9 Tower of Heroes (1/2)
[Welcome to the Tower of Heroes. This is a special place created by the Great Archmage, Azmodius. It was created to evaluate the strength of humans.]
[System prompt: Player Seven has reached a special place, Special rules apply to this space]
[Rule 1: Death is impossible here; once your HP reaches 1, a protective layer would appear preventing you from dying. However, that would mean the end of your climb of the tower.]
[Rule 2: Consumables cannot be used during fights. HP, MP and Cooldown times will be refreshed after defeating each floor.]
[Rule 3: Rewards will be awarded after defeating each floor. However, players can collect the reward for defeating a specific floor only once.]
Following the message, Li Wei appeared near the edge of an empty circular platform. A massive 1 was written on the ground in Roman Numerals. Li Wei calmly observed his surroundings and walked towards the center. A message popped up.
[Would you like to begin the first fight?]
- ”Yes”
In front of Li Wei, a young man appeared, wearing the starters clothing that gave no stats. The man remained expressionless and looked at Li Wei.
[Floor 1: level 1 fighter, begin the fight in 5]
[4]
[3]
[2]
[1]
[Begin!]
As soon as the signal was sent, the 2 fighters got into fighting stances. Li Wei shifted his body, taking a defensive stance and placing his shield in front of him and held his sword in his right hand. It was the main purpose of him starting from the 1st floor, he wanted to get used to his shield and test the new skills.
The level 1 fighter also got into stance but an offensive one; having no weapons, he took a stance similar to that of boxing and approached Li Wei making small hops.
”Pak.. Pak”
”-0”, ”-1”
The man punched in the direction of Li Wei but was easily blocked by the shield. Even though Li Wei expected the first level to be easy, that was a little too much; Li Wei could easily predict where the punches would land and block them. So instead of wasting time, Li Wei chose to attack.
”Strengthen”
Upon activating the skill, Li Wei instantly felt his body becoming lighter. He pushed the punch of the fighter with the shield and slashed at him with the sword and hit his chest.
”-19”
Li Wei only stroke once and both sides retreated a few steps.
- ”Isn't that a bit too easy?… His HP bar almost dropped by half”
Following that, Li Wei rushed towards the fighter, jumped and used his second skill.
[Cleave]
His sword did a long diagonal strike and went through the body of the fighter.
-”31”
The HP bar of the fighter suddenly dropped and a white light appeared covering the fighter.
[Congratulations for defeating the first floor. You are awarded 100 exp]
[Restoring original state, moving to the second floor.]
A mist rose up out of nowhere and covered the arena for a few seconds before disappearing. The fighter disappeared and was replaced by a woman, the number on the floor also changed to two.
[Would you like to begin the second fight?]
-”Begin !”
[Floor 2: level 2 fighter, begin the fight in 5]
…
[1]
[Begin!]
The exact same thing as the 1st fight occurred. The woman still did not have weapons, but she did have a basic cloth armor and boots. It only took Li Wei a few strikes to defeat her.
[Congratulations for defeating the second floor. You are awarded 200 exp]
[Restoring original state, moving to the third floor.]
….
…
Similar developments happened on the third and fourth floors. Despite having weapons, the fighters were simply no match to Li Wei. Even the level 4 fighter was easily defeated. That was the difference between having a fighting class and not having one. Additionally, Li Wei reached the 1st milestone at level 5. The real struggles only started now, when Li Wei reached the 5th floor.
[Would you like to begin the fifth fight?]
”Begin”
[Floor 5: level 5 Paladin, begin the fight in 5]
[4]
[3]
[2]
[1]
[Begin!]
The Paladin in front of Li Wei was a well-built man wearing a full set of heavy equipment, they were all made of metal and even though they provided more armor than that of Li Wei, they also reduced the dexterity of the user. The paladin also had a large shield, at least twice as large as than that of Li Wei and a sword.
Li Wei charged at the paladin. He first probed the paladin using only 50% of his force but the strike was easily blocked. The Paladin remained unfazed and stayed in his defensive stance not even attacking. Li Wei tried to attack from different positions, moving all around the paladin but each hit was successfully blocked.
-”-1”, ”-2”,”-1”,”-0”
Very small red numbers appeared where Li Wei was hitting the paladin but they were negligible, especially considering that paladins invested points in vitality and so, had a lot of HP.
The Paladin also attacked and dealt the same amount of damage to Li Wei, they were both equally strong
The exchange continued but suddenly, the paladin made his move. Right after blocking Li Wei's sword, he counterattacked with his own. Even though the strike was much slower compared to that of Li Wei, due to Li Wei's original motion, he could only lift his shield to block the sword.
”-2”
But the paladin did not stop here. The shield he was holding suddenly glowed slightly and violently collided with Li Wei's body and forced him to retreat a few steps.
It was the Paladin's offensive skill, [Bash]
[Bash]
Violently hit the target with a shield or a blunt weapon, Damage +8, small chance of stunning the target for 0.5 seconds
Mana cost: 15
Cooldown time: 10 seconds
-”F***”
”-12”
Li Wei frowned, he was actually pushed back by a defensive class. If things continued like that, he would eventually lose.
Li Wei started to focus, he took a needle from his belt and threw it to the Paladin.
'mmm throwing needles is a bit troublesome with the shield' thought Li Wei.
He then dashed towards the paladin. The latter immediately blocked the needle but Li Wei already arrived in front of the paladin, using his sword he stroke on the right of the Paladin.