Mana Contract

Baek Muyeol, the man, began rambling on about details I hadn't even asked for.

It was all well and good that he was an A-rank Awakened who climbed the Tower, but...

His only trait was "Chameleon," the ability to disguise himself as other people, so the higher he climbed, the more obvious his limitations became.

In the end, he gave up climbing at Floor 30 and made hunting Awakened his main line of work, or so he said.

Even after I got annoyed and ordered him to stick to the point, this was the trimmed-down version. I didn't even want to imagine how long he'd planned to talk in the first place.

"China..."

Anyway, I'd found out who'd put him up to it.

China. If it was China, it was almost certainly the Blood Demon (血魔).

The Blood Demon had been a pain in the Tower lately, so I provoked him once. And now that bastard was taking petty revenge in the real world?

The unspoken rule among Awakened was that whatever happened in the Tower stayed in the Tower...