"Damn you!" Blaze cursed, but found many stares landing on him as he found himself in the middle of the street. {Just handle it. I'm too angry and might end up cutting someone.} Neo looked around and found that he had arrived at the first floor of the tower, and was greeted by a bustling city. The buildings here were made of stone and reached high into the sky, with carved pillars and arches decorating their entrances. The streets were wide and paved with cobblestones, with vendors selling their wares on either side. The people here were a diverse mix of races, each with their own unique features and clothing. Some were tall and muscular with green skin and pointed ears, while others were small and nimble with furry tails and cat-like eyes. Many of them carried weapons and wore armor, suggesting they were skilled players. As Neo walked through the city, he saw groups of people gathered in taverns and shops, sharing stories and discussing their adventures. He also noticed a few pla
Ash was reluctant but nodded as he knew that he'd only be a burden if he followed Neo. Neo smiled and ruffled his head before following the bloodied footsteps. The settlement was outside the city, so the monsters could be seen roaming around. Neo used [Inspect] and found most of them were level 5 and 6. {Ptui. Weak.} Blaze complained because even if he killed them, it'd only give him one or two experiences and with the way his experience was behaving. Let's forget about it. He followed the steps, which started fading, so he had to look for other things, like dragging marks, broken branches and such. He followed the traces for a while before arriving in front of a cavernous opening surrounded by jagged, menacing looking rocks and an eerie glow coming from the cave. "Well, the dungeons and I must be long-lost lovers." Blaze commented as his mouth arched up. 『 Entering the Vindicor's Den.』 『 Difficulty: Hell.』 "I wouldn't have it otherwise." As he stepped into the dungeon, he w
"The [Inspect] skill is a cheat." {Look alive, the big guy is coming.} Neo got ready as he saw the monster coming at him. He grabbed the axe of the Goblin King ready for it. The monster opened its mouth, and he used this chance and threw the axe at him, and grabbed the Nether swords and went after it. The monster got hit by the swinging axe just when it was about to use [Demonic Roar], interrupted by the flying axe that made it take a step back, but it didn't have the time to recover when [Whirlwind] landed on it and a string of damage appeared. -500 -500 -500 The monster opened its mouth to roar again, but Bolt got it covered as it shot it with its lightning attack. This gave Neo a little time to get to the axe, which he again threw toward the monster. The axe again was about to kiss the monster's face, but it used its claws and hit it away with its claws, but it left it open as another swirl of [Whirlwind] hit the monster, and it lost another 1500 of its health bar. The mon
Ash was worried sick about what was going on as Neo had been away for over an hour now. Random but worse ideas about what would have happened came across his mind, but he shook them away as Neo was his only hope. The guards of the city and even the city lord weren't helping them as they left this problem to the players and were in a debauchery. They only enjoyed their life and didn't care about commoners like them. But the players were very helpful as they solved almost all the problems of the Tower, but there were always exceptions like the issue with vindicors and the dungeon related to it that could only be accessed by starting players, and it was a solo dungeon with the last boss being the worst. Ash paced back and forth, worried about his sister. It was eating him from inside. Gritting his teeth, Ash resolved himself and walked toward the door and opened it. Something or someone jumped into his embrace as Ash was stunned by it. He looked down and saw a face full of tears and
"This can be a problem." Neo said and turned his attention to the Twin Towers to see how was the progress. He just looked at it for a while before moving his gaze away from it. "I think it---" He stopped midway through as he found himself in a white room again. "Where are we?" {The Celestial Abyssal Tower or what I call the Twin Tower.} "Is it repaired?" Neo asked as he looked around and found two doors standing opposite to each other. He looked at them and found one shining with a bright golden glow while the other had a dark blackish aura surrounding it. Both of them had rune and shapes carved on them. Both doors had carvings of strange creatures but the difference between them was that one of them had a golden radiance and people had wings of feathers while the other door had blackish aura around them, and they had horns and wings made up of skin like bat wings. He looked at these doors for a while before moving toward the door with the golden glow. Arriving before it, Neo pu
Blaze didn't falter; instead, he spun the greatswords in a tight circle, and the flaming tornado intensified once again. The monsters were thrown back once more, and some of them were consumed by the black flames. But the skill suddenly stopped working, and the whirlwind deactivated. 'What now?' Neo asked as he felt that they were in a pinch, but Blaze still had a grin on his face as he said, "Remember the idea?" The [Authority of Flame] burned brightly as his body was again engulfed in black flame along with the blade. Blaze narrowed his eyes as he saw the monsters speeding toward him. He sneered and moved one of the greatsword above his head. The blade erupted in flames, becoming brighter and more black with each passing moment. As the monsters came closer, he brought the greatsword down in a powerful arc, and a slash of fire erupted in an arc from the blade, sending the creatures flying. "Let's see if this works." Blaze muttered as he started spinning and the fire on greatswo
Blaze whistled when he saw the scene and now knew how he jumped up 4 levels, but then the pain also told him the reality of how reckless he was and almost destroyed himself. 『 Congratulation on successfully defending the formation.』 『 Checking for what Keeper needs.』 Neo felt like he got scanned by something and was a little surprised, as this differed totally from how [Ascendance Tower] worked. Now he was waiting for the reward. 『 Received: Body Strengthening Technique.』 『 Received: Low grade Divine Healing Elixir.』 A potion bottle appeared before Neo, who was looking at him with a raised eye as Blaze said. {Should it go like, now I have to find a potion only to find its recipe then look for ingredients for them then look for a powerful alchemist to make the potion for me or learn alchemy and something along the line that would help me make companions and such.} This line of thought impressed Neo, and he said, "High Luck did all of it." {Yeah, and spoiled the fun as well as
Neo opened his eyes, calm and collected. "How long was I practicing?" He asked as there wasn't any sun or anything that could help him tell the time. He took out his holographic phone and looked, only to remember that everything in the dimensional portal had its time frozen. "A day or two must have passed." Blaze moved around, his muscles produced a cracking sound. "Let's check this." He said as he used the essence sphere to check whether it worked or not… 『 Strength +3, Intelligence +2』 And it did. He tried with others and found that every stat has been strengthened except for the stats Luck, Perception, and Wisdom. He stretched a little before using [Aether Manipulation] on more essence spheres before thinking about it and trying to use the skill like he was manipulating flames and spread it around, but it failed. He had to gather all the spheres before turning the green ones into the [Tower coin] while keeping the others there, as even with the green one, that took most of