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We tinued our exploration after hunting the wolves for a little while. We came across a new open gate while expl the forest, which was of a green color. This gate poured a lot of Goblins, the same ones I had sin before, so they were fairly easy prey. We slew them all, making sure to see the progress of my mother and my sister’s new cultivation abilities, and then crushed the boss, another Hobgoblin, although a Shaman this time.
And, well, rinse a two more times, and my level was now fifty. To repay my mother and my sister for having weled me bato the family and for simply existing and making my life happier, I let them take the treasure chests. They got a few pieces of equipment and some potions, which they said they were going to save for future dungeon raids. My sister, after having sihird boss we fought, a k Yeti King, gained system status.
I wasn’t too happy about the System parasitizihough, so I did the same trick as before aorted an Administrator to give her a Privilege a her “wear” the system instead of full iion. I couldn’t do the same with my mht now, as she had fully ied with it. But maybe once her soul grows strong enough to take on the backsh of tearing the system apart from it, I could do it too.
Anyways…
Ding!
[You have sin the [Yeti King (k)] Dungeon Gate Boss!]
[Level Up!]
[Your Level has increased from Level 49 to Level 50!]
[All your Stats have increased. You gained Bonus Stat Points and Skill Points.]
[You have reached Max Level. You ow choose a Css inside of the Tower once you plete the Tutorial.]
[You gained +11.000 Credits.]
[The Level of several Skills has increased.]
[You received the Title: [Boss Syer]!]
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[Boss Syer]
Title Requirements: Sy five or more Boss-type Monsters alone.
Effects: Increases Damage against Boss-type Monsters by +30%, take -10% less damage from Boss-type Monsters.
A Title given to true Boss Syers, You’re on a roll! Keep going!
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Another useless title, but I guess it is still nice.
I took a peek at my "status," or, well, this ever-growing piece of Etheric Equipment, as I like to call it.
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[Name]: [Katherine]
[Race]: [Human?]
[Titles]: [The One Who Folded The System] [Dungeon Gate Keeper] [Ued] [Talent Seeking Guider] [Apprentice Chef] [Boss Syer]
[Css]: [None]
[Level]: [50/50]
[Mana]: [600/600]
[Martial Power]: [500]
[Strength]: [260]
[Agility]: [260]
[Vitality]: [260]
[Intelligence]: [260]
[Dexterity]: [260]
[Cssless Skills (6/6)]
[Premium Pyer Privilege (SSS): Lv1] [Kig Strike (D): Lv5] [First Aid (D): Lv6] [Mirage Veil (A): Lv5] [Cooking (D): Lv6] [Basianship (C): Lv5] [Family Bond (D): Lv4]
[Magic Skills (5/6)]
[Partial Spatial Manipution (B): Lv5] [Mana Manipution (C): Lv7] [Healing Golden Light (B): Lv5] [Photon Essence Manipution (A): Lv5] [Cursed Fmes (B): Lv4]
[Css Skills (0/0)]
[Locked]
[Stat Points]: [250]
[Skill Points]: [250]
[Credits]: [55.000]
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Not bad, more mana, which means I tinuously create a bit more Primordial Essence as well! A few molden dews were produced today. A dew drop would usually take a month ba Murim, but I make them daily here.
Anyway, these other stats do seem to work, and over time, bit by bit, it feels like their strength is stag on my already supremely powerful body. A bit only, but a bit on a being such as myself is still quite a lot.
Above all, this Martial Power Stat is stra is not growing like the other Stats and has remai five hundred. Do I o do something else to increase it?
“Hey, Clide.”
[…]
“Do you wa you back?”
[“P-Please, everything but that! I had no idea you could even do that! Even when I didn’t log into the System! J-Just what kind of entity are you?!”]
“Answer my question, Clide. How do I increase the Martial Power stat?”
[“A-Ah, that Stat… It increases with a lot of physical exercise, fighting, and healing. It is only one of many Hidden Stats that only increase through specific methods!”]
"Iing. Tell me about the others."
"Please, I ’t do that; I am not permitted to reveal all of these secrets. My boss is seriously looking at me right now. His big, red eyes are really angry. I am giving so much attention to just a single person so…”]
He wasn’t lying.
“I see, this boss of yours, I talk with them?”
[“I-I wouldn’t… reend it. But perhaps you could hear something if you let the Gods speak to you again like before, master Katherine.”]
He calls me Master now. Good boy.
“Alright~”
I quickly disabled my invisible veil and allowed the gods to speak once more.
[Several Tods are furious against you for having ighem for so long!]
[Some of them are deeply offended by what you’ve been doing with the System.]
[The Tod {Spawn of the Abyssal Chaos} gres at you with hateful red eyes.]
[It procims that you will be punished for abusing the goodwill of Administrators.]
[Be careful when you ehe Tower…]
“Oh my, what a dull threat. Is that it? Wait, are you Clide’s boss?”
[The Tod {Spawn of the Abyssal Chaos} invites you to the tower if you want to talk with them.]
“Alright, if you’re so eager to invite me inside…” I ughed. “Is there any other Tod who wants to say something? If you’re only going to give me empty threats, I might as well just not hear them; your pathetic words ’t hurt me.”
[The Tods that despise you only hate you even more now!]
[They have begun plotting your demise the moment you step ihe Tower.]
However, a few Tods find you very iing. If you show them that you truly meant what you said, they are willing to reward you for taking care of the Gods they despise.]
“Oh? So all of you aren’t allies, huh? Iing… Killing gods for ods, am I a merary now?” I ughed. “I haven’t killed any of you yet; be a bit more patient, please.”
It was incredible how quickly they believed I could kill them instead of taking all I said as just bullshit. I suppose that my strength alone has proven that I am quite petent, as a world-css Css Hunter and all. Perhaps every World Css Hunter gains the attention of the Gods like this.
“So this tower thing, mother, how does it work?” I asked her. “Is the one we see from here the only one oire p?”
“No, there’s only a siower, but there are marances across the world. They emerge as those huge, bck spirals. People tried destroying them before; I remember one being nuked. But nothing happeo them; they’re pletely iructible.” My mother said this while butchering a magic core from a monster carcass, as if it were something normal for her now.
“I see. How do they deal with pyers overflooding the useful dungeons and such? Or taking away all resources?” I wondered. “Remembering Murim, it was always utter bloodshed everywhere some pce with a rge quantity of treasures was found; in just a couple of days, there would be nothi after the Immortals battled to get everything from it.”
“A-Ah, well, no, it is a bit different here. Materials and resources appear endlessly, I believe. They just take some time to grow.” She said. “About the Dungeons of the different floors, it depends. Dungeons usually have marances and are gigantic. Monsters respaidly, and some floors are as big as entire worlds of their own. So the number of people that enter is never enough to overflow everything. And that’s without sidering all the Tower inhabitants themselves.”
“Haven’t you noticed some weird people ireet’s somethings, big sis? Like overly pale women with red eyes and pointy ears, or people with tall frames, blonde pointy ears, and wooden armor. Sometimes you see tall, muscur, green-skinned people too. Or other times, they got animal traits.” Said my sister. “Those are tower inhabitants. When they bee pyers themselves, they also visit our world and the other worlds oower’s floors.”
“Perhaps I didn’t notice because I am so used to Murim’s myriad of different races.” I ughed. “But you’re right, I do remember some non-humans walking around. How amazing! How has the cultural exge been so far?”
“Err, well, it depends. Not so good most of the time. They don’t like talking about their worlds and only e to Earth to buy our teology and food.” Said my sister. “Sometimes to also hunt monsters.”
“Some of them really like our food, especially everything that is processed or packaged.” My mother said, “And well, they also love phones, puters, video games, movies, and so on.”
“Hahaha, I guess I rete to them in that regard.” I ughed out loud. “Oh well, now that I am here, I might as well do this a third time too."
I waved my hand as I touched the Dungeon Gate that was slowly closing, grasping its inner spatial pilrs and then tearing apart a piece of it, extrag it pletely.
Crack, crack…!
CRASH!
The sound of broken gss reverberated across the entire forest for the third time today. This was the third time I extracted a fragment of a Dungeon Gate, which appeared in front of me as a miniaturized sphere taining a small world. This one showed a snowy forest of sorts.
I bi with the jungle dungeohe goblins came from and the riverine dungeohe other monster we hunted came from. A rger sphere was formed in an instant, taining the bined ndscapes.
“H-How are you even doing that?” My sister wondered.
“Oh, this? It is easy! You simply have to learn how to manipute spad close a gate, and then you get the Title. I think Yanisse might have it.” I wondered. “Maybe…”
“It’s incredible; you somehow... make your own dungeon?” My mother wondered.
"Oh, not at all, but maybe if I bine enough fragments..." I said. “For now, it is just a piece of space taining a rge quantity of leftover Mana, which I will be abs over time to refi and produce more Primordial Essence.” I pced the sphere made of three Dungements inside my Iory. “Hmmm, should we tinue? Perhaps I could close all the Dungeon Gates here in a couple of hours.”
“Wait, stop; don’t do that, dear.” My mother stopped me. “You’ve taken enough; if you end up taking away all the dungeons, won’t you make the other hunters upset? This is a “newbie training ground.” After all, very eople often e here to level up because the tower’s first floor is usually quite hard.”
“ht! I guess I should be more siderate with the little mortals, isn’t it?” I ughed. “Though I could simply not care, I sympathize with you, Mother, and also with hunters like you. So I will listen to your advid not take everything for myself. My bad, it is just a bad habit from Murim.”
“I-It’s fine, honey, as long as you get it.” She smiled, patting my shoulders. “Alright, you store the rest of the things for us?”
“Of course.” I nodded, waving my hand and st the rest of the monster carcasses inside my Inner Realm. “It's still rather early today! I want to go explore the tower. Do we o take a phere?”
"Usually, yeah, the tower entrance might seem close to here, but it is very far away. Located near ada, actually.” My mother said, “It usually takes a day of flight to get there. You also o manage some dots and…”
“What a waste of time. Why must I py by these mortals’ rules? Mother, sister, e with me. We are all going to the tower now.” I said, opening a portal to my Inner Realm. “Enter my Inner Realm for a bit; once I am there, I’ll let you out.”
“E-Eh? Really? Is this even legal?” My mother wondered nervously.
“Don’t worry, Mom ~ Let Big Sis spoil us a bit~” Ruby was rexed after trying out her new powers. Her fire and darkeiques were quite deadly.
Her palms unleashed explosions of bck fmes, simir to my own, weakening foes easily. Based on power alone, she already had the talent of an A Rank, and my mother had much more.
Mother’s abilities evolved tremendously; her Mana Shield could now gee shields of hardened magic metal that could take on hits from B-Rank monsters like nothing.
Above all, she could summoal Aura Swords from her Ki Aura, sshing and slig foes with ease. And as if things weren’t amazing enough, her palm attacks released explosions of blinding light, blinding and damaging foes.
Her healing abilities were still developing as I taught them to her, but she was already on her way to being an S-rank at minimum. But is that it? No, I won’t stop until my mother and my sister bee world-css Css Hunters as well.
Or even beyond that.
“Alright, thank you for uanding.”
Oh were inside my Inner Realm, I kicked the ground a a huge crater behind, bzing with fmes and molten stone. I flew high into the skies, as high as I could, a my gaze oower.
I kicked the skies once, my body zapping through the heavens and splitting every cloud in my path. I arrived in front of the tower in a split sed, geing a shockwave as I stopped moving right in front of it.
The structure was made of a bck metal of sorts. By using my special eyes, I could detect that the metal itself was anchored to a spatial pilr.
I see, it is some sort of Space-Time Attribute Divine Formation! It is iructible for these mortals because their attacks ’t possibly move pilrs of space.
Not even Yanisse’s magic could, most likely.
“However, if it’s like this, I don’t eveo use the entrance.”
I tapped the bck metal very gently while releasing waves of Primordial Essence. Cracks spread in mere seds, which I trolled and formed into the shape of a door.
Crack, crack…!
CRASH!
The tower shattered. Something humanity was never able to aplish was done by me in just a split sed. Well, it was a rather unguarded Space-Time Divine Formation. The ones from the Venerables were a million times stronger.
“Now…”
BAAAM!
I kicked the cracks and opened a spatial door for myself, revealing to me a swirling mass of blue energy. The people making a long lio enter right below me could only wat utter disbelief as the tower was finally shattered by nobody else but me. I noticed many were filming, but I didn’t care.
I passed through the portal I opened, and I noticed the crack slowly closing behind me. I guess they were desperately trying to stop the destru I caused. Oops, my bad.
Once I passed through the portal, I felt a spatial disturbance. Something was trying t me somewhere else. Perhaps that “Tutorial” of sorts, or something.
“I want to do that Tutorial too, for the sake of it. But I will go there willingly; I won’t allow anybody to force me to do as they please.”
I released my Primordial I; a shockwave of rainbow light was unleashed from my body. The force dragging me down immediately came to a halt, as I was able to see where I was. It itch-bck space, full of stars and distorted masses of colors. It slightly resembled the os, but at the same time, it was an inner space of sorts withiower. This might be the space between each floor.
“W-Why…”
I heard a monstrous groan. I looked up to find a mass of bck tentacles with tless red eyes. He definitely didn’t look human at all—some sort of alieure or something. Oh, I remember him now. He’s my good friend.
“Clide! Is it you?”
“W-Why did you…?! How did you?! T-This is…!”
He was having a panic attack.
“Calm down; I just want to ehe tower without waiting in line. A Primordial Immortal such as I doesn’t he assistance of ao move around. I go wherever I please, uand?” I said. “Now, you show me around? Is this the spa between floors?”
“Y-Yes, it is! It is not a pce a human could ever survive! Yet you’re pletely okay?! How you evehe here?!” He groaned, his long bck tentacles wiggling. “More importantly, you o do the Tutorial first! It’s the Rules of the Tower! Please, please, master! If you don’t do this, they’re going to kill me for being a failure!”
“Hmm, I suppose you have helped me enough, huh? Very well, I shall do you a favor and do the Tutorial now.” I nodded. “Teleport me there then.”
“Thank you so much!” He cried, tears ing from all his eyes.
FLASH!
I wao explore more, but Clide looked tremendously worried about his own life, and I worried a bit too. So I decided to go along with the “rules of the tower” for a bit.
The moment I was teleported, I found myself standing inside an a-looking temple of sorts, made of gray bricks.
There was a single corridor in front of me, but my aura could easily deteomalies in the walls. Numerous traps were set there, waiting for an unsuspeg fool to step on them and be swarmed by an assortment of deadly projectiles.
Ding!
[Wele to the Tower, Pyer Katherine!]
[As you have ehe Tower for the first time, you must first plete the Three-Part Tutorial of the Tower.]
[The Tutorial Difficulty will be adjusted based on your Total Stats, Skills, and Innate Power.]
[Calg your innate Power…]
[ERROR]
[Pyer’s Power is inprehensibly high; it ot be calcuted.]
[Reinitiating procedures…]
[Setting up the maximum level of difficulty ever avaible.]
[Tutorial Difficulty: Infernal+++]
[The First Tutorial Phase has begun; please plete the {Walk Through Fire} Trial by running across the trap-ied corridor and reag the end of it.]
[The Tod {Spawn Of The Abyssal Chaos} ughs, saying you should have never ehe Tower!]
[He says you should prepare yourself for the most agonizing Tutorial ience.]
[He assures you that you will not walk alive out of it.]
“Is that so?”
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