"No, I’m comfortable here," Felix said without even opening his eyes from his nap.
"I’m going to be gone for a few years, you’ll have to be content with eating low-kingdom foods", Kayden said the magic words that made Felix’s ears perk up.
"Come to think of it, this environment is boring," the cat jumped onto Kayden’s shoulder without any shame and continued to sleep.
After that, Kayden went to talk to Eldora and explained that he was leaving town for a few years. The woman was disappointed with Kayden’s departure, but there wasn’t much she could do; Kayden practically caused a revolution in the city’s strength in these years.
Next, Kayden traveled with Felix to the tower and explained all the information he got. The cat just nodded and told Kayden to do whatever he wanted.
Kayden went straight after the golden scorpion on the first floor of the tower. It only took him a few minutes to eliminate hundreds of scorpions and anger their golden leader. As soon as the animal appeared, he killed it with just one clean sword swing.
The beast’s body was large, nearly three meters wide, and over two tons of muscle and bone. Kayden removed the gem from the animal’s forehead and saved the body for another time. Without fear, he ate the yolk and felt his body warming up.
The heat that assaulted his body focused more specifically on his bones. Kayden felt a bit of pain as he saw his bones changing shape. It was not an evolutionary change, but a total change.
Like all humans, their bones were made of collagen and organic and inorganic components such as phosphorus and calcium. But at that moment, a cellular change was happening where some metals were being incorporated.
Kayden couldn’t make out these details exactly, but he could feel that his bones weren’t identical. They became more malleable and at the same time harder, reacting to pressure in a solid way and, in normal moments, becoming freer.
It was excellent in terms of combat, as it would help him withstand strong attacks and carry out attacks from different positions previously inaccessible to him. Kayden had to admit that he had misjudged the quality of this tower’s rewards in just a few moves.
To go to the next floor, he had to hunt some more scorpions and get another gem for Felix. After that, the two had to jump into the fountain again and find themselves in a different place.
This time, they were in a huge swamp surrounded by water and trees. There was no city in sight; this was considered the true starting point of the tower, without any support or facilities.
It was just a large space inhabited by thousands of crocodiles and other giant monsters, most between the first and third kingdoms, the latter being rare.
"What a disgusting place, wake me up when it’s over", Felix closed himself in an iron square with a bed made of beast skin inside. Kayden just had to take this cage with him.
This was a relatively easy floor to pass; he needed to devastate everything he could until the guardian dryads showed up. This barely took thirty seconds with his strength level.
He only needed to destroy a few kilometers with lightning and saw two women appear in front of him, made of crystal clear water and an unnatural blue. It was a strange thing to see at the same time.
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"Who is the…" Kayden didn’t wait for them to finish and killed them both with a strengthened aura slash. They were just second-realm beasts and they didn’t even manage to see Kayden’s attack before they were killed.
Something Kayden was doing during this period was opening private lessons to show how to get through each floor and detailing the strengths and weaknesses of the monsters he encountered. The boy practically made a manual on how to climb the tower.
These classes were compiled into recordings that cost a little more than their regular classes, but few complained after seeing the quality of the material they received. Kayden only needed to exchange a few blows or see the animals to understand their weaknesses.
"Felix, wake up, we have to get into the part where the water on their bodies was." The cat was disgusted and strongly refused. He was about to enter his cocoon again when Kayden threw him into the water.
The problem was that Kayden didn’t expect the cat to react so violently and bite his arm, ripping off a large chunk of flesh. The animal would practically eat his hand if Kayden hadn’t reacted quickly enough.
"Look at my fur! You filthy human!" Kayden just laughed at the cat throwing a tantrum, his lines interspersed with irrational meows.
"Just enjoy the benefits and stop bothering me," Kayden said and felt the water entering his body and changing the structure of his skin in a similar way to the first floor.
His skin was given a type of material that made it easier to patch. Any cut caused the remaining ends to automatically grow closed, even though there was still extensive damage inside. It was a great benefit to avoid bleeding and poisoning.
This time, the gain was minimal for Kayden. His body was already capable of doing this before and there wasn’t any significant boost, but for Felix, it was something new that would help him in the future because of his technique of exchanging his body for mana.
"I don’t want to go down!" Felix was complaining to Kayden once again, this time the young man just laughed at him.
"I’m going to take all the food with me, I hope you’re happy eating only hard crocodiles here", Kayden didn’t give the animal time to respond and just went down to the bottom of the swamp, a few dozen meters down.
As soon as he touched the lowest point, he was teleported to the third floor. This is where things started. Here it was no longer a repetition of the terrain every few thousand kilometers; in fact, it was a real planet with civilizations existing within it.
Kayden found himself inside a floating city with buildings made only of red and gray wood. These tones left the city with an air of tranquility and boredom at the same time. The boy found himself in a huge square with an immense golden wooden platform that stood out in the city.
His spiritual sense reached various parts and studied the entire city in just a few seconds. He saw several different kingdoms in this place, but the one that prevailed was still the second kingdom, probably because those with a higher kingdom had already left this place.
Felix appeared at his side and started meowing and asking for food. Kayden gave a fifth kingdom fish to the cat to make up for his actions. At that moment, he looked at his arm and began to put some mana into it to heal itself. The boy was so used to the pain that he had forgotten about it.
"Hello, climber, congratulations on passing the first…" Kayden disappeared along with Felix before he had to talk to the multitude of recruiters that were appearing.
Taking information from the bandits proved to be right, as he discovered that on the third floor, there were millions of guilds and groups always ready to recruit new members, but these guilds were not strong.
Most of the time, their leaders were only in the sixth realm and possessed little power in the tower. True guilds only recruited outstanding geniuses or people who reached above floor number thirty.
Right now, Kayden would just climb the floors at high speed. He didn’t plan on making a name for himself here, at least not yet. It was better to know a little more about the tower before taking any action.
Kayden searched for a few minutes with his spiritual sense for one of the tower’s stores, a special place among so many stores, because in that store there was no person or sign of a common establishment.
It was just an altar where you would go to exchange floor keys for something useful. Kayden, as he was a player in the world of luck, had no right to take the key in his hands, it was directly stored within the system space.
"I want a mask of anonymity," Kayden said and saw two keys appearing out of nowhere and being consumed in golden light. After that, a white mask fell at his feet.
It didn’t have any details and was just a white circle without any features, but when Kayden placed it some changes appeared. It was something quite simple: a black smile and two eyes that looked like just a line were seen on the mask.
Felix did the same and his mask appeared with the same features as Kayden’s. This happened because they were identified as a group by the tower. The mask had a legend that showed the face mask that the person used most in their life; in Kayden’s case, it was exactly that. He was always a happy actor for his friends and acquaintances.