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Chapter 1

Tower Gallery

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[Tower Gallery]

Title: Who’s the crazy bitch who just ran off after eating only the troll’s eyes in Area 2 of the 3rd floor?

Author: KillAllCashFarmers

No, I genuinely can’t understand it.

If you’re gonna kill it, kill it, and if you’re not, don’t—why scoop out only the eyes and run?

Troll eyes <- Is this some new cash-farming material these days?

- Haven’t seen any info post about that

- Isn’t it an alchemy ingredient?

ㄴ I’m a mage and that’s bullshit lol

ㄴ This is why newbie bastards are a problem. If it looks gross and dirty, they think it’s all alchemy material

ㄴ Why are you getting so worked up all by yourself?

- I’m a second-year low-floor cash farmer, and this is bullshit, yeah; 100% chance OP is making it up.

ㄴ (OP) I’m telling you it’s real, you bastard

ㄴ What do you mean, made up? lol Don’t you know you get banned by the Tower Administrator if you fake stuff?

ㄴ You don’t get banned for making stuff up, yeah. I know because I tried.

ㄴ Crazy bastard lol Do you not value your life?

Title: Why do all the spider-foxes in Area 5 of the 2nd floor have one leg cut off?

Author: HunterBungBungBung

Looks like someone only took the legs and ran. Is this some new farming item?

- You think?

- If it were a farming item, it’d already be on the popular posts and the spider-foxes would be extinct.

ㄴ For real lol You think cash farmers are a joke? lol

Title: Why are the goblins in Area 3 of the 1st floor extinct?

Author: 2ndYearTowerGalFavReg

I’ve been walking around for an hour already, and I’m not even joking, I haven’t seen a single one;;;;

- Why are there so many crap posts like this today?

- Tower Gal’s gone to shit, damn it

- What’s the admin doing? Not deleting posts like this?

- In two years, I’ve never once seen the goblins in Area 3 of the 1st floor get wiped out. Therefore, this is a fake crap post.

ㄴ I’m a newbie, so I’m genuinely asking because I don’t know—why? Everyone told me to skip the goblins and move on to Area 4 of the 1st floor anyway

ㄴ 1. They look fucking disgusting and smell fucking disgusting, so nobody hunts them.

2. Their blood splatters fucking everywhere, so the smell gets into your clothes.

3. There’s no money in it. Goblin cash-farming went out of fashion a year ago. Even back then, they were never wiped out.

4. You can skip them with no problem. If anything, Area 4 of the 1st floor is easier.

ㄴ Thanks for the summary. Yeah, it’s definitely fake

Title: It’s real you fucking bastards

Author: 2ndYearTowerGalFavReg

If I get banned my life is fucked, so why would I fake it, damn it

[Photo]

[Photo]

[Photo]

I’m telling you, there really isn’t a single goblin

- ?

- What is this?

- Is it edited?

- Would a registered user really post fake crap on Tower Gal...?

ㄴ That’s true too

- No, what kind of idiot hunts goblins;;; I seriously can’t believe this

ㄴ For real lol Even newbies skip goblins

Title: I’ll personally verify the popular post bait, and if it’s a lie, I’ll ban him immediately.

Author: [Mod] 1st Floor Administrator

Yeah.

- Mod appears lololololol

- Admin-noona has entered the chat lololololololol

- Goodbye.

- No, but isn’t that guy screwed? If he gets banned, his life is over

ㄴ A bastard who wrote a fake post deserves to have his life ruined

Title: What the fuck

Author: [Mod] 1st Floor Administrator

They really are extinct?

- ?

- Why is this real?

- How is this actually true?

- [Mod] [1st Floor Administrator] Don’t know, and it doesn’t violate any rules, so figure it out yourselves, bye

ㄴ I’m a fan

ㄴ How old are you, though?

ㄴ Noona, how old are you and where do you live?

ㄴ I heard the 1st Floor Administrator is a goddess. Is that true?

Title: Requesting popular) Found the reason the goblins went extinct.

Author: 2ndYearTowerGalFavReg

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It was because of this crazy bitch.

[Video]

[Video]

Watch the second video.

Fuck, she was tearing into a goblin corpse on the ground and eating it.

What is she? A Ranker?

- Crazy lololololololololol

- Why the hell is she eating corpses lolololololol

- Is she mentally ill? ;;;;;;;;;

- Put a gore warning on this, you bastard

- Is it a unique trait?

- Meanwhile, why is she so strong? What’s with cracking goblin skulls open with a frying pan lololololol

- No matter how I look at it, she seems like a Ranker. Was there a crazy bitch like that among the Rankers?

- [Mod] [1st Floor Administrator] Why is this real lmaololololololololololololol

ㄴ Be honest. You’re human, aren’t you

ㄴ That reaction is so damn human lolololol

ㄴ How is this a god lololololol

* * *

Bubble, bubble.

Simmer, simmer.

In a corner of Area 3 on the sparsely populated 1st floor of the Tower, I drooled as I stared at the soup from which a delicious aroma was slowly rising.

First, I steeped the troll eyes in cold water and completed the broth that would serve as the base.

Troll eyes were a sticky ingredient, so they even added viscosity to the broth, like starch water.

Take the eyes out for a moment.

After that, bring the broth to a boil with the leg hair of spider-foxes, which produces a uniquely mysterious savoriness.

The leg hair must be boiled for only about three minutes and then removed. If boiled too long, an overwhelmingly powerful umami that no human could endure would seep out and ruin the balance of the flavor.

The finishing touch was goblin kidneys.

Goblin kidneys were so small that a single one could not properly draw out their distinctive pungent fragrance.

So I had beaten down every goblin I saw in Area 3 of the 1st floor and had just obtained around a hundred fresh goblin kidneys.

I stir-fried the goblin kidneys once in a frying pan.

Goblin kidneys, in a manner of speaking, served the same role as spices.

Spices are at their most fragrant when stir-fried over high heat as if being scorched!

Sniff, sniff.

Sniff sniff sniff.

Ahh, paradise.

It smelled so appetizing that drool streamed from my mouth.

Now, seal the stir-fried goblin kidneys in a mesh pouch and place it in the broth.

Add back the troll eyes that had been taken out for a while, and boil for ten minutes until the eyes become tender and thoroughly cooked…!

“Sluuuurp.”

A bomb of umami.

“Troll Eyeball Soup, made with broth from spider-fox leg hair, then seasoned with the fragrance of goblin kidneys stir-fried as if scorched.”

Complete!

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