The Surface Meaning of Black Tower World

Black Vortex Mark

A marking method used by Destiny Space on "Uncontrolled Ones."

So-called Uncontrolled Ones were beings like the clown, Pennywise. Because the "Clown Virus" it carried possessed powerful infectious and thought-assimilation properties, once any lifeform in Destiny World became infected, it would Transform Into a clown's "soul-return vessel."

If Destiny Space were viewed as a system,

then the clown was Just Like a virus capable of self-replication, endlessly infecting other programs... Once it died, someone else would transform into it.

A being like the clown could have an enormous impact on the Destiny Ecological Circle, thus earning the Black Tower's mark.

It had been forcibly imprisoned in the detention zone at the bottom of the Black Tower for a long time, only finding an opportunity to escape during an extradimensional upheaval that occurred once in centuries.

It infected a locust that had accidentally been drawn into a dimensional rift, actively committed suicide to lower its own level, and fled to the mid-level world of Derry Town under a false identity.

Yet before the Black Tower Employees could capture it again, Han Dong intercepted and killed it.

According to the clown's memories Han Dong had acquired,

the Black Tower Employees who had directly crossed world planes to forcibly capture it shared a trait: they wore "vortex masks."

This trait happened to resemble that of the manager of the Holy City's clock tower.

There was no need to elaborate on the importance of "Destiny Space."

The Holy City had handed the management rights of the Gate of Destiny to the Clock Master. There had to be secrets behind that.

Time rewound to a month earlier.

Han Dong had just passed the two trials of Eve of Expedition. Taking advantage of his free time, he went alone to the clock