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856 Chapters (Completed):
-Main story: 821 Chapters (Completed)
-Side Stories: 35 Chapters (Completed)
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There is only one way to become a hunter, and that is to receive an invitation to climb the tower.

Your strength is determined by the number of floors you have climbed.

A total of 100 floors.
You must either use all your coins or clear all the floors to leave.

[Checking coins for Challenger Jo Hyun-soo.] [Coins: 999,999,999×∞] [Challenger Jo Hyun-soo’s coins are infinite.]

At first, I thought having infinite lives would be great, but…

“I need to clear up to the 100th floor to go home?”

I am Stuck in the tower.

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The Tower's Trapped Hunter
Trapped in the Tower
탑에 갇혀 고인물
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Recommendations
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Recommendation Lists
  1. My Favorite Korean Action Adventure Fantasy Novels...
  2. Hunter/Awakener/Gate/Tower - Pt. 1
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  4. (KR) Dungeon Novels
  5. Survival Game

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stphn
stphn rated it
August 7, 2024
Status: c38
I would consider this in the junk food category of tower novels. It does not make a lot of sense and is not perfectly internally consistent, but if you want to see an OP person struggle against OP monsters in a tower climbing genre with skills/stats go ahead.

While not being internally consistent is annoying, it is possible to ignore it if you don't think on it too much. Here a a few fairly non spoiler examples. Entry into the tower itself. This one could in theory be explained later, or... more>> the author might forget about it. At the start it is presented as fairly random, though within the tower (you can't contact those outside of it until done as far as I know) most characters are already affiliated with a guild. Maybe there is some special way to enter. For the story to make sense there has to be given lots of people seemed to know they were entering ahead of time/trained for it. Yet at least for the MC it felt really random, and was never explained. Not the end of the world, just odd.

A second example is that the MC discovers all sorts of super hidden things none of the large guilds/government has before. Fair enough. Some of them were hidden, some of them really were not. Something like kill extra mobs unlocking a hidden quest no one has discovered before. It is really hard to believe no one has tried to farm out more mobs as practice or to farm points that are needed in the tower. I could see it being uncommon.

Lastly, the MC's luck seems oddly high. Generally speaking, I can accept a certain degree of luck. Typically one lucky event leads to others (without a need for luck). As far as I can tell, he had insane luck at the start which led to some opportunities. This insane luck resulted in him acquiring one really good skill. That skill resulted in him getting a second good skill (which he does not seem to regularly use unless he needs a power up mid fight even though it is a skill that leads to the creation of new skills, which he probably should have practiced before rolling the dice and hoping for luck mid fight?). Then, with no really good reason as far as I can tell, the tower decided, hey, you have two high ranking skills, here are infinite lives. Have fun. It was a reward for being the first to have two high ranking skills? It really does not make a lot of sense. Also, he does not really seem to use the extra lives mentioned in the novel description. I am sure this will change, but it feels really odd. Having infinite lives in a world where most people have 3 (with 6 being really really good) and that being mostly irrelevant to the story seems odd. <<less
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Dante7555
Dante7555 rated it
July 20, 2024
Status: --
The novel starts off with a very interesting premise, but the background lore is ret*rded if you were supposed to take it seriously. That somehow a conspiracy of misinforming the entire world about dungeon information is possible at all, the author tried to explain this with a plot point that appears on floor 6, but it just doesn't make any sense. As long as anyone finish the 2nd floor they'll be able to access the tower community and would immediately be able to confirm that there is a conspiracy done... more>> by the guilds + government and with the difficulty of floor 3-5 which includes misinformation there's a high chance many will die and then spread the information in the real world.

Literally dog sh*t plot that's impossible to believe unless you also believe the earth is flat. It'd be more believable if they lied about the first 2 floors and try to make more people get to floor 6 to introduce the plot mechanic (which was also never explained how it works, is it magic? Alchemy? A store item? Who knows it just works).

If that's not dumb enough the story tries to build up minor characters and have them sometimes be antagonists/rivals against the protagonist, that would be kinda cool but it's instantly become ret*rded because the items these minor characters get are fraudulent if MC gets 5 items that increase his stats by 25 in total, minor character gets 1 item that increases all his stats each by 20 and the downside is that he looks like a kamen rider. If the MC gets 10 shitty skills with low ranks that he has to use the synthesis skill with ambiguous use limitations and cool down to make it usable (he just synthesize like 6 skills and then suddenly "oops, you've reached a limit you have to wait awhile until you can use it again, how long? Who knows teehee"), the minor character gets 5 incredibly strong skills that boss monsters have that is perfect for their build/personality. The MC wins a plot device ticket that can summon S rank NPC to help him + B rank skill book, minor character wins elixir that increases each of his stats by +20.

It's just so dog sh*t the more I read it, the author clearly does not have the ability to decently write multiple storylines but he tries to anyways and makes everything incoherent and dogshit

1/5 it's alright if you turn your brain off <<less
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Kakipii13
Kakipii13 rated it
November 28, 2024
Status: c300
Slowly making my way through the MTL. This novel is kind of average amongst Awakener/Tower novels, but it's still good. Would be a great introductory novel if you've never read this kind of novel before, but it still mostly holds up for even someone like me who reads A LOT of Awakener novels.

It's true the plot is kind of... "convenient" for the MC, like with his incredible luck, being the first to discover a bunch of secrets despite the enormous number of people all over the world who have climbed... more>> the Tower previously, the conspiracy behind the scenes that should have easily been uncovered that he's the first to realize and try to expose... some of these things are explained or rationalized in chapters that come MUCH later. But readers might be turned off at first because of a lot of illogical things (I feel like more and more readers probably complained to the author as the novel got more popular so the author eventually had to fix it lol).

For instance, it's eventually implied that the Tower itself might be trying to help the MC, so a lot of his absurd luck could be explained that way. Also, the MC's unique achievements eventually shift from being the convenient "first to find the secret, get something OP as a reward" and towards more things that only he is capable of doing because of his infinite lives (or risky things he's confident in trying that no one else would because they don't have infinite lives). This leads to knowing information/having opportunities from NPCs that no one else could -> able to find more secrets or force solutions that aren't supposed to be there because of that info -> the consequences of this snowballing as he progresses. It makes his situation much more plausible.

As for the conspiracy:

Spoiler

It's eventually revealed that people outside ARE aware of the conspiracy, and the MC isn't actually the first person to go past the second floor or come out of the Tower with his memories intact. It's shown that more people are aware than the MC originally realizes; it's just not mainstream information. The conspiracy is so widespread and entrenched in the governments of most countries that it's hard to fight against it or try to get the world out, but it is happening. There's an entire guild from the US that's dedicated to fighting the conspiracy, and there are people who know about but can't betray the conspiracy because, once they start to talk, there's an item in their head that automatically kills them. They're eventually able to make the conspiracy known to everyone in the Tower, even outside of Korea.

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This novel has the problem of "quirky characters" being just weird people who don't listen when you talk and make assumptions and do things no one in real life would. Luckily, since the Tower is mostly a solo climb, you don't have to withstand them for most of the novel. The writing of the characters is kind of weak in general, so that makes the action, the details around conquering the Tower, and the overarching plot the selling points of the novel. The plot is kind of predictable in a lot of ways, but that doesn't mean it's bad, and there are some aspects later on that aren't so predictable.

The major weakness of this novel is, of course, the weak writing in the first like 100 chapters; if you aren't interested, you never get far enough for it to get better. Which is fair enough, because if you just can't get interested in the story, the writing getting better isn't going to matter to you.

This novel is pretty mid, but it's entertaining me and keeping me reading it after all this time. For that achievement, it gets a 4/5 stars. <<less
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libajto
libajto rated it
August 18, 2024
Status: c428
If this would be an anime it would 100% be a shounen genre one. If you understand it from that standpoint it's actually really good.

It definitely has some comedic undertones. There are reasons for why things happen and they get somewhat explained way later as you go up in the tower.

Main reason is due information restriction. Other than that spoiler is that everybody is trying to survive in the tower,
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even the npc's

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