Seeing as how I've unlocked all this new stuff, I need to check it out. First I need some armor, and preferably some more weapons than just a scythe.
"Store"
「Store
Weapon
Armor
Consumable
Room」
"Armor"
「Generating Armor Based on your stats and level」
「Hide Armor: 200G
Leather Armor: 100G
Chain mail: 225G
Plate Armor: 300G」
Seeing as how I have around 700 gold I can buy the Hide armor.
"Hide Armor"
Out of nowhere a full set of hide armor appears on my bed next to me. I pull off my clothes and release I need a shower or a bath. I stink like shit. Anyways I put it on and it fits perfectly.
I also have access to other people too. I go to the door and open it. I can feel the sun on my face. It smells like Earth. It's a bit behind with technology. It look like the goblin village from floor 5. Wood huts and dirt roads.
I walk over to the place where most people are gathered. People are going crazy over the leader boards. According to what I heard from the people shouting the average hard player is better than the best Normal and Easy player.
I honestly don't see why people are fussing about it. High Risk, High Reward. I decide to go look over at the leader boards and see if I'm on it. No surprise, I'm First place in both. I mean I earn stats just from killing anything. Quite OP.
The crazy part is the difference between first and second place is insane. There is a 12 point stat difference. It doesn't matter though, since I'm going to increase the gap anyways.
I don't care about the group tower since that's not what matters. From the explanation the only thing that matters is your individual floor. So that's what I'm planning on doing.
I head into floor 6 feeling confident. Self-explanatory since I know I'm the strongest in the server. I wonder what other servers are like. Time to head into floor 6.
「Choose Floor
...
Floor 4
Floor 5
Floor 6」
"Floor 6"
I get teleported to a dessert this time. I can feel the sun reflect off the sand and into my eyes. It got noticeably hotter than the other floors too.
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「Floor 6
Objective: Survive the snakes for 10 minutes.」
Just some snakes is easy. Might be easier than the 5th floor at this rate. I can feel the ground start shaking and the sand dispersing. A huge cloud of sand and dust goes up into the air like a bomb just got dropped. A huge black snake starts slithering towards me at an incredible speed.
I keep calm, I know I can avoid the snake if I focus. I can hear the snake coming. I see its massive tongue lick its lips like its going to eat me. I feel insulted. This snake thinks it can beat the #1 ranker.
I rush at it. I can't let it hurt my pride. I prepare my 'heavy strike' against it I jump up and go behind it. I strike its hide and my scythe bounces off. I feel like a fly against an elephant. I think back on what the objective is.
The objective isn't to kill the snake but to survive for the time. Out of nowhere another snake comes and wacks me with its tail sending me flying. I feel the damage it did. Even with my regeneration it will take at least 2 minutes to recover fully.
I look at my skills and look at what could help. Vampiric Grasp. Perfect, it drains the life force of the opponent when I hit it. I don't need to do damage if I take it's life force.
I start rushing at the snake getting ready with the same plan as before. I jump into the air and swing down at the snakes hide.
"Vampiric Grasp!"
The snake starts shrieking and starts slithering away.
「Floor 6
Time Remaining: 5:00」
Perfect I still have time to hunt the snakes. I hit it again and again and again. The snake can barely even move. But neither can I, I used way to much mana to continue hunting. Wait I have the perfect skill for this.
"Soul Reaping"
I can feel my strength coming back to me as my lips get more moist. I feel confident again.
"Absorb"
「New Skill:
Heat Sensing: Able to detect infrared radiation emitted by a living being. 」
Nice, this is perfect for finding more snakes.
"Heat Sensing"
It feels like my eyes are on fire. I can see red all below and around me. I can see the body of snakes. A snake is rushing at me from below. I can feel it and see it. I jump to the side in the nick of time.
I jump back at the snake.
"Vampiric Grasp"
「Skill Level Up
Vampiric Grasp」
With this level up I only needed 2 hits to kill the snake.
"Absorb"
「Intelligence +2」
「Floor 6 Cleared
Congratulations you have cleared Floor 6!
XP +60 Level up x2
Gold +300
Achievement: Overcoming the Odds: All stats +1 」
There are Achievements in the Tower? All stats plus 1 is a steal. Anyways I need some water it's to hot in the desert.
I wonder if they have a shower?
"Store"
「Store
Weapon
Armor
Consumable
Room」
"Room"
「Room Upgrades
Shower: 600
Improved Bed: 300 (Fatigue diminishes 25% faster)
2nd Floor: 2,000」
"Shower"
I can feel the house rumble and shake as a new door gets added with the sign Shower. I open the door and am so happy. It even doubles as a bath. I wonder if I can charge people if they want to use it?
I get out the bath and head back over to the leader boards. I'm first place in stats but not in Floor, I'm tied with a lot of other people. But no one is on the 7th floor yet. I'll do that tomorrow. Today is for exploring the Lobby.
I walk around the Lobby and find an shack that looks all beat up. I walk inside and find that its like a blacksmith shop.
「Do you wish to repair the Shop?
Costs 500G」
"Yes"
I have plenty of gold anyways why not help out the common people.
「Thank you for repairing the shop.
As the person who repaired the shop you can choose one skill the owner of the shop offers you.」
「Choose wisely
Forging
Carpentry
Leather working
Jewelry Making
Pottery」
"Forging"
If I can create equipment and sell it, and use it for myself. Thats a steal.
「New Skill:
Forging: Shaping and manipulating metals like iron, steel, copper, or brass to create tools, weapons, armor, and more.」
「New Item in the Shop
Category: Room
Smithy: 5,000G」
「If this is too much for the player, but they wish to use a Smithy It is available in the Smithy in town for a fee.」
That sucks. It would be better to just buy the smithy when I can instead of paying a fee every time I want to craft something. Anyways I need to get back to my room.
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「Status Window
Name: Kim Yeon
Level: 11
Skills: Composure, Soul Absorption, Corpse Summon, Heavy Strike, Low Tier Regeneration, Appraise, Bone Forge, Battle Instinct, Vampire Grasp, Soul Reaping, Meditation, Fast Thinking, Silent Movements, Heat Sensing.
Stats:
Strength: 16
Agility: 16
Intelligence: 17
Stamina: 11
Available points: 20
Gold: 360」