I've been wondering about my class lately. I'm a Necromancer yet have little Necromancer skills. Can my 'Absorb' even be counted as Necromancy? According to the admins we will gain more features by clearing the 15 Floor. I'll just have to work my way up there.

Today is the day I attempt the 13th Floor. Abandoning the coliseum plan. Still very disappointed in the coliseum. Only gaining 1 skill. Still needing skills to combine I open the shop.

"Shop"

「Store

Weapon

Armor

Consumable

Room

Skills」

"Skills"

「Skill Shop Page

Mana Blast: 100G

Mana Breathing: 1,500G

Search: 200G」

The skill shop is so stacked now. Getting two OP skills back to back.

"Mana Breathing"

「New Skill:

Mana Breathing: Automatically gather Mana in your heart by breathing. Must be out of combat for skill to work. Able to get rid of concentration with higher Intelligence level. 」

Damn, that's really good. I don't think I should combine this one either.

Starting to concentrate to try the skill. Before I can even gain focus I feel Mana gathering. Standing up to test the limitation of the skill. Walking around, running, and jumping still gather Mana. Running towards the tower getting stronger with each step. Senses getting stronger with each breath. Feeling confident in my new abilities I hurriedly challenge the tower.

「Choose Floor

…

Floor 11

Floor 12

Floor 13」

“Floor 13”

Feeling the teleport makes my insides turn. The Tower needs to make a skill for this. Looking around I notice the field setting. The grass brushing against my body calms me. My happiness disturbed by an uneasy feeling. Instantly, a blade unsheathes and heads my way. Dodging backwards I become cautious.

「Floor 13

Objective: Defeat the fallen swordmaster.」

Immediately, feeling the killing intent of the man in front of me. Even guessing the mans past made me uneasy. How does one obtain such bloodlust? His eyes piercing me like bullets. Not even needing to clash I can tell how strong he is.

He wastes no time in attacking. Continuing his rush I know I will loose. Getting pushed back with each and every strike. A clash of weapons like this was something I have never experienced. I'm loosing a battle in every stat. The only way to win is with my skills.

"Flash Step"

Trying to find an opening in his defense gets demolished. The skill, not even ended, he catches me by my armor and slams me into the ground. Assuming he has a skill like future sight I can't win. Giving up is never an option. With the fate of the Tower's players on my back I preserver.

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"Heavenly Moonlight Footwork"

The first steps are like a flow of a river. Calm, precise, unpredictable. Gaining strength with each step of the footwork. On the 7th step, the change was severe. Instead of a flow of a river it was a rapid. The speed and power increased. Attacking his defense was attacking an immoveable object. Each strike barely affecting him.

"I know you aren't this weak young one. I can see the fire of 'him' within you."

Hearing his tone of voice change throughout the sentence made me curious. Who is he revering to? Is it a admin of the tower?

"What are you talking about?"

"I am talking about the strongest player the tower has ever seen. Bearing the name &^!@*#%*."

The name got censored? Is he someone that important? Trying to clear my mind of the matter I focus on the battle. The man having no opening in his defense or offense. Feeling bad about the idea but knowing I need to survive. With the last step I strike my sword into the dirt, launching it towards him. Cutting a small cut on my hand. With the distraction in the dirt I rush towards him and rub the blood in his eyes.

'Flash Step'

Dashing behind him and finding the opening I need. Stabbing my Iron Sword into his back. Shit I missed the vital organs.

"Resorting to dirty tricks such as these. I miss judged you, you do not have his fire within you. Even if you did he would not be proud."

"I don't care about someone I don't even know."

Pulling out the sword, I immediately go to slash him. Seeing a blue aura around the man. Feeling my stomach get pressed in and my body launching back. My eyes not even able to perceive the movements of the man. For the first time I wasn't able to get back up after being knocked down. Seeing him walk towards me made my whole body scared. My mind telling my body to move, my body is unresponsive. Knowing if I don't move now I will die. My mind is screaming at my body. Feeling my body healing itself gave me the little bit of hope I needed.

Shouting aloud I get up and dash towards him. Falling down before even reaching halfway. Adrenaline pumping into my body faster than ever before. Looking at the man I notice something different. The blue aura is gone.

With the amount of adrenaline in my body I can't even feel the pain. Getting back up to fight the man. None of his injuries have been healed boosting my confidence. Getting my daggers ready and gripping my sword tightly. Rushing towards the man my body wanting to stop but my mind wouldn't. My body trembling, I still continue. Screaming at the top of my lungs knowing my life depends on it.

"Flash Step!!"

I rush towards him. Throwing a dagger towards him while running towards his backside. The dagger traveling even faster than I am reaches him first. Having to decide between blocking my attack and the daggers is what made my plan to good. Either way you will get damaged. Knowing he will block my attack I throw another right before the cooldown.

Know having to block 3 attack I can imagine his expression. Even being a change he doesn't know about the 2nd dagger. He turns around towards me as before I attack. Getting ready for a counterattack I focus. Knowing he's ignoring both the daggers gives me reassurance I will win.

"Future Sight"

Getting ready for anything he will produce. Putting all my remaining strength into this one strike. Looking him dead in the eyes no future appears. Meaning one of two things. One I kill him giving him no future. Two I die not being able to see the future. I'm confident I know I will win. As the strike connected with the sword I fell it. The feeling of victory of someone stronger. The strike connecting with his sword breaks it. My sword connecting with his flesh.

Seeing the corpse of the man in half isn't what scared me. Looking at the size of the soul above scared me senses. Normally, the size of the soul is the size of a fist. The size of this old mans soul is around 3 times the size of that. The soul being the size of a head.

"Absorb"

「Agility +7

Intelligence +6

Strength +10

Stamina +4」

Damn, normally I get around 1 stat for per monster. Assuming that's true, this man is worth over 27 monsters.

「Floor 13 Clear

Congratulations on clearing Floor 13!

+500 XP! Level Up x2

+5000G

Please return to the lobby to upgrade your class!」

My class is still upgradable. I thought it would be at level 10 or earlier.

Returning back to my room was an experience to remember. Happy upgrading my class, stats and hopefully skills from the class. Returning to my room it's not like the normal upgrade.

「Class upgrade

For the upgrade to occur we need the player in a rest or sleep mode. Please sleep in a safe place for the upgrade to start.」

Heading to my bed I feel nervous. Is this like updating my phone back on Earth? Feeling nervous but trusting the Tower I go to sleep on the bed.

「Class upgrade Commencing」

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「Status Window

Name: Kim Yeon

Level: 25

Skills: Soul Absorption, Corpse Summon, Heavy Strike, Low Tier Regeneration LV2, Appraise, Bone Forge, Vampire Grasp LV2, Soul Reaping, Heat Sensing, Heightened Senses LV2, Skill Combination, Future Sight, Master of Mana, Weapon Mastery, Mana Circuit, Shadow Invisibility, Flash Step, Heavenly Moonlight Footwork.

Stats:

Strength: 33

Agility: 39

Intelligence: 46 (5)

Stamina: 27 (2)

Available points: 50

Gold: 1560」