Eve took the death of Amy hard, probably harder than both Louise and Alex.

Eve worked a lot with Amy in school and Amy showed immense progress throughout the year in her studies. Her newfound love for history meant that she actually urged Eve to start a history club.

'They don't deserve this'. Eve cried to the point Evan had to console her. Yes, Evan was upset and so were the kids, however no tears were shed on their part. If anything they were distracting themselves with level gains from the ordeal, and newfound vigur that they hadn't experienced before.

Eve was still the most levelled out of everyone, being at Level 3. Whereas she was followed closely by Jackson, Grace, Lement, Lee and Kimmy who were all Level 2. Kimmy and Lee got experience from healing wounds which was a boon in itself, it meant once they got out of this tower, they didn't need to go out onto the battlefield.

Dexter, Evan, Finn, Rose and Grant were all Level 1. It meant that everyone had at least killed one goblin each.

'This is it. No more deaths'. Eve sighed deeply to the point her lungs were full and screamed. She screamed aloud for everyone to hear although not her intention.

A smile then protruded from her face. 'Survival is a must'.

"Grace, your purple cloud thing is really creepy, you know that right? When myself and Lement got closer to it, the smell almost dragged me in". Jackson was bewildered as he eyed up the cloud.

"It's not a cloud! It's a spirit! Also I've told you once already, it's called Violet, so stop referring to it as a cloud. And if you must know, that is Violet's skill called Miasma". Grace swiftly turned her back to Jackson and started speaking to Rose instead.

Grace, and practically everyone in the class had a short fuse when it came to Jackson. He was simply too boisterous at all times of the day. There was just too much energy radiating from him, but Jackson knew not to take it personally especially as Lement would always give him the time of day. They were both birds of a feather and if anything they acted more similarly than his own twin brother does!

Grace turned to speak to Rose, however the young girl was sat there in a meditation state with a smile on her face. Grace loved Rose as a friend, although she always wondered what went on in her brain. Rose was sweet, but it always felt like she was away with the fairies. Seeing Rose staring into space was a common occurrence, but now, it Rose was either staring at her flowers, or in meditation.

The hour finished with everyone recuperating and mentally preparing themselves for whatever they had to go against next. Rose and Grant spent this hour to themselves in a meditative state. Nobody really questioned it, but their innate talents seemed to be the most random out of everyone. Grant somehow has wings now that had constant weird symbols on them, and from his description he gained knowledge that he had to decipher? Nobody really knew what he was talking about.

Whereas Rose had the most useless talent out of everyone yet she only spoke great things about it during their downtime in the cave. Yet, when everyone entered the white room, she entered meditation and did not speak to anyone. Sometimes she opened her eyes to look at the flowers like she was cracking a code. Yet in a way, she was. Rose just like every other person with mana manipulation and meditation have the ability to see mana particles in the air. Rose slowly came to the conclusion it was mana because every person radiated different mana particles some stronger than others, but they were still there. Everyone had certain mana particles surrounding them, including her flowers.

Now, mana manipulation is purely a skill that allows people to use their mana creatively outside of skills, it has nothing to do with their interpretations of mana. However, people who have mana manipulation already have the entry requirements to see finer mana particles.

WIth that, Floor 2 was upon the class, and now had to fight their way through once again.

[Floor 2:

Slay 20 Goblins, and 2 Hobgoblins

0/20 Goblins

0/2 Hobgoblins].

Everyone saw the requirements and had a sigh of relief. Yes, they lost three people, however when fighting them, nobody truly struggled against the goblins. Dexter who was arguably the weakest out of the bunch, had killed two goblins independently.

Evan and Eve looked at their surroundings almost immediately, to find themselves in the exact same forest as last time. However, the only difference is that they weren't attacked from the get-go.

'We were just unlucky then...'. Eve continued to scan the area despite the sudden of urge of sadness.

They truly had been unlucky throughout the entirety of Floor 1. They had randomly been given a location, and there were already two goblins waiting there.

Eve shook her head.

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'What's done is done'. They couldn't reverse time, and they definitely couldn't reverse death.

With that, a group of 11 walked through the forest with a trail of flowers following behind them.

"Rose can you turn your talent off?". Despite the trail of flowers being stunning. It was exactly that - a trail. They had no idea what a hobgoblin was, but they had to kill two, so they could only assume it was much more powerful than a small goblin.

"Unfortunately not. It's constantly activated no matter what I desire". Rose was deflated because there was obviously a time and place. As much as she loved the flowers, they were becoming a disturbance to their survival.

Despite that, they plodded on with Evan in front, and Eve in the back. Obviously, Evan had no idea where they were going, they were just moving.

Until thankfully, they came across a small group of goblins. There were around 7 in total and no hobgoblin in sight.

Nobody was nervous as they were already in their positions from walking. Because of this, it made more sense for the mages to take each one out, including the supports.

The disgusting, green goblins hadn't even seen their deaths coming, as they were all shot in the head, except one which was swiftly finished off by Dexter. They quickly scanned the dead bodies of the goblins, and Dexter pocketed one of the small daggers the goblins held.

It had a sharp metal end, but the handle was wooden. It had crude craftsmanship, but that was to be expected. The item reflected information, which is something that just didn't happen with their equipment gifted by the system.

[Blunt Dagger (F): A simple, blunt dagger. If stabbed, harder to recover bleeding].

This was a huge gain, and Dexter showed everyone. Although, it was not the only gain during this little scuffle if it could be called that. It was pretty much a massacre. Grace had also gained a level, and was now on par with Eve with 3 levels. Although unfortunately for Violet, it had only just levelled up once despite it killing quite a few goblins during the fight on Floor 1. It seems like killing things for Violet was an inefficient way of levelling up.

"Gosh it truly is like we're living in a video game". The giant chuckled to himself as he swung his hammer around in his hand. Finn seemed like he was getting agitated having not be able to kill any goblins.

The others could only think the same as it was literally like an item in a game.

Still, they went on, until finally it became nighttime. It had only been 12 hours since they were back into the woods, and nighttime fell on them.

'Weird, it seems like this tower has a different cycle to Earth'. This was just an observation and didn't necessarily mean it was a good or bad thing.

Evan and Finn slowly set up a campfire, however this was in no way a campsite. There was not a single tent in sight.

Everyone had to make do using leaves as covers and pillows as they slept on the floor.

Evan and Eve took 3 hour intervals of watching camp as they hadn't been on Floor 1 that long so they had no way of knowing if goblins operated in the night. During Eve's intervals, she meditated as when she did, it felt like she was watching the world through another set of eyes as she could see all around her.

However she noticed something strange when she meditated. There were green wisps in the sky, matching the colour she sees in her mana core.

'Why is there mana in the air?'. Eve was perplexed by this as she previously didn't notice this in the cave. This was a revelation, as always the thought at th back of her mind of how to gain access to magic with spells that are elemental. She obviously has the affinities in her mana core, but the mana inside of her had no connection to these affinities.

Eve was ecstatic. She also noticed affinities that exudes from people. Some fainter than others, but for Jackson and Lee, their mana affinities, or attunement in their case was thick and looked almost very pure like there was no other affinity in the mix.

But alas, she unfocused from others and focused on the atmosphere. She needed to make a connection of the mana stream going into her mana core and make it the same mana.

She once looked inwards at her mana core, and saw these mana streams trying to connect to certain colours, however these mana streams were a deep blue, and simply were unable to make connections with everything.

She wanted to literally grab out at this green mana in her surroundings but she couldn't. She simply didn't know the means in absorbing them.

Then Eve squinted. 'Absorption. I need to somehow absorb the mana in my surroundings and then replace the mana stream trying to connect to the green colour.

Eve sighed as frustration was building on top of her. 'I simply don't know where to begin'.

She tried to physically grab the mana, however when she moved, her meditation broke and therefore couldn't see the mana particles.

'That was a bust'. She quickly looked around her to see if anyone saw.

She entered meditation and once again was met with a green hue everywhere. What she noticed though, is that the green hue was ever slightly different to what Rose's flowers emitted. Rose's flowers emitted a very light green, almost a pale green unlike the dark green mana in the environment. Eve paid little attention to this as she assumed that was more to do with Rose than herself.

Eve slowly felt herself get more exhausted, and she had one last ditch attempt.

She tried to use her mind to move the mana. Obviously didn't work.

She tried to stir up the mana inside her body using mana manipulation. Something worked, but it wasn't what she was looking for.

Then, her final attempt had something to do with her mana core. She tried to stir up the mana streams surrounding the mana core, and something happened. They slightly moved but other than that, nothing happened. She focused in on the mana stream that connected to the green mana. The stream moved, however Eve hasn't got a clue on where it should be moved.

Sweat slowly poured down her forehead, and decided to give up until her next watch. She felt exhaustion fell over her body, and woke Evan up as she spent the last 3 hours in meditation.

'I'll try again when I'm partially rested".

Eve gave Evan a sorry look as she slept, and Evan sat there staring into the woods.

Evan also wanted to progress with his skills but didn't use meditation. He had a skill called Shield Arts and wanted to practice it, as currently it was at F grade and assumed the only way to progress in these sort of skills was to actually progress with a shield.

For the next three hours, Evan swang his shield around aimlessly with no goal in sight, as he had no prior experience with a shield.

He looked at his status page.

Name: Evan

Level: 1

Race: Human (F)

Class: Guardian

Innate Talent: Expansion (E)

Recognised Title:

Skills: Shield Arts (F)

No progress were made.

For a few minutes he stared into the sky, debating what the hell was happening on Earth. He missed his family, his home, and his pet dog.

With that, he awoke Eve, and she again was on watch.

Eve felt rested enough, and was pumped. She was going to crack this new system, and gain more insight for her pupils.