The previous two are gone by now, and the Moderator's focus is now on Yuuki. "I am curious, lad. How are you able to use Everlasting Sword?"

Yuuki who's now out of his Honored One persona was confused how the Moderator had known about that skill but chose to hide it and just answered sheepishly. "Oh that?" He smiled. "I created it."

As he heard that, the Moderator was thrilled to his core. "Created, huh?"

"That's right..."

The Moderator simply laughed, "Really, huh? You really are back, Honored One."

But this only further confused Yuuki. "Hm?"

"It's nothing!" The Moderator smiled, he then handed him a small pouch with its weight being pretty noticable when Yuuki received it. "And as I promised, ten Eternium Coins! You deserve it." He continued smiling and he also gave him a Key of Ascension. Where upon touching it, the light dispersed and was absorbed into his body.

[Key of Ascension Acquired! A new Floor is unlocked!]

Yuuki too smiled, albeit awkwardly, and quietly walked away back to his party. He held up the pouch with victory on is face then he and Yohan's palms met lightly, "You're turn." Yuuki said to his best friend.

"I know. I'll do my best. I hope I can get some Eternium coins like you though."

"No worries, I'll give three each for the two of you."

"Nope, you earned it. It's yours."

Rumi then also joined in, "That's right. You've earned it, we're not gonna rip you off."

"Okay, if that's what you guys think." He then murmured to himself a little as he looked away, "I'm just tryin' to become a nice guy though…"

Suddenly, a black robed young man took off his hood and yelled as he walks towards the trio. "Wait!"

This immediately caught everyone's attention and Yuuki asked indifference. "What do you want?"

"You've humiliated my seniors, I wish to fight to you!" He said with conviction and seriousness in his face.

Yuuki smiled in amusement and replied with arrogant tone. "I just trashed two of your seniors, do you really think you can even win? Besides, I've already fought, I don't think I can do that again though?" Yuuki then glanced at Yohan, "If you want, fight my friend here, it'll be the same result anyways, you're gonna be defeated either way, since he's just as skilled as me." He shrugged.

"Fine by me though." Yohan said before he went up the dueling platform.

The other climbers didn't wish to interrupt this even though they all wanted to be done with their trials and move up to floor 2. This is entertainment for them, after all.

The other person at the side of this challenger—a woman—spoke to him quietly, "Breaker, do we really need to attract attention like this? Sir Visionary might get mad at us if we lose here too."

"Don't you trust me…?"

"I… I trust you, but there's still a chance of defeat."

"But the Leader will be delighted if we can win this, right?"

"We?" Her forehead wrinkled in confusion.

"Yeah, you take on that girl later after I'm finished. I'm pretty sure she's not that strong."

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"And if you lose?"

"Then I'll accept punishments..." He smiled slightly. However, her heart still remained worried sick.

"Hah…" She sighed in defeat and agreed to his decision. "Okay fine, I am angry with the way our seniors lost too."

"It's settled then, I'll fight that guy and you fight that girl, got it?!"

"Yes. I'm fine with that."

Suddenly, they received a mental transmission. "This is Visionary speaking, Bloodletter, Breaker, find out more about that trio. They are most likely outsiders too, try to fight them." A wave of memories and information then suddenly flooded their minds about the Everlasting Sword, Aura, and the outsiders that Visionary tried looking into.

They looked at each other and Bloodletter spoke, "We can't find out anymore regarding that first guy anymore, so let's just try to find out what these other two are capable of."

"Yeah, right, I'll go fight that guy now." Breaker walked towards the platform and the other Climbers roared in excitement. Animosity between each other are pretty much a commonplace in this way of life but it's still very much entertaining whenever one happens in front of them, and this might be their first time witnessing such since this is just Floor 1, after all.

Yohan asked the Moderator who's seated at a tree branch.

"Moderator! Is it possible for me to fight this guy?"

"Sure thing! Just get started already!" A barrier formed around the platform once again with a snap of his fingers and the two immediately pulled out weapons from their Inventory, with Yohan pulling out his new Dual Blades and Breaker pulling out a spear.

The two dashed forward and their weapons clashed afterwards with loud clanking of metals.

As they faced off, Yohan noticed his opponent's unnatural strength. "What the fuck? This guy's strength is unreal." He can't win this in a battle of brute strength and he doesn't have such overwhelming offensive power that a One-Shot Samurai like Yuuki have, but what he have is versatility that is far beyond Yuuki's due to his Perfect Mana Control. What's more, he actually have a Magical Affinity, a random bonus when making a character, and his affinity is for Fire, giving him a 20% bonus in efficiency and potency. But it's just a small bonus and doesn't really make him much more powerful than a full fledged Fire Mage.

Using his [Blade Dance], he tried outperforming the opponent and it's working, "Are you just all about strength?" Yohan taunted but there was no answer, but clearly, this opponent of his is full of anger as of the moment.

They exchanged blows after blows in speedy manner and while Yohan is able to dodge or block the attacks, the strength is wearing on his stamina each time. "Fuck it." He dodged a few attacks to weave in on Breaker and blasted him point blank with an explosion from his palm using his fire magic, blowing him back away.

Although he can't use complex spells and magical attacks like a mage does, his control allows him to achieve basic to intermediate effects, although if he wanted to, he can still learn to use spells later on which he definitely plan on doing so since class systems are now removed and also due to this kind of control that he have so he's planning on switching up his play style this time around. Because he was a Rogue last time, by adding magic courtesy of his mana control, he wants to become a SpellRogue this time.

Breaker managed to quite easily recover mid-air and his clothes are barely burnt, meaning that those simple robes are made of high quality materials, and possibly even having magical effects in them.

"Quite a good robe you have there!" Yohan shouted with exhilaration.

"Said by someone reeking with items all over his body..." Breaker replied with stern voice while brushing off the burnt parts of his robe.

"You got me there." Yohan smiled before turning serious and disappeared from his position.

Breaker immediately readied himself and then Yohan appeared on his side, caught off-guard the former slashed him on the side but because he managed to block it with his left arm, a gaping slash wound ran across from his middle upper arm towards just below his elbow.

Despite it being painful, he never showed it and immediately retaliated by lunging his spear forward with anger all over his face.

But sadly, Yohan is just way too good in terms of technique. Even though he knows he will win if it's all about strength, this guy's technique is just unbelievable.

Yohan managed to parry it with his left blade and pushed it to the side, he then lunges forward to stab with the other. Although breaker tried to block it with his hand, thus piercing it with the blade, It was futile as Yohan applied lightning on his blade as soon as that happened, pouring most of his mana into it and zapping Breaker until he's almost blacked out.

Even though he managed to hold on, Yohan immediately dragged it outward from Breaker's impaled palm, splitting it into two and following up with tens of slashes all over Breaker's body, painting the surroundings red as blood gushed out of his body.

Even after being slashed tens of times, he still remained standing there valiantly with his consciousness intact. He tried to throw a punch towards Yohan using his right fist and the latter just delivered a roundhouse kick towards his neck, driving him downwards to the ground.

Yohan panted slightly while flicking off the blood on his blades, "That won't kill him for sure."