straight blindly.

They searched for areas with high densities of fallen micro angels.

And Rajix’s search skill helped too.

Sniff sniff sniff sniff.

“Huff!”

Once they set a direction—

SCREEEECH!

This was not something just anyone could do.

Especially if it were ground travel?

They would just walk endlessly until the end of time.

You had to be able to fly to even have a chance.

Just finding the mission location could take months.

Anyway, they flew for a long time.

Thanks to the recognition-disruption magic, there were no attacks from micro angels, but—

at that moment!

“Huh?”

Something was visible on the ground.

An artificially constructed structure.

It was a massive metropolis.

Buildings and pyramids made of marble.

“Is it there?”

“Seems like it, sir.”

“Finally!”

At the same time—

Ding!

[You have arrived at the Corrupted Divine Land.]

“Oh!”

This was it.

[Main Mission: Destroy the Corrupted Angel Creation Well in the Corrupted Divine Land.]

[Time Limit: None.]

[Completion Condition: Destroy Corrupted Angel Creation Well 0/1.]

Main mission.

A creation well...

He could guess where it was.

That huge hole visible right below.

From it, countless horrifying fallen micro angels were pouring out.

That’s it.

The final stage of a long, long mission.

Let’s blow it up and leave.

“Mr. Rajix!”

“WAAH!”

“Prepare to drop nuclear bombs—”

That was when—

Ding!

[By the will of Punishment Angel Ronseraphim, ruler of the Corrupted Divine Land, all concealment, stealth, and invisibility magic and sorcery have been lifted.]

Punishment angel?

Ah—no, more importantly...

All concealment, stealth, and invisibility magic?

“...Uh.”

TS-TS-TS-TS-TS... TSRRRT!

The micro angel swarms stirred violently.

Then—

they halted!

Suspending themselves in the sky, they focused on the stealth green bomber.

“Spotted?”

“Spotted.”

“Spotted indeed.”

“Spotted.”

“Looks like we’re spotted.”

“Spotted, sir.”

“WAAAH...”

That was not all.

Beings emerged from buildings everywhere and shot up into the air.

The classic angelic appearance—

pure white wings and long spears.

“Angels?”

“Fully grown fallen angels.”

If you enlarged a fallen micro angel, that was probably what you would get.

Pitch-black eyes without whites, mouths torn back to the ears, long protruding tongues, sharp teeth.

“They grew without deformities.”

They were completely surrounded.

By micro angels and fully grown adult angels.

—How dare you!

—How dare you!

—How dare you!

—How dare you!

Hmm.

“They’re really angry.”

“Sure seems that way.”

“Are they strong?”

“The big ones are all at least on par with a top-class monster.”

“Hard to deal with?”

“...There are quite a lot of them.”

Meanwhile, fallen micro angels kept pouring endlessly out of the hole.

Continuously, without stopping.

A clear numerical disadvantage.

—How dare you!

—How dare you!

—How dare you!

Did they only know how to say “How dare you!”?

Didn’t look like conversation was possible.

Juhyeok asked Crackrus, who was hovering in place.

“Can you break through the encirclement?”

“...I’ll do my best.”

Not a very reassuring answer.

Crackrus was the only one he could rely on.

Juhyeok quietly pulled an item from his inventory.

The Whistle of Summoned Entity Potential Explosion.

Crackrus was a converted defector hero.

But he was still a summoned entity subject to the simultaneous summon limit and star rating system.

In that case—

He designated Crackrus.

“FWEEEEEEEET!!!”

Juhyeok blew the whistle with all his might.

Ding!

[10 Platinum Badges have been consumed to trigger the potential explosion of converted defector summoned entity Crackrus. Effective for 10 minutes.]

PAAAAT!

WOOOOOONG!

Surging magic power.

The dragon’s two eyes blazed red with madness.

“KRROOOOOOOOAR!!!”

The green dragon roared.

He got insanely strong.

“Run!!!”

Infinite turbo blink.

FLASH! FLASH! SPAPAPAPAPAT!

“Mr. Rajix!”

“WAAH!”

“Dump the nukes! All of them!”

The enhanced green bomber.

FLASH! SPAPAPAT!

Zigzagging through the encirclement.

ZIIING!

All kinds of protective barriers layered over the bomber’s body.

At the same time—

Rajix extended his hands downward and dropped nuclear warheads like bird droppings.

SSSK! SSSKSSSK!

THUD, THUDUDUDUDUD!

SHOOOT! SHOOOOOT!

Carpet bombing.

Countless warheads fell at regular intervals following Crackrus’s movements.

“KRROOOOOOOOAR!!!”

Rajix’s vast subspace.

Infinite bomb capacity.

Everything they had brought—

he just reached out, pulled them from the air, and threw them, with no delay.

FLASH! SPAPAPAPAT!

THUD, THUDUDUDUDUD!

SHOOOT! SHOOOOOT!

Tactical and strategic nuclear warheads fell densely in zigzags over the Corrupted Divine Land, the domain of a god.

KWA-KWA-KWAANG!

KUKUKUKUKUKUKUKU!

Countless mushroom clouds bloomed.

The Divine Land became utter pandemonium.

Terrifying heat and shockwaves burned and shattered everything.

FLASH! SPAPAPAPAT!

Crackrus bombed like a streak of light and fled.

Fast.

A sub-light-speed bomber.

There was no being capable of catching him.

KUKUKUKUKUKUKUKU!

Even with barriers up, heat could be felt from behind.

PAPAPAPAPAPAPAPA!

Structures crumbled like dust under the shock of nuclear explosions.

Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!

System messages rang out too many times to count.