---8th-floor corridor----
[clear condition: Survive at least four hordes of monsters
Every fifteen minutes a group of monsters will be swarmed inside, survive for at least an hour to pass the trail.
The longer you last the more the reward]
[Time left Until the monster Horde - 4:58s]
It was a classic survival game-based concept where he had to survive through the hordes of monsters that were going to enter the corridor every fifteen minutes.
There was a legend among the people of the tower that, once there was a man who endured a full day on the 8th-floor clearing nearly one hundred floors of monsters, to be specific he endured through 96 hordes, and it was said that he was a rewarded with a SSS rank skill which made his body so strong that no armor was better than his bare skin, of course, it was only the legend and no one knows if it is true or not.
"Master, I suggest fighting individually and taking turns, it would be much better to fight together in later hordes since everyone will be out of mana if we all fight from the first horde itself" suggested Virupa while slightly bowing towards Shiva.
For Undead, the concept of stamina itself was not applicable so on the surface they can just keep fighting forever but fighting with mana and without it sure would make a difference.
"Hmm.....Then let's decide the lineup for attacking"
said Shiva,
"There is no need for that since 'you are the weakest' among us you will fight first, Virupa next, then me, followed by Bhima and Ugram, since the skellies will be useless either way let them help us all anyways, Master," said Kapali, pressing that part more.
(You are a skeleton too lol!)
'This bastard, is he really on my side or what?'
He silently nodded keeping what he was thinking to himself, thus the line up was arranged waiting for the monsters, soon the 5 minutes came to an end with the appearance of ten lv.20 robot-like things above their heads represented,
--scarecrow lv.20---
They seemed.....a bit weird, okay maybe a lot weird.
there was straw visible on the ends of their limbs, a creepy-looking worn-out hat, on top of that the face seemed to be made of a mud pot, hell are they even monsters?
"Hey Kapali, Why don't you go first?"
"Master, how can a measly servant go ahead of his lord? I will be right behind you"
"Damn you!"
Shiva moved with his scythe towards the scarecrows, anxiously holding his scythe tighter,
"Okay then, Skelies go do your work", He said suddenly stopping and looking behind the skeletons,
The skeletons just swarmed ahead decimated everything, breaking their skulls, well pots here, ripping off limbs, The lv.20 scarecrows were not a match for lv.30 skeletons in the first place,
"hehe...that's how you do it"
[1st horde cleared]
[next horde in 4:59s]
After the battle, he tried to revive the scarecrows but the thing just said,
[skeleton summon not possible]
I suppose they didn't have skeletons in the first place,
"Now this is going to be a long day", said Shiva looking at the message.
****
somewhere in what seemed to be a mechanical work shop,
a young man was working with the machine, to be more specific a Mech!
It seemed exactly like a human in armor, He was working with that when he spoke to someone,
"JARVIS, have you found any energy sources yet?"
But there was no one in the room except him, but then a mechanical voice spoke to him,
~There was no one with the energy source to run this within our first twenty floors, Sir~
"JARVIS isn't there anything like a power source like the one that iron man uses in the Marvel movies or something like a mana stone which can power the mech"
~I am sorry Sir, but the electromagnet power source mentioned in the movie is just fiction, The smallest Arc reactor that can be built is still about 21 feet in diameter and nowhere near possible to power this Mech, and even if we use the power of the system it is still not possible to build such small power source~
"Damn, is there no other way?"
~There is a way sir!~
"Then why the hell are you wasting my time talking about Iron Man"
~You are the one who started it first, Sir~
"damn this smartass, okay, care to tell me about it"
~It would be my pleasure, Sir, according to the information gathered till now, In the tower, there used to be a man whom the people called, The mad Scientist. He invented a thing called a Golem core, which could self sustain, self-charge, and be capable of powering a golem for eternity if no damage was done~
"What? such a thing was possible!!"
~He was a Legend Sir, and a mad one among them, the information says that he climbed till 89th floor and something major happened which changed him completely and after that, he searched for the bodies of many strong rankers creating flesh golems with them. It is said that he created a massacre in the lower floors which led to two of the legend of that time working together to kill him~
"so he is dead now, what can we do it with that now?"
~The Golem Core, they are still in existence, Sir~
"What!! Where are they?"
~The two legends who killed him took all of them~
"JARVIS are you joking with me now? I am on the tenth floor damnit, how can I take something from those high rankers and Legends no less"
~But the mad scientist hid his original golems in a dungeon, and when the Tower was connected to the Earth, someone managed to get five of those golem cores~
The young man stood silent for a moment and asked again,
"who is he and where is he now"
~According to system information, His name is Shiva, he is currently in the eight-floor challenge trail~
"he is still on the 8th floor even after six months? Then let's go steal it from him"
~I advise you not to Sir~
~He is strong! Very strong~
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