Chapter 1339 Progress
Tang Shaoyang was carrying the sleepy five-year-old Li Jiaying and Li Yue to the preschool. He did not know why it was called school because the kids did all day playing with the other kids. He preferred it to be called a playground, but it did not really matter that much. It was not him to make a fuss over a name. As long as it served its purpose.
"Can I visit Xiulan, Daddy?" Li Jiaying asked while rubbing her eyes. That was right, Li Jiaying was Li Shuang's daughter technically also his daughter, step-daughter.
Li Yue, who was busy devouring her bun, stopped eating and turned toward Tang Shaoyang as well. From the look of her face, it was obvious she wanted to meet their cute little sister. Li Yue was Li Na's little sister and his sister-in-law. But he regarded both as his daughters.
"After your school, okay? I will pick you up at two. Don't go anywhere until I pick you up, okay?" Tang Shaoyang agreed. Many people wanted to see his daughter, but he did not let any people visit his daughter, even Wei Xi who was quite close to him. He banned an outsider from visiting his daughter, but his family and he did not know why Li Shuang and Li Na did not bring these two girls to see Xiulan.
"Yeay…." It was a listless yeay from the happy Li Jiaying.
That was right, he was on babysitting duty while their guardians were exploring the Dimensional Tower. He did not mind the change phase of his life, enjoying every moment because he did not know when this would last.
"What's our little sister's name?" Li Yue showed more interest in Tang Xiulan than her food. She slowed down eating the bun and asked.
"Her name is Xiulan…." Tang Shaoyang entertained these two little girls' questions until he dropped them in the preschool. After dropping off the two little girls, he then visited the Tarrior's training ground. The festival was over, The Tarrior returned for their duty, and the training for the new Tarrior continued. He wanted to see them training. It was his habit he developed in the last four days, strolling around the city after dropping the two little girls.
Mostly the Tarrior was doing physical training to increase their attributes naturally. There was a standard attribute for Tarrior. If the trainee failed to reach the standard attribute, they could not join The Tarrior. Of course, it did not mean their future was bleak if they could not enter Tarrior. TEID (Intelligent Division) and TEIS (Internal Security/Police) needed people as well, and they could try to enter those two divisions. But soon they would use the new system, the academy where the students had more freedom to choose where they wanted to serve.
Tang Shaoyang covered himself well and not a single person recognized him. He strolled into the training ground, watching a group of hundred people running with weight on their backs. In another section, another group was doing weight lifting, then he entered the arena section. Looking at them gave him a nostalgic feeling.
He also did the same back then, increasing his attributes naturally by running, weight-lifting, and sparring. It was over a year ago, and he grew so fast that not any of these training would benefit him anymore.
After strolling for quite a while, he was about to go back, but then he spotted a group of five people. He was interested in this group because one of them was a demon, Zaneos. The Demon Swordsman looked like in a session with four people. He recognized two of them among the students, but he did not recognize the youngest man and the girl.
Interested, Tang Shaoyang decided to take a closer look at the training. It seemed the three young men were learning swordsman from Zaneos while the girl was watching from the side. It was a good choice to learn swordsmanship from Zaneos.
Areth was the young boy he saved with Zowen and Rosalie on the eleventh floor, and the young man was one of three young men. Curious with Areth's progress, Tang Shaoyang used Detection on him.
"Epic Rank, huh?" Tang Shaoyang was surprised by Areth's progress. The young man was not even level 20 when they saved him. However, in a matter of a few months, the young man was already Epic Rank. However, Epic Rank was still far from Areth's target. For someone who was driven by vengeance, he needed to reach at least Legend Rank before he could start with his vengeance. His village and his family were slaughtered, and he wanted to avenge them.
Chang Jie's drive was his hatred for Zombie, but his growth was slower compared to Areth. Chang Jie had been here longer than Areth, and yet, they were in the same rank. The youngest boy and the girl were also an Epic Rank. While an Epic Rank was nothing in Tang Shaoyang's eyes, they were a group of Elite in Tarrior.
"Aren't you going to say hello to me?" While he was focused on the four, Zaneos managed to sneak on him. The Demon Swordsman was standing next to him without Tang Shaoyang noticing.
Tang Shaoyang turned toward Zaneos and shook his head, "I don't want to disturb your session. Did Zowen throw her trouble to you now?"
Zowen, The Grand Lighting Magus adopted Areth as her little brother. That was the reason why Tang Shaoyang brought the young man back with him. If not for Zowen, Tang Shaoyang would just leave Areth in another village on the eleventh floor.
Zaneos shook his head, "I am planning to bring them with me into the Dimensional Tower. Do you have any advice for us, Your Majesty? I heard you have reached the 24th floor."
Tang Shaoyang chuckled when he was asked for advice, "You asked the wrong person if you are looking for proper advice. I don't even remember much about each floor of the Dimensional Tower. All I did was a mindless slaughter. Looking for monsters and killing them to increase my level."
"If you want input, maybe increase your party to ten people? You can bring more than four Epic Ranks or even higher, or else, you will be troubled with the boss floor. Of course, you can ignore all the boss floors up to the 24th floor, but don't you want to experience fighting on the boss floor?"
The members of the Tang Empire did not need to fight the boss floor anymore because Tang Shaoyang had defeated them all. The Tang Empire's members could skip to the higher floor. However, they could fight the boss floor too if they wanted to. They had the choice, and they just needed to enter the boss floor's area.
"Not just for levels, it will be good for them to gain more experience, fighting many kinds of monsters, no? However, you can only face up to thirteen floors' boss at most with this party. You need more people in your party."
"Of course, I am not going to go into the tower with just these newbies. I have some Generals and a Vice Supreme General, Wei Xi. After your fight against the God Rank, your generals are fired up to catch up. They don't want to be a burden or useless bunches if another war breaks out. You have decent people following you," Zaneos smiled. The Demon Swordsman made a lot of friends ever since his resurrection.
"Then I will get going. Good luck with your exploration and don't die. Or I will try to summon you again as a spirit, and you will have a long line for the next resurrection if it really happened," Tang Shaoyang was relieved if that was the case. Even though he technically conquered the tower by himself, it did not mean the tower was not dangerous. There were a lot of hidden dangers, and the breeding ground he cleared was one of many hidden dangers. He was relieved that Zaneos had everything instead of exploring with these newbies.
"Don't you want to meet them? I thought you were quite close to Chang Jie? Don't you want to check his progress before he leaves for exploration?" Zaneos asked. He thought Tang Shaoyang came over to check on Chang Jie.
Tang Shaoyang shook his head, "I told him to meet me once he reached Legend Rank. Ah, also Zara and Karoen are currently researching dimensional gates. If you want to go back to your world. You can give them more data about your world. They might need it to set up a gate to your world," He waved his hand as he walked about, "But don't get your hopes too high since they are still researching. There's no guarantee you can go back to your world."
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After an hour of strolling around his city, he returned to the main base proudly. He was proud of himself that he managed to rebuild the whole and a lot of people were living in peace instead of being chased by zombies now. Of course, he immediately returned to his room to meet his genius baby.
"Remind me to pick up Li Yue and Jiaying as usual, Origin!" After ordering the Ai, he rushed to his room, "What's my genius baby doing?"
He came at the right time as Xiulan just finished taking a bath and changed into new clothes. His baby was also excited about his arrival as she immediately raised her tiny hands toward him.
Tang Shaoyang picked up Xiulan as it was feeding time. After eating The Crab Porridge, Xiulan did not want to drink her mother's milk anymore.
Elinova had prepared everything for their breakfast, and four of them ate breakfast together. It was quite lonely without the other girls. After breakfast, Tang Shaoyang was about to bring Xiulan for sunbathing on the rooftop.
[Zara the Angel of Death is coming to meet you, Master.]
Zara had been staying outside the Spirit World after his request to research in The Dimensional Gate. With her mastery in Void Energy, he hoped she and Karoen could set up a dimensional gate to a specific world instead of a random world. If she wanted to meet him, that meant her research made progress or she might have succeeded with her research.
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