EX-Grade Ability Card: Tower Ascension with My Absolute Restoration-Chapter 35: Level Up

Wind blows in a lush green forest that carries the immense vitality and life force of the trees in the surroundings, said vitality making sure that the creatures other than trees are well nourished as well, making it so that this forest is not just sanctuary of trees towering over a couple of dozens of meters in the air, but also home to creatures and monsters with size than can be described as anything else but normal.

And yet surprisingly, inside this terrifying forest filled with monster’s possessing might that can easily break any normal ascender in half, a young man is leisurely travelling, in his shoulders a bloodied, dead beast with its carcass emitting a sanguine smell all around, filling the area with what can only be described as an extremely attractive scent to other monsters, making them flock towards the direction where this dead beast is.

Meanwhile, the young man carrying this beast on his shoulders, closing his eyes, felt the movement of more than a dozen different monsters approaching his location, said monsters possessing strength enough to defeat any average ascenders who are challenging this floor, and yet, the confident smile on this young man’s face is more than enough for anyone to tell that he is anything but normal.

"Hahaha, this is really one hell of a good hunting method" finally seeing the monsters approaching his location with his own eyes, the young man then throws the monster on his shoulders away, drawing a sword from its scabbard securely mounted on his waist, said sword of a completely pure black of color, as emitting a murderous air around it and making most of the monsters hesitate whether it is worth it trying to pounce on someone like that.

"Let’s eat then, partner" looking at the sword in his hand, the young man then lifts it up as he talks to it as if the object is a living being, something that may or may not be proven by the fact that said sword’s blade oscillates and emits a shrill, blood-curdling scream the moment that the young man finishes his words, this response only making the young man more satisfied with the sword in his hand.

"Hahaha, looks like not everyone is scared of you!" looking at the approaching monster, the young man said, seemingly towards the sword once again, this monster being given quite the shock as the young man swung his weapon even if he is still a few meters away from the target, making the beast wonder what sort of idiot would attack an enemy still outside of their range.

In fact, the monster is already smart enough for it to mock like that in its own mind, as its thoughts is a fundamental truth, pointing on how pointless can such an attack be, however, what its meager brain fails to realize is the fact that not all attacks are something that it can physically see, and that fatal miscalculation is something more than enough to cost it, its very own life.

From the very tip of this black, seemingly light-absorbing weapon, a crimson red light shoots out at astonishing speed, travelling straight towards the monster, a humongous, elephant-sized boar-like creature with another tusk growing out of its forehead.

And seeing the speed of whatever projectile it is that is travelling towards its position, the monster knew that it is already too late to try and avoid this attack, hence it moves to do the second-best thing, charging forward with its tusk protruding from its forehead pointing towards the projectile aimed towards itself, clearly hoping that whatever it is that is, it will shatter under the might of its great tusk.

Something does shatters indeed, however, as much as this monster hopes that it is the attack that breaks under its might, quite the opposite happens, as it starts hearing a cracking sound coming from its forehead, all while feeling fragments of its once majestic horn now digging through its head, making it squeeze a loud, painful roar from its throat, the blood oozing out of the cuts made by its own horn covering its vision as well, making it extremely hard for it to see the enemy already approaching attacking distance.

"Haha, second meal of the day for you, Evil Fang" hearing nothing but the voice of its target right beside its ear, the monster couldn’t help but feel terror as it realizes the most fatal mistake in its part, and that is underestimating the small creature that it doesn’t even deem as a worthy target to hunt previously, unaware that this unworthy target is the real hunter in this encounter.

And as it realizes that, its whole body felt numb, or rather than that, it can no longer feel its entire body as its severed head fall onto the ground with a single thud, followed by its own body falling on its side with its opponent’s sword still plunged on its body, seemingly absorbing something from it.

Weird enough to anyone that is observing this absorption process, blood doesn’t spurt out of the stump where the creature’s severed head is supposed to be, in fact, the body starts shriveling at an alarming rate while the pure black sword stabbed on it starts emitting a chilling glow of red, said crimson glow also coming out of this sword’s owner, making him appear like a slaughterous asura that comes out to remove these monsters from the surface of the tower. novelbuddy.cσ๓

[Evil Fang Sword absorbs the life essence of the enemies killed by the ascender, Strength +50, Stamina +50, Intelligence +20]

[Detected that the equipment: Evil Fang Sword has leveled up]

Looking at the guide’s notification popping in front of him, this young man couldn’t help but crack a satisfied smile on his face, never in his life feeling that his rate of growth is this fast, prompting him to look at the jet-black sword in his hand, feeling extremely lucky that he managed to acquire such equipment.