Chapter 91: Entering the Heaven-Reaching Tower, Encountering a Nemesis?
"Uh, everyone has been taking good care of me."
Su Chen replied casually, "Auntie Ta, how do you climb this Heaven-Reaching Tower?"
Auntie Ta swiped her pass in the slot beside her.
With a soft beep.
The pure white tower doors slowly slid open to both sides, revealing a pitch-black passage.
"The rules are very simple."
"Listen carefully to the following mechanics."
Auntie Ta leaned back into her rocking chair again, opened her book, and said, "The Space-Time Tower is a super-large single-player instance. You can only play on Normal difficulty right now. After entering, you climb up layer by layer, and the monster configurations and environments on each layer are different."
"After clearing all the monsters on that layer and stepping inside, you can enter the next layer."
"Right behind you, which is the entrance position of the layer you just entered, a blue exit portal will always be open."
"If you feel you cannot beat it anymore, or if your potion supplies are exhausted, you can exit at any time."
"But—"
Auntie Ta raised her voice slightly.
"The Heaven-Reaching Tower records everyone's clearance progress, and there is no such thing as a 'reset instance' option."
"In other words, if you go back in, it is still the same floor and the same monsters."
"Unless—you completely and thoroughly clear the highest floor of this tower and get the final clearance token, the System will open the reset authority for you personally, allowing you to start all over again."
"..."
Su Chen was pensive.
Unable to reset floors...
This meant that if a certain floor could not be beaten and got stuck, it would truly be a dead end.
Trying to repeatedly farm for experience was not feasible.
After all.
The Heaven-Reaching Tower was only open to students of Sky Dome Academy. If they still could not beat it by graduation, they would never have a chance to clear it in this lifetime.
"Understood, Auntie Ta."
Su Chen took back his pass, looked at the tower door, and cast Scouting Spell.
[Heaven-Reaching Tower]
[Instance Tier: Normal,???]
[Instance Level: Level 20-80]
[Instance Capacity: At most 1 person]
[Instance Time: Unlimited]
...
"It seems there are still difficulties locked behind."
Su Chen noticed something was wrong.
There were three big question marks at the instance tier.
And the instance Level could go up to Level 80!
"Let's clear the Normal difficulty first."
Su Chen did not say any more nonsense and directly stepped into the pitch-black passage.
The tower door closed silently behind him.
Auntie Ta looked at the closed tower door, shook her head, and her gaze fell back onto the book pages.
In less than two minutes.
Several students wearing junior-year badges on their chests walked over from afar.
They were carrying several heavy cloth bags filled with silver-glowing powder.
The leading boy walked up to the rocking chair and placed the cloth bags on the table.
"Auntie Ta, I am here to exchange for supplies. I am stuck on the nineteenth floor and really cannot get past it."
The young man handed out the cloth bags and said, "Here are five hundred copies of [Space-Time Dust]. Give me a silver-grade resistance cloak, and exchange the rest for Advanced mana potions."
Auntie Ta did not even raise her head: "Go pick them from the warehouse yourself."
Just as the boy was about to go to the warehouse, his gaze swept across the tower door and he was slightly stunned.
Directly above the tower door, there was a row of ancient transistor displays.
At this moment.
The transistor representing the "First Floor" was glowing with a faint dim blue light.
This meant that someone was challenging inside.
"Auntie Ta, did someone go in?"
The boy was a bit surprised, "I have not heard of anyone wanting to challenge this week."
The Heaven-Reaching Tower had extremely high difficulty, and the students qualified to challenge it could be counted on one hand.
And everyone often communicated with each other and shared strategies.
Who was so lacking in martial virtue that they sneaked in?
Auntie Ta said casually, "A freshman."
The boy was stunned for a moment, then let out a chuckle.
"A freshman? School has not started yet, right? Is this a recommended student reporting early?"
"They probably took a temporary experience card to see the world. Every year there are arrogant kids like this who think they are invincible just because they got a provincial or municipal top scorer title outside."
The boy smiled, leaned against the stone pillar beside the tower door, and said casually, "The monsters in the Space-Time Tower are not those bulky, foolish wild monsters outside. I bet he will not even get to see the Space-Time Worms on the third floor before crawling out of the instance crying for his parents."
Auntie Ta closed her book, reached out to pick up the teacup beside her, and took a sip.
"Well, young people having drive is a good thing."
...
The moment he stepped into the tower door, the surrounding light was completely swallowed.
After a brief sense of weightlessness, Su Chen's feet stepped on the hard stone slabs.
Vision restored.
This was a sealed hall about half the size of a football field, with dim blue torches burning on the walls.
The air was filled with a stale smell of dust and an indescribable sense of spatial sluggishness.
Right in the center of the hall, three monsters stood quietly.
Their appearance was similar to mantises magnified several times, but their bodies presented a translucent grayish-white, as if they did not belong to this dimension.
Su Chen directly threw out Scouting Spell.
[Space-Time Predator (Elite Monster)]
[Level: 25]
[Strength: 800]
[Agility: 950]
[Physique: 860]
[Spirit: 750]
[Skills: Space-Time Body, Chaos Strike]
[Space-Time Body (Passive): This unit drifts between reality and parallel space-times. When taking any form of damage, there is a 50% probability of directly immunizing that damage (judgment priority is higher than any must-hit mechanism).]
[Chaos Strike (Passive): This unit's attack power is extremely unstable. Every time an attack is launched, the damage dealt will randomly fluctuate between 10% and 300% of the final damage.]
...
After reading the data panel, Su Chen's eyebrows raised slightly.
Holy crap?!
"What kind of heaven-defying skill is this?"
Even Su Chen gasped a breath of cold air.
The attribute values were shockingly high, several times higher than the monsters of the Crimson Monastery.
What was even more outrageous were the two passive skills.
"Fifty percent direct damage immunity... and the judgment priority is higher than must-hit?!"
Su Chen was dumbfounded.
It was truly unheard of.
This was much stronger than adding dual resistances or dodge.
No matter what skill you were or what type of damage it was, here, there was a 50% probability of being directly immunized!
"A random fluctuation of attack power from ten to three hundred percent... In other words, the attack might be soft and weak, or if you have bad luck, you might be slapped to death with a single palm."
Su Chen's mouth twitched.
If his luck was bad and he encountered a 300% attack every time, I am afraid even Lu Qingyan could not withstand it if she came.
No wonder those big shots had expressions of awe whenever they mentioned this tower.
This was just the gatekeeper minion of the first floor, and it was ridiculously strong.
"Hiss—"
At this moment.
The three Space-Time Predators sensed the intruder and let out sharp hisses.
Their bodies flickered in place.
The next second.
They leaped high abruptly.
In the blink of an eye, they crossed a distance of more than twenty meters and appeared in front of Su Chen.
Their two sickle-like forelimbs, carrying a piercing whistle that tore the air, slashed down fiercely!
Chapter 92: Countered? Good thing I'm a cut above!
Facing the attacks of the three Space-Time Mantises, Su Chen didn't even blink.
"Like flying, huh?"
He muttered casually, and the [touch of thunder] in his hand heavily struck the stone slab.
"Boom!"
Over a hundred Corrosive Snake Guards dripping with ghastly green mucus instantly burst out from the ground!
The densely packed Snake Guards instantly filled more than half of the space.
Under Su Chen's control, dozens of those Snake Guards precisely jammed themselves right beneath the jump parabola of the three Space-Time Predators.
They thrusted upward fiercely like dozens of spears.
"Bang!"
A muffled impact sounded out.
Massive kinetic energy instantly erupted.
Fly up!
The charging momentum of the three Space-Time Predators came to an abrupt halt, and they were forcefully knocked up into mid-air by the Snake Guards bursting from the ground, falling into a brief airborne stiffness.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh——!"
Giving the monsters no chance to catch their breath,
the Snake Guards turned their snake heads in unison, and a dense barrage of dark green Poison poured out like a violent storm.
At the same time,
Su Chen nonchalantly raised the [touch of thunder] and gave it a gentle wave.
"Boom!"
A thick, deep blue lightning bolt gushed out from the tip of the staff, instantly hitting the foremost Space-Time Predator!
[Prompt: Triggered equipment passive skill, Chain Lightning!]
"Crackle!"
The moment the deep blue lightning struck its target, it abruptly refracted a branch, striking the second monster.
Immediately after,
it refracted once more, slashing toward the third one!
The passive of the touch of thunder bounced a full ten times!
The deep blue electric light leaped wildly among the three monsters, intertwining into a dense electric net.
However,
whether it was the overwhelming Poison arrows or the wildly bouncing lightning chain,
the majority directly passed through the moment they made contact with the bodies of the Space-Time Predators.
Ripples of nothingness spread across their translucent bodies.
[Prompt: Target triggered [Space-Time Body], immunizing this damage.]
[Prompt: Target is immune to the application of the [Poison] status this time.]
Looking at the rapidly jumping prompts on his retina, Su Chen's eyes involuntarily widened.
Holy crap!
Even the Poison of [Decay of All Things] can be immunized?
He really met his match.
However...
passives that rely on probabilities are most afraid of high-frequency attacks.
Since a single shot of Poison can't be applied, then ten thousand shots will come.
Su Chen wasn't flustered at all.
The one thing he lacked the least was attack frequency.
The lightning chain of the touch of thunder could bounce ten times, and the Snake Guards' one attack per second also counted as independent attack determinations.
In other words,
as long as one hundred Snake Guards attacked simultaneously, one hundred attack determinations would be made every second.
A 50% probability?
It's nowhere near enough!
Even with a 99% damage immunity probability, they would still obediently be inflicted with [Poison]!
One second later,
"Pfft!"
an inconspicuous glob of Poison solidly hit the carapace of a Space-Time Predator.
[Prompt: Trait · Decay of All Things triggered, forcibly inflicting 1 stack of [Poison]!]
[Prompt: Trait · God of Poison triggered, [Poison] stacks are full (Current limit: 17,392 stacks).]
The next moment,
"-135,066,272!"
a massive damage number floated up.
The mantis's health bar was instantly emptied, and its body turned into a puddle of green pus.
The remaining two monsters similarly ate a shot of Poisonamidst countless firepower coverage within the next half second.
They evaporated instantly.
[Prompt: Killed Level 25 Space-Time Predator (Elite Monster), gained 25,000 experience points.]
[Prompt: Triggered trait [Doom Siphon], toxin stacking limit permanently +1. Current stack limit: 17,393 stacks.]
...
"The bounce of the chain lightning isn't necessarily on different enemies; three enemies also bounced nine times."
"The skills of these monsters are very bizarre, and they can even immunize my attacks. However... good thing my attack frequency is high enough."
Su Chen briefly summarized.
The monsters here... indeed somewhat counter burst classes like him.
As long as his attacks couldn't apply Poison, he wouldn't be able to output any damage at all.
If tens of thousands of such high-probability damage-immunity monsters were refreshed all at once, he would only be able to summon less than twenty thousand Snake Guards, and he really wouldn't be able to manage them all.
"Let's climb and see first; it's not like tens of thousands of monsters would really spawn on a single floor, right?"
Su Chen picked up his staff and continued clearing the monsters on the first floor.
There were very few monsters on the first floor, only ten in total.
[Prompt: Obtained Space-Time Dust * 5.]
[Prompt: Successfully cleared the first floor.]
[Prompt: Time taken for this floor: 32 seconds.]
...
After all the monsters were cleared, the portal leading to the second floor lit up.
Five small tufts of silver powder were left on the ground.
[Space-Time Dust: A special Material produced from the Heaven-Reaching Tower, which can be used to exchange for equipment from Auntie Ta.]
Su Chen threw the materials into his backpack and stepped directly into the teleportation array of the second floor.
The next few floors were still a smooth sweep.
Second floor: ten Space-Time Worms.
Their body sizes were smaller, their movement trajectories were completely irregular, and they were extremely difficult to hit.
But under the dead-angle-free coverage of the Snake Guards, they were completely cleared in thirty seconds.
Third floor: twenty Space-Time Bats.
Not only did they possess a damage immunity mechanism, but they also flew at high altitudes for vision suppression.
Completely cleared in one and a half minutes.
Fourth floor: thirty Space-Time Hounds.
Fifth floor...
The number of monsters on each floor was steadily increasing, and their movement speed and evasion rate were getting higher and higher.
Until he finished clearing the fifty Space-Time Demon Leopards on the ninth floor.
[Prompt: Successfully cleared the ninth floor.]
[Prompt: The difficulty of the next floor is relatively high, please remain vigilant!]
The teleportation array leading to the tenth floor lit up.
Su Chen glanced at his backpack.
[Space-Time Dust * 152]
"The next floor... should spawn a BOSS, right?"
He let out a long breath of foul air, gripped the [touch of thunder] tightly, and walked into the tenth floor.
...
At this moment,
outside the Heaven-Reaching Tower,
a girl wearing high-tier mage robes walked over quickly.
"Old Zhang, what are you doing? Haven't you finished exchanging your equipment yet?"
"Oh, I'm done exchanging. Let's go."
Carrying his newly exchanged Silver-grade equipment, the boy prepared to leave.
Before turning around, he habitually glanced back at the transistor display right above the tower door.
The next moment,
the smile on his face suddenly froze.
"Wait... wait a minute..."
His voice trembled as he abruptly pulled the sleeve of the girl beside him, "Look... look at that floor display."
The girl turned her head in confusion.
The next second, her pupils shrank violently.
The transistor representing the "first floor" had long since gone out.
At this very moment, the one lighting up with a dazzling blue light was impressively the transistor representing the "tenth floor"!
"The tenth floor?!"
The boy gasped sharply and took a fierce look at the time, "Holy grass! From the time that freshman went in until now, less than ten minutes have passed!"
The girl wore an expression as if she had seen a ghost: "Are you crazy? How is this possible?!"
"Who doesn't know how disgusting the immunity mechanism of those Space-Time monsters is? Even with a one-skill instant kill, you still have to kite back and forth to have a probability of killing the monsters!"
"Pushing nine floors in ten minutes... Did he go in without even stopping on the road, instantly vaporizing his way through?!"
"Unless he can do a full-screen instant kill... And it has to be with extremely terrifying high-frequency attacks, forcibly stacking probability to break through that 50% absolute immunity!"
The boy suddenly turned his head to look at Auntie Ta on the rocking chair.
"Auntie Ta! What kind of perverted class is this freshman?! This is too outrageous!"
Auntie Ta still leaned against the rocking chair, leisurely turning a page of an ancient book.
"I don't know."
She glanced over the edge of her reading glasses at the glowing tenth-floor transistor, a trace of surprise flashing in her eyes.
This little fellow... is rushing quite fast.
"However..."
"The mobs on the first nine floors can indeed be forcibly rushed through by relying on terrifying attack frequencies."
"But the gatekeeper on the tenth floor..."
Auntie Ta picked up her teacup and gently blew on the floating tea leaves, "can't be solved just by relying on frequency."
Chapter 93: The heaven-defying Ability of the Heaven-Reaching Tower, Assassin Lin Ye
The space on the tenth floor was even more spacious than the first nine floors combined.
There were no Space-Time Predators around, nor those annoying space-time bats.
The entire area was empty, with only a humanoid creature standing quietly right in the center of the hall.
That was a young man wearing black leather armor.
He held two pitch-black daggers reversely in both hands, with his head lowered. Eerie spatial ripples flashed across his translucent, greyish-white body from time to time.
"Humanoid monster?"
Su Chen raised an eyebrow and casually cast Scouting Spell.
[Lin Ye (Silver-Level BOSS)]
[Identity: 74th Graduate of Tianyuan Academy, China / Gatekeeper of the Tenth Floor of the Heaven-Reaching Tower]
[Class: Shadow Blade Assassin (Grade A Hidden Class)]
[Level: Silver-Level]
[Level: 25]
[Strength: 350]
[Agility: 680]
[Constitution: 200]
[Spirit: 120]
[Skills: Blade Shadow Step, Fatal Throat-Slitting, Evasion Body, Spacetime Body...]
...
Looking at the panel on his retina, Su Chen's eyes widened involuntarily.
Holy shit?
The Heaven-Reaching Tower even has this kind of mechanism?
Directly copying a badass senior who cleared it before to act as a boss?
680 Agility?
Placed at Level 25, these panel stats are definitely the most overpowered among the overpowered.
Moreover, it even retained his personal hidden class skills!
Blade Shadow Step looked similar to a normal assassin's Shadow Step.
Assassins could step into the shadows to achieve rapid displacement.
They could silently and instantly arrive behind their opponent.
Fatal Throat-Slitting looked like a burst skill. If one's throat was slit by this, they would probably kick the bucket in a matter of minutes.
Su Chen narrowed his eyes slightly.
An agility of 680, coupled with the evolved version of Shadow Step.
For an ordinary mage, it was simply a nightmare.
Just as you finished casting, the other party had already flashed behind you.
Of course, the most ridiculous thing was... in his status bar, there was also the Spacetime Body!
He also had a 50% chance to directly immune all damage.
"If the stats and skills are perfectly copied, this is much fiercer than his original body."
The moment Su Chen's voice fell.
The distant projection of Lin Ye abruptly raised its head, its hollow eyes locking onto Su Chen.
"Swish!"
Without the slightest pre-animation.
Lin Ye's body instantly turned into a ball of black mist, disappearing from the spot out of thin air.
Su Chen only felt the hairs on his back stand on end, a wave of extremely dangerous chill piercing straight at the back of his neck.
Blade Shadow Step!
Two pitch-black daggers had silently appeared at Su Chen's neck.
A cold, eerie light flickered on the icy blade, clearly preparing to activate [Fatal Throat-Slitting].
As long as this slash went down, it would definitely be carotid artery bleeding plus massive damage.
For a mage's frail constitution, this strike was enough to empty the health bar.
However.
Su Chen didn't even turn his head.
He unhurriedly thrust the [touch of thunder] in his hand heavily onto the ground.
"Boom!"
Over a thousand Corrosive Snake Guards dripping with ghastly green mucus instantly burst out of the ground!
The densely packed Snake Guards took Su Chen as the center, blocking a radius of dozens of meters tightly.
Meanwhile.
The gargoyle necklace on Su Chen's neck emitted a ghastly white luster.
"This kind of high-mobility assassin is the most annoying."
"Likes to cut the backline, right? Cut, cut hard."
The next second.
"Hum——!"
A layer of ghastly white rock texture instantly spread from the necklace.
In less than a tenth of a second, it covered Su Chen's entire body.
From his fingertips to his arms, then to his torso, even the corners of his mage robe turned into hard rock.
At the exact same instant Su Chen turned into a stone sculpture.
Lin Ye's dagger, flashing with a scarlet blood-red light, carried a certain-kill momentum and viciously slashed at the back of Su Chen's neck.
"Clang——!"
The sound of metal colliding rang out.
Sparks flew everywhere.
A shallow white mark was left on the petrified skin of Su Chen's back neck.
"-24"
A two-digit number floated out lightly.
In mid-air.
Maintaining the back-stab posture, the projection of Lin Ye had a rare trace of humanized bewilderment flash through its hollow eyes.
He looked at the dagger in his hand, then at the motionless white stone sculpture in front of him.
As a projection summoned by the Spacetime Tower, Lin Ye seemed to have a rather low IQ.
However.
Su Chen didn't care whether he understood or not.
Although he couldn't move, the Snake Guards he summoned were not petrified.
"Swish swish swish——!"
More than a hundred Snake Guards closest to Lin Ye simultaneously turned their ghastly green snake heads, instantly locking onto the target right in front of them.
Without any suspense.
Over a hundred dark green venom arrows instantly smashed into Lin Ye's face.
[Prompt: Target triggered [Stealth Body], evading this attack!]
[Prompt: Target triggered [Spacetime Body], immunizing this damage.]
[Prompt: Target immunized the application of the [Poison] status this time.]
[...]
[Prompt: Trait · Decay of All Things triggered, forcibly applying 1 layer of [Poison]!]
Lin Ye was indeed strong.
Stealth Body seemed to provide a massive amount of evasion, coupled with the Spacetime Body which directly immunized 50% of damage, nine-tenths of the Snake Guards' attacks were dodged.
But the distance was too close, and the quantity was too large.
There was always that one shot of venom that solidly smashed onto his leather armor.
"Boom——!"
The ghastly green Poison exploded violently, instantly enveloping Lin Ye's translucent body.
The next moment.
A huge red number floated up:
"-135206060!"
"Crack!"
A harsh shattering sound rang out.
Lin Ye's projection didn't even have time to slip back into the shadows before turning into a puddle of shimmering silver powder in the ghastly green Poison fog.
One-shot kill.
[Prompt: Successfully killed Level 25 Lin Ye (Spacetime Projection), obtained 5,000,000 experience points!]
[Prompt: Triggered trait [Doom Siphon], your Poisonstack limit permanently +1. Current stack limit: 17,411 layers!]
[Prompt: Successfully cleared the tenth floor.]
More than ten seconds later.
Su Chen recovered his physical body.
He moved his somewhat stiff neck.
"What's the use of high agility?"
"As long as you can't one-shot me, I can one-shot you."
Su Chen curled his lips.
As expected of a Grade A hidden class.
With just that set of combo, if ordinary students came in, they probably wouldn't even know how they died before having their throats slit and being sent off to see their great-grandmothers.
At this time.
As the kill prompt lit up, a portal leading to the eleventh floor slowly emerged in the center of the dungeon.
And where Lin Ye died, a crystal flashing with colorful radiance lay quietly.
Su Chen stepped forward and picked it up.
[Spacetime Core (Rare materials): An extremely rare spatial-type material, dropped with an extremely low probability only in the upper floors of the Heaven-Reaching Tower or when killing special projections. It can be exchanged for rare equipment and items at Auntie Ta's place.]
Su Chen threw the materials into his backpack, touched his chin, and looked at the empty hall, deep in thought.
However, having said that.
Since this damned tower could record seniors from seventy years ago, could it also record ultimate bigshots like Elder Zhan and Vice Principal Lin Xiaotian?
"Interesting."
A wave of Battle Intent welled up in Su Chen's heart.
Constantly farming monsters and one-shotting everything left and right had made Su Chen somewhat bored.
This was a very rare opportunity to spar with an expert!
"Wait."
Su Chen suddenly realized something.
If he was also recorded by the Heaven-Reaching Towerand became a gatekeeper projection on some floor...
Hiss!
He shuddered.
Junior schoolmates coming in later, I wish you good luck.
"It's fine, trust the wisdom of future generations."
Su Chen shook his head, thought no more, and stepped into the portal leading to the eleventh floor.
Chapter 94: Becoming Stronger Again, The Tricky Heaven-Reaching Tower
Meanwhile,
Outside the Heaven-Reaching Tower,
As time passed, more and more students gathered outside the tower gate.
Everyone knew that a freshman was challenging the tower today, and many people were paying attention to that old transistor display.
Old Zhang and that female student stood at the very front, staring intently at the blue light representing the tenth floor.
"The guardian of the tenth floor, I remember it was Senior Lin Ye from seventy years ago, right?"
The female student lowered her voice, a hint of dread in her tone.
This name was thunderous within Huaxia's class awakener circles.
He was now a well-known legendary assassin in Huaxia.
When he challenged the Heaven-Reaching Tower back then, he was only 18 years old.
It was already enough to crush a crowd of peers who were a Genius, and after graduating from university, he became a core combat force of the military.
Old Zhang nodded and swallowed a mouthful of saliva: "Right, Shadow Blade Assassin."
"That guy's Blade Shadow Step is different from ordinary assassins' Shadow Step; it automatically locks onto the head and backstabs. In previous generations, quite a few conceited geniuses had their throats slit by him with a single slash on the tenth floor, falling without even being able to cast their skills."
"Extremely tricky."
"Although this freshman rushed through the first nine layers quickly, encountering Senior Lin Ye's projection will probably cause him to hit a snag. No matter how high the attack is, if one is too squishy, they will also suffer..."
Just as Old Zhang was analyzing things logically,
"Ding!"
A crisp notification sound rang out above the tower gate.
Everyone subconsciously looked up.
The blue light representing the "tenth floor" instantly went out.
Immediately after,
The transistor representing the "eleventh floor" lit up with brilliant blue light.
The whole audience fell dead silent.
Old Zhang widened his mouth.
The analysis he was halfway through abruptly stuck in his throat.
The female student's eyes widened round, and the staff in her hand almost dropped to the ground.
"Pas... Passed?"
"Senior Lin Ye... didn't stop him?"
Old Zhang's voice trembled, his eyeballs almost popping out, "It hasn't even been half a minute since he went in, right?!"
Half a minute.
Subtracting the time it took for the portal's light to dissipate and the positioning time.
This almost meant that Su Chen completed the kill the moment he saw Lin Ye's projection.
"Damn it, is this treating Student Lin Ye like a stray dog on the roadside and kicking him to death?!"
"..."
Hearing this,
Auntie Ta, lying on the rocking chair, suddenly paused her book-flipping motion.
A trace of unexpected expression flashed through her cloudy gaze.
"A bit interesting."
Passing through the teleporter, the scene before them suddenly changed.
Su Chen's boots stepped on the soft and foul-smelling black soil.
This was an ancient battlefield ruin filled with heavy Death Qi.
The tattered battle flags fluttered in the gloomy wind, and rusted weapons were scattered on the ground.
One hundred monsters wearing tattered armor crawled out from the mud.
Deep blue soul fire danced in their eye sockets, and their bodies presented that eerie translucent grayish-white color.
Su Chen didn't talk nonsense and directly cast Scouting Spell over.
A light screen instantly appeared on his retina.
[Spacetime Undead (Elite Monster)]
[Level: 27]
[Strength: 1050]
[Agility: 980]
[Constitution: 1280]
[Spirit: 800]
[Skills: Spacetime Body, Chaos Strike, Stun Strike]
[Stun Strike (Passive): Every time an attack hits the target, it randomly plunges the target into a [Dizzy] state for 0-3 seconds...]
Su Chen looked at the panel in front of him and gasped.
What the fuck?
A Level 27 elite monster, these attributes completely surpassed the monsters in external Hard-level dungeons.
But what surprised Su Chen wasn't the basic attributes, but those shady skill mechanisms.
"The damage reduction probability of the Spacetime Bodyhas further increased to 60%."
Su Chen stared at that line of words, his brow slightly furrowed, "Could it be that the higher one climbs, the immunity rate of these monsters will keep increasing? When it gets to the back, will it reach 90%, or even 100%?"
If the immunity rate really increases to 90%... even for him, he would have to let Poison tick for 10 seconds to kill a monster.
If it reaches 99%.
He would also need Poison to tick 100 times to kill a monster.
Then what the hell is there to fight?
The damage of [Chaos Strike] also reached a maximum of 400%. Combined with 1050 Strength, this slash would strip a layer of skin even from a warrior.
And the new skill [Stun Strike]...
Su Chen stared at that line of words on the panel, only feeling his scalp go numb.
Random stun of 0-3 seconds per attack?
Thirty monsters charging together, as long as he got hit once, triggering a two-to-three-second stun,
then the remaining monsters would swarm up and touch him once each... This could directly control a person to death!
"Roar!"
At this moment,
Thirty Spacetime Undead let out teeth-gritting roars, raising the rusted swords in their hands, and rushed towards Su Chen like a tide.
Their speed was extremely fast, with 980 Agility allowing them to leave trails of afterimages on the battlefield.
However,
Su Chen quickly calmed down.
"Controlled to death? That's assuming you can touch me in the first place."
Sorry.
I've changed careers to a Summoner!
Su Chen didn't even move his steps, just slammed the touch of thunder in his hand onto the ground.
"Boom!"
Hundreds of Corrosive Snake Guards flowing with ghastly green slime instantly burst out from the ground!
The densely packed Snake Guards tightly blocked those charging Spacetime Undead outside.
Just like the first ten floors,
the battle had no suspense whatsoever.
One hundred Spacetime Undead all turned into bone powder on the ground.
[Notice: Cleared the eleventh floor.]
[Time taken: 3 minutes and 24 seconds.]
A teleporter leading to the twelfth floor slowly emerged in the center of the dungeon.
Su Chen had a constipated expression on his face.
3 minutes and 24 seconds.
It felt a bit like being in prison.
With a 60% probability of immunity to damage, most of the Snake Guards' attacks were "MISS"ed.
Even after applying Poison, the 1-second ticking DOT damage was also immunized several times.
The mob-grinding efficiency directly dropped several times over.
"Indeed, there is always someone better, and a heaven beyond heaven. If any awakener also has such a skill, it would really be troublesome for me to deal with if I encountered them."
Su Chen sighed.
However,
Poison's duration was 20 seconds, which was completely enough to tick these elite monsters to death.
"Let's grind it out slowly. If worse comes to worst, I'll turn invisible after applying Poison. I'd like to see just how high your immunity probability can stack up!"
He carried his staff and walked into the portal once again.
Chapter 95: I say BOSSes are easier to fight than mob monsters, does anyone get it?"
Inside the Heaven-Reaching Tower, the nineteenth floor.
The ground is littered with monster remains everywhere.
Green pus covers the entire ground.
"Gulp, gulp..."
Su Chen fished a mana potion out of his backpack, raised his head, and chugged it down in one go.
[Prompt: Used Rapid Mana Recovery Potion, restored 600 Mana Points, and restores 50 Mana Points per second for 10 seconds.]
Su Chen looked at his slowly rising mana bar and slightly stretched his somewhat sore shoulders.
"This damn tower is fucking hard to fight."
He glanced at the dense green pus all around and couldn't help rolling his eyes.
By the nineteenth floor, the number of monsters had skyrocketed to 190.
The mechanism of this Heaven-Reaching Tower was simply crude and violent to the extreme, completely presenting a numerical pattern of [Floor Number * 10].
Floor 19, 190 monsters.
If it were floor 100, wouldn't that mean facing 1,000 monsters at the same time?
Even though his combat style was very simple, he couldn't handle the fact that these monsters came with a disgusting probability damage-immunity passive.
"If ordinary Class Changers came, it's hard to imagine how to fight."
Su Chen complained and walked to the teleportation array leading to the twentieth floor.
He stopped in his tracks.
"The next layer is the BOSS floor, right? Previously they were all brainless undead monsters, this time it's probably a Class Changer projection."
He looked at the glowing portal, deep in thought.
Ever since his class change, he had been farming monsters and leveling up in the wilderness and dungeons.
He hadn't fought against Class Changers in a formal manner very many times.
He had only killed a few blind-sighted wanted criminals in the wilderness.
"I wonder what class of opponent I will encounter."
Su Chen touched his chin and, without much hesitation, stepped directly into the portal.
...
Meanwhile, outside the Heaven-Reaching Tower.
The atmosphere was somewhat eerie.
Those who could enter Sky Dome Academy were inherently Genius Class Changers gathered from all over the country.
And those who could stand outside this Heaven-Reaching Tower to watch or prepare to rush the tower were truly the top students in their junior and senior years.
But at this moment.
These senior male and female students, who usually looked down on everyone, were all staring fixedly at the constantly jumping transistor display at the very top as if they had seen a ghost.
"Old Zhang... Pinch me, did my eyes play tricks on me just now?"
The girl's voice was somewhat trembling.
Old Zhang swallowed a mouthful of saliva, feeling his throat dry and aching.
"Nineteenth floor, clearance time... four and a half minutes..."
"That's 190 monsters with a 60% immunity passive!"
"Even if they were 190 steamed buns, he would have to gnaw on them for half a day?!"
"..."
Hearing this.
Several of them all wore expressions of deep empathy.
They had all fought the Heaven-Reaching Tower and knew how disgusting the monsters inside were.
After floor 10, when they fought, they had to carefully lure the monsters and kill them one by one.
Even so, facing a single monster alone, they had to raise their spirits to the utmost.
They could even grind for a few days on a single floor.
When it came to Su Chen, it was a few minutes per floor, directly pushing horizontally across?
"He has entered the twentieth floor now! But... his footsteps should end here."
The girl pointed at the blue light representing the twentieth floor, her tone carrying a hint of awe, "Everyone knows what is on the twentieth floor, right?"
"Ah, of course I know."
Old Zhang took a deep breath and shivered all over, as if recalling some bad memories.
"The gatekeeper of the twentieth floor is the projection of Instructor Tyrone, a former senior instructor of our Warrior Academy, in his youth—an A-rank hidden class Berserker!"
Hearing this, the people around also chimed in one after another.
"Deeply impressive, that perverted combination of [Blood Qi Awakening] and [Steel Rampart] is truly a headache. I was almost chopped to death by him back then!"
"Instructor Tyrone's projection not only has a perverted strength value of over 1100 points, but once his health line drops below 30%, it will trigger a berserk state, skyrocketing his attack power by 50% and granting immunity to all control effects, along with high life steal."
"Even if that's the case, there is also the 60% probability damage reduction bestowed by the Heaven-Reaching Tower. When he goes crazy, he's completely a mad dog!"
"..."
They all wore expressions of awe and lingering fear.
Clearly, they had all witnessed the prowess of this Instructor Tyrone projection.
Old Zhang pointed at the screen, his tone firm.
"He rushed so fiercely before, his mana value and mental state must be heavily consumed right now."
"I don't know what his class is. If he is squishy, facing a Berserker who is immune to control and can close in on his face, he will either cowardly retreat or be split in half by a sword."
"..."
The girl next to her also deeply agreed: "Yeah, I remember Senior Sister Bai Yu, she was an S-rank hidden class [Frost Mage]. When she rushed the tower back then, she got stuck on this twentieth floor for a whole month!"
"Senior Sister Bai Yu even specifically bought a set of heavy-injury-inflicting equipment at a high price, went in and forcibly kited for over an hour, before barely grinding the BOSS to death."
Old Zhang nodded continuously: "If he can get past it, I, Zhang Hui, will eat the screen of this Heaven-Reaching Tower right on the spot today!"
Just at the moment when everyone assumed Su Chen was about to escape.
"Ding!"
Everyone subconsciously looked up at the same time.
On the transistor display, the brilliant blue light representing the "twentieth floor" instantly extinguished.
Immediately after.
The transistor representing the "twenty-first floor" lit up with light.
The whole audience fell dead silent.
You could hear a pin drop.
Old Zhang's mouth was still half open, his posture of folding his arms frozen in mid-air.
The whole person looked like they had been hit by a petrification spell, and his eyeballs were about to pop out of their sockets.
The surrounding senior students who were previously chiming in with their analysis.
At this moment were all like being grabbed by the neck, unable to make a single sound.
After a full few seconds, someone asked: "How... how long, did any of you time it?"
"Ten... twelve seconds."
A girl said with a trembling voice.
Hearing this.
The surrounding junior and senior students all had their mental defenses broken.
"Fucking hell, this is Instructor Tyrone's projection! 12 seconds?! Taking off pants isn't even that fast!"
"Even if the BOSS stood still and let him hit it, he couldn't kill it in 12 seconds?!"
"This... completely like Lin Ye, Instructor Tyrone was also kicked to death by him with one kick."
"..."
12 seconds.
This amount of time was probably just enough for Tyrone's projection to charge.
Old Zhang only felt his cheeks burning with pain.
As if he had been slapped hard a dozen times in public.
This freshman... is he even human?!
...
Inside the Heaven-Reaching Tower.
"Just this?"
Su Chen looked at the pool of faintly glowing silver powder on the ground.
"I said it's easier to fight than ordinary mob monsters, does anyone understand?"
For others, perhaps a Berserker with its own life steal and control immunity would be very troublesome.
But for Su Chen... there was no difference from mob monsters.
As long as the Poison was applied, and waiting for the Poison not to be resisted, as long as the damage popped up, it was a one-hit kill.
This resulted in the BOSS being all alone, which was actually easier for him to fight.
[Prompt: Obtained Spacetime Core (Rare materials).]
"It seems the BOSS floors will all drop rare materials, I wonder what kind of equipment I can exchange for from Auntie Ta."
Su Chen tossed the materials into his backpack, and walked towards the portal to the next floor.
After floor 21, I wonder if the monsters will be further strengthened?