I quickly acted by twisting my body in the air and reaching out with my hand. This was not simple or easy to do. With only myself as leverage if I had to do this without prior experience there would be no way. But after all the mid-air fighting and training I had done, it only took a moment to tw...
2023-03-16 23:28:49 +0000 UTC
View Post
There is a delay for the next two chapters. No major errors in writing them, but the next scene required a lot of touchups and a bit of a rewrite. I apologize for this. As soon as they are ready, I will be posting them. Probably in a couple of hours. I got caught up in personal issues during the ...
2023-03-16 23:02:44 +0000 UTC
View Post
I looked at my melted throne. My hands clenched and unclenched at my hands. Dead. They were all dead. Some soldiers were kneeling behind me, but I did not know them. I did not care for them. My Envoy was dead. My Master Fleshcrafter was dead. My Inquisitor was dead. My son was taken. My Dragon Em...
2023-03-15 23:01:03 +0000 UTC
View Post
After resting up and getting mentally ready, I exited the safe room onto the forty fourth floor. I had no doubt it was going to be hell and I let out a sigh. Only this first section of passageway wasn’t a null skill passageway, the rest showed the lighted dots in the floor, walls, and ceiling w...
2023-03-15 23:00:02 +0000 UTC
View Post
“Fine!” I shouted and rushed forward. Sticky white goo was shot at me from the spiders and the boss spider was constantly moving away and staying in the edges of the room where there were null skill areas.
That was cheating. Acid Shot. Acid Shot. I began to close in on the leve...
2023-03-14 23:00:15 +0000 UTC
View Post
After resting up in the safe room, I was mentally ready for the last run through this floor. I knew it would be hard, but I was prepared for whatever was thrown at me. I already had the route mapped out. Even with the increased traps, I wasn’t overly concerned.
I just needed to focus, pay...
2023-03-14 22:59:26 +0000 UTC
View Post
Six. There were six level 5 monsters and forty-eight level 4 monsters chasing me about the floor. I had taken to disabling the level 4 monsters in the Southeast corner of the room, slowly increasing their numbers.
I had gotten a very good understanding of how much damage level 4 cubic golem...
2023-03-13 22:59:55 +0000 UTC
View Post
Acid Shot. Acid Shot.I took out another level 4 cubic golem. These things were everywhere. If I wasn’t taking them out, I honestly thought they would begin forming walls to block me in. I can’t believe I hadn’t thought about disabling monsters earlier. While it wouldn’t stick for...
2023-03-13 22:58:30 +0000 UTC
View Post
High Priestess
I carefully observed Michael climbing up the tower. He was making good progress. I considered the exact timing and considered the Divine Empress. She was able to spot my spying and disrupt it when she noticed, which made it a lot more difficult.
While I...
2023-03-13 00:02:01 +0000 UTC
View Post
I rushed forward. The metal poles and the bullets came in a barrage, forcing me to dodge to the side since the golems were bad at tracking my movements, even the level 5 boss golems. There! I reversed directions as I crossed over a brief lull in their firing patterns.
The gap was small, but...
2023-03-13 00:01:01 +0000 UTC
View Post
I peaked out of the one way barrier from the safe room on the fourteenth floor. I paled. It was not good. I could basically see the entire floor and the elevator at the far corner in the distance. There was no keyhole on the room for the elevator.
There were no puzzle rooms. Instead, it was...
2023-03-13 00:00:02 +0000 UTC
View Post
The twelfth floor was one I needed to mentally prepare myself for. The fact of the matter was that, there were several pits and I couldn’t afford to waste the energy. What if those pit traps kept going and going?
I couldn’t afford to waste my energy on getting over each and every one. <...
2023-03-12 00:00:03 +0000 UTC
View Post
“Halt-“ I waved my hand and focused my energy. The guards were turned to dust at the gate into the city. I easily punched open the gate and killed anyone that came near me as I went towards the plaza.
Once there, I purchased clothing to wear. While I could run around naked, it was about...
2023-03-11 00:01:01 +0000 UTC
View Post
The ninth-floor layout was the same as the second-floor layout. I traps I had missed on the second floor were silent saw blades that popped out instead of just regular cutting blades. There were more traps, but I didn’t spot any extra monsters or monster spawners.
What was concerning was ...
2023-03-11 00:00:04 +0000 UTC
View Post
Tower Floors 4-8
2023-03-10 00:05:27 +0000 UTC
View Post
I had been drawing in energy to support myself. Knowing what bits to take in and what to discard to fuel during the constant combat. The knowledge I had chosen was invaluable. It allowed me to supplement myself and to keep pushing in the constant combat against the Flame Scorcher of Fire and Dest...
2023-03-10 00:01:01 +0000 UTC
View Post
In the seventh puzzle on the seventh floor, I looked at the mostly empty room. It appeared to take up the space for the eighth room as well. The only thing in this very large room, were a series of levers like the acid puzzle rooms and six elevated squares in the center of the room.
I pulle...
2023-03-10 00:00:03 +0000 UTC
View Post
The Invisible Centipede Golem, appeared to be content to dodge and hide once it had recovered. I kept chasing after it, getting more reckless each attempt, but it refused to fight. If this was a game, then I would have uninstalled it out of sheer rage at this point.
Unfortunately it wasn’...
2023-03-09 00:01:01 +0000 UTC
View Post
The large golem rushed me again, and I dodged out of the way, easily kicking off the floor. It swiped out with its hammer, but that was what I was waiting for.
Acid Shot. The shield of the monster was brought around to block my attack. Air Burst. Air Burst. Using my moveme...
2023-03-09 00:00:04 +0000 UTC
View Post
I did my usual pack tossing aside right after I entered the boss room and the door shut. No need to risk my supplies during the fight and encumber myself. The red-light walls around the boss spawner rose up and I got mentally ready.
Acid Shot. Acid Shot.Opening with my standard and...
2023-03-08 00:03:09 +0000 UTC
View Post
I got up refreshed and had a piece of fruit, and stretched out before I made my way into the hell that was the fourth floor. After the previous floors, I didn’t want to think what 50 levels of this hell was truly like and could only do one floor at a time.
Leaving the safe room to the Nor...
2023-03-07 23:59:47 +0000 UTC
View Post
Tower Floor 1-3
2023-03-07 00:05:35 +0000 UTC
View Post
I woke up. I had no idea what day or time it was. I had lost all sense of that and my brain couldn’t afford the mental space to try and keep track of the time. Keeping track of the layout of the floors and what floor I was on, was more than enough headache.
Stretching out, I then had a pi...
2023-03-07 00:02:27 +0000 UTC
View Post
The dark red-light walls disappeared or dropped so quickly it didn’t make a difference. Acid Shot. Acid Shot. I was already moving as my attacks were aimed at the floating sphere. About the size of a beach ball. It was a silvery color just like all the other golems and monsters that ca...
2023-03-07 00:00:08 +0000 UTC
View Post
After my short break and getting back my energy, I put on my two packs and left the room. The barrier was just like the barrier for the City Shield. One way. I was in the Northeast corner of the tower and the tunnel turned to the West. It was long, about two thirds of the tower if I had to guess ...
2023-03-06 00:01:01 +0000 UTC
View Post
The Southeast portion of the tower was a maze with nothing there besides a glowing square outline and three blade traps. It was quite frustrating to be honest, but my pace continued to pick as I gained more and more confidence on this level.
My main worry were traps that I missed. That was ...
2023-03-06 00:00:02 +0000 UTC
View Post
The molten rock exploded around me as I took out another of the level 6 monsters. It had been four days of non-stop fighting. A beam cut through the area and I twisted out of the way landing on a slightly cooled piece of rock. I pushed out energy from my feet so they didn’t burn.
I was sl...
2023-03-05 00:01:01 +0000 UTC
View Post
I didn’t go to the room right away. I checked the nearby passages. All turned into dead ends quickly except the two to the right when I had entered. Since everything was laid out in a grid and I had entered from the West, I needed to think of things in terms of North, East, South, and West.
...
2023-03-05 00:00:01 +0000 UTC
View Post
I didn’t pass out. I refused to and my body obeyed. I had survived the blast somehow and the trap the Homunculus had set for me. The Astrologer would pay the price, but I had to survive first. I had been hit while I had been leaping over the wall. I had been flying through the air for a while. ...
2023-03-04 00:01:01 +0000 UTC
View Post
I woke up to a soft blue glow. It took me a moment to place where I was. I was inside the tower to the East of Heaven where the Astrologer was trapped on the 49th Floor. I had escaped the Divine Empress by fleeing into the tower, but she had managed to vaporize my hand before the doors shut.
<...
2023-03-04 00:00:03 +0000 UTC
View Post