I Became a Gallery Newbie Beloved by Transcendents-Chapter 46: Rise

Han Yuseong was soaked in light, then returned to normal.

[Welcome to Floor 6.]

Han Yuseong glanced around the Floor 6 staircase waiting room.

It didn’t look much different from the Floor 5 one.

Clunk—

Just like on Floor 5, there was a red mailbox beneath the clock. He rummaged through it, but just like before, it was empty.

The moment he pulled his hand out of the mailbox, notification windows flooded his vision.

[You have received 1,200 Coins as the Floor 5 clear reward.]

[Your score for Floor 5 has been recorded in the rankings.]

《 Floor 5 - Score Rankings 》

1st - Private: 1,782 pts NEW!

2nd - Guildmaster: 844 pts

3rd - Heukseong: 723 pts

4th - Black Hand: 609 pts

5th - Being Tracked: 513 pts

6th - Sinclair: 511 pts

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Han Yuseong first checked the item he received for clearing Floor 5.

[Skadar’s Phantom Step]

Category – Armor (Shoes)

Defense +30

Effect:

1. Dusk Step – When a cursed terrain such as fire, vines, or poison spreads across the ground, infuse the shoes with mana to emit an energy that pushes those effects back through the ground.

2. Step of Forgetting – If you release mana, your footsteps become nearly silent.

Description: Combat shoes created to retrieve the corpses of fallen comrades in the Forest of Beasts. Crafted by the renowned artisan Creighton in memory of the great knight Skadar, and later refined posthumously.

Grade: A

"Not bad."

Next, Han Yuseong checked the item he received for placing 1st on the Floor 5 rankings.

[Eyrand’s Wedge]

Category – Weapon (Spear)

Attack Power: +70

Effect:

1 – Penetration: Increases chance of piercing upon hit.

2 – Spiral: When spun in a spiral motion, efficiently releases rotational mana.

3 – Weight Reduction: For defensive stances, the shaft of the spear becomes extremely light.

Description: The spear of Eyrand, a war hero of the Duchy Kingdom.

Grade: A+

A spear.

With this level of attack power, it would work just fine in real combat alongside Mundum Exstinguit.

Han Yuseong decided to train with the spear when he had time.

Current date: March 12.

Days remaining until the next exchange meeting: D - 13.

After checking the date, he lay down in his sleeping bag.

He turned on the terminal and opened the Transcendent Gallery.

Since this wasn’t a stage but a staircase waiting room, it was a place where constellations couldn’t observe him. There was no need to use the Binding Scroll or Veil of Secrets.

Title: Finally made it to Floor 6.

Author: ㅇㅇ*

– Still nothing in the mailbox. Cleared the quest from the constellation who registered it during the Floor 5 stage. Drank the elixir Gehenna.

ㄴ Well done.

ㄴ Another four-digit score for Rank 1! Watching the Climber Gallery losers react never gets old.

ㄴ Those climber gallery punks are just endlessly trashing the old rankers now, lol.

ㄴ Is it really trashing... or just facts?

ㄴ Honestly, that’s just mindless trashing. Our climber here is just an outlier. The old rankers at least cleared top ranks on Hard Mode. Sure, our class does seem to have more monsters, though.

ㄴ Some of those monsters are in this chat right now.

ㄴ Pioneer) Gehenna... that’s a rare elixir that only occasionally drops after Floor 50 on Hard Mode. And he drank it on Floor 5.

ㄴ Elf Guy) They probably didn’t expect him to drink it after completing the quest.

ㄴ Pioneer) You gain resistance to dark-attribute attacks, but whether you can improve and adapt to it depends entirely on your own talent. If you're a climber, you probably can.

ㄴ No updates on Floor 66 yet?

ㄴ Nope, seems like they’re still climbing?

ㄴ Suwang) It’s not something that takes forever. News will drop soon enough—either everyone dies or almost dies. Should be done in a week.

ㄴ ㅇㅇ*) So the Hard Mode Floor 66 result isn’t ❀ Nоvеlігht ❀ (Don’t copy, read here) out yet?

ㄴ ㅇㅇㅇ Just wait. I’ll post as soon as there’s news. The guild leader who's pushing you down to second place in the rankings is the one currently attempting it.

"Ah, that guy."

ㄴ ㅇㅇ*) Then I guess he’ll survive just fine.

ㄴ Who knows.

ㄴ Honestly, like Sword of Light said, it’s kind of a fact that Hard Mode players these days are pretty weak.

ㄴ Sword of Light) Just focus on your own path.

ㄴ ㅇㅇ*) Can’t argue with that.

Han Yuseong didn’t have the time to worry about other players.

Unlike these tower-enders in the Transcendent Gallery, he still had to keep climbing upward.

ㄴ ㅇㅇ*) So Gehenna is just something I drink?

ㄴ Archmage) Yep. But Gehenna’s pretty high-grade, so it’ll take a while to digest.

ㄴ ㅇㅇ*) How long?

ㄴ Archmage) No clue. Even if you process fast, maybe a week?

ㄴ Gutter Swordsman) Still, a week is relatively quick.

ㄴ Absolute Monarch) A week is fast. Sometimes it takes over a month.

ㄴ Shrine Maiden) Hawawawa! You’ve worked hard, Climber-kun~

ㄴ ㅇㅇ*) Thanks to Shrine Maiden-senpai, I avoided getting nuked by mages. But hey, does this thing always block that much?

ㄴ Shrine Maiden) Hawawa, if magic pours in from all directions, or if it’s above Fifth Rank, the charm might lose its effect~

ㄴ ㅇㅇ*) Guess I was lucky then. I fought a Fifth-Rank knight but didn’t run into a Fifth-Rank mage.

ㄴ Totally gaslit by Pandemonium... Fought a Fifth-Rank knight and says, "Guess I was lucky."

ㄴ lololol this bastard’s definition of luck is so warped now

ㄴ ㅇㅇ*) Then I’ll just take the Gehenna, train until it’s fully absorbed, and go up to Floor 6 when I’m done.

ㄴ Sword of Light) Smart plan.

ㄴ Sage) Have any constellations sent weird reactions?

ㄴ ㅇㅇ*) Ah, about th—

ㄴ ?

ㄴ That?

ㄴ What? Sudden death??

Nod—

Han Yuseong dozed off.

Literally, he was just dozing.

Like he had fainted.

He’d pushed himself way too hard training right before this.

He was only nodding off with his head drooping, but there was no way the tower-enders on the other side of the terminal could’ve known that.

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As soon as Han Yuseong suddenly stopped commenting, silence fell over the chat.

Then, the comments started pouring in.

ㄴ What the hell?

ㄴ Hey climber, hey?

ㄴ Why were you replying just fine and then stopped? Why were you replying just fine and then stopped? Why were you replying just fine and then stopped?

ㄴ Uhh, this never happened before?

ㄴ Ice Queen) Frozen! What’s going on! Climber!

ㄴ Dragon King) Beltui—Climber, hurry and leave a comment~ This is scary now~

ㄴ Archmage) ?? What the hell, you were chatting fine, why’d you suddenly stop? Don’t scare me. Say something.

ㄴ Sword of Light) What happened?

ㄴ Absolute Monarch) Climbing the tower is often repulsive and painful. Even so, one must endure without breaking.

ㄴ Gutter Swordsman) Uh, maybe he’s not sick, just sleeping?

ㄴ Suwang) Sleeping, my ass! That climber’s never fallen asleep like this! He must be paralyzed from stress climbing the tower!

ㄴ Ice Queen) Alrighty~ Climber, when I say “Frozen Thaw,” you wake up, okay? Frozen... thaw!

ㄴ Hm, it’s quiet? He’s dead, right? Dead, right? Dead, right?

ㄴ Admin) Quiet.

ㄴ Yes, sir.

ㄴ Ice Queen) Frozen thaw!! Frozen thaw! Frozen thaw frozen thaw!

ㄴ Ice Queen) Froooozennn... uuuuugh!

ㄴ Stop freezing and stop melting already (((╹д╹;)))

ㄴ Guess the Ice Kingdom’s really got nothing to do, huh?

ㄴ Heavenly Demon) Arise. It’s far too early to die. You must see the end of martial arts.

ㄴ Wait, you can see the end of martial arts if you clear the tower??

ㄴ FamousOne) No you can’t. You didn’t, and neither did this bum.

ㄴ Heavenly Demon) The Climber will see it. I believe it without a doubt.

ㄴ Oh boy, the supreme Heavenly Demon’s trying to initiate another dimensional transaction. Much respect.

ㄴ Give it up. You already did one. You’re not the only one from Hard Mode whose eyes went crazy trying to pull off dimensional deals.

ㄴ Archmage) Hey... what’s wrong? Leave a comment real quick. I finished crafting a spell that can be cast using just aura circuits. You’re the only one who can use it.

ㄴ Archmage) I made it specifically for you. I even locked it so no one else can activate it.

ㄴ Archmage) You’re not ignoring me, are you? You’re not dead, right? Just sleeping, right...?

ㄴ Archmage) Just drop one comment. Then the magic will be complete.

ㄴ Ophelia-chan is getting scary~

ㄴ It’s getting dark all of a sudden.

ㄴ The Invincible Iron-Blooded Magical Girl Ophelia, trembling in fear that the Climber might be dead ㄷㄷㄷ

ㄴ Caelum being scared is rare, you know.

ㄴ Sage) You’ve finally overcome the inverse scale of the circuits and created magic using only aura channels. Impressive.

ㄴ Pioneer) He’s probably just tired and dozing off.

Han Yuseong wiped the drool from the corner of his mouth. freēnovelkiss.com

"Ugh."

He had briefly fallen into a deep sleep.

Han Yuseong replied to the first comment he saw.

ㄴ Ice Queen) Froozen solid! Climber! Froozen! Thaw—! If you don’t wake up, I’ll freeze you forever and keep you next to me! Frooozen frooozen! Frooozen frooozen frooozen frooozen! Ice!

ㄴ ㅇㅇ*) Thaw. I’ve never died, so why would I come back to life? I just dozed off a bit.

ㄴ Ice Queen) Heeheehee! What a relief! Frooozen!!!

“The queen-senpai always seemed kind of unhinged, so whatever... but what the hell’s up with Archmage-senpai now.”

ㄴ Archmage) Phew, since you commented, you know what this means. I’m top pick for the next dimensional deal.

He’ll never be a proper gentleman.

If he could really use magic, Han Yuseong had no reason to refuse.

ㄴ Shrine Maiden) Hawawawawa, indeed~ You are not fated to die yet~ If you’re tired, sleep it off and think things through afterward~

ㄴ ㅇㅇ*) Sounds like a plan.

He intended to get some proper rest and then take Gehenna while in good condition.

Han Yuseong scrolled up to check the Sage’s earlier question again.

Had the constellations ever reacted strangely? That was the question.

ㄴ ㅇㅇ*) I think they reacted a bit differently when I used Sword of Light-senpai’s sword technique, Dragonslayer Swordsmanship, or Heavenly Demon-senpai’s martial arts. Ah, and they seemed uncertain when they saw the talisman report too.

ㄴ ㅇㅇ*) But they probably never expected me to be in the gallery.

ㄴ Shrine Maiden) Just sneakily hide it with the Veil of Secrets and scoop up the rewards like this time~

ㄴ ㅇㅇ*) Exactly.

Han Yuseong closed the gallery, stored the terminal in his inventory, and pulled out the elixir—Gehenna.

[Gehenna]

Category – Elixir

Effect: Upon consumption, drastically increases all stats including mana. The boost is permanent. Also grants resistance to dark-attribute attacks.

Usable Level: 28

Grade: A

Han Yuseong’s current level was 29.

He had just barely made the cut.

‘So this is what a rare elixir looks like.’

Han Yuseong swallowed the Gehenna.

[Beginning absorption of ‘Gehenna’. Progress ...1%]

At the current rate, it looked like full absorption would take quite a while.

***

Absorption of Gehenna finished faster than expected.

It took three days. Now, exactly 10 days remained until the exchange meeting.

I opened my status window.

<Player Status> Name: Han Yuseong Race: Human Lv.29

Strength: 191

Agility: 192

Stamina: 199

Mana: 171

Skills:

Pain Suppression Lv.7

Composure Lv.7

Concealment Lv.4

Crisis Detection Lv.4

Expanded Vision Lv.5

Concentration Boost Lv.5

Fighter’s Movement Lv.6

Mana Body Enhancement Lv.6

Doombringer Lv.4

Mental Barrier Lv.5

Trajectory Insight Lv.4

Dark Attribute Resistance Lv.1

The resistance showed up as a passive skill.

He opened the terminal and launched the Transcendent Gallery.

Unusually, it was buzzing over something that wasn’t about him.

Title: Guildmaster says, “Only 5 out of 50 survived”

Author: ㅇㅇ

– Copy-pasted directly from the original post.

I was defeated. I was wrong.

Only 5 out of 50 survived.

Floor 66 was completely different from what I expected.

What I now know for sure is that the tower doesn’t care about cooperation.

It values individual strength. I’ve only just realized that.

The Strategy Union won’t be disbanded. But I plan to change how we do things.

Once I’ve sorted my thoughts, I’ll post again.

ㄴ Been holed up in the Transcendent Gallery too long, feels like a chore to even check Climber Gallery. ㅇㅇ What’s in the comments?

ㄴ What else—just talk about our climber.

ㄴ About how he took first on Floor 5. People keep calling him a mere mortal.

ㄴ The post is dry, but the guy’s gotta be mentally wrecked.

ㄴ No idea when they’ll enter Floor 67.

ㄴ No one else from the five survivors posted anything??

ㄴ Nope.

ㄴ They really broke down mentally.

ㄴ Still, if I had to listen to crap like that from Easy and Normal players, I’d wanna kill everyone. Dude’s got a good personality.

ㄴ You mean us?

ㄴ Yeah, but we respect him ‘cause we know what’s up.

ㄴ Pioneer) More deaths than expected.

ㄴ Archmage) Seriously... I thought at least 10 would survive.

ㄴ Sword of Light) We overestimated them.

ㄴ Absolute Monarch) A shame.

ㄴ Gutter Swordsman) Hopefully he can recover and regain clarity.

ㄴ lololol these Hard Mode vets are so cold.

Yeah.

Sometimes you need to break just enough.

No matter what happens.

It was about time to start climbing again.