It took me several hours to explain the full scope of floors six to ten. During this time, I had explained how marks worked, the ways I knew of to upgrade them, and potential methods that could help upgrade their marks. This ranged from everything to dueling the gate guards like Flynn had for his first mark, to becoming a crafter for the city to hopefully get into the inner walls.
During all of these explanations I had done my best to draw out a map of the city. I had spotted one during my brief time in the Kings castle, and thanks to my stats my memory was good enough to recall a good portion of it. What I couldn't remember I did my best to supplement with memories of the time I had spent in the capital.
After each team had decided on their plans of action to progress, they headed down to the sixth floor all together. Only one of the groups decided to duel the gate guards, while the other two had decided to try and overthrow some gang leader to upgrade their marks. After that they would make it as far as they could through the progression of tournaments, switching to fulfilling any job contracts people may have once they couldn't progress any further. A part of me did wonder if any of them would end up facing the spear queen, or if she would even remember fighting me and Flynn.
That was something that had been on my mind ever since completing the chain floors. If you couldn't return after completing them, then what was stopping the system from just scrubbing the memories of the city residents to keep from the floors becoming harder or more complicated over time? It made sense that would be how it worked, but I sincerely hoped it didn't. I still didn't know if those people within the tower were "real" or not, and I was unsure if I wanted to actually know the answer to that.
It didn't matter much anyways. By the end of the tutorial they would all probably be gone.
I spent the rest of the day practicing my mana control while I waited for the meeting time with Flynn. I ran back over to the great city and made it to the staircase almost exactly at the time we had agreed to meet. He was already there, but he didn't look like he'd been waiting for long.
We headed down to floor twelve, appearing within the air bubble at the start of the floor. After a little bit of talking, me and Flynn had decided that we would stick together while progressing through the floors, at least for now. With the two of us fighting side by side, there was very little that could pose any kind of threat to us.
The schools of fish we had needed to fight on the previous floor were now replaced by small groups of sharks that tried to bite right through my mana shield. We had been forced to kill most of them before they could even reach that point, as each bite would take a lot of mana to block.
You have killed Bull Shark (Level 34) x 6
I still wasn't getting any levels, and even by the time we had completed the entire floor, I hadn't gained a single one. Flynn on the other hand had gained two levels, as his was already low enough to be even with the enemies we faced.
You have completed floor 12
Welcome to floor 13: Champions Deep
Floor 13 proved to be a big jump in difficulty from floor 12. We were now regularly facing monsters around level 40, and after only an hour or so I finally gained my first level since fighting the King.
You are now level 40
Skill selection available
"Let's stop here for a moment." I tell Flynn. "I have to select my level 40 skill."
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Magic Made Simple
FantasyThe question of why has been a question on the mind of River ever since he was a child. To understand why things worked had led the course of his entire life, right up to the day it nearly killed him. In an experiment gone horribly wrong, River and...
