Chapter 79 Leaving the third floor
After leaving Nine and Tainin, Kyle took out the old scroll from his storage ring.
He gazed at it, there were only 8 or so golden cross marks left after he was done with the ones present on the biggest mountain.
With a sigh, Kyle tossed the scroll back inside his storage ring.
"Why are they so dam far?"
Every single golden cross mark engraved on the scroll was present at a long distance. It would take him one or two weeks just to reach the nearest one.
There was no way he would be able to collect all of them with his speed.
Also, it had been almost two months since he appeared inside the Tower and yet he held zero clue regarding the 'Elixir of life', his main purpose.
With each passing second, Kyle was getting a little anxious and slowly but surely some doubts were appearing inside his mind.
What if he wasn't able to find the Elixir?
Kyle hurriedly shook his head, getting rid of all the negative thoughts.
There wasn't any choice for what if's.
'I will find the Elixir no matter what.'
Kyle gazed around and looked at the tall green trees. He was sitting on top of a tree as the ground was filled with wet soil.
When he saw the condition of his clothes he almost had the urge to throw them away but he stopped himself.
"I only have 3-4 sets of clothes left."
After looking around for a while, he directly sped up toward the north as the nearest golden cross mark was present there.
On his way, he saw a lot more individuals fighting with monsters compared to the first week he arrived on the third floor.
Still, the number of people Kyle saw was too small.
It was like only 55 percent of the original 500 people who entered the Tower were able to arrive at the third floor.
Also, among the ones present on the third floor many will not be able to advance toward the next floor.
It was because the Tower was becoming dangerous with every floor they climbed. Not everyone was powerful enough to advance further toward the top floors.
While traveling, Kyle killed a lot of monsters. Mostly the monsters he encounter were earth lizards who lived inside wet soil.
It was hard to fight them as they would just enter inside the ground and hid their presence completely.
That's why those strange lizards mostly escaped before Kyle could kill them.
He was quite frustrated due to them.
A week later, Kyle saw a familiar face among the people he saw while climbing from one tree to another.
It was Lily.
One of Kyle's classmates.
Just like Kyle, her attire was dirty with dust and mud.
Kyle only recognized her due to her striking silver hair and silver eyes.
Together with two elves, Lily was fighting with a large (+D)-Rank turtle who was completely brown.
It was huge with six small feet underneath its sturdy shell.
The turtle also had an affinity with earth element as it was easily able to manipulate the said element around its body, forming a huge shield whenever Lily or the elves tried to attack it.
Kyle raised his brow sensing Lily's rank, she wasn't any weaker than Nine. Almost on the verge of breaking through to (+E)-Rank. It seemed she found a lot of good stuff on the first and second floors.
After watching the fight for a while, Kyle frowned because the situation was worsening because one of the elves got injured.
He sighed and jumped down from the tree. Even though he didn't knew about her much but still Lily was his classmate so it was better to help her.
It's not like it would take much time.
When Kyle jumped down, Lily and the elves were surprised to see him appearing out of nowhere but soon the surprise turn into caution as no one knew who he was.
Also, he was looking like a lump of clay due to all the mud present on his clothes.
Kyle didn't bother with them and after helping them defeat the turtle, he left without saying anything.
After Kyle left, Lily and the elves looked at each other before Lily sighed and spoke seriously.
"I think I know who he was. I just didn't expect him to become so strong."
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On the other hand, Kyle ventured around the forest, finding the golden cross marks. Time was ticking very fast and within the blink of an eye, one month passed.
In this month, he found a lot of good things. Mainly fruits and herbs. He also faced death two times because some boss monsters were always present whenever the treasure was too precious.
Well, mostly Bia was the one who did all the dirty work or stealing. She was quite useful whenever Kyle needed to pick up something under someone else nose.
He was quite satisfied with his gains on this floor but still, he didn't find the 'Elixir of life'.
Kyle sighed, right now he was standing inside a dark room.
In front of him was a majestic white stairway that will probably send him to the next floor.
A finger size white orb was also floating in front of the stairway.
Just a few hours ago, Kyle found the location of one of the golden cross marks which was present at the edge of a mountain.
With the help of Bia, he defeated a (D)-Rank monster and some (+E)-Rank monsters roaming around at the edge of the mountain.
After the (D)-Rank monster died, he entered a small passageway leading underground where he fought some more (+E)-Rank monsters.
While he advanced further inside the dark passageway, he also saw a (+C)-Rank horned fox monster but with the help of a good bait like Bia, Kyle was able to avoid dying under that (+C)-Rank monster.
After tricking the (+C)-Rank monster, he arrived in this dark room where a familiar stairway was standing proudly in front of him.
Kyle stepped forward and grabbed the core floating in front of him.
It was a skill core.
He checked the skill information but it wasn't much useful.
The skill was a long-range fire attack called 'Fire Rain'.
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#*Fire rain (B)-Rank:
User can use mana to create a sea of fire descending directly on the enemies from the sky. The more mana used, the larger the range of the attack.
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Just like Kyle other skills it also consumed a lot of mana. Still, he learned the skill as it will be useful in the future.
After learning the skill, he looked at the white stairway.
Now it was time to leave this floor, he wanted to stay more as there were still some golden cross marks he didn't plunder but they were too far away.
It will probably take one more month, if he decided to sweep all of them.
-'But you don't have time.'
Bia's child like voice resounded inside Kyle's head, who nodded his head slightly in answer.
He can only stay inside the Tower for six months and almost 3 months had already passed, that's why he can't stay on this floor anymore.
With a sigh, Kyle stepped on the white stairway.
After he reached the top, white light enveloped his body and he disappeared from the third floor.