Ren - Okay, I need to get out of this bed.
Ren got up from the bed with sudden movements but fell to the floor.
Ren - What?! Why am I feeling so weak? All my agility and physical strength that I possessed was gone. Right now I feel the same as I was before I signed the contract with Laila. System! Voice lady! Can you explain to me why Laila had to die and why I am so weak again?
Mysterious Voice - Hello player. I see you managed to update your class. An error occurred, because of this the contract that bound the player Ren Alatar and his spirit was broken. Ren Alatar's spirit merged with him. It can be considered dead but it's not completely dead, it still lives inside.
Ren - I understand, Laila I am grateful for the strength you have given me so far, from now on I will act alone, so rest inside me until the day I die and come to you, so we can live together forever in peace. Lady of the voice, how can I call you?
Karen - You can call me Karen, that's the name my creator Laila/Nightmare gave me so just call me that.
Ren - Okay, so Karen why am I weak again? You still haven't answered that question for me.
Karen - His class is now Shadow King, it is the strongest class ever known in the world. As it is the strongest, it will also be the most difficult to obtain and master. In the old days you Ren Alatar, you were weak and when you formed a contract with Laila you got enormous power without any effort. This tower was created with the objective of finding the Shadow King class bearer and training him, but not training him the easy way, that is, you will start from 0 until you reach the invincible. At this time you have been approved as a person with the necessary ability to become Shadow King, but to become one, you'll have to start from 0, that is, right now your class Ren Alatar is a common assassin.
Ren - WHAT?! Does that mean I'm back to being the same useless as before?!
Karen - Yes you idiot!
Ren wasn't expecting this, looking to become stronger, he barely knew he was going to have to acquire everything with his own effort and not with borrowed power in quotes.
Ren - F#CK!!!!!!!!
Karen - You will start out as an assassin, as you complete the fights and walk you will get rewards, but I want you to know that dying means losing everything!
Ren had an angry expression on his face.
Karen - Then player, proceed to your first fight.
Ren walked towards the door that opened in the middle of that room and entered.
System - Welcome player, congratulations on reaching the first floor and the first challenge of this tower. This tower has 100 floors, being fully completed successfully by itself in 1 year. Your class at the moment is assassin, to obtain the Shadow King class, you will have to obtain your classes in the following order: Assassin, Shadow Knight, Shadow Lord and finally Shadow King. In the first 25 floors you will be an assassin, from the 25th to the 50th floor you will be a shadow knight, from the 50th to the 75th floor you will be the shadow lord and from the 75th to the last you will be the shadow king.
Ren - So this is the process I will have to take to get to the invincible, it seems interesting to me. It looks like the world conquest will have to wait another year.
System - Spawning enemies!
3 green goblins appeared as a hologram.
Ren - So these will be my first enemies, I'm in trouble, when I was together with Laila I would kill these three in less than a second but now it's going to be complicated.
The three green goblins started to run towards Ren, the first in line attacked Ren with his knife.
Ren dodges slowly due to his reduced strength and says:
Ren - Now it's my turn! Take this Punch!
The first goblin was hit squarely and died.
System - Ren Alatar has evolved to level 10.
Ren - WHAT?! LEVEL 10 WITH ONE GREEN GOBLIN!? OUCH!
Distracted Ren is scratched with the second goblin's knife.
Ren - TAKE THIS! AND YOU TAKE THIS PRESENT!
The last two goblins were killed by Ren.
System - Ren Alatar has evolved to level 30.
Ren - Why am I not getting skills?
System - All enemies were defeated, spawning the first floor boss.
The earth began to shake, and a great Goblin King appeared from the skies.
Ren - WHAT? A Green Goblin King? Impossible with my level of strength I won't be able to defeat him.
The Green Goblin King screams and tries to attack Ren.
Ren - Wait? Wasn't my strength level the same as it was before I formed a contract with Laila? If yes then why? Why his attacks are so slow.
Ren takes the knife from one of the defeated green goblins and dodges the green goblin king's attacks. Ren runs towards the boss and jumps onto his back. When it's almost over his head, Ren yells:
Ren - GET THIS ON YOUR HEAD YOU FILTHY WORM!
King Green Goblin - OWWAOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The boss screams in pain and then dies.
System - Congrats player on completing the first floor, head to the rest area and get ready for the next day to start on the second floor.
Ren - I can finally rest, it's been a while since I felt this exhausted.
Ren entered the door that appeared in the fighting arena and ended up in a room that looked like a small house. It had food, a bathroom, a room and all the essentials for Ren to survive for an entire year.
Ren - Wow, cool! It looks like this year is going to be spectacular.
Karen - Hi Ren, congratulations on surviving the first floor. How are you feeling?
Ren - Hi Karen, I am feeling good, but I am feeling strange too, why am I not getting skills when I level up and why a common green goblin give to me 10 levels?
Karen - In this tower there are stronger enemies than others, but they all need to give huge amounts of exp, so you Ren Alatar can withstand the Shadow King class when the time comes. To answer your other question, open your statatistics menu.
Ren opened the menu and saw all of his stats with just one point, but he had a lot of skill points to distribute over his stats. Also, the stats menu has acquired new functionality, Ren can now acquire whatever skills he wants within the menu. To get the skills, Ren is gonna need to have the necessary level and his requirements.
Ren - WOW! THIS IS FANTASTIC!
Karen - In this tower we provide the best training regimen and the best conditions for players to adapt quickly and easily. With this you can decide which skill you are going to use for the next fights, you will end up becoming the strongest being in the world so you need this kind of initial functionality.
Ren distributed his points and acquired new skills.
Ren - Okay, I'm ready for tomorrow. Now I'm going to focus on recovering after eating and a long shower.
End of chapter 18