EX-Grade Ability Card: Tower Ascension with My Absolute Restoration-Chapter 40: Harvest

’Is it because they are fifth-floor ascenders? No, then why should they give only that little of a stat boost? Not to mention they doesn’t even trigger the effects of the Cross-level Combatant title?’ wondering why is it that he can only harvest so little despite absorbing the life force of an ascender who already reached the fifth floor of the tower, Azrael thought to himself before the guide pops up with an answer for his query.

[The Evil Fang Sword can only absorb the amount of life force that the target is currently using. As these ascenders all have their actual strength sealed due to their descent, the Evil Fang Sword can only absorb the life force of an equal amount to a second-floor ascender with stats maxed out.]

’I see, then there’s no use dwelling about some imaginary meat, in fact, it also makes sense since technically, I only fought against second-floor ascenders...’ Azrael thought to himself as he starts moving away from the corpse, not forgetting to completely dispatch it by leaving a bit of blood enough to attract monsters in the distance.

Travelling towards the other corpses, the young man heard the roaring of beasts not only from behind him, but also ahead of him as well, making him feel uncomfortable as he already expected the worst, with his hunt being devoured by other monsters in the area.

Fortunately for him though, these monsters who are also clearly aiming for the dead human bodies are still busy fighting among themselves to determine who will be the one to rightfully take the food in front of them, this fight ending all for naught as they all flopped onto the ground before they could even realize what was going on, the only memory being etched in their mind being a black crescent arc passing through their eyes before they fell unconscious.

[Evil Fang Sword absorbs the life essence of the enemies killed by the ascender, Strength +88, Agility +110, Stamina +99, Dexterity +99, Intelligence +88, Insight +88]

[Evil Fang Sword absorbs the life essence of the enemies killed by the ascender, Strength +77, Agility +77, Stamina +99, Dexterity +99, Intelligence +110, Insight +110]

[Evil Fang Sword absorbs the life essence of the enemies killed by the ascender, Strength +66, Agility +99, Stamina +99, Dexterity +99, Intelligence +110, Insight +88]

[Evil Fang Sword absorbs the life essence of the enemies killed by the ascender, Strength +110, Agility +88, Stamina +110, Dexterity +88, Intelligence +88, Insight +99]

[Evil Fang Sword absorbs the life essence of the enemies killed by the ascender, Strength +77, Agility +99, Stamina +77, Dexterity +99, Intelligence +88, Insight +88]

[Evil Fang Sword absorbs the life essence of the enemies killed by the ascender, Strength +110, Agility +110, Stamina +88, Dexterity +88, Intelligence +88, Insight +77]

[Evil Fang Sword absorbs the life essence of the enemies killed by the ascender...]

Finally completely absorbing all those more than a dozen of enemies sent by someone familiar to him, Azrael smiles in satisfaction as a familiar feeling starts flooding his body, the feeling of reaching the very limits of the floor he is currently on, both a great and frustrating feeling to him at the same time.

Great due to the reason that with this amount of power, he is pretty certain that he is already more than capable of dealing with anything that comes along his way except for some special monsters like the ones guarding the floor’s greatest treasure, and all the ones that could possibly be on equal standing against these creatures, which is of course, extremely rare if it’s even existing at all.

Frustrating due to the fact that he knew that before he could ascend to the next floor, then there’s just no way for him to further increase his raw strength and power, now he needs to rely solely on the buffs given by passive and active skills that he needs to hone during his time here.

’I can only hope that the guardian of the second floor’s treasure will be easier to deal with compared to the Fortress Golem...’ recalling just how much better equipped he is to fight against someone with strength far higher than his given his new skills and title, Azrael thought positively, clenching his fist as he realizes that one way or another, he is getting closer and closer to ascending to the third floor.

But of course, that is only if he can handle the second floor’s treasure guardian quicker than the Fortress Golem of the first floor.

Looking at the dead monsters previously trying to steal his hunt, the young man then walks towards their carcasses one by one and starts absorbing the life force in them, only for him to be greeted by the guide with not-so-pleasant, but still positive news.

[The ascender already reaches the limit of stats for the current floor; due to this, the life force absorbed by the Evil Fang Sword will go solely to the weapon, increasing its rate of growth]

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

[Due to absorbing a large amount of life force in a short period of time, a weapon skill is created by the equipment: Evil Fang Sword]

[Equipment: Evil Fang Sword (A-Grade Weapon, Upgradeable)]

[Current Level: 3 (Reach level 20 to upgrade the weapon to S-Grade)]

[A Sword that is forged with the bone of the Evil Star Wolf rather than the fang that is described in its name. Its fang is used rather to sharpen this bone to a degree that it can cut through cold iron with extreme ease. This sword has an inherently evil aura to it, causing any inexperienced ascender to feel quite uncomfortable just by being around it.]

[Weapon Skills: Domain of Absorption (Basic Mastery Level 1)]

[Usage Requirement: Blood-bound individual]

[Effects: +24% strength, +24% agility, +12% stamina, +12% dexterity, +1.2% lunacy, Improves the efficiency of life force absorption by 10%]

[Note: This is a growth-type weapon that can accompany the ascender using it for a long time, it is recommended for the owner of this weapon to feed the weapon with materials that will allow it to grow to further heights and reach its full potential]