Chapter 45
Besides that, after asking about the minor rules and things I should be careful about, I eventually arrive at the room where I'll be staying.
"Room 16. This is it. Wait here, and the others who entered with you will come later. You're exempt from today's schedule, so get some proper rest by yourself. We'll bring you food today only. Things really start tomorrow, so prepare yourself."
- Rattle, thud...
The iron-bar door closes.
The entrance to the cell consisted of iron bars that opened to either side, with a tent-like curtain resembling blackout curtains behind them. Perhaps as a courtesy to newcomers, they had blocked the view from outside with a black curtain.
The interior facilities had looked cramped from outside, but the room was actually quite long and spacious.
There were six beds that were decent for a prison cell, along with individual plastic lockers.
There was also a large plastic table in the center and a wall-mounted TV attached to the far wall.
The facilities reminded me of a new military barracks.
There were two bathrooms, both with showers attached, and they felt just like bathrooms in an ordinary home.
And now, the most important thing.
“I'm alone…?”
I've been waiting for this moment.
First, I go to the bathroom and close the door,
"Phew..."
take a deep breath, and open the chat window.
"The chat window..."
- Oh?
- What?
- Doha~
- LOL, what's with you?
- Wow~ You came at just the right time. Everyone just jacked off and left.
[Current viewers: 19,123]
Compared to before, it's still a large number even after so many people left, but it looks like the hecklers who had been masturbating while sexually harassing me have gone.
'That's a relief...'
"Nothing unusual outside... right...?"
- LOL
- Everyone's going crazy after watching you get fucked.
"Ah... They are?"
- Reporters from the major guilds have been posting a ton of nasty articles, but we're cleaning them up.
- I'm dying trying to clean up after you getting completely fucked, man.
"Ah..."
- Still, public opinion isn't bad.
- Yeah, public opinion's okay. Everyone's fighting with the attitude of, 'Even if this is what it takes, Lee Do-hee will climb the Tower!'
- Honestly, public opinion might've turned bad if it were only us, but it feels different now that actual women have joined in.
- For real, when actual women got angry and asked how anyone could exploit the fact that a woman had been forcibly raped, all the reporters took their articles down LOL
- They're so damn dependable when they're on our side...
'That's a relief...'
I'm attacked for having a slutty image because I'm a woman, but being a woman also protects me from sex scandals.
"Thank you. To everyone who is fighting for me... no, for freedom. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all of you. So, I'm just going to go drain some semen from my pussy for a moment."
I was bowing to express my gratitude when I suddenly felt semen flowing downward, leaving me flustered.
- Fuck LOL
- No, during an inspiring speech, she says she's going to drain semen from her pussy...
- You fucking slut LOL
- LOL LOL LOL LOL
- Well, she has to get the semen out if she doesn't want to get pregnant.
- This bitch can't get pregnant anyway. She probably just wants to get it out because it feels gross.
[DoheeTunaSoFuckingDelicious donated 50,000 won]
Do-hee, that's all sacred power, so why are you taking it out? Hurry up and put it back inside.
"Ah..."
- Fucking crazy LOL
- It needs time to dissolve, yeah.
- Just plug it up and leave it there.
- LOL LOL LOL LOL
- Today's stream is seriously wild LOL
"Ah... yes, then I'll leave this alone for now. I opened the chat window because of the collar."
- ?
- The collar?
- You're really leaving the semen in...?
- It's that thing, you know.
- That's it, that thing. (I don't know what it is.)
- Ah, that?
- What the hell is it, you bastards?
"Hmm... yes. This is that thing. It's a supernatural-ability-suppressing restraint made by Heigenkopf. You all know this much, right? The Voltia Empire is classified as the twenty-seventh planet, so it appears quite often, doesn't it?"
When I heard the names Celestia Church, ability-suppressing restraints, and the Voltia Empire, I became certain of where I was.
- Of course!!
- We already knew!!
- Naturally. (I'm hearing this for the first time.)
- Who the fuck knows that? LOL
- What the hell is that? ;;
- Get rid of the people pretending to know.
"Huh... Who climbs the Tower with brute force alone?"
I had actually worn this collar on the sixty-second floor in my previous life and undergone the Tower's Trial.
Of course, I struggled like hell at first, but I eventually learned how to dismantle it and barely managed to pass.
"There won't be a video anywhere showing how to dismantle this. I'll explain while I show you."
In reality, once this collar is put on, anyone who relies on their status screen dies almost one hundred percent of the time. But if you learn the procedure poorly, the collar may explode while you're disabling it, or you may trigger the alarm and get discovered and killed.
"All right, I'm starting now. This is a lecture you couldn't hear even if you paid tens of millions of won. Listen carefully, especially all you awakened ones."
When I looked up, I could see a tiny CCTV camera in the bathroom as well.
'Thanks, guard.'
The guard had just given me valuable information that the CCTV cameras were effectively not being monitored. I decided that if I ever ended up fighting that guard later, I should spare them, and brought my hand to the collar.
"First, I'll explain how this collar works."
Holding my collar with one hand, I sit comfortably on the toilet and explain.
"At first glance, this looks like an all-purpose tool that blocks every supernatural ability, but that's not actually the case. Of the ten existing types of supernatural power—including mana, sacred power, and internal energy—it can block only one at a time. That's why people with rare powers get very excited when they see this."
- Oh, I've never heard that before.
- How the hell does she know this kind of thing? ;;
- Show us already.
"Ah, then shall I demonstrate right away?"
First, I need to dismantle the collar.
The screws aren't protruding. They're small and recessed slightly inward, so turning them with my fingernail won't work.
"To dismantle it, you first have to loosen the screws. But obviously, there won't be anything like that in here, right? You could kill another inmate and take their teeth or bones, but then the chances of getting caught would be much higher."
- What?
- Kill someone?
- Psycho Doha ㄷㄷ
"But, everyone, did you know that when your Defense stat increases, every substance produced by your body becomes harder as well?"
- I know.
- Yeah.
- I didn't know that before.
- How does that help?
I'll demonstrate.
First, I take off my shoe, place my right leg on the thigh of my left leg, lower my head, and bite off my big toenail.
My chest was slightly squashed and uncomfortable, but thanks to my flexible body, I succeed without difficulty.
- ???
- Ugh, that's disgusting.
- Wow, look at her boobs sticking out LOL
- Doha, what are you doing?
- Buying Doha's toenails.
In the same way, I bite off the big toenail on my left foot.
"Hmm... First, I'll see if they match the screw size."
The big toenail is the hardest part among human fingernails and toenails.
Using my teeth, I carefully trim it.
Then I carve a groove into the center of the slightly thicker right toenail with my front teeth, insert the left toenail into it, and cross them together.
"There, now it's shaped like a cross, right?"
- What the hell is that?
- What are you going to do with that?
- I've never seen a method like this in my life LOL
- It's something you can do because you're awakened LOL
- Wow, she's creating merchandise!
- 'Merchandise,' my ass.
- Couldn't you use a pulled tooth?
"Teeth are too large. And leaving aside the risk of injury, you need a harder material that can be properly carved and used. It wouldn't be easy to find something like that in prison. Other than bone, the big toenail is the second-hardest material, so it's the most suitable."
As I say this, I pull out several hairs.
"Gnnngh!!!"
My Strength is low, but my Defense remains unchanged, so pulling out the hairs is surprisingly difficult.
I carve another small groove into the end of the cross-shaped toenail with my teeth, then tie the hair into that groove.
One strand doesn't look sufficient, so I tie about five strands together.
"Hmm... I don't know if this will work."
I try inserting the toenail screwdriver into the screw groove.
It doesn't fit, so I carefully grind it down with my teeth until it is the right size.
Once the perfectly sized toenail screwdriver slides in, I press down on it with my hand so it won't slip out, grip the hair, and slowly turn it.
- Sliiide...!
"Oh...!!"
I can feel the screw turning.
- ???
- No way, that thing actually works?
- This is fucking ridiculous.
- Where the hell does she learn these kinds of tricks? LOL
- It works because she's awakened, guys.
"Everyone, though, loosening the screws isn't all there is to it."
Anyone can loosen a screw with a screwdriver.
What kind of idiot would make something like that and call it a restraint?
"Now I'll loosen the remaining eleven screws, remove the Strength restriction, and change the barrier that blocks sacred power into a barrier that blocks internal energy."
This restraint limits people according to their abilities.
The restraint works by blocking every mana rod that passes through the neck, cutting off the command from the brain to send mana to places such as the heart or the dantian.
Strength works the same way.
Even if I possess greater strength, the restraint places a limit on the commands sent from the brain to the muscles, preventing me from using that greater strength.
That's why my Defense and Agility remain unchanged. I can use my powerful bite as a last resort, but isn't its range far too short?
Before I know it, all the screws are loose.
"Now, if I lift it after loosening all the screws, the collar will explode and blow me to pieces, right? And if I completely shut down the collar's functions, an alarm will probably be sent somewhere."
- Wow... then what do you do?
- Throw it as fucking fast as you can before it explodes.
"Unfortunately, the collar only separates upward and downward. You need an authentication key to remove it completely from your neck."
- Then what do you do?
- Good grief, this is hard.
- Is this even possible? I searched, but there isn't any method for disabling it.
- For real, it just says not to disable it LOL
- Doha, you're not going to die, right?
"Of course there's an opening here too. The standard by which this collar operates is whether its target is alive. So if I temporarily stop my heart, it won't function. At that moment, I have to alter the signal controlling my Strength and change the barrier that blocks sacred power into one that blocks internal energy."
- Temporarily stop your heart...?
- Wouldn't you die?
- Doha, have you watched too many movies?
- You're not using a defibrillator or taking some weird elixir. You're saying you'll stop your heart?
- The heart isn't an organ that stops just because you tell it to...
"I'll explain how to stop the heart later. For reference, awakened people can do it, but ordinary people can't. Don't try this at home."
I don't shut down the collar's functions entirely. I have to change what those functions do.
Then the collar won't send a warning, and it will continue operating normally. More precisely, the party receiving the collar's status will continue to receive a response indicating that it is operating, but it's basically the same thing.
There are many variables.
Since this collar can perform a complete check of the wearer's physical condition, someone might notice that my heart had temporarily stopped and investigate. The collar could also explode if I touch the wrong circuit while my heart is stopped, or I could simply die from cardiac arrest.
Even I feel a little tense about this.
I practiced a lot in my previous life, but I only succeeded once in an actual situation.
There is no guarantee I'll succeed this time either.
"Phew... I'll turn off the chat window for a moment."
I have to risk my life.
I slowly draw a breath in and let it out long.
Because I'm tense, sweat runs down my neck.
I detach one fragment of toenail that I'll use to alter the sensor and hold it between my fingers in advance.
'I can do this... no, I have to!'
I press hard on my neck with the index finger and thumb of my left hand, over the spot where the carotid artery runs.
- Pressssss!!!
'Harder, harder!!'
I compress my neck to stop the blood flow and tense my abdomen.
"Hup!!"
If I block my neck like this, the blood flow stops and can temporarily disrupt the vagus nerve.
The vagus nerve is part of the nervous system and can transmit signals that slow the heartbeat. That nerve mistakes my body for one suffering from severe hypertension and adjusts my heart so that it beats extremely slowly for a moment.
'Gnnngh....'
My vision turns completely white.
If I keep this up, I'll either faint or die from actual cardiac arrest.
'A little longer...'
I can still feel my heart beating.
It doesn't need to be in a state of complete cardiac arrest. The collar's threshold for detecting cardiac arrest is about 20 BPM, one-quarter of the normal standard.
And before long,
- Thump......... thump........
I can feel my heartbeat, so faint that I can barely hear it.
'Got it.'
My vision grows hazy.
Resisting the feeling that I'm about to collapse, I open the collar with my right hand.
I support the collar's lid with the pinky of my right hand, then immediately insert my index finger and thumb inside the restraint.
My fingers move as though I had repeated this hundreds of times.
I touch the sensor in the tiny areas where my fingers won't fit with the toenail fragment and change it.
'Please, just a little longer...'
I quickly release the six safety devices that would make the collar explode if I made even one mistake, then manually change the direction of the sensor.
'Got ittt...'
I feel my strength returning to my body.
Clinging to my fading consciousness, I close the collar while simultaneously releasing the pressure on my neck with my left hand.
"H-hup!!!!!"
"Haa... haa...."
My head spins.
The strength leaves my legs, and I sink down onto the floor.
Cold sweat pours from my body, and only now do my hands begin to tremble.
'I almost really died...'
"Phew.... Phew.... Everyone... did you see... that...?"
I tighten the screws again and reopen the chat window.
- ????
- What the hell is this?
- How do you even stop your heart?
- Wouldn't you just collapse in five seconds if you did that?
- You fucking slut, you call something only you can do a walkthrough!
- LOL LOL LOL
- How does this make any sense?
- Walkthrough method (only I can do it)
"Haa.... Haa.... Once I get out, I'll explain the method properly. Ah, I really thought I was going to die..."
I succeeded.
What I did in my previous life saved me now.
"All right! Then it's time to see the sweet fruits of my labor, isn't it?"
- Kyaa
- She's just moving past this like it's normal?
- I can't wait to see how high her stats went.
- Her Lewdness must have gone through the roof, right?
- Lewd lewd lewd
- I can't believe you can actually grow stronger through sex.
- Let's go~~!
"Ahem... Anyway, let's take a look."
I shout it aloud for the first time in a while.
"Status screen!!!"
First, I check my Lewdness...
Lewdness: 12.2→ 128
'It went up by more than 100 all at once...?'
Curious, I press the sex status screen once.
『Entities I've had intercourse with: 47
Goblin 2, Airen's husband, Yoon....』
- Whoosh!
I read enough and move on.
'Even a blowjob counts as intercourse.'
"Ahem, I'll look at this later!"
I skip over the embarrassing part and check the other things first.
- Unlocked upon reaching Lewdness 30. (Unlocked)
Sexual Skill Maximization: The positive efficiency of traits related to sex that you possess increases by 100%.
- Unlocked upon reaching Lewdness 100. (Unlocked)
Sturdy Body: A breeding body must be sturdy.
Defense +100%, all elemental resistances—fire, ice, poison, electricity, and so on—50.
'Elemental resistances...?'
Elemental resistance isn't actually a particularly meaningful stat. Since it merely adds to Defense, it's highly inefficient to raise it deliberately.
To begin with, elements aren't limited to simple categories like fire, water, and ice. As you travel around the world, you'll encounter not only elements such as corruption, darkness, and electricity, but also fusion elements combining multiple attributes and unique elements, for around a hundred types in total. Other than fire or poison resistance, there was no real reason to raise the stat.
But if it means resistance to all elements, that's a little different.
Aside from simple physical attacks, it means having resistance to nearly every attack, which feels like getting 50 free points of Defense.
"Everyone... all of these unlocked for me..."
- Wow...
- Her elemental resistance already went up?
- This is what you were aiming for, right?
- Leveling up through sex!
- Fuck LOL
- This is seriously impossible.
- You cheated again, you fucking slut LOL
"Ahem... Shall we take a look at what changed in the other traits?"
『
<Sacred Prostitute>
Holy Power +100%
Lewdness +100%
Weapon power increases by 40% when using spear-based weapons.
<Path of the Lewd Priest>
Mana +4
Defense +6
<<SSS-rank Sacred Onahole Body>>
Strength +100%
Agility -25%
Defense +400%
Holy Power +2400%
<SS-rank Lewd Lee Do-hee's Holy Power>
All buff efficiency increases by 400%. Can only be used on yourself or on a target with whom you have had intercourse.
<Airen's Secret Manual of Female Training>
A manual of female training created by the first empress of the Arcadia Empire. Its efficiency has been doubled due to a unique stat.
Progress: 38% 』
"......"
- It's rigged.
- Admin, there's someone here using an illegal program!!
- What's 2400%? I'm not reading that wrong, am I?
- Doha, isn't this a bit much? LOL
'Is this really okay?'
Even I feel a little worried.
The numbers look like they were raised by using some illegal hack program. I should say they don't feel real.
'The Tower's administrators aren't going to come after me for this... right?'
Practically all my traits have doubled, and even the ability of Airen's secret manual has increased twofold.
Because of my Lewdness, the Sacred Prostitute trait doubled, and because of the Sacred Prostitute trait, my Lewdness increased by 100%.
"Then... this time, I'll check my stats."
I use all my buff skills and scroll down to my final status screen.
<Final Stats>
Strength: 43→ 60.6
Agility: 24→ 30.6
Defense: 32→ 87.6
Holy Power: 315.9→ 720.2
Lewdness: 12.2→128
Holy Power Recovery Rate: 2 per hour
Regeneration: 1
All Elemental Resistances: 50 (new!)
Bonus Stats: 12→16
- Sorry, but you're much stronger than I was after passing the thirtieth floor.
- Your total stat sum is probably higher than that of players on the upper floors.
- Wow~ 'The Tower is equal'!!!!
- If your base stat total is around 900...
- Info) Choi Tae-soo's stat total on the forty-ninth floor is around 500.
- Wow LOL
- Lee Do-hee has made every other promising candidate look like a nobody...
- The protesters are gonna rise up again LOLOLOL
- Regarding the overpowered onahole...
[Ddo-ttameok donated 50,000 won]
That administrator bastard must be a boob-loving pervert. What an unfair Tower.
"...I'm escaping prison today."
Why do I feel disappointed about that...?