"Whatever, I’m tired of your voice," Shin said, cutting the man’s head off in a single, perfect swing.

He had planned to make it more dramatic, but Alan had always been his least favorite playable character; in the end, it wasn’t worth it. There were far more important things to deal with.

Like the dozens of dead women scattered across the floor... and the statues. The sheer number of drops and items he could collect was insane.

"How is your analysis going?" he asked Lilel.

"Let me concentrate!" she snapped, ignoring him.

Shin shrugged and decided to focus on looting the area first. He didn’t waste a second looking at Alan’s severed head. The man was dead, and in this world, a dead enemy was just a source of loot.

He scanned the blood-stained floor, his eyes searching for the most practical tool he needed: storage.

He eventually found it on the finger of one of the more elite-looking women in Alan’s fallen harem. It was a silver band engraved with a swirling vortex pattern; he had no doubt about it, this was a high-capacity spatial storage ring.

He pulled it off her cold finger, wiped the blood on his sleeve, and slipped it onto his own hand. This would make the rest of the looting process much easier.

He returned to Alan’s corpse first. Shin reached into the inner pocket of Alan’s flashy coat and pulled out a shimmering sapphire card.

It was the Sphere Card from Heaven, confirming what Shin already suspected: Alan had held the title of Number One Slut Trainer of Heaven. Shin threw the card into the ring and kept searching.

Alan also carried several rare consumables, mostly small vials and scrolls designed to temporarily boost experience gain.

But the most interesting find was a small, golden coin engraved with a four-leaf clover that seemed to glow with a faint, greasy light.

It was a lucky charm.

Alan’s skill allowed him to manipulate probability. He could either increase his luck or embed its luck on an object for later usage.

It was a one-time-use item that could force a "Perfect Success" on almost any action. Shin smiled; this was the kind of item that broke games.

He moved through the rest of the room with mechanical efficiency. Naturally, all the women had just arrived at the tower, so aside from items they got from killing some of the statues during the chaos, their equipment was relatively basic.

He gathered a few dozen enchanted daggers, reinforced leather tunics, and some survival supplies.

As he went, he picked up twenty-four cell phones, just because it felt weird to completely ignore them. But they wouldn’t really be useful.

Next, he turned his attention to the wreckage of the statues destroyed and lying on the ground. During the chaos raid, a lot of them were destroyed by the statue king itself, so their loot lay on the floor.

By the way, the statue of the king itself was not there anymore, as its body disintegrated after being defeated.

Anyway, moving through the shattered remains of the smaller statues, he harvested forty-two Grit Cores. These pulsating stone hearts acted as high-density fuel sources for magical constructs and golems.

Beneath the largest pile of rubble, Shin spotted a faint violet glow. He reached in and pulled out an Obsidian Core and kept it.

He also found spare parts that could be used to build low-level golems. Aside from that, he discovered rare- and epic-grade swords, shields, and armor.

He equipped some of the armor, but none of it was particularly strong. Normally, this amount of gear would be ideal for outfitting a group, turning them into a small army, but he had no one.

Still, he kept everything. He could always sell it later.

Meanwhile, Lilel was having a feast. There was so much for her to research and find out. To begin with, Myha’s body was fascinating.

She worked in a similar way to other golems, but her complexity was on an entirely different level. Instead of crude stone or metal, her body was woven from magical fibers, carefully engineered to replicate the structure and elasticity of real muscles.

Each strand could contract, expand, and respond with lifelike precision, allowing movements that were far smoother and more natural than any ordinary construct.

Her strength wasn’t fixed. The more mana she received, the stronger and faster she could become, her "muscles" reinforcing themselves dynamically. This mana could flow from her own core or be supplied by the master she had formed a bond with, creating a constant feedback loop of energy and control.

Beneath her surface, layers of enchanted systems worked together, circulating mana like a bloodstream, stabilizing her structure, and repairing minor damage in real time.

For structural reasons, her creator designed her outer form to match that of a real woman with exact precision. The artificial skin was astonishing, mimicking human flesh almost perfectly. It was soft to the touch, warm, and flexible enough to stretch and shift naturally over her artificial musculature.

She even had fully developed anatomical features, though Lilel showed little interest in examining them. Her focus was entirely internal, drawn to the golem’s complex nuclei.

Normally, a golem would have a single, small nucleus, heavily protected beneath multiple defensive layers. But Myha was completely different. She possessed not one, but five nuclei, spread across her chest and head, each roughly the size of a tennis ball.

Lilel narrowed her gaze as she began analyzing them.

At first glance, their structure seemed chaotic, but the deeper she looked, the more familiar the pattern became. The flow of mana, the way commands were processed and distributed, all resembled something she knew very well.

"It’s... similar to a system," she muttered.

However, it wasn’t a modern one. The logic felt older, closer to Kaho’s outdated system than the ones she saw on everyone else.

And that gave Lilel an opening.

She once again sent thousands of commands to that system, forcing her way into the main archives. She wanted to find where the date about who her owner was was stored.

Eventually, she found what appeared to be the central archive. But the moment she tried to access it, she clicked her tongue in annoyance.

The data was there, but completely unreadable.

"It’s written in the ancient Tower arcane language..."

The little fairy couldn’t read that language, so trying to change anything would be nothing more than guesswork. It was far more likely she would mess everything up than achieve any useful result.

Her conclusion was that she couldn’t overwrite Alan’s authority as Miha’s master. At least, not yet.

"So direct control is out of the question..." she sighed. Still, she wasn’t completely powerless.

Her eyes flickered as she traced the connections between the five nuclei again. Unlike a single-core system, Myha relied on synchronization between all of them.

Myha wouldn’t be able to move anymore with the nuclei disconnected, and this would make it much easier for them to transport her around.

For now, that was the best she could do.

Next, she began looking for all the dead women in the room. All of them had a system, and they were all slowly dissipating. But in this case, she noticed they were being absorbed by the golens nucleus.

Most of it had already been absorbed, so there was not so much she could do. But she still did all the experiments she could think of.

What she realized with that was that ex was the energy that built the system, and the more ex you had, the more functions a system could have. This was probably the core function behind the idea of levelling up as a whole.

"So, what did you find out?" Shin asked his little fairy, noticing she was finished examining the information.

"A lot of things!" Lilel put her hands on her hips, puffing out her chest with pride.

Then she began to float rapidly around Shin, her eyes bright with excitement as she thought about the future ahead of them.

"I believe that when Kaho learns to fully read the Arcane language, I’ll be able to make Miha obey you. But for now, collect all the fallen golem’s nuclei, I believe I can convert them into XP later."

Shin did as asked, continuing to gather the cores while asking a few more questions, which Lilel answered enthusiastically, eagerly sharing more about her findings.

And with all of that out of the way, it was time for him to move on to the next phase. He briefly wondered if he should use his luck charm to land in the most profitable area of the third phase.

But in the end, he decided to save it for later. Then, he stepped into the portal and....

A strong smell of sulfur hit him immediately, and the annoying croaking of frogs echoed all around.

"No... it can’t be," Shin murmured to himself in frustration.

The swamp of frogs was the worst possible place he could have been sent to.

"Fuck!" He cursed his luck. "I should have used that fucking charm!"