CHAPTER 49: HOUSEWARMING PARTY

Feeling the amount of life force in the surroundings gradually getting denser and denser as he moves deeper into the forest, Azrael couldn’t help but start to feel wary, as with his decade of experience in the tower, despite it being only in the first floor, there is one fact that he learned that allows him to avoid getting himself into all sorts of troublesome situation.

That is the fact that whenever there is something peculiar going on in the environment he is currently in, no matter how infinitesimally small of a change it is, he needs to be extremely wary, as the tower just have a knack for taking its ascenders with things that will place them in absolute surprise, either in a great or tragic way, only those two extremes and no in between.

Despite the risks involved when exploring such a weird place like this though, the young man is also aware of the great opportunity this place presents him, that being the explosive increase in the Evil Fang Sword’s growth rate, the amount of life force being absorbed by his favored weapon making him feel like it will truly reach the next level all just because he is exploring this place.

"I just hope there’s nothing too absurd here..." the young man mutters to himself as he goes deeper and deeper into the forest, the only reason why he is confident in doing so being the fact that other than of old age, there’s just no way for him to die with the help of Absolute Regeneration, hence why there’s no worry in his mind even if there’s going to be a monster beyond the scope of the second floor somehow.

His words almost work like some sort of jinx though as just a few moments after he finishes muttering, his hair starts standing on its end, feeling like there is something or someone hiding somewhere obscure, with their attention fully focused on him and nothing else.

"Tsk... just my luck..." shaking his head as he starts wondering whether it is his words that made the situation like this, the young man already starts preparing himself as he is completely sure that whatever sort of creature it is that is hiding somewhere, it has anything but good intention given the overwhelming amount of bloodlust directed to his location.

While whatever this creature is hasn’t come out of its hiding spot yet though, Azrael chooses to explore further, wondering if there’s still a spot with denser life force in the air so that he can improve the Evil Fang Sword even more.

Feeling the amount of life force surging towards the Evil Fang Sword increasing as he explores deeper into the forest, the young man also felt more and more gaze directed towards his location, this fact already making him begin to wonder whether this is really the right decision for a few moments, before the benefit of this place overwhelms this little hesitation in him.

’No need to think too much about it, I’ve endured being beaten into a blood pool by the Fortress Golem on the first floor, what sort of thing would give me an experience even worse than that?’ he thought to himself as he steels his resolve, the guide popping up and notifying him of something making him even more confident that this is the right decision.

[Detected that the equipment: Evil Fang Sword is continuously using its weapon skill (Domain of Absorption) to absorb the ambient life force in the environment. Detected a drastic increase in the mastery of the mentioned weapon skill]

[Detected that an equipment’s weapon skill: Domain of Absorption (Evil Fang Sword) has leveled up]

[Domain of Absorption (Basic Mastery Level 2)]

[Creates a brutal domain that absorbs and turn any life force inside it to pure energy to nourish the weapon and the ascender blood-bound to it, the range of this domain, the rate of absorption and the amount of life force converted to nourishment for the weapon and its blood-bound individual is dependent on the mastery level of this weapon skill]

[Current Level: Basic Mastery (Capable of taking away life force from any opponent within ten meters of the user, the rate of absorption is about two in ten thousand of the target/s’ overall life force per second, and can be stopped if the target/s has a skill with a Basic Body Mastery passive skill on it)]

"It’s definitely worth going here~" now feeling like fortuitous encounters just start falling from the sky, the young man couldn’t help but feel conflicted, both happy and positive yet worried at the same time.

Happy at the fact that he is getting stronger faster than he expected when he just intend to hunt for some extra pocket money for today, and worried at the same time due to the fact that this sort of luck would not happen without anything balancing it out, making him think that there’s just something troublesome that’s going to happen to him when he challenge either this floor’s main quest or the hidden quest issued by his True Treasure Hunting Ability.

"Let’s worry about that later, for now..." looking at the sword in his hand, the life force it is absorbing from the surrounding seemingly increasing even more now since its weapon skill leveled up, Azrael then swung it down, making a small wall of air to surge forward for a few meters before it stops right next to a massive tree, with a diameter probably enough to cover three average person standing shoulder to shoulder.

As he did this, he couldn’t help but feel the aggression of the creatures previously spying on him increase even more, allowing him to know that whatever they are, they are most likely the natives of this place, and they don’t welcome him being here.

"Time for some housewarming party I guess" he mutters with a smile on his face as he slowly raises the Evil Fang Sword, pointing it towards the skies, his figure disappearing the moment that he finishes his words.