The seconds tick by as I force myself to say, "I accept the higher tier challenge." Clara glares at me excitedly. "I knew you would choose the higher difficulty challenge. Things are finally getting interesting around here. I knew I made the right choice tricking you into my inheritance grounds so now I can finally be free of this eternal boredom. For accepting the higher tier one shadow rank D skill (soul severance: does a mental blow to your opponent, making mental skills more effective for 5 mins. If I kill an opponent during duration, the opponent drops higher energy soul shard.) and one blood rune for tier one abyssal gathering enhances absorption speed of negative energy, weakening the emotions by 1% up to a maximum of 20%. Is this satisfactory for you, Ezequiel?" Clara said, smirking.
This challenge is going to be many leagues harder than those that you would have taken if you had chosen the lower tier; these rewards would be lost in my inheritance ground and you wouldn't have known. There is only 5 test instead of 10, but each one is twice as hard as the previous ones, but there is a new rule there is no time limit on the test but a life limit you have 3 lives if you lose them you fail the test and will not finish my inheritance nor claim all the treasures that I left at the end of trails and I know you have 3 weeks before the tournament so ill make these quicker the first test we can dismiss because it was to defeat yourself and I already watch you overcome a better version than the one I had planned so here's the next test you have 3 lives for it, you need to go down into the grave realm of my grounds and clear the infectious ghouls that spawned of the corrupted creatures I left to die down there. I think the highest one should be around solid rank D. so off you go Ezequiel."
As she said the words the ground beneath my feet caves in and I fall and it feels like an eternity passes before I see a pair of eyes staring up at me as Armageddon claws the wall and I stab rulers bane into the wall and I see it's not one set of eyes, but thousands of eyes close together looking like one I feel like the eyes are looking through my very soul and I felt a chill run through my spine. I feel Armageddon pulse, letting me know I'm not alone, and I notice he feels more alive and smarter. So his soul is still living and I just don't possess the energy for his consciousness to take form. As we approach the bottom of the ravine, I feel alive as the aura of death and hatred soaked into my body and Armageddon's skin shudders and then becomes more luscious and harder.
If I could train here and cultivate, I could reach rank C in a month too bad I can't do that. The evil here is extremely potent here and would likely overwhelm me, and that tournament is in 3 weeks. I set my bag down and put up a shadow ward using simple runed stakes hiding my location and protecting me as I sleep good thing I made these in my space ring while my teacher was helping me these stakes are a real lifesaving equipment and now I can rest up before starting a murder spree on the ghouls. On my estimate it will take at least three days to clear out everything under solid rank D but by then my cultivation should improve massively by then and thanks to my new skill I should be even quicker at killing unintelligent mobs and it will be quick, easy soul shards.