Chapter 22: Stench of Blood
Looking at the lady some couple of years younger than the six of them, the witch couldn't help but receive the announcement with wide eyes and her body shaking from mixture of intense emotions, mostly positive ones that just made her feel quite excited, unable to wait any further to hear the details of this news.
Disappearing from her previous seat, her body pops out of nowhere right beside the lady, a member of her Legia, holding both her shoulders as she speaks to her.
"Tell me everything..." the goddess-like witch demanded with such fervor in her eyes that the lady announcing the news couldn't help but wonder if there is something that happened between their leader and that person they have been observing for more than half a decade now a person that just appears to be a mystery to them as despite already clearing the main mission for the first floor—a fact confirmed by their leader— he just refuses to ascend as if he's completely tied to the first floor, like he doesn't want to let go of something in there.
And now, this man who seems to be way too obsessed with the first floor ascends all too suddenly that their people within the Ascension Platforms didn't even manage to immediately identify him, leading to the point now where their people doesn't even have any idea of where he is right now, only knowing that he's already exploring the map of the tower's second floor somehow.
Looking at her with curiosity burning in their eyes, the rest of the six approaches near the lady who announces the news as well, all of them way too focused on the subject, even more than they did when they are establishing the plans to break through the tenth floor of the tower.
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"Hm... they're getting weaker... looks like I need to head deeper if I want to improve even more..." looking at the floating azure screen displaying his information, Azrael thought to himself before he looks at the horizon, his attention towards the rocky mountain range in the distance with the peak of its mountains piercing through the clouds, the majesty of such view making the ascenders wonder just what sort of powerful existence is it that is capable of creating such marvel just on this floor alone, not to mention the numerous other floors this tower has to offer to its ascenders.
As this young man's gaze returns towards his guide though, he couldn't help but smile as he feels like he is making a lot more progress than he initially expected, his growth rate within this floor seemingly exploding as if all those years in the first floor increases his rate of improvement, like a bamboo shoot staying too far underground and then suddenly exploding to a full-grown bamboo.
Name: Azrael Weiss
Floor: First Floor (10 years 0 months and 1 days)
Title: None