Chapter 34: Chapter 33: The Tower Was Stolen
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Alpha easily took care of the monsters on the fifth floor, quite excited, he barely bothered to pick up the five Soul Stones that appeared on the ground and quickly dashed back to Bai Qi.
Crackle, crackle.
(Master, how did I perform?)
Bai Qi laughed, “You did quite well. Hurry up and absorb those few Soul Stones so we can move on to the next floor promptly.”
After another racial evolution, Alpha’s various values had significantly increased, which was within Bai Qi’s expectations.
However, the immediate priority was to speedily clear the sixth floor to avoid someone else snapping up the premiere reward of the sixth floor.
The Lamentation Tower had nine floors in total, and the premiere rewards naturally became more elaborate as they went up. Bai Qi didn’t want to just hand them over generously.
Because of the promotion to the First Stage, Alpha absorbed the Soul Stones quickly, and in no time, all five Soul Stones had been completely absorbed. However, this time it didn’t level up, it just made his energy level a bit more full.
There was indeed a big difference between the First Stage and Zero Stage. Seeing that Alpha was ready, Bai Qi hastily took Alpha into the teleportation array to the next floor.
The familiar Ice Field environment was the same, but what appeared was not the ten Ice Sword Guards that Bai Qi had anticipated, instead there were five each of Ice Ghosts, Ice Ghost Guards, and Ice Sword Guards.
!!..
“The master of this Secret Realm Tower sure knows how to play-”
Confronted with an unpredictable jump in difficulty, Bai Qi wasn’t surprised at all, but instead quickly gave Alpha instructions.
“Alpha, first deal with the Ice Ghosts, then take down the other enemies together.”
Pick off the mages and healers first, this is a common understanding in all games.
Crackle, crackle.
Upon receiving instructions, Alpha heavily stamped his feet and sprang up, instantly appearing in front of an Ice Ghost, piercing it with a sword.
Then, Alpha didn’t stop but rather used the body of Ice Ghost to surge towards another side, directly taking down two more Ice Ghosts.
Because of this, the other wild beasts reacted. The Ice Ghost Guard immediately threw out the Ice Spears in its hand, forcing Alpha to retreat. Likewise, the Ice Sword Guard, who also held an Ice Sword, immediately carried out a surprise attack on Alpha.
“Alpha, use the electric net.”
Seeing, Alpha about to be encircled, Bai Qi immediately gave new instructions.
Alpha forced back two Ice Sword Guards with one sword and then took two metallic spheres from the grooves in his ice armor and hurled them forward.
Boom!
The metallic spheres exploded mid-air, transformed into two large nets and fell towards the Ice Sword Guard. Although the Ice Sword Guard quickly dodged, the falling nets were too quick and still caught a few. Before they could struggle, they were immobilized by the electric current emitted from the ends of the net.
Be it Ice Ghosts, Ice Ghost Guards, or the higher race Ice Sword Guards, all had the attributes of ice and undead. Although they had an outer layer of ice protection, they were still harmed by the strong electric currents.
Even though it was not effective, it was enough if it caused a slight hesitation.
The instant the Ice Sword Guard and other ferocious beasts were trapped, Alpha timely made the finishing move, leaving only two Ice Ghosts, three Ice Ghost Guards, and one Ice Sword Guard in the field.
“Alpha, freely attack and dispose of them as quickly as possible.”
Crackle, crackle.
(Understood, Master.)
Alpha pointed with his sword, took the initiative to attack his enemies. The giant filial piety sword in Alpha’s hand seemed to have no difference from Bone Daggers, easy and effortless to wield.
In comparison, Ice Ghost Guards and Ice Sword Guards who also held cold weapons launched much cruder attacks. Except for when using skills which had a small effect on Alpha, their normal attacks were like children brandishing sticks, and were no threat.
As expected, the strongest offensive path was the king.
Easy peasy-
The sixth floor of the Lamentation Tower.
Xia Xuan looked at the three ferocious beasts before him, struggling under the barrage from his Mechanical Tyrannosaurus, and a confident smile spread across his face.
Indeed, the changes on the sixth floor had surprised him, but the mere increase in numbers couldn’t affect him much.
After all, his Mechanical Tyrannosaurus was equipped with a substantial amount of large-scale attack weapons, making it excellently suited for this kind of group battle.
Were it not for the low spirit level of the Mechanical Tyrannosaurus, which prevented it from handling excessively powerful weapons, he could have cleared this floor even faster.
But, it didn’t matter.
Thinking of the twenty apprentice Beast Masters who were competing against him for the ranking this time, Xia Xuan felt disdainful.
Ordinary citizens striving to compete with him for the ranking? If it wasn’t for his father’s concern about the bad impression it might create, he would have planned to reserve the whole place.
The control over a Secret Realm Tower was much more valuable than any Soul Stone or Cold Spirit Iron.
Finally, under the relentless onslaught of the Mechanical Tyrannosaurus, the ferocious beasts of the sixth floor were all eliminated. But what appeared before Xia Xuan was not Cold Spirit Iron or anything more high-grade, but ten Soul Stones.
“How could this be? Soul Stones should be only ordinary rewards. Could someone have cleared this floor before me?”
The young master of Xia’s Group, the genius of Star Mechanics Academy, was stolen from in such a small place as Gusu City?
Xia Xuan frowned, having difficulty understanding the reason.
He had been the first to clear the fifth floor, which meant no one had reached this far before him. The only one who might have been able to catch up with him would have been Han Wei.
But to think that Han Wei could clear the sixth floor before him, Xia Xuan found that hard to believe.
Xia Xuan wasn’t interested in thinking too much about it. Seeing the entrance to the seventh floor appear, he didn’t even bother to pick up the ten Soul Stones. He stepped right in.
The seventh floor.
As soon as Bai Qi entered the seventh floor, he felt a chilly wind strike his face. Even though he had put on his thermal clothes early, he couldn’t help but shiver.
“What kind of place is this?”
Bai Qi tightened his clothes, looking at the gloomy, pitch-black graveyard before him, and found the master of this Secret Realm Tower even more unfathomable.
Just now he had been on an ice field, and now it’s suddenly a graveyard. It was like he was in some kind of horror movie.
Whoo…whoo…whoo…
No sooner had this thought crossed Bai Qi’s mind than low, mournful wails echoed from the graveyard, giving him goosebumps.
But despite Bai Qi’s lengthy search, he could only hear the wailing swirling around him and couldn’t locate its source at all.
“I made a mistake. I should have brought that stupid dog along. He could have come in handy now.”
In his haste to leave in the morning, Bai Qi had forgotten to bring his husky. Looking back on it now, it was indeed quite stupid.
Bai Qi and Alpha searched together for quite some time, but they couldn’t find any trace of the enemy. Bai Qi was gradually losing his patience.
“If I can’t find you, then I’ll just go for AOE attack.”
Creaking creak.
(Copy that!)
The Fire of Soul in Alpha’s eyes surged as it once again unleashed the Ice Epoch. In an instant, a surge of ice flowers froze everything within a ten-meter radius. At the same time, a ghost wreathed in blue flames emerged from the ground just before it too was covered in ice..