Gasping for air he looks at the 20 coins he has managed to get before he was to tired to continue, he needs sleep and food one requires coins and the other he can do quickly.
Looking at the store he realizes even the food depends on what you have as there is ingredients for those meaning to fix meals themselves and even fully made banquets but he needs to save coins so looks at the cheapest options and finds a cook pot is 10 coins and the cheapest meat is called F-grade tainted meat for only .1 coins while a normal meat is around 5 coins and fresh vegetables are 1 a piece.
Add on whole balanced meals are 10 a meal at least and the choice is clear.
So he is now down 10.4 coins, .5 for water, once more.
Holding the slightly black meat that looks like it had gasoline in it he thinks back to his mana type of purifying, he hopes it works on himself.
Heating in the pot for as long as possible he takes it out and cuts a small slim cut like one would sashimi, eating it he waited and promptly collapsed in pain and felt like getting sick but held it down bit by bit he felt himself getting better and a warm feeling coming from his gut area.
So this is what purifying meant finally after what felt like days but most likely only 30 minutes at most he felt completely fine and a ding was hear.
-'Congratulations you have gained beginning tainted energy resistance.'
Looking at the words he felt like crying but held it in when another ding came.
-'You have consumed a slice of F-grade tainted meat a single point to mana has been added.'
So this is how I raise my mana for now, well until I can learn how others do it anyway.
He consumes another slice and recovers even quicker than the last time while getting another point to mana but no increase to his resistance.
Like this he eats around 9 slices when a change occurs, 'you have consumed F-grade tainted meat .5 added to mana'
He now had 10 mana but the sudden change startled him.
It proved his need to learn as he figured at least one of the books explained it though the cheapest one is the history of the tower and that is 100 so he probably wasn't meant to get them on the first floor but he would do that anyway, you never know what you may miss by choosing the easy way out.
So after sleeping he got up and went to work killing another 15 before sitting down and eating again this time each bite of meat only gave .1 mana.
That meant after the ten mark in mana the amount if mana the meat gives is not enough.
The pain had become more like a over stuffed stomach then actual pain.
One day bled into two then four finally the tenth day passed and he was at 11 mana and his strength, endurance, regeneration and health all increased by .1 while the rest remained stagnant due to his missing leg.
He had accumulated nearly 200 coins meaning he can buy both the tower history book while splurging on other things.
Purchasing the book he opens to read what it says.
'The tower was created by the first primordial's to protect the planet's from the taint as when planet's stall their energy slows to a halt causing them to corrode and die off. By introducing new energy we can restart the planets energy like one would a heart with electricity. The tower connects many planets and species with the sole purpose of increasing the odds of survival. There are multiple towers each from new primordial's that have come into existence since the start of each individual universe. The towers work to keep peace and prosperity between these worlds through keeping the energy circulating. Although small fights are allows on individual planets to claim more territory or even claim a inhabitable with no intelligent life as their own but no energy taking or mass killing is to be done on either side. If you discover such thing immediately alert the tower as some creatures have made ways to avoid the towers watch to perform atrocities even destroying entire worlds in the process of advancement.
Tutorial- a time dilation to allow one to adjust from peace more swiftly, it is the easiest floor without any deaths. One is incapable of cultivating on this floor.
Floor 1- This floor freely teaches one how to cultivate and grow ones mana also giving access to better mana stones, cheaper food and water, while providing potential teachers for more advanced martial Arts and options to get skill tomes. This is the true learning floor to begin ones tower climb. The task is to kill 100 goblins whether you do so alone or in a group is each ones personal choice.
Floor 2-Г¬μ¡μ§§§θΩ¤θ your strength is to low to gain access to this information.'
From floor to onwards he could not read anymore but the thing that stood out was the time dilation was not mention at all in the first floor meaning once you leave the tutorial you return to normal time for an unknown amount of floors losing the biggest advantage.
He would build strength to read the second floor and if no dilatation is mentioned then he will put in effort to buy more books for studying here on what they mean by cultivate.
Looking in the store there is 1 basic cultivation book for 1000 coins, he will need to wait for it but the wait will be worth it.