It's been a week since [My Home Tower] appeared on Earth.
"Hello, viewers! I'm a Neotube creator who reviews items from the Tower! Welcome to <Tower View Review>! Today, we'll be looking at some super hot items I bought from [My Home Tower]!"
Under the yellow light on the desk, strange-looking objects appeared one by one in front of the camera.
A caption briefly flashed saying the Holy Water was too expensive to obtain.
"Do you know what this is?"
The first item he pulled out was a watermelon, but not an ordinary one.
Two watermelons were attached side by side, looking like a peanut!
"What? You say my melons are huge? I was surprised too when I first saw them. This watermelon really does look quite sugges— ahem!"
"Why am I the only one touching nice things? My hand movements look suspicious? Hey! What are you all thinking? This is just a watermelon, a watermelon! This isn't that kind of channel!"
As the watermelon's shape provoked misunderstandings, the chat went wild.
Dozens of users were blocked by moderators for crossing the line with their comments, but the broadcast continued.
After cutting the watermelon and comparing its taste to regular ones, the atmosphere grew more lively.
Next, he introduced jerky that he claimed to have purchased from a Climber.
"And this is... 'Bomb Rabbit Jerky.' You can get this by clearing the 2nd floor trial in [My Home Tower], and eating it grants you the [Explosion Resistance] skill for the first time! It reduces explosion damage by 70%! I'll try eating it!"
After eating the jerky, he asked his assistant to throw firecrackers at him to test if it really worked.
"I think this resistance is real! The firecracker exploded on my body but it doesn't hurt at all! It just feels a bit ticklish!"
The chat filled with jokes like "Would it work against grenades?" and "I'll give you 100,000 won if you can withstand a nuclear bomb," making the broadcast even more heated.
"I've heard rumors that with long-term consumption, it evolves into [Explosion Immunity]. I'll eat one every day to see if that's true. Now, let's move on to the next item!"
Next, he introduced various otherworldly products: dragon leather, sheep spider silk, minotaur milk, cockatrice eggs, rainbow-colored mushrooms, and more.
Towers have been on Earth for five years now.
So why are people so excited about these various products from the Tower?
The reason lies in the uniqueness of [My Home Tower].
In other towers, aggressive monsters like goblins, slimes, ogres, and one-eyed bats were common, meaning that to obtain resources from other worlds, one had to risk danger and gather them personally or trade with "Tower Residents" occasionally encountered on upper floors.
But [My Home Tower] was different. It allowed direct trading of all these items with Tower Coins, causing otherworldly goods to flow into the Korean market at an unprecedented rate!
Naturally, various communities and the Gallery exploded with reactions once again.
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[Author: StaticMageMage]
[Title: Died from exploding rabbit on 2nd floor of My Home Tower but revived lol;;]
What kind of crappy tower puts something like this on the 2nd floor?
I approached it because it was cute, but some crazy [Berserker] was trying to kill the rabbit and it went BOOM and died;;
Then the other rabbits must have recognized us as enemies because they started making clicking sounds and exploding.
Of course I died too. But when I came to, I had revived outside the tower lolololol
If I didn't have the revival buff, I couldn't have even written this post lololololol
-Why would rabbits explode wtf lololololol
└What is this, Killer Queen Sheer Heart Attack? lololololol
└"Sheer Heart Rabbit"... has no "weakness"...!
-A tower that kills with explosions from the 2nd floor, is this for real? lololol
-I think I've seen this in WarCraft...
└Ugh, my head...!
-They're actually gentle if you don't attack them
└That's good at least, I thought they were like those man-eating rabbits from Re:Zero lololol
-This makes me want to raise a bomb rabbit
└Officer! This person is raising bombs at home!
└Whoa, illegal bomb production OMG
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[Author: Lyons]
[Title: How I milked a Minotaur and became a Labyrinth Meal protagonist]
So the Minotaur actually had udders lololololol
I wasn't sure but there really was one you could milk lololololol
I heard Minotaurs are carnivores, so I gave it jerky from the 2nd floor saying "Good girl~" and after eating it, she just lay down and let me milk her lololol
I could easily get 1L quickly and cleared the trial. The reward was a processed 500ml pack of Minotaur milk?
I drank it right away and it was delicious and the effect was amazing! My muscles grew immediately lololol
Glad I watched Labyrinth Meal lololol
-Are you some kind of tamer? How did you tame a Minotaur??
-Damn, I tried to milk one and got impaled by its horns and died
└You need good timing. Approach when the horns are lowered
-Is this a tower or a farm experience? lololololol
-Labyrinth Meal IRL lololololol
-I thought the tower was an RPG but turns out it's a slow life game lololololol
-Minotaur milk is so popular there's now a waiting time lololol
-I chose to dismantle the bomb rabbit, and I followed the instructions exactly but it went boom and exploded
└Who would choose that???
└If you eat the jerky first, you won't die so it's doable? They forgive up to 3 mistakes.
└Oh, then is dismantling rabbits better than milking Minotaurs?
└No, your body survives but all your equipment gets blown away by the explosion so you need to get new gear wtf
└Hahahahahahahahaha
└So the equipment couldn't withstand it? lolololololololol
└After seeing this, I'm going to dismantle rabbits naked
└???
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[Author: CheekGodGame]
[Title: What appears on the 4th floor]
There are sheep spiders on the 4th floor.
It's literally sheep + spider.
Head of a sheep but with 8 eyes and legs, and its body is covered in wool made of spider silk.
It's bigger than a person and looks absolutely terrifying.
But to clear the trial, you have to shear the sheep spider.
If it's too difficult, they say you can just capture one [Venomous Sheep Spider] from another area, but all the Climbers who went to capture one died dissolved by poison... Seems like even [Angel's Protection (Small)] can't block the venom.
So I just cried while shearing the sheep spider.
But it was actually very docile and its wool was soft, which was nice.
After shearing it, I actually grew fond of it.
-Sheep spiders are only scary at first, they're actually very docile and cute lololololol
└But that first impression is unfair... it's like a horror game...
-They sell blankets made from their wool in the tower and they're super soft and warm
-Still, there's satisfaction in shearing them. The sound of scissors going shak-shak-shak is quite healing lololol
└Shearing wool and milking... is this a real-life Mabinogi?
└Ah! So this tower was actually Erinn all along!
└Even Erinn doesn't have sheep spiders wtf lololololololol
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There were also posts about having to collect honey from spear-wielding bees [Spear Bee] on the 5th floor, and mushroom-growing pigs on the 6th floor where the trial involves harvesting 10 types of mushrooms.
People climbing the tower shared information and strategies they discovered, gradually becoming more familiar with the tower.
Meanwhile, floors designed for rest rather than trials were also very popular.
A Climber bragging about eating Hell Flame Dragon Steak,
An insomniac who claimed to have slept well for the first time at the Milky Way Hotel,
A Climber rejoicing that bathing in the Sparkling Water Hot Spring made their skin smooth and helped them lose weight,
A Climber wailing about not having enough Tower Coins for additional services after receiving counseling from a succubus (...)
Plus, the Maid in the 1st floor Lobby said that free movement between floors would soon be possible, raising Climbers' expectations even higher.
[My Home Tower], where strange trials and amazing relaxation coexist.
Climbers were happily exploring it like excited children.
However, the joyful festival created by the tower was only the story of the Climbers.
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The Korean government was swamped with daily meetings and reports.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of National Defense, Intelligence Agency, Ministry of Science and Technology, and even the Ministry of Health and Welfare—all departments were attending daily "Tower Response Task Force Meetings" to discuss the situation.
Information about the tower was being released almost in real-time and spreading quickly online, making it impossible for the government to keep up no matter how quickly they tried to respond.
"Complaints are emerging from various countries that the Korean government is trying to monopolize the resources of this new tower."
"The United States, France, and Russia have each requested to dispatch Climbers, and there are reports that Japan has already sent Climbers to attempt access to the new tower."
With the Foreign Minister's report, the conference room fell into a heavy silence.
"And... regarding the Holy Water. Many middle-power countries have expressed interest in purchasing it. Some have even submitted formal requests with budget proposals attached."
"If this Holy Water is released to the public, it will cause uncontrollable religious and social chaos! It must remain under national control!"
"But giving the impression of monopolizing it is even more dangerous. We should at least pretend to consider an international joint management system to reduce diplomatic pressure."
"We haven't even secured enough for our own citizens yet... Are you suggesting we sell the Holy Water overseas?"
The Minister of Health and Welfare responded to this.
"When a pandemic threatened our citizens' health, we fought desperately to secure vaccines first. Now, are we talking about giving away this Holy Water, whose nature isn't even fully understood, to other countries first? That's literally abandoning our national interest."
The conference room fell silent, and the atmosphere grew heavy.
From the beginning, not just Holy Water, but items like [Tears of the Majestic Angel] and [World Tree Essence] were appearing... this was already beyond what the government could handle.
Meanwhile, the person responsible for all this chaos—Crow, ranked 9th among world Climbers—had disappeared.
As the first person to reveal the Holy Water from [My Home Tower] to the world and essentially the first to encounter the [Tower Administrator], he was receiving international attention.
However, Crow had cut off contact, and only fragments of information suggested he was climbing remote towers in Africa alone.
No one could pinpoint Crow's exact whereabouts, and some countries were even spreading conspiracy theories that Crow was "colluding with the Tower Administrator to build his own power base."
And the [Glory Guild] and [Black Sword Guild] who supported Crow's statements.
These two major domestic Climber alliance guilds had delivered unofficial positions to the government regarding this situation.
"If we hide such sensitive information and it leaks later, the risk will only grow larger. It's better in the long run to disclose a certain level from the beginning and maintain control."
— From [Glory] Guild's representative statement
"This is an unstoppable trend. As long as Climbers continue to ascend towers, monopolizing such major information is impossible. Instead, we should first discuss how to utilize this tower's existence to strengthen national capabilities."
— From [Black Sword] Guild's strategy team internal report
The government accepted the practical advice from the [Glory] and [Black Sword] guilds and completely readjusted their response strategy.
Under the judgment that "securing control" was more important than "concealing information," the government's measures were as follows:
First, all materials and Holy Water related to the new tower can only be traded through the government, with severe penalties for unauthorized removal or leakage.
Second, special personnel will be additionally deployed in front of [My Home Tower] to strengthen control and surveillance of Climber access.
Third, they plan to establish a state-led distribution system for the Tower Coin-based economic system.
Next, they were determining how to respond to requests from other countries, but...
"China's... silence is what's most frightening."
Indeed.
China was suspiciously quiet.
No official position, almost no unofficial reaction.
Not only was there no mention of the tower, but there was also no visible movement from relevant departments.
However, that silence was an ominous sign.
"...We need to prepare before they make their move."
The government immediately began developing response scenarios for possible Chinese intervention.
They strengthened satellite surveillance, enhanced defense against network hacking, and began unofficially restoring information-sharing channels with neighboring countries.
But—
Would that be enough to stop this massive wave?
The higher floors of the new tower that no one had climbed yet.
What "mysteries" await there?
How far would this gift from the [Tower Administrator] shake human society—
No one knew yet.