I wake up and head down stairs to eat with Lucien, Nilan is not here this week do to a small disease breakout in a town close by that had to be quarantined and doctors sent to try and lower the possible death toll.
I am now on the twentieth floor and Lucien has allowed me to stay on the floor for up to a month at a time and I intend to take on an apprenticeship with as many as possible to widen my knowledge as I am still missing some basics as is proven with the nineteenth floor and the questions I failed to answer.
I also need to practice more of my solo combat ability as I have let it fall behind these past 5 months due to focusing on support for my team, now that it will be random assigned teams it is best to have a self protection ability.
I go to a blacksmith and ask if they are open to take apprenticeships and they do in the morning on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 5 O'clock in the morning to 1 O'clock in the evening with an hour break at 11 to 12 for lunch. The apothecary is doing apprenticeships in the afternoon for restocking, from 3 O'clock to 10 O'clock in the afternoon on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
Hospital is allowing certified aides to help on any time they can be available, although no one can die on a in between section some people volunteer to act as practice for those in the medical field to practice with in exchange for having some of their members trained for free.
The farms have opening in the morning for Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday from 4 O'clock in the morning to 12 O'clock mid day.
With Afternoon of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday set for mental energy forging with a mid rank forger to teach me more, the only day set aside for practice is Sunday that I intend to spend the entire time in the arena practicing and volunteering at the hospital when injured after fights.
I intend to pack my time until my next advancement a year and a half from now doing everything I can to push my mind and body to it's limit so that when I advance I can do what I need to do.
So I begin with every fourth Sunday spent outside the tower practicing with Lucien I slowly advance myself to my limits, Learning all that I can and by the time I turn nineteen I have successfully reached my physical limit.
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Status Window
Name: Aadi Null
Age:19
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:29 (the human limit with no energy is 3)
Speed:29(the human limit with no energy is 3)
Agility:29(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:80(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: mid low-grade Mental Energy Forging, low-grade blacksmith, low-grade first aide, etc. (expand to see full list)
Current level: High mid D-rank
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With my birthday having just past I have spent 8 and a half years in this new world and have achieved D-rank where in my own world achieving the lowest F-rank is considered about as good as I could have done, this has been a complete change in my potential and future and my memories of the time before is getting ever fainter.
I have drawn portraits of all my siblings when I was fifteen but now they would have long become different people the only one I may recognize is Izel and maybe the twins but the rest were to young to be sure of.
I am freer and less stressed despite having more to do here as I am doing it purely for my own want rather then because of expectations.
I have spent the past year building up my knowledge and although I did not make any tower coins due to making the stuff under apprenticeship so the teacher gets the money but I have gained a lot of experience and information that I did not have before.
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P.O.V. Izel (Aadi's eldest sister)
It has been 9 and a half years since our eldest's disappearance and I have officially joined the military after going through military school, I am a squad leader due to my excellent leadership abilities and my ability to make accurate calls quickly.
I have been assigned to the front defense force and will be outside the wall during deployment to kill off any potential groups forming to prevent us from being overwhelmed, because of the boost in population caused by people reproducing for government aide we now have a decent sized army and their has been talks of reclaiming more land in the next five to ten years if it continues to climb like this.
I have reached the upper edge of mid F-grade and will advance to high F-grade in the next two months, although I am able to potentially reach A-grade it is more likely to be B-grade due to lack of ability to get vein clearing potions but their is rumor that their is some people that have awakened the ability to remove corruption in the newer generation.
Although I am unsure of how true that rumor is the twins were taken away on their fifteenth birthday due to a state secret that meant the chance of it being true is high, I know that the two younger ones with poor health were also taken away and we are no longer allowed to visit.
It is possible they have this so called cleaning ability which is why they came out so frail despite the twins being high potential.
It is hard to know as no one has been able to get in contact with any of them since they were removed from home, the youngest is doing well as the top of his class with an advanced learning course in both theoretical and physical training. He is doing extremely well and I make sure to stay in contact with those I can to make sure we are all safe.
With the monster population dropping steadily do to soldiers hunting them and actively leaving the city to close wild tunnels, I joined the tower but only got to the tenth floor before I am to join the military and am restricted from entering while on duty.
I know I couldn't have gone further anyway due to the increase in difficulty after the tenth floor and the chance of death after that floor.
It is why the military prevents it's soldiers in training from going further to prevent them from dying due to overconfidence or stupidity, if they die they should do it on the battle field taking out as many monsters as possible so as to make the death worth it.
Of course the tower speeds up cultivation and ones ability to retain knowledge while in there but the risk does not out weigh the cost.
We need as many soldiers as possible to deal with the overwhelming number of monsters because although we have killed many off it will take a while before we can expend, we first need a way to prevent the tunnels from spawning. Supposedly there is a prototype for this but the items to make it are hard to get even for high ranking guilds and it will take a while to amass enough to cover even the main city much less expand into a uncertain territory.
Mom and Dad have had no more children since brother disappeared but that is less due to sadness and more to they don't need to with a high potential child having already been produced.
The world spins round, we advance, and a prosperous future is coming for us it is simply a pity my brother will never see it.
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P.O.V Wyatt
It has been a year since Aadi left the team and the healer we were able to find is horrible, she is weak, unable to protect herself, and has no good points other than healing. We have kept our first place till now on the 29th floor but it is because we chose to fail two floors so as to actually get that position while if he was here he could easily deal with it.
I know this is considered normal but after having Aadi here it is hard to not look at her and think of what else she could do to make herself better, she didn't even need to be strong if she had studied like Aadi had and knew stuff she would still have more worth but she chose to do support not creation.
I intend to look for another fighter on the thirtieth floor and pay to have us undergo medical training as well as buy extra potions and medical items so not to drag along a endangerment, we have gotten more injured protecting her then we would without her.
I can only say I look forward to the fiftieth floor where you are expected to begin to perform task solo and separately, as you can do single person test after that.
With the team clearly excluding her due to her incompetency it is clear we will not be able to remain together even if we needed her as they are as likely as to kill her as the other contestants and monsters are if she doesn't stop crying and clinging to others.
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P.O.V. Aadi (6 months after)
I am now approaching the end of my solid realm and will soon have to go into isolation so as to advance to the next realm, it will take me 2 years to finish this advancement if things stay the same so I will be gone from the tower until I have turned 22 years old and I will be in the D-rank energy wise by that point.
With 8 years in this world gone I know I got lucky with who found me and how my life has gone since that day 10 and a half years ago. I enter the isolation room just shy of twenty years old and hope all goes well as I hold my plant in my arms.
My 6th advancement is now beginning.
I sit in the energy isolation room on the provided straw mat that even if stained will not be to big of a problem, I strip naked and sit my still yet to blossom plant in front of me and begin to circulate energy.
Finally after five hours I am completely full and begin the mental breakthrough, it happens almost naturally and quickly with little but a nudge and it is off. I wait for the next hour to pass for the mental energy to refill before I begin the next part. Pushing the mental energy in my veins like always I slowly start the expansion process.
But a change has occurred as instead of expanding they just crack open and the solid energy seeps out and into my body, the energy pressure causes my bones to start breaking, one by one they break and heal over and over.
It feels as though all of them are being replaced bit by bit with energy and the plant is also adding it's own energy into the body parts enhancing my connection with it making it a part of me just like my own energy is. It is not as painful as the last advancement but painful none the less with my body literally replacing my entire skeleton system with energy fused parts and healing the ruptured veins without them having expanded.
I am unsure how long it take but I am asleep for a bit after to recover from it and to refill my mental energy for the next step.
Waking to a horrific smell but I know I have to continue I begin to expand my mental sphere, but like with my veins it just splits open and the energy goes else where, it is far more painful then before as the mental pain does not stop through it due to it being split open the whole time.
The mental energy begins to connect to my nervous system causing rips and tears in my brain while the repairing it with energy infused parts, bit by bit parts of my brain is replace with this energy infused tissue with my frontal lobe, parietal lobe, and occipital lobe being the parts transformed due to being the location the mental realm effects the most.
Finally after what felt like centuries I was finished and collapsed.
I woke to a stench that I threw my empty stomach contexts up at and it was easily two inches thick, with a consistency of drying cement.
I enter the shower prepared for me and I have to put more energy into the water in order to get it to budge, I spend the next four hours scrubbing until it is all off finally. My energy veins and mental realm have not expanded but the energy has gotten heavier as well as returned to the gasses realm like usual.
I have most likely reached the limit of what I can expand my energy pathways without a core or connecting my mental sphere to my nervous system.
I feel the hardness in my bones and the lightness of my brain from the change in them due to this transformation, it is unnerving to replace literal body part but it is what my cultivation does to optimize my potential so be it not like I can change it anyway.
I grab the still a stem and leaf plant and head out, and see Lucien's second look at me as he stares in shock.
"You need to look in the mirror now, it is a good thing you left your team or they wouldn't even know who you are at this point. You will need a new alias and will wear a mask in the tower so no one can see you, you will simply attract to much attention with your new looks." Lucien says with a worried face and Nilan walks in and stops to stare as well.
Goin to the mirror set up in the waiting room I see a completely if still somewhat me face, with phoenix eyes, a sharp but also feminine jaw, high cheek bones. He is the definition of an ancient beauty from his home land that was from the time when cultivation was still false but believed thing.
His hair had become even lighter from a dark gray to a mid gray and his body had taken on a slim but muscled look with his fingers being slim, his legs long and nicely shaped, he is the definition of an androgynous beauty that if he dressed female it would be impossible to tell him as male.
It is clear that even if he dressed like a man they would think him a female as his features lean that way but it can still look male due to his voice box and male voice but ultimately if he did not talk it would be more likely people will think he is she.
I understood why he said to hide my face as if I enter a random team with these features I will be sexually assaulted eventually.
I look to Nilan to see his thoughts, and Nilan says, "I want to do a full body and energy scan to see how you have been transformed and if it is now a genetic transformation that you can pass on. It has not reached such extreme before but now it has and if you marry and have kids and they come out looking like the old you then people will ask questions. Also I need to know if after such a drastic change you can even have kids."
So we head to the scanner and begin one test after another, my sperm came back fine and the change was not yet genetic but I am less potent due to too much energy in the sperm so harder for someone to get pregnant. My bones have changed completely having fused with my energy veins it has made it so energy is going to my bones as well as my veins.
This means that from now on each advancement will increase my skeletal structure without me having to redo the previous complete over hall.
Nilan also spoke of my mental sphere showing signs of finally connecting with my mental energy veins aka my nervous system, meaning that my body is now evolving the same trait theirs has that allows them to naturally use their abilities without having memories and emotions in the energy they use.
I speak with them and they think by the time it is finished both my body and mental veins will be completely transformed, making me a almost new species.
Although I would still be human with human genes any child I had would most likely be born with this transformation meaning the mother would need an enormous amount of energy to have the child fully form and not end up loosing it half way.
Essentially once it is finish I will more like an elf or void being then a human despite my genetics showing me as such.
I hold my plant and think of the energy it input while I was growing the bones but not the mental energy, and I ask Nilan if that would show in genetic testing, "No, we would need bone sample to know if their has been any genetic change due to that."
And so a bone marrow removal was done, it came back as half human and half unknown plant meaning when the transformation was finished I would be part plant and it would be complete genetic transformation. I look at the plant I still didn't know what it was or what being part it would do to me but I know I am already this far going back was never an option.
So I return to the tower in a completely covering tactical black and green outfit with a long coat over with many pockets all through the set wearing a hood and a tactical full face mask with a small sprouting plant with a single stem and three leaves on the left cheek.
I enter the tower and immediately recheck my current status.
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Status Window
Name: Aadi Null
Age: 21
Awakening Age:10
Affiliations: Planet Cerulean Base no.4, Neelan-Turnover city
Spirit Energy status: Core forming/body transformation stage
Mental realm status: Body and mind melding/transformation 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:40 (the human limit with no energy is 3)
Speed:35(the human limit with no energy is 3)
Agility:30(the human limit with no energy is 3)
Stamina:35(the human limit with no energy is 3)
Endurance:40(the human limit with no energy is 3)
Spirit Energy:101(the average amount for your current level is 0.1/400)
Mental energy: 200(the average amount for your current level is 1/800)
Current skills: sense control D-grade, reaction speed D-grade, mental energy control High D-grade, etc. (expand to see full list)
Current Talents: mid low-grade Mental Energy Forging, low-grade blacksmith, low-grade first aide, etc. (expand to see full list)
Current level: High D-rank
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Body transformation starts at different times based off energy because of the different effects the energy has on the body, for spirit energy it starts at the beginning of B-Grade just like for mental energy but the difference is that B-grade stops at 1,000 energy for spirit energy.
Mental energy takes 10,000 to finish the transformation, but it does not have the blocking effect that spirit energy does, everything balances out in one way or another in all things and this is the same.
Earlier transformation but also more limits in ones ability to cultivate for a long time in multiple environments, mental energy is simply better over all.
Not only that but my physique exploded due to my bodies transformation and my natural control over it without using energy is increased, even my senses are increased due to the transformation and I can feel something in the air that isn't just dust or other things. It is flowing and moving but not wind, as this room is completely blocked off but I can't fully make it out or tell what that is.
I ask Lucien when I return home, "It is the usual signs we have for a person about to awaken as they begin to sense the energy of the world and connect with it, it is what most people use when manipulating elements unlike you who uses already existing things."
It is what they use for elemental creation to summon fire, water, earth, and winds with nothing around.
I never truly realized the difference in are types of manipulation and usage until this point as it becomes more clear my planet was like ancient martial artist while here their more like mages and druids from old games.
Both have an innate connection that shows in their usage and attack types, them by controlling all aspects and ours by rushing and charging.
I am now truly beginning to become a part of their world not just trying to fit in but actually tuning in to their energy, slowly I am becoming a cross between my world and theirs with my two different cultivation energy.
I am now able to return to the tower with my 22nd birthday having passed in a small celebration, a whole ten years of me being a part of their family.
Returning to the tower from this break I prepare for the twentieth floor.