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  A weary bck-haired maered the first floor’s adventurer guild, carrying with him a rge bag full of the pieany monsters he had sin. They ranged from measly E-Rank monsters all the way to A-Rank monsters and even the horn of an S- Rank mohe golden-horned bzing bear king.

  Both of his eyes looked fierd exhausted. One of them was of his natural color, a clear green, while the other had bee pletely gray, its irises shaped strangely, resembling the arrows of a clock.

  “W-Wele… Did you hunt all of that, sir?” Asked a receptionist.

  “Please firm the kills and give me the rewards.” The man said he had no time to waste, quickly drinking a yellow-colored potion and rec his energies.

  “Y-Yes!” The girl quickly took care of things while he rested. He looked into his status, notig his Level had already reached two hundred.

  “This damned Css max level is 999; I am not getting anywhere close to a Css Rank Up. The extra stats are good though, but this won’t do.”

  As he analyzed his stats, he quickly started browsing through his iory and then used his Alchemy Skill, obtaihrough an Alchemy Skill Book he spent half his savings accumuted from hunting ba Earth to get.

  “{Synthesis}”

  He bihe sed horn of the bear he huhe exoskeleton of the shadow ants, the skeleton of the sunshine lions, the innards of the lesser frost wyverns, and the heart of the giant mole into a single co of powerful essence.

  Ding!

  [You have synthesized the [Vigorous Awakening Elixir (SS Grade)] x1!]

  [You have ed the [Vigorous Awakening Elixir (SS Grade)] x1!]

  [All your Stats have increased! You unlocked the Martial Power Stat!]

  [Your Meridians have awakened. You ow begin Cultivating your Physique.]

  As he drank the elixir, a smirk appeared on his face.

  “Good.” He smiled. “With the Martial Power Stat unlocked, I begin using the Cultivation Teiques I learned from the Tenth Floor a a Physique, that will be really useful. I need as much power as if I ever wao defy the Challenge of the Sed Floor aer those ruins to get that precious item. It’ll be the key to my growth ter on. And perhaps the only way for me to surpass my former self.”

  Although the regressor seemed to exude fidend had clear goals in mind, he still couldn’t help but feel a slight uneasiness. From having obtaihe Eye of Time, to having regressed, and also the most w thing of all...

  Bing Xue.

  He had learned she had already bee a celebrity oh and had shown prowess and abilities without parallel, even the power to revive dead people, something that was only obtained by the Saintess, a Huhat will appear two years from now with the ability to absolutely heal and revive people that retly died.

  The most w thing wasn’t her abilities; it was that iimeline he remembers, she did. There was no such thing as a Returnee named Bing Xue!

  And above all, he felt something—a gaze. It wasn’t the Grandfather of Time, though; it was something else. Some could call it an intuition, a premonition, or perhaps just “a feeling”.

  But something was watg—something gng at the Tower, its worlds, and eveh.

  A threat roag, and every sed that passed felt like things would only get worse.

  This timeline might only bee even more chaoti now on.

  After taking his rewards, he quickly walked away. Seth set his gaze into the faraway forests, where he would begin hunting S-Rank monsters.

  “I have to hurry."

  Before entering the Sed Floor, he wants to be as high-level as possible.

  However, if he were to learn that Bing Xue was already tapping into powers he would have given his two arms to get, he would probably die of envy.

  …

  The same gaze he felt before tinuing to watch. The os swirls around their endlessly expanding prowess.

  The nine heavens swirled together; eyes resembling stars watched the events unfold.

  Distortions in space opened.

  Dimensions were breached.

  Realities were being broken apart, and their cracks ected together.

  How long will it take for its influeo reach her?

  The “order” of the Tht not st much longer.

  “I’ve found you, my dear.”

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  (Bing Xue’s POV)

  “Spiritual Heart?” Urbosa wondered as the Elder nodded.

  “Yes, I’ve read that in the aales, the scrolls we’ve kept saved within our small library.” The Elder spoke with a loud and wise voice. “Spiritual Hearts were the special an that our a warriors had; they were called the Spirit Callers, capable of tapping into the spiritual energy to grow strohe Spiritual Heart is capable of growing rger and obtaining even more spiritual energy over time.”

  “I didn’t know we had the talent to get that!” Merkite pined.

  “Even I who paid attention to the tales, haven’t heard such things.” Urbosa nodded.

  “Well, it is something that is only specified in the older, harder-to-read tales.” Spoke to the elder. "Unfortunately, not many people read the old runic writing system of our home world. So such things have remained known by the elders.”

  “This is all quite iing…” I said. “So the Divi Spirits I saw the other day are your Aors, is it not?”

  “Yes.” The Elder nodded.

  “And then they left you this Spirit Tree to awaken your Spirit powers,” I said. “Okay, I get it now. However, I wonder now, what happeo that A Spirit Tree your eribe had?”

  “Ah…” The Elder sighed.

  I suddenly noticed Urbosa, Merkite, and Ashen doing simir expressions; it was like a bination of frustration and sorrow. I’ve been mostly trying not to talk about this, but I think it was about time they addressed what happened on the sed floor.

  “ you tell me what has happened in your world?” I asked them. “I know it might be a delicate thing to speak about, but I pn to climb the tower with my family, so we’ll eventually go there. I o know, if you were that world’s inhabitants, what forced you to e to the first floor?”

  “It’s… Well, I suppose it be expined first with the Spirit Tree.” Said the Elder. “In the a scrolls, we’ve learned many things. One such thing is the birth of od. Yes, not the Divi Spirits. But the God of the sed floor is the God of our world. And uhis world’s gods, there was only one. A tyrant, a warm monster. A god of battle and bloodshed, of camity and barbaric disaster.”

  “A what…? there be su evil god out there?” My sister asked.

  “It . And the most surprising part is that it is the sed-flod.” Said Urbosa. “He’s the reason why we desded the tower and moved to a more peaceful nd.”

  “That God, he’s known as the {Battle-Loving Barbarian King}.” The Elder said. “Pretty straightforward, right? He was bhly over a huhousand years ago. And he was the ohat destroyed the A Spirit Tree from our world and stopped the Divi Spirits from giving us their blessings.”

  “How did this God appear?” I asked, trying to keep myself calm. “Seeing how monstrous he was and his name... Was he really born out of your belief?”

  “No, well, not really.” Sighed the Elder. “From what I’ve read, he was something different. You see, in our world, named Elios, there are many tribes. Our Beast Tribes were but half of them all. The Orposed almost the ey of the other half. Unlike us beast people who only wish to live with nature and by ourselves, Orcs have always been warm; they love battling and bloodshed, and since eons, they’ve hunted one another and… our tribes as well.”

  “Orcs…” I said, imagining a few from fantasy media would probably not do them justice. “So you think…?”

  “That God might not have been born out of our belief, but of the belief of our rivals and ehe warm orcs.” Said the Elder. “Although there are many that have separated themselves from their orcestry and desded into the first floor or even into your world to be normal civilians, the tribes of Orcs remairo. Using the strength and powers of their God, they were able t our once rge union of tribes into a few, meager, and very small tribes scattered across the endless grassnds of our world.”

  “Though we don’t really know their in or something, we just know that the Barbarian God is someone almost every Orc Tribe praises as their one and only divine king,” Urbosa said. “I’ve heard from some Elders, those that have passed already, that it was said the Barbarian God was on Orc like the rest, the stro of them all, someohat reached the pinnacle. Like Leviathan, the snake you made into this world’s new god. But somehow, he acquired a Divihrone and became a God.”

  So what happened with Leviathan wasn’t uo me; it actually happen in other worlds as well. A Mortal whose Level reaches a certain number, and ohey fulfill certain ditions, be given a Divihrone in a godless world!

  Perhaps the Tower or the System didn’t include the Divi Spirits as Gods because their ins were from another dimension, and therefore they never held any throne over the people of that world.

  “So you escaped because of the attacks of the Orcs?” My mother asked. “I always wondered why there were so many orcs there. I’ve visited the sed floor a couple of times myself, but never involved myself irial you o do to get to the third floor, unfortunately.”

  “Me her.” Juan sighed. “It is way too troublesome. Only very strong people ever dare to get involved in that Trial. It is one of the biggest walls that stops most hunters from climbing higher.”

  “What Trial is it?” I asked.

  “Well, you see, in the sed floor Trial, you o ###### and ##### or #####.” My mother started expining to me, but I could only hear a loud, buzzing sound whenever she spoke about the trial. The system that had taken over her soul was s her words.

  “I ’t uand anything you’re saying, mother…” I sighed. “It seems the Tower itself sors your words.”

  “What?!” My masped. “Wait, Ruby, did you hear something?”

  “N-No, you were talking like very loud buzzing sounds; it was creepy as hell!” Ruby cried.

  “That’s… I guess it ’t be helped. If you want to know what you o do there, you’ll have to climb yourself, Katherine.” My mother seemed slightly sad.

  “It’s fine. I’ll go there in a couple of days. We might have to dey the visit to Earth for now. If possible, I would prefer to solve whatever problem is happening there quickly.” I said. “As the home world of my two mates aribe, I feel it is my responsibility.”

  “Huh? But what about your own home world, dear?” Urbosa asked me. “You don’t o give yourself such responsibility; we’ve left that world long ago. The first floor is our home now!”

  “Yeah, yeah! What she said.” Merkite nodded. “Please don’t feel pressured to take any responsibility.”

  “It is fine.” I smiled. “I have the strength to do so without breaking a sweat; why shouldn’t I bother?” I giggled. “I am not truly being humble; I am simply rather curious and... quite vengeful. I hate people who abuse their power to kill is. I might put some people in their pce using mine; I might even kill those who attack me first. And I may even reeducate some i fools, but I would never go to such lengths myself. I find it despicable, and it only makes me frustrated to know there are people incapable of doing a thing against such ill fates.”

  “I see within you; there’s the wrath of the righteous.” The elder spoke. “Bing Xue, would you truly help liberate our world from that tyrant?”

  “I ’t say I will kill the orcs. I believe they might have been brainwashed by such a God. But yes, I promise you that in a couple of days, Elios will no longer have such a barbarian as its only God.”

  My mind was set; I had fou another purpose. But I suppose it is nothing but a stepping stone across the many I’ll have to kick out of my path to reach my goal.

  [Your e with the God of Eclipse has given you a rge quantity of Faith.]

  [You earned +500 Faith.]

  [You earned +1100 Faith.]

  [You earned +200 Faith.]

  [You earned +1300 Faith.]

  [You earned +600 Faith.]

  [You earned +330 Faith.]

  […]

  Oh, it seems Leviathan has already begun his job officially.

  He is earnily well, I must say.

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  Pach