I returned to the tower after going back to the city to get another restoration and patch myself up and get supplies for my wait. The doors at the base had opened again with the golems coming out. I was not going to pursue Michael up from the base.

What needed to occur was to climb the tower. I had noted a small discrepancy at the top. It wasn’t easy to spot, but there was a small structure that was poking out of the very top of the tower. That wasn’t on other towers. There was a way in from the top.

I kicked off the ground and leapt up. “Hah!” I struck my hand into the wall of the tower right before I began to descend back to the ground, forcing the energy inside the material away and pushing in my own energy. The material turned to putty, creating a hand hold.

Yanking down with my hand, I propelled myself up and created another handhold. No one escapes me. You can hide in the tower, but I will be waiting at the top for you and the Astrologer. There will be no escape.

I slowly pulled myself up the tower, one hand hold at a time. After crossing the halfway point, several one way gates opened up around the edge of the tower. Floating cylinder monsters exited. Before walls moved back in place over the one way gates. They were the same silver color as other golems. All of them level 5 monsters. They moved quickly in the air and began to move around the tower to envelop me on its side.

This was why going up the side of the tower was a very bad idea. They each began to gather a massive amount of power. I kept on climbing. I needed to get distance and force them to clump together. There were forty monsters.

ZZZTTT! I could feel the buzz of energy in the air as they all unleashed their gray beams continuously. I kicked off a barrier to quickly move to the side, twisting and spinning in midair to avoid the void beams that cut across the side of the tower, turning part of its incredibly resistant material into dust.

The beams quickly spread out. Unlike other monsters with ranged attacks, these cylinder beam defenders aimed nearby and swept back and forth across the side of the tower, rather than directly targeting a person.

They didn’t stop firing either, but they had a max speed. I went around the edge of the tower and kept going up at an angle now, outracing the disintegration beams and golems that pursued me up the tower. Fighting them on the side of the tower was pointless. They would just keep coming back over and over.

Killing them would be a nightmare since they tried to stay a set distance away from a person and had defenses as well. Trying to engage these monsters in an aerial battle was just an exercise in frustration. This was why going at a tower from the outside was considered death. This many level 5 monsters in aerial combat unleashing constant beam attacks that swept back and forth made even me hesitate slightly.

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I could easily win. But it wasn’t worth my time. I had not fully climbed a tower before, but I had no doubt there would be another battle at the top. I was almost there. I pulled myself into the air and landed on the roof. I saw a small structure jutting out from the top of the tower with a one way gate over the entrance.

A level 6 monster was waiting for me at the top of the tower. A giant cubic golem that was floating and had no legs. It quickly lifted off from the ground and began to unleash a barrage of bullets at me. I dodged to the side and darted forward across the top of the tower.

Suddenly the cylindrical beam golems teleported around the monster. I leapt up and kicked off a barrier. Ten of the cylindrical beam golems formed barriers to block me while the rest began charging up to unleash their continuous beam attacks once more.

I kicked off another barrier I made, but the barriers the golems made tracked my position, protecting the boss. I reached into my robe and pulled out needles, throwing them. The level 5 monsters were ripped apart and destroyed.

They couldn’t protect everything quickly enough. I darted around, using their corpses before they turned to dust as platforms. The level 6 monster was exposed, and I moved in. Dragon’s Talon Piercing the Void!

I landed a single strike on the boss monster. My energy rippled through it. The monster turned to dust. I threw out some remaining needles killing the lesser monsters as they still kept attacking. Landing on top of the tower, it was over.

Looking around, there was nothing left. A golden pillar rose up out of the center of the of the tower. I looked at it and then at the one-way gate. I went over and put my hands on it. Oh! How interesting. I considered the option in front of me.

I could kill Michael and the Astrologer right now. Forever trapping them inside the tower once it was removed. I considered that option carefully. I would wait until I had healed myself, since I planned to kill them myself.

If they had not exited the tower by then, it would become their tomb. I considered entering the tower, but I was not going to risk that, now that the top of the tower had been unsealed and cleared, it was time to fix myself.

Leaping on top of the small room with the one way gate, I tossed my satchel of supplies on top of it. It was a shame I couldn’t sense inside the tower. Its material blocked my senses. It would be nice to know how close my enemies were, but I would wait up here and fix myself.

Looking around, the view was disappointing. Even with my stats and skill, the energy in the air distorted viewing things only a short distance away, creating a blur. I could not see into the next zones, even though they was a void zone to the South.

Settling into a meditative position, I closed my eyes, while focusing on my energy. Time to move everything back into place. It would take a bit of time, about two or three months. This would also let people forget about me and think I had disappeared, allowing me to sneak around and find Clarissa and my son.

It was a massive headache, but the satisfaction of killing my enemies with my own two hands was something I would not deny myself. For far too long, people thought they could do whatever they wanted, insulting me, taking my things, kidnapping my child. No more. I would remove their hearts from their chests with a smile and all would be right.