"So, is this the Water Jade Dungeon?" Standing in front of a gate that was bigger than his house, he asked turning his head at Xylan.
"Yes, this is Water Jade Dungeon. I thought this quest was going to be hard but with you, it can easily be solved. Of course, I am not asking you to do everything. I hope, you will use your complete strength when needed." Xylan nodded his head and explained.
They stood in front of the gate and looked at each other. When Xylan raised his foot and walked a step forward, a blue screen appeared in front of them.
"Welcome to Water Jade Dungeon!"
"Please take out your registration card"
This surprised Mike. But Xylan was already prepared. He took out his hunter card. There was a star at the card unlike his blank card. With this, he noticed another difference before and after gaining the Hunter Card.
"Hunter- Mike Tyson
Cultivation- Soldier Realm- Third Stage (Eighth Evolution)
EXP- 771/800 (For level-up)
Wealth- Nil
Contribution Points- Nil"
At the same time, he understood another more point for EXP. His evolution represents the EXP. When he checked his status after entering the game, he didn't find two status. One was contribution points and another was EXP.
When he checked his EXP previously, it was seven hundred fifty. Although he didn't consider it too much on it, but now he found another point. EXP are gained on the basis of his opponent's strength. There were four- fourth rank soldiers and a single fifth rank solider.
He earned twenty one EXP from them. Four for each fourth rank and five for the fifth rank. This also made one thing clear. He must kill more. Same goes for monster, since monsters are also divided into Low, Middle, High, Top, and Peak with Basic, Intermediate, and Advance Tier.
Currently, he can easily confront any Intermediate Middle-Tier as for the Advance, it might get hard. Because monsters has much more advantage due to their powerful body.
At this moment, a blue light scanned the black card and another panel appeared in front of him.
"Please choose the level of difficulty!"
"Easy!" "Medium!" "Hard!" "Nightmare!" "Hell!"
"What? You can even choose the difficulty. Why isn't this mentioned at the task?" When Mike eyes fell on it, his shouted in shock.
"Of course, it's not written. Do you think the rewards are so easy to get? If you choose difficulty less than Hard, then your task won't be completed. So, you must choose Hard. Previously, I had the confidence to face Hard Level of difficulty."
"But after you revealed your strength, we should be able to cross Nightmare Level. But I wonder, if we should try Hell. What do you think?" Xylan asked after explaining Mike.
"What's the difference? What are the rewards and how difficult can it get?" Mike didn't answer directly instead asked.
"Hard-Level needs at least of two A-Rank Innate Ability users. Nightmare-Level needs at least an S-Rank Innate Ability User. But Hell-Level needs three S-Rank Innate Ability User. Originally, I wouldn't even consider Hell-Level. But your strength was even better than Fifth-Rank Soldier Realm."
"Even considering the power of S-Rank Ability User, it's pretty hard to defeat the Fifth-Rank Solider with the Third-Rank Soldier Realm. Especially when your enemy has the A-Rank Innate Ability. So, I am really confused whether to choose the Hell-Level or not."
"After all, I don't want to be converted into codes this early in life." Xylan helplessly smile as he explained and thought deeper about Mike's power. Suddenly, a thought rang in his mind as he asked "Mike, did you take medicinal bath with dragon blood?"
"What? What kind of dragon blood?" Mike confusedly asked when he heard about Dragon Blood. At his moment, he thought of tempering his body with dragon blood. But he wasn't sure whether his thoughts were right or not. So, before Xylan could reply, he asked "Are you talking about tempering one's body with the Dragon Blood?"
"Yes, you really did that?" When he heard Mike asking the question, he got excited as he asked.
"No, of course not! How can my family afford that? You should've learned about my family, right? There is no way I can afford a drop of dragon blood." Mike shook his head with helpless smile. He couldn't even afford two dark crystals, not to mention the blood of dragon.
"You are right. Your background is completely ordinary. A drop of dragon blood costs nearly a billion dollar. There is no way you can afford it." Xylan nodded his head with understanding.
"You are telling me as if you can afford it." Mike was little provoked by Xylan's attitude, so he also spread his chest and approached him.
"Of course I can. My family own five major Dark Crystals Mine making more than three trillions each month by these mines alone. We have two emperor ranks cultivator, thirteen kings, and thousands of commanders. Not just that, we also own the Flash Intelligence."
"Our organization might not be the strongest but when it comes to information, we possesses ten times more than other top organizations. Although I haven't used Dragon Blood to improve my strength, after this task completion, I can get a drop of dragon blood." Xylan answered with a strong tone. He wasn't looking down on Mike but his expression was turning into pride.
"WTF? Are you freaking serious?" Mike almost felt like clutching his neck. He even raised his hands but in the mid-air, he dropped down. Suddenly, an idea struck his mind "Xylan, how about we made a little cooperation?"
"What kind of cooperation?" Xylan was little alert thinking if Mike will blackmail him to complete the task. And, he was almost correct.
"You said, if you complete the task, you will get reward. If I am not wrong, then you can get almost anything you want as long as you prove your worth, right?" Mike asked thanking his past experience of reading those novels. Unlike them, he not only remembers special moves like heat beam, cold breath, etc but also remembers many plot lines.
"Yes, that's why I asked you if we should try Hell-Level." Xylan got excited after hearing Mike's words. That's why he suggested to try higher difficulty.
"Xylan, I didn't want to take advantage of you but you are taking the advantage of me. So, how about this? If I help you cross the Hell-Level without endangering your life, you will get me a drop of dragon blood." Mike instantly explained his idea. At this moment, both were taking advantage of each other.
"Slap"
"Curse my foul mouth!" At this moment, Xylan slapped his own mouth for revealing his goal. But soon, he shook his head and said "Mike, I don't want to take advantage of you but it's really impossible. Even if I cross Hell-Level, I won't get more than a drop of dragon blood."
"Of course, I will get extra benefits such as few billion dollars, few dark energy crystals, a C-Rank Weapon, and few Martial Arts."
"Wait a minute, why martial arts? Don't you create your own using Enlightenment God Stones?" Although martial arts aren't usually spoken, he still compares skills with martial arts. So, when he heard martial arts, he got confused. Why not enlightenment god stones?
"Ehh! I get it. You think martial arts are same as skills, don't you?" Xylan instantly understood his intention and asked.
"Yes, I do. Could it be wrong?" Mike was not confused. 'Skills, Divine Abilities, Innate Abilities, Cultivation technique, only martial arts were missing. Now, even you decided to land on my life? Isn't the person who created this world an idiot?'
'Can't he decided one thing and expand it? Why must you add your entire fantasy in this world? Hey, lord of heaven, have mercy and stop adding these kinds of different powers. My mind is going completely messy. Thankfully, I have the system show my status and differentiate between abilities, skills, and martial arts.'
Deep down, Mike felt speechless after hearing the upcoming martial arts. But he didn't stop Xylan and let him explain.
"Martial Arts are a kind of supplement for cultivation. Whenever you use martial art, your core will engage more with your body and absorb the energy from the surroundings faster than through regular meditation with its help. Normally, people can't forward dark energy crystals. So, Academy provides martial arts to the students."
"The main ability of martial arts is to strengthen the mutated cells. You know, our body contains two kinds of cells. One being a mutated cell, while the other being a normal cell. Although we commonly say ability energy being the result of stamina, dark energy, and several different energy as one."
"But, that's false. Normally, these kinds of energies can't be transformed into ability energy. First, these kinds of energies need to be merged with mutated cells and create mutated energy. Only then, the ability source contained inside the core can transform mutated energy into ability energy."
"Martial Arts are just like exercise. But exercises can't absorb the dark energy from surrounding. While martial arts are proficient on it. They absorb the energy while constantly burning the stamina, and other nutrients inside the mutated cells which will produce mutated energy."
"Then, this energy will travel into the core and transform into ability energy to fill up the core."