# Chapter 458: Side Story 131
White Tower.
The new summoned being Alejandro’s heart was pounding.
Because very soon, he would be able to fulfill the wish he had longed for so much.
“Why is the newbie dragon Goldie so nervous?”
“Honestly, I’m just too excited….”
“Is it the first dimensional travel?”
“Y-yes.”
“What’s the big deal? Just act natural during the trip and don’t make it obvious you’re a newbie.”
“Understood.”
But how could he stay calm?
It wasn’t just any trip—it was dimensional travel.
“When do you think Grand Master Tower Lord-nim will call for us?”
“Gal!”
Kozak burst out in anger,
“This is the problem with newbies!”
Huh?
Had he made a mistake?
“When was he ever Grand Master Tower Lord? The Parallel Earth 561 trip is already over.”
“Ah!”
“When he creates a trading company he’s President, when he founds an empire he’s His Imperial Majesty the Emperor, when he establishes a sect and a magic tower he’s Grand Master Tower Lord.”
That’s right.
What a multi-talented person he was.
Truly impressive.
How did he take on such different social positions in each dimension and execute them so perfectly?
“The title hasn’t been decided yet. For now, call him Summoner Bong-nim.”
“Yes yes, anyway, I hope I can be of help to the Summoner-nim on this first trip.”
“That’s a commendable attitude.”
“That’s why I’m mentioning this, but while organizing my assets, I prepared 5 tons of gold.”
In dollars, that was 680 million; in won, 1 trillion.
Furthermore, gold was a universal currency that was accepted in any dimension.
“Our Summoner Bong-nim probably doesn’t have much wealth, so I’ll bring the 5 tons of gold to the White Tower.”
At Alejandro’s words, Kozak smirked.
“Your heart is in the right place. But who says that? That our Summoner Bong-nim has no money?”
“Uh, I heard he has no greed for money, and he donated all the money he earned in Dimension 561, didn’t he?”
“That’s true. But that doesn’t mean he has no money.”
“Huh?”
“Follow me. I’ll show you.”
Kozak led Alejandro somewhere in the White Tower.
There were about 4 identical large warehouse buildings standing there.
-Clank!
When they opened the door and went inside,
“Ahhhh…”
Alejandro’s eyes went wide.
The sight that unfolded before him.
Good heavens!
The warehouse was filled to the brim with an enormous amount of gold and silver treasures,
“The warehouse over there has items, the one next to it has Magic Stones, the one next to that has various materials like dragon by-products—there’s nothing we don’t have.”
He was speechless.
He could only stand there with his mouth hanging open.
“The more precious treasures are in the Dimensional Supreme Servant’s subspace. Summoner Bong-nim is the richest person in all dimensions. Do you understand?”
Alejandro was embarrassed.
He felt like he had been showing off with just 5 tons of gold.
***
Meanwhile,
In the Skaldion dimension where the richest person in all dimensions, Ju-hyeok, had crossed over.
Messages came in succession.
The content he always heard whenever he traveled between dimensions.
There was additional content too.
Being assigned the identity of a descendant of the fallen noble House of Count Delian, along with information about the escaped Demon God’s identity and powers.
Thus, information flowed into his mind.
Ju-hyeok closed his eyes briefly and absorbed the content.
A moment later.
Ju-hyeok slowly opened his eyes,
What was the first thing he saw?
It was an unfamiliar room.
Looking around, he saw shabby furniture and faded wallpaper.
There was also a worn-out mirror hanging on the wall.
The moment he absently turned his eyes toward the mirror,
‘…Huh?’
Reflected in the mirror were blond hair and blue eyes, the face of a typical Westerner.
‘Who is that?’
There was no one else in this room but him.
Then?
‘Could this be…?’
It was a familiar plot.
You know the one.
The kind of introduction to fantasy novels that Kozak loved to read.
Where a modern person gets hit by a truck or falls off a Han River bridge, then enters the body of a character in a novel or game…
‘Possession?’
Whoa!
That Main God Wignar or whatever—he liked this kind of thing?
‘No, seriously, this guy!’
He asked for help and then possesses me into someone else?
Into a body I’ve never seen before?
He would open a dimensional gate and go back right now.
He needed to confront him about this.
Ju-hyeok grabbed the mallet at his waist.
At least he hadn’t touched the Judge’s Mallet and left it alone.
‘Are my abilities still the same?’
Let’s try.
So he was about to spin the mallet to open a dimensional gate when.
-Ding!
‘Hm?’
[Calm yourself. It is not possession. I do not have the power to extract your soul and insert it into another body.]
Then?
[I merely changed the appearance of your body. If you focus your consciousness, you can return to your original form at any time.]
Really?
Let’s try.
When Ju-hyeok focused, his appearance smoothly returned to normal.
When he thought of the opposite, it changed back to the altered form.
What a relief.
It wasn’t possession—it was Polymorph.
[Because I assigned you a specific person’s identity, I had no choice but to change your appearance.]
Well, everything was fine. All good, but.
Why didn’t you tell me beforehand?
[Ah, I did mention that I would assign you an identity…]
He hadn’t known it would be in this manner.
[I apologize for causing confusion.]
That startled him.
Please tell me in advance from now on.
By the way, looking at it again, he was handsome.
A delicate pretty-boy style.
He was even tall.
Was it just his imagination that his ears were pointed?
‘No, they really are pointed.’
Then was he an elf?
Or perhaps a half-blood.
Either way, it was a satisfying feeling.
To be able to live such a handsome life, even if only in another dimension.
[Then let me quickly tell you a few things and end this communication. Conveying a god’s will to the Mortal Realm also goes against causality.]
Yes yes, let’s hurry.
[The identity you have taken on is that of a young man named Yurik Delian, a descendant of the fallen noble House of Count Delian.]
Yurik Delian.
He liked the name.
[The original Yurik Delian died from poison just moments ago. I disposed of the body as well.]
Poisoned?
Tsk tsk, how pitiful. He must have still been in his prime.
[Please operate as Yurik Delian. And you must advance to the central politics of the Artia Kingdom to find the Demon God.]
Oh!
This sounded more interesting than he expected.
[You must approach cautiously. If he catches even a hint of suspicion, he will flee.]
The information about the Demon God he had received earlier.
He was probably hiding somewhere among the central noble families of the Artia Kingdom.
Either by killing someone and taking their place,
Or as an entirely new person.
Even the god Wignar said it wasn’t easy to detect him.
Because this was a being who had shed 90% of his godhood.
But even with just the remaining 10%, he would be more powerful than any human.
With that power, he seemed to be playing big-shot in human society.
Additionally, the 90% of godhood the Demon God had shed.
Had it completely vanished?
No way!
No matter how desperate he was to escape, there was absolutely no way he would have discarded such precious godhood.
Wignar the Main God had a hypothesis as well.
The Demon God hadn’t discarded his godhood—he had separated it.
And he had probably made it into fragments and hidden them somewhere in the Mortal Realm.
[Please find the Demon God and recover the 90% of his hidden godhood fragments.]
And after recovering them?
[Return them to me. Or if you like, you may absorb them yourself.]
What would happen if he absorbed them?
[Since you would be absorbing the Demon God’s status, wouldn’t you become a Demon God?]
Whoa.
[I approve. Of you becoming a Demon God, I mean. Ruling over the Demon Realm has its own pleasures.]
So there was a Demon Realm here too, it seemed.
Of course, this meant the Demon Realm of a different dimension—ruling over that place.
I’ll respectfully decline.
It doesn’t appeal to me.
[Is that so? Do as you wish.]
Were they trying to pawn off some strange godhood on him?
Maybe if it were attribute-less.
[I have also prepared a few things to help you settle in quickly, so you should have no trouble adapting.]
What kind?
[See for yourself. The time I can intervene in the Mortal Realm is running out…]
-Cut!
The message was cut off.
Please go now.
I’ll figure something out.
But then?
-Creak, the door opened,
And a face peeked through.
A face appeared through the crack in the door.
‘Hm?’
A freckle-covered girl.
When her eyes met Ju-hyeok’s—no, Yurik’s—she had a shocked expression with her mouth hanging open.
‘Who is she?’
The identity that Ju-hyeok had taken on.
Wignar had said that Yurik Delian had been poisoned to death.
‘Could she be the culprit?’
That was when.
-Ding!
An alert sounded in Ju-hyeok’s mind at the same time.
-Whoosh!
Holographic information appeared like a chart.
– Name: Judy.
– Gender: Female.
– Age: 17.
– Occupation: Maid of the Delian County.
‘So this is what he prepared?’
Not bad.
He was even showing the Status Window.
How convenient.
It was no wonder people called the Status Window the “King Status Window.”
Up to here was general information.
But more private details were also visible.
– Psychology: He’s awake? Has his illness been cured? Haah, what a pitiful person. It would have been better if he had passed peacefully.
This was getting more and more interesting.
The core of the King Status Window was the psychology section.
He could learn a great deal from it.
First, it was poisoning, but she thought his illness had been cured.
Judy didn’t know anything.
Seeing that she showed sympathy for Yurik, she seemed to be on his side,
“…Y-Young Master Yurik? Are you alright?”
How should he answer?
Would he be found out if he spoke?
First, act like a noble.
With a prickly tone.
“Are you not seeing for yourself? Do you need further explanation?”
“I-I’m sorry. I’ll g-go get the butler right away.”
The maid Judy hurriedly left the room.
Good.
It seemed he hadn’t been found out.
Tension at maximum.
This wimp’s heart was going to give out.
A brief moment passed.
He heard the sound of someone running—thud thud thud—and then the door swung open.
“Young Master Yurik!”
This time it was a middle-aged man.
– Name: Karls.
– Gender: Male.
– Age: 46.
– Occupation: Butler of the Delian County.
And.
– Psychology: Strange, how did he overcome the poison? It’s a deadly poison with no antidote.
So it was this guy.
The culprit who had poisoned Yurik,
Seriously!
A descendant of a fallen noble house, poisoning, the culprit being someone closest to him.
‘It’s a complete cluster of cliches, isn’t it?’
Kozak would go crazy with joy,
He’d be bouncing around all over the place.
But he wouldn’t summon him just yet.
First, he needed to find out more,
“How is your body?”
“…I’m fine.”
“Th-thank goodness.”
The butler hadn’t noticed either.
If he kept this up, he would be fine.
-Bang!
Another man opened the door and entered.
Why did people keep coming in?
They were scaring him.
“My lord! You have awakened?”
The King Status Window appeared.
His name was Lennard, age 32, a knight of the Delian County.
What was he thinking?
– Psychology: He survived? Haah, this is troublesome. What should we do? If we stab him with a sword, it’ll cause problems.
Wow!
This was chaos.
This bastard was an accomplice too.
‘What a mess.’
So the household’s butler and knight had tried to kill the last remaining heir of the house?
“Thank you for your concern.”
“Not at all.”
He suddenly felt sorry for Yurik.
It was a wonder he had survived this long.
But here was a question.
If Yurik died, the Delian County would end too.
‘Since it’s a noble house, there should be a territory,’
If there was no one to inherit?
The territory would either revert to the state or be absorbed into another noble house’s territory.
‘Could they have been aiming for that?’
His question was soon answered.
“Yurik! Where are you? I heard you woke up?”
One more person entered.
“Ooh! It’s true! O gods! Thank you for blessing the Delian household.”
Haah.
This was driving him crazy.
A middle-aged man with pointed ears.
What did the King Status Window say?
His name was Tallik Delian, age 51, a branch member of the Delian family—that is, Yurik’s 5th-degree uncle.
– Psychology: What are these idiots doing? I went to all the trouble of getting the poison for them.
So this was the mastermind.
What a well-run household.
“I seem to have recovered thanks to you.”
Tallik spoke with a bright smile.
“Hahaha! Our nephew seems much more reliable now that he’s recovered from his illness. You used to be so faint-hearted before.”
– Psychology: This ruins everything. No choice, even if it causes problems, I’ll have to handle it myself.
“Oh! I’m sorry to bring this up right after you’ve woken up, but….”
“Did something happen?”
Tallik Delian put on a deliberately serious expression.
“Although you’re not the head of the household, there’s a matter that needs to be handled in your capacity as acting head.”
Tell me.
I’ll listen.
Even if it’s obviously a scheme,
“Is it urgent?”
“The Patrick Mercenary Group is demanding payment of the remaining balance.”
“…”
Why were there so many characters?
He was already too lazy to remember all the names.
“Don’t you remember? The mercenary group we hired to subjugate the monsters in the southern forest.”
“Ah! Yes yes.”
“If we don’t pay them, they might cause trouble.”
“How much are they demanding?”
“1,000 gold.”
Was that expensive?
“As you know, the county’s budget has run dry….”
So the household was broke.
No wonder they were called fallen nobility.
‘Phew.’
He kept sighing.
Part of him wanted to just bonk each of them on the head with the Judge’s Mallet, but….
Too bothersome.
Let’s wrap this all up at once.
“I’ll handle it.”
“H-how?”
“First, could everyone please leave for a moment? My head is a mess….”
“Oh dear! Silly me. Alright, get ready and come outside. I’ll be waiting.”
The people left the room in a group.
After confirming their presence had moved far away,
‘Who should I summon?’
Let’s go easy.
Kozak and Gobang.
Those two would be enough, but he should also bring the newbie Gold Dragon Alejandro.
He should give him his first experience.
Begin summoning.
-Spot! Spot! Spot!
“Loyal!”
“The warrior is here.”
“Haah, finally….”
Would they recognize him with his face changed?
“Huh? Summoner Bong-nim, you became handsome. Now you can definitely get married.”
“The Summoner was always handsome.”
“Flawless. It’s a very high-level Polymorph spell.”
They recognized him.
“What kind of world is this?”
“A world overflowing with cliches everywhere.”
“Kyahh! I’m drooling.”
“Here’s what happened….”
Ju-hyeok began to explain.
***
The front yard of the Delian County lord’s manor.
A crowd of people had gathered.
Yurik’s 5th-degree uncle Tallik Delian, along with Chief Steward Karls, Knight Lennard and his soldiers, about 20 members of the Patrick Mercenary Group,
And some territory administrators, as well as a few territory residents who had gathered after hearing the rumor that the lord had awakened.
“That’s why I told you we should handle it thoroughly. What is this mess? So troublesome.”
The Patrick mercenary captain whispered complainingly to Tallik Delian,
“How was I supposed to know he’d survive?”
“Well, can’t be helped. Anyway, don’t worry. This time I’ll end it for good.”
“Make sure it’s done right. One wrong move and everything we’ve built could come crashing down.”
Yurik had to die.
Only if the direct heir died would the Delian County fall into his hands.
Truth be told, there wasn’t much to take from this fallen territory.
He hadn’t even thought about coveting it.
Until just recently, that is.
But two months ago, during the monster subjugation operation in the southern forest, it was discovered.
A Magic Stone mine with substantial reserves,
A miraculous treasure that could transform the fallen house into one of the fairly wealthy territories in the kingdom.
And he was supposed to just hand that over to the worthless Yurik?
Not a chance.
So he had devised a plan.
He brought in Butler Karls and Lennard.
They had hardly any loyalty to the destitute county house anyway—when he offered them a large sum of money, they came over immediately.
He also called in people from outside.
The Patrick Mercenary Group.
If he was going to take over the county and protect the Magic Stone mine, he needed a strong armed force.
After that, he had poisoned Yurik with a deadly toxin.
He was sure he had succeeded, but what was this?
The poisoning had failed.
But no need to worry.
He could just kill him again.
Here was the plan.
Patrick would cause a commotion demanding payment of the remaining balance.
Then Lennard’s soldiers would step in to stop them.
A fight would break out.
It was a staged sparring match, but
Chaos would ensue and an unexpected accident would occur.
For example, a stray sword piercing Yurik’s heart,
‘I’ll send you off painlessly.’
Just then!
Four people emerged from the lord’s manor building.
‘…Hm?’
One was Yurik, but who were the others?
Had that bastard Yurik also called in people from outside?
‘Surely the Magic Stone mine hasn’t been discovered?’
So what if it had?
There were only 4 of them.
One of them was quite a large giant, but.
“Yurik, come here. But who are these people…?”
Ju-hyeok let out a snicker.
When he focused on a target, their psychological state appeared.
He could see right through them.
“First, let’s settle the mercenary group’s remaining balance. I talked to them and….”
Enough.
“Kozak-ssi, Gobang-ssi, Alejandro-ssi, grab that one and that one, and…. no, just grab all of them and make them kneel. Just don’t kill them.”
“Yessir!”
Tallik was dumbfounded.
Had the poisoning made him lose his mind?
“You,”
That was when.
-Spot!
-Thwack!
“Guh!”
Butler Karls collapsed forward in one hit.
“Huh?”
-Thud!
-Crash!
“Kek!”
With a light gesture from the giant, Knight Lennard went flying backward and crashed into the wall.
“Wh-what?”
-Vwoooom!
A mage?
The entire Patrick Mercenary Group rose high into the air and then plummeted to the ground.
-Thud thud thud thud!
“Aaagh!”
“Ahhh!”
“Urk!”
“Guek!”
And Tallik himself too.
“How do you do? I’m Kozak, crazy about cliches.”
“Wait.”
Ju-hyeok stopped Kozak,
“Yes?”
“I’ll handle him.”
“Yessir! Count Bong…. Ah! Count Yurik-nim.”
-Fwoosh!
A mallet flew toward him.
-Thwack!
Everything went dark before Tallik Delian’s eyes.
At the same time!
-Fwip!
An image unfolded above his head.
