Tower of Endless: Death Granted Entry

Time ticked for Moon, who once again, found himself unable to sleep.

Sleep eluded him whenever he closed his eyes, something he was unfamiliar with.

Dorbish’s words kept him awake, reassessing his choices and future plans. He, as a matter of fact, didn’t wish to have anyone he knew die again.

He wasn’t simply unwilling, but it was one thing he didn’t want to experience again.

’If I had known, would they have lived?’ He asked himself, yet no answer came.

He wiggled back and forth in the bed, thinking of how to keep Basil and Barrett alive. They were his men now, unlike Colten and his group.

Colten would work for him only until the second trial was over. He didn’t want to see his face again anyway.

Ding!

Another notification came, assaulting his eyes with blue light. Half-closed, his eyes tried to read what was written.

[System Interface Update Complete]

’What? What? What?’

He decided to check the status window at last, all of it, the pending messages and everything.

[Congratulations!]

[New Trait Awakened: Arcanist]

[Your Echo Has Increased By 1]

[Flowing Light Has Been Registered]

[System Will Start Updating]

’Whoooooo!’ He exclaimed inwardly, his eyebrows climbing halfway to his hairline.

Looking down, he checked what did change, or what was updated. It couldn’t have been updating something minor all this time.

Right?

Status Window

Personal Data

Name: Moon

Age: 16

Origin: First Floor

Ascension Track: Second Floor

Vital Data

Strength: 6

Agility: 7

Stamina: 9

Echo: 17

Ascension Gift

Hypothetical Prospective: 0.02%

Skills

Blade Mastery (Intermediate 3%)

Spear Mastery (Beginner 30%)

Axe Mastery (Beginner 72%)

Sword Mastery (Beginner 52%)

Arcane Arts

Flowing Light (Beginner 5%)

Acquired Traits

Pain Tolerance (Intermediate 90%)

Berserk (Intermediate 1%)

Arcanist (Beginner 3%)

Status Abnormality

Death Echo: 9

Unrecorded Entry

Disabled Rewards System

Moon scratched his head. Pain tolerance increased again, as did Berserk. Everything was pretty much the same.

His Echo had gone up by 1, now 17, or 8 value without his sealed Death Echo.

Yet, the greatest difference was the separation of skills and arts.

Arcane Arts now had a section of its own independently.

’Does that mean there could be more updates in the future if things keep changing?’ He wondered.

He also had questions. ’Why did only Blade Mastery appear in skills and not his unarmed combat as well?’

’Why wasn’t Fate Alert also in the list?’

One question after another came to his mind that he had no answer to, nor anyone to ask.

Shaking his head, Moon dismissed the window. Samuel was doing an exceptionally great job increasing his pain tolerance over the last short few days.

Moon wasn’t exactly grateful about it, nor did he feel appreciation for his unrelenting efforts having him suffer all these weird pains that didn’t hurt just the body.

’Let’s not get distracted again.’ Moon thought, setting his mind onto the next course of action.

Without letting his mind drift anywhere again, he decided to check his crimson window as well.

User: Moon

Location: Tower of Endless

Basic Stats

Physicality: 4

Mentality: 9

Perception: 2

Energy: 8+

Instinct: 4

Shockwave: 1+ (NEW)

Awakening Talent

Hypothetical Prospective (0.02%)

-Exclusive ability to the lineage of Tower of Endless.

Your mind is rooted more into reality than imagination. What you imagine and perfectly perform within {Sample Space} has a lower chance of producing {Null Event}

Attributes

Death Energy

Mental Resilience

Control for Power (NEW)

Sorcerer (NEW)

Combat Mastery: E

Energy Control: F+

Power Index

Tower of Endless: Second Floor

Insights

Insights Into ???’s Path of Existence

User’s Manual

This system exists for the user’s convenience and reward delivery.

This system’s numerical values are based on ??? standards.

This system will only notify the user if there is a new reward to be delivered or a quest to be announced.

This system will not interfere with the user’s choices, decisions, or personal beliefs.

This system will monitor the user’s state and update in the Real-Time Logs.

Real-Time Logs

-User is a carrier of Death Energy.

-User’s mentality was partially damaged, temporary stabilization was provided.

-User’s Death Energy is greater than Innate Personal Energy.

-User will be sponsored a set of clothing to hide casual detection of Death Energy.

-User’s mentality is greater than energy value. Energy activation will be hindered.

-User is expected to freely release energy once the second trial is passed successfully.

-User must find a way to seal Death Energy or completely seal energy output before passing the second floor trial.

-User prematurely attempted forced energy activation.

-User’s mentality cannot control his energy. Output will be hindered.

-User’s Death Energy is unsafe for public use by the standards of Tower of Endless.

-User must find a way to seal Death Energy or complete energy output.

-User’s entire Energy output was successfully sealed.

-User’s Energy output has been unsealed.

-User’s Death Energy output has been (successfully) selectively sealed.

-User has been branded by a Tower of Endless special seal matrix.

-User has gained access to special stat: Shockwave.

-User’s Physicality is increasing. Mentality is failing. Immediate emergency treatment was provided.

-User’s attributes are updated (Control for Power).

-User’s Shockwave is beginning Physicality evolution.

-User has had his energy integrate with mixed dimensional energies.

-User’s attributes updated (Sorcerer).

Moon blinked many times.

’What the hell did happen here?’ He asked himself. So many things changed.

First, his Energy has a +, as well as his Physicality. It somehow matches the increase in his stamina and Echo on the Tower’s blue status window.

What seemed magnificent was that the crimson status window detected shockwaves as unique stats, giving it numerical value.

The Tower’s failed to see it. ’Was there a different reason for that?’ He wasn’t sure.

It was also his first time going berserk since the trial, as well as since he first had the status window.

Control for Power, which in essence matches the nature of Berserk. Lose your mind but become stronger. Still, it did detect his Mental Resilience since that time. Why did it only register Berserk after fighting Samuel?

’I’m not sure if it’s awesome or slow.’ He wondered, though he didn’t check it as frequently as he should.

He skipped the plus mark near his F+ rank Energy Control. It wasn’t very important now, even though it was an improvement.

His eyes fell on the word Sorcerer. ’What’s that?’

He had suspicions, but he made sure to scan the list one more time before concluding, ’It’s what they call Arcanists!’ The obvious.

Nodding to himself, now everything made sense, but a few little minor things.

’Now, what are these mixed dimensional energies?’ He rubbed his chin, looking around the crimson screen.

After scanning for a moment, he saw a small highlighted mark at the bottom.

(Item Update!) It said.

Moon clicked it without much thought.

There, he saw the window where the old pendant was described, but it wasn’t the same.

[Old Pendant]

A pendant that was owned by a traveler, someone who went across countless worlds, universes, and dimensions in search of their family.

Over long thousands of years, the pendant has accumulated a fine mass of extremely dormant cosmic dust, dimensional residue, and universal energies.

Keep it safe.