CHAPTER 83: KNOWING ABOUT TECHNIQUES BEFORE IT CAN EVEN BE ACQUIRED

[Global Announcement: Through the combination of extreme effort, sky-high guts a strongly tempered will and a talent that transcends common sense, an anonymous ascender manages complete a feat that no one else has ever accomplished in the entire records of the Eternal Tower, creating a method to use multiple techniques simultaneously without any repercussions to the well-being of the one using it.]

[This is a feat worthy of everyone’s respect and will be a tale myth that will eternally be passed on through words of mouth.]

[Following this, the information about techniques will be released to the ascenders of Earth shortly after to every ascender of Earth in the tower.]

Meanwhile, as they look at the Hall of Fame notification on front of them, all the ascenders of Earth from the first to the tenth floor are completely oblivious of how significant this matter is compared to the previous global announcement about the Forbidden Zones and Forbidden Zone Quests, the fact that both happen just some days after the other making somehow made them assume that whoever achieves them is not the same person at all, and that is despite them immediately relating the Forbidden Zone announcement to one of their friends.

After all, no matter how talented a person was, there’s just no way that they would achieve multiple Hall of Fame worthy feats within just a couple of days, right?

After waiting for just a few minutes, another azure floating screen already appeared in front of everyone, this time the ascenders of Earth dealing with it better as all of them, the moment they got the global announcement already drops what they were previously doing, especially those hunting, in order to prevent themselves from being too shocked and risking their lives freezing in the middle of a life and death battle against monsters.

Of course, there are still those dumb enough to go ahead and try such a thing, thinking that there’s no way this Hall of Fame feat is something that would be even more shocking than the Forbidden Zone and Forbidden Zone Quest previously, and those people were in for a lot of deadly surprise.

[Techniques]

[Born from the desire to continue growing without the aid of the Ethereal Tower’s grace, creatures who lives in the tower for a long time, particularly the ones who yearn to reach even further heights in the tower, banded together to try and find a way to do exactly as so, spending much sweat, blood and even their own lives to search for an answer.

And in the end of this search an answer they got in the forms of techniques, methods that draws on the most basic life force abundant to the Ethereal Tower and transform it into other kinds of energies as it enters a technique practitioners’ body, granting these practitioners ability and strength far more than what they would usually have even if they push their growth to the very limits when they are ascending each floor of the tower.]

[Note: Ascenders of the world (Earth) have yet to reach a floor where they can acquire techniques for themselves, hence the lack of knowledge about this. However, while it is not possible to acquire such techniques for now, it is completely possible for an ascender to create a technique, but be reminded that creating just a single technique is something that will take centuries, if not millennia of time.]

After reading through the information presented in the floating azure screen, the ascenders of Earth, especially the leaders of the Six Great Legia couldn’t help but have their eyes widen in surprise, these six having a vague idea of its significance if it is something that more powerful ascenders are willing to spend hundreds or even thousands of years to create.

"Higher floors... that means it isn’t really him who did that right?" while reading through the reports that her subordinate had given her, a cold beauty said with a wry smile on her face as she thought that her fantasy about this particular individual is truly getting absurd, immediately assuming that it is him who managed to achieve such feat the moment that she saw the global announcement of the tower.

Seeing that these techniques are something that one can only acquire in the higher floors though, she decided to cast such thoughts into the back of her mind, yet still having that small inkling of hope that somehow, he managed to chance upon a technique or something travelling the second floor.

Meanwhile, another lady of the same level of beauty as her is thinking of the same thing as well, said beauty, one who is wielding a massive scythe that harvests monster head after monster head in the battlefield she is in, her mind still occupied with the global announcement just now.

’After an entire decade of bad luck, it seems like he is finally getting the growth that should’ve been his if he ascended with us back then...’ she thought to herself with an excited smile on her face, wondering when she is going to meet him once again.

"Mhm... no use thinking too much about it, maybe I should descend to the lower floors to ask him himself~" meanwhile, another beauty with a saint-like air around her, clearly thinking about the same thing as well, thought to herself with an adorable smile on her face, said face shaking left to right the next moment as she shrugs those ideas off her mind.

"They will definitely scold me if I do that, especially that witch..." she thought to herself with a pout on her angelic face, feeling quite frustrated that she can’t talk to the person she is thinking about right now.

In a place far away from either of these three, two young men are currently enjoying themselves in food and alcohol after a successful collaboration between the forces they lead, these two talking about the announcement as well as enjoying the good wine presented to them.

"I know those techniques are something we all can’t get unless we reach higher floors but, you think of the same thing as well, right?" one of these two young men, a handsome, yet prideful looking one said with a smile on his face, earing a nod from the other young man, this one having the same level of appeal as the previous yet having that always lethargic air to him.

"The chances are low, but not zero, who knows, that guy might’ve created a technique himself then also created that technique that somehow lands him into the Hall of Fame again" the lethargic young man agreed, the two of them laughing at the absurdity of the claim they both agree on, not knowing that they just barely miss the spot.