Chapter 105: No Excuses
As for the last item that he checked, Azrael thought even more so that he needs defensive equipment more and more, this material probably going to be something that will yield a great equipment once it is crafted into one.
[Hardened Battle Scale]
Checking the last item he received from the main quest, Azrael then realized that this is the only thing that can be said to be comparable to the greatest loot that he ever acquired in a monster before, said monster being the Eternal Flower, the first epic monster that he had fought against, introducing him to the power of the monsters that goes beyond the normal limit of the floor they are living on.
[A scale that is often hit whenever the monster it was once on was still alive, always teetering on the brink of total destruction before starting to regenerate once again, this vicious cycle of construction and destruction making its resilience explode to a degree never seen before.
This material can only take form as an equipment in the hands of a master craftsman with the strength of a hundredth-floor ascender at the very least, this also means that whatever equipment it is that will be created, it is guaranteed to be SS-Rank at the very least.]
After realizing the usefulness of this material he picked up, Azrael couldn’t help but have his lips twitching in a twisted smile as he starts to wonder just when in the hell is he going to attain such height in terms of ascending the tower, when just before all this happen, he is but a mere person struggling on the first floor of the tower.
’Maybe there’s someone I know who can help me with that...’ recalling the face of the ethereal beauty once again, the young man thought to himself with a wry smile on his face as he realizes that should he continue acting like this, he might end up developing a total reliance towards Xue Qingyue, which in fact, he doesn’t think of as something bad but would rather avoid doing so as much as possible.
Shaking his head to shrug those thoughts off his mind, the young man then finally decided to leave this place, the short, yet intense battle between himself and the boss of the second floor a stark contrast from the time when he, along with six other extremely talented people challenges the greatest blockade on the path to Earth’s ascension to the tower, the first conquest exclusive boss of the first floor.
"Man, those were hard times, really..." recalling the hellish suffering everyone, especially he himself had gone through just to exploit a weakness that this near invincible monster has, Azrael smiles in reminiscence before he starts shivering, remembering just how painful those times were for him especially since he’s practically being turned into blood pool consistently to prevent any of his companions from dying from the brunt of their enemy’s attacks.