Waking to the smell of food I head down to see Lucien cooking and Nilan sitting at the kitchen table, after eating I spar with Lucien and we head out to do a scan of my body as a check up I am in perfect health with no signs of any problems or energy incongruencies.
Heading to the tower the group has decided to take a two week break from climbing due to some people having personal matters to deal with and paperwork to fill out, I decide to spend these two weeks forging. The forge is a basic one with hammers an anvil with tongs and a furnace able to handle basic metal, along with basic molds.
In the two week period I craft 2 fire ingots and a earth ingot using iron as the base, I am able to sell them for 10 tower coins a piece and only pay 2 tower coins for the materials as there is an overabundance for them.
With my increased training and ever increasing energy level I know my stats will continue to increase, I check my current level.
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Status Window
Name: Aadi Null
Age:18
Awakening Age:10
Affiliations: Planet Cerulean Base no.4, Neelan-Turnover city
Spirit Energy status: Core forming stage
Mental realm status: Body and mind melding phase
Energy type: Healing, buffing, water, fire, earth, wind, ice, lightning, metal, mist, oscillation, etc.(expand to see full list)
Combat arts: Conductor spearman ship, Military style dagger art of planet cerulean base no.4, etc. (expand to see full list)
Strength:26 (the human limit with no energy is 3)
Speed:27(the human limit with no energy is 3)
Agility:28(the human limit with no energy is 3)
Stamina:29(the human limit with no energy is 3)
Endurance:29(the human limit with no energy is 3)
Spirit Energy:75(the average amount for your current level is 0.1)
Mental energy: 120(the average amount for your current level is 1)
Current skills: sense control D-grade, reaction speed D-grade, mental energy control High D-grade, etc. (expand to see full list)
Current Talents: low-grade Mental Energy Forging
Current level: mid D-rank
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With spirit energy being 1-10 is F-grade and 10-100 is E-grade I am still a bit away from D grade in it, and for mental energy 1-10 is unawakened while 10-100 is F-grade 100-200 is E-grade while D-grade is 200 to 400.
The max physical I can reach on my stats without reaching D-grade energy is 29 so I am already reaching my max without advancing.
I am about a fourth of the way through my solid energy gathering and it will take another year and a half to finish, but I will have to leave at the tenth floor as it takes to long to advance from 20th to 30th taking most people 2 years and even if we do it in half the time it will still take the year I have up as the next half year will be spent going up these last five floors. As it has already been four months since I turned eighteen and began to climb the tower with them and it will take most of the year to finish it will simply to tight of a schedule to attempt to remain as if something goes wrong it may extend the time.
It was to risky and each ten floors the difficulty increases as 1-10 floors is for F-grade while 10-20 is E-grade with 20-30 for D-grade, 30-40 is C-grade, 40-50 is B-grade, 50-60 A-grade, 60-70 is S-grade, 70-80 is SS-grade and 80-90 is SSS-Grade it is said the last ten floors is a transformation stage but beyond that no information has been released.
I am already reaching the point where I am at normal standard rather then more advanced then those around me.
After this it is best for me to take a break on the 20th floor to advance and match up with my current floor grade, I will also undergo more apprenticeships here to further my study so stopping here would be the best for me.
I only have 157 coins to my name and my gear will need to be upgraded to go further in the tower so stopping to further my craftsmanship and get money will be for the best, and I have already informed the group of this as they know attempting to go further will be meaning I relied on the groups level rather than my own.
With that I will spend the in-between time training my skill and talents, I know it will be impossible to find a team after this that is anywhere as good if I can even join a team, with my cultivation having deviated meaning we can't be sure of the future time frame I will have.
After the two week period is up we gear up and wait for the message.
---Your team leader has chosen to go to the sixteenth floor, if you agree to the test do so if anyone disagrees then you will not be able to begin the test.
[Yes]
[No]
{Choosing no will make it so you can't attempt it for another week}---
We all agree and disappear from our rooms to a military fortress with our gear still being the same as what we had on us in our rooms.
---You are mercenaries being paid to help the Dolan army defeat the attacking army, the aide provided by all members will be added up and the team that helps the most will be rewarded ten tower coins per member, one less tower coin will be given for each lower ranking. You may not attack or kill each other, sabotaging is not allowed.---
We stand in a training area filled with knights and bowmen clearly a part of the army but there is also about 10 teams in total including ours in this area, we are now comrades and are unable to hurt or sabotage so we are allies in this with no chance of trouble popping up.
"You will be asked to show your capabilities and will be assigned to a regiment to help, your teams may be split up but you will room together with your team at rest time." The Knight who is clearly in charge says.
I tell them I am a healer as well as buffer and am willing to both help on front line and heal those injured when there is no ongoing fighting.
I also volunteer to help heal those on the battlefield when a decent lull in battle occurs, and so my next week are filled with only small 30 minute naps when low on energy and constant going form one place to the next helping anywhere I could.
The battle ends in complete victory on the end of the 7th day.
---Your team has provided the most aide in securing victory, rewarding ten tower coins to all members, your team will now be sent to the next floor when ready---
[Team Asher:
Contribution list:
1st-Aadi
2nd-Wyatt
3rd-Adrian
(Expand to see full list)
Team ranking:
1st-Team Asher
2nd-Team Nuka
3rd-Team Caelestis
(Expand to see full list)]
We have once more completed a floor as the top team and I now have 167 tower coins on me, we return to our rooms and I head home to check in with Lucien and play with my plant.
The next day I return to the tower and we head on to the next floor.
---Your team leader has chosen to go to the seventeenth floor, if you agree to the test do so if anyone disagrees then you will not be able to begin the test.
[Yes]
[No]
{Choosing no will make it so you can't attempt it for another week}---
We all agree and arrive in a large arena like area with gates in front of us and our equipment swapped out for basic used equipment and a large metal gate in front of us with a sign board hung in the center.
---There will be ten rounds in this challenge you are to last through all ten with at least half your team alive, the team to accomplish it the fastest will be rewarded ten tower coins each, for each consecutive ranking you will be rewarded one less coin. You will not be allowed to watch the other teams challenges.---
We wait in our cage with the sign board flashing team names every hour or so until our turn comes on the 7th time, we head out and the monsters are the exact same as for the last colosseum, but is much easier with a team to deal with.
We make it through to the tenth level in only 15 minutes as the highest level of the creature is a peak E-rank monster the Lycan an advanced version of a werewolf and the peak E-grade species due to their extreme speed and strength, but the lack the ability to use energy making them unable to enter the D-grade.
We are made to wait another two hours until the floor is finished.
---Your team has made it to the tenth round the fastest, rewarding ten tower coins to all members, your team will now be sent to the next floor when ready---
[Team Asher:
Contribution list:
1st-Wyatt
2nd-Adrian
3rd-Bree
(Expand to see full list)
Team ranking:
1st-Team Asher
2nd-Team Donner
3rd-Team Storm Dragon
(Expand to see full list)]
We spent only ten hours on this floor, making it the fastest floor yet, checking with Lucien I return to the tower and we decide to wait until tomorrow morning before we head to the next floor.
It is weird sleeping in the tower provided room as I usually don't but it was okay.
Waking up I clean up and get ready to head on to the next floor, With my gear ready and my space bag in my chest pocket I am ready to head.
---Your team leader has chosen to go to the Eighteenth floor, if you agree to the test do so if anyone disagrees then you will not be able to begin the test.
[Yes]
[No]
{Choosing no will make it so you can't attempt it for another week}---
We appear in a town center area with what looks like a caravan, our clothes and weapons have been changed to match the group we are in.
---Your objective is to kill your three targets without being discovered by the civilians, all teams have been given different targets and are forbidden from killing anyone but their targets, the team to kill their targets the quickest without being caught will be rewarded ten tower coins per person, for each consecutive ranking after that the team will be rewarded on less coin per person. You have a week to kill your target.---
A separate screen appears with our targets names, faces, and position.
We have the current mayor, the head guard, and a high standing noble who is the top merchant in this area, it is clear we have been given the hardest targets possible. It is normal that the tower gives harder challenges the better you do on each floor, it is a balancing means to prevent teams with high cultivation level from dominating to much.
We all gather together and head to an inn to talk on the task and how to do the task, we decide to send Pierce, Wyatt, and Conner to deal with the targets while we will be their alibis for the time gone.
We stay at the inn and the three of them leave through the window, staying up all night to make sure all goes as plan one of the girls will remain in the bathroom as an excuse to not allow strangers into the room or to hold off any searches that may occur.
Five hours pass and the three have all returned but no guards have begun to search the area meaning the assassinations have yet to be noticed.
We sleep the night away and head downstairs to see guards and knights all over the street looking for people to test their energy against the residue found at the locations of a murder, they do not say who was killed but they are clearly a high official.
We agree to the test, Conner and Pierce killed the mayor and merchant noble as they are not awakened people, but Wyatt did kill the guard captain but his ability to use others energy means that the murder cannot be linked back to him through energy testing. Another perk of the void species.
We are all checked and affirmed not to be the killers and are given a paper to prove we have been tested, meaning we can show it to not be harassed by guards later to check or perform searches.
We head to the market area and spend the week hearing of different murders and some of the murderers being caught, we are even asked to do more energy testing and comply with all the tests so as to 'help them rule out people.'
By the end of the week it is clear we were the first to succeed.
---Your team is the first to kill all three targets, rewarding ten tower coins to all members, your team will now be sent to the next floor when ready---
[Team Asher:
Contribution list:
1st-Wyatt
2nd-Conner
3rd-Pierce
(Expand to see full list)
Team ranking:
1st-Team Asher
2nd-Team Esther
3rd-Team Lightning Dragon
(Expand to see full list)]
We finished the floor in first place and return to our rooms, I head to Lucien to check in and play with my plant for the rest of the night.
Tomorrow I return to the tower to do the last floor I will be with the team on.