Chapter 54
“That will be it for today, you guys can rest for the day,” Mykel said as he looked at Vincze, Sven, and Nagy covered with bruises on their bodies.
“What the hell is that demon lord, it moved so fast,” Vincze said as he went all four with the spear in his hands.
[NAME: Vincze Lazlo]
[LEVEL: 17]
[AFFINITY: NEUTRAL-GOOD]
[BENEFACTOR(S): NONE]
[ARCANA COIN: 1,400]
[SKILL(S): SOUL-STRIKE (Lv.4), SPEAR-ROOKIE (Lv.7), STRENGTH (Lv.8), AGILITY (Lv.7), DEXTERITY (Lv.7), STAMINA (Lv.6), PAIN RESISTANCE (Lv.4), PERCEPTION (Lv.4), COLD RESISTANCE (Lv.3), HEAT RESISTANCE (Lv.3), RECOVERY (Lv.2)]
“This one so far is the worst first demon lord we have fought, I can’t imagine how hard the second one will be,” Sven said as he caught his breath and looked at Estrel’s dead body in front of him.
[NAME: Sven Micallef]
[LEVEL: 17]
[AFFINITY: NEUTRAL]
[BENEFACTOR(S): NONE]
[ARCANA COIN: 1,100]
[SKILL(S): DEMON BANE (Lv.5), SPEAR-ROOKIE (Lv.6), STRENGTH (Lv.9), AGILITY (Lv.6), DEXTERITY (Lv.6), STAMINA (Lv.5), PAIN RESISTANCE (Lv.4), MIGHT (Lv.3), COLD RESISTANCE (Lv.3), HEAT RESISTANCE (Lv.3), CRITICAL (Lv.2)]
“If only I could reach his back, maybe we can kill it a bit faster since we can stop him from flying around,” Nagy said as she stared at the katar in her hands.
[NAME: Nagy Esbeth]
[LEVEL: 17]
[AFFINITY: NEUTRAL-GOOD]
[BENEFACTOR(S): NONE]
[ARCANA COIN: 1,800]
[SKILL(S): SIGNUM (Lv.6), DAGGER-ROOKIE (Lv.9), STRENGTH (Lv.4), AGILITY (Lv.10), DEXTERITY (Lv.9), STAMINA (Lv.5), STEALTH (Lv. 8), PAIN RESISTANCE (Lv.2), COLD RESISTANCE (Lv.3), HEAT RESISTANCE (Lv.3), BACKSTAB (Lv.3)]
[Backstab (Passive): The User will deal more damage when attacking from behind the target. (Current level is 3. Increase damage by 30% when attacking from behind)]
“This is fun, we got one level by just watching them clear the tower up to the tenth floor,” Gunnar said as he looked at his status screen.
“I’m curious though, why the demon lords come back again? I thought we killed them during our first clear?” Rozan asked as he looked at the dead body of Estrel.
“They’re demons, they can’t die, they will spawn again since their origin is from hell or whatever they came from,” Agnez answered while cutting off Estrel’s wings.
“She’s right, the demons will spawn over and over again until we kill the demon king of the tower but for a demon lord to spawn again it took at least a week until it came back to their designated floor,” Mykel said as he walked toward Lyneth since she wanted to see the inside of the tower.
“Good work for today,” Lyneth said under the thick fur mantle while hugging herself to warm herself up.
Mykel cast heat onto his body to warm her up by hugging her from behind. “How was it? Did you enjoy the show?”
“Yeah, I never thought to see it in person, the angel-like demon,” Lyneth answered while touching her cheek to Mykel’s cheek.
“Let’s go home and rest because tomorrow we will try to clear the Azrael tower with the Fraternity,” Mykel said as he walked toward the door with Lyneth and Edith.
Everyone decided to went for a drink to celebrate Vincze, Sven, and Nagy’s graduation from trainee to officially part of the team.
The morning came, Mykel and the others including Lyneth were waiting for Kastor and the others to arrive. Azrael tower was in District 9 and they had to take a flight early in the morning so they wouldn’t be late but turned out Kastor and the others hadn’t arrived yet.
As the sun started rising, dozens of cars arrived with Kastor and the others in the cars. They came out from the car and it surprised Gunnar and the others because there were at least 30 people that came including Asmond.
“Are they really bringing that many people just to clear the tenth floor?” Gunnar asked as he looked at them.
“No wonder it was hard for them to level up, they shared it with that many people,” Rozan scoffed while shaking his head with disbelief.
Kastor and his team were looking at Mykel and the others, they could see the difference in their gears compared to Gunnar and the others. The only ones who didn’t have any gears on were Mykel, Lyneth, and Edith while the rest of them were intimidating enough that made Kastor and the others insecure and inferior to them.
“President Lyneth, what are you doing here?” Kastor asked as he walked toward them.
“I’m joining them because I have no schedule for today,” Lyneth answered.
“But it’s dangerous in there,” Kastor said as he pointed at the tower.
“I have him next to me and he’s here to protect me so I feel safe,” Lyneth replied as she rubbed Mykel’s chest. “You don’t have to think about someone else, you have to focus on your own team’s safety in there,” she continued.
“We good to go?” Mykel asked with a cigarette in his mouth.
“Yes, we are good to go,” Kastor replied as he nodded his head.
Gunnar was at the front and lead the raid since he knew none of them was competent enough to be at the front with him.
“So, Caesar, I heard you used to train with Mykel, was he really strong?” Asmond asked as he walked next to Caesar.
“Who told you that? I never said anything about training together with him. We only trained in the same place but I never saw him training,” Caesar answered while fixing his pauldrons.
“So you don’t know how strong he is?” Asmond asked as he helped Caesar fix his pauldrons.
“I know how strong he was,” Caesar answered as he stared at Asmond. “What’s your punching score?” he asked.
“Around 12,000 Psi, why?” Asmond asked.
Caesar chuckled. “Based on my calculation, Mykel’s punch back then was around 18,000 Psi and that was at least seven months ago. If you’re thinking about it, how strong is his punch now? I bet he could reach at least twice that amount now or even triple that amount,” Caesar answered as he stared at Mykel who was having a conversation with his team.
Those who heard Caesar’s conversation with Asmond immediately looked at each other and talked about how strong Mykel was.
“What makes you think he had that much strength?” Asmond asked.
Kastor looked at Asmond and smiled. “Do you remember the two-headed ogre during the first breakout? his body was crushed into pulp. Caesar and I had calculated it together and came out with that number,”
“So he’s really that strong,” Asmond said as he looked at Mykel surrounded by the girls including Jeanne. “I hope I can see him in action today because I’m so curious how can strong he truly is,” he continued as he kept watching Jeanne walk next to Mykel.
“We also want to see it, but I don’t think he will ever show his real power today since he’s here to spectate,” Kastor replied as he looked at Asmond. “If we keep on doing our best, we might be able to reach his power someday, Asmond, so let’s keep doing our best,” he continued as he wrapped his arm around Asmond’s neck.
Mykel glanced at Kastor and Mykel who had been staring at him ever since they entered the tower. He turns around and looked at them while he walked backward. “You don’t mind if my team to take the first floor? They haven’t used their weapons for a whole week since they had to train these guys,” he said as he pointed at Sven, Vincze, and Nagy.
Kastor smiled and nodded. “Well then, the first floor is all yours, Mykel,”
Mykel smirked and turned around. “You hear that? Gunnar?”
Gunnar screamed and echoed throughout the hallway while banging his axe on his shield. “Let’s do this boys!”
Gunnar opened the gate and the terrain was a dark forest where nothing in there but trees, grass, and dirt. It was similar to the first floor of the Azazel tower and the difference was that on this floor, they were dealing with kobolds.
“Can you walk in front of me, Lyn? I need to protect you from arrows,” Mykel said.
“Oh, Oka-” Before Lyneth could finish her sentence, Mykel caught an arrow that was targeting her.
“I told you,” Mykel said with a smile on his face as he crushed the arrowhead.
Gunnar ran forward and then suddenly stopped, he took a deep breath and immediately shouted his war cry. [War Cry] skill that taunted the demons or intimidated the demons depend on Gunnar’s intention.
“I’m not interested with low level demons, you and Gunnar should take care of it, Rozan,” Agnez said.
Rozan grinned and nodded. “Fine by me,” he said as he run toward Gunnar.
Agnez turned around and looked at Kastor and the others. “It’s better to stay here if you don’t want to get injured,” she said with a straight face while chewing gum.
Arrows were shot at Gunnar and he took them as if he was being thrown with pebbles. The moment his [Fever] skill got activated, he jumped as high as he could and smashed the ground with his hands.
The ground cracked and launched all the kobolds around the area into the air. Kastor and the others were dumbfounded by Gunnar’s brute strength that at least 30,000 Psi. Rozan pointed his staff and created walls of fires that reached the sky and burned the kobolds into ashes.
[Congratulation you have cleared the first floor of Azrael Tower!]
[The portal to the second floor is now open!]
“What the hell just happened?!” Caesar said as he watched the wall of fire that burned half the area.