CHAPTER 71: UNDERRATED TECHNIQUES?

’Now let’s look at what we have here...’ getting up from the bed, Azrael then decided to check his information in the guide once again, all the things displayed there making him smile in satisfaction as feels like his growth is already more than enough to place him in the beginner levels of the tower’s third floor ascenders.

Name: Azrael Weiss

Floor: Second Floor (9 days)

Title: Cross-level Combatant, Decade-old Newbie

Immortal Energy: 130/130

[Basic Stats]

Strength: 1110 - 1776(actual stats due to all bonus effects from equipments)

Agility: 1110 - 1776

Stamina: 1110 - 1443

Dexterity: 1110 - 1443

Intelligence: 1110

Insights: 1110

[Hidden Stats]

Perseverance: 202

Charisma: 101(Limits of First Realm beings)

Transcendence(Sealed): 1

Lunacy: 101- 104

[Quest]

[The Lord of the Oceans (Second Floor Main Quest)]

[Mountain Madness (Second Floor Prime Treasure Quest)]

[Skills]

[Active]

[Stone Transformation (Active)]

[Fortress Golem’s Might (Active)]

[Murderous Aura (Active)]

[Flora Manipulation (Active, Unique)]

[Fog of Decay (Active)]

[Life Force Drain (Active)]

[Transmutation (Active)]

[Passive]

[Living and Production Skills]

[Gigantification (Passive)]

[Absolute Poison Immunity (Passive, Unique)]

[Poison Absorbing Blood (Passive)]

[Life Force Detection (Passive)]

[Abilities]

[True Treasure Hunting (SSS-Rank Ability Card)]

[Absolute Regeneration (EX-Rank Ability Card)]

[Techniques]

[Immortal Forging Art (S-Grade Technique)]

[Indestructible Pure Body Tempering Method (S-Grade Technique)]

[True Soul Forging Art (S-Grade Technique)]

[Endless Path Movement Art (A-Grade Technique)]

[Myriad Transformation Sword (A-Grade Technique)]

[Storage]

[Fortress Golem’s Iron Heart]

[Fortress Golem’s Silver Blood]

[Rocky Scaleskin]

[Eternal Flower’s Corrupted Core]

[Eternal Flower’s Pure Core]

[Eternal Flower’s Seed]

Reading through the numerous active and passive skills that he acquired in the second floor, along with the new techniques that he had never heard anyone talking about, Azrael smiles to himself, seeing the numbers and words in the floating azure screen making him confident enough to think that while it might not be an easy win for him, he will definitely be able to put up a decent fight against the treasure guardian of the second floor.

Of course, after putting up a decent fight, he will still definitely going to be beaten into a pulp and possibly even turned into a puddle of blood, but that won’t stop him from trying again.

’I’m practically immortal anyways’ he thought to himself with the confidence that he will get the chance to fight the treasure guardian once again the moment that he regenerates his body, and while it might take him a long time without the help of Immortal Energy which is more than likely going to be spent in a ludicrous rate in the fight against the treasure guardian, but having the chance to try and try again is guaranteed for him.

’Still, I would prefer it if I can deal with the treasure guardian without being turned into a blood juice’ he joked to himself, thinking that this is nothing more than a nigh impossible wish, something that if granted, will make him celebrate extremely as even if it is theoretically impossible for him to die.

After all, the pain of being turned into a liquid meat paste from a normal, living human is still quite the experience for anyone, even for someone with an acquired extremely high tolerance to pain like him, to bear and feel just like that.

After inspecting his current actual strength and realizing that his is already way beyond what any second-floor ascender can achieve, not to mention it can increase even further with the help of his skills, the young man then decided to check out the new techniques that he received from that enigmatic beauty, his eyes getting wide from shock as he read through them.

’Although I already expected them to be great based on their grade, I didn’t expect them to be this great’ he mused to himself as multiple azure screens pops the moment he clicks on the techniques he just received once again, rereading it repeatedly as the effects is just too good to be true.

’Especially that two S-grade Techniques... is that really the right evaluation for these treasures? I feel like they should be SSS-grade at least’ Azrael added to his thoughts as he reads through both the Indestructible Pure Body Tempering Method and the True Soul Forging Art once again, the smile creeping up his face as he realizes the potential of these two skills something that can only be described as one thing, perverted.

[Indestructible Pure Body Tempering Method (S-Grade Technique)]

[Utilizing Immortal Energy’s innate property of being nigh indestructible, a technique that uses Immortal Energy, circulating it in the entire body through a specific pathway to constantly temper the body, allowing it to break through its natural limits and ascend to greater heights.]

[Effects: Grants the ability to circulate the Immortal Energy through specific pathways in the body, and as an effect, tempers the body and allows it to break the limits imposed upon it by the Ethereal Tower. Allows its practitioner to increase the limit of their strength by varying amounts depending on the mastery of this technique.]

[Mastery: Entry-level (Passively increase the practitioner’s strength, agility, stamina and dexterity by ten percent)]

[Requirement/s to reach the next level of mastery: spend a thousand hours tempering the body with this technique.]

[Consumption: 10 Immortal Energy per hour]

[Note: The rate of consumption will decrease with the increase of the technique’s mastery.]

[True Soul Forging Art]

[Communing with the heaven and earth, uses the Immortal Energy as a pathway to forge the soul and increase its strength, utilizing the property of Immortal Energy to forge a pure, true and immortal soul]

[Effects: Grants the ability to turn Immortal Energy inside the body into forging tools to continuously temper and improve the soul, allowing it to break through the limits imposed upon it by the Ethereal Tower. Allows its practitioner to increase the limit of their soul by a varying amount depending on the mastery of the technique.]

[Mastery: Entry-level (Passively increase the practitioner’s intelligence and insight by ten percent)]

[Requirement/s to reach the next level of mastery: spend a thousand hours tempering the soul with this technique.]

[Consumption: 10 Immortal Energy per hour]

[Note: The rate of consumption will decrease with the increase of the technique’s mastery.]