Chapter 36: Rapid Changes on Earth (1)

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Chapter 36: Rapid Changes on Earth (1)

“...”

A bed. A single computer. A mini fridge placed in the kitchen. Even a wardrobe.

Looking here... Looking there... No matter how I look around, it’s identical to my own apartment.

But I clearly saw the message that I had entered the first floor.

Could it be?

Is Earth the first floor of the tower?

My thoughts multiplied, making my head spin.

Notice. Announcing the rules for the 1st floor.

A familiar message window appeared before my eyes.

“...Hmm.”

I tensed my muscles and heightened my alertness.

From now on, nothing that happened would be considered strange.

But the message that popped up was... quite unexpected.

1st Floor - There are no specific clear conditions. Please take a comfortable rest. For more details, refer to the guidebook.

“...What?”

Just a moment ago, I was in a life-or-death battle with monsters...

And now they’re telling me to take a comfortable rest? No clear conditions? And a guidebook? Did I come here as a tourist?

The atmosphere had completely shifted, leaving me utterly bewildered.

Just as I was on high alert, wondering if this was a trap, a small box appeared before my eyes with a ‘pop!’

It had a design similar to the boxes that contained the golden beads on the 0th floor.

I grabbed the floating box and opened it... Inside, there really was a guidebook.

“...So, it’s not a prank...?”

I pulled out the guidebook and immediately checked the title.

<Guidebook for Climbers Chosen by God>

On the cover, an angel was holding a placard that read ‘Welcome’ with a bright smile.

“...”

Upon seeing the overall cheerful atmosphere of the guidebook, my face involuntarily scrunched up.

After throwing people into an island with ridiculous conditions where they can only kill or be killed,

Now what? They’re welcoming us?

It feels like I’m the butt of some distasteful joke.

Irritation surged uncontrollably.

However, I roughly grasped their intentions.

From their point of view, everything done up to now was simply a ‘test,’ and now that I’d passed the test, they intended to treat me accordingly - it was their form of hospitality.

But from my perspective, having looped back multiple times in an attempt to save people, this felt like a form of hospitality that was exceedingly unpleasant.

‘If this isn’t a joke... Should I be grateful for their so-called favor?’

After all, keeping my feelings aside, the guidebook was still a guidebook.

I gritted my teeth and opened it to check the contents.

<Table of Contents>

1. What Led to the Creation of This Tower?

2. How to Make the Most of the 1st Floor?

3. Curious About the Basic Rules of the Tower?

4. Why Climb the Tower?

“...”

If other people were granted the same luxurious first floor as I was...

“We’re screwed.”

Humanity is on the brink of extinction.

The tutorial I was in was vastly different from what others must have gone through.

I’d been able to adapt quite well by repeatedly regressing, tackling most of the tutorial in this way.

Thanks to swordsmanship learned from Choi Ji-won and leveling up, I’d gained considerable power, and apart from the Minotaur, I’d never felt my life was at risk.

Even so, laying down like this made sleep creep upon me.

After constantly sleeping on the hard ground, the softness of the bed was a temptation too strong to resist.

But what about others who didn’t go through the tutorial with me?

For them, the tutorial must have been a series of unending stressors.

Due to a lack of food, they would’ve been constantly hungry.

When sleep came, it would be a fitful rest achieved under the looming threat to their lives.

As the angel suggested, perhaps they even had to kill loved ones to obtain beads.

And just when they must have thought they’ve barely survived the tutorial, an angel appears out of nowhere, demanding they pay a proper price to enter the tower.

Stress. Then more stress. Most of them were probably pushed to the brink of madness.

What if those people were to encounter the first floor I was in?

They might think something like this:

‘Do I really need to go to the second floor?’

The first floor provides everything material you could wish for.

Although they say humanity will be wiped out if we don’t reach the 66th floor... the likelihood is high that people would rather expect someone else to do the hard work.

Besides, the tutorial’s fairy only said humanity would be destroyed. It didn’t specify a timeline for climbing the tower.

There’s a lack of motivation. A genuine reason to risk one’s life to ascend this tower.

If this is God’s intent... maybe it’s to test something like human will? Sacrificial spirit? Something along those lines.

I have to admit, it’s a rather sophisticated way to bring about the extinction of humanity without actually killing anyone.

“First off... what’s the date today?”

Checking my phone, I was relieved to see that the date hadn’t changed. Perhaps it was due to my quick completion of the tutorial.

As soon as I unlocked my phone, a flood of KakaoTalk messages came pouring in.

The majority of the KakaoTalk messages urged me to check the news on portal sites immediately.

“...What is this?”

As my friends suggested, I opened a portal site to look at the news section, and it was... a spectacle, to say the least.

『Video of Superhuman Deleted Right After Posting on YouTube, Confirmed to be Real!』

『[Breaking News] U.S. Acknowledges Existence of the Tower! Survivors Officially Named ‘Players’!』

『Korean Government Officially Admits to Concealing Information: ‘Hid it to Prevent Social Unrest.’』

『Players Keeping Mum on the ‘Tutorial’... Is it Selfishness, or Something Supernatural?』

“...”

All the tower-climbing novels I’ve read were set in a society that had already adjusted to the existence of the tower. That’s probably why I’d never seen a scene like this before.

The tower... was changing the world.

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