CHAPTER 70: KICKED OUT OF THE IMMORTAL REALM

"Indeed... Thank you for the technique, Miss..." looking at the lady smiling as she stands right in front of him, not paling in terms of stature as she is only a couple on inches shorter than him, Azrael said with genuine gratitude in his voice, as after all, Immortal Energy even if not the strongest, is the most important tool in his current arsenal due to the immense boost in regeneration that it grants him.

"There’s no need for words of gratitude, they’re not really something you can believe in after all" the lady said with ambiguity in her voice, clearly hinting at something, and Azrael, being quite clever despite his usual demeanor, manages to catch up to her intent.

"Right, so what does such god-like entity wants with a mere second-floor ascender like me?" feeling like she might come from a place farther than even the highest floor that the ascenders of Earth have ever reached, the tenth floor, the young man asked, his question making the lady smile as she answers without hesitation.

"I like talking with sensible people..." she said as she laughs melodiously, praising his sharp mind as she repeatedly pats his shoulder before she continues.

"With the strength you have right now, there’s just no way you can even attempt on helping me with my problem, boy... but since you offered help, then I will graciously accept it..." she said as she once again decided to move her index finger towards the young man’s forehead, this time countless times slower than previously, making sure that the young man witnesses her actions.

"Don’t worry, helping me will be worth your while, and for advance payment with the task you’re going to do in the future, how about these good stuffs as payment?" she said before she starts transferring some of the techniques she had chosen in order to increase Azrael’s current rate of growth.

As he felt the smooth, dainty finger of the lady touching his forehead, a surge of knowledge from out of nowhere started flooding Azrael’s mind, all of them seemingly related to the technique he just acquired, the guide flooding him with notification at the same time announcing his acquisition of several new techniques.

[Detected a sudden increase in the ascender’s mental activity. Identified the reason for this to be a technique transference.]

[Acquired the technique: Indestructible Pure Body Tempering Method]

[Detected a sudden increase in the ascender’s mental activity. Identified the reason for this to be a technique transference.]

[Acquired the technique: True Soul Forging Art]

[Detected a sudden increase in the ascender’s mental activity. Identified the reason for this to be a technique transference.]

[Acquired the technique: Endless Path Movement Art]

[Detected a sudden increase in the ascender’s mental activity. Identified the reason for this to be a technique transference.]

[Acquired the technique: Myriad Transformation Sword]

Seeing multiple techniques being passed on to him in just a few moments, and feeling the fact that all of these are exceptional techniques that is enough to send every ascender on Earth to death from envy and jealousy, Azrael couldn’t help but take a large, nervous gulp, not from the excitement due to the value of these techniques but rather from something else completely.

’If this lady is willing to give such precious things as advanced payment, then... how dangerous is the task she needs me to do?’ Azrael thought to himself in quite the panic as never did he encounter trouble like this before, sure, he has his own problems the biggest among them being the fact that he needs to deal with guardian monsters far stronger than the limits of the floor they are on, not to mention there are people on the tenth floor who want him dead or crippled for the rest of his life.

But this one is just way beyond the scope of those problems, his speculation being that he might even need to climb so high in the tower before he can even begin to realize what sort of mess he threw himself into for not only associating, but trying to help this enigmatic lady.

However, there’s of course the other side that tempted the greedy person in him immensely as these treasures alone are the advance payment, then what sort of great rewards will he receive if he somehow manages to accomplish this unknown task?

"It’s about time you get kicked out of this place for now, boy, see you again when you sleep later~~" without even letting him speak about the treasures he acquired, the lady said abruptly making the young man wonder what she is talking about as he can still feel like he can stay in this place for a long time.

Confirming her words, however, his vision suddenly blacked out, shocking him for a short bit before it returned once again, his sight now set on a familiar, stained ceiling of the small room apartment that he calls his own residence.

Before he even gets up from the bed, though, he immediately checks something just to make sure that everything he experienced is real, his expression changing to a pleasant, excited one the moment that he confirms something.

[Immortal Energy: 130/130]

Looking at the amount of Immortal Energy he currently have, Azrael feels like he might be some sort of illegitimate son of luck the way that things are going for him right now, this sort of consecutive great opportunities also making him worried as he knows that life can’t just always be good, and as great as the opportunities he had previously, he is well aware that the worse the challenges there will be in the future.

’Well, I’ll deal with it when I get there... let’s deal with the task at hand first’ he thought to comfort himself as he pushes these dangerous thoughts in the back of his mind, opting to just face the problems approaching him now rather than think about matters for the far future, matters that won’t get solved even if he spends time thinking about it.