I wake up and pop into the shower. Today is the day I challenge the 7 floor. I go outside and hear a commotion. People are crowding around the building that I helped repair yesterday. It doesn't matter though. You can't use it unless you have a skill related to crafting.
"Hey you there in the hide armor."
I turn around me and I see a group of people. They seem like people who are cheerful and happy, probably people who only do the group tower.
"Yes, what do you need?"
"We were just wondering if you want to do the group tower with us."
"No thanks I'm trying to clear a floor in the Individual tower, maybe tomorrow."
"Oh Okay"
I wonder why people even ask such questions. If I'm heading over to the Individual Tower why do you ask if I want to go to the Group Tower. I wonder what the group tower is like, maybe when I clear this floor I'll check it out.
「Choose Floor
...
Floor 5
Floor 6
Floor 7」
"Floor 7"
Another teleport Floor. I wonder if Hallway Floors were only in the Tutorial. I like teleport floors more anyways.
「Floor 7
Objective Survive the Man-Eating Piranhas for 30 Minutes」
This time I'm on a small island surrounded by water. I'm guessing Piranhas will start jumping out of the water and try to attack me before landing back in.
"Heat Sensing"
At least this way I can see when they are coming up. Wow, that's way more than I expected there to be. There seems to be around 500-700 Piranhas. Taking the lower that's around 17 a minute.
I look down at the ground and start seeing a couple Piranhas start swimming up. I grip my scythe harder and start focusing. A piranha jumps out of the water and splashes water on me. I slash it.
"Fast Thinking!"
Still the burden is hard. Okay if I let the piranha sink down to the bottom does that mean the soul goes down with it? It's not worth the risk I need to absorb it. Then summon it so it can attack the ones below. That does waste stat points though.
"Skill Off!"
"Absorb!"
「Agility +1」
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Before I can even comprehend what stat I gained 2 more piranhas jumped out of the water. I take my scythe and do a twister move to get both.
"Absorb" (I'm sure you don't want me to type out absorb every time Kim kills a piranha and I don't want to type it out either. At the end of the stage he will gain the stats from some of the souls.)
「Agility +1
Strength +1」
With every 5 seconds 1 more piranha jumps out than the last 5 seconds. If they keep going at this rate by the end I'll die. I need to test something. Whether or not if it increases if I kill them or if I don't kill them.
5 piranhas jump out of the water and attack I dodge all of them. The next time only 5 jump out of the water. Good this way if I don't kill them I don't have to burden myself. (Did this so he wouldn't be to OP in the beginning)
「Floor 7
Remaining Time: 15:00」
Okay, if I keep this up for another 15 I can clear the floor easy. Out of nowhere a huge piranha come out from the water and flings me off the island and into the water.
"Heat Vision"
I look down and can see all the remaining piranhas including the bug one come at me. I kill the first couple that come at me. Thankfully they still only come in those sets.
"Corpse Animation!"
I use all of the bodies to take out the rest of the piranhas sitting in the lake. I start swimming back towards the island watching for any stray piranhas. I can see the big one coming back towards me. I pull myself onto the land and kick the piranha in the water away from me.
I know it can't attack me for another 5 seconds, I calm myself down and focus.
"Meditation"
I focus on what's happening around me not just with my eyes. With all my senses I get ready to cut the big piranha in half. I close my eyes as I can feel it coming out of the water. Hearing the water splash onto the land.
"Heavy Strike!"
I strike down with all my might. I can feel the blood land on my face, and my arms. I can smell the scent of the water, and all the blood around me. My senses feel more senstive than they ever have.
「New Skill
Heightened Senses: All senses have been dramatically increased. Your senses are now more than 2x better than the average human!」
「Floor 7
Remaining time: 2:00」
I summon the big fish as a monster and kill the rest of the fish down below. It's a shame I can't absorb them since they are too far away.
「Floor 7 Clear
Congratulations on Clearing Floor 7!
+100 XP Level Up X2
+500G」
「Stats from Absorption
Intelligence +2
Stamina +2
Agility +1
Skill Level Up: Heightened Senses」
I get out of the tower and take a look at the leader boards. Seeing as how hard mode only has level 7. What do the other difficulties have? Easy is only on floor 12. Medium is on Floor 10. Not bad even though their stats are horrible.
There is still a crowd over at the new shop so now I wonder whats going on.
"Are there any blacksmiths!? Please craft me armor!"
"Does anyone have a shower I can use?!"
"Anyone on Floor 2 willing to form a party?!"
It's loud as shit over here. I swear people don't have respect for anyone.
"Hey black hair dude come here"
I walk over to the dude who called me over.
"Hey I found something interesting you might like follow me."
"Sure what is it can you tell me."
"Yeah it's over here."
"Give me your armor."
"Why would I do that?"
"Because if you don't I'll stab your sorry ass. Just hand it over."
"I don't listen to people weaker than me."
"Yeah well block this."
Is this what the average person is like? Their weak as shit. How do people this weak even have the confidence to do this?
"Vampiric Grasp"
I can already see his shriveled dry up body. He must be an easy mode player. Such a shame.
I'll challenge the 8th floor in 2 days. I need to conduct a tests inside the room.
Can you gain skills like pain tolerance or fire resistance? After cutting my hand and regenerating it over 100 times I didn't gain any skill. Although I did upgrade my regeneration.
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「Status Window
Name: Kim Yeon
Level: 13
Skills: Composure, Soul Absorption, Corpse Summon, Heavy Strike, Low Tier Regeneration LV2, Appraise, Bone Forge, Battle Instinct, Vampire Grasp LV2, Soul Reaping, Meditation, Fast Thinking, Silent Movements, Heat Sensing, Heightened Senses LV2.
Stats:
Strength: 17
Agility: 19
Intelligence: 19
Stamina: 13
Available points: 26
Gold: 860」