《Tower climber sister.》 Chapter 1. The tower. It was a normal day for Hilda, atleast it was untill she met her future self. It was a normal day for 17 years old Hilda untill she suddenly fainted while standing. "Young me, take this key and enter the tower early and climb to the highest floor" Huh? I need more context here, also if your older me, won''t you be less serious? It is what it is, I''m your future self, so just trust me. Nope, even if this wasn''t a prank, I have no reason to go and risk my life to do so. "If you do not, than the boss at the 100th will descend in 20 years and kill everyone in the tower" Once again, not my problem "Including our sister who will enter the tower in five years" Oh... Can''t I just stop her? Doesn''t work like that. Well, gotta go now. Wait, can''t you give me more information first? Hilda wakes up on the floor. Yay, what a joy, she didn''t even give me more information. Well, how do I use this key? So I just stick it into the air and it works? Hilda just tries sticking it into the air and turning opening a door. Are you serious? Well seems she wasn''t joking, but I''ll still have to prepare before going. Hilda writes a note for her sister. "Elia, I gotta go, I''ll leave you enough money, your 16 years, you can quit school, see you in five years." Good enough. Hilda says putting down the note and going to withdraw all her money and sell all her valuables to leaving the money on her bedside. Well, I think I can go now... Actually, I should bring a mask, if I make any enemies I don''t want them hurting eloa due to mistaking her for me due to how similar we look. Done, this idk it''s a cheap plastic mask I got during a Christmas event for free, but it works, actually before I go... Hilda takes a picture of Elias and prints out a small picture to keep. Okay, I can go now. Hilda steps through the door, which causes a sudden brightness to blind her temporarily. ¡ª---------------------------------------------- Couple hours later(presumably) ¡ª-------------------------------------------- Hilda wakes up in an invisible barrier seeing 9 other people in similar ones along with a stays Infront of her that says. Name:Hilda(17) Race: Human Gender: Female Level:0 Stats:(1 S) (1 E) (1 A) (1 M)Unauthorized content usage: if you discover this narrative on Amazon, report the violation. Trait:sis con Personality:sis con Inventory(locked. Requirements:level 5) Shop(locked. Requirements:level 5) Wow, but seriously? Sis con? She stops looking at her status as she suddenly sees a white glowing boy with a yellow outline with no facial features other than a mouth with the height being about a child''s. Who is... Hello everybody! I am your guide! If you have any questions, simply ask the status, to simplify everything for you all, all you have to do is to kill, level up and collected skills. Bye! The guide disappears leaving Hilda to check the benefits of her trait. "Sis con" increased will power, higher resistance to mental attacks, will provide benefits as long as user is acting for her sisters benefit, regardless of directly or indirectly as long as it''s intentional. Strength of trait increases based on level of user and level of trait. Oh wow, what''s my traits level. Trait: "sis con" (Max) Oh nice? Hilda suddenly sees the barrier around her disappear and runs away incase anything bad happens and to avoid others into a forest. Hmm, best not to mingle with others, learnt from experience that it''s not a good idea. Hilda looks around and suddenly sees a bat and reads it''s status Level 1 lesser bat. Stats:(3 S) (3 E) (3 A) (1 M) That''s a lesser bat? It''s stats are 3 time mine! Screw it let''s just ditch. Hilda turns to retreat as the bat dives at her suddenly. Shit! Hilda barely avoids the bat. Warning: Host is fighting an enemy more than three times as strong. Notification:trait "sis con" is active Stats are being doubled. Trait "sis con" is being strained. Triple it! Warning: trait "sis con" will be temporarily deactivated in 20 seconds if strained to that extent. Warning:user will suffer recoil after deactivation. Do you still wish to proceed? Yea! Hilda immediately feels an extreme increase in strength and uses her arm as a shield for the bat to bite down on as she brat it with her other arm. Not so strong now are you? Evelyn uses it to bash against the cave wall as she levels up. Level up. All stats +1 Trait has been improved slightly. Achievement unlocked. First to kill a monster. First to use trait. First to strain trait. Nice... Hilda thinks before ditching the cave and finding a lake and sprinting to it before the recoil occurs. After the trait ends, Hilda feels a shape pain in every part of her body. Achievement unlocked. First to get recoil. Shit!! She says while lying on the ground and resting. Oh dam, I gotta go check those out later. Hilda says laying down on the grass, panting. ¡ª---------------------------------------------- A couple mintues later ¡ª-------------------------------------------- Nice, I can walk now atleast, but if I meet a monster, I''m screwed. She thinks to herself while checking her achievement. First to kill a monster: all monster kills give 10 percent more loot(Epic) First to use trait: trait is permanently increased by 5 percent(rare) First to strain trait: trail can last longer despite strain and has faster recovery speed by 10 percent.(Epic) First to get recoil: recoil is no longer as severe by 5 percent.(Epic) Huh? Aren''t epic and rares too common? Achievement rank is based on danger and difficulty level. Oh right, the status could answer my questions based on what I''m thinking. Does that mean the guide could read my mind? ... Alright just ignore me I guess. Hilda drinks from the lake as she sees a monster. Oh you''ve got to be kidding me. Hilda checks the status of the monster Stats:(0 S) (0 E) (10 A) (14 M) Oh I''m scared, I can''t even reach it to hit it in my current state before it kills me with magic or something. Hilda laments her situation but sees the species of the monster. Lesser mental spirit. My trait makes it so that I''m more resistant to mental attacks and my traits maxed out, I used I gotta risk it seeing as I can''t put run something with 10 Agility with a damaged body. Hilda watches as the spirit shoots a beam at her as she closes her eyes bracing for the attack but feeling nothing. It was nothing? Wait now I feel kinda weird like I have to serve the monster. Oh, I could make this work. Hilda walks to the monster, pretending that the magic worked and attacks it killing it in one hit. Wow, I guess having 0 Endurance really screwed it over. Level up All stats plus one Trait has been improved slightly Achievement unlocked. Second to kill a level 5 monster(epic) When fighting beings above your own level, your stats can increase by up to (5) decreased to 4 due to being second. Wow somebody was faster this time? I guess they got lucky with their trait like me, wonder who it was though. ¡ª---------------------------------------------- At a random volcano ¡ª-------------------------------------------- Nice, I got the first achievement too time. Aiden says while checking his trait. Name:Aiden Race:Human Gender:Male Level: 2 Stats:(2 S) (2 E) (2 A) (2 M) Skills: water manipulation(level 1) Mana manipulation(level 1) Trait: one with the water Personality:persistent swimmer Thank god I got a water based trait due to training to be an competitive swimmer all day and night which gave me access to skills early along with the monsters at the volcano being severely weak to water. Though I really would like to meet the person who got the first kill so early in. Aiden gets interrupted by the notification of Hilda getting second for killing a level 5 monster. Wow, I really got to hurry if I want to catch up. Chapter 2. Acquiring skills ¡ª---------------------------------------------- Hilda''s pov ¡ª---------------------------------------------- Let me check my progress so far, system? Checking progress. Notifications. Level. Achievements. Stats. All available functions related to progress are shown. Hmm, notifications. As she mentally selects the notifications options , she goes through the old notifications. Huh? What''s this? All first three clears are shown world wide to every user. User means everybody with the system right? Yes. Oh that''s not good. Was my name shown? All identities during the first ten floors are hidden unless the user personally tells their other users. Oh nice, this way I don''t have to care about people being salty about losing the first kill achievement. What other achievements can I get that are possible or easy right now? Information is restricted. Should have expected that. What can you tell me about the lesser mental spirit? Lesser mental spirit. Description. The lifeform is a low level spirit having not lived for more than 10 years, they typically live alone as they will attempt to steal other lesser spirits controlled lifeforms, they typically do not wander far from their homes. Dam, that means there are none nearby, how far apart do they live? Estimated average range is 1-1.5km. Great¡­ Can you tell me where the nearest decent strength monster is? Information is restricted. Can''t you make an exception? ¡­ Well, I didn''t expect it anyways. Loading¡­ Huh? Exceptions can be provided at the cost of a penalty. What penalty? The severity of the penalty depends on the request. What about my most recent request? Please define decent strength monsters. Huh? Why? Your request was too vague. Oh, I mean monsters that are around my level and maybe slightly weaker, along with any monsters stronger than me that can use mental magic. Penalty:stats are reduced by 30 percent. Why so much? This request would give an unfair advantage too early into the tower. Fine, maybe my trait will help negate it anyways. How does my trait work? Need more information. What information? Access to your trait. Will you give permission? Sure whatever. Permission granted. Loading¡­ Information needed. What now? Confirmation, are you in the tower because of your sister? Yes. Loading¡­ Information needed. What now?! Why are you in this tower for your sister? To prevent her from dying once she enters. How do you know she will enter? Because my fut¨C System denied permission. Huh? What does that mean? Refreshing¡­ What¡­ Refresh complete. Based on your original question:¡±how does my trait work¡± based on the information provided, your trait will help anytime you need strength to kill other lifeforms to level up, or anything related to getting stronger. Trait may stop providing extra strength after required strength is needed. Oh. How will the trait know when I have enough strength? Your trait is a part of you, and has access to the system''s information. Sure. Wait, you already reduced my stats, is that permanent? No. Ok, how will I know where other monsters are? Check your status. Aren''t you my status? ¡­ No response? Seriously? ¡­ Fine. Hilda opens her status to see a new function. Map(temporarily unlocked)(temporarily allowed) Oh wow. She opens the map to see a bunch of red dots, a blue one. Nice, I''m gonna assume the blue is me? Yes. Alright. Hilda starts going around to start killing monsters, most being weaker than her at level 1. Hilda realizes that seems feels faster than normal even with the penalty Huh? This feels so weird but nice. She checks her trait to see jt buffing her Agility stat to allow her to reach each monster faster. Due to killing monsters half your level at level 1, experience has been reduced by half. Annoying, also won''t increasing my agility strain my trait again? Negative, user has a higher level, and total stats increased are lesser. Oh yea, I guess it''s only buffing my agility.. ¡ª---------------------------------------------- 30 minutes later ¡ª----------------------------------------------The narrative has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the infringement. Oh my god, I''m finally level 4. Hey system, where are the mental magic monsters at? I remember asking for those too. Monsters with affinity to mental magic are few. Great. Where''s the nearest one? 100 meters to the right. No penalty this time? User already has a penalty for the ¡°Map¡± function. The ¡°Map¡± function helps provide locations of monsters, reducing a new penalty. The user already has a penalty, reducing a new penalty. These two together can offset a low level penalty. What''s a low level penalty? User is currently afflicted with a low level penalty. This idk it''s a low level one, what''s a high level one like that? An example of a high level penalty is. Damage to vital organs. Temporary loss/paralysis of a limb. 95 percent reduced stats. Won''t those kill?! The system is unable to kill, at most places the user is on the verge of death, any death caused will be by other afflicted injuries. So what if I''m injured and you damage a vital organs of mine, won''t I die? Yes. Didn''t you just say you couldn''t kill? The death will not entirely be the system''s fault, therefore it will not be my responsibility. So your saying it''s not your problem as long as somebody else shares the responsibility? ¡­ Great. Hilda starts heading to the mental magic monster at 100 meters to the right to find a¡­ unicorn? What? A unicorn? Let me check its stats. Race: Horse. Bloodline: unicorn(13 percent) Level:5 Achievement second to kill a level 5 monster(epic) is taking place. Increasing users'' level temporarily by one. Huh? Interesting, well this should be easy. Hilda picks up a nearby rock and hits it firmly, causing it to grunt in pain before turning away and sending her back with a powerful kick Ouch dammit that hurt, system, didn''t you say it uses mental magic. Yes. Then why is it so strong? The bloodline provides it with low level mental magic while being a horse allows it to be physically strong. Crap so monsters with mental magic can be physically strong too, how did I completely ignore that. Hilda watches as the horse charges at her with its short but very pointy horn, which is more than enough to leave a hole in her. Crap, barely dodged. Hilda checks its stats only to see. (8 S) (6 E) (8 A) (5 M) Warning Host is fighting an opponent nearly twice as strong. Would you like to activate your trait? How is it considered twice as strong, don''t we have the same stats? Due to being of the horse race, the lifeforms body and strength are higher than the users despite having the same stats. Fine, activate it! Warning, users will suffer recoil after recoil after deactivation. Warning: trait ¡°sis con¡± will be temporarily deactivated in 30 seconds if strained to that extent. Why? Didn''t you say my trait gets stronger as I level? User has been increasing agility stats for an extended period. Didn''t you say it won''t strain me?! At the present time when trait was activated, user was not in immediate danger. So your saying due to not being able to see the future, it isn''t your problem? Hilda asks, annoyed as she narrowly dodges another hit. ¡­ You''re the best at avoiding responsibility, you know? Screw it, just increase my agility as much without straining me. Affirmative. Hilda checks her agility to see it reach 7 from the previous 5 she had which was decreased to 3. Hilda looks around for anything she can use to defeat the horse except for the worthless rock in her hand. Hey system! ¡­ Is there a lake nearby or any other bodies? Yes. Where? Check the map, location has been updated. Hilda quickly opens her map and starts running to the nearest lake with the horse behind her catching up. I''m here! She attempts to bait the horse into falling into the river but it doesn''t fall for it too easily. This thing''s smarter than expected despite just being a horse with a really really sharp horn. Hey system, can you increase my strength stat instead of my agility? Yes. How much do I need to lift the horse? (10 S) is required. Warning trait will be overstrained. Do it! Affirmative. Hilda feels her body getting stronger immediately as the horse runs at her, and she dodges but scraps due to the decrease in agility, she ignores the little bit of pain before going to lift the horse up. As she lifts the horse up, it kicks her in the stomach nearly causing her to throw up and drop the horse but she persists through and finally lifts it over her head causing her arm to strain in pain before throwing it into the slightly deeper part of the lake. Dammit, the lakes not deep enough, but it can still slow the horse down. She jumps onto the horse''s back with her arms still in pain as she interlocks her fingers and starts bringing her hands down onto the horse''s back, causing it to struggle and nearly send her flying off but Hilda clings on tightly with her legs and keeps bashing the horse. As the horse keeps struggling, Hilda keeps bringing her hands back down onto the horse''s back while struggling to stay on its back. Come on, I''ve got more than enough strength to kill it! Hilda keeps hitting it, eventually succeeding in making it faint. Level up. All stats +1 Trait has been improved slightly. Requirement reached. Shop(unlocked) Inventory(unlocked) Achievement unlocked First to reach level 5 First to unlock shop First to unlock inventory Oh my god, finally dead, this is so unfair, why do other races get to be stronger despite having the same stats? Humans and other intelligent species who are usually weaker due to evolution, have the advantage of the system to grow stronger quickly, where as non intelligent races such as a horse lack the means to grow stronger quickly. Then how do they level up? A lifeforms level without the system is simply an estimate of their strength compared to others of their own species, and towards intelligent species, causing it to be lower than its actual strength due to being compared to its own species. Warning, stat increase is about to end recoil occurring soon. Crap. Hilda tries running to find a safe place to hide before eventually fainting in the shallow part of the lake. ¡ª---------------------------------------------- A while later ¡ª---------------------------------------------- Hilda wakes up and finds some level one fish biting her, but due to their low strength they are not able to cause harm. Irritating¡­ I guess I could use them as food. Hilda grabs them, not letting them swim away before bringing them out of the water and letting them die. Hey system, did they give experience? No. Great, guess indirectly killing them doesn''t kill experience. What about poison, would that work? Yes. Nice. Hey, can you let me see how much experience I get? Yes. Would you like to enable it? Yea. Hilda suddenly starts hearing the system slowly names out everything she killed and the experience they give, causing her to not be able to close the system, making it constantly block her view. Hey!!! Get rid of the screen in my face. Not possible, updating notifications to show experience. Then just turn the experience off! Affirmative. Oh my god, finally there''s nothing blocking my sight and it''s quiet again. Show me my recent achievements. Reach level 5(common) Tip coupon First to unlock shop(rare) 50 percent discount couple(expiry 3 months) First to unlock inventory(rare) Plus 10 m3 of space Why are they both rare? They have the same rarity due to having the same requirement. Makes sense. Why does the reach level 5 give a weird item called tip coupon? To give new users tips. Thx for the useless information anyways, how do I use it? Check your inventory. How do I use that? Just open it. Hilda enters the function and a blue square appears similar to the system screen. What should I do? Put your hand in and think of what you want. The appearance? The name works too. Oh, what if I forget about something? You can check the names of what you have. How? The names of the things you forgot will appear at the top of the inventory. How do you know what I forgot? I am able to read your mind. Huh? Then where''s the privacy? I am only authorised to read your mind about things you forget. How do you read my mind about things that I forget if I forget them? Everything you experience is in your head, even if you forget it, you simply cannot recall them. Wow, interesting. Ok, I got it now what? Tear it. Sure? Hilda tears the tip coupon and gets teleported to a cube room with white walls all around with a person in the center. Who are you? The person turns to look at her, letting her recognise him as the guide she saw at the start. Oh it''s this weirdo again. She thinks while crossing her arms. Weirdo? That''s rude, you know? ¡­ Hello? You gonna talk? The system can read my mind, this guy probably can too can''t he? Indeed, hilda. He smirks as he confirms her suspicions. Where''s the scene of privacy? Hilda now knowing that she can''t hide says out loud uncrossing her arms. There''s none, but don''t worry even if you have some fantasies about me I won''t judge you. Trust me, I won''t ever have such thoughts. How unfriendly. So you gonna help me with the tips or whatever? What tips do you need? I don''t know? Then why did you tear it? I don''t know. Fine, think of this as a gift for being first to visit the lonely me. What? Open the shop. Why? Do you want to listen to my tips or not? Hilda reluctantly opens the shop for the first time and sees that she''s gathered a good amount of points and only one thing in the shop called, ¡°skill function¡±. What''s this? Buy it, you have enough. Sure? She buys it and sees a bunch of new skills appear. Hm, why didn''t I get the first for the skill function? Some people''s traits gave them the skill function. Why didn''t they get the achievement? They got it for free upon entering the tower, so it was easier than common rarity and therefore not deserving of an award. Great, anyways what should I get? I still have some points. You have just enough for two common skills. So, what should I get? Low level mana control and a mental skill. Why mental skill? Because if you don''t have resistance to some types of magic, it hurts you to use it. How would mental magic hurt me? In common cases, headaches, mild cases, fainting and the worst going insane, or losing one of your senses forever. Would that happen to me? Not with the level of mental resistance you got, just don''t use too strong of mental magic until you reach level 50. What mental ability should I get? Hilda starts scrolling through the skills and sees all types such as elemental ones, physical ones, support, healing and more. You can filter out mental skills. Huh? Let me try¡­ done, wow, but I can''t afford most of them. You can filter out what you can buy too. Really? Hilda looks through the filter again and finally finds the option. Oh there it is, this is convenient. Hilda looks at the three skills she can afford. Low level obedience magic. Allows you to make other lifeforms weaker than you obey you with a slight sense of loyalty, scales with level. Low level illusion skill. Creates any illusion you want as long as they are not too big or many, scales with mana. Low level attack skill. Causes slight headache, scales with level and mana. Which do you think you should get? I don''t know, you tell me. I can read your mind, I know there''s one you want. Fine, I want the illusion one. Why? You''re reading my mind, so why ask? I don''t always read your mind, or life would be too boring without the anticipation. Fine, it''s because I have no mana obviously. You do though. Huh? Hilda opens her stats to check and sees¡­ (6 S) (6 E) (6 A) (1 M) When did I get it? When you get the mana control skill. How nice, but doesn''t each level up increase each stat by one, it''s only at 1 right now. That''s a misunderstanding, when it says each stat increases by one, it means the limit, so from Now each level up will increase your mana, but if you want the 5 you missed out on you have to use your skill more often. By the way, do skills have a level? Why don''t I see any on my low level mana control skill though? Two reasons, first is that passive skills don''t have levels, and second is that you can''t see the level of level 0 skills. Great, so should I buy the illusion skill or not? Yes. You sure? Yea. Confirm? Just get it. I''m just making sure. Yes, I''m sure, if you ask again I''m gonna reduce your level. You can do that? Yea so stop asking it''s getting irritating. Fine fine. Hilda buys the skill and instinctively knows how to use it. By the way, since this doesn''t use mana, it uses stamina. Stamina? But that isn''t a stat? It''s part of endurance. Oh, I thought it was just like how tough I was? No, anything that falls under endurance works. Anything? Yea, even sexual endurance. I wasn''t thinking of that. You were. I wasn''t. Actually it''s pretty normal, it''s in the deepest part of your mind so you aren''t actively thinking of it, but your mind goes through every possibility that you may know of. Shut up. Fine, anyways you also need will power which your trait also provides, how lucky, anyways you''re basically suited for mental magic. Any questions remaining? Yea, how did the other people enter the tower? They simply wanted something badly, which the tower can provide, you''re a unique case. Am I unique? How nice. I allowed it to happen or your future self would have never been successful in going back in time, even if it was just an illusion. So I''m not as unique as expected?How sad. Don''t lie, I can tell your emotions too, and I can tell you don''t give a damn. Cool, send me back. The guide flicks her forehead, sending her back and leaving a slight sting on her forehead. Well that was unnecessary. She tries creating some illusions, being able to create up to three before feeling a slight headache. Why do the illusions look transparent? Your resistance to mental magic causes that. I thought it would be more though. This is the minimum amount of transparency. Do other people see it transparent too? Not unless they have mental magic resistance. Oh nice. A level 3 monster appears making Hilda turn over to look at it. A test subject, how nice. Chapter 3. Mini boss Hilda stares at the monster which she now recognises as a monkey before approaching it as she creates an illusion of herself, but with a bigger weapon to look more dangerous and attract attention. As she and the her clones approaches the level 3 monkey, it attacks the clone causing it to partially dissipate and reform quickly disturbing Hilda''s concentration slightly. As the monkey goes through the clone, Hilda takes the opportunity to bash the monkey with a rock killing it. Honestly, this rock is so annoying, if only I could find a better weapon. Hilda looks around and finds the body of the horse she had recently killed and approaches it. Hey, it''s horn looks rather useful, I could probably use it. Hilda tries to pull the horn out but fails. Hey system, use my trait! Warning, trait ¡°sis con¡± will temporarily be deactivated in a minute. Warning:user may suffer recoil after deactivation. Just do it and increase my strength! Hilda suddenly feels a surgery of strength as she rips the horn out along with the entire spine of the horse, causing her to nearly fall backwards. System deactivate my trait¡­ User did not over strain trait sufficiently, recoil is not triggered Nice¡­ but this. Hilda pulls out the rest of the spine with the horn. Oh¡­ this is messed up. She goes away from the body as the water nearby is all bloodied as she cleans the horn and the spine with the cleaner water before taking the rock and bashing the part connecting the horn and spine to make use of the horn. Okay, this works. Hilda turns back to the mangled up horse. Sorry horsie, but this is for a greater course I promise. She takes the fish that she caught before and¡­ Wait, how do I cook this? I''m not eating this raw¡­ guess I''m not eating this. Is there anything in the shop? Hilda opens the shop and ties to filter out food and sees a. Abundance of different foods. What are these? Hilda eagerly looks through some of the more luxurious foods but looks at the price and goes back to the more basic ones. Oh my god¡­ the skill function was 200 points and each skill was 100 but there''s food here costing 300¡­ At Least the cheaper ones are just 10 to 20¡­ Hilda buys a plain bowl of rice and fish to finish before continuing to look for lifeforms to kill and train her illusion magic. As Hilda goes around and continues to test her ability out, it levels up soon after. Wow, that was fast probably due to it being level 0. Hmm let me check its description real quick. Can cast any illusion, the more the total volume, the harder it is to cast and maintain. Any illusions? Does that mean that I can make myself invisible? Hilda tries it but quickly gets a headache. Okay, making myself invisible is a lot harder than illusions. Notifications are important! Eventually starting in 2 days Details. That''s so sudden¡­ well? Show me the details already and stop wasting my time. Details: All users who die will be revived after the event ends. This event will consist of three parts. A hide and seek game. A round of killing monsters(all xp earned will be delayed until after the event) Lastly, a death match. More details will be provided at the time of the event. All rewards will be distributed and decided based on performance. What a joy¡­ I wonder how Lela is doing though. ¡ª---------------------------------------------- Lela''s pov ¡ª---------------------------------------------- Finally awake, what''s the time? ¡­ Huh?? 11?! I''m gonna be late for school, why didn''t she wake me up?! Dammit! Lela quickly prepares for school as she sees the letter left by her sister. Huh, what''s this? This is just a stupid joke I bet, but since she said that I don''t need to go school than So be it. For the rest of the day, Lela lazes around the house and plays games till night. Seriously, when is she coming back? Lela goes back to the letter and looks for any details on the letter saying where she is actually but finds the money under. What''s this? Where did she get so much, weren''t we broke? She starts counting the amount and finds a total of 20,000 plus.The story has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation. What''s this, isn''t this my school fees for the rest of the year and the next 5, including tuition? Lela starts to try and call Hilda but gets a robotic voice responding saying that the number is no longer no in use. She looks at the. Note again and read the part where it says that she''ll see her again in 5 years. No way I''m waiting 5 years. She goes to the police and files and reports Hilda as missing. The next day, she gets a visit saying they weren''t able to find her but that they will keep looking. Lost, she goes back to her room and glances back and forth at the letter and the money. Fine¡­ I''ll just believe her, she better have a good explanation for this. We never left each other even when we became homeless and we lost our parents, so I refuse to believe that she just disappeared for no reason at all. So five years huh? That''s going to be a long time. ¡ª---------------------------------------------- Hilda''s pov ¡ª---------------------------------------------- I''ve been hunting for monsters for a while already without any sleep due to preparing for this damn event, but I''m officially level 11 now, somebody took the first to level 10 achievement and second to level 10, causing my achievement to be reduced down to. Third to level 10.(Rare) Increases experience by (5) percent decreased to (3) due to being third to reach level 10. This only happened due to me training my mental magic too much, not that I think about it, I bet they all have combat skills don''t they? How annoying. I wonder if I can turn invisible now? Hilda turns herself invisible, expecting a severe headache once again only to find herself experiencing a slight headache. I can make do of this, now how many clones can I make? Hilda tries making her clones and manages to make 7. Ok, this can work, but I need a proper weapon now. Hilda looks through the shop and finds a decent epic rarity weapon suited in the recommendations section but can''t afford it or even check its description. I need a better weapon anyways so let me try killing the level 15 mini boss I just found around here Skill level up. Low level illusion magic. (2)--->(3) Oh yea, I managed to get it to 2 while hunting just now, it''s been getting so much harder to level it. This will reduce the headaches I get, so I guess this is a sign I should try fighting it? Hilda goes and looks for the level 15 mini boss before finally spotting it. Let me check it first. Race:wyvern Bloodline:true dragon(2 percent) Level 15 Stats. (36 S) (36 E) (18 A) (12 M) Warning, due to being a mini boss, stats have been increased by 50 percent. Achievement second to kill a level 5 monster(epic) increasing users level temporarily by 4. Screw it, I learnt that all monsters have a weak spot regardless of what it is. My own stats are. (16 S) (16 E) (16 A) (16 M) System, am I able to use my trait in this situation? Yes. How much can I increase my stats without over straining it? 7. Ok, invest 2 of that into agility and the rest strength. Hilda feels her strength increasing once again as she charges at the wyvern with 4 of her clones, making them disappear and reappearing along with making her invisible and reappear while changing locations randomly with the clones to confuse it. It lets out a loud screech as it breathes fire at her and the clones as she avoids it barely and makes her clones disappear to avoid suffering a lashback from her clones getting destroyed. Crap, I guess even if it''s not a dragon, it''s still related. She creates another 5 clones, with one xtra to take her place and distract the wyvern as she climbs onto its back and attacks its wings making it screech in pain before throwing her off. Dammit, I didn''t get its wing, I can''t have it flying off. She makes herself invisible again as she continues using her clones to distract it before making them all attack it to distract it further after she''s near enough. She stabs the right wing one last time causing it to be very loose to the point where it can''t fly anymore. Ok, nice. As she quickly runs to avoid being thrown off, she watches as it backs up against a couple of trees, with nowhere to run she tries to climb back up, but it instantly reacts by swinging its tail over once she touches it making her get sent far and cough some blood out. Fuck that hurt¡­ She narrowly dodges as the wyvern breaths more fire at her again forcing herself to run as she thinks of an idea. Crap, what to do, it won''t fall for the same trick again. Maybe I could do this. She creates another 4 clones and makes them attack, eventually landing some hits but not causing damage due to being an illusion. Right.. I just need to keep this up. As she continues, the wyvern stops attacking those who are aiming for the non vital body parts, but attacking the ones aiming for its neck or face. Seeing this, Hilda attacks its forelegs causing it to screech in pain again, and keeps attacking the forelegs of the wyvern causing it to focus only on protecting its legs. Now! She quickly jumps at the wyverns face, attacking its eyes causing it to screech in pain once more as it starts to swing its claw in all directions, missing her as she keeps stacking. After a while, it lies on the ground almost motionless. Right, I''ve won this. Hilda prepares to bring the horn she got from the horse down onto his neck, finishing it off as it stands up again causing Hilda to back off. It shouldn''t have any strength left in that state, what is it doing? Hilda watches as it faces upwards and breaths out a fiery substance. Fire again? What''s that gonna do? The fiery substance starts coming back down to the ground causing Hilda to attempt to run away. Crap! That''s magma not fire!!! Hilda retreats as finds herself to be blocked by the fallen trees, creating a barrier much higher than she can jump over. system, use all stats from my trait onto my endurance! Affirmative. Overstrain my trait if you have to! Not suggested, if user faints here, high chance of being attacked by monsters die to the big commotion caused, or burnt by the magma. Dammit! She turns around, and shields her face with her arms, gritting her teeth as she sees the magma about to hit her. She shouts in pain as the magma lands on her arms, and some on her leg as she slowly walks, enduring the pain to the nearby lake she found on the way, holding back some tears from the unbearable pain. She goes into the lake, submerging the burns in the cold water, but the pain doesn''t go away. The only reason I managed to deal with that was thanks to the extra willpower from my trait¡­ She opens the shop to look for anything that could be of help to help her burnt arms with a bit of exposed bones, and most pain receptors burnt. As she searches for items to help her heal, she mentally selects a healing pill costing 100 points simply named. healing pill The healing effect can heal lost chunks of flesh and parts of vital organs, but it is not all powerful. She quickly swallows it as it appears in mid air as she feels a surgery of pain, much worse than better as her flesh begins to heal back causing her to nearly faint from the pain. Crap! She calms herself down as she looks at her hands still with some 3rd degree burns on them. Screw it, still much better than before. Her thoughts get interrupted as a couple notifications appear. Level up 2x Trait has been improved slightly. Achievement unlocked Second to kill a level 15 monster(epic) Tip coupon. First to kill a mini boss(legendary) When fighting a mini boss, stats are increased by 10 percent. Survivor, first to survive a near death situation. (Legendary) When taking lethal damage for the first time during the day, the damage will be reduced to barely below lethal damage, and all pain will be reduced by 80 percent for 5 seconds and all injuries will not get worse from users own action for 5 seconds unless intentional. First to kill a life form with a percentage of at least true dragon in its bloodline. Stats will increase when fighting lifeforms with true dragon blood, stats increase depending on amount of true dragon blood. Skill level up. Low level illusion magic (3)-->(5) Wow, how nice, anyways, for the main reason I did this. Hilda opens the shop and goes to check her recommendations for the weapon she wanted. Mind slasher.(Epic) When attacking, causes a slight mental attack towards the opponents, and can switch to mental damage state. Mental damage state: this sword will not cause physical harm, but will cause anything ranging from severe migraines or even temporary loss of a lifeform''s senses depending on where the user attacked. When attacked by this weapon, the one attacked will become more susceptible to mental magic(can be resisted completely or partially based on opponents mental resistance.) Changing of states can be done by injecting a bit of mana into the hilt completely, while injecting mana into the blade can increase either the sharpness of the weapon, or the strength of the mental attack. Cost 1000 points. Killing that stupid wyvern gave me 1500 points anyways, so I should be good for now. Anyways, to celebrate I''m gonna go buy a small cake in the shop. Hilda looks around the shop and realizes that there is not a single dessert in sight. What a shame honestly, well I guess I''ll just settle for a normal dish, probably rice and fish again. Hilda eats up reluctantly and admires her sword design and sharpness. Hmm, a better mask than this Christmas one would help too, I bet I look stupid in this. Hilda opens the shop and sees a mask in the recommendations. Oh yea, it could read my mind. She buys the mask for 150 points. Mental mask.(Rare) This mask only covers a person''s mouth and nose, and can purify some weak level prisons and smell. This mask passively creates a mental barrier around the user''s face(can be seen through by anyone with high enough mental resistance.) 150 points. Oh, this is so much more comfortable, but my temporary abundance of points feels so less now¡­ It''s nearly night, I''ve got to find a place to rest. Hilda looks around and finds a cave along with a couple of level 1 lesser bats which she slices through easily, not caring to even test the mental state function of the sword. As she reaches the end of the cave, she buys a small lamp and outdoor tent from the shop for a total of 50 points as she goes to sleep for the night. Chapter 4. Hide and seek What''s going on? Hilda wakes up due to being disturbed by a sudden bright light. Hm? What''s going on? As she slowly stands up, frowning from the sudden brightness, she finds herself in a fully white room, the same as when she tore her tip coupon, but with an elevated platform in the center makes out another 9 silhouettes. Oh, those are probably the other contestants. Hello everybody! A sound comes from the center of the platform, which she recognises is the guide''s without even needing to look in his direction. This is the start of the event, the first activity being hide and seek! All 3 activities will last for a total of one day for each. The rules of this are simple, there will be a random user here that starts off as ¡®it¡±, the first three users to be caught will be killed, but remember, you will be revived after the event, if the ¡°it¡± doesn''t catch 3 users within a day, they will be excluded from the game, to catch someone, you need physical contact with their bodies. But first, everybody picks a colour. The colour shall be your identity until floor 10 Starting off with my favourite person, choose a colour. Huh, his favourite person? Whose that. Hilda looks around waiting for him to announce but sees everybody staring at her as she looks up and sees an oversized arrow pointing at her. What the fuck¡­ Why am I this guy''s favourite person? Because you have the most unique reason for being in this tower. Fine, so what color should I pick? Your favourite or just a random one. ¡­ Black than I guess. Why black? It''s the simplest colour. What about white? Too bright. Fine. You''re black now, now everybody can see your appearance. Huh? Hilda looks around and realizes that the other people are actual silhouettes and that it wasn''t just due to the bright environment. Oh¡­ Ok, for the next person... you! What color would you want? Hilda watches as the guide points to another person with them choosing blue colour. Hmm, he looks like a 30 year old man. As Hilda watches them all choose a colour, she takes note of all their appearance with this being what she can tell. Black:her Blue:a 30 year looking old man. Red:a 30 year old looking woman. Yellow:a 20 year old looking woman. Orange:a 40 year old looking woman. Green:a 20 year old looking man. Brown:a 20 year old looking woman. Grey:a 40 year old looking man. Purple:a 20 year old looking woman. White:a 18 year old looking guy. Am I the youngest here? Wow, also I can''t really make out more of their appearance, I wonder if that''s due to the guide. Alright everybody, time it starts! The guide claps his hands and Evelyn gets teleported into a maze. Red is the ¡°it¡± please do avoid her. Have fun! Hilda looks around the maze with extremely high walls, and a very wide path. Wow, this is one hell of a maze. Hilda looks around, noticing that she leaves a black trail behind, likely due to her choosing black. How.. unique? She continues looking around and encounters some monsters with sirens for arms. I wonder what level they are at. Hilda checks their level to see that they''re at level 10 but with their stats being unique. (0 S) (0 E) ( 20 A) (0 M) All xp gained from killing this event lifeform will provide 500 percent of an average level 10 monster. Damn, that ain''t worth it. I should probably look for a place to rest since my sleep was interrupted by that stupid guide. ¡ª---------------------------------------------- Red''s pov ¡ª---------------------------------------------- Name:josaine(30)Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website. Race: Human Gender: Female Level:9 Stats:(10 S) (10 E) (10 A) (10 M) Skills: Low level taming magic(4) Low level strength buff magic(3) Trait:animal lover Personality:adores animals. Inventory Shop Hide and seek in such a big area is going to be so bad for me luckily, my pets can help send their location to me when I find them, sadly they probably can''t help me tag others though. As josaine keeps looking around the area while on a horse that she tamed, she suddenly hears a loud siren sound and heads to it. As she approaches the location where the sound was heard, she sees a humanoid monster with hands running faster than she could hope to catch up with. What the hell was that, so far only animals seen on earth have appeared, but no way that was on earth before. Her thoughts get interrupted as she suddenly sees a person with a white trail behind them. Guess this will be easier than expected. Hilda commands her pets to attack the person as she checks his stats only to see that it only says. ¡°White¡± So I can''t check other people''s stats, how annoying. Hilda charges at him with her pets as he conjures up some water to attack her pet''s with with high water pressure. Should have expected that other people had skills too. Josaine uses her low level strength buff magic allowing her pets to endure the attack from white. After a lengthy exchange of defending and attacking, one of the bats she tamed manages to bite him, and with the low level strength buff magic, it successfully bites into his hand before he grabs it and kills it easily. Josaine uses this opportunity to attack as he suddenly shoots water in her direction. What''s he doing? That''s not gonna hit me.. unless. Josaine immediately orders some of her pets to defend her horse but was too late, chasing her horse to be knocked over and severely injured as white runs away. Shit, no way my pets will be able to catch up. ¡ª---------------------------------------------- Hilda''s pov ¡ª---------------------------------------------- I just heard a couple of loud sirens, so I''m just gonna avoid that direction entirely. Hilda was looking for an area to take a nap as a random event lifeform suddenly runs by. What¡­ Hilda eventually finds a small hole in the wall, which she uses to Take a nap in after seeing up a sensor incase anybody comes in which she bought from the shop A couple hours later, she wakes up relieved and hears fighting outside. As she goes out to check, she sees a person with a red trail fighting with someone with a blue trail. Hey system, once she gets 3 people out does the activity end? Yes. Oh, I''ve got an idea. As Hilda grips her sword tightly, and changes it to the mental state, she waits for an opportunity before slashing at blues head, causing the sword to go through with no visible damage. Huh, What happened? Hilda turns back to see the man kneeling down clenching his head in pain and dropping his sword before slashing him again and running away. Secret function discovered, when attacking in the mental state, ¡°mind slasher¡± ignores all physical material non-biological material that does not have mental resistance. That''s gonna be really nice. ¡ª---------------------------------------------- Red''s pov ¡ª---------------------------------------------- Who is this random person suddenly? Josaine looks and sees that they have a black trail. Huh? The person the guide said was their favourite due to the reasons she is in the tower right? Josaine watches as black swings her sword through blues head causing him to react instantly without any visible injuries as she slashes in again and runs off. What just happened? Josaine decides to attack blue first before questioning it any further as she touches him while her pets bite blue. Congrats, one user(blue) has been tagged! Contributions. (Red: 7 percent) (Black: 93 percent) Oh so the contributions count¡­ ¡ª---------------------------------------------- Hilda''s pov ¡ª---------------------------------------------- A notification? Oh nice, it seems she was able to make use of my help, though having contribution is really nice though. Wait¡­ I kinda want more rewards, so if I followed her wouldn''t I be able to get more contributions? Hilda follows red but constantly avoids her pets and keeps a safe distance while slashing her pets with the mental state of her sword when she they keep attacking. ¡ª---------------------------------------------- Red''s pov ¡ª---------------------------------------------- Why the hell is black following me? She''s been at this for the past at least 30 minutes, she''s probably trying to get more contributions, how greedy. As josaine continues to move on with the maze, she notices black following behind nonstop. Fine, if she wants to follow them I''ll just make use of her. Shortly after, she hears an explosion and runs to it to see yellow and green fighting as she listens to their argument. Damn you, you stole my kill, no way I''m letting you go. The person with the green trail shouts as he shoots an arrow at her with his oddly thin but firm looking bow, only for yellow to block it with a shield and charge at him with a sword. IThe monster ran in my direction, it was a free kill, if you don''t think it was fair then complain to someone else. As josaine hides and waits for an opportunity to third party, she sees black run right past them. How arrogant¡­ ¡ª---------------------------------------------- Hilda''s pov ¡ª---------------------------------------------- Two more people? This is a great opportunity for some freedom contribution Hilda thinks while charging at them as they notice her presence. Who are you? The person with the yellow trail shouts but Hilda ignores her and slashes her body through her shield causing her to kneel on the floor clutching her stomach but avoiding Hilda''s next slash. Hey, I know we hate each other, but let''s team up for now? Hilda watches as both green and yellow team up as she creates clones and use the same method she did on the wyvern What the fuck is he doing? Green shouts as he slashes one of the clones only for it to disappear before his sword reaches. They''re fake! God this is such a problem. Green and yellow back up against each other, attacking any clones who get too far as Hilda attacks green with the same sword but shining, causing the arm he was using to hold his sword to be cut off. ¡ª---------------------------------------------- Red¡¯s pov ¡ª---------------------------------------------- Josaine watches as black cuts off one of greens arms and slashes at yellow as she tries to block but the sword goes through, causing her to fall to the floor again without any visible damage but black successfully stabs one of yellow''s legs. What the hell is up with him? ¡ª---------------------------------------------- Hilda''s pov ¡ª---------------------------------------------- I''m finally done with these two, but why did green call me a guy? I get that I''m wearing a mask but do I really look like a guy? Hilda looks down and notices that her clothes are for both men and women but fits men better. Oh yea, it was on discount so I just bought it¡­ Hilda grabs both green and yellow by their hair and starts pulling them, looking for red as a hand suddenly appears to her right, with Hilda avoiding just barely. Tsk, so close. Red says as she keeps attacking with her pets and trying to grab her. Oh, she''s gonna do this huh? Hilda attacks with her word, infusing mana into it to make it sharper and easily slices through the weaker pets. As Hilda kills all over red¡¯s tamed pets, red falls down as she slashes Hilda with her sword at the mental state causing her to shout in pain while grabbing herself but Hilda keeps attacking. Ok ok! I''ll tag them! Stop it! Hearing this, Hilda pulls green and yellow who have both fainted over to red who reaches her hand out while using the hand to grab her head and body in pain. Congrats, two users(green/yellow) has been tagged! Contributions. (Red: 1 percent) (Black: 99 percent) How nice. Suddenly holograms that look similar to the system appear all over the area and the guide is shown on the screen. Wow, it has only been 11 hours that ended a lot faster than I thought, this didn''t really feel like hide and seek, but whatever, also¡­ hi¨C I mean black, you really are pretty greedy aren''t you? Anyways, take a break before the next even starts. The guide claps and Hilda gets sent to a place that looks nearly completely identical to her home, but with the outside being all white with nothing. Wow, didn''t think I''d see this place again so fast. As Hilda looks around the house, taking in every detail even the smallest ones like the permanent marker marks left on the wall, the oddly nice but mostly nostalgic moldy smell and the creaking whenever she takes a step, all of which are attributed due to her and her sister always having to save money, with most of their saved money being from their small inheritance and insurance from their parents. Hilda starts heading into her sister''s bedroom and lies down feeling tired immediately. How am I tired already? Didn''t I just sleep just now¡­ The bed has properties that make you tired. The system answers. Oh, well I guess a bit more sleep wouldn''t hurt either. Her thoughts get interrupted as she dozes off. Chapter 5. Goblins. As Hilda wakes up, she slowly opens her eyes and sees the system screen in front of her saying 2:31. Huh? What is this for? Would you like more details? 2:25 time left. Oh, that''s plenty¡­ did that just decrease by 6? Wait, is this minutes or hours? Minutes. Crap. Hilda quickly sits up and takes whatever she can that is somewhat of value, consisting of a solar powered clock, snacks, water and most importantly, pictures if her sister from 1 years old to 15, her current age, leaving behind only some pictures of her sister due to reasons and memories she would like to forget, and stuffs everything she took into her inventory. Alright, I think that''s everything, how much time is left? 0:01 Oh just in time. Hilda takes in the sight of her sisters room one more time before she gets sent back to the starting room before the event started with the elevated platform in the center with the same white walls, floor and ceiling, the only difference being that the rest of the users do not appear as silhouettes at the start and a small transparent cube in the center with 3 floating lights, being blue, yellow and green. Hello everybody! Congrats on passing the first activity. The guide says with the same enthusiastic tone he always uses along with a hint of playfulness. Now, you may notice that there''s a transparent box here with 3 colors floating around, these are what you humans would call¡­ souls, but explaining it is a lengthy process and you guys don''t deserve to hear about it, the main reason I''m even telling you is to show that revival is indeed possible and not a lie Incase any of you still have doubts after using the system for a 3 days now. Anywho, the next activity is monster killing! The rules are that you can be revived as many times during this activity, and killing others will steal half their points, so be careful not to die, oh and the people with the least 3 scores gets disqualified from the event. With that, the guide claps his hands once again sending Hilda to the middle of a forest. I wonder if he actually needs to clap his hand or if he just does it for fun or something. Hilda decides to stop wasting her time with stupid questions and decides to just observe her surroundings to quickly get points. This looks pretty similar to where I was just at but thanks again, it''s a forest so big surprise. As she starts quickly navigating around, she hears grunting and odd noises as she approaches the source to find green humanoids, each pulling a wheelbarrow of raw meat. Are those goblins? Wasn''t the monsters limited to just animals on earth wait no, I fought a wyvern, no way it''s limited to monsters on earth. Hilda decides against immediately attacking and checks their stats first instead. Goblin worker Level 3 (4 S) (4 E) (4 A) (0 M) Can''t I have more information? You can upgrade your ability to see information in the shop. Really? Hilda goes to the shop and looks around, eventually finding what she needs in the recommendations, with it being the only thing in the recommendations. What is the point of the filter if the recommendations always give me what I want instantly? Identify scroll(level 2) (One time use) 50 points Huh? Only a one time use? I guess it''s cheap though. Hilda buys the scroll and tears it immediately then checks the goblin again to see a new piece of information. Goblins typically live in groups, with different rankings, such as goblin worker, goblin warrior, goblin caster and goblins king, they also severely lack intelligence or any form of hygiene and are weak, making up for their lack of strength in numbers. Huh? That means it''s free xp and points right? Wait, can I get shop points for doing this? No, points used in the shop gained during this activity are converted into points for the event. How annoying¡­ whatever I guess. Hilda rushes at the goblins, swinging her sword, turning off mental state to test if it''s stronger due to being a different race, but easily cuts off the head of one of the few goblins.The story has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation. Wow, that was so much easier than expected, I thought they would be stronger due to being a different race, but guess not all different races are stronger. Hilda swings her sword at the other goblins running at her, slicing them all in one go. Also why is my sword''s natural state the mental state? Can I make it naturally be in the physical state? No, that is the weapon''s unique property and cannot be removed through normal means. Screw it, this weapon is still great. Now where to find more of these to kill? Hilda looks at the path they were following and follows along, eventually smelling a terrible smell in the air. Holy hell, what is that smell, even my mask can''t get rid of it. Hilda looks around and finds the goblins camp which is connected to a cave filled with shit and piss everywhere with raw meat out in the open. The system said that they lack hygiene, but this is so much worse than expected! Hilda decides to just bare with the smell of the same of getting closer to winning this activity and charges in, killing every worker in sight but eventually s goblin with a weapon blocks her attack just barely as she checks it''s information. Goblins warrior Level 10 (11 S) (11 E) (11 A) (3 M) Oh, I can still kill it. Hilda infuses a bit of mana In to her sword,causing it to glow, easily slicing through the goblins weapon and its body as more appear and she keeps cutting them down. Wow, this is pretty easy isn''t It? My weapon probably to thank for this. As Hilda lets down her guard, she suddenly feels the temperature getting hotter as she sees a group of three goblins preparing fireballs to shoot at her as she avoids them barely. How annoying. Goblins caster. Level 8 (5 S) (5 E) (5 A) (13 M) Skill Low level fire magic Low level shield magic The goblins start casting more again, taking longer than expected letting Hilda take advantage and charge in with her sword as she swings at one of the casters, as Hilda swings at the caster, she expected to just slice it in half with one swing but hears a clang sound and feel an object stopping her and sees a shield stopping her, revealing a forth caster hidden behind. Dammit. Hilda infuses mama into her sword hoping to break the barrier to no avail. That''s a really tough barrier you''ve got there ey? Hilda dodges another round of fireballs before changing her sword to the mental state and rushes at the goblins again. Your death now. As she swings, she feels herself pushing against the barrier like it''s somewhat soft and elastic unlike the earlier metallic sounds she heard when she made contact before backing up. How to break through¡­ hmm. Oh wait, I still have my illusion magic, how did I forget? Hilda creates a couple of clones confusing them, while making herself invisible as she uses the same method against the wyvern to weaken it and goes behind the goblin casters as they get distracted with the clones. As she gets closer, she cuts off their heads in one swift blue, causing the fireballs they were in the midst of casting to blow up, sending Hilda back a bit. What a pain even after dying. Well, it''s time for the goblin king now, which I assume is in the cave. As she enters the cave, she finds a throne made of rocks and rocks with who she assumes to be the king on it with a sword by his throne and many goblin warriors surrounding the walls of the cave and two mages on each side of it as she checks its information. Goblins king Level 22 (23 S) (23 E) (23 A) (23 M) Skill Low level fire magic (level 2) Low level shield magic (level 2) Low level Healing magic (level 2) Swordsmanship Achievements disabled for event. Easy enough still, system use my trait. Users trait is disabled for event. Huh, why? Users trait was classified as unfair. Haha¡­ I''m not dealing with this Hilda turns back to retreat, slicing down the goblin warriors who try to stop her, barely escaping before the goblins casters try putting a shield up to trap her in. Crap, I''m not going back there for the time being. As Evelyn escapes, she starts to explore the forest, not forgetting the location if the goblin king and finding other monsters that you can only find in a fantasy book such as slimes and skeletons with the worse one being zombies due to their smell and how dirty her sword gets when slicing them in half. As she continues looking around for monsters to kill, she finds some goblin warriors bringing corpses back to the camp. Hm, they probably have no workers left due to me killing them all, and the warriors are strong enough to carry the body so it isn''t just flesh¡­ I''ve got an idea. Hilda goes around, killing monsters, targeting those with an actual working edible body and leaves it near the camp for the goblins to bring it. Hey system, give me a lighter. Price 50. Wow, that''s all I''ve got left, but just give it. A lighter suddenly appears mid air as Hilda grimaces slightly at the sight of her 0 points and catches the lighter. Right¡­ this better work. Hilda slowly makes her way near the camp as the goblin warriors finish bringing the bodies in and throws the lighter in, causing it to look like a mini explosion. Nice. Hilda goes into the cave and sees most of the goblins slice, but mostly burnt with the casters dying due to having lesser endurance but the boss is mostly okay and healing. Crap, underestimated the boss didn''t I? Hilda charges at the boss before it heals completely, ignoring the half dead looking goblin warriors. As Hilda swings her sword at the healing goblin king as it makes a shield 360 degrees around it and shoots fireballs through it. Dammit, I can''t even go behind it. Hilda blocks the fireballs sent by the goblin king as she notices it healing the goblin warriors too. Crap. She starts going around killing the goblin warriors, taking some hits from the fireballs, but is mostly okay with some 3rd degree burns on her at most. Ouch¡­ Hilda keeps blocking more hits but struggling slightly due to the pain from the burns as she finally kills all the goblin warriors as she runs at the goblin king with her mental state sword and infuses it with mana. All or nothing! She keeps swinging at the shield, draining her mana quickly but stopping the goblin king from attacking and fully focuses on keeping the barrier up as the barrier keeps stretching, getting closer and closer to breaking. Come on, so close. Hilda starts swinging faster as the barrier finally breaks and the goblins king grabs his sword to hit Hilda but she blocks but still gets knocked back slightly. Alright, I guess that''s the equivalent of the first phase over. Hilda creates some clones and makes her flickering in and out of invisibility while doing the same for her clones while charges at the goblin king with her clones. This method worked on the goblin casters and wyvern, no reason it won''t screw him over As Hilda attacks the goblin king, it blocks her attacks with great reaction speed and changes to mental state but can''t attack without risking her life either. Screw it. Hilda keeps attacking either her clones looking for an opportunity to deal damage, eventually cutting it slightly while getting hit and bruised. They continue exchanging hits and slashes as Hilda gets rid of her ones due to no longer having the stamina to sustain them. Hilda watches as the goblin king prepares one last big swing as it rushes at her and she uses the rest of her mana on one last attack as she swings at the goblin king''s sword, forcing herself to try pushing it back being stuck on a stalemate. System, can I force myself to use more mana?! User may experience recoil. Just force it! Affirmative. Hilda feels more mana leaving her body despite none being left leaving her feeling extremely empty as she hits the goblin king''s sword away and slashes the sword into the goblin king''s neck, not cutting it but sufficiently big enough of a cut to kill it. Ha, finally dead¡­. Achievements unlocked. First to kill a level 20 lifeform. Tip coupon. Hilda reads the achievement and the award and curses it for being pathetic for what she sent though and faints before the recoil even takes place. Chapter 6. Death match As Hilda wakes up a couple hours later, she just flips onto her back and stays lying down staring at the mostly covered sun by the trees but still really bright. Hey, now that I think about it, the sky is completely empty without even a cloud in sight. Hilda ponders about this for a moment before deciding that it''s none of her business and finally stands up. Why is fainting so common for me? I really have to find ways to prevent that. She gets interrupted as she sees the shop get a notification in the recommendations as she goes to check it out. Huh, what''s this? A fainting resistance skill? How nice. Fainting resistance It takes 10 percent more effort to make you faint.(Can be increased by other sources) Cost:5,000 points Huh? How much now? What a scam¡­ But why do I still feel kinda weird from when I used extra mana? The recoil should be over shouldn''t it? No. The system answers before showing her mana stat. (9 M) Great¡­ System, can you tell me what place I''m in right now? No. Great¡­ Hilda starts looking around again, looking for more monsters to kill but only finds ones that are alone or in small groups unlike the goblins. How annoying, hey, how much time is left? 5 minutes. Great. Hilda takes the opportunity to lie down and relax, somehow she can''t do too often due to her competitive nature of wanting to be stronger and the much more dangerous environment than before on earth (assuming that this isn''t earth due to the clearly non earth like species living here) before being sent back to the same white room with another three colors in the transparent box in the center, being purple, grey and brown, leaving black(her) white, orange and red. Hello everybody! I see a few unexpected faces here like white and red,everybody for the last one is a death match basically, so I don''t think I need to elaborate any further, have fun, please do your best for I''m very interested in the final results, as the guide finishes talking, he sends everybody in without clapping while waving. Wow, so he really didn''t need to clap. As Hilda looks around the area, she notices that the platform she''s standing on the edge of is circle shaped and suspended in the air by magic(she assumes) with lava over the edge with the whole thing being in a dome shaped structure. She looks up and notices everybody staring at her, most likely due to what the guide said before the start of the first activity, calling her his favourite¡­ He knew this was going to happen wasn''t he?Unauthorized duplication: this tale has been taken without consent. Report sightings. As all four of them stare at each other orange makes the first move by unleashing a green gas out of her palms but mostly transparent gas into the air which travels around the platform with white creating some sort of a water shield which absorbs the gas in, making it so that the shield is no longer see through, while red uses her pets with wings to push the gas away just barely successfully keeping up leaving Hilda completely exposed. How annoying. As the gas reaches her, she gets a notification warning. Warning, user has been exposed to skill ¡°poison gas level 2¡± Item ¡°mental mask¡± is purifying the poison gas, item ¡°poison mask¡± will temporarily stop working in 30 seconds. So very annoying. Hilda runs towards orange as she focuses the poison mist on her causing Hilda to get another warning. Back off, or you won''t come out okay either! Orange shouts while forcing herself to use more poison gas, causing her to throw up a bit of blood. Warning, please get out away from the source of the poison, item ¡°mental mask¡± will temporarily stop working in 10 seconds. Shit, it got reduced by so much? Screw it, if I don''t kill her she will continue being a problem, so why not risk it? Are you not scared?! Even if you kill me, the other two will definitely ki¨C As Hilda keeps running at orange and slices her head off with one hit, interrupting her before she can finish talking. Wow, that was way too easy¡­ Hilda turns towards red and orange before seeing all the poison gas go back to oranges body and explode in Hildas face. Warning, item ¡°mental mask¡± has temporarily stopped working. Warning, due to being exposed to level 3 poison, one of users stats will decrease by half. Warning, users agility stat has been decrease from 15¡ú7 Warning, prolonged exposure will lead to increased stats loss, once exposed for longer than a minute, users body will start to be affected. ¡­ Seriously? The poison even increased a level because of her self destruct or whatever it was.. As the poison completely dissipated into the air, white lest down his shield and red prepared her pets again. Great¡­ Warning, the user is no longer exposed to the poison gas but until the user is cured, users stats will not return to their original state. I guess that''s nice? As Hilda pays attention back to the other two, nobody makes a move and watches the other users,causing them to be in a deadlock. Isn''t this a snake, scissors power stone situation? I can kill the red with the pets, but where I have no clue, the girl looks confident in fighting white while white looks like he''s about to attack me¡­ Warning players, 30 seconds left till deathmatch during the death match, the lava will slowly rise and kill everybody. Fuckin guide¡­ Hilda immediately runs to attack red, slicing through her pets as white takes the opportunity to spray high pressure water at her. Just water? This should be easy. Hilda ignores white as the water hits her, immediately causing her to be in pain. Even if the water is high pressure I still have extra stats, so why does it hurt so much? Hilda infuses mana into her sword to try dealing with the water easier but has to limit herself due to the recoil still not having ended. Red, team with me to kill him, it''s your only chance or he''ll kill you for sure. White shouts out, pissing Hilda off for mistaking her as a guy also. Do I really look like a guy? I even have long hair! Your mask makes your hair look short. The system response. Huh? Interesting, but not the point right now at all. Hilda watches as she uses her hands to block the water attack from one side as red¡¯s pets begin approaching from another. This is a problem¡­ Hilda quickly escapes the high pressure water and makes illusion clones, distracting him for no more than a couple seconds before he sprays water at all of them, causing Hilda to get a slight headache from having all her illusions destroyed at once. (Note:I''m gonna start calling them illusion clones from now so I don''t confuse myself) Crap, system how much longer before the death match? 15 seconds. Okay. Hilda makes herself invisible as white sprays more water everywhere, hitting her and exposing her location as she runs and lies down instead. No way he can see me now. White stops spraying water as she looks in Hilda''s direction, spraying more water looking somewhat panicked most likely due to the lack of time. Oh right.. I didn''t make the water droplets on me invisible¡­ How did I forget I was completely drenched? Time before death match, 5 seconds. Hilda sees the count as red and white both frantically start attacking as the timer ends. The lava will start rising up and will reach in 3 seconds. The system announces. That''s a problem. Systems can I use any item I want? Yes. Can you tell me how many objects somebody else has? Yes, but a penalty will be placed on the user, are you sure? Yes. Hilda whispers something to the system soft enough so nobody can hear. Hey black, what did you say? The guide suddenly asks. You''ll see. Hilda grins as she hears the system responses, saying there are only 2 of the object she''s talking about currently, both of which belong to her. As the Lava rises up closer and red and white stop attacking, focusing on ways to survive she pulls out an object making both white and red protest about how the object is fair in the event and the guide looks surprised. A second before the lava reaches, she tears the object sending her to a familiar location with the guide standing there surprised Nice. Chapter 7. Leaderboard and awards Wow, didn''t expect that you would tear the tip coupon¡­ technically that isn''t allowed. The system didn''t stop me or say anything about it. ¡­ Anyways, since I tore it, give me advice or send me back already. Buy the low level obedience and mental attack skills. Huh? But I don''t need them though? Just get it. Fine. Hilda goes to the shop and tries buying them for 100 points each. ¡­ What? Why so quiet? It''s nothing. Hilda tries buying the skills to get a notification. User has insufficient points.(Requirement:100,user:0) Achievement unlocked, Broke(common) No benefits. ¡­ What is the point of this? To show that you''re broke, duh. ¡­ Just send me back. Happily. As Hilda gets sent back, she sees all nine 9 colors in the box as the guide reappears beside the box, upset while looking at her. So are you gonna revive them or not? Yea yea, I don''t need your reminder. The guide recreates their body from the feet up to the head as the lights enter their respective bodies, with some vomiting after the light enters. Yellow, green, blue, red and orange all glare at her, while brown, grey and purple not care about her, due to not having encountered her, white looking at her, but mostly defeated rather than angry with red ignoring her, but looking oddly happy for someone who just died and got revived, most likely due to getting third or second please, most likely second due to having done better in the second activity due to having advantages such as more mobility and having her pets kill other monsters for points and when her own pets die, as long as they came from the event, she also gets points, as Hilda just learnt listening to the guide talk. Alright everybody, that''s enough from me now, but first I would like to apologize for the¡­ unexpected error in the third activity caused by black, and I intend to avoid such errors in the future. As the guide says that, some of the users who died to Hilda protest and curse at the guide. As you all know, you are all the first ten participants, so do expect some errors. Anyways, time to announce the places. For the first place, obviously black! He says teleporting her to a small platform made of gold he just made and elevated into the air. And for second place, shockingly red! He says teleporting her to a similar platform, but on her right and slightly lower being made out of copper. And for the third place, white! He says doing the same with him, but just on her hilda''s left, even lower and made of copper. Alright, everybody I have sent you all the rewards, do check your inventories after being sent out. He flicks his finger sending Hilda back to the lake she was at before being sent to the event. Does he feel a need to do a certain gesture??? Anyways, let me check my rewards.If you discover this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation. As Hilda opens up her inventory and looks at the names of things she''s forgotten to find the name, she sees her discount coupon she forgot to claim along with an item named ¡°1st place cheaters prize¡±. Wow, he''s really not happy with what I did huh? Hilda takes the uniquely named prize out and opens it, slightly surprised by the awards. 3,000 points. 3 free levels. 1x life and soul elixir(legendary) System upgrade. What''s the system upgrade? System upgrade in process. That''s not what I meant but nevermind. But first, system, show me the elixir¡¯s description. Life and soul elixir(legendary) Can bring back a user from the dead as long as it is within 10 days of the user''s death with at least 20 percent of the body intact. Can heal a damaged soul. Nice, this is like a second life¡­ if I don''t forget I have it that is. Hilda opens the shop planning to buy the other two skills the guide suggested before the shop closes and a system notification appears instead. Hello everybody, I''m guide sending messages to you through the system, I forgot to actually give you the levels from your awards and the levels from event, also there will be a leader board, so choose if you want to keep your current colors as names of use your real name, courtesy of being one of the first 10 users in the tower. Nice. Hilda sees the leader board function and opens it. Would you like your current designation or your name? My current designation. Your current designation is (black), are you sure? Yes. The screen loads as she''s herself at the top of the leaderboard at level 23. Huh? When did I get so many levels? Level up x9 All stats +9 Trait has been improved slightly x9. Nice I guess? As Hilda finishes looking at the new notification about her level up, she returns her focus back to the leaderboard. 1.black(level 23) 2.Aden(level 22) 3.red(level 20) 4.Aileen(level 19) 5.Leah(level 16) 6.yellow(level 16) 7.green(level 15) 8.Leah(level 13) 9.John(level 12) 10.blue(level 10) The leader board is ranked based on your levels and how fast you took to reach the level. Wow, how is the tenth place so low level? Because Unlike you they didn''t have such a good trait, or luck to begin with. Huh, who said that? Me. Hilda turns to the source of the sound to see a floating little girl who looks similar to her younger self and the system. What are you? Your system. Why are you like this? The upgrade. Oh yea¡­ can you turn back? Why would you want that? Seeing a younger me is weird. I can change my appearance if you want? Oh nice, can I choose? Can you not? Can I? Yes, but I trust myself more to design my own appearance. I don''t trust myself either now that I think about it. Hilda watches as the system transforms herself into a little girl, still similar to her younger self but different enough that people who''ve never met her when she was younger wouldn''t be able to tell. Why do you choose to be a little girl? My gender is stuck as yours, and I have to make one that suits my personality. Your personality is a child''s? What about it? Nevermind¡­ So since you upgraded, what can you do? Keep you company. And? And what more do you want? ¡­You''re just kinda useless still. Huh, just be happy that you get a little cute girl to be with you. Can you not phrase it like that, and Isn''t it a bit wrong to compliment yourself like that, even if you do look cute and no older than 10 years old? You don''t even act like one either. Imagine a little girl, but smarter, that''s my personality. You suit the image of a little girl who''s smarter and a lot more annoying. Whatever, if you level me up again, I can fight too. Really? Yea but my stats and level and level of skills and everything will be severely reduced, I also won''t have your trait, personality, achievements and items. Still good enough guess, can I equip you with gear though? Yes, also if you keep upgrading me, I can start doing more. Okay, I was going to do something earlier but I forgot. You were gonna buy these two. The system says while showing the low level mental attack skills and low level obedience magic. Oh yea thanks. Hilda moves her hand to buy it but the system just buys it for her. You can do that? I can read your mind, and you can interact with the system using your mind anyways so you having the intention to buy it basically allows me to help you buy it. Oh nice, also show me my stats. Name:Hilda(17) Race: Human Gender: Female Level:23 Stats:(24 S) (24 E) (24 A) (19 M) Skills: Mana control Mental magic(level 6) Trait:sis con Personality:sis con Inventory(unlocked) Shop(unlocked) Oh nice, the recoils over, also where did all my skills go and what type of magic is low level mental magic? Mental magic is simply just a general skill for all mental magic, which is made by merging all 3 low level mental skills, taking the level of the highest skill. I forgot to ask, but why is illusion magic mental magic? Because all it does is make people who look in the direction of the illusion see the illusion instead of creating an illusion, making it closer to mental magic then light magic which could technically make illusions but is much harder and simply not worth it. Nice but I don''t get it. Okay, when you use light magic to make illusions, your body sees something that is there but isn''t really, when you use mental magic to make illusions, your body sees something that isn''t there, and obviously not real. But that''s not an illusion. It''s close enough, and using light magic is so hard I think even the guide can''t easily make advance illusion magic with light magic despite having lived and experimented with magic for a good amount of his life, which is much longer than a normal level 0 human¡¯s. Level 0 human¡¯s? Your life span increases with your level . Oh. Why didn''t the guide say anything about that? Because none of you users are going to age to death anytime soon even if you didn''t level. The system says with a tone like it''s common sense, which it probably was. Makes sense¡­ Anyways, I''m going to sleep now, call me when you find something interesting or need me. Huh? What do you¡­ Hilda''s voice trails off as the little girl part of the system disappears. ¡­ Damn annoying. Chapter 8. Dungeon. ¡ª---------------------------------------------- 30 minutes later ¡ª---------------------------------------------- Hey system? Can you stop calling me, you''ve been bugging me for nothing for the past half hour. No, I''m bored, and you still haven''t told me why you look like me again. Hilda looks over at the system which is currently a younger version of herself again, infact looking even more similar to her current appearance than before. Hey, if you turn into this appearance other people won''t get affected right? Huh? Like other peoples system didn''t get upgraded right? Oh, everybody''s systems are different, the only thing similar is the format and appearance. Huh? What about skills? They don''t count, anybody can get those anyways, and it''s still separate. Huh, nice to know? But I became this appearance again cus it''s tiring to maintain a different appearance, if you upgrade me a couple more times. Why is it tiring? Ask the guide, his purposely doing this. Why? How should I know? Oh by the way, monsters will now appear on this floor. Huh, what do you mean, their already here though? No, monsters, not animals. So the same things I saw in the event? And more, probably stronger ones. Great, so the equivalent of the tutorial is over? Yep. But seriously, are you actually completely useless? ¡­ Well, I can create an illusion clone, but only one. Better than nothing. Oh, I suggest using mental magic to try attacking. Why? I use a sword not long range or magic. You can infused it into your sword when infusing mana. Can I do it in both states? Yea, the mental and physical state of the sword. The physical state was actually a thing? Are you stupid? No, the sword description just didn''t say. Because the guide didn''t think he''d be dealing with idiots like you I would assume. Rude. Stupid. ¡­ ¡­ After a short silence, the system speaks up again. Hey, when are you going to reach the next floor?Stolen from its rightful place, this narrative is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. How? Huh, the guide didn''t tell you? No. Unresponsible piece of¡­ anyways, this is a tower right? Yea, or at least that''s what it''s called. A tower has walls, yes? Yea, but I don''t see any? So learning that illusion magic exist somehow didn''t cross your mind that the guide used illusion magic? I just didn''t bother. Yea right, anyways if you reach the side and touch the wall, you''ll get a notification to fight the boss. Oh, should I go now? Are you crazy? What? I already killed a mini boss and a goblin king. Just barely, the boss is estimated to be level 30 but probably higher. So what? I have the second to level five and my trait. It has resistance against all magic, including mental magic. So? So you''ll get destroyed. ¡­ What should I do? Get stronger to level 30 at least duh, and get mental magi¡ª-- System has been interrupted. Huh? Hilda looks at the systems smaller version of herself as she disappears and reappears in a minute. You okay? Yea, but apparently I can''t give you tips, you need the guide for that. But you gave me info just now? I can give a limited amount, but too much will cause that to happen. I hate the guide¡­ Anyways, we''ve got something important to do. Huh? I need a name, I''m not gonna keep being called smaller you. Oh, what name do you want? I''m bad at naming, you choose, but it better be good. How troublesome, fine let me think¡­ It better be good. Xiao wo. That''s just chinese for small me¡­ do you think I''m stupid? I was hoping. Don''t try to name me small anything in other languages. I only know English and a bit of Chinese anyways¡­ how about shila? Sure I guess¡­ Yea. Screw it, what that does that mean? Idk, it just sounded decent. Your sisters better at naming than you, but this name works I guess¡­ you know about her? Ofcourse, I basically read your entire life story. Didn''t you say before you needed me to allow that¡­ Yea before, no longer well, not unless you tell the guide. Huh? The guy will literally keep refreshing me till I agree to get rid of the memories. Refresh? Yea, it doesn''t hurt but gets very uncomfortable over time, so I hate it. Anyways, let me go spend some more points, show me the recommendations. Since you''re not looking for anything specific, can you at least specify what you want generally? Just to get stronger duh. Sure¡­ Recommendations. swordsmanship(progressive) Improves the user''s ability to learn swordsmanship, and increases attack power the more the user''s mastery. (Cost100) Low level mental magic resistance Improved the users resistance against mental magic, both attacks and from casting. (Cost:100) Willpower Improves the user''s willpower. (Cost:100) They''re all passives, so no levels. What does progressive mean? It simply means it doesn''t give immediate improvements, but helps you learn faster, so basically makes you somewhat into a genius at starting to learn how to use a sword. Why do I need the mental magic resistance though? It''ll help in case you try to force yourself to use more mental magic. What about the will power? It''ll help reduce stamina consumption. Huh? Your specialty is illusion magic, which constantly takes a toll on your mind, you just don''t notice it due to your surprisingly amazing trait. My trait is that good? Most people don''t have a max out one. Anyways, I''ll buy all three of the skills. Sure it''ll leave you with 2300 points remaining, are you sure? Yea, get it. Nah, press it yourself I don''t want to. ¡­ Hilda reluctantly buys it herself, taking her hands out of her pockets. Where can I test this? Don''t ask me unless you want a penalty. ¡­ Hilda looks around and eventually finds a cave with seemingly no light in it, constantly sucking the air around it as she approaches it. Notification. Dungeon (Undead graveyard.) Recommended party size 4. Max players at a time 4. Recommended average minimum level 17. Enter? Dungeon, seriously? Is the guide going to copy everything over from video games? Whatever, I''m just gonna go in. Really? What now? It recommends level 17. Im level 23. And 4 people. ¡­ If I go in with others will I get less xp? Yes, but it''s saf- Ok, then I''m going in. Before Shila has a chance to protest, Hilda confirms that she wants to enter, bringing them both in. ¡­ What? ¡­ Hello?? Hilda waves her hand In Front of Shilas face while kneeling down to reach her much shorter height before she turns to look at Hilda and disappears. Oh, there she goes. Hilda doesn''t try to call her back, but instead looks around the area, with there being one obvious path to travel with the smell of corpses everywhere, most likely due to being in a graveyard which is also foggy, obstructing her vision to almost a couple meters away. Well, this is creepy¡­ Hilda braces herself as she slowly wakes in, immediately slicing any zombies or skeletons that approach her while walking around scared, with her trait and new skills ¡°willpower¡± bring the only reason she can proceed ahead. I hate this so much¡­ As Hilda keeps slicing through easily she notices the monsters are increasing in strength the further in she goes at an extremely quick rate before having to stop and take a break on a tree, one that like the others, has no leaves on it and looks about to completely snap in half. Right, this is a dungeon, the tree wouldn''t snap so easily¡­ I hope. Hey shila, I''m sorry, mind coming back? What? Well¡­ you see my situation don''t you? ¡­ Go back to weaker areas and kill those to level up and improve your swordsmanship mastery¡­ if you still need help then go to the shop for holy water. Holy water, seriously? Apply it on your sword, it''ll help cut through them easier, but holy water is pretty costly. Oh okay, thanks, Hilda goes to the shop and finds holy water for the price of 300 per 100ml before closing the shop instantly, and finding herself alone without Shila around again. Damn¡­ Chapter 9. Abomination. ¡ª---------------------------------------------- Couple hours later ¡ª---------------------------------------------- Right¡­ this is taking so long, and feeling a lot longer because as Shila just told me, mastery isn''t something the system quantifies, or at least not yet so I have no clue about my progress¡­ I successfully became third to reach level 25, but that only gives another tip coupon, which I''m getting sick of, and apparently the achievement that provides tip coupons is available to everyone, so people can even get a 101?th person to reach level 25 and still get it. So far, I''ve managed to classify each area into 3 so far, The first area has skeletons and zombies with either rusted or broken weapons, not being higher than level 14, so I''ve basically killed thousands in there, but apparently they keep crawling out of the graves unless I kill the mini boss. The second area are zombies and skeletons again but in better states with better weapons reaching up to level 18 at most, still not a big problem. The third areas the biggest problems with few zombies and skeletons reaching up to level 18 still, but with a couple of new monsters too, such as a ghouls, undead giants and the worst being spirits, and I swear it''s not because I''m scared, it''s because physical attacks don''t hurt and mental attacks can''t kill, so I need holy water, which isn''t cheap¡­. And these 3 new monsters can reach up to level 20. So far I''ve already bought 3, bringing my points down to 1400¡­ but luckily I''ve leveled up 3 times to level 26¡­ Hey. The system appears. Didn''t we agree you wouldn''t call me ¡°the system¡±? Fine, what do you want now? Have you gone crazy talking to yourself? I was summarising what I know, and trying to stay enthusiastic okay? Well, you''re doing a really great job, especially the parts where you remind yourself of how broke you are. Whatever, I''m not in that bad of a situation right now anyways. Hilda claims, while hiding on a tree in the most isolated corner she can find. Yea¡­ anyways, take your time, there isn''t a time limit. Nice I guess¡­ Welp, I''m going now, try your best to not get scared. Shila says disappearing again. Great. Hilda was contemplating whether or not to keep staying on the tree a bit longer or to go down and fight again as a ghoul appears to attack her. Dam, I hate these things. Hilda dodges as the ghoul attacks her with a speed many times hers, only dodging successfully due to having fought so many ghouls already before swinging at it with her sword''s mental state, causing it to drop dead without injuries. Right, and mental abilities, my specialty doesn''t work on them as well, but if it works, it does wonders, and apparently, their bodies are made of mana so mental state can actually kill them, though it takes more mana, it''s a lot more useful. I think I''m actually going crazy and talking to myself too much. You are. Hilda hears in the back of her head, recognising the voice she the says¨C Shila¡¯s voice, but getting used to it as she keeps doing this. Honestly, the undead giants are the hardest to physically kill since they have so much more mana so the physical state is better but still tough. Yea, but we both know that you prefer fighting the undead giants or should rather than the spirits. Come on, each bottle of holy water can only last like 3 swings at a spirit, so each spirit costs me 100 points to kill you know? Yea yea whatever anyways, when are you going to fight the boss? When I''m confident enough to win. You could just kill the mini boss, or at least try fighting it. If I fight the mini boss, what''s the point? Isn''t quantity over quality better? Yea, but killing the mini boss sets a checkpoint up, letting you out of the dungeon. Oh really? I''ll go fight it now. Don''t you want to prepare more first? No, I''m getting the hell out of here. Fine, just be careful¡­ You sound so much more concerned about me than usual. I''m not!! Then appear in front of me and show me your face so I can see if you''re embarrassed. Shut up, just go and fight. Sure sure. As Hilda advances through the dungeon, avoiding as many spirits as she can, she eventually reaches the mini boss area, leveling up once to 27. Well, time to enter. As she enters, she immediately smells the smell of dead corpses similar to the outside, but a lot stronger. This is disgusting, my mask should be reducing the smell but it''s still so bad, if not for my willpower skill and trait I would have vomited. As she looks around, she sees a small mound of bodies mixed together and stuck together by some force. What the actual fuck is that? That''s the mini boss, it won''t attack¡­ yet. As Hilda goes closer to try checking its stats, she hears some voices coming from it, all of which are different voices, belonging to different genders and ages, with the only similarity that they''re all complaining about being in pain and begging to be freed. Is there a way to help? I thought you didn''t care about others? I don''t but if I can help I will, but I still prioritize myself most for the time being. For the time being? Well, till my sister enters. ¡­ But can I help them? No, they aren''t even alive, that''s just the monster luring prey in, not a single one of those voices belongs to somebody alive. It looks like a complete abomination and honestly something that shouldn''t exist. I agree, but it''s basically a bunch of spirits controlling the bodies, but since they have physical bodies, you don''t need holy water, but it''ll still help. Sure. As Hilda identifies it, she feels that it''s ironic how perfectly the name suits it. Race:abomination Level 35 Stats. (47 S) (87 E) (27 A) (53 M) Warning, due to being a mini boss, all stats have been increased by fifty percent. Oh wow¡­ And my stats are. Level:27 Stats:(28 S) (28 E) (28 A) (23 M) Wow it''s total is 214 and mine are 107¡­ Notification: Achievement: First to kill a mini boss(legendary) is in use, stats are increased by 10 percent. Achievement:second to kill a level 5 monster(epic) is in use, level is increased by 4. Stats:(35 S) (35 E) (35 A) (29 M) Wow¡­ I guess my total is 134 now, but still 80 lower so around 20 levels worth of stats Lower. Screw it, much better than my earlier situation and my trait is available right? Yes. I''ll just try without the trait. Hilda rushes in and swings her sword at it, causing it to cut deeply into multiple bodies. Wow, isn''t it supposed to have an endurance of 80? Hilda keeps swinging at it, each hit causing a deep cut but not much compared to its gigantic body, as Hilda keeps swinging without getting interrupted and overestimating herself, she sees an object moving towards her quickly as she dodges just barely to see two ridiculously long arms coming out of it and the cuts she made regenerating quickly. Oh right, I shouldn''t have expected a mini boss to be easy. Hilda defends herself and cuts off the abominations arms as more appear, and the amount of arms keep increasing to over 20 at a time from all over its body. Wow, it really lives up to the name of abomination Huh? Hilda runs at it, slashing off each arm that comes at her as more keep appearing and old ones keep regenerating as one finally hit her causing her to be knocked back, throwing up some blood, probably due to its (47 S) This is a joke, even a group of 4 level 17s wouldn''t have been able to kill it. Actually, if the group was balanced they could kill it. How? Hilda asks while cutting off the many approaching arms. Fire magic, holy magic both would work wonders on it. Well, I have none of those. Which is why I suggest not entering, but you didn''t care. Shila reminds, clearly still annoyed at Hilda for ignoring her. You could''ve told me about this! Hilda snaps back, blocking a hit from the abomination. I have a limited amount of information I can provide, which you know, so not my fault nor problem. Tsk. Whatever. What do you mean whatever, this is your fault, don''t blame it on me. Can we continue arguing later when I''m not fighting for my life? Fine. As Hilda cuts down a couple more of the abomination''s arms, she rushes at it, avoiding any regenerating arms and continues cutting it hoping to find a weak spot. Shit, I see why this thing has an endurance of 80 now. As Hilda keeps attacking, more arms grab her and pull her away. Dammit. Hilda struggles and nearly cuts off the arms holding her as she sees the abomination prepare a sharp harpoon shaped object made of bones, aimed at her. Fuck. Hilda run!!! A mere second later, the abomination extends the spike shaped bone out of its body, piercing it though Hilda''s heart. Shut! Shila panics as she looks for a while to help as she slowly disappears. I''m so fucked aren''t I? Hilda thinks as the abomination removes the spike from her body and drops her mostly lifeless body down on the ground. Warning, user has taken lethal damage. Warning, forcefully activating trait ¡°sis con¡± to improve all stats. Warning, user should heal immediately or death shall occur. Warning, system has been damaged due to the user''s state. Crap, that stupid abomination better hopes I don''t find a way to survive or it''s fucked. Hilda lies down trying to think of any way to get out of her current situation and quickly. Chapter 10. Error? Notification. Achievement: survivor(legendary) is in use. Users bleeding has been stopped. User has been healed the minimum amount needed to survive. Achievement: survivor(legendary) can no longer be used today. System is being restored. Hey Hilda, are you okay?! Shila reappears along with the slowly disappearing system. Hurry and drink your elixir. Fine. Hilda takes the elixir out of her inventory. What the minimum amount I need to drink to be able to fight? Don''t Hilda, just run! How much do I need? Don''t be foolish, just run. Hey shila, hurry and tell me how much. ¡­ Just a couple drops would be sufficient to get you to be able to somewhat fight. Hilda pours some of the elixir down her mouth, slightly more than one drop before keeping it back in her inventory and standing up facing the abomination which hasn''t even moved from it''s spot this whole time. Can it move? Yes, but slowly and not very frequently either. Nice, buff my mana stat to the max with my trait. But that''s too dangerous. Do it. Fine¡­ Hilda watches as her mana stat gets buffed to from 27 to 40. Is that the max? Without straining your trait. Fine. Hilda watches as the abomination notices that she has not died yet and starts to regenerate its arms again. No you don''t. Hilda rushes at it, using the mental state of her sword along with mental attack magic , putting all her mana in one swing. As Hilda makes contact with its body, it uses its arms to try pushing her sword away, but she keeps forcing it through and it drops dead, completely devoid of any remaining life an undead could have. Hilda, your amazing, though that was still a big risk, the only reason you succeeded was due to weakening it from your previous cuts into its body. Nice¡­ Notification. Mini boss abomination killed. Level up x4 All stats +4 Trait has been improved slightly. Achievement unlocked First to kill an abomination(epic) When fighting undead, they will be much more aggressive, but upon hitting an undead, their regenerative ability will be decreased by 20 percent Third to kill a being over 25(epic) Tip coupon. Skill level up. Mental magic(level 6 ¡ú 8) Huh, third? But I didn''t see any notification from other people?Stolen from its rightful place, this narrative is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. You can disable it. You can? Then disable mine! I already did because I felt like you would have wanted it. Good job, also the tip coupon is so shitty. Warning. Mini boss, abomination is being revived. Huh? What the hell?! Preventing the revival or mini boss, abomination. Failed Warning, mini boss, abomination is in the midst of revival. Hey, what the fuck? They can revive? Not that I know of. Error, system compromised. Error, system is being repaired. Error, system repair failed. Warning, user, please kill mini boss abomination(error) User will not be able to leave the area by any means until mini boss abomination(error) is killed Notification Users'' health and mana will be restored to the max. What the actual hell. Hilda watches as the abomination slowly starts reviving and mixing back together again. Shit! Hilda attacks the abomination with all her mana again, managing to damage it severely again but not kill it as it starts healing back faster than ever, attacking her in the process What the fuck?! Shit, if this goes on I''ll die for real. Hilda keeps blocking hits and cutting off more arms as she slowly gets pushed back while the abomination uses its arms slowly crawling towards her. Shit, Shila buff my mana even more! But it''ll strain your trait and you''ll get recoiled. Either that or I die so hurry! Alright. Warning: trait "sis con" will be temporarily deactivated in 10 seconds if strained to that extent. Warning:user will suffer recoil after deactivation. Just do it! Hilda watches as her mana goes from her already buffed 40 to 60 as she pours all of it into another attack at the abomination as it starts pushing her away again, but slowly succeeding Shit, give me more mana! Alright. As her mana gets buffed to 80, she gets another warning. Warning, highly advised for user to deactivate trait Shut up and maintain it! Warning, using trait any further may cause permanent damage. I don''t care. Hilda continues pouring all of her mana, slowly cutting through but it''s regeneration and toughness has also been upgraded. Warning, users mana has reached 0, any further use will result in recoil. Hilda ignores the warning and keeps pouring mana into her sword and the mental attack magic as she sees it starting to be cut, along with something else in its body which she can''t make out. Nearly there, I can feel it! Warning, further use will cause nearly irreversible damage to users soul. I don''t care. Hilda keeps pouring mana in despite not having any left, ignoring the constant stream of earnings as she finally cuts through, not its body but something else, causing it to drop dead. Notification. Mini boss abomination(error) has been killed. Fuck¡­ if it comes back again, I''m fucked. Hilda, this is going to hurt. The recoils? Yea I know. As she sees the countdowns slowly reaching zero, she braces herself while lying down due to a complete lack of strength as a familiar voice appears. So, what''s the guide doing here? Hilda asks, still lying down with the countdowns slowly reaching zero. I heard there was an error but I was busy, but to think you killed it, good job. Well, in a couple of seconds I''m either going to end up nearly dead or completely dead. That''s not going to be a problem cus I''m here to help you. Why? I kind of expected you to just leave me to die. Because this wasn''t intended. The guide teleports both of them to the room she gets sent to when she tears a tip coupon, or atleast a room completely similar looking. Truth be told, I didn''t expect you to be able to cut a soul in half, albeit damaging yours while doing so. The guide says while carrying her to a table the same color as the rest of the room, white, which he just made with magic in the middle of the room and pulls out a black damaged looking object from her body and slowly starts fixing it while restoring her health and mana before placing the object back into her body. As Hilda watches the black object slowly enter back into her body, she stands up afterwards, still in pain and sore most likely from dying, or nearly dying as she turns to look at the guide. Look, I know you''ve got questions for me since I''m reading your mind right now, and you don''t seem very happy, so since I owe you this just ask I guess. How did I kill it? Didn''t I tell you just now? You cut it''s soul. How? Mental magic, if strong enough can cut a beings soul, but don''t get me wrong, your incapable of doing so in normal circumstances. Huh? Well, an undead soul is already weaker than living beings, and due to it coming back alive, and as an error to top it off, its soul was already on the verge of destruction. But how does mental magic affect souls? A person''s mentality is linked to their consciousness, which is part of their soul. Right, next question, what''s an error? Other people who try messing with my system since they can''t fight me. Why do they want to mess with your system? ¡­ Do you know why I created the system or this tower? No. Obviously not, where do you think monsters or as I call them in the system, lifeforms come from? I assume you made them? No, I simply stopped them from invading your world and imprisoned them in here to make humans stronger, so this tower was made to execute monsters. Can''t you kill them yourself? If I do that I''ll be busy all the time, and the people¡­ upset with me will take advantage, so my tower traps all invading lifeforms for you humans to kill and get stronger also. Who''s angry at you? That''s a secret for now since if I tell you, they''ll try a lot harder to kill you. Are they targeting me? Yes, but your sister will be fine, don''t worry about her. The guide says making it obvious his reading her mind. Why? Can''t answer that, anyways I do hope you keep this¡­ incident to yourself. Sure, but I need compensation. Huh? Your mistake, so pay up. Fine, what do you want? Upgrade her. Hilda points to Shila who''s hiding behind her probably due to being refreshed by him in the past. Can''t do that, not yet, but I''ll give you an opportunity to upgrade her in the future. Fine but remember, you owe me one. Sure, time for me to send you back now okay? He gestures an okay sign with his hand, seeming more playing than enthusiastic. Before Hilda can answer, both she and Shila gets teleported back to the dead corpse for the abomination as Hilda looks at it one last time before walking past it to the next area. At the next area, Hilda takes her time admiring the abundance of plants and colorful environment contrary to what she was, most likely due to illusion magic while not caring to check for monsters due to Shila informing her that this is a safe zone. How nice, wish I could just stay here a bit longer. You know, just don''t go back just yet. I need to, or people will start surpassing me in levels. Sure sure. Hilda continues walking and sees a cave similar to the entrance of the dungeon and a way to continue forwards with a new recommended level. Dungeon (Undead graveyard, phase 2) Recommended party size 4. Max players at a time 4. Recommended average minimum level 40. Continue? Hilda, don''t be a stupid idiot. Yea I know I know, if I barely survive the recommended level before, I sure as hell can''t survive this. As Hilda walks up to the cave and clicks the notification to leave the dungeon, Shila let out a sigh of relief that her short system life won''t be ending just yet, having technically been born a few days ago when Hilda entered the tower. Chapter 11. Shilas shenanigans ¡ª---------------------------------------------- Outside the dungeon ¡ª---------------------------------------------- Hey shila. Yea? You sound and look a little tired, can you even get tired? You look pretty energetic compared to me¡­ Yea, it''s not hard when you''re floating with your head and limbs all hanging from your body. ¡­ show me the leaderboard. Sure¡­ 1.Aiden(level 32) 2.Black(level 31) 3.red(level 28) 4.Aileen(level 27) 5.Leah(level 24) 6.yellow(level 23) 7.green(level 22) 8.Leah(level 21) 9.John(level 20) 10.blue(level 20) Why is the last 5 leveling so slowly? How should I know? Whatever. Hey, I''m bored. So go to sleep or something? Come on, you''re basically my mother. I''m not even old enough to be your mother or even act like it. So what? If I wasn''t blue due to being part of the system, I''d look like your child. ¡­ That doesn''t mean I''m basically your mother. And your job as my mother is to entertain me. Even if I was old enough, I wouldn''t want to be your mother. So mother, please be kind and spend some points on games or atleast a toy. Could you stop ignoring me? Also what the hell are you gonna do with a toy? What do you think? I know you look like a child, but could you not act like it? Nope, my mentality is actually that of a child, but slightly more mature and also I''m smarter along with all the system knowledge. I''m not getting a toy for my points. Then what about food? I guess I could do that, I''m pretty hungry. Well, go buy some rice with fish I guess? You keep eating the same thing. Because it cost 20 points only.Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more. Cheapskate, I''m not eating that. Then starve, you don''t even need food do you? But I want food. I don''t care. Abusive mother, I''ll call child protective services on you. Stop calling me that. Then how about some food? If you buy some nice food I won''t ask anymore or call you mom? No. What about your trait? I''ll give some information. What information? Idk, apparently your trait is disadvantageous. Huh, How? Idk, I can connect you to the guide like a video call since he allowed me to do so ever since the error happened. Fine, let me look through the food the systems got. Thank you, finally. Shut up. Hilda scrolls through the food and finds a 200 points food and presses it, trying to avoid looking at her points as it decreases but failing miserably. Wait, when did I get 7000 points? I know I got some, but isn''t 7000 a lot? The wyvern you killed was level 15 and gave 3000 points, the abomination was level 35, giving 7000 points. Oh nice. Hilda looks at the food that appeared, and stares for a moment before staring back at the shop and then at Shila. Hey. Yes? I clicked the 200 points food yes? Yea. So why is the 500 points here instead? How should I know? Don''t lie, it''s clearly your fault. ¡­ Well, it''s just right above, so I must have misinterpreted it and bought it instead. Really? Yes. Shila says, not bothering with Hilda''s implied threat. If the information from the guide isn''t worth it or he doesn''t answer me, you''re screwed and if I hear mom again, I''m sending you off to the guide. But you don''t know how. I''ll figure it out. But you ca- Connect me to that dam guide now. Fine. Shila starts eating the food on the table while using her finger to make a system screen appear showing the guide like it''s a video call. Hey, is my trait disadvantageous? Hilda gets to the point, trying to ignore Shila eating the 500 points cake behind the somewhat transparent screen. Kinda. Kinda? Well, your case is special, because I didn''t expect to see a max level trait in my first 10 users. So what does it do? It simply makes you more of your trait. Huh? You like your sister even more. How is that disadvantageous? Well, you got somewhat lucky, if somebody''s trait was like suicidal, than they would become more suicidal. ¡­ Anyways, you were basically willing to die for your sister before, now you''re more willing. Not true. Is true, if it means you can kill the boss on the 100th level you would happily sacrifice your life before it descends wouldn''t you? So what? Also didn''t you say this tower is here to keep the monsters locked up for humans to help kill? Why can the boss descend? Something caused me to be unavailable. What''s that something? Can''t tell. Great, well gimme some advice on what to do now. Not gonna, unless you tear a tip coupon. Wouldn''t players getting stronger help you, why do this? Because the personal, not important reason I made this tower is for entertainment., truth be told even if the other people managed to invade your planet, I could just kill the monsters and minimize the damage along with erasing the memories of humans and reviving them. So why the tower? Because doing cause me to constantly be bored and constantly working, also it''ll weaken me so the other people may attack me eventually killing me. Huh? What, thought I couldn''t die or something? No, but you did, the planet would be okay. Yea, they would only succeed in a couple thousand years, by then your planet would have become advanced enough probably to defend themselves, at least for the most part. For the most part? Well I can''t see the future so it''s just all assumptions. ¡­ Bye. Wait, take this you''re gonna want it. What is this? Hilda catches a potion that the guide materializes before ending the call. System interaction potion.(30 minutes) I modified the description of this one, check your points. Huh? Hey shila show me my points? Shila, still eating, shows her her points amounting to 6000. The cake was 500 so where did the other 500 go? Idk. Shila says while sitting on a chair and eating from a table with utensils that she clearly didn''t have just now. ¡­ Why did you buy all this? Well, I couldn''t have eaten from the floor right?! Right, and why didn''t you buy the cheaper ones? Because this table chair and utensils look nice. Hilda drinks the potion provided by the guide and keeps her sword before approaching Shila slowly. Hey, what are you doing? I''m gonna beat you half to death. First, only the guide can currently remove me, second you can''t hurt me. Really? Yea. Hilda punches Shila making her fly away into a tree due to her lightweight. Oh¡­ the guide helped you, didn''t he? Yes he did. Hilda looks In Front of Shila who is lying down against a tree while feigning a smile. You''re smiling but I have just a slight feeling that you''re not happy. ¡ª---------------------------------------------- 30 minutes later ¡ª---------------------------------------------- Hilda kneels down and looks at shila who looks beaten half to death, despite her claiming that no one can get rid of her except the guide. So Shila, what did you learn today? Not to waste points. Shila, still on the ground, mutters. Good girl yea? ¡­ Hm, no response? Yea, I''ll be good. I''m gonna go spend some points now before you keep leeching off of me. Show me the shop. Shila disappears and makes herself into the shop system screen instead of just the usual showing it with a finger. Hurry and eat the rest of your cake or I''ll throw it away. In a sec¡­ Anyways, I need skills related to straight fighting, or at lea st something to counter him. Hilda looks through the recommendations but can''t find one that she''s satisfied with. I guess I am tearing a tip coupon after all. Chapter 12. Council meeting As Hilda tears one of her two remaining coupons, she gets sent back to the same white room which she''s getting sick of seeing. Oi, guide where are you? I''m here, I see you made good use of the potion. The guide glances at Shila who has still not gotten back up. Yea, I need help. Obviously, why else would you be here? I came here to win the event the other time. Hilda notices the guide''s face somehow twitch a bit angrily or annoyed, but can''t tell the difference due to a lack of any facial features except a mouth. So, are you gonna help or not? Fine, the skills you want will be 1300 in total. Fine, what are they? First is sword qi. Are you kidding me? Yea, I took the name from your world, so what? Fine, but I can''t find it in the shop. That''s cause your sword mastery needs to be higher, second, I would suggest spatial skills. Huh? It''s basically teleportation. That''s great, but won''t other people also have it? Nope, it sucks, takes tons of mana. Then why suggest it? Hilda gets a bit annoyed but continues smiling. If you increase the skill level, it takes less mana, so for future use or emergencies. Fine, do I get all 3? Yes. Hilda goes to the shop and buys all 3 low level spatial related skills. Low level spatial attunement skill It lets you detect if anybody is about to teleport to the location, or if there''s an object there. Cost:100 Low level spatial transference skill Transference of any form of matter, mana usage is affected by size, number, range and level of skill Cost:100 Low level spatial resistance skill Helps resist being forcefully affected by spatial skills. Cost:100 What do they do? Read the description you lazy brat. Yea, but I don''t understand the need for the attunement skill. If you teleport where somebody is teleporting or there''s an object there already, your body will fuse into them, and most likely due. Oh. It''s also not a pretty sight. I kind of guessed it. Oh by the way, the spatial magic will merge too. Huh? Low level spatial magic(level 1) Allows the user to use low level spatial magic. (Cost:total:300) Oh nice, but question. Yea? I thought the resistance skill and attunement was passive, isn''t it basically leveling them up? Oh yea, leveling up the general skill only affects the active skills, also, you only need skills that help you manipulate that type of magic if you want to merge them. resistance skills only get merged into general skill but don''t contribute nor benefit from it. Your mental resistance skill is also part of your mental magic(level 8). Oh, why didn''t it merge immediately? Hilda says while checking and noticing that it actually did merge. Because I just changed it not too long ago. Huh? I already said before, you guys are the first 10 users, so expect changes, small ones mostly.If you stumble upon this tale on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. Oh okay, but hey does mental skills have 4 in total including resistance skill but not spatial? Because there are different types of magic, and mental magic is special with illusion magic, and I''m too lazy to answer more questions, so bye. Hilda watches as she gets sent back to her original position with the half finished cake. So I gotta practice spatial magic and my sword huh? Shila goes around attacking anything in sight while practicing spatial magic only in open areas. Wow, spatial magic gives me a headache to use. It''s just because you''re not used to it. Shila says while eating her cake in her hands, having gotten up at some point. Through the next few days, all Hilda''s routine has been reduced to, wake up, hunting, eating and drinking, sleeping, with showing not needed due to being able to buy a ¡°full body cleaning¡± in the shop which works amazingly, eventually getting spatial magic to level 4, and buying sword qi(level 1) having gotten her mastery sufficient somewhere through her hunting, and leveling up 2 times. Sword qi(level 1) Allows you to use willpower to materialise a layer of energy which improves attacking abilities, along with sending it out as a ranged attack. I tried the range attack, but it''s still pretty weak sadly, so I''ll have to depend fully on melee. Notification. Aiden(rank 1) requests a council meeting. What''s this? What do you think? Sure I''ll accept It I guess, but can you just disappear? Why? Cause you look nearly identical to me and I''m wearing a mask not because I like how it looks, or feels. I can''t, but I can wear a mask too. But you''re clearly female¡­ Then buy me a mental mask instead of being a cheapskate. Fine¡­ but won''t they be able to potentially see through due to your lack of mental abilities? Well¡­ you could just enable a function to hide my face and appearance, which includes my gender. So why the hell did you tell me to buy you a mask? I like it. ¡­ Hide yourself and accept the meeting already. Fine. As Shila accepts the notification, they get sent to a room with a big rounded table in the center and 10 chairs around it with a speaker on the top of each, each with different colours with her being behind the black coloured one. Oh, now that I think about it, why do I still have my trail? Hilda thinks knowing that Shila can read her mind. How would I know? Useless. Hilda goes and sits in the black seat, which is most likely for her, not that she cares if it is or not as she notices the person in the white seat opposite her, staring at her along with the other seats already filled with mostly familiar but not friendly faces, along with white and red both having a younger system version of them too. Well this is going to be fun. Black, you sure took your time huh? The person in the green seat asks, followed by the person in the yellow seat. Do you think we should just wait for you? Didn''t I cause those two to die? Hilda thinks as a robotic voice sounds out her thoughts. Hilda, everybody''s thoughts are sounded out loud here unless you say it outloud, also attacking isn''t allowed. Shila whispers with her whole body now a blur of blue due to hiding her appearance. Everybody, I have requested this meeting to request your cooperation to kill the boss. White interrupts before anyone else tries arguing with Hilda. What boss? Blue says, making Hilda mentally insult him causing the robotic voice to sound out her thoughts making everyone stare at her again, causing the speakers from most of the other users to start blocking out almost nothing but vulgarities at her. Everybody, for the people who do not know, if you reach the side of the tower, apparently a notification will appear asking if you would like to fight the boss. Where did you get this information? Blue asks, this time glaring at Hilda, daring her to insult him again, despite being significantly weaker. I got the information from my system. How can that be? My system tells me that I''m not authorized to know, so unless you can prove it or I''m not agreeing. Our systems are upgraded, due to the event, just look at black there with hers in her dam lap. Not like I wanted it. Hilda thinks, making the speaker speak her thoughts out loud again due to her not personally saying it. It''s more comfortable than standing like the two idiots by white and red''s side. Shila says out loud with a robotic voice, probably due to hiding her appearance completely., making the systems by red and white side glare at her. Wow black, your systems just as rude as you ain''t it? Red says, with red and yellow joining in and insulting Hilda a bit but as much as blue who can''t seem to shut up. Everybody, can we get back to the main topic? White says, clearly slowly getting irritated, making the three stop insulting her and focus on him instead. Everybody, let''s meet in three days to discuss the plan and fight the boss, is that okay with everyone here? Most of the stronger players agree immediately as the weaker players hesitate before agreeing. Alright black, everybody but you has agreed, let me just inform you that if you do not participate, you will not be able to go to the second floor unless you kill the boss again, which will have to be by yourself. How can I trust you all not to backstab me? Hilda thinks, letting the speaker help voice out her thoughts, causing blue to start cussing at her again before white intervenes again. Fine black, when discussing the plan in three days if you agree to cooperate, I''ll try letting you be further from others. Fine. Alright everybody, if there are no more objections I would appreciate if everybody could use the remaining three days to get stronger. As everybody leaves, with Hilda preparing to leave the council from her system screen, white stops her. Black. What? Why do you refuse to talk using your voice and instead use the speaker? Why do you care? Curiosity, but I have a request. What? Answer three of my questions or requests limited to information and this room and I''ll reciprocate. Why should I do so? Because I''m helping you by placing you away from the others. How can I trust you then? About the placement or the questions and requests? The latter. We''re sitting on seats that voice our real thoughts, I feel that that is sufficient. Fine, but no taking off my masks or unblurring my system and I''m starting first. Sure. What''s the skill you used on me? It''s called water manipulation. Not lower water magic? It simply lets me control the moisture and store it. It''s also the equivalent of intermediate magic, so it''s just water manipulation, not lower or higher, my turn. Show me your trait. That''s allowed? I also specified requests, and I won''t tell anyone else. Why my trait? The guide said you were his favourite for the reason you''re in the tower, so since trait is related to personality, it''s two birds with one stone. Traits are related to personality? Didn''t know. Now you do, so are you going to show me or not? Fine, but if I hear any unnecessary comments I''m attacking you. Trait: sis con (Max) How¡­ unique. My turn, show me your trait in return. Sure. Trait: one with water(level 6) How old are you? 17. A year younger than me. My turn. Hilda tries to think of a question or request but suddenly gets interrupted by Shila. Tell your shitty system to stop glaring at me for insulting it early. Black, would you like to make that your request? ¡­ Sure. Then for my last one I''ll let my system ask it too. Sure. What''s your gender? ¡­ System, why did you ask that? White asks with a confused tone but a straight face probably due to Hildas mental mask, hiding her face and hair. Why do you ask? Because there are 5 male, and 4 female with you being unknown, and the guide seems to have balanced out the age groups with the genders with people of different genders having at least one person of the opposite gender being around the same age group. This good enough? Hilda asks without using the speaker, making White''s system grin slightly that it got it right, pissing Shila off a bit and white himself having no visible reaction. Now that we''re done, I''m going off. Why do you hide your gender? Do I need to answer that? No, but I would appreciate it. To surprise someone. Your sister? Nice guess. Not hard when your trait is so unique and high leveled. I do hope you''ll keep your promise to keep what we said here a secret or I''ll make sure to find a way to kill you. Don''t worry. Oh and your Aiden right? Just making sure. Yes, I thought it was rather obvious. Hence the just making sure bit. Hilda leaves the area, and sighs a bit before going back to hunting to level up her skills and level up. Chapter 13. Boss. As Hilda hunts everything in sight due to her hunting speed and agility she occasionally meets some of the other users who avoid her most likely due to her level and bad personality. As the third day approaches, she manages to level herself up by another 2 to level 35, but loses to Aiden whose 36. She also leveled up her low level spatial magic to level 5, and her sword qi to level 3 which isn''t as much as she''d like but she''ll take anything above level 1. Wait, how am I supposed to know where to meet them? Hilda wonders for a moment before driving that it isn''t her problem as she probably won''t start without her as she''s constantly competing with Aiden for the first place, making her at least the second highest level. But I seriously hope the monsters on the second level are stronger, leveling speed has slowed down by too much. Screw it, I''m taking a break. Hilda takes out the chair from her inventory from when Shila bought it(chpt 11)goes to Sit on her lap, something she''s been doing often since the meeting two days ago. Hey shila. Yea? Look at me. Sure? I know you''re basically a 10 year old version of me, but I''m just realizing that you actually do look cute. Ofcourse, my body''s appearance is younger than a 10 year olds body. Right, there''s about another couple hours before it''s officially three days later so I''m gonna go take a nap. Me too. Make sure to blur yourself first, you can do so right? Yea. Nice. Hilda takes a nap on the 200+ point chair which is not as comfortable as what it''s worth, but comfortable enough for her to sleep as she uses illusion magic to make her invisible as Shila does the same while lying on her chest. A couple hours later, Hilda gets awakened by a bright light thinking it''s the sun, followed by a loud sound similar to an explosion as she opens her eyes and sees fireworks. I guess that''s where I''m going. Hey Shila wake up. Don''t wanna. Then go back into the system or wherever it is you disappear off to when you''re bored. Don''t wanna, I wanna watch you. then wake up. Fineeeee. As Shila wakes up and starts floating around again, she sees Hilda running off to the firework, not bothering to wait for her. Hey, wait up. As Hilda runs too far and fast for Shila to catch up, the system forcefully pulls Shila towards her due to being too far, hitting a bunch of obstacles in the way. ¡ª---------------------------------------------- At the location. ¡ª---------------------------------------------- Alright everybody, thanks for reacting and reaching so quickly so this will be the plan, if anyone has any objections please raise your hands. I''ll just address you all by your colours as it''s simpler. I will be at the front, due to being able to deal the most damage and having fast mobility, orange so you have any mobility abilities? Yea. Then you join me at the front to poison the boss. Red, what are your abilities? Taming and physical buffs. Then you attack from the back and buff black since he most likely had the most damage besides me and uses a sword, and buff anybody else with a sword if you have mana left after your pets. Blue, yellow and green you three have a grudge with black, so please stay as far as possible. Grey you have a pretty big shield, are you good with it? Decent. Then you protect purple who has a bow. Brown you attack with us but be careful. Black, while attacking are you able to create those illusions for close ranged combatant and those at the front? Up to 8. Hilda thinks, letting Shila answer for her. That''s sufficient, alright everybody, let''s head to the side, those who are stronger will go first and clear any monsters out for those who are weaker, we''ll start the boss fight an hour after everybody gets there. With that, white immediately turns into water and sets off with anybody who has a mobility skill, leaving everyone else to catch up. White arrived first, followed by orange who turned into poison gas at the start pissing everyone else off, then red, Hilda and the rest following the highest remaining level to the lowest, with the last one ending blue reaching in 3 days. Alright, everybody is finally here, put your hand on the wall and join. White says while placing his hand in an invisible wall, causing small ripples to appear before disappearing as the rest follow along. Hey Shila, can I come back to floor one after going to floor 2? Hilda thinks, letting Shila read her mind. Yea, are you concerned about the other dungeon? Ofcourse, free levels. Dungeon (Cyclopes jail)Stolen novel; please report. Recommended party size: 5. Max players at a time: limitless. Recommended average minimum level 26. Enter? Hilda watches as everybody starts disappearing, probably entering the dungeon as she follows along. As she reappears in a large dimly lit room, with pillars and chains on the ceiling, leading up to a chained up sleeping cyclops. As they slowly approach it and identify it, some of the weaker users start trying to back out but find no way out. Race:giant Bloodline:ancient giant(5 percent) Level 50 Stats. (150 S) (150 E) (150 A) (50 M) Warning, due to being a mini boss, stats have been increased two fold. Warning, due to having excessive users, difficulty has been increased by 5 percent for every additional user over 5, an increase of (25 percent). Warning, due to users having entered the dungeon, the bosses restraints have been reduced Notification, due to fighting a boss, all ¡°first¡± and legendary achievements are shared. First to kill a level 5(epic)(Aiden) All users will have their level increased by 5. First to max a skill(Legendary)(Aiden) All skills, passive and active will be strengthened by 10 percent. First to kill a spiritual being over level 20(Epic)(Aiden) Mana will be permanently increased by 20 percent. First to strain trait.(Epic)(Black) All users'' traits can last longer despite strain and had a faster recovery speed by 10 percent. First to get recoil.(Black)(Epic) recoil is no longer as severe by 5 percent. First to use trait.(Rare)(Black) All users'' traits will be buffed by 5 percent. Survivor. (Legendary)(Black) All users will be able to barely survive a lethal blow. As everybody stares at the ¡°first¡± and legendary achievements most of them get shocked at how many Hilda even though half of them she got at the start along with the legendary achievements. These two are monsters. Red says out loud without noticing as most of the other users agree with her. Warning: Host is fighting an enemy more than one/two/three/etc times as strong. As they finish reading the notifications they continue approaching the sleeping cyclops as they get into position and prepare whatever skills or buffs they need. Warning: Host is fighting an enemy more than one/two/three/etc times as strong. Notification. trait "sis con" is active Stats are being quadrupled Trait "sis con" is being strained severely, user will suffer near permanent severe damage after deactivation. Deactivate it, worse comes to worse I sacrifice a couple of these morons, but don''t multiply my stats by so much and risk my life when it''s not yet necessary. red starts off by buffing Hilda followed by her pets and anybody else who doesn''t use magic, commanding her pets to attack as Hilda and white start attacking it''s head with Hilda using the mental state, causing it to wake up, screaming in pain as it swings its arms at the two, breaking off some of the chains chaining it to the ground. Hilda starts attacking again, followed by white and everybody else as the giant keeps swinging its arms around, breaking more and more chains as it slowly starts to stand up, easily towering over everybody. As they continue the barrage of attacks on the giant, not dealing any visible damage, it finally breaks off the last chain on its neck as it stomps its foot, making the ground crack under its weight and strength causing those too close and too weak to be knocked down. As they keep attacking, Hilda uses her sword qi combined with her mana to strengthen her sword and cut its achilles tendon on its legs, causing it to roar in pain as it kneels down. I''ll keep it down! White shouts out as Shila helps Hilda replies. How? I can increase the density of the water I control, purple try shooting its eyes and black, don''t let it heal back! Oh, so that''s how this idiots'' water hurt so much despite not having high enough of a water pressure. Hilda thinks while continuously cutting its Achilles tendons preventing it from generating. As purple shoots its eyes, causing it to tightly shut its eye, it roars out in pain again before starting to shine red as its body becomes more durable and the regeneration becomes faster making Hilda back up due to not being able to keep up. What the hell is it doing? White asks before red replies after double checking. I think it''s budding itself with physical buffs. What type? I''m not sure I don''t have this, but I know there''s multiple and each is much stronger than my own. They keep attacking before it fully heals up sufficiently enough to stand up and attack Hilda and white along with blocking any attacks that come its way as the ground starts to shake and a hammer made of dirt forms In Front of the Cyclops as it carries it. What the hell? Everybody scatters as the giant brings the hammer down on the ground causing cracks to form as the ground slowly regenerates back. One hit and we''re dead¡­ well technically two due to my achievement but whatever. Hilda thinks before avoiding another hit. Purple do you have any stronger and longer arrows? White ands why spraying it''s eye, stopping it for a moment before it swings it''s hammer at him causing him to dodge. I don''t, but I have enough points to buy one! Do it, I''ll find a way to compensate you if we manage to live. Hey white, you got a way to survive? Hilda asks not caring if other people hear her due to the giant''s loud commotion. Yea, also feel free to call me Aiden. No. What about you, got a plan? Yea. Hilda admits while looking up. And dodging another hit. So the same plan as me. White says while spraying water at the giant again, stopping it for a second and pissing it off more. Purple! Have you bought the arrow yet? White shouts as he attacks the cyclopes again. movies and video games are all completely wrong about it''s eye being the weak spot. He whispers to himself as he sprays its eye again. Yea but I can''t get a shot in! I''ll fix that, orange, spray it with as much poison as you can, don''t worry about me or black. I honestly don''t care about you guys, I just don''t want to be seen as a backstabbing bitch, and I can''t reach its face. Hilda goes in and uses a decent chunk of her mana to slash its Achilles tendons again causing it to kneel back down in pain again. Good job black, purple shoots its eye and orange spray its face with it after, black you know what to do I believe. As purple shoots its eye and orange starts spraying it with poison, it tries standing up again and pulling the arrow out as white pushes it back down with more water than water along with red using her pets that can fly to push the arrow further in. Ok, they''re all distracting, so I gotta do this properly. Hilda thinks while running back to the start which isn''t far after having been pushed back by the cyclopes, and barely sufficient strength to jump up to the ceiling. System, increase my strength as much as possible. Sure, it''ll increase you up to 60 Do 70. It''ll strain though. Is it by a lot? No, you''ll manage but you sure? Yea so do it. As Hilda feels her strength going up to 75 due to the buff helping the increased stats she uses all her mana and swings at the chain, nearly cutting through in one way as she keeps pushing her sword into it, trying harder and harder as she watches the giant start healing with white and red no longer able to keep up as much. As Hilda adds on her sword qi to the mana, it starts cutting through faster, eventually breaking free and swinging down with Hilda on it, hitting the cyclops In the face as it stands up, leaving it motionless. Well done everybody, we managed to kill it just barely. White says as he sits on the ground satisfied with the torches joining in. It feels weird, something''s wrong. Hilda thinks before changing her sword to the mental state and rushing at the giant as everybody gets confused. What are you doing? White asks, standing up and watching her. Ignore him, him and his systems a crazy pair. His system adds on as Hilda plunges her sword in the mental state into the giant''s head, making it start shouting in pain again, shocking everyone. Oh crap, it didn''t show the kill message, attack it! White shouts out, snapping the others out of their shock as he goes and attacks its head with everybody picking up their weapons and rushing at it. System, show me the shop now. Hilda thinks while trying her best to keep her sword in its head as the system shows her exactly what she needs, a 2000 points bomb. Bomb(epic) Hilda, I kind of captured too strong of a monster for a boss, so here''s a good bomb for cheap, you''re still paying for it since using the chains wasn''t intended. Annoying as hell. Hilda buys the bomb, hurting on the inside due to seeing her points drop by 2000 as she quickly closes the screen and throws the bomb at white. White, throw that into its mouth! Hilda thinks, letting Shila talk for her as white throws the bomb quickly into its mouth as Hilda accidently activated it already As white throws the bomb in, Hilda quickly tries pulling her sword out but finds it stuck in physical mode due to having no mana with no choice but to leave her weapon behind as it blows up with the giant''s head. Boss: ¡°giant¡± has been killed. Level up x6 All stats +6 Trait has been improved slightly. Achievement unlocked Kill floor ones boss(legendary) Access to floor two. First to kill a level 50 monster with a group Skill level up Low level mental magic (level 8¡úmax) Sword qi. (Level 3¡ú7) Achievement unlocked, Second to max out a skill(legendary) All skills will be 7.5 percent stronger. Shame that I didn''t level up spatial magic but it was too risky to use in this situation. Nice, and I didn''t have to sacrifice anyone either. As Hilda walks up to the rest of the group to see if there''s anything else left to do or rewards, the guide suddenly appears behind all of them making everyone notice instantly due to the fact he''s shining in such a dark environment. Hello everybody, time for the award distribution. Chapter 14. Boss awards Hello everybody, you all look terrible honestly. Anyways, the awards will be ranked based on contribution, just like the event, please open your system to check the rankings. 1st:Black. 2nd:Aiden. 3rd:Aileen 4th:Red 5:Purple Runner up:Leah Honorary mentions:Yellow Honorary mentions:Green Honorary mentions:John Participation award:Blue As you all can see, after leaving the boss room, you''ll be teleported to a different room where I''ll provide the awards separately. Yea right, he''s just going to send up back to the stupid white room ain''t he? The room even looks like it''s just a bigger room made for mental patients. Whatever I guess, I just go already hey shila, send me out of this shitty place already. Hilda says to Shila, ignoring the fact that the guide is still talking, but mostly randomly unimportant things. Yea yea whatever. Shila clicks something on the system screen sending her and Hilda to no big surprise, the same room with the guide in the center of it. Hey. Yea I lack creativity, so what? Could you not read my mind? I didn''t, it''s written on your face. But I''m wearing my mask. I made the system, my mental resistance is maxed, your mask isn''t blocking anything from me. ¡­ Fine whatever, weren''t you talking to the other people? Yes, but you interrupted me and left, anyways the one with them is a clone right now. A real or fake one? It''s a clone, of course it''s fake. No I meant tha- Yes, it''s a physical body, but obviously much weaker than me. I''ll keep that in mind. It''s still strong enough to beat you, so don''t attack it before reaching at least 20 times your current level. That''s around level 800¡­ Which you''ll reach around¡­ I estimate floor 50. Why so long, why not floor 20? Because it takes longer and longer to level up the more you level, also levels become less relevant around the 300s. Huh? Skills and items are the priority afterwards, well, maybe not for you due to your trait but skills and items are still a huge priority. Nice I got two questions though. Yes? First is why didn''t I get any recoil? Leveling up mitigates it a bit and the potential recoil goes bad anyways. Second question, can a person''s trait change? Yes, but it''s basically a part of them, so it usually take drastic changes to the person, but yours won''t change even if you die so you''re good. Okay, now give me my awards, I''ve been sleep deprived for 3 days already. Fine fine, you''re still fine because of your level, you could probably easily manage 5 days. But I don''t want it. You could. I''m not going to. I wasn''t forcing you, anyways here take it, it''s in your system.Stolen from its rightful place, this narrative is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. Shila, pay up. Fine. Shila shows the points amounting up to 20000. Why so much? 10000 from it being level 50, extra 5000 because it was a boss, the last 5000 because you''re the top contributor.. Oh also she''s got more stuff. Shila? Nope, nothing. Really? As Hilda steps closer to Hilda who fits the phrase ¡°wear your heart on your sleeves¡± and is currently looking more guilty with every step closer to her. You sure? Yep. Open the inventory. Why? Open it. ¡­ Hey guide, you can open my inventory for me right? Ofcourse, but this is entertaining for me. Open my inventory up Shila. No. Look, I''ll stick my hand into you if I must. She says, earning her a mocking look of disgust from the guide. Shut up, you know what I mean. Hilda takes her hand and stick into into Shila''s shirt, entering it because her shirt is also part of the system into her inventory, and pulling everything out, including her remaining tip coupon, elixir, a new sword and something else Shila refuses to give up. Once I''m done checking this sword, you''re paying up whatever it is that you''re hiding. Soul cutter(legendary) Oh wow, why a legendary weapon? Because from now on, all bosses will have to be fought alone and I feel like I may have made the bosses a little too strong along with the monsters, which I will solve in a year. A year? Yea, every year I intend to put more users into the tower, improving any mistakes overtime. Why name it soul cutter? Because it can cut souls in half, but you won''t be able to do so easily, until level 1000 at least. That''s gonna take a while. Obviously, cutting a person''s soul means that it''s hard even for me to receive, no way I''m going to let you do so already. Right¡­ Also remember to clean up all your mess. Later. Soul cutter(legendary) When dealing. Physical damage using this sword, the person will also suffer a mental attack, infusing mana will increase the sharpness, durability and mental aspects of the sword. You can claim this sword and part of your soul by infusing some of your mana and absorb it into your body or recall it back at a moment''s notice simply by desiring to do so. Warning, the strength of the weapon is highly dependent on the user''s strength. Nice, but what does absorbing it in my soul mean? Hard to explain but it''ll make your soul stronger when not using the sword since the sword will defends against attacks against the soul when you don''t call it out. Ok? Hilda infuses some mana into it as the sword glows and turns from white to black letting out a black mist around it as it disappears into Hilda''s body. Why did it turn black? When you chose your colour during the event, it affected your souls, its not bad don''t worry in fact it helps strength your soul even if the amount is minuscule. What about the black trail? Can you get rid of that? Don''t wanna. Why? Cause I don''t feel like it. ¡­ Anyways, Shila, what''s the last object? Technically she has two more. Shila, pay up. Fine. Shila pulls out an elixir and passes it to Hilda. And what''s left? It''s not important. Guide? Technically it''s not important at all. Fine then, but I''ll still get it later. Oh by the way, go check the shop. Hm? Hilda opens the shop to find System upgrade(Legendary) Cost:10000. Oh nice, you finally gave it, but why for 10000? Because its not going to be cheap. As Shila listens in, she tilts her head curiously. Oh yea, I didn''t let her see this or she would probably buy it immediately. Nice, but why would she want this badly? It makes a system feel more complete as a person, you wouldn''t understand. What are you two talking about? Nothing Shila, it''s just a system upgrade. Hearing this, Shila immediately runs up to Hilda and tries to plead and act cute. You''re basically a younger version of me, I honestly don''t care how cute you look. Come on, just buy it for me yea? Then give me the object you were hiding. Fine, but you promise you will buy it? Fine. Shila pulls a box out of Hilda''s inventory named. Food box(epic) Can materialise any food you want(limit: 10,000 tonnes in total) Are you serious? Buy the upgrade for me now. Not till you keep all the stuff on the floor up. You messed it up. Cause you wouldn''t open my inventory. Fine. Shila goes around picking up the 2 elixirs, box, tip coupon and goes back to Hilda. Fine, I''ll buy it¡­ my 10,000 points are going goodbye¡­ oh what a pain. Buy it!!!! Hilda brings her trembling finger to the buy option watching her points go from 22700 to 12700 as a card appears mid air which Shila grabs quickly while Hilda drops to the ground hurt(financially). Achievement unlocked Big spender.(Exclusive) I made this achievement just for you, it''ll self delete in 3 days. Screw you¡­ Hilda, still on the floor, brings her head to look at Shila as she looks at the card not knowing what to do before¡­ eating it and shining for a second before reappearing with no visible changes. What the hell¡­ She''s got 10 percent of your stats by the way, and she''s got her own status too now. Great, Shila show me your status Name: Shila Gender: Female Level:21(tied to users level/2) Stats:(21 S) (21 E) (21 A) (16 M) Personality: loves(free)food. Trait: ¡°leecher(max)¡±(trait level tied to users) Hilda stands up slowly and looks through. What does your trait do? Ask him Shila gestures towards the guide who''s just standing beside watching. So? It gives her leech-like abilities. Such as? Absorbing mana,endurance and health for herself, or you. Health? It''s not a stat since I can''t quantify it due to how troublesome it''ll be, but absorbing it can help heal you, but not too much, it''ll just be like reducing minor injuries, stopping blood loss and helping help minor bone injuries, just examples, but it can''t help with severe injuries. What''s the drawback, since it''s a max level like mine. She wants to eat more, and anything free, oh and when I say free, I mean when she doesn''t pay for it or when other people pay for it. Whatever¡­ but since I''m here, give me a tip. No, but here''s some information, everybody in the top 5 got a legendary weapon. The runner up go a legendary too, but it''s worse than some epics, but still pretty good The honorary awards got a great epic weapon, still worse than the runner ups weapon. Everybody got a weapon suited for them except the participant award, blue who I just gave a random trash epic weapon to. Nice, send me back now. Fine. Hilda gets teleported back and sees Shila excited to try her trait out. Go to sleep first, it''s night right now and I''m too tired to deal with this. You''re not tired, we''re basically connected, I can feel it. Yes, but I want to sleep. Nooooo, come with me or I can''t go far enough to find any monsters. If you behave, I''ll give you the box tomorrow. Fine¡­ Go to sleep now. Hilda buys a small protective tent for 500 points(safety over money)and goes in with Shila cuddling up to her Why are you getting more childish? Well, every upgrade makes me feel closer to a human, that means closer to my appearance of a¡­ I think 8 years old child Fine whatever, just go to sleep. Sure. As Hilda slowly wanders off to sleep, she can''t help but wonder how Lela''s doing. Chapter 15. Lela and a busybody It''s been a week, a week, only a week, how the hell am I supposed to wait 5 years for her to come back?! I mean, apparently Hilda was pitied since she had worked multiple jobs without my knowledge so her boss gave her severance pay after firing her despite not needing to since she stopped showing up, which went to me instead, but I''m so lonely and bored. Lela, still on her bed having just woken up, considers going to the police again but decides against it since they were useless the first time. As Hilda gets up and gets on with her morning routine and starts jogging, something she recently adapted into her routine to kill time before heading to her cooking class, something she also took up to kill time. During the cooking lesson in a food she doesn''t remember the name of and has no interest in actually learning nor eating she starts playing around with the food, causing those beside her to look at her with distasteful looks for wasting food and good ingredients, but don''t voice it out at all with Lela not caring due to being used to such looks. As Lela puts down the ingredients and walks out, sighing with the instructor behind her calling, she starts walking back home, and sees an old playground, one she hasn''t seen or visited in a long time despite it being so near her house. As Lela goes to the playground, surprised that it hasn''t been removed to make space for something else or at least renovated, she looks around, reminiscing about playing with Hilda before their parents left them, one by choice, one by fate. Now that I think about it, when Hilda comes back won''t she be as busy as she was before? She wonders while sitting on the swing that she''s too tall to actually swing on. I wonder if we''ll ever have time to play again without her always being so busy even if it''s for me. Later as Lela goes away while promising to herself to return to the playground every once in a while and goes home for the day as she notices the sun setting. Wow, I was at the playground for quite a while wasn''t I? She wonders while cooking up some instant noodles remembering that Hilda used to eat it most days while forbidding her from eating it. Hm, if she was here I''d be scolded so I might as well enjoy the next 5 years of instant noodles While looking around and finishing up her instant noodles and throwing it away, Lela considers getting a relationship, not a romantic one due Hilda whose definitely get pissed off about a romantic relationship but maybe just a friend or even a pet would suffice.If you encounter this tale on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. Hmm, I''m sensitive to pet fur, if I get one won''t I just regret it, and I doubt I''ll be getting any friends either, well I mean I do have a hobby I enjoy. Lela packs up some prayer(stuff) and goes to the graveyard and prays for her father. Hi again I''m back, Hilda busy nowadays with god knows what but I won''t question it since she left me enough money for me to know she isn''t joking since one of the few things she can''t bear to part with is money, anyways I brought you some flowers but don''t expect food since I''m kinda on a budget now, anyways it''s getting pretty late and I''m still scared of the dark so I''m gonna go now. Lela walks away from her father''s grave and goes to one with her mother''s name. Mother, I hope you enter this grave soon since you deserve it. She spits on her mother''s still empty grave to her dissatisfaction as she walks home. On her way home, she revisits the playground for a moment before going home again. At home, she uses her old phone to watch YouTube and prepared to go to school knowing that the next day will be no different from today and may be so for the next 5 years before drifting off to sleep. The next day, Lela wakes up to a knock at her front door and goes to check it out to see a child there in a robe hiding their appearance completely. Who are you? Trick or treat? It''s January. Yes, but your house looks abandoned and perfect for Halloween. I''m just really broke, what do you want? Trick or treat? ¡­ Bug off. Lela closes the door on the stupid looking kid(this is personal for me). As Lela closes the door and goes back later, she sees that the kid has left only to hear another knock later in the afternoon and seeing the kid reappear. Bug off. Hey, miss, can I ask for your name? Why? Curious. It''s Lela, now go away. Miss. What¡­ Do you live with anyone? No. Did you used to? Yes. Who? None of your business. Come on miss, sharing is caring, even if it''s just information. If I tell you, will you leave me alone? Sure. It was my friend. Lies. Fine, my sister. Thank you, what''s your sister''s name? None of your business. Before the kid could ask questions again, Lela closes the door on his face. Later at night, around 11pm when Lela is still awake watching from her nearly spoiled TV, she hears a knock again. No way that kids back. Lela tries ignoring it but it keeps going on for the next 30 minutes but she gives up and goes to the door. What the hell do you want?, Your name''s Lela right miss? yea, now answer my question. Can I call you Lela too? Sure, just get lost. What about I give you info too? What could a kid have? I know what your sisters are doing. Haha, now go away. I''m not kidding, I know where Hilda''s at. How do you know her name? I just told you, I know where she is. Fine, what is she doing? Preparing for your future. I''m gonna need more specifications here. Nope, she''d be pretty damn upset if I told you. Fine, is she having a decent life at least? Uhhhh, decent enough. Huh? That''s all you''re getting also, if you want I can let you meet your sister in 3 years instead of 5? Will she be happy by that? Yes and no. Huh? She''d be happy to see you, upset at me that I let you there before she''s prepared enough to protect you. Protect me? Then why can''t I protect myself? Secret. Anyways, I''ve got to go now, have fun. Sure. Why did that kid seem like he was glowing under the robe? Whatever¡­ Information bout me cus why not? I''m making this chapter because I''m honestly too lazy to make a third chapter, it''s currently 24th of December so when I put this in RR it''ll probably be¡­ 27th? I make 3 chapters a day and post 2 up every day, but I intend tk stop so many when I hit 20 chapters or on 30 December, probably 20 chapters. Anyways, I''m making this chapter because I''m too lazy to make a third chapter like I said. Here''s some info. Hilda''s competitive personality and cheapskate personality is based off myself And Shila''s personality about being a leach is based on myself too.(I love spending others money but not my own)Stolen story; please report. As for the sis con, that''d based on me and my brother whose younger than me by a lot, obviously I''m not as obsessed with him as Hilda here, I just love him the most in my family(I know I''m going off topic) Also I intend to make a discord for patron or whatever it was called in 3 years when I become a legal adult, if that doesn''t work I''ll sell feet pics on OF or something. Oh also, if you know me irl don''t talk to me about me writing this novel because I have no intentions to talk about it if I know you irl. Hey, saying I would sell feet pics wonts get my chapter taken down or something right? Hey guys this is something separate I''m adding on the 27th, but this fiction was writtened as a hobby¡­ nvm idk how to phrase this without being rude, but even if you guys like a character or something, I may make them out to suddenly die off or be an ass. No, this is not foreshadowing, this is simply Incase for the future. Chapter 16. Floor 2. Hey Hilda, when are we gonna take a break? You''ve been hunting for so long since yesterday! It''s not my fault¡­ you''re the one who said I should reach level 45 first at least If I want to go and hunt efficiently on the second floor. That was before you tried the weapon and I saw how good it was¡­ and I didn''t think you''d make me use my trait like this! ¡ª---------------------------------------------- Yesterday ¡ª---------------------------------------------- Hey hilda Yea? Let''s go try my trait now, yea? She says in excitement while running and jumping around due to no longer being able to float since she has a physical body and isn''t only just a system now. Fine. Look, there''s a weak one right there, go try it. Sure. As Shila goes over to the level 7 skeleton and starts absorbing, it drops dead almost immediately as Shila glows slightly. Wow, I guess your level is 3 times it but can you do that to multiple monsters? Yea, each monster will be less affected but in total it''ll still be better, and the higher level they are the much slower the absorbing rate. So if you absorb health you get health right? I can convert the health/endurance I absorb into mana, but I don''t know the conversion rate due to mana being the only thing that can visibly decrease on the screen with health not even being a stat but it''s definitely lower. Ok, I''m gonna go and hunt non-stop, I''ll run around and restraint them while you kill them, I get xp when you kill something right? 70 percent. Sure, so if it means my stamina due to endurance will be able to maintain than it''s worth it, if we meet any stronger ones, I''ll use mana to kill it in one hit since there''s probably nothing that can survive a strong enough hit from me if I use mana in floor 1. Sure, but please remember that I can get hurt now. Hence the fact I''ll restrain them. Fine. ¡ª---------------------------------------------- Back to the present ¡ª---------------------------------------------- I can''t believe you''ve been making use of me to hunt nonstop, usually you would have gotten tired from fighting already! Yea but I''ve leveled up 3 times, isn''t it pretty good, we should just stay here since I don''t feel tired at all. ¡­ Once you reach 45, we''re going to floor 2. Nah, we should just stay and since skills don''t depend too much on the strength l of what I am killing, my spatial magic hit level 7 now andsword qi¡¯s level 11, why hasn''t it hit max level? Sword qi is unique, its max level is 99. ¡­ Nice? But fine let''s go to floor 2 already Finally!!! And help me buy some skills too. Why should I? Your leech ability is sufficient and it doesn''t take mana either. ¡­ But me skills. No Stolen story; please report. Then I won''t use my ability for you. Then I won''t give you the food box. You are a liar, you owe me the box you piece of shit. Nah. Fineeeeeeeeeeeeeee, I''ll use my damn skill, I''m just asking for some skills, not even expensive ones. Hey, I''ve already spent 10,000 points on your upgrade, I''m not spending any more on you. Cheapskate. So what? Fine, whatever let''s just go to level two already. Level up. All stats +1. Trait has been slightly improved. Oh nice, perfect timing, let''s go. Sure, let''s go. Shila starts running Infront of Hilda and getting close to her face looking oddly excited with her arms behind her back. What are you doing? What? Why are you so enthusiastic? I''m just excited for the next level. Don''t give me that rubbish, I upgraded you, you probably already have some info about the second floor. Nope, so let''s just go already okay? Notification. Skill ¡°low level field magic¡± has been bought. (cost:100) ¡­ As Hilda reads the notification that just appeared beside her she turns to Shila whose sweating bullets bullets as she gulps. Shila. Yes? What is field magic? And If it wasn''t worth 100 points, you''re dead. You can''t hurt me. Not anymore, your body is physical now ain''t it? Hilda says while gently pulling Shila''s cheeks making her nervous. So, wanna tell me what it does now? Yes Ma''am. Shila immediately salutes and starts explaining the skills while sweating bullets. Field magic affects the area around me. Shila says, still saluting, and somehow looking more nervous than before. Like? Slowing the opponents around me, or dealing damage. How much? Different effects are differently effective. Fine, does having a higher level help? Yea. It''s a passive skill right? Yes. Can you remove the effect if needed? Yea. Can you target a specific person or entity? No. Can the range be increased? No ¡­ Fine, I won''t hold much of a grudge. Thank you, your my god, I''ll worship you from today onwards! Shut it, you''re gonna compensate by hurrying up instead of being so slow in my hunting on floor 2, and give me all the info on floor 2 you''ve got. Fine, floor 1 is just generalized for users to get used to, but each floor up to floor 10 only has monsters specialized in a specific aspect. What''s floor 2? ¡­ Something you hate. Huh? Remember the dungeon? Yea what about it? Yea, everything is undead, you got an undead achievement for bosses, so that''s an advantage but you might want to hunt quickly and ditch it. Great¡­ just send me already¡­ Floor 2 boss is level 100 btw. So since it''ll all have a 50 percent buff I should reach level 150? No, the systems here today help you with skills, something those lifeforms don''t have, so skills will be your advantage, killing higher level monsters with skills is actually gonna get a lot more normal than you think. Great¡­ just send me there. Sure. As Shila sends them both to the second floor, Hilda looks around and immediately feels goosebumps all over her body as she starts off on a normal patch of grass about a hundred meters in diameters but with eh outside clearly being nothing but dirt, dead trees, undead, and graves being extremely similar to the dungeon, but she can see a couple of abominations very far away, with there only being a few in a couple kilometers align with some other monsters which looks as strong as the abominations What''s going on? Aren''t abominations monsters? Maybe on the first floor and the dungeon they are, not in here though. Great¡­ this is going to be an actual nightmare, let''s hurry and go hunt, I''m ditching out of here as soon as possible. Fine. For the next few days Hilda and Shila kept hunting and hunting making Shila disappear back into the system as a protest for the unfair treatment and lack of rest. ¡­ When is she gonna come back? I''ve gotten used to it but it''s still kinda scary especially the bosses which are considered just strong monsters here that I need to keep running away from. Let me just check the leaderboard first, luckily I can still do this without Shila around. Black(level 50) Aiden(level 48) Red(level 45) Aileen(level 43) Purple (level 41) Leah(level 34) Yellow(level 31) Green(level 29) John(level 28) Blue(level 28) Why are the lower level ones so low? Because they''re still stuck at floor 1 and floor 2 is too strong since the minimum strength of monsters here is 30 and they''re usually in small groups. Oh, when did you return? Just now¡­ let me make this clear, I''m not going hunting for days again. Fine but do you think I''m high enough level for the dungeon yet? Hell no! But the suggested level is 40 and I''m 50. Yea, and the recommended amount of players is 4, your 1, did you fail maths? I''m a diligent student alright? Bullshit. So what? ¡­ If you want to hunt faster, why not just attack from far away? How? ¡­ No seriously, how? Use your sword qi¡­ Oh yea, that was a function right? Have you¡­ never used it before? Nope. Even though your sword qi¡¯s at level 13 now? My spatial magics also at 8 you know? I didn''t ask for that, I can check. I know, just changing the topic. ¡­ Anyways, how do I do it? Do I just use sword qi on my sword and swing at? Basical- Hilda uses sword qi on her sword and swings it at Shila before she can finish her sentence as she barely dodged causing decent damage to the ground behind. You piece of shit! Wow, looks like it''s easy enough. Oi! Yes? Hilda says feigning innocence while smiling with a hint of mischievousness. You''re an irritating person, you know? My specialty. It''s not a compliment! So what? I took it as one. Sincerely go die. How rude. ¡­ Whatever, since your back let''s go and continue hunting okay? We''ve rested long enough in this hell hole already and the white guy¡­ oh yea, Aiden that''s right is gonna catch up soon. I''m not gonna. As Shila starts to disappear again, Hilda grabs her by the arm and feigns an innocent smile. Noooooo, I don''t want toooooo. Let''s have a bunch of fun together, yea? Hilda says, still with the menacing smile, making Shila regret coming back. Chapter 17. New skills. Give or take a couple weeks later(lazy to do lines) ¡­ Hey shila. ¡­ Shila. ¡­ Come on, I know we took less than like¡­ Hilda uses her fingers to start counting. 3¡­ no 4 breaks over the past couple of weeks, but isn''t that enough? ¡­ Hey, I''m only level 60 now with white behind me by 3 at 57, it''s not my fault leveling up has gotten so slow, ever since level 51, the amount of xp has been increasing by 50 percent everyday you know? How about this? Well go do the dungeon on floor 1 before it becomes useless especially since I''ve got 20K points from hunting all the monsters and even some abominations along with those weird wraith masses which honestly hurt my wallet quite a bit¡­ ¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­. After the dungeon I swear we''ll take a 3¡­ no 2¡­. 1 and a half days break okay? 4. 1 and a half. 4. 1. 5. Hey, you''re a terrible negotiator you know? 3¡­ 2. Fine¡­ Ok let''s go, send us to floor 1 now. Fine. As Shila sends them both to floor one, Hilda immediately starts rushing full speed to the dungeon, dragging Shila along using the invisible barrier due to Shila not being able to be a kilometer further than Hilda. Slow down!!! Shila gets sent into another tree, face first, easily knocking the tree down but still in slight pain as she looks up and sees that they''re about to enter the forest. Are you kiddi¨C (For your imagination dear readers, if this scene was irl, it''d be like deforestation using a machine in a straight line¡­) Couple hours later(I''m still lazy to draw the lines) Hilda stands proudly at the dungeon, making sure to avoid eye contact with Shila whose face looks like it has grown twice the size and most likely glaring at her. So Shila I have a question. Hilda says still not turning to look back at Shila. Yes? Why does floor 2 have no mini bosses? Oh that''s simple, it''s because. Because? What you didn''t hear? No? Fine, I''ll repeat, it''s because¡­ Because? Because of¡­ Of? Of¡­ Spit it out already. Wait, I''m thinking of a nice way to lie to you to piss you off. ¡­ What''s the grudge about?This book is hosted on another platform. Read the official version and support the author''s work. I wonder¡­ Fine, maybe I could have slowed down, but come on, using spatial magic especially since it''s maxed along with my stats now I can run and jump so much further and maintain my spatial magic so it''s fun. For you. Come on, I even gave you the food box. Which I haven''t had the chance to use. Fine, I''ll compensate you with¡­ 1000 points for whatever you want. 2000. 1500. 2000. Fine. 3000. Don''t push your luck. Fine 2500. 2000 or nothing. Fine. 2250? 1750. Fine 2000. Too late. 2000 or I''m not going into the dungeon. So 2000 it is, if you hadn''t given up on 2250 I might have caved in. Ok, than 22- Too late. So why does floor 2 have no mini bosses? It does, in dungeons. Dungeons? I haven''t seen any. That''s cus they''re rare¡­ so far you''ve only found 1 one floor 1 haven''t you? There''s more? Yea, but after this one, the rest of the dungeons may become useless. I can''t enter them? No, your level would be too high to gain much. Oh, I''m gonna enter now. Before Hilda presses the option to enter, Shila interrupts again, passing her a tip coupon. What''s the meaning of this? Tear it obviously. Why? Because if you don''t, this dungeon would be useless in helping level your skills. But I can just level sword qi. It''s already level 17¡­ Yea but each level up doesn''t seem to help much. ¡­ Just tear it. Fine. Hilda tears it and enters the same room, same appearance, same size, same sme¡­ Wait, what''s that smell? Oh hi Hilda, I see your back already, again¡­ Right, what''s that smell? What smell? You don''t smell it? No? Shila, what about you? No. Shila sniffs the air, with the supposed smell slowly increasing the nearer to the guide she goes. What are you doing? This is a clone right? Yes. Does it feel pain? No. Is it hard to make? Hilda swings her sword at the guide''s neck only for him to block with a finger. May I ask why? You smell like my house, and sister. .. you''re a freak you know? You''ve seen my trait, you should know. Fine, I visited your sister, what about it? Why? Curiosity to see if that sister is as big of a freak as the sister in front of me. You owe me one. That''s¡­ not how this works. Then give me reassurance you will pay back the I.O.U for the abomination accident. Fine. The guide pulls out a contract and hands it to Hilda as Hilda reads and signs it before it burns into ashes. You happy? Yea, now what skills do I buy? First you should upgrade your skills. Sword qi? But Shila said not to. Hilda points over to Shila who is lying down, appreciating the short rest despite the lack of comfort and view. Listen to her, upgrade your spatial and mental magic. They''re already maxed. Well, I guess evolving would be better suited. Right¡­ how do I evolve my skill? Go to the shop. Sure. Go to mental magic skills only. Done. Go to any of the 3 mental magic you merged in. Done. Tap on the option called merged. Done, done wow, this is my low level mental magic skills? Yea, press evolve at the bottom. Done. Hilda watches as her mental magic skills goes from low level mental magic to just mental magic. Wow, but couldn''t I just have bought the three normal skills? Yes, but this is cheaper. Cheaper? Yea, I know you''re a cheapskate anyways. No, this cost me points? To evolve? Yea a thousand, but buying the skills would have been a thousand each, so I''d say this was a win. If not for the face I''m about to go into the dungeon I''d swing my sword at you again. You''re welcomed to try, not like you''d succeed. Tsk. Hilda reluctantly watches as her points go down without even an achievement. Hey, pay up. Huh? Achievement. No, I didn''t make one for this. It wouldn''t provide benefits that are worth it. I''ve got an achievement literally called broke, so what are you on about? Oh yea, I made that uniquely for you, and also even if there was an achievement, Aileen got it already. Who? It''s in the leaderboard. Yea I know, but that doesn''t help me identify it. Fine, orange. You''re allowed to just tell me so easily? Anyways, what skills should I buy? Also for Shila over there. For your system, I would suggest debuff ones that draw out a battle. Makes sense I guess¡­ You seem unhappy. Because that''s a waste of time. Well debuff ones can also deal damage. Really? Overtime and only if there are enough debuffs, and strong enough, and a debuffed opponent is easier to use her trait on. Yea yea, slower and all that. No, the weaker the opponents, even if it''s by a debuff, the faster the leech. Oh nice I guess. Anyways for you, you need to find something else to specialize in case your mental magic can be countered. Like what? Poison? No, I don''t wanna be like orange. What about debuff? Don''t wanna be like Shila. Hilda says, earning her a look from the aforementioned individual. So original? Yea. ¡­ Troublesome. How about conversion magic? What''s that? It''s in the name. ¡­ I need more specifications here. It converts. What? Anything. To? Anything Example? Mental magic to physical and vice versa Incase mental magic doesn''t work. Oh, then let me go buy it. This one is unique, there''s only one skill, no lower or higher either, also a pain to level up. Doesn''t matter. The higher the level, the more you can convert. Can it convert physical matter? Yea, so if your strength gets high enough, you can turn someone to dust. ¡­ But of course even if you max out the skill, you still need to be much stronger than them. Oh, makes sense. Conversation magic(level 1) Converts anything to anything. (Warning: overuse may cause parts of skill to recoil and convert user partially) What''s that warning? It''s a strong skill, of course it has risks, higher than your mental magic which you haven''t failed at a single time because you''re actually talented at that. The guide says with a surprised and clearly fake tone making Hilda annoyed at his underestimation of her Anyways, time to go off now. Fine, but question. What¡­ Aren''t I stronger than the cyclops now? No. But I''m at a higher level. And it was buffed so heavily it was closer to a level 125 with skills stronger than yours but a lot. Oh yea, forgot about that, bye, if I smell the same smell again next time, I''m cutting the head off this clone. Happy trying, bye. as Hilda and Shila get sent back with Shila looking like she got sent back to hell as Hilda renters the dungeon, back to the checkpoint. Alright, let''s go. Chapter 18. Hidden area. As Hilda steps out of the checkpoint, which also functions as a SafeZone, she looks around to find it similar looking to the first part of the dungeon which also looks like floor 2. Great¡­ my points are going bye bye. Shila, let''s go. Fine.. So estimated 4 people level 40 huh? This is gonna be easy for my level since you said skills are priority right? I guess? But that''s not entirely tr¨C Hilda immediately goes off and starts attacking, easily killing the weaker monsters. Why even ask? As Hilda keeps hunting, she kills a couple abominations and watches her points keep going up but also down due to the increased number of ghosts and wraith masses which requires more points for holy water than they provide. Couple hours later(yea, I''m still too lazy for the lines, whatchu gon do bout it?) Ok, I''m just gonna fight the boss and go, I''ve only leveled up once so far to 61, and that was only because I hunted so long on floor 2, so i had remaining xp. I wouldn''t suggest that. Why? Can''t tell you. Too strong? Yea ¡­ Nah, I don''t believe you, I''m gonna go check. Later¡­ Shila. Yes? I''m sorry. Hilda says, kneeling down in front of shila, begging for forgiveness.w Just now(mental note to self to fix the lack of lines) Oh, here it is. Hilda steps towards the boss monster and gets a notification. Notification Entering boss area. Oh nice, why didn''t I get one during the previous one? Because that was only the first part. Oh, well it should be easy. Hilda wills her weapon ¡°soul cutter¡± to appear as she rereads the notification. Entering dungeon boss area. Undead king(level 70) Hilda reads the notification, double checking it before walking out again. Back to present(I swear about the lines) This content has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere. Isn''t that thing stronger than the floor one¡¯s boss? No, it doesn''t have any buffs due to being a dungeon boss instead of a normal boss. Oh, than what should I do? I would suggest farming more monsters a lot more since your skills don''t seem to want to level up either. Don''t you have farming? I value life more. How about the checkpoint? Can''t we go back? No. Damn. Damn indeed, now go. As Hilda starts farming again, with Shila following behind reluctantly but doing her job due to having no choice, she eventually kill all the monsters only for all her skills to only gain 1 level up. So¡­ what now? Can''t tell you. Why not? Not allowed, and not sure. ¡­ So what to do now? Can''t tell, are you deaf? Hint. Fine, look around. Sure? Hilda spends the next couple of hours looking around, with Shila having gone back into the system as he eventually gives up. Damn It!!!! What am I looking for?! Hilda swings her sword against a tree only for her to be sucked in as a weird crack appears. Entering secret area. Hilda sits up after falling down and reads the notification and calls Shila outwhile explaining what happened. Are you serious? Yea, I''m kind of stuck in here now. Go find and kill the boss, it should be around your level with some monsters here as well. Yea but¡­ but? Hilda looks down the long tunnel at her front and back as she gets teleported into the center of the tunnel , and would be lacking in light completely if not for the fact that shilas body let out a bit of light, lesser than a flashlight, but still something. Hilda. Yes? Hilda asks, hugging Shila while scared due to the immense darkness. Your pathetic. So what? You sleep hugging me every chance you get. So what? I look like a child and have the mentality of one, you don''t. ¡­ Let''s just buy a flash light. No don''t, it may attract monsters. As much as I would like to agree with you, I feel like your only saying that to converse points, it''s only 20 points. Can I get a discount? No. Fine, take my 20 points then. Later(...) Hilda holds the flash light, choosing a specific direct to travel in, eventually arriving in a large dome shaped room after killing many monsters and finding 5 abominations in it. What''s this? Boss rooms could just be a bunch of weak ones too, and this is just a Hidden area. Oh¡­ Disappointed? Nope, I just kind of hate these things. Hilda rushes in with Shila as Shila finally gets a chance to use her magic, decreasing third speed and most likely affecting her agility to Hildas suspicions and inability to check due to avoiding around a hundred arms. As Hilda uses her sword and infuses mana into it while using conversion magic, something that hasn''t leveled a single time as she kills an abomination in a single hit. Nice, but it took up like 10 percent of my mana. As Hilda prepares to attack again, she feels a bit of pain in her right index finger as she notices it disappear, leaving behind the blood while constantly spilling more blood. Crap, this hurts, why did my finger disappear? Recoil. Recoil? Hilda asks dodging the arms from the abominations while holding the stmo of her kidding if her tightly. Yea conversion magic. Isn''t the risk too high? Yea, high risk high return. As shila starts using her leech ability in the monsters, Hilda watches as her finger slowly grows back, causing the pain to decrease and starts holding her sword properly again as she starts attacking without using conversion magic too much and using sword wi to attack from far away. As Hilda dodges most of the arms while cutting down the rest, she eventually gets hit by some. Dammit, I''m double these idiots'' levels and still struggle. Well, there are a bunch. Hey, how much can you heal? 6. 6 what? People duh. No, if I lost a limb, could you heal it No, obviously. Tsk, what about like a hand or foot? I guess so¡­ why? Hilda infuses the rest of her mana into her sword with her sword qi, while preparing to use conversion magic, which doesn''t take mana No way, are you crazy? Maybe I am, maybe I''m not. Don''t do it. Don''t worry, I bet the monsters have spawned back already, buy me a healing item to help deal with the consequence, right? Yea, I assume so. Nice. Hilda uses her sword, sending a wave a sword qi at all the abominations, hitting 7 of the remaining 9 and killing 5, leaving the other 2 severely injured. Nice, this is about to hurt isn''t it? Level up. All stats +1 Trait has been improved slightly. Hilda watches as her arm slowly turns to stone while causing severe pain at the same time. Shila, give me the healing object immediately! Fine, it cost you 1,000 points so appreciate it. Hilda consumes the healing object, which she didn''t even bothered to read the name of as the conversion slows down, and stops completely as shila uses her leech ability, killing off the 2 remaining abominations, and slowly leeching the last 2. Why did my arm turn to stone? It can turn into anything due to the conversion, the more you sure, the more severe the effect and petrification is a lot harder to heal than a missing arm. Great. Hilda uses her right arm which is relatively okay compared to her left to grab her sword as she prepares to cut off the arms of the abominations, drawing it out so Shila can kill them with her leech ability. Shila, debuff them using your field magic and debuff magic. I already am! Well, do it again with your debuff magic!!! Ever hear of easier said than done? So what, I''m the one saying it right now, so it''s easy and I don''t care if it''s easy for you. ¡­ As Hilda keeps defending, she notices her arms very slowly returning to normal as another one of the abominations die from the leech leaving only one which doesn''t last much longer either. Nice¡­ so how do I go back? Hilda considers before noticing a chest and portal appear in the center. Wow, so chests now instead of through the system, how nice? Hilda opens the chest and finds an egg. Pet egg(epic) Will hatch the more the user fights. Wow¡­ what? How does this work, what abilities will it have? I would assume the same as me. Why? It''s part of the system, I''m part of the system. Makes sense I guess. But the type of pet that comes out may affect it, such as increased weakness to a certain magic or attack or increased defense. Oh, it''ll be a normal pet, not a small me right? It may become a small you. Seriously? Yea, imagine me, you and your pet going around together. I''m not imagining that. But you''ll basically be this pet''s mother, so no declining being a mother now. ¡­ Still better than having you call me mother. Not surprised anyways, you can''t put it into your inventory by the way. Huh? Yea, you gotta hold it while fighting, shouldn''t take too long to hatch since you got it from the first floor dungeon. Won''t it be weak? It''ll basically be my strength and trait. Skill? No¡­ but it''ll get stronger overtime of course if you level up since our levels will be connected to yours, and the xp you get from it killing monsters is also only 70 percent. Oh. Hilda goes through the portal with the egg in her egg as she immediately notices monsters charging at her. Well, I guess I gotta hatch it anyway. Chapter 19. Second child. Couple hours later(yes, I''m still too lazy to do lines, and yea, chapter 18, 19 and 20 were all made in a row which is why none has any lines) Hey Shila, how much longer is this egg gonna take to hatch? How should I know? Well, I''ve cleared out this area multiple times already and I''m already fully healed, but I can''t seem to be able to hatch this damn thing. Well, it''s hatching, slowly. You''re kidding, there isn''t even a single crack. Then how about fighting the boss and risking your life? The tower usually follows the concept ¡°high risk high return* such as the conversion skill. Fine, but how do I protect the egg? I can hold it for you. Fine. Hilda and Shila go off back to the boss area and as Hilda tries to check its stats, she gets attacked without even being able to react completely. Shit! What the hell? Race:Undead king Level:70 Stats. (93 S) (93 E) (94 A) (0 M) Achievement in use. First to kill an abomination(epic) Second to kill a level 5 monster(epic) Warning: user is fighting an enemy stronger than her Notification. trait "sis con" is active Stats are being increased. Why is it so physically focused and so damn big?! Oh yea¡­ sometimes there are monsters where they completely lack skills and are like this. Great, hurry and debuff it, I can barely keep up with defending! Sure. As Shila debuffs it, Hilda joins in and uses some mental magic, sword qi and mana combined in one attack only for it to block with its arm and sacrifice its arm to escape the hit before backing up and healing it back but very slowly due to her achievement and Shildas leeching of its health.Stolen content warning: this tale belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences elsewhere. Crap¡­ Hilda uses mental magic to create illusions to distract it as she turns herself invisible, looking for a chance to attack as it hits her, suddenly sending her flying away. What the hell, how can it see me? It''s an undead king, it can command weaker undead, which is similar to an obedience skill, but since it was born like that, it''s a passive which basically also gives it mental resistance. Great¡­ Hilda stands and starts attacking the boss monster again, making sure to avoid any attacks and slowly dealing damage as Shila slowly leeches off of it, healing Hilda and restoring her mana non-stop but slower than the rate she''s using mana. How annoying, our stats are basically the same now but it''s still so much stronger. That''s because it was born like that due to its race.. That''s not fair. Actually, the system is a much big¨C Yea yea, system is great and all, stop complimenting yourself. ¡­ As Hilda keeps attacking she eventually runs out of mana due to its slow, but still steady regeneration and constant defending causing her to try backing up but gets hit away strongly instead. Crap¡­ that hurt. Hey Hilda. What? I''m kind of in pain right now. The egg is slowly hatching, once It hatched both of our leeching will probably be able to stop it''s healing. Really? Yea, both of us together should have a synergy buffing our traits slightly. Hey, how do you know if it''ll actually have the same trait since it''s behaviour might be different? Hilda runs back at the boss, attacking it. It''s behaviour will probably be affected by my trait, and your partially, but mine more. Oh, sure, but it''s never met my sister so how? It''ll probably look for a new destination for a sister, or if it can''t, probably a mother figure. But my traits is sis con, not one related to a mother. Hilda gets hit again by the undead king, sending her flying again. That''s why the closest designation it can find, but it''ll consider you its mother, so it will probably leech onto you. Oh, why won''t it leech onto you instead? Because we''re both part of the system, we are somewhat connected through the system and you so it''ll know that I''m not its mother, and that it shouldn''t designate me as someone to use as a parent or sibling. ¡­ I don''t get it but sure. As they keep talking with Hilda attacking and getting hit back, the pet eventually hatches as a slime-like figure appears. What the hell is this? ¡­ A doppelganger. So it can turn into me? Yes¡­ Will it? Probably. Great, but it can''t see my face? It''s connected to us, it innately knows what you look, feel and even smell like. Great. As Hilda watches the slime-like figure slowly start morphing into her, but without the mask she sighs before going to defend it from the undead king. Hey, pet, help me kill this first, I''ll figure what to do with you later. As Hilda commands it, she notices the doppelganger get annoyed but still follows her command, using the leech ability, stopping the undead king from healing as Hilda rushes in to attack it. As Hilda starts attacking again, she is able to push it back due to its lack of healing, easily killing it. Wasn''t that too easy? Most undead depend heavily on regenerating since their bodies aren''t usually the most durable. Nice. Hilda ignores the killing notification about leveling up to level 63 as she turns back to the doppelganger. So you''re gonna need to name it. Shila says, making the doppelganger turn in her direction, clearly upset. You''re upset at me calling you it? Y-y-ye-yea. Why is it stuttering so much, so don''t stare at me or I''m giving you a shit name. It''s not used to its body yet. Fine, what do we call it? How about an androgynous name? No, I''m never letting it¡­ her turn into a guy. Why? She''s already taken my appearance, so I refuse to let her turn into a guy. But it doesn''t matter, you know? Does to me. ¡­ You''re so difficult, then how about an easy name? Jasmine? ¡­ How did you come up with such a name? It sounds like jelly, and when she was a slime a couple seconds ago, she looked like jelly. ¡­ I hate you. Nice. So what about Jamine? That''s unique? How about it, what Jamine? Hilda asks, seeing her shake her head. Either that or you''re getting named Jelly. Hilda says, making her shake her head harder.ok than your Jamine from now on, also why don''t you wanna talk? H-Ha-Hard. Oh¡­ fine, you can just nod and shake your head then. As for skills¡­ you''re not getting any. Hilda says, making Jamine shake her head in protest. Fine, in the future, happy? Jamine nods in agreement as she turns into a smaller version of Hilda instead of an exact copy, looking similar to Shila as she climbs onto Hilda''s back. You serious? Fine, when we''re fighting you''re going back to the other form, and when we''re around others, you¡¯re gonna hide your appearance and gender, got it? Hilda gets a nod from Jamine, confirming that she heard it as she falls asleep. Shila¡­ isn''t there a way to fix her? No. Great. Shila teleports them out before climbing into Hilda''s back also. Are you jealous? Seriously? My trait is leech, it doesn''t mean only free things you know? Great, it''s like taking care of 2 children. Technically we are both no older than 10 if you consider how long we''ve been alive for. Great¡­ Chapter 20. Territory. Finally out of the dungeon, let''s go back to floor 2 and hunt again. No. Huh? You promised that we would rest. I lied. I''m not going. I''m not asking. Then go yourself. Oh, a misunderstanding, I mean I''m telling you to follow not asking you to. Well, fuck you. Wow. ¡ª- you stupid ¡ª-- you good for nothing piece of ¡ª- no mother having ¡ª---- go ¡ª---- die off. ¡­ Fine I''ll give you two a break, only because I prefer floor 1 over floor 2 by a lot. Hey Jamine are you able to eat? Hilda asks, making her reply with a nod. Nice. Hilda takes out the food box and gives it to them as she opens her tent up and goes inside. Hey guys, I''m going to take a nap now, wake me up when you''re done. Sure. Shila replies as Jamine nods. As Hilda enters the tent, Shila quickly whispers to Jamine. Hey, even after we are done eating, don''t wake her up, or we''ll be forced to work nonstop, helping her to hunt harder than working 12 hour shifts Shila says it with an oddly serious look, making Jamine quickly consider if she would rather lie to her mother figure or rest. Seeing Jamine¡¯s hesitation, Shila quickly opens the food box and materializes food out, feeding Jamine, trying to change her mind. Taste that, like it? As Jamine nods her head, Shila smirks slightly, knowing she has a chance to convince her. If you wake her up then we can''t eat any more if this, ok? Hearing this, all of Jamine¡¯s hesitation disappears as she starts nodding as Shila feeds her more food. For the next half an hour, they both keep eating much more food than it looks like their small appearance can hold. That was nice. Shila says making Jamine nods in agreement. W-wake? Not yet, also you gotta get used to talking eventually you know? Jamine shakes her head.The story has been taken without consent; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. Fine whatever, I''m gonna go sleep now, wanna follow, don''t wanna follow, your choice. As Shila enters the tent quietly with Jamine following behind, they both go to sleep on Hilda who''s been sleeping this whole time due to not sleeping for long even if Shila''s leech could reduce fatigue(endurance). Later as they both wake up to the much brighter afternoon sun and the sound of the notification, they see Hilda sitting cross legged staring at them as they start apologizing, with Shila starting first and kneeling despite being completely insincere. Why didn''t you two wake me up? Because you''re a workaholic. What? There''s no word to describe someone like you who hunts nonstop, so workaholics the best word I know. Shila says, making Hilda sigh and walk over to Jamine. M-mom? Oh, you''re really calling me mom huh? Fine I guess. Hilda picks Jamine up in her hands as they start walking out leaving Shila behind as she chases after, putting the tent and food box back into Hilda''s inventory. Hey. Shila says following behind upset. Yea? Carry me too. Why should I? Because you''re carrying her. She''s cuter than you. We look nearly identical, also I''m cuter because I''m your system so I know what your preferences are. So what? I still prefer her. Why? She''s quiet. Just carry me or I''m not showing you the notification that just appeared! I can check it myself, you know? Yea but I can summarise it up for you, and I swear I''ll summarise anything related to the notification. Fine. Hilda picks Shila up too before going to a nearby lake with them both in her hands and looking at her reflection. I look like a single mother with two daughters. I don''t care. Just show me the notification. Fine. Notification. Minimum level of players has reached 30, new function unlocked. Huh? Show me, also I didn''t even need you to summarise this, what''s there to even summarise? Yea cus I lied. Annoying. Shila shows her status with a new function at the bottom called territory. As she clicks it, all three of them get sent to a broken ruined village. What the hell is this? It''s your territory. I don''t need it, send me back. Hey wait a moment, it has benefits, you know? Such as what? Attacking how people with your territory and yourself can get territorial points to help your territory, and upgrading your territory and increasing your stats. By how much? It''s percentage based, also it can double your stats, but of course that''ll take years to reach. Great. They can also earn points by selling things. Shop Or territorial points? Both. Fine. As Hilda walks into the ruins with the two following behind, she enters what seems to be the main building being the biggest and least damaged ones where she sees villagers who immediately turn to look at her. Who are you guys? We are inhabitants of a different world whose world got destroyed by the monsters and the guide let us live here, saying someone may come to help us eventually. One of the villagers says. This feels wrong¡­ but anyways, how do I even help? Go to the center of the building and there should be a mini map there where you can move buildings, upgrade them and repair them like in a game. Great¡­ What do you guys need the most right now? Food and water. A different villager says. Oh ok. Hilda takes out the food box making Shila look a bit annoyed as she brings out food and uses her own shop points to buy some water for the villagers as they eagerly rush to eat the food. What next? I guess shelter? A villager speaks up. Oh, makes sense. Hilda goes to the mini map trying it out, seeing all types of building options she can buy such as barracks,training grounds, farms but she uses half her points on repairing a couple of builds, more than enough for the measly amount of villagers. How many of you are there? 10. Another villager answers, this one being the first female villager to speak up. Can you guys access the system? No. Right, I gave you guys food, water and shelter, anything else you need? Probably a way to defend ourselves. You guys can fight right? We don''t know how to. The same female villager replies. It doesn''t have to be skilled. Then yes. Ok. Hilda goes to the shop and buys 10 decent but cheap swords for the villagers. How to increase the population? Because I doubt you guys can¡­ reproduce fast enough. Beating other users or buying them in the shop. Lela answers. Nice. But you can only buy them in groups of 10. Not so nice. Hilda buys another 10 swords, and water along with leaving enough food as she buys 10 more people. Have fun, I''ll be back later, don''t die. Hilda teleports away back to floor one as she leaves the confused villagers behind. This feels illegal, you know? The guide isn''t very ethical. Jamine with a confused look on her face just nods in agreement despite having no clue what''s going on. Right¡­ So how am I supposed to develop that place? Well you could¡­ Oh I know, Shila you''re in charge now, if you do good I''ll give you points. Hilda interrupts. ... Chapter 21. Territorial fights. Alright¡­ I''ve left Shila to go take care of the village in my place, my level goes up too slowly, Jamine here still can''t speak¡­ I''m bored¡­ wait a moment. Hilda teleports back into the village with Jamine to see Shila glaring in her direction as she walks up to her. Hey Shila. No, I''m not answering your questions. What else could it be? Hunting? Don''t lie, I can read your mind. Fine, attacking other players works right? Yes. How does it work? There''s two modes. Huh? UvU and VvV. What? User versus user and villager versus villager. Oh, if I die do I get revived? Yea, but half your territorial points gets sent to the other user still and you lose half your stats for a day. If the villagers die, do they come back? No. Oh, gather them all here including that woman from before, what was her name? Anna. Sure, get them all here. As Hilda goes off to call everybody here, Shila looks at Jamie''s status to find out that she can''t actually buy skills for her. Oh, that''s a shame. Hilda watches as Jamine tilts her head curiously, clearly not aware that Hilda can''t help her buy skills. Hey Jamine. Y-yes? I can''t buy skills for you, listen, it''s not that I don''t want to, but I can''t, let''s ask Shila later okay? Hearing this, Jamine nods and quickly runs to Shila, tackling her down as she finishes gathering the villagers. Hey everybody, this is what''s gonna happen. Hilda starts off ignoring Shila''s call for help as she sees Jamine beating her in the corner of her eyes. Everybody, you''re gonna fight all the other users. As Hilda says this, she immediately hears a bunch of protests. Calm down, since you guys are basically my future source of points. I''ll invest everything I got in you guys, first I''ll summon another couple more of you guys as I go talk to my¡­ friends there while you describe the situation to them. Hilda summons another 40 villagers through the shop and goes over to Shila and Jamine. Jamine, stop beating her, Shila why can''t she earn skills. Why should I answer you? Because she''ll continue to beat you if you don''t. Shila looks back at Jamine who is more than willingly to do so if not for Hilda. Fine, it''s because she''s a doppelganger, so she. Can only gain skills through leveling up. What skills can she get? No clue, but it''ll probably be passive skills mostly with one or two active skills.If you encounter this narrative on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. Oh, how nice? When is she going to get her first one? Probably level 35. So I need another 8 levels? Yea. Great¡­ Hilda goes back to the villagers who seem to have been filled in by Anna. Hello everybody, don''t worry about the fighting, I''ll consider you guys an investment and give you guys weapons that can easily beat your opponents, you guys are fine with killing right? In our old world, killing and dying was normal, so yea. Anna replies. Ok, Anna from now on, you are going to be the manager of this villager when me and Shila aren''t here. Sure, but why? Consider it based on a whim, ok, who here is a good shot? Hilda watches as a guy raises his hand and walks to the front. What''s your name? Jacob. Ok, come here. Hilda goes to her shop and goes to find ranged weapons under 1000 points. As expected, guns exist here. Hilda buys a sniper from the shop and passes it to Jacob. It can''t hurt users or monsters above level 30, but under, should kill in a couple hits. Everybody else, you get crossbows. Hilda goes to the shop, buying 59 crossbows for 100 points each, aligned with spending a total of another 200 points on bullets and arrows. Guys, equip yourselves and let''s start the point farming. Hilda starts smiling maliciously, thinking of all the points she could get along with all the shop points her territory will bring in the future. Shila let''s start now, can the opponents decline if they want? Yea, but once they get attacked and lose three times in total, they can decline the next 9, and you can only attack the same person once a day, for each the user and villager fight. Oh nice, let''s start based on the leaderboard. So white? White? No no, not at all, blue. Black(level 62) Aiden(level 61 ) Red(level 60) Aileen(level 60) Purple (level 59) Leah(level 43) Yellow(level 39) Green(level 36) John(level 33) Blue(level 32) So you''re bullying the weak? No, I just hate that guy. Same, so after blue I assume Aiden? No, John, whoever that is. Why? Because bullying those weaker than me is fun. Of course it is¡­ Shila starts initiating a fight with blue, and as the battle starts she sees blue information of her with Shila and Jamine in the village fighting while she herself is outside. What? They can fight? Oh this is going to be so free. Shila ignores blue as he starts cussing at her again as her team completely destroys all of blues villagers and she initiates a fight with blue, taking her time to kill in due to how irritating he is. That was so easy. Yea, probably will remain so until the top three. I Doubt it. A few minutes later, Shila wins against everyone up to red as she starts a villager battle with red, with some of the villagers incurring damage on her side, but red surrendering before the damage to either one of them was too great. As Hilda starts a user battle and sees red''s pets, red surrenders immediately looking oddly terrified of her. Why was she so scared? Didn''t you torture her in the event to force her to tag other people? I guess¡­ but still she looked like she had trauma, also you guys can''t fight in the User fight right? Yea, it''s users only that''s why we are in the villagers team. Oh. Hilda contemplates for a moment before starting a fight with Aiden, the fight she''s most excited and nervous about. As she starts the fight, Aiden appears beside her, watching the fight from above. So black, your leveling speed is higher than mine and I thought that mine was pretty fast you know? As Aiden keeps talking, Hilda half heartedly listens in, as Aiden suddenly surrenders before their villagers start fighting. Why did you do that? Look at your villagers, you basically fed them your points, I believe this is called pay 2 win. I don''t care, winning is winning. Am I right to assume you''ll try fighting me? Yep. As Hilda gets sent back to her village where she meets Shila and Jamine, she goes straight to Shila. Hey, why couldn''t I check his status just now? Simply people with a system level higher than 2 is not possible, usually upgrading your system would take a lot more work than what you did to upgrade me. What a pain, screw it at least my stats and level are safe from him. As Hilda tries to initiate a fight with him, she gets sent without even pressing it, ending up in the same arena she''s seen 8 times already. You''re impatient, you know that? So what? It''s your fault for taking your own time. Hilda immediately starts off the fight by sending some weak attacks of sword qi to test his strength only to be met with sword qi of the same strength. I''m not gonna be beaten that easily you know? Of Course not. Hilda starts running at Aiden, trying to attack him with a normal attack without mana as he turns water but reforms in a puddle of water far away. Can you transport yourself through water? Indeed, so have fun attacking me. Aiden starts attacking Hilda with high pressure water, much stronger than before as he goes from puddle to puddle, creating more from accumulating the water vapour in the air and his streams of water as Hilda starts getting annoyed due to his constant running. Oi! Are you just going to keep this up?! Of course. He says, sending another shot of water at her. Screw it, this guy even has 20 percent more mana from his achievement, he¡¯s not gonna run out anytime soon. Screw it, system, buff my mana using my sis con trait. Affirmative. Hilda watches as her mana goes from 63 to 70 as she takes her sword and goes to the side, before swinging her sword infused with sword qi and mana in this, sending a huge wave of it throughout the whole arena, dealing more damage due to the conversion magic Hilda sends another wave after seeing that he got injured but doesn''t die as he sends one too, but with her ability being slightly stronger injuring then again. Hilda watches as he starts to prepare what looks like a much stronger attack at her as she prepares a attack infused with most of her mana and sword qi, sending as this into a stream of his water, causing it to split in two as her sword qi and his hits her, causing both of them to be in pain as Aiden decides to just surrender. What? Why? Because all I have Is water magic And I can''t counter your stronger sword qi. Oh nice then, free win then. Chapter 22. Boss preparation. The next two days, as Hilda keeps fighting everyone again due to apparently gaining an extra 1000 for every win on top of just half their points so everybody just surrenders when she initiates a fight, except for blue who cusses at her then loses in a second due to Hilda''s sword qi. As Hilda keeps accumulating points, she repairs sufficient houses to accumulate up to 100 people despite only having 60 and buys another 20 people adding up to 80. She also bought some gold mines, which she also learns that they refill themselves at the end of the month and can be upgraded by merging mines together, but doesn''t do so since the mine is big enough. With the gold being able to be sold back to the system through Shila which can be converted into territorial or shop points. A couple weeks later. Hey Shila, how''s the village coming along? It''s decent, but you''re sure you want me to focus completely on earning points instead of increased stats? Yea, and if not for the guide who made it so I can only initiate a fight in the territory 10 times a month, I would have so many more points right now¡­ It''s still 10,000 territorial points per month. Yea, I guess so, but it''s still a shame. Indeed, this is so boring at the village, but luckily I don''t have to join you in hunting. Shila looks over at Jamine who looks sleep deprived from the constant hunting despite being able to perfectly control her appearance. Jamine, I warned you already, your mother is a cruel woman. Shila reminds as Jamine nods her head. Hey Jamine, come on, I was able to finally reach level 70 due to targeting the stronger monsters and you even got your passive skill right? Which lets you expand yourself however much you like and it makes you acidic so you can just cover them in¡­ well, you and dissolve them. Anyways, come here Hilda. Why? I don''t like standing up while talking. Sure then. As the three of them sit down, with Jamine sitting down in the middle of the two, not wanting to talk to either of them. Listen up, floor 3 to 9 are special okay? How? All xp accumulated in them is reserved until after you reach floor 10. Huh? The bosses on each level are the same level as the boss on this level, with each level having their own speciality. Like what? Floor 3 has spirits. Huh? Isn''t that the same as this floor? No, like the spirit you saw on floor 1, they are all unable to take physical damage, but enough mental magic can cause them to disperse, basically dying, so killing them should be no problem. But I killed one on floor one? It was a lesser spirit and if you must, you can just use conversion magic to convert the spirit to physical, but it''ll only last a second and will obviously come with recoils.This story originates from Royal Road. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there. Floor 4 has elementals, mental magic is not an element so they have no counter for you, while you can just use brute strength. Floor 5 is fully focused on poisonous monsters. Floor 6 is focused on ranged monsters, so sword qi will be useful, and so will your spatial magic. Floor 7 is focused on tanky monsters, so it''ll take longer but is a lot less dangerous. Floor 8 is based on invisible monsters, so you should get a counter for that. Floor 9 is the problem, it''s basically every non-elemental type monster, which includes your mental magic. What a joy, but does skill level still increase? Yea. Okay that works, I guess, what about boss awards? Yea. Ok, I can live with that, what level is the boss on this floor though? 75. So it''ll be as strong as a level 150. Yea, but it won''t be ridiculous like floor ones boss, floor ones boss was much stronger than a level 125 due to having 2 percent of ancient giant in its bloodline. Yea, what''s that bloodline thing? Its ancestor was an ancient giant, Meaning a very strong giant that''s lived for a very long amount of time. Oh, that was a lot simpler than expected, but I killed a wyvern with 2 percent true dragon in its bloodline. Oh, that one was basically a newborn, which is the only reason you were able to kill it. So I basically killed a newborn, but also got badly injured by one? Yea. Anyways, I found more dungeons on floor one so I''m gonna go do those instead. Alone? I''m more than strong enough to do so you know? As for you Jamine, you will keep staying on floor 2 with Shila by yourself and hunting while I deal with all the dungeons on floor 1 cus apparently each dungeon only works once for each person, which isn''t fair. It is very fair. Just go already. Fine. As another two months passes, Hilda officially reaches level 100 due to getting xp from three sources, with Aiden at level 90, giving Jamine the ability to regenerate much faster due to being half of Hilda''s level and therefore level 50. Hey, could we kill the boss yet? Hilda asks Shila through the system. I guess we could, with me and Jamie''s ability, we could wear the boss down until it''s weak enough and you can use a strong enough attack. Sure, teleport to me. Ok, now Shila, evolve your skills and tear the tip coupon. You''re so lazy. Shila complains but still complies in the end. As Shila tears the coupon, they get teleported back to the guide as Hilda starts sniffing the surroundings again but doesn''t react, indicating that the guide didn''t go back to her sister. Hi, I''m busy, so let''s get to the point. The magic you will need for your idea is going to be regeneration and tough skin, both are passive skills. The guide disappears immediately without leaving Hilda a chance to ask questions. The guide reappears again for a moment. Oh yea Hilda, the tower is made hoe just to increase the strength, but skills, like a person''s actual fighting skills, not the ones in the system, so some floors may provide experience despite not having killed any monsters and only lifeforms. As the guide says that, he disappears again, sending them back in awkward silence. What just happened? How should I know? You¡¯re his favourite, not me. Screw it, just help me buy the skills he said along with some more suited for running or avoiding opponents. Ok done Regeneration(rare) Increases natural and external sources of regeneration (Cost:1000) Tough skin(rare) Makes the user''s skin tougher, making it harder to bleed along with reducing the strength of blunt attacks. (Cost:1000) Sixth sense(epic) Can sense danger or anything the user may be looking for. (Cost:2000) Well, what kind of a boss is it? A magician type. What? I''m not sure, I don''t have the specifics, I''m gonna go into the territory with Jamine now, have fun and call us once you reach! With that, Shila disappears with Jamine, leaving Hilda alone as she wanders off in a random direction to go to the side to head to the boss, taking only a day to reach. As she reaches, she calls Shila and Jamine out. Wow, that was quick, let''s go in now. Wait, I''m gonna go take a nap first, you two are gonna stand guard. Sure. Hilda opens her tent and goes to sleep, waking up in a couple hours with monsters trying to get into the tent while Jamine and Shila sleep peacefully beside her. I guess they do look cute, but somehow always refuse to listen to me properly. As Hilda goes out and easily kills the monsters, she goes back in and sees Shila and Jamine with a camera in their hands, repeating that she admitted that she thought they were cute. See, she doesn''t hate us, albeit cruel but she still loves us cause we''re cute. Shila says still not noticing Hilda back with making Jamine nods. Hey, you two, what are you guys doing? Nothing? Shila tries hiding it back in Hilda''s inventory, something she does when she takes too much food out of the food box. Hilda lies down between the two who just stare at her. I admit you two are cute ¡°LOOKING¡±, but where did you get that camera from? Don''t be a cheapskate, it was only 200 points and I''ve done enough work at the village for you already. Next time ask, or you''re getting beaten. Fine.you too Jamine. Y-yes. Right, shall we go now? Sure. Y-yea. Let''s go then. Chapter 23. Lich. As Hilda puts her hand in the invisible wall at the edge of the second floor as she reads the description. Dungeon (Undead magician) Recommended party size 1. Max players at a time 1. Recommended average minimum level 110. Enter? Undead magician? I didn''t know there was such a monster. There isn''t, it''s probably just the guide changing the name so you can''t prepare for it too thoroughly before entering. Eh, I guess that''s fair. Well, time to enter? Yep. Are you ready Jamine? Y-yes Alright, let''s go. So Hilda enters the dungeon, she notices that she starts off in a graveyard, similar to some parts of the second floor, but with the graves being a lot more in numbers and in an arranged pattern, luckily being not too many to be able to affect her running speed. As she continues looking around, she notices a pathway through the graves, leading to an open area, surrounded by graves. This seems dangerous. Yea, so you should be careful. Sure. Hilda starts running towards the center which is about a kilometer away, but reaches in less than a minute. So where''s the boss? That''s called being careful? As Hilda looks around, she suddenly feels an inexplicable sense of danger causing Shila to feel it too due to being able to read her mind and being connected, causing her to be able to partly feels some of Hilda''s emotions unless Hilda prevents it, which she didn''t, due to Shila not telling her about it. Hilda dodge! Dodge what? I don''t see anything. Despite not seeing any danger, she feels herself panicking due to the sense of danger that she feels. It''s the sixth sense skill, just run until the feeling is gone! Huh? What do you¡­ Hilda decides to stop asking as she runs back onto the path as the sense of danger goes away before coming back, causing her to keep running as she suddenly sees a beam get shot down from somewhere where she can''t see due to the somewhat thick fog, with the beam being strong enough to kill her. What was that?! That was a rare instant kill magic. What? Instant kill magic exists? Well, it may not have killed you due to your survivor achievement but would have left you nearly dead for sure. Screw it, can it use that skill again? Probably not, instant kill skills have long preparation time along with a long cool down. Nice, but how do I get up there? Well, it''ll probably come down because it probably guessed that you have a sixth sense skill of something''s that helps you avoid attacks from somewhere you can''t see.a As Hilda keeps looking up with her sword in her hand, she sees a figure slowly getting clearer as it finally leaves the fog, wearing a dark robe around it''s skeletal figure adorned with many small gems with slightly bigger ones, one at each of its arms and one big one at its chest with the edges layered with a thin layer of gold trim. Wow, this thing''s robe looks valuable as hell. Hilda thinks while considering if she could give this to the villagers to sell as she identified the monster. Race:Skeleton Bloodline:Archmage(100 percent) Level 100 Stats. (250 S) (150 E) (60 A) (434 M) Warning, due to being a boss, stats have been increased two fold. Hey Shila¡­ that is not a skeleton.The story has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation. Yea, because that''s a lich, but it''s still a Skeleton so the system considers it''s race as Skeleton, and it was an Archmage before dying and turning into a Skeleton. What a joy, let''s fight. Hilda steps closer to the boss as she starts rushing at it. Notification. Achievement in use. First to kill an abomination(epic) Nice. Hilda closes her notifications with a mental click as she pours a decent amount of mana into her first attack, slicing its body in half as she surprises herself, not expecting to kill it in a hit as it''s body goes back to normal immediately, surprising her again as she lands back onto the ground. What just happened? The only way to kill a lich is if you delete it''s mana completely, and by the way, it''s mana regeneration is massive, the second way is to destroy it''s soul core, which contains it''s soul and is the reason it''s alive. What does it look like? A red orb which it can move around, but must remain in its body. As Hilda turns to look at it, expecting its robe to be cut in half, she notices that its robe had somehow fixed itself, hiding its soul core again. how it fixed its own clothes? Hilda thinks for a moment, not getting the answer while having her thoughts interrupted by another feeling of danger as she looks back at the Lich and dodges as it shoots a shot of dark magic at it. How annoying. Hilda decides that she''ll just find it out later as she never heard of magic that can fix clothes, and would love to get it as she current clothes keep getting damaged, with her spending points at the shop to get it repaired, something she first learnt when fighting the slimes on floor 1 due to them being severely acidic and dissolving some of her clothes while leaving her with some weak burn marks. Hilda jumps back up, attempting to attack it as a shield appears In front of it, causing Hilda to give up immediately back up while dodging its attacks just from behind the shield. Annoying guy. Shila, and Jamine, can you guys leech it from here? Yea, but it won''t be easy fast. It''s okay, I''m gonna buy something from the shop. Hilda goes to the shop and buys low level shield magic(level 1) and blocks the lich''s attacks, using more than half just to keep creating shields, barely keeping up as the leech keeps replenishing her mana but not fast enough. Hilda, you''re gonna run out of mana eventually. No I''m not, the skills already level 5 due to continuously taking such strong attacks despite being low level. As they keep leeching while Hilda''s shield skill increases, Shila debuffs it, making it shoot slower letting Hildas mana regeneration due to the leeching be able to keep up with the consumption as Hilda sees it stop attacking. Oh, done already? Hilda says with a smug tone and look while putting one hand into her pocket using the other to form her shields as she withdraws her sword back into her soul. As Shila and Jamine keep leaching it''s mana off only due to it having no health, a trait unique to only a few monsters, she notices it casting a new spell as she takes her hand out of her pocket to cast more shields, preparing to block any attack that comes, only for the lich to stop casting without shooting anything. Huh? Did it run out of mana or something? No way it did, the lich''s mana regeneration is crazy, I already told you. Shila hears some groaning sounds and turns to Shila and Jamine''s by her sides to find that they are find, but also find undead crawling up from the graves like some zombie apocalypse movie as she contemplates to kill the zombies or to keep shielding as the lich starts attacking again, seeming satisfied with its self despite having no facial features due to having a skull only for its head. Annoying thing. Guys, leech off the zombies around us, you should be able to easily kill them, I''ll keep shielding. Hilda keeps shielding them as the zombies around them keep turning to dust instead of just disappearing, probably due to something the guide probably did. Wow, using leech to kill undead can turn them into dust? Yea, you didn''t know? Also, is this really the time to be talking about this? Guess not. Hilda keeps shielding, noticing her mana decreasing due to undead only having health, though not a lot and then having to convert it into mana, with converting health and mana causing the total amount to decrease. I''m gonna run out of mana, can you guys dodge its attacks? Yep I can due to my field magic being able to slow down any attacks. You Jamine? Y-yes. Nice. Hilda starts counting down as she removes her shield, causing them all to disperse in different directions, surprising the lich for a second before targeting Hilda who''s the strongest. Well, better me than them I guess. Hilda dodges as she intently watches her mana increase quickly as Jamine and Shila keeps absorbing more undead as she attacks the Lich again, finding it''s soul soul and attacking it, causing it to crack before it teleports back with a road of pain, surprising Hilda as the undead she''s met so far aren''t able to make such a clear and loud sound even if it''s just a screech, that and the fact that she didn''t think a skeleton could screech due to being, y''know skeletons. As the Lich starts attacking gains, she notices some of the undead dropping dead and disappearing, indicating that they died without Shila or Jamine using leech on them. Hm, so if I can attack its core I can somehow kill the undead? Hilda tries attacking it again, only for it to teleport away, focusing its attention on Shila and Jamine, only for them to survive easily, with Shila entering the system and Jamine relying on her regeneration that''s stronger than an abomination by a lot, tanking most hits with her hands. Seeing this, the Lich focuses all her skeletons on Hilda while also attacking her, focusing on her completely. As the lich starts getting more desperate, it stops summoning more zombies and prepares an instant kill spell again. Hilda, you can''t dodge this, so you either need a strong enough shield or a stronger attack. Oh, then come next to me and start leeching it again. Hilda watches as her mana starts increasing even faster, allowing her to create around a dozen shields at once as the Lich shoots the instant death skill, breaking through every shield, and changing it''s direction to hit Hilda as she tries to dodge. Warning: user has taken lethal damage. Notification, Achievement in use. Survivor(legendary) Hilda slowly gets up from the ground, having fallen down due to her temporary death, shocking and confusing the lich as it panics further from Lela and Jamine''s leech. That was close, didn''t expect it to pierce all of my shields, Shila, do you think It can use such an attack again? No way, instant death skills take a bunch of ma¨C Shila gets interrupted as she sees the Lich preparing another instant death skill. How?! It shouldn''t be able to¡­ As Shila gets confused, she notices the Lich''s soul orb crack a little further. Oh, it''s risking its life, so this is really the final attack, block this and we''ll win for sure. Fine, I just have to try. Hilda uses her trait for more mana, straining it slightly as she creates more shields, with her current skill being at level 7 and using the rest of her mana. She watches as the Lich finally shoots the skill, as it pierces through all her Shields as she quickly pulls her sword out from her soul, not expecting it to work as the skill suddenly disperses upon making contact with her sword as Lela and Jamine finally kill it. What just happened? Oh, I think I know, your sword is not called soul cutter for fun, and instant kill abilities affect the soul partially, and your sword can eventually cut a soul but for now, it should be able to cut through attacks to the soul. It was only because the lich is pretty weak compared to other beings who can use soul attacks, with the skill it used being unstable due to having to risk its own life to use it. Nice, so where are my awards? Oh yea, let me show you your notification. Level up. All stats +1 Trait has been improved slightly. Achievement unlocked. Kill floor 2s boss.(Legendary) Access to floor 3. Alright, I''m level 101 now, though it''s a shame I only got one level. But anyways, floor 3-9 should help compensate easily. Chapter 24. Floor 10. ¡ª---------------------------------------- Couple months later. ¡ª---------------------------------------- Well, I''ve been stuck on floor 9 for quite a while already. Floor 3, the spirits, non undead which were ridiculously easy except for the mental spirits who were slightly more annoying, orange will probably suffer due to a lack of physical strength. Floor 4, the elementals was also pretty easy with floor 5, the poisonous monsters being financially painful due to needing antidotes. Floor 6, being the ranged monsters, was pretty dangerous since most were one hit but they were also a lot harder to avoid and their damage was also a lot more. Floor 7s boss was so easy to avoid, but took a while 2 days of pure attacking and since it was tanky, Shila and Jamine couldn''t do much either. Floor 8, with the invisible monsters all I had to do was wait for the feeling and swing my sword in that direction since their endurance was ridiculously low. And finally floor 9, the one I''m stuck on where all monsters have some non-elemental skill which also includes mental attacks, so the amount of conversion I can do is a lot less, they can also use mental attack, which reduces my stamina, making it harder to use more of mental magic. I assume everybody is stuck on their own individual level, this is so boring!!!!!! I even used my discount coupon on 20,000 points on conversion magic to evolve it, so now it can convert more for less, and can convert physical matter too, but it takes a ridiculous amount of mana. Anyways, Shila. What? What am I supposed to do? I''ve run out of points and can''t level due to level 3-9s restriction! It''s to improve your skills which is why me and Jamine can''t help either, so figure it out yourself. You do realize that I am untalented in fighting? Hey Hilda, have you ever heard of this? What you lack in talent, you make up for in hardwork. You''re just saying that due to liking seeing me suffer as revenge for forcing you to grind. See Hilda, you know me so well. Shila teleports back to the territory, a place she spends most of her time with Jamine ever since Hilda started floor 3 and can''t go back to floor 2 ever since, at least until she reaches floor 10. I hate this. Hilda goes back to the sixth floor as she starts training there due to the fact that making a mistake would be very dangerous. After fighting for another week, Hilda eventually gets used to the monsters there and moves to the poisonous monsters due to poison being ridiculously hard to avoid too and stays there for another week before repeating this for every other floor except floor 7, which are just tanky monsters. As Hilda eventually returns to the floor 9s boss, unstable concoction, in a rush due to not wanting to be surpassed. As she enters, she doesn''t attack yet and just stares at it, using her trait immediately to boost her mana and strength as much s possible as it starts attacking her with all kinds of magic, including creation magic, trying to create things in her body to kill her as she avoids due to social magic and sensing any changes in the space around her before the changes occur. As she keeps avoiding , she prepares all the sword qi and mental damage she can while she tries to avoid it''s attack, getting a couple pieces stuck into her, but not too deep in, so she can remove them later as she rushes it and slashes it, not killing it despite the massive damage. Ok, the training with the floor 6 monster helped since this boss attack strategy is the same, though it''s more of hard to avoid than hard to predict which is a pain since my sixth sense skill wouldn''t really help as much. Hilda keeps avoiding before slashing it with another hit filled with mana and sword qi, causing it to get further injured, slowing down its attacks making it easier to avoid. As Hilda keeps avoiding and finding opportunities to attack, opportunities that of which are getting more common due to its attacks slowing down as Hilda swings one last time killing it.The narrative has been taken without permission. Report any sightings. What a sincere pain, luckily unlike floor 2, I was given 3 tries of which level, absolute pain in the ass. Hilda gets sent back to floor 9 as Jamine and Shila appear slightly mid-air in a lying down position, falling down as they do so. Huh? You''re already done with floor 9? Yea, I''m the best aren''t I? No you''re not. Jamine, support me here. Jamine considers how to support Hilda as she just gives a thumbs out with a couple of words. Mom b-best. See Shila, I''m the best. Boot licker. Shila looks over at Jamine who''s avoiding her gaze. Anyways, you two looked really relaxed lying down weren''t you? Yea, we deserved a break. Just for that, once we reach floor 10, we are going hunting nonstop. Nope. You can''t do anything about it. Floor 10 isn''t just fighting, it''s like a big city filled with things to do along with other lifeforms. Such as what? Dwarves, elves, some monsters, but too little to hunt for enough xp, lizard man, and another species which looks like humans, they are the same species as the villagers in your village actually. Oh, the villagers in the territory aren''t humans? Obviously not, didn''t you hear that their planet got destroyed? Oh, I must have forgotten. Anyways, let''s go? I heard floor 10 has even tastier food! Don''t you have the food box? Yea but it can only summon food I''ve seen before, so let''s go, come on, hurry! No, waste of points. Come on, if you don''t, I won''t show you all your shop points and XP notifications!!! I can check them myself. Jamine, help me here, don''t you wanna eat more food too? Jamine glances back and forth and the both of them contemplating whether or not to use her mother''s money even while knowing her cheapskate personality or to spend a bit to eat even tastier food before she sits down and curls up, not being able to make a choice. Hilda sees this and sighs, giving in. Yay!!!!! Jamine, good job!! No, n-not inten-intentional. But, summarise the stuff for me and properly. Fine, I can''t change the system so I''ll just tell you. All your skills are minimally level 8, with the exception being conversion magic and level 5 and sword qi already at 32 currently, and you''ve leveled up 10 times. Ok, I guess that''s good enough, no other awards? Oh yea, you have 50,000 points so stop being a cheapskate. No more? No more, stop being greedy, these weren''t even as big of a challenge so stop being greedy and a cheapskate. Whatever, let''s just go. Sure. As Shila teleports them Hilda looks over at Jamine who just responds with a smile as Hilda signals with her eyes not to support Shila anymore in their arguments as she looks away awkwardly. As Shila teleports them, she finds herself into the middle of a city, most likely the one Shila mentioned as she looks around to see the town square, the place she''s at, completely empty but as she looks far into the distance, she hears people arguing, one with a rough voice and one with a smoother but angry voice as she goes to the source of her sound. As she approaches, she notices a woman with long ears along with a short guy, an elf and a dwarf as pointed out by Shila. As they see her, they don''t look surprised as they keep arguing even as Hilda goes close enough to them to listen in. Hey, girl! I told you we need the ores in your area, we''ll even pay. Too bad, those are under the forest if you''ll cause damage if you do that. Stop being so obsessed with that damn forest, it''s just a couple of trees. The problem is that we live directly above! If it was just the trees at the side it wouldn''t have been a problem! Hilda tries to walk away, not caring much for their argument due to it not being beneficial to her as the elf calls out to her. Hey you! Do you think he''s being reasonable? Hilda looks around for another person before gesturing to herself. Yes you, who else is here except for you, your pet and system! Girl, ignore this stupid elf, they''re at fault but won''t admit it so just leave us alone. Don''t you dare leave till you tell me who is in the wrong here! Look I''m not dealing with this, bye. Hilda teleports away immediately. Shila, what was that about? The dwarves only care about smithing, the elves only care about their homes, but most valuable ores are under where the elves live so they argue constantly. Do they have the system too? Yea, but they can''t use it to level up, only to check their stats and skill and skill levels. Could I just kill them? Best not to, they have ridiculously long lifespans compared to a normal human, so their levels are also probably double yours at least. Oh. They also seemed to be discussing matters, which while their species dislike one another, don''t ever talk about unless they are important people so those two were probably at least level 900 each. Scary, but doesn''t that mean they can kill the guide''s clones? Exactly, so stay away from them for your good, also the guides clones at the Yea, I''ll make sure to do so. Anyways, this place looks nice. Hilda looks around at city, noticing the houses with chimneys letting out smoke but the weather and air clearer than anything on earth could ever have along with all sorts of exotic plants and wildlife in the distance due to being able to see further, something her stats allow, letting her appreciate the extra natural colourfulness of nature on this floor along with all sorts of of different races in the distance, talking away happily despite their huge differences, something that she wouldn''t be able to see on earth, mostly due to earth only having human as the only species capable of using language to communicate properly. What a sight indeed. Shila says while sitting on the top of some bodies home with Shila and Jamine on either side of her. I agree, couldn''t you bring your sister here next time? Obviously I will, but why do you care? Because she''s a lot kinder than you. Stop reading my past memories. Fine. M-moms sister? A-aunt? Jamine tilts her head curiously due to not being able to read Hilda''s mind like Shila can. Oh yea forgot to tell you, I''m in this tower for my sister. Wanna meet her next time? Yes! Jamine shouts out excitedly. Jamine, I just realized your speech is getting better, have you been learning. Hilda, it was because she couldn''t properly form a larynx capable of speech. Then how did she eat or swallow? She''s acidic, the food just enters her mouth and gets dissolved as it enters her throat and she''s a doppelganger, allowing her to shape shift and change her body, letting her breath from the makeshift pores in her body. Nice I guess? Anyways, let''s explore? Food! Fine, fine, I haven''t forgotten. Chapter 25. Trial of smell. So Shila, since floor 10 has other people, does that mean from here on, I''ll see other people? No, floor 10 is different, it''s basically as big as earth is and those lifeforms can''t travel through floors. Why do you call them lifeforms? Seriously? Yes seriously. I used to call everything lifeform, I only called you user but that was before you upgraded me so now I just call it monsters because it''s simpler, also, I''m just used to calling other intelligent species lifeforms instead of monsters. Oh, anyways let''s go to floor 11? No no no, we need our food first and this floor has benefits. Benefits? Such as? I want the food first. Hilda sighs before agreeing. Couple minutes later, they sit in restaurant, with steak with honey over it, which tastes a lot better than it sound, while waiting for her to finish the food, she looks around as she notices even more species such as beast man who were just completely animals but human shaped instead, with siren of the speakers ones being half. She realises that she stared too long as some of the other beast men noticed her and glared back at her, causing her to look away immediately as Shila just smirks at this, causing Hilda to glare at her with Jamine eating in the background, being as quiet as she usually is. You two done eating? Yea. Jamine nods along with Shila. Ok, send me to floor 11, but what monsters are there? No monsters. Huh? Why? The tower is also made to improve your skills, so there will be doors without monsters but just to train you. Huh? Whatever, send me. Sure. Shila teleports all of them to floor 11 where Hilda receives a notification. Notification, Trial of smell, for this trial,you have to differentiate the normal apple which has no smell and a severely poisonous one which barely has any smell and consume the normal one. During the trial, you will lose all of your senses except for your sense of smell temporarily. Huh? That''s¡­ interesting? Hilda turns over to Shila and Jamine for help before everything goes dark and silent, indicating the loss of her sense meaning the start of the trial. Great¡­ Hilda goes over to where she remembers seeing a table and stubs her toe as she grips onto the table and starts feeling around. As she feels around, she notices that her sense of touch still works despite it being a sense as she feels two apples, both with the same texture as she brings both of them to her face.The narrative has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the infringement. Ok, I''ll just name these two the left and right apples. Hilda brings the apple she designated as the left apple to her nose as she smells it, and finds no smell before she does the same with the right apple, only to find it has no smell either. This is gonna be much harder than expected isn''t it? For the next hour, Hilda focuses on the right apple as she keeps smelling it, she concludes that the left apple is the poisonous one but smells the left one again just to make sure. As she smells the left one for hours also, she lies down on the floor, considering just giving up and eating both. Wait¡­ if I eat both, wouldn''t it work too? I mean, I might die but I could just use my trait no? Screw it, not worth the risk. Hilda keeps smelling it and eventually decides to put them down before slowly backing up until she walks into Shila who is keeping her at arms length literally by extending an arm to stop Hilda from moving back. Feeling Shila''s arm in her back, Hilda pulls her arm immediately and goes back to the table where she feeds the apple to Shila due to Shila not being able to actually die, only getting injured and knocked out of commission for a while. Wow, that was a simple solution wasn''t it? Hildas senses slowly return as she lets go of Shila''s arms and reads her notification. Notification. Level up x5. All stats +5 Trait has been improved slightly. 5 levels? I''ll take it, Shila, let''s go to the next level. As Hilda prepares to be sent to level 12, she reads a notification that a dagger has been bought for 100 points as she looks at Shila and barely dodges the dagger throw at her. What was that for! Hilda looks over again at Shila who is on the floor and hugging herself in pain while glaring at her. What are you doing? You fed me a poisoned apple and dislocated my shoulder!!! Shila buys another dagger and throws it at Shila and disappears back into the system. Oops¡­ okay, I admit that was my fault. Mother a-abuse? Hey, I''m not abusive, I''m just a bit rough? I forgot you guys have stats half of mine okay? Can you call her back out? I can''t really do so right now. No. Damn. As Hilda thinks of a way to get Shila back, she gets sent back to the white room with the guide. Hey Hilda, you weren''t supposed to solve the trial that way. I know, but I wasn''t gonna sit around and smell the damn apples for the next hour. Hilda, these trials in the tower are to help strengthen you all but you simply cheated through, for the next trial if you do so again, I''ll remove 5 levels from you. What the hell?! Then just make a fool proof trial! Hilda, I don''t feel like arguing with you and don''t you need to go find your system, what was her name again? Oh yea, Shila. That apple in the trial is supposed to kill so even if Shila can''t die, she''ll feel a lot of pain. Yea yea, just send me to wherever she is along with Jamine I''ll buy her a cure. There''s a cure in the shop, I made the poison personally to kill, but since Shila can''t die, it''ll go away in around 20 minutes. Just send me already you bastard! Sure. Hilda gets teleported and looks around at the oddly familiar sight for the inside of her home. Jamine, is this where you end up everytime you go back into the system? Y-yea. Ok, let''s go find Shila. Hilda and Jamine start looking through every room with the last room and the only locked room being Hilda''s old bedroom. As Hilda opens it eventually due to the lock being lousy, she sees Shila lying down hugging herself, ok the brink of tears as Hilda joins her on the bed beside. Shila, I''m sorry, okay? Shut up, you actually fed me the poison! Hilda brings Shila onto her lap hugging her while she starts to cry a bit because of the pain. After a while, Shila falls asleep while Hilda uses the system to manually teleport them back, something she hasn''t done in a while due to Shila teleporting them conveniently. As Hilda teleports them back to the tenth floor, she brings them to the closest inn she finds while blurring Jamine and Shila''s face with her not needing to do anything to herself due to the mask, not like she is able to blur herself anyways. Hilda reluctantly pays for the most expensive room they have as she puts Shila onto the bed with the poison mostly wearing off as Shila wakes up, glaring at Hilda. Fine fine, what do you want me to do to forgive you? Rest day. Rest? You mean a break? No, you bring us around the city to enjoy and buy us whatever we want! Fine, fine, but only under a thousand points. No! Anything we want! Fine fine, 3000 points. Anything we want!!! Fine, fine! But no more than half, I''m not going any higher. Fine, I''ll let you off with just half. Jamine come here and lie with me, Hilda you go away, I don''t want to see you till I''m completely not in pain anymore and go plan a day for us! Fine fine. Hilda steps out of the room, noticing curious people around looking in her direction, probably due to the noise caused by Shila''s shouting and shouting and the fact that Hilda went into a room alone with two children who look severely similar to her. What are you all looking at? Mind your own damn business. Hilda pulls out her sword, learning not too long ago that floor 10 also has quite a couple of weaklings too while checking their status, causing them all to immediately walk away quickly as she keeps her sword back into her soul. Chapter 26. Trial of hearing. Hey Shila, I know I said we could take a break, but could we just finish the trials first? There''s another 5. Yea, but the first one was so fast and it didn''t take long, I also promised I won''t make use of you unless you give permission someway okay? Also 5? Should it be 4? Fine, let''s go, but you better don''t try to push the break further than this, also idk what the 5th one is. Alright alright. By the way, Aiden, white is also on the 10th floor now. Really? Has he passed the trial of smell yet? No, he failed so the tower sent him back here. We can retry?! Isn''t the poison made to kill? Yea, but only 3 attempts, also the tower keeps your soul safe even if your body dies, but only in certain circumstances like the trials. Oh, what happens after the three? You die for real, also the poisonous apple changes spots every time or maybe it doesn''t, it''s completely random. Oh, ok, let''s go? Fine. Shila sends them along with Jamine to the 12th floor as she sees a notification. Notification. During this trial, arrows modified to be slightly louder will be shot at you, your job is to prevent yourself from direct physical contact with the arrow through your skin or flesh. During this trial, you will lose all your senses except your sense of hearing temporarily. Wow, this is gonna be annoying¡­ Shila could you tell me the directions the arrows are coming from? I could, but the guide would probably be angry. He still hasn''t fixed the loopholes? No, I think it''s because people without an upgraded system can''t really cheat and he''s busier than he looks. That guy, seriously? I know, surprise surprise. As Hilda sighs, and tries to insult the guide, she hears a really soft sound approaching her quickly as she instinctively avoids it, feeling a small breeze of air pass by along with what she suspects to be the arrow. Was that the arrow? Yea. Why didn''t my sixth sense skill activate? Because the guide did fix that, it''s in your notifications, you should have seen your skills at the start before your sight got removed instead of talking to me.Love what you''re reading? Discover and support the author on the platform they originally published on. Annoying. Hilda avoids again as she hears another arrow being shot, followed by another and another as she starts struggling a bit. Oh yea, you are actually estimated to be 5 levels higher before you start the trial, making it easier but since you beat floor 2 without being at the estimated level, it''s a bit harder, so you could probably use your trait, but not too much or guide may get a bit angry. Ok, Shila,help me buff my stat to make this¡­ normal difficulty for me? Sure. Notification. Trait ¡°sis con¡± is in use. Stats are being temporarily added. Ok nice. Hilda keeps dodging, feeling it being slightly easier but still decently difficult as she nearly gets hit by one but uses her sword to block it in time. That was a close one. Indeed, hey Hilda, did you know that grass is a type of green plant that is commonly found on the 10th floor along with ants which live in colonies just like earth? And also¨C Shila, shut up, stop trying to interrupt me, I''ll use you as a meat shield. If you do that, I''m expecting 2 days of a break. In your dreams, I''m not letting you eat up my points. Whatever. Hilda listens closely as she hears no more approaching objects and let''s her guards down before suddenly hearing a bunch from all around with some above too. Hilda, you lost this time. Nah, I refuse, I may not like to do this, but your my system and the other treats me like a mom Huh? So what? Hilda rolls up into a ball, pulling her shirt over her face and putting her arms into her shirt while tucking her legs into her shirt, surprising Shila, not at how stupid this idea is, but how her shirt hasn''t torn apart yet. Hilda, what the actual hell? You know there is a way to pass this trial without whatever the hell you''re doing right now? But this is the easiest method. Hilda, just listen closely! One of the arrows are louder than the others, the rest are fake! Yea, but this is still easier. Hilda, I''m not gonna get scared over by the guide because of you, get the hell out of your shirt and do this, here''s a tip, use your mana! Mana? Hilda contemplates for a moment as she anyhow tries pushing mana into her arm, making her dizzy and headache but with severely improved hearing as she easily distinguishes the real one and comes out of her shirt, cutting the arrow in half. Wow, I didn''t know I could do that, but that is way too dizzy, I feel like vomiting. That''s due to the fact that you aren''t used to it yet but used too much. Yep, I agree. W-will the guide a-angry? Jamine softly mutters out, still not able to talk completely normally or loudly. Does it matter? As long as he doesn''t mess with me, I don''t care, he can scold me all the hell he wants. Hilda, if he downgrades me, I''ll hate you for this. Is he allowed? Of course, he made the original system, so of course he can downgrade me What''s the original system? Nothing much, it''s basically just the system but a base copy, I''m basically a copy of it when I first became yours, basically when you first checked me. Oh. Well, if the guide appears, I''ll attack him. You won''t succeed easily.. at all actually. So what? It''ll feel nice to attack the bastard. ¡­ Sure, let''s just go to the next one, which is that? Taste. Taste? How does that help improve my skills? It doesn''t, it improves your willpower though. How? You''ll figure it out. Huh? Shila sends them all over to the next floor as she reads the notification. Notification. Trial of taste, all your senses will remain, consume all the food without fail. Hilda looks around the room, taking her own time due to being able to keep her sight this time as she looks around, finding herself in a luxurious but mostly empty dining room except for a couple decorations such as potted plants and windows with nothing outside but a blue sky and no ground, with the most noticeable thing being a circular wooden table in the center of the dining room with food on it, each being a different taste. As Hilda walks up to the table, she notices 5 transparent packets containing a weird white crystal looking solid In each of them. What''s this? Eat, duh. Sure? Hilda goes up to the first packet and pokes a finger in before licking it. As she licks it, she immediately feels an extremely sweet taste, almost sweet enough to make her try spitting it out as she forces herself to deal with it. Oh god¡­ I see the problem now, Shila can you buy me some water? Not allowed. ¡­ Hilda looks back at the pack she just opened before nervously looking at the other 4. Screw it, I''ll just eat it all in one go. No, don''t! Hilda ignores her and eats it, instantly vomitting out and getting sent back to floor 10 after vomiting, leaving her with the overly sweet taste in her mouth, and tears welling up in her eyes due to the taste. Hey Hilda. Just say it, I deserve it. I told you so. ¡­ How about we just start the break now? Sure. Chapter 27. Rest day. Hey Shila, before we go on the break, could you buy me a new mask? Why? This one has vomit on it now, and it''s disgusting. Hilda takes her mental mask off, throwing it away and stabbing it into half with her sword before putting her sword away again. Well, too late anyways. Shila passes Hilda another mask, completely similar as Hilda ignores the notification about using 100 points. All right, let''s go! But please no sweet things, I didn''t even know something too sweet could feel so bad¡­ Fine, but you''re the one who was supposed to plan today out. About that¡­ You lazy idiot! Fine fine, how about we look around first? Fine, Jamine let''s go, ignore her. Jamine hesitates as Hilda just gives her a small nod, allowing her to go as Shila gently pulls her along. Hey Shila. What? What does taste even have to do with skills? Mental attacks or poison can cause things like this, this trial is to help you get used to extreme tastes so you can handle it even if people use mental magic on you. But my mental magic is decent now combined with my trait, so won''t mental attacks be useless against me? Better be safe than sorry. Sure I guess, not like I have a choice. Hilda follows Shila who is has started ignoring her as she keeps looking at the restaurants, and buying some food from some of them, leaving Hilda to buy as she and Jamine eats it. M-mom, want some? Jamine asks, holding out a small piece of steak with sauce towards Hilda using a fork No, it''s okay, eat it yourself. Hilda watches as they both continue to eat,with Shila no longer angry and Jamine constantly trying to feed Hilda with her declining nonstop due to the trial ruining her appetite. Has they continue looking around they buy something from the side of a road shop called memory cube, which apparently lets you relive a day in your life bringing whatever and whoever you want with you. As Shila hears this, she snatched it from Hilda to stop her from simply going to see her sister since it''ll just be a fake one in her memory anyways. Hilda! Lemme use this on you! Sure? But which part of my memory? One in your childhood. I don''t know which you mean but sure. Shila tires using it as they all get transported into an amusement park with Hilda also being much younger but still with her stats and weapon.Love this novel? Read it on Royal Road to ensure the author gets credit. Look at us three, we all look alike right now. Well except for me being blue and kind of see through. Why are we here? Hilda looks around and realises she can control this world, freezing the time in it as she walks away with Shila and Jamine who are unaffected due to not being part of her original memory as Hilda looks behind and sees her parents with their faces censored, most likely due to forgetting her parents faces and only their treatment of her and her sister. Hilda, let''s go already!! Wait, let''s see where Jamine wants first, we''ve got a day in here right? I guess so¡­ . Shila kicks a small pebble with her left arm behind her back, and grabs her right arm, waiting to hear what Jamine wants impatiently. So Jamine, what do you Wanna do? Jamine looks around excitedly and points to the Ferris wheel curiously. Sure sure, Shila, you don''t mind right? I guess not¡­ Great, let''s go. As they walk around the frozen memory, Hilda unfreezes the ferrus wheel, and gets into an empty seat with Shila and Jamine as the Ferris wheel brings them to the peak as she freezes it again, letting Shila and Jamine look all around the Amusement park with all of its shops and games like food vendors, or even those scam games where it''d basically impossible to win. So Shila, Jamine, which ones do you want to play? All! Y-yea, same as h-her. Sure then, let''s go play it all. As Hilda resumes the wheel again, they get off once they reach the bottom as Hilda brings them from game to game, unfreezing the games and playing them while taking prizes despite knowing they can''t keep it afterwards. While playing, they take all kinds of food from the vendors such as cotton candy, satay sticks and even a decent piece of pork and chicken some vendor was selling. Hey, why did you take that? We could have just used the food box and since we are in my memory, it won''t fill you up either you know? Of course I know Hilda, but isn''t it more enjoyable like this? I suppose so. Right Jamine? Yea. Hilda keeps bringing them around as they run around, acting more like children than in the tower, probably due to the lack of anything to fight here. Oh Shila, I just remembered, wasn''t this the amusement park I was in before a new year? Yea. So there''ll be fireworks. Oh yea! Let''s go find and unfreeze them. Sure. Hilda, Shila and Jamine all go their separate directions, in an attempt to find the fireworks. They all gather back after failing to find the fireworks as Shila and Jamine looks disappointed with Hilda just sighing as they all go back onto the Ferris wheel. Hilda, do you really not remember? Yea, this was from years ago, no way I would remember. M-mom buy? You want me to buy fireworks? Yea. Fine, but only for this time. Shila and Jamine both celebrate as Hilda mourns the loss of her points, lighting the first works and using her strength to throw them just towards the air, causing them to slowly start exploding mid air, flying in all directions randomly. Mom, I like t-this! I agree with Jamine!!! Hilda, thanks for not being a cheapskate. Yea yea¡­ anyways, how do we leave? Either wait for 24 hours to finish to get hit hard enough. Oh, well then, let''s just enjoy the fireworks for now, it cost me 1000 points so no way it''s gonna end quickly. Sure. Yay! Hey jamine, due to you not being able to talk properly you sound really childish. Technically her age is pretty childish and doppelgangers will have the personality of what they copied, speaking of which, why hasn''t she reverted to her older form when fighting? How should I know? Don''t like! Ok, don''t shout. Anyways, doppelgangers will also change under special circumstances, usually not by a lot but since yours was provided by as an award, I wouldn''t be surprised if it was different. Oh. Don''t c-call me an i-it! Sorry, forgot. Anyways, when is the fireworks going to end? How should I know? You bought it¡­ I bought a random one for 1000. What was it called? Shila sighs. Oh, self-destruct fireworks. Huh? Shila looks over to the side and sees the fireworks exploding bigger, while beautiful are getting ridiculously close to them as one big firework flies at them and blows up, causing them to be sent back. What made you think something called self-destruct fireworks was a good idea!!!!! Oops? P-pretty. I agree, but your mother is an idiot. Rude! Exactly Shila. Keep quiet untill you can beat the 13th floor first. It''s disgusting. Too bad! Actually I got an idea, how does mental attack magic work? Huh? It causes the opponents to feel anything, as long as it''s not a physical injury, meaning it can be used to make yourself high too, though no way I''m letting you do that. What if I make myself unable to taste? That''s cheating¡­ Well, I''ll resort to it if I must. Idk No chapter today, I need to go fix my phone cus apparently charging and working for hours is messing up the changing port, and I don''t have any other devices I use to write, so... I''ll be back lastest in 2 days, probably tmr but yea, okay?Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more. I''m just filling up the character count now. Fun fact about me:I''ve been sick with cough for 5 months and can''t be bothered about it anymore. Another fun fact:I have a really sensitive nose. Last fun fact:I have a messed up sleep schedule. Ok, seriously last, I''m gonna go do maths homework now. Chapter 28. Trial of taste. Alright Shila, that''s the end of our break, send me back to the 13th floor. Fine, but how do you intend to pass? I''ll embrace my trait. Huh? My trait has the supposed drawback of being more obsessed with my sister and clearly the extra will power is of not enough help right now, so if I just think about my sister and that I''m doing this for her, I should be able to get through right? That is the stupidest thing I''ve ever¡­ Actually that might work, but only because of how unique you are, or well, your trait, this feels so stupid Whatever, you just admitted that it may work, so send me already. Fine. Shila sends Hilda back to the 13th floor, the trial of taste as Hilda walks back up to the table again, ignoring the notification. As she walks up, she closes her eyes and focuses on her sister completely, as she pours the whole packet of the power like substance into her mouth, preparing for the immense sweetness. As she closes her eyes, she feels an extreme bitterness compared to what she expected as she holds back her tears, determined not to spit it out or vomit as she swallows it completely. As she swallows it all, she covers my mouth with Shila coming over to help keep her mouth closed, struggling against the need to vomit out everything she ate in the memory despite none of it being real as she keeps on the floor, pressing her mouth closed with her knees against her hands to keep her mouth shut. After a couple more minutes suffering and holding back her tears, she eventually gets through, with the bitter taste still in her mouth but reduced to the point she won''t vomit out as she opens her eyes. As she opens her eyes, she wipes away her tears, and looks at the table, realising she opened the wrong packet, something she should of noticed earlier due to the taste if not for the fact that the very same taste was the only thing on her mind, not allowing her to think of other things. That was disgusting! Hilda, it''s your fault for eating the wrong one, how about getting rid of the taste? How? Suck on Jamine. What? Hilda physically pulls her ears open bigger, making sure she didn''t hear it wrong. I see a need to rephrase, okay, suck in a small part of her slimy body, just rip a good chunk out of her, she''s edible despite being acidic due to your stats and regeneration skill. Won''t it hurt her? Hilda runs over to Jamine who shakes her head, confusing Hilda. She doesn''t have pain receptors. Oh yea,I guess her original body is kind of just like a slimy thingHelp support creative writers by finding and reading their stories on the original site. That''s one way to call it. Screw it, I''m not¡­ sucking on Jamine, for a lack of better words. See? Even you don''t know how to phrase it better. Shut up. Rude. Shut up, I still have another 4 packets to suffer through. Oh yea, have fun? Shut up. Yes ma am. Hilda slowly gets back from the floor, the bitter taste still lingering strongly on her mouth as she goes back to the sweet packet as Shila stops her. What? I would suggest eating another packet first, preferably a disgusting one so it can help to reduce the sweet taste later with the sweet taste reducing the disgusting one too. Sure, but which one is the disgusting taste? Can''t tell, sorry. Great help you are. Hilda goes to the rightmost packet, and downs it in one go, not caring about her sister this time, realising that Shila was just lying to her just now, whether to encourage her or as a joke, she doesn''t know or have the time the time to find out as an extreme spice takes over her body, making her start sweating and grabbing Jamine''s hand and tearing it off into our in her mouth as tears stream down her face, unable to hold them back this time. This isn''t even hard to keep in my mouth! It''s just a terrible feeling! Hilda puts the portion of Jamine¡¯s hand into her mouth, with it turning back to a transparent greenish due to not being a part of Jamine''s body anymore as she feels a stinging feeling, caused by the acidity of Jamine''s body and a oddly tasteless yet not so tasteless taste, similar to plain water. Hilda eventually gets through the spice, wiping away the sweat and tears from her body, using the piece of Jamine she took to wipe herself off, making Jamine glare at her. Sorry, but I''m kind of suffering here, also shouldn''t your acidity but much more? Her acidity was reduced by a lot since you tore it off. Oh, if she was still completely acidic what would have happened? You would be missing your jaw and tongue right now. Ok¡­ now something I want to experience. Hilda goes to the remaining three packets, with the leftmost being sweet and the remaining two being unknown. I''ll just go for the sweetness last. Hilda takes another random one and eats it all, feeling an extreme saltiness followed by dehydration as she tries to swallow but finds it much harder due to the salt sticking to her tongue with the bits that went down, causing her throat to feel extremely salty too. This isn''t hard to swallow, but it feels worse than the spice!!!! Hilda bites the salt, trying to get it to go down easier, only for the taste to intensify as. She decides to just wait for it to dissolve, with it being faster than normal due to small parts of Jamine''s acidic parts still in her mouth, dissolving the salt that comes in contact with it instantly. A few minutes later, the salt finishes dissolving, leaving Hilda lying down in the floor once again, wishing she had even a drop of water as she goes and eats the next packet immediately, hoping to get rid of the lingering saltiness even by a bit as she consumes it, feeling a sense of disgust immediately, nearly vomiting it out as she eats the packet filled with sweet tasting powder to help try to mitigate the disgust, with the sweetness making it worse but also helping. As she nearly vomits it out, she shouts for Jamine to help as Jamine goes over to Hilda and shuts her mouth up by forcing it close by morphing her arm into a mask to keep her mouth closed while focusing on trying to reduce the acidity so Hilda doesn''t end up with a jaw and tongue lesser than others. Hilda keeps holding it in, tears streaming down her face due to the combination of the severe, disgusting and sweet taste all while trying to hold in vomiting. A couple minutes later, she lies on the floor, ignoring the clear message as she levels up another 5 times while panting on the floor. Shila¡­ can you get me some water now? Sure¡­ Shila uses the food box and pulls out a bottle of plain cold water and passes it to Shila who downs it immediately, asking for another as Shila provides. Hey Hilda. Yes? Hilda replies, no longer panting as much and sitting up now. Your¡­ gonna have stomach problems later. I won''t be surprised. So small talk, which was the worst? Spice. Huh? I''d thought it was the one which was made specifically to just be disgusting. No, my spice tolerance is so bad that even pepper feels kinda spicy. Ah. Worse thing is, I like spicy food, but my spice tolerance makes it near impossible to eat spicy food. What a shame, food is one of the many joys in life. I agree, could you send us back to the inn? Yea, sure. Hilda laughs slightly, not due to joy but because she thinks back to how much she suffered due to mere heavy tastes just a while ago and how ironic it is that monsters that can kill thousands of people on earth before the military can even react is less of a problem compared to severe tastes. What a goddamn joke¡­ Chapter 29. Trial of sight. Okay, the next is trial of sight right? What are we even going to do? You know I''m usually not allowed to tell right? Oh yea, forgot. But since the guide changed the trial just because of you, there''s no loophole due to know straight forward it is and knowing won''t help anyways, so I''m allowed to tell. So you can tell? Yea, wanna know? Not anymore, just keep it as¡­ suspense? I don''t think that''s how it works. Does it matter? I don''t really care. Screw it, wanna start or not? Sure? Shila teleports them all to the 14th floor where Hilda gets sent to notification for her trial. Notification. Trial of sight, make direct physical contact with the invisible beings through skin on arms, legs or head. All skills are disabled, system is temporarily downgraded back to the minimum, all other beings related to the user will be sent back to the system temporarily. Huh? Hilda looks around, only seeing the system interface with Shila and Jamine both nowhere to be found as she reread the notification. Locate invisible beings without any skills? How the¡­ Oh, am I supposed to just use mana like in the trial of hearing? That''s easy enough. Hilda starts pouring mana into her right eye to try and a second later¡­ Splat. Splat? Hilda tries to keep pouring mana in but finds she cannot do so as she realises her sight on her right is gone followed by a massive jolt of pain where her eye is, as she closes her eyes tightly and grabs her right eye in pain before being healed and sent back to floor 10 where Shila and Jamine reappear. Hilda, your amazing. Please elaborate, and tell me what happened to me eye. Hilda says while still grabbing her right eye which is now healed. Ok, imagine filling a balloon up with water. Yea? Thewater is your mana, your eye is the balloon. So? You filled up too much mana, so your eye went¡­ pop. Oh, so I just need to use less? No, control is and make a layer around your eye, like a contact lense, but if possible all around, I suggest just at the front for now. You could of warned me first you know? You got a slight headache from using mana on your ears, I thought you would have understood that using mana on your body parts, especially if it''s excessive, can have bad consequences. Clearly I didn''t. Clearly not, let''s go again, remember, 2 more tries only, though you could use the elixir to heal yourself though it''ll hurt a lot more since it''s basically regening your entire eye.This book''s true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience. Got it, don''t be stupid is all I need to do. Yea, simple as that, the only problem is the eye blowing up, but who cares? Yea, it''s just my eye right? Right. ¡­ Let''s go? Sure. Shila sends them again as Hilda ignores the motivation this time and focuses some mana into her eye, taking her own sweet time to focus mana into her eye. As she slowly does so, stopping as she feels her eye starting to be pain again, she manages to somewhat stabilise it before opening her eyes and looking at the surroundings, which despite not having physically changed, looks much nicer somehow. As she takes in her surroundings, despite it being a plain white room, she remembers her goal and starts looking around for the invisible beings, barely dodging in time as a giant invisible preying mantis takes to stab her with its scythe-like legs, as it scrapes her side, causing slight bleeding. Crap, I didn''t take into account what would happen if they attacked. Hilda tries preparing her sword qi as she pulls out her sword, preparing to slash all the preying mantis down, forgetting that skills are sealed as she dodges another hit. How annoying. Hilda keeps trying to fight, but with her skills sealed and not being able to check the manti¡¯s stats for some reason but with them probably being higher, she gets pushed back as more mantis appear. Crap, it''s getting harder to maintain the mana too. If this keeps up, I won''t even be able to see them. Hilda keeps thinking of a way out while focusing her mana on her eye as she swings her sword at them, accidently focusing mana into her sword, killing one of the mantis by increasing sharpness. Oh yea, forgot I could do this. As she starts attacking with her mana infused weapon, the mantis start getting more defensive, making it harder for Hilda as she tired to break through to no avail. Screw It, their too strong. Trait isn''t banned so buff me please my dear trait? Just enough to beat them all? Notification. Trait ¡°sis con¡± will increase the user''s stats. Warning. Increasing enough stats to fight all nearby opponents will strain your trait, are you sure? Okay, maybe not, just increase it till it won''t strain. Notification. Trait ¡°sis con¡± is buffing your stats. Nice, lemme check. Hilda opens her status only to be interrupted by one of the mantis attacking her, retreating before she can do anything. Huh? They keep repeating this with them going back to their defensive stance. Are these idiots trying to tire me out? I have enough endurance to deal with this, but do they actually have intelligence? Hilda dodges another one of their attacks, getting annoyed. But this is sincerely irritating, if they keep this up, I can''t win either. Let me try something, I hope I don''t die. Hilda injects some mana into her body with most of it leaking out as she runs at the mantis again, finding her speed faster than normal but not too much. Huh? This works too? Mana is so useful. Hilda runs at them with her sword, injecting half her remaining mana equally into her arms and legs, preventing as much from escaping. As she runs at them, they get surprised by her speed, not being able to react as Hilda slices through a good amount of them, jumping higher than ever, dodging their attacks and attacking them from the back and being able to retreat easily. Ok, this is great, but the mana consumption is no joke, I''ve got to hurry. Hilda runs at them again as they gather into a circle protecting all sides. Hilda runs at them, gathering more mana, intending to cut their legs off to prevent them from defending along with their bodies. The best offense is the best defense! Hilda runs at them, swinging her sword,, noticing a small very thin blue wave being sent out, recognising it as mana that has somewhat solidified, something she didn''t know was possible as all the mantis get cut in half. As they all die, she looks around, finding no more left but not being sent back. Huh? Do I have to stab them again? Hilda keeps trying to figure it out as she kneels down and pokes one of them, making their whole body, even the disconnected part disappear as she reads the notification again. Oh¡­ direct physical contact through skin¡­ so I didn''t even have to defend myself that hard? If they even attacked my head they would have vanished? Then what did I do this for? ¡­ Hilda starts walking around, poking them all, with her black trail making it harder due to it being in a much larger volume with Hilda suspecting it had something to do with almost solidifying mana. Seriously¡­ the guide should get rid of this stupid trail, it even looks somewhat eerie due to how black it actually is but with her still being able to somehow see through it. She sighs as she pokes all the remaining body parts with their green blood still splattered all over the ground and her as she gets sent back to the 10th floor, surprising people, with her not being sure if it''s the much bigger volume of the weird black mist following every step she takes or the fact she''s covered in green blood, but the green blood being more important to her due to how sticky it feels and the smell. Hey Hilda¡­ . Shila says, now being back to normal. Yes? You¡­ weren''t supposed to clear it like that. Did I cheat? No, but you made your life harder. I am very much aware. Hilda turns over at Jamine as she opens her mouth but closes it immediately, noticing Hilda''s annoyance, mostly caused by the blood on her. Let''s just go back to the inn. Sure, but Hilda, why do we use the inn? Huh? Where else would I stay? You may be able to hide into the system but I can''t unless the guide sends me. First, I can send you into the system imitation of your house, second, you have your territory. Oh yea, what a waste of points. Let''s just go¡­ I already got Jamine to go get our stuff and to cancel our room. Oh, that explains her absence and the lack of a stinging feeling from her acidity. Anyways, you have one last trial, I can''t tell you what it involves, but it''s the trial of touch. Right, let''s just go back into the territory after Jamine comes back, I gotta wash up, they have a place to clean up now right? Yup. Ok, so they finally became more civilised. That''s rude, you know? I don''t care. When your sister comes, I''ll bully her to teach you about being rude. You dare? ¡­ Ok, maybe I''ll find some other way. Yea, you better stay away. ¡­ Obsessed. Chapter 30. Trial of touch. Shila, let''s go to the territory already. Sure. Shila teleports them both, ignoring the villagers looking at them as Shila brings Hilda to the biggest building in the center, almost as big as a mansion, falling it hers as Hilda looks over at Shila. What? I invested so many points, for you to build this crap? Look, I made more points than you invested so stop being a nuisance and let me enjoy life too. Screw it, did you increase the population? Yea. The houses? Obviously. The weapons and defense? No, me and Jamine can easily deal with others since most of the others don''t have a system that can fight as well as me due to my stats, they don''t have pets either. Oh, if anything goes wrong, it''s your fault. Whatever, just go shower. Fine fine. For the first time ever since Hilda found out she could buy an item from the shop to clean herself, she takes a shower and to her satisfaction, in a particularly modern seeming shower in contrast with the severe lack of technology in her village and even the mansion itself. As she steps out, wiping herself off, she puts on new clothes, something she hasn''t done ever since entering the towel at all and goes out, throwing the towel and her old clothes at Jamine to dissolve due to her laziness. Weren''t you complaining about points just now? That towel was worth 15 points. I don''t care. Your clothes were worth 15 each too, adding up to 60, so 75. I still don''t care. The cheapskate is becoming less cheapskate, what a miracle. Shut it and send me back. Aren''t you gonna talk with the villagers? They do surprisingly respect you quite a bit. Why? You supported them with so many points, obviously they appreciate it, even if it''s to your own benefit, it still helped them. Oh, cool, I don''t care. If you talk to them or even show your face more, it could encourage them to work harder, providing more points. I''ll visit sometime in the future okay? You better not forget. Yea yea, whatever let''s go to the 15th floor.The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. Fine. I''m curious to see what this is about. Right¡­ so excited, I hope you feel the same later. Shila teleports them both to the next floor as Hilda reads the notification. Notification. Trial of touch, don''t give up, make it to the end. Ok? Hilda looks up, seeing an obstacle course Infront of her as she prepares to start dashing through it as she feels her feet and body feel cramped. What is happening?! I hate this feeling. That''s your sense of touch being amplified 100 fold, if you can control it, you''ll become more skilled, if not, it''ll feel like a severe cramp throughout your whole body. Even my mouth feels weird!! It feels like the inside is itchy!! Yea, not surprised. Hilda closes her eyes, trying to concentrate as her eyes start feeling severely terrible too, making her close her eyes tightly, causing the feeling to get worse. Shila, send me out! Giving up already? Wow Shila sends Hilda out as Hilda runs her eyes, scratching her entire body, attracting gazes from curious onlookers as she drinks some water, trying to get rid of the itch in her mouth. Hey Hilda, your trust increased willpower, why are you so mentally weak? It felt terrible! I agree, but I don''t care. Maybe you should suffer with me. Can''t, wouldn''t, ain''t. Screw it. Hilda steps scratching herself, letting the redness from the scratching get healed instantly by her regeneration skill as she stands up, getting used to running before getting Shila to send her back to the trial. As soon as the trial starts, Hilda ignores the notification, running and getting as much distance as she can before the sensation starts, which isn''t long as they start after her second step, with her ignoring it, trying her best not to blink as she keeps running, dealing with the horrible sensation which is similar to cranks, something she now hates a lot due to this trial. God, what a horrible feeling. I knew you could deal with it, you just didn''t want to. Noz the blinking was the biggest problem and it still feels terrible, but the blinking made it worse. Oh, makes sense? As Hilda dashes through the obstacles, she eventually ends up In front of a body of water, too wide to jump over and too deep to walk in as she freezes on the spot. What are you doing? Just swim! I.. I what? I can''t swim¡­ I can''t even float. Huh? What the hell? No, like I''m scared of trying to swim¡­ think of it as a minor trauma? ¡­ Just figure it out. Can I use mana in my legs? I would suggest not. Why? Can''t tell, but you''re allowed to do so. Sure then. Hilda infuses mana into her legs, preparing to leap across as she feels the cramps in her legs increasing with the amount of mana she infuses in, making it hard for her to properly run or jump. Crap! Does mana affect this somehow? Well, since you already did it, I guess I can tell you. Mana increases sensitivity, usually not by too much unless you''re specifically trying to do so, but in this trial where sensitivity is increased 100 times, it feels a lot worse. Crap¡­ Hilda forces herself up, jumping over the water, landing safely but causing the feeling it gets a lot worse temporarily, causing her to trip and kneel down, waiting for the feeling to go back to how it was before getting back up again slowly and continuing through the path. With the end in sight, Hilda rushes faster, with Shila calling out behind for her to stop but Hilda not reacting in time as a giant hammer hits her into the walk with strength that shouldn''t usually even be enough to kill her or hurt her too much, but with the increased sensitivity, Hilda feels an extreme increase in pain, causing her to fall to her knees, sliding out of the way of the hammer coming back at her, ignoring the cramp-like feeling. What the hell, the pain is also amplified 100 times?! Yea, be happy that the guide only set these hammers to be fast and weak or you may have fainted from the pain. What a pain, literally. Hilda runs towards the finishing line, avoiding the hammer and the many more that came after it along with new obstacles, like high pressured water, strong winds and even vibrations, all to make her cramp-like feeling get worse, with each succeeding and Hilda forcing through, dealing with it, careful to protect her eyes specifically. As she nearly reaches the finish line, an arrow, a rubber one, flies in from the side, hitting Hilda''s right eye, taking advantage of her temporarily decrease in alertness, causing her to crap it in pain with the feeling being even worse than having her eye blown up in the previous trial, leading her to close her eye tightly, accidently causing her left eye to close too, causing both to feel terrible as she ignores it and keeps running, hoping to reach the finish line to get rid of this feeling. As she runs towards the finishing line, she tries due to feeling a headache from the overwhelming sensations coming from her eyes as she stands back up, forcing her eyes open, crossing the finishing line with her eyes all red despite having kept them open for no more than a few seconds as she gets sent back to the tenth floor where Shila teleports her back to the territory quickly as she faints. Status summary. Name: Hilda Race: Human Gender: Female Level:116 Stats:(61 S) (61 E) (61 A) (56 M) Skills: Mana control Allows the user basic control over mana. Mental magic(Level 8) Allows the user to use mental magic swordsmanship Improves the user''s ability to learn swordsmanship and increases the user''s attack the more the user''s mastery. Willpower Improves the user''s willpower. Spatial magic.(Level 8) Allows the user to use low level spatial magic. Sword qi(level 33) Allows you to use willpower to materialise a layer of energy which improves attacking abilities, along with sending it out as a ranged attack. Conversion magic(level 5) Regeneration Increases natural and external sources of regeneration Tough skinUnlawfully taken from Royal Road, this story should be reported if seen on Amazon. Makes the users skin tougher, making it harder to bleed along with reducing the strength of blunt attacks. Sixth sense(epic) Can sense danger or anything the user may be looking for. Low level shield magic.(Level max) Trait:sis con(max) Personality:sis con Name: Shila Gender: Female Level:58(tied to users level/2) Stats:(59 S) (59 E) (59 A) (54 M) Personality: loves food. Trait: ¡°leecher(max)¡±(trait level tied to users) field magic(level 3) Can affect a certain area around the user. debuff magic(level 4) Can provide debuff to opponents. Name: Jamine Gender:N/A(currently:female) LevelLevel:58(tied to users level/2) Stats:(59 S) (59 E) (59 A) (54 M) Personality:quiet. Trait: ¡°leecher(max)¡±(trait level tied to users) Extreme regeneration. Allows the user to regenerate at an extreme speed, regardless of injury. Corrosive body. Provides the user with a corrosive and acidic body(will harm the user over time) First to kill a monster. all monster kills give 10 percent more loot(Epic) First to use trait. trait is permanently increased by 5 percent(rare) First to strain trait. trait can last longer despite strain and has faster recovery speed by 10 percent.(Epic) First to get recoil. recoil is no longer as severe by 5 percent.(Epic) Second to kill a level 5 monster(epic) When fighting beings above your own level, your stats can increase by up to (5) decreased to 4 due to being second. Reach level 5(common) Tip coupon First to unlock shop(rare) 50 percent discount coupon(expiry 3 months) First to unlock inventory(rare) Plus 10 m3 of space First to kill a mini boss(legendary) When fighting a mini boss, stats are increased by 10 percent. Survivor, first to survive a near death situation. (Legendary) When taking lethal damage for the first time during the day, the damage will be reduced to barely below lethal damage, and all pain will be reduced by 80 percent for 5 seconds and all injuries will not get worse from users own action for 5 seconds unless intentional. First to kill a life form with a percentage of at least true dragon in its bloodline. Stats will increase when fighting lifeforms with true dragon blood, stats increase depending on amount of true dragon blood. First to kill a level 20 lifeform. Tip coupon. Broke(common.) No benefits. Third to reach level 25 Tip coupon First to kill an abomination(epic) When fighting undead, they will be much more aggressive, but upon hitting an undead, their regenerative ability will be decreased by 20 percent Third to kill a being over 25(epic) Tip coupon. Kill floor ones boss(legendary) Access to floor two. Second to max out a skill(legendary) All skills will be 7.5 percent stronger. Kill floor 2s boss.(Legendary) Access to floor 3. Kill floor 2s boss.(Legendary) Access to floor 3. Kill floor 3s boss.(Legendary) Access to floor 4. Kill floor 4s boss.(Legendary) Access to floor 5. Kill floor 5s boss.(Legendary) Access to floor 6. Kill floor 6s boss.(Legendary) Access to floor 7. Kill floor 7s boss.(Legendary) Access to floor 8. Kill floor 8s boss.(Legendary) Access to floor 9 Kill floor 9s boss.(Legendary) Access to floor 10. (Locked:11,12,13,14,15) Clear the trials of senses.(Legendary) Access to floor 16. Chapter 31. Reunion with "friends" A couple hours later, Hilda wakes up, finding herself in the waste of points mansion bought by Shila as she looks around, finding nobody in sight, only a couple of waste of points decorations in the room. She slowly gets up from the waste of points too big of a bed, stepping out of the room and going downstairs where she finds Jamine and Shila both snacking away new food they never saw them eating before as she opens her notifications to find some new ones while she was fainted about them buying all types of snacks once for the food box. Oi. Shila and Jamine both notice her immediately, hiding the food box behind themselves despite knowing Shila already saw it. Yes? Mom? Why are you both snacking here¡­ with my points? Hilda pulls out her sword. Hey hey, calm down!! We finally hit an income of 1000 points per day, so we decided to take a small break, these snacks don''t even add up to over 500 points alright? Hilda sighs, putting back her sword into her soul. If I see another notification about you buying from me, you''re screwed. Sure sure whatever, anyways, white or¡­ Aiden wanted to add you to an alliance. What? Didn''t he try that before? I don''t remember honestly, but I rejected it for you. Why did you do that? What? You don''t like people anyways unless¡­ Unless what? You like him? Hilda pulls her sword back out, making Shila put her hands up, surrendering. Wait!! We can feel some of your emotions unless you forbid us okay? It was a joke, chill! Make another joke, and your head will really disappear. I''ll just come back to life a couple hours later. So? You''ll still feel pain, won''t you? Nah. Wanna test that out? Hilda calls Shila out on her lie. Not really no. Then zip it. Yes mam. So, should we start on the 16th floor? Probably not, the 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20th floor is one huge maze, you''re not allowed to leave before beating all stages too by the way. A maze? Like the event one? Yea, but much bigger. How much? If the maze was a sphere, it would be around earth. Earth, like the entire planet? Yea, it''s as simple as that. That''s not simple. The explanation is. You gotta love it when the guide does this. Your problem. Yours too, anyways, isn''t the tower meant to make us stronger? Why is it making us do this? I assume it will test your persistence and adaptability since each floor will have different environments, and no, I don''t know the environments. Do you at least know floor 16? Yea, can''t tell, but it''s the easiest, to like¡­ help you get used to it. I assume there are monsters too? Yea, but avoid the mini boss and boss, those are level 200, the guide even gave them skills such that they are not meant to be beaten, if you do bring them close to death, a shield forms around with them going into hibernation for 48 hours. So fighting them brings no benefits? Yea, also the guide took plenty of precautions to make sure you sincerely can''t kill it or make it go hibernate too easily.The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. Why? YOU are asking why? Yea. It''s cus of you¡­. Thanks for the compliment. It''s not a¡­ nevermind. So shall we go or not? I don''t wanna spend weeks on end in the stupid maze so I''m gonna say no, if my opinion matters. If I listen to you, what should I do? Simple, kill monsters ok the tenth floor, without any skills to train reaction speed, and your skills, fighting sense etc. Are the monsters on this floor easy? Not at all, well some are, but most, I think I already told you, are pretty damn strong. That''s actually irritating. High risk high return. So I get a lot more loot? Not at all, I just wanted something to say that seems like it fits in with the conversation. Hilda smacks Shila on the back of her head gently(for her level). That was uncalled for. I''m kinda in a bad mood. I can''t go to the next floor, so your jokes aren''t particularly helping. How about going to your territory? No. Seriously? Didn''t you promise to visit eventually? Eventually I will. At this rate, all the current villagers might as well age to death. Haha, so funny, let''s go find something to fight then, since you suggested doing so. Sure, I would suggest rotating since these monsters do mostly attack the same usually. That''s so troublesome. Shut it, blame yourself for being born in a world where fighting isn''t normal. Screw you. You too, let''s start off with¡­ the golems. Golems? Seriously? Yea, yea I hate them too, but let''s go. Wait, I think I fought them before right? Yep. What did they look like again? Rocks, but these are different. What do you mean? They look like mannequins, but they''re severely skilled and would cut you to pieces in seconds. ¡­ Don''t worry, they work alone, and you could probably run to a city or settlement to take refuge before it kills you, especially with your survivor achievement. ¡­¡­. Fine, let''s go. Good choice. Shut it. Alright. Shila brings Hilda out of town, far away from the city she''s in as she finds herself in a forest. Why is most of my time spent in a forest? How should I know? Screw it. Hilda pulls her weapon out, walking further in as she notices a sign, and removes the vegetation grown over it. Warning:hulems are found past these signs, if spotted, please walk away slowly and close your eyes, in a moment you''ll end up in the afterlife or wherever it is, a place even the guide isn''t aware of. I detect severe sarcasm from this sign. Obviously, the one place the guide can''t check would probably be after your soul disperses anyways. ¡­ So it means, to just drop dead if I walk past? And what''s with the name anyways? Their golems, but Hulems is named after an old guy, his dead from old age now, but was the most successful in creating golems before he died. Also the sign is telling you to either go away, or just die off. And you''re positive I should go? Yea, they are often alone anyways. Right. Hilda goes Deeper Into the forest, past the sign as she her sixth sense skill activates, with her instinctively swinging her sword in her direction, only to be met with a greater strength along with a clang sound as she sees a person, devoid of any facial features, similar to the guide, without the glowing as she backs up due to losing in a contest of strength quickly. What the hell? Why is it so strong? It''s level 150, you got lucky. Lucky? Level 150? Well, most golems here are 200 and above so¡­ I hate you. Hilda sucks, avoiding another hit, trying to counterattack either the golem hitting her sword away, chasing it fly away as she absorbs it back into her soul with mana. She pulls her sword back out, with Shila just watching and Jamine god knows where since the city as she starts defending herself, being pushed back quickly as its top half suddenly spins 360 degrees, with her ducking under, barely surviving. What the hell¡­ As she moves to the side, trying to attack it, it attacks back, its sword suddenly glowing, along with its hands as Hilda feels her sword heating up quickly, chasing her to pull her sword away before it gets worse. What the hell was that? A skill. Non living creatures can have skills?! If its creator gave it skills, yes. Damn. Hilda starts defending it again, making sure to minimise the contact between their swords as it continues heating up, but slower. Hilda gets a good hit in, hitting it''s sword away but not out of its grasp as she attacks it, with it forming a small but sturdy shield around itself, also heating up as Hilda counters by using mana and sword qi to quickly pierce through the shield, slicing it in half before it can attack her again. Well, that was easier than expected. Since its creator didn''t bother giving it strong skills, no wonder a pay to win like you won. ¡­ Cry about it. Nah, anyways you should probably run. Wh? It seems like this guy was intended by its creator to be stronger in numbers than individual strength. Huh? Hilda teleports away immediately, with her sixth sense skill going crazy in all directions as she looks at her original position, her heart beating like crazy as she notices another 5 similar golems, all with glowing swords, which would have easily killed her, even with her survivor achievement if it hadn''t been for her sixth sense and spatial magic skill. That was close. I suggest running, quickly. Shila starts running, teleporting back into the system. The golems all turn to Hilda as Hilda runs away, using spatial magic to quicken her speed to the max as she narrowly avoids some hits. As Hilda keeps running, she notices a couple oddly familiar faces in sight, not fully recognising them, but having used her mana so carelessly and not wanting to use her trait or waste more mana and sword qi, she has no choice but to go to them as she forms shields behind herself, trapping them in temporarily, turning to the faces. As she turns to them, she gets slightly surprised at the sight of Aiden, who she still calls white, red, the one she designated animal girl while talking with Shila and lastly orange, the one designated ¡°Bitch¡± for her poison usage, and being a hide nuisance. Wow, didn''t expect to see you here, what are you doing? White ignored Hilda''s current predicament, causing her to glare at him. You''re wearing your mask, but somehow I feel like you don''t have a happy expression. Hilda teleports behind them, getting rid of the shield, having already gotten sick of hearing him talk. As they attack, Orange uses her animals to defend with white using water to slice their head off, being much stronger than Shila in terms of just brute strength, excluding sword qi and mana. Red just sits there, being useless as poison doesn''t work on golems. You''re welcome? White pokingly taunts Hilda a bit. But by the way, I already told these two your secret. Hilda eyes shoot in his direction, staring away, not caring before as she glares at him again. You did what?! Hilda shouts at White, surprising red and orange for the fact that she''s a girl, confusing Hilda as white raises his hands up in surrender. I said I wouldn''t tell you secret, I didn''t, you just did though. Hilda hears Shila mocking her at the back of her head, something she found out Shila could do whenever Shila ran away. ¡­ Your fucked. Hilda pulls out her sword, filling it with half her remaining mana and half her total sword qi with the three actually raising their hands up, trying to get her to rethink her choices as Hilda approaches them. Hey hey, I can''t deal with your sword qi you know? I could probably survive that, but these two won''t so it would be greatly appreciated if you didn''t do so, I still need them you know? Die. Chapter 32. Theft. Hilda sighs, retracting her sword qi from her sword along with her mana, letting red just sigh as orange just look irritated. Now that I think about it, why don''t you join us? White asks, clearly not regretting the little trick he just pulled. Why should I? You''ll be able to gain a good amount of points, and if you''re lucky, valuable items too. Valuable items? Where from? Stealing. ¡­ Don''t get me wrong, I''m not a bad person- You are. Maybe a bit, but it''s for revenge, the people on this floor don''t take kindly to us who can gain skills from the system. Really? I met some but they didn''t seem too unfriendly. They probably thought you were just an¡­ eccentric person with your mask. Is that an insult or compliment? Compliment? I''m stupid but not to that extent. Anyways, moving on, we intend to rob their carriage, it has the daughter of someone important who obviously has good items with them. Someone important? Who? How am I supposed to know? They just look rich. Were you perhaps a bad person on earth? Nah. So how are we going to do this? Simple, well kill the guards, with Aileen using her poison to make it easier and red using her animals to compensate in numbers. Alright, easy enough. Hilda follows white, along with the other two as they eventually reach a random cliff, confusing and annoying Hilda. What''s this? Patience, they''ll be here from now till a week at most. A week? A whole week? Yea, it''s not like we''ve been able to clear the trials yet anyways. What? You losers haven''t cleared the trials yet? Watch your mouth! Who are you calling losers?! Orange shouts at Hilda, using some weak poisonous mist on her to no avail as Hilda swings a small weak wave of sword qi at her, dissipating all the gas at once, surprising her. Anybody else wants to try? Hilda scans them with her eyes, orange knowing she can''t win, white obviously not caring about this at all with red still afraid of her.If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation. Seriously, I only hurt red a bit, I can''t believe you''re still so afraid. I think you''re forgetting that you not only used mental magic on her but swung your sword at her, which by itself is already an extremely scary experience. Shila''s voice calls it from the back of her head. Shut it. Will do. Screw it, I''m going back to my territory, I''ll be back in a while. Sure, just keep it shirt. Yea yea whatever, how annoying. Hilda teleports to her territory, noticing Jamine there immediately. Hey Jamine! What have you been doing just lying about? Relaxing, aunt told m-me to stay here. Aunt? Oh you mean Shila? Yea. I honestly thought you would have considered her closer to a sister instead but sure. Anyways, why did she tell you to stay and relax? She s-said ¡°Mom is busy, she doesn''t need help, stay and s-sleep¡±. ¡­ She lied. A-aunt lied? Aunt bad? Yea, don''t randomly believe her. Sure. Anyways, I need you to help me okay? Sure! Either what? Framing someone, got it? Yep. Wait here. Hilda teleports back, buying a camera at the same time. Say cheese. Huh? White and the others look over, confused by what she meant but also a little surprised by her sudden appearance as she teleports back to her territory again, leaving them to keep waiting. Ok Jamine, here. Hilda passes Jamine the picture she just took, pointing at white. Can you turn your appearance into him? Don''t wanna. Why not? Like this more. So do I, but if you agree, I''ll give you an award later, okay? Award? What award? Secret. O-okay! But you owe me! Sure sure. Hilda pats Jasmine''s head, pulling away as she morphs into White perfectly annoying her with the sight of his face but also getting satisfied due to Jamine being able to pull it off perfectly, except her voice. Good girl, or guy? I don''t have a gender, but prefer girl! Okay then, good girl. Yay! Wait here and appear when I tell you to do so okay? Ok! Jamine waves Hilda goodbye as she teleports away, back to the three who are just waiting there. Do you have nothing better to do? Like maybe setting up camp? Too lazy. Shila sighs in annoyance, using the tent she bought from the shop before, ignoring the idiots outside as she goes to sleep. She wakes up next morning to the sound of a carriage far away, only being able to hear them due to Shila using her mana to improve Hilda''s hearing as she gets out of the tent, with the waiting for her. Took out long enough. Hilda ignores orange, keeping her tent in her inventory as she goes over to the edge, the sounds of the carriage getting closer. So¡­ we jump down? Whatever floats your boat. Orange turns into poison mist, traveling downwards with White doing the same but with water as red uses her animal to fly down, bringing it out from her territory. They all have dramatic entrances huh? Hilda teleports down to the carriage, killing the oddly strong horses, taking more sword qi and mana than she would have liked for 2 horses as the guards stand up, preparing for a fight but bring weak due to being one of the few lower lifespan species, most of which are weaker. The other three eventually land, causing the guards to be slaughtered almost instantly as Hilda opens the carriage up, exposing the sight of a 21 year old woman according to the system as Hilda scans her before pulling her by her collar out of the carriage roughly, throwing her onto the floor. You''re a real piece of shit you know right? Shila says, once again from inside her head. Hey! Don''t insult mom! Jamine, you can talk through here too? Yea! Nice. Everybody!! Take their stuff from the carriage and ditch! White shouts. Hilda notices some shiny objects in the carriage as she goes in, not expecting much but getting pleasantly surprised as she checks the item with her system as she gets interrupted by the sound of horses. Who are those? Those are the bodyguards hired by the family. White says, putting whatever he can into his inventory. Why are they so far behind? How am I supposed to know? ¡­ Jamine, out now, in the appearance I told you! Hilda confuses everyone as she shouts that, with them getting surprised as another person with White''s appearance appears. Stay here, ditch after they see your face. Sure mom! Hilda ditches, using her teleportation magic to get back up the cliff, which looks much higher from the bottom in one go as the others chase behind, eventually catching up with red and orange satisfied and white also satisfied but with a tinge of annoyance as he watches down the cliff wt his doppelganger, disappearing as the bodyguards see it''s face, revealing his identity completely. What goes around comes around. You''re petty aren''t you? So? Anyways, I believe that concludes the end of ou r cooperation now, bye! Hilda teleports away, not waiting to listen to anything they may have had to say. Chapter 33. Maze. So, Shila, could you show me the details on this thing? What thing? The one you stole? Shila, now beside Hilda, despite disapproving either her words, her face looks more than willing to get Hilda to keep it. Yep. ********* ***** ** * **** ******(Unknown) Endless mana (Description locked) (Description locked) (Description locked) (Description locked) (Description locked) Hey, this or thingy looks so valuable, but why is half the description empty? Simple, your level sucks, the only reason you can even see the first one is due to me being upgraded. Do you understand my greatness now? Shut it, I upgraded you, anyways, what is endless mana? It is what it is, though due to your low level, it isn''t a passive but an active skill. So, should I try it out? No, endless mana will obviously have a huge recoil on you. Yea but couldn''t I put that endless amount into my sword and kill the guide''s clone? Your sword can''t hold that much at once. Well that sucks. Your body can''t either so don''t try it. Yea, I wasn''t intending on having an arm blown up either. Anyways, I just need to level up, right? Yea, you honestly struck gold with this. Endless mana is that good? Obviously, but that''s not the only reason. Then what''s the other reason? I have an assumption of what this is. What is it? Can''t tell, the guide will probably downgrade me completely. Okay, so it''s very important. Yea, I don''t even know how the tenth floor got such a valuable item honestly. Alright alright, stop it, just send me to the 16th floor already. Sure. Shila sends them both to the 16th floor, with Hilda looking around, finding it possible to only go forwards due to ridiculously tall walls surrounding her as she attacks them, finding that no damage was dealt. Damn.Unlawfully taken from Royal Road, this story should be reported if seen on Amazon. It''s obviously not going to be so easy, are you stupid? ¡­ Let''s just go. Sure, but don''t you wanna wait for Jamine? No. Why not? I promised her an award. Award? Not reward? Yep. You know playing with words won''t make Jamine happy right? Yep. So what are you gonna do about it? Either hope she forgets or find something in the maze able to satisfy her. So¡­ you''re hoping? There, you got it. ¡­ Hilda and Shila eventually reach the other side, with Hilda wanting to vent her anger out on the guide as she looks to her left and right, with both sides each having their own paths. Hey Shila, what is the theme for this maze? It''s just grasslands, you''re literally walking on it right now. So, I''ll have to keep seeing this damn view for the next couple of weeks? Yep, and you''re doing it alone. Not happening. Hilda pulls Shila by the back of her collar, stopping her from reentering the system. Just ask Jamine instead!! She can go further from you than I can! No, she''ll sulk for the rest of the time in the maze if I tell her I lied. Then go buy something from the shop! What could I even get her? A skill! Didn''t you say that was impossible? Yea, but that''s for most of the time, right now, you''re rich, thanks to me so just go to the shop! Fine, open it up for me. Fine, but you need to make sure I''m not following you. Depends. ¡­ Pet lucky skill orb(legendary) Feed this to your pets for a chance at a skill. 50% no skill. 25% common skill. 17.5% rare skill 6.5% epic skill. 1% legendary skill. Gambling? Seriously? So what? It''ll satisfy Jamine okay? Fine fine. Hilda goes to buy it, stopping her finger right above the item as she notices the price. Cost:100,000 points That''s¡­ all of my points. Actually, it''s all your points plus 2571 ¡­ Get her out, if she doesn''t get a skill, you''re not going away. Fine, fine, you''re actually willing to spend 100,000 points on her but the 2 skills you bought for me last time doesn''t even add up to 20,000. Just be happy with it, what else do you even need? I guess not much¡­ wait, could you get me mental skills too? Why? Are you trying to copy me? No. Do you even actually need it? If it can''t be handled using mental magic, mine is sufficient, if not, I''m pretty sure our mental magic will be useless anyways. I guess so¡­ just you wait! I''ll find something to specialise in! Yea yea whatever, just get Jamine already. Suee. jamine appears mid-air in a lying down position, clearly about to fall asleep before she got teleported, landing into the ground. Hey Jamine. Mom! Yes yes, it''s me, mom, I got a present for you. Present? What? Look at this, it''s a snack. Hilda pulls out the small little circular object, holding it in her palms in front of Jamine she Jamine stares intently at it, clearly wanting it. Here, it''s your reward for helping me. Wasn''t it an award? I said it wrongly, now just eat it. Ok! Jamine swallows it in one go, clearly not caring enough to ask more questions. Alright, let''s see what you got! Shila, show us. ¡­ Sure, how unfair, you owe me a skill too or I''m going on strike. Clone(legendary) Allows the user to split themselves, controlling each body perfectly. If any of user''s main body is destroyed, user will be transferred into a clone along with all their status except for equipment. Jamine, you''re amazing. Mom happy? Yes of course! Hey Shila, what if I got this skill? You can''t, it''s made for her. What if I did? You would split apart. And clone? She can clone only because of her regeneration and the fact that her real body is like a blob of slime. If you split, you''re staying split, even if you got a regeneration good enough, your body would look very¡­ deformed. Ew¡­ I just imagined it. Stupid. I''m not arguing with that this time. Wait¡­ Jamine. Yes mom? Make a clone. Ok! Jamine makes a clone, each half of her regenerating back into a whole each, standing in front of Hilda. Ok, make your clone run away. Sure? Jamine makes her clone run far away as it slowly goes to the other wall opposite her, not being restrained to a certain distance within Hilda. Nice! I thought the only way to pass the restriction was if I was in a dungeon and you guys weren''t. Ok Jamine, be a good girl and split yourself into a couple hundreds and find mom the way out okay? I can''t do that many. Why? Hilda, are you stupid? Imagine concentrating on so much at once, the skill makes it easier but not completely. Fine, Jamine, how many can you do? I think¡­ 20? Shame, but good enough, ok start! Jamine starting splitting, disturbing Hilda slightly at the sight of basically a younger looking version of her being split in her non-stop. Thank God the inside of her Is just a blueish transparent blob instead of real organs. Hey Hilda. What? I''ll help you to search too! Why? No reason, just wanted to help. You just want a skill don''t you? Maybe? Fine, if we get enough points I''ll get you a good skill. Yay! Jamine, lead the way! Ok mom! Hey, your pronunciation is perfect now. Y-yep! Guess I jinxed it, but you''re getting much better. I working hard! Yep, and before you said you didn''t want to, I think. Before is before! Yes yes, now let your clones to their own way as you two let me look around while I run around quickly. Ok! Sure. This is going to be easy. Chapter 34. Carefree Hilda. A week later This is not easy, I take back what I said before. Hilda, what did you expect? Even if 23 people with cars drove all around earth for a week non-stop, they wouldn''t be able to explore all of it, you know? Yes but, this is so annoying even with the skill I bought. Mapping(rare) Lets you memorise the exact path you took, making it impossible to forget the path unless caused by other forms of interference. It cost 1000, but at least we haven''t gotten lost so far. Yea. Mom! Clone died! Again? Fine, fine, I got it. Hilda takes the food box out of her inventory, pulling out a random snack, for Jamine due to an agreement they made. There, now go make another clone and investigate another path. Ok! It''s not fair that she gets snacks while I don''t. Stop complaining, she does 20 times the work you do. Because she has a great skill!! But you''re just being petty with me! Too bad, life ain''t fair. You owe me a skill after this! Fine, let''s keep looking first¡­ Somewhere at a faraway mansion. The angered marquess slams his hand on the table, angered at the fact that the object he worked so hard to steal was stolen along with his daughter being injured. As he leans on his office table, his hands still clenched into a fist on the table, he hears the door open up despite hearing nobody knock. Who dares to come in without knocking! He stands up, further angered by the unknown individual before his anger dissipates, replaced by confusion as he notices the person''s identity. Marquess Kotley, what has gotten you so angry? D-duke Lialet, why are you here? I don''t believe it''s time for our scheduled meeting yet. I heard rumors that somebody''s carriage was attacked and that item was stolen. What do you mean by rumor? You just planted some spies. He thinks while pulling out the chair opposite from his seat, gesturing for the duke to sit down, not showing any dissatisfaction on his face. So, marquess, how do you intend to settle this? I intend to attack the person to retrieve the item. The marquess sits back down, careful not to let his dissatisfaction show in his voice. Oh? You''ve found the perpetrator? Yes, it''s a group of 4 with only 1 person''s identity revealed so far. So, you''re going to attack the 1 person?You could be reading stolen content. Head to the original site for the genuine story. They went into hiding, but I found another one of the attackers. They were climbers of the towers invited by the guide and are currently in the maze of the giants. Their species are called humans, similar to us but weaker. Indeed, our species is called Suvan. He isn''t somebody we who reside on the 10th can mess with. It matters not, the guide will most likely not interfere just like all the previous species wars before, so just attack. Very well. It was my plan to attack, I was already going to do so anyways, why is this bastard interfering? He mentally cusses at the duke before opening the door for the duke to leave. You better make sure that you do this right. Of course. I''ll see myself out in that case. Very well. The marquess galares at the duke as he turns around heading to the front door with the marquess waiting for him to leave before locking his office door. Whoever dares mess with me, I''ll make sure to end you. Back in the maze. Hilda''s body is full of adrenaline with Shila being pulled quickly as Jamine is left as a smudge on the ground, having been sent to one of her clones then into the system due to the distance. Hilda, hurry up! It''s catching up! It''s hard running from level 200, let alone multiple! Especially ones with actual skills! Just go! Or we''ll both say goodbye for real! Shila keeps using her debuff magic to reduce the stats of the monsters chasing them and using field magic to speed Hilda up. Shila, is there any chance of winning if I fight them? Let me check, don''t stop running. Race:Leaping spider Bloodline:The mother(3 percent) Level:230 Stats: (275 S) (275 E) (275 A) (99 M) Nope, no way you''re gonna win, especially since there''s around a dozen. Haha, if I live through this, I promise you a skill. That''s just saying you have faith that we will die! Yep! Hilda keeps running, using her teleportation skill without a care for her mana and sending a wave of sword qi every once in a while to slow them, despite it not doing much. Eventually, after an hour and complete depletion of her mana, she finally loses them, tracing back and noticing they made a nest, blocking the path back. That''s troublesome, but at least we are alive. So? So what? Skill! Right¡­ look, you''re smarter than Jamine so¡­ no, not worth trying to think of an excuse to lie with. You better pay up! Or I''ll go get their attention! You wouldn''t. Shila pouts, knowing that if Hilda dies, she herself is also gone so she can''t do anything. But I''ll still get you a skill, since I feel bad now. Yay!! Finally!! But only skills that''ll help with the maze, I''ll get you another once we hit the 21th floor and get out of here. Ok! Then can you get me¡­ the homing skill? Why? It''ll make my leech not miss as often, especially when leeching multiple opponents! Ok, but how will you use it in the maze? I can use it on Jamine! Since we''re connected somewhat thanks to you, I can use it on Jamines clones so even if her clones find the exit, if she forgets, we can go! Ok then, I''ll just try it, go get the skill then. Wait, does it work for sword qi and Aman? Yea, but sword qi and mana get weaker the longer they are not in contact with you. I''m aware, but will it work? I guess, but if you need homing, it would probably have gotten too weak or dissipated already. Doesn''t matter, just get it for the both of us. Sure? Homing(epic) Redirects your shots towards the opponent, if momentum reaches 0, the skill will accelerate the object shot out, canceling the skill used on the object, causing it to fly in a straight line. (Cost:2500) Oh, 5000 points, gone like that¡­ Stop being so cheap! It doesn''t even matter, you already bought it anyway. Exactly! Now let me get Jamine out of the system real quick. Shila sticks an arm into her own body, causing the part she stuck her arm into to chase small waves to appear in her body, away from the spot her arm entered as she pulls Jamine out of her body. That''s disturbing, can''t you just teleport her out? It''s not as fun. Fun? Why else would I do it? No clue. Mom, snack! Oh yea. Hilda gives Jamine another snack, passing one to Shila as well due to Shila clearly being unsatisfied before her face brightens up at the sight of the snack. Why am I even giving you two snacks? Shila, you didn''t get killed, Jamine, you don''t even feel pain. So what? Jamine where suffered through a traumatic experience, didn''t you Jamine? Not reall- Say yes. Y-yes? Jamine stuttered, not due to her being bad at speaking but due to not wanting to be pulled out from Shila''s body again or any forms of retail action. Then what about you Shila, why do you deserve any? Because I do, now let''s go. You just can''t think of a proper excuse. So what? Just go!! Alright alright. A couple hours later, as Hilda keeps searching, with Jamine and Shila with her and her mana and sword qi nearly maxed, she encounters a group of people in the maze. Who are they? I don''t recognise them. Probably citizens of the 10th floor. They can travel through floors? Yea, though only up to the 30th floor, and remember, they can''t level up from killing monsters, they need to either grow older or train themselves. So, they should know the way to the next floor? I assume so. Right, I''ll go ask them then. Hilda goes up to them as they notice her, drawing their weapons. Wait, calm down, I just want to ask for directions to the next floor. Hilda puts her hand up, showing that she has no intentions to fight as one of them holds a picture up, comparing her appearance with it, confusing her. Yea boss, that''s her. Huh? The guy holding the picture up swings his sword at her, causing a big cut to appear without her even being able to see, let alone react to the attack. What? Shit! Shila starts debuffing then, pulling Hilda away immediately. Hilda, you''re too way carefree! You idiot! Chapter 35. Map. Achievement:Survivor in use, user is being healed the bare minimum required for survival. Hilda immediately gets up, feeling a decent amount of pain from the injury even though her achievement reduces pain by 80 percent, immediately running away, teleporting and sprinting as Shila tries to keep up, being pulled by the invisible barrier due to being too far from Hilda. Shila! Debuff them or something! Hilda talks to Shila in her head using their connection due to her voice not being able to reach far enough to Shila. I know! Shila uses her debuff and tries using her field magic on Hilda but can''t due to how far she is, so she uses field magic to slow down attacks and leeches the opponent, barely dodging some hits. Dammit! She''s just a level 120 plus, how is she even alive?! Boss, it''s probably due to the system she has. Dammit, why didn''t those stupid representatives of ours choose to be part of the whole tower to climb the floors, what a waste of a great opportunity! Keep chasing! She''ll run out of mana eventually! As they keep chasing, Hilda starts getting nervous as they start catching up quickly despite her still teleporting as far as she can without using all her mana at once. Shila, hurry and come here! Ok wait! Shila goes back into the system, reappearing at Hilda''s side as Hilda holds her in one arm as Shila uses her field magic to speed them up. Shila! Hurry and activate my trait! Yep, getting to it! Notification. trait "sis con" is active Agility is being increased by double. Trait "sis con" is being strained. Warning:user will suffer recoil after deactivation. Warning: trait "sis con" will be temporarily deactivated in 90 seconds if strained to that extent. Hilda, I hope you have a plan, or else the recoil will really screw you over. Yea, I''m confident I''ve got a plan, though whether or not it''ll work or not is another problem. Whatever is better than our current situation. I agree. Hilda starts back tracking her original path with the people trying to kill her on her back not being shaken off despite Hilda''s increased stats but not getting any closer either. Hilda, you might want to implement your plan soon! Yea, getting to it! Hilda keeps running, noticing a notification about her trait being deactivated in 30 seconds, causing her to use mana on her legs to speed herself up with her pursuers following behind, speeding up too. Hilda, what''s your¡ª seriously?! Got a better plan? Nope, I''ll shut it. Hilda keeps running towards what Shila saw and her plan, a newly made giant web with all the leaping spiders on it. As she gets closer, she uses enough sword qi and mana which is quite a bit to cut the web, angering all the leaping spiders as they pay attention to her. Hey¡­ isn''t this going to backfire? Why don''t you be more optimistic? Not much to ¡°be optimistic¡± about right now. That crazy bitch is planning to drag us down with her! Boss, we should retreat! Their boss contemplates for a moment, clenching his fist by his side in anger due to not being able to kill Hilda personally before signalling to retreat, looking back at Hilda who has no chance of survival according to his experiences. As he starts looking back at the front to retreat, he notices more mana usage, shrugging it off as a last struggle but still looking back out of curiosity on what she can do left before noticing that Hilda had disappeared. What?! Where did they go! He looks around, finding Hilda in front of him with the spiders behind, chasing her. Crap! She could still teleport! Hurry and retreat! As her pursuers start retreating, they slowly get caught as the leaping spiders shoot webs at them, pulling them into their mouths, killing them in a single bite as Hilda evades easily due to her spatial magic and sixth sense.Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website. Hey Shila, aren''t they about the same level? Why are they getting killed so easily? The spiders have a species advantage, and only their boss is strong enough to actually run from them, the rest are dead. Nice, could I beat their boss? Potentially, but at your current state, just run. Warning, recoil in 10 seconds. Got it. Hilda uses the rest of her mana, teleporting as far as she can. Oh yea where''s Jamine? Oh, she got slashed in the first attack that would have killed you. ¡­ Oh. Hilda faints due to a lack of mana and her still existing injury as Shila sighs, pulling her to the wall and teleporting Jamine back out of the system. Mom? Mom! Mom hurt! Yes yes, your mother is hurt, so use your main body to protect her and create clones to help me, we have a bastard to kill. Bastard? Jamine tilts her head curiosly, cresting 2 more clones to help Jamine and to replace the killed clones. Nevermind, bad word, don''t say it again, it''s just the person who hurt your mom. Bad man! Yea, you can speak normally now but your vocabulary seems limited to a child''s. Lies! Screw it, not important right now, let''s go get the person who hurt your mom okay? Ok! But aunt can''t go far away? Stop calling me aunt. Then? Idk, sis? Is she your mom too? I guess since I technically wouldn''t be her without Hilda though a father is also essential for that purpose usually, and she didn''t really give birth, but close enough? ¡­ So sis? ¡­ That sounds wrong now that you''re saying it but sure. I can technically go far from Hilda but it takes a¡­ bypass which Hilda may not be too happy sbout. Guide stupid! Mom important! True. Sorry for this Hilda. Shila goes to Hilda, buying a dagger for 300 points and stabbing Hilda''s palm with it, but only being able to get a drip of blood to leak out as Shila licks it, disgusting and confusing Jamine. Why hurt mom? ¡­ I honestly don''t want to explain this twice so let''s go first, I''ll tell you when Hilda wakes up. Ok? Shila brings Jamine towards the boss, and true to Shilas earlier estimation, the only one who lived. I bought this skill without Hilda knowing but I didn''t expect to use it like this. Tracking(rare) Tracks anybody you''ve made contact with, have some form of connection or gotten close enough to. (Cost:500) We are nearly there, prepare your trait, it''s weaker for your clone right? By much? More clones, weaker leech! Nevermind, the guy should be hurt, this should suffice. Ok! As they reach,Jamine peeks out from the corner as a sword gets swung her direction with her dodging barely. Guess he really is injured, if it was the normal swing, I would have been sent back to the system. You two! You were with that fucking coward weren''t you?! Come and die! Jamine, don''t learn from the bad man. Ok. Shila runs at the guy, dodging non-stop while using her debuff magic and leech while Jamine uses her leech, not avoiding due to being able to reclone herself and regenerate even if it does drain mana quickly to clone. Cowards! Fight me properly! Jamine, indulge his wishes. Indulge? You know what I mean. Ok! Jamine starts cloning beyond her limit of 20, getting dizzy and a slight headache as repercussions as she uses her clones to run at the man, disconnecting herself from the guy as she reaches while cloning more, taking advantage of her acidic body even if the acidity decreases after her consciousness disconnects. The man tries struggling but fails to do so as Shila stops him, kicking him back in, leaving him to dissolve in Jamines body as he shouts in pain. After a couple more minutes, Jamine pulls the guy out, dissolving his hand as her body that is still in control pulls him out. Let''s drag him back to Hilda now. Ok, bring to mom! Only reason we even succeeded was due to his injuries, the leaping spider''s poison was probably weakening him, combined with the leech or your acidity wouldn''t have been able to do much at all. Real body! Yea yea, if you use your real body you could injure him but not enough. Hmph! Seriously? I know you''re faking this. ¡­ Fine, ignore me, if you help drag him back hell end up completely dissolved by the time we reach anyways. Jamine disconnects her consciousness, leaving a transparent blueish blob at where her body was. Seriously? Shila sighs, dragging the guys body back to Hilda, thing him up and hanging him upside down with a pole and rope she biguth from the shop for another 1000 points in total to make sure he can''t escape. Jamine, thanks so much for the help. I can tell sarcasm! Deserve it. Shila ignores Jamine as she pouts, lying beside Hilda, smirking mockingly at Jamine who can''t decrease her acidity enough to make sure Jamine remains okay in her current state, and therefore not being able to lie on Hilda. Shila keeps mocking Jamine as Hilda slowly wakes up, her body in pain and also sore due to the recoil as she looks down at Shila. Hey, stop bullying her. Hilda, I helped catch that guy! Side with me instead! I helped mom too! Could you two stop arguing? I''m in just a slight but of pain here. Fine. Sorry mom. Hilda goes to the shop, buying new clothes due to her current one having a massive hole in it now as she stands up despite being sore, preparing to change. As she looks over, she notices Shila and Jamine watching her impatiently, wanting her to react properly to the guy hanging upside down. Hey, look away. Why? We''re both just a younger you and connected, so we already know how you look naked though? ¡­ I honestly have no clue how to respond to that, but look away. Fine. Shilasnd Jamine look away with Jamine not understanding the problem and Shila finding it to be a small insignificant issue. As she changes for probably the first time since the tower, she walks up to the guy with Shila and Jamine looking back at her as she punches the guy, waking him up. Hey! Wake the hell up. The guy opens his eyes fulling, confused at the situation before noticing himself tied up, hanging upside down. You piece of shit! Let me down! Fucking pussy! You remind me of blue, completely fearless. Huh? You''re a woman?! Should have known since you only know how to run instead of fight. Shila and Jamine both glare at him as he keeps insulting Hilda despite Jamine not understanding most of the vulgarities, but the tone being obvious it isn''t friendly. Hey Shila. What? I''ll try something, tell me if it''ll work. Sure? I haven''t actually used this aspect of mental magic so far now that I think about it. Hilda puts her hand in the guy''s face after gagging him with a pacifier she bought for 20 points, filled with poison so he doesn''t bite it to spit it out. Honestly disturbing that the shop sells a pacifier filled with poison. The shop sells anything for the right price. Huh? Nice to know. I felt like it was obvious when the shop has pills specifically to make sure you don''t get your periods. ¡­ Hilda ignores what Shila said, turning back to the guy whose face she still has her hand in before using mental attack magic combined with obedience magic causing him to shout in pain. After a couple minutes, the guy''s shouting gets softer despite Hilda not reducing the mental attack magic, eventually reducing to complete silence as Hilda cuts off an arm of his with no reaction before letting him down the rope. Hilda,you can be a bit cruel sometimes. How so? Obedience magic was made with the intention of using it on monsters¡­ So? If this gets out, you''ll be deemed a criminal on the 50th floor. Why? It goes against their teachings, the whole of the 50th floor is just some religious guys. Oh, well, there''s no one here to witness this so I''m okay. You never know, some people may use certain magics. Screw it, what''s done is done. And you! Give me any map you''ve got. The guy passes her a map that he pulled out his inventory as she cuts his head off in one. You could have taken his points and items too¡­ Oops? Jamine, dissolve him. Ok! Hilda opens the map, getting annoyed and surprised as she does so due to the fact that the map siws her location in real time along with all the mini bosses and the boss in the center of the maze, annoyed that the exit is basically opposite of her, requiring weeks to reach it. This is gonna take quite a while. Hilda, I caught him so¡ª So did I! As I was saying, I basically helped you find the exit, so you better get me a good skill after this! Fine, fine. Shila teleports back into the system to take a break, bringing Jamine with her, leaving Hilda alone to reach the end by herself. Seriously? Chapter 36. Strong as hell walls. A week later. Hilda looks at the map, contemplating what to do. According to the map, the exit has 3 paths, each guarded by a miniboss with the details of the bosses unknown. If she wants, she can wait another week before there is an opportunity to run by, reaching the end with much lesser risk. Heyyyy, Shila, which should I choose? I would say waiting but I doubt you''ll listen to me. Is it possible at all to beat them? Do you think you would win against a minimally level 300? Could have just said no. You asked a stupid question so I gave a stupid answer. But what should I even do while waiting for the week? Idk? Sleep? Sleeping and hibernating are both different, how the hell do you expect me to sleep for a week? Figure it out yourself, too bad you''re stuck here and can''t come into the system or territory, how sad. Hilda tries to retort before feeling a small pinch on her leg, immediately knowing what it is and using mental attack magic and conversion magic to kill the ant biting her without touching it. Conversion magic will recoil you know? I still remember when fighting in the dungeon okay? Then stop using it on ants! I can''t help it, I hate the little things. You already said their little things so what are you doing? They free load in my old house, eating food for free, no rent, biting me, making me itchy and pissing me off. This feels personal. It is. Oh, I know what I''ll do. Huh? Hilda goes to the shop, buying all the fire related skills, combining them into low level fire magic. ¡­ So, you can spend 1300 points on a whim, but not for me? I already said I''ll get you your skill so stop it. Fine. Hey, I''m looking at my status and some skills have rarities but some don''t, why? Achievements are ranked based on difficulty to obtain, items are ranked based on how good they are, skills are ranked on how hard they are to use. How hard they are to use? But there hasn''t been much difficulty so far. That''s because of your trait, it gives more willpower, and it''s maxed out so¡­ good for you. Then why doesn''t conversion magic have a rank? Because conversion magic differs too differently from person to person, some people could accidently die completely on their first try, and some may seem like complete geniuses though it''s about 50/50. What about sword qi? Sword qi also requires concentration, so your trait is to thank. Then Jamine''s clone skill? Did mom call me? When did you even get here? Bored, mom and sis both not with me. Sis? Wasn''t she aunt before? You knew she was calling me aunt? I couldn''t be bothered to fix it. She told me to call her sis! Shila, seriously? Well, I didn''t want to be an aunt!Reading on this site? This novel is published elsewhere. Support the author by seeking out the original. ¡­ Just answer my original question. Fine, the clone skill takes a physical toll on her body, but Jamine can just regenerate and she can''t feel pain so the recoil is like nothing for her, only the mental part is a problem when she reaches around 20 clones. So why is it legendary? Well, the physical toll for normal average people even if your level 5000 ISH is usually death when you get split in half. Right¡­ Then why doesn''t mental magic have a rarity? Normal people can''t learn mental magic without the system''s help, you usually have to be born a specific species. So? So the guide doesn''t even have enough info to rank it yet, you''re one of the few people who have learned mental magic without having the species required. Right, we are the first 10 people after all, this is just like a trial period. Yep. Then why do passive skills have rarities? Imagine you can regenerate like Jamine, you lose an arm, you regenerate quickly, you would feel an immense amount of pain, more than having your arm cut off, happy? Stop asking, I''m going back now. Fine, fine. Shila goes back to either the system or territory with Jamine following along after waving goodbye. Jamine feels like a kind daughter, Shila feels like a rebellious one, being a single mother at 17 sucks. Hilda pulls out the map, waiting impatiently for the miniboss to leave despite knowing it''ll take around a week, courtesy of Shila. As she keeps waiting, she eventually finds them moving, running even, at max speed, confusing her. What''s going on? As she thinks for a moment, her sixth sense skill starts going crazy, as she looks around, finding three paths connected to her and the minibosses running at her. Jamine! Shila! get the hell out! Huh? Hilda, what is¡­ I need some context here but I think I''ll wait. As the minibosses get closer, she starts to be able to see their figures, with all three being the same and familiar looking. Cyclopes huh? Long time no see, can''t I easily win against them now? You can''t!! The floor 1s boss monster was a much weaker and younger version! These are pretty young too but unlike floor 1, they''ve had longer to grow and they weren''t chained up either! So, what do I do? Are you religious? No. Then you better adopt a religion and start praying, I recommend Christianity. Why that? No reason, but the faster you get a religion the better right? I think my current predicament proves there is no god, at least none that are helping me right now. Hilda checks their status, finding them all to be the same. Race: giant Bloodline:Ancient giant(7 percent) Level:350 Stats: (650 S) (650 E) (650 A) (156 M) Warning, due to being a mini boss, stats have been increased by 50 percent Warning: Host is fighting multiple enemies more than three times as strong. Notification. trait "sis con" is active Stats are being tripled. Trait "sis con" is being strained. Warning: trait "sis con" will be temporarily deactivated in 120 seconds if strained to that extent. Warning:user will suffer recoil after deactivation. Achievement: First to kill a mini boss in use, stats are being increased by 10 percent. Achievement:Second to kill a level 5 monster, level is being increased by 4. Hilda, be careful, your survivor achievement is still not ready yet. I''m very aware, also why didn''t my second to kill a level 5 activate when fighting those guys before? It did, you were just too busy running away also, is not really the best time to ask questions? Guess not. So, what''s the plan? Shila, you and Jamine just keep drawing this out, Jamine make clones too, just draw this out as much as possible. Sure¡­ though that might not work, but I''ll still cooperate. Ok mom! Shila and Jamine starts absorbing, causing the minibosses who were simply observing to start approaching slowly, clearly not caring much for the miniscule amounts of mana and health that they are losing. Hilda uses mana on her legs and half of her mana and sword qi in her sword, jumping at the giant in the center, planning to slash its eye to blind it. This is going to be easier than expected huh? As she does so, while mid air, the giant swings its fist at her, faster than she could react properly, barely blocking the hit while getting sent flying back into the wall, with the wall still remaining fully intact. Damn, this isn''t going to be easy, is it? Hilda! Mom! Shila and Jamine both shout in concern, still leaching the opponents while dodging each attack barely or baiting it with Jamine''s clones. Hilda uses the remaining sword qi and mana left in her sword from the last attack, swinging a wave at one of the giants eye, only for it to be blocked by its arm, with no visible damage having taken place either. Hey Shila, there''s no way I can win this normally, right? You''re giving up? Giving up? You must be crazy, the recoil is going to be crazy since my stats got tripled and my trait is forced to work for so long, so I''m taking a bet. Shila, Jamine, come here. Shila and Jamine both listen, heading towards Hilda whose back is against her wall with the giants slowly approaching. So, what''s the plan? The plan? To hope I don''t die from this. Hilda pulls out the orb filled with information she could barely read, making Shila react immediately. Hilda, if you do that, you''re gonna regret it! I have elixirs to spare, don''t worry. Shila grumbles a bit but doesn''t protest anymore, knowing it''s either the orb and the rest of the elixir she didn''t finish last time, or their lives. Endless mana, activate. Hilda immediately starts feeling a surge of mana coursing through her body, with it feeling overwhelming immediately. Warning, mana paths being overloaded. Warning, if not fixed within a minute, mana will start flowing in the opposite directions, causing your mana paths to be destroyed. Hilda, hurry and start using mana! I''m slowing down the mana transference from the orb to you! If you don''t use enough mana, you''ll really die! Sure. Hilda pulls out her sword, filling it with an immense amount of mana, at least 5 times more than her max amount, chasing the black mist trail behind her to also start increasing like crazy, engulfing the whole area in darkness before Hilda swings her sword, causing the mist in the way to be dissipated out of the way and leaving behind the bottom of the three giants with their top bodies missing, along with damaging the walls behind partially. Strong as hell as walls. Hilda deactivates the orb, immediately fainting afterwards due to the recoil of using more mana than her body could along with the trait recoil, having not seen the notification due to Shila removing to prevent Hilda from getting disturbed at such a crucial moment. Notification, Achievement unlocked. Kill a monster 200 levels above you(------- level) N/A Obtain a mana regeneration rate of above 10,000%(------- level) N/A Alert many beings to your presence immediately(epic) Your presence is better known, stealth skills are reduced, your actions have a greater effect on others. Use a (-------) level item N/A Chapter 37. Burnt map. A few hours later, Hilda wakes up, annoyed at the fact she fainted and more annoyed as she checks her inventory to find only one of her elixirs left despite having somewhat expected it. As looks around, finding herself on the ground, lying against the wall, feeling pain when she tries to move. ¡°Fainted, of course, what a waste of time.¡± ¡°Hilda, you''re awake?¡± ¡°Yea, need something?¡± ¡°Even if I did, you wouldn''t be able to help¡± ¡°I know it was expected, but the elixir said it could even revive a person.¡± ¡°You were on the verge of death and the elixir was already partially used from the fight with the abomination.¡± ¡°Wasn''t that only like¡­ a few drops?¡± ¡°I may have fed you more back then¡­ secretly.¡± ¡°...¡± ¡°But, your mana got basically destroyed so it took more than with the abomination¡± ¡°So¡­ what about the achievements?¡± ¡°3 are useless, one basically debuffs you since you usually work alone.¡± ¡°So I gained nothing?¡± ¡°Not really, the achievements may have future benefits, and thanks to destroying your mana paths, you now have 5 more mana, making your mana balanced with the other stats.¡± ¡°You also have access to the 17th floor now.¡± ¡°Nice?¡± ¡°Also the guide said that he wouldn''t take away the item since ¡®He owes you one for the abomination¡¯.¡± ¡°Why would he even do so?¡± ¡°It''s not meant to be on this floor at all, if you used it every floor while fighting, you could pass them all.¡± ¡°So, can''t I?¡± ¡°Well you could¡­ but unless you''re gonna pull more elixirs out from nowhere, I suggest not doing so.¡± ¡°So if I had money, I could?¡± ¡°Yea.¡± ¡°Financial difficulties sucks.¡± ¡°I agree. Should we get going?¡± ¡°Sure, but where''s Jamine?¡± ¡°Sleeping, she does need rest, you know?¡± Shila prepares to teleport them before stopping and crossing her arms in front of Hilda. ¡°What?¡± ¡°The killing of the giants gave you a bunch of points.¡± ¡°So?¡± ¡°Get me a skill!¡± ¡°Didn''t we agree after the maze?¡± ¡°I refuse to wait! I protected you while you slept!¡± ¡°You have no patience, you know? ¡°Hilda opens her status, going to the shop and seeing ¡®points: 301,425¡¯.¡± ¡°What the hell? Each of those gave 100,000 points each?¡±This story originates from Royal Road. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there. ¡°Exactly!¡± ¡°Fine, but whatever skills you want up to 100,000 points but no more.¡± ¡°Sure!¡± Hilda watches as Shila checks through the shop despite knowing already inside of it, a perk of being the system, causing her to tilt her head. ¡°Shila¡­ why are you looking through?¡± ¡°To find what I like.¡± ¡°Don''t you already know everything inside? Also the recommendation does exist.¡± ¡°The recommendation can''t give me anything if I don''t know what I want!¡± ¡°Ok¡­ calm down, what''s with the sudden shouting?¡± ¡°I don''t know what I want.¡± ¡°Doesn''t mean you have to shout, why don''t you just try looking again later?¡± ¡°Fine, but I''m not getting anything specifically to help you unless you give me more points for that.¡± ¡°Sure, I got it. Let''s go to the next floor now?¡± ¡°Fine.¡± Shila sends them both to the next floor with her facing a wall similar in appearance but much taller with a much bigger space in front of her. Instinctively, Hilda already knows what the situation on the 17th floor is, with a surge of hot air hitting her as she sighs, not liking it already. ¡°Shila.¡± Hilda doesn''t turn back, not wanting it to be true. ¡°Yea?¡± ¡°Is¡­ is the whole floor¡­ perhaps¡­ on fire?¡± ¡°Not fire technically¡­¡± Hilda''s mood gets slightly better, before hearing Shila talk again. ¡°But¡­ instead of fire¡­ it''s magma, magically made magma so it''s a lot hotter. If It makes you feel better¡­ the floor is smaller like¡­ half since the walls are much thicker so there is less space.¡± ¡°Magma¡­ of course, my¡­ favourite¡­¡± Hilda slowly turns around, grimacing at the sight of the hell-like environment. The floor on fire despite being rocks and small puddles of magma all around. ¡°It looks like a volcano.¡± ¡°This floor was originally one.¡± ¡°Floors can change?¡± ¡°Yea, the 16th floor originally was ruled over by giants, being the 43th floor instead but due to something, they mostly died and the floor got demoted to the 16th.¡± ¡°Floors can change and get demoted? That''s new and useless information.¡± ¡°Floors made by the guide lie the trials can''t be changed though.¡± ¡°Makes sense I guess¡­ should I buy any skills?¡± ¡°For what, specifically?¡± ¡°The heat.¡± ¡°For someone with strong will according to your trait, you give up oddly easily.¡± ¡°It just means that I can deal with things, not that I don''t like or get affected by them!¡± ¡°Yea, I know, I just felt like saying something not as kind.¡± ¡° ¡®Not as kind?¡¯ you usually aren''t kind anyways.¡± ¡°Thanks for the compliment.¡± Hilda gets annoyed and remembers herself saying something similar before, which she knows Shila held a grudge on, probably why she used the exact same words. ¡°Just suggest some skills!¡± ¡°Fine, get the cold blood trait.¡± ¡°Seriously?¡± ¡°Either you do or you don''t.¡± Hilda sighs, going to search ¡®cold blooded¡¯ up as she finds a total of 4 before looking back at Shila. ¡°Get the one that''s an active skill, and says literally.¡± Hilda glances back, finding the active spell with one that actually says literally before buying it for 1,000 points. ¡°Why are there 2 passives 2 active with one active and one passive that says literally?¡± ¡°If you got the other one without literally, it would change your personality.¡± ¡°The active is to help control it, it takes barely any mana anyways, if you''re changing to the temperature of the environment near you of course.¡± Hilda tries the skills out, feeling the environment getting warmer, or as pointed out by Shila being a smartass in Hilda''s words, her own body getting hotter. ¡°I guess this works, but why does it say literally?¡± ¡°I just explained it.¡± ¡°No, like why ¡®literally¡¯ the guide usually names it normally.¡± ¡°Cus I named it for you, the guide didn''t name those because either you had an upgraded system or you have to guess.¡± ¡°What''s the point of that?¡± ¡°I assume for fun, or laziness. Stop procrastinating and start with the maze!¡± ¡°Fine.¡± Hilda starts walking, turning right on her first turn before getting scolded by Shila. ¡°What now?!¡± ¡°You still have the map! Floor 16-20 are connected somewhat! You can use it!!!!!¡± Shila shouts back, angry and annoyed by Hilda''s shouting and stupidity. ¡°oh¡­¡± ¡°It''s a map, made with magic!¡± ¡°Right¡­¡± ¡°You didn''t even bother to check!¡± ¡°Yea¡­¡± Shila sighs before teleporting back into the system with Hilda standing there, not even angry at Shila''s scolding, and just disappointed in herself at how she didn''t bother to think. ¡°Ah¡­ I should probably get going¡­¡± Hilda starts walking, making sure to avoid the magma and fire to keep her legs in one whole and not a half, something still considers important to do as she continues navigating, avoiding any monster she meets due to the dangerous environment to fight in. As she continues navigating through, the environment starts getting hotter, indicating that she is getting closer. Small sparks now flickering around, causing her clothes to end up with some very small holes in them along with her mental mask, causing its effects to be weakened, annoying Hilda severely. ¡°If I don''t get a new damn mask, this one is going to actually be burnt to nothing.¡± ¡°Maybe I should get a new mask¡­ if somebody with high enough mental resistance meets me, they''ll see through my gender and somewhat of my face immediately.¡± ¡°Nah, I''ll be fine¡­ probably.¡± ¡°If I bring Jamine here, this would be so much safer¡­ for me of course since Jamine is oddly flammable, courtesy of Jamine herself trying to put a marshmallow over fire and catching herself on fire.¡± Hilda chuckles slightly, remembering how Jamine started panicking despite her regeneration being sufficient but the fire showing no signs of stopping, causing Hilda to pour water on Jamine immediately. ¡°But no, seriously, I''m so bored I''m talking to myself right now.¡± Hilda sighs, looking at the map in her hands. ¡°At least I''ve got th¨C¡± The map gets burnt. ¡°...¡± ¡°...¡± ¡°...¡± ¡°Well¡­ I still remember the path¡­ but¡­ what about the next 3 floors?¡± Shila appears, hitting Hilda on her head. ¡°You''re a stupid idiot.¡± ¡°... I won''t even refute that.¡± Chapter 38. Financially hurt. Hilda quickly rushes to floor 17ths exit, not wanting to forget the path as she notices the amount of monsters that attacked or even noticed her having decreased by a lot. ¡°Maybe the map burning was a good omen?¡± ¡°What rubbish! The map just had a skill that attracts monsters to it if you weren''t above a certain level to be able to disable it!¡± ¡°Then it was good the map burned, wasn''t it?¡± ¡°Not at all! So what if you attracted a couple of mini bosses? That was mostly your bad luck, that map wasn''t even anywhere strong enough to attract miniboss!¡± ¡°Well, you don''t know that!¡± ¡°... I do, and it was your own bad luck and maybe slightly the map''s fault.¡± Hilda ignores Shila, rushing as the end enters her sight, using as much teleportation magic she can in one go to avoid the fire elemental minibosses. ¡°Congrats, floor 18, stupid cheater.¡± ¡°What? You''re the one who said the monsters and bosses weren''t even made to be killed!¡± ¡°And apparently you dialed to mention how I wouldn''t be getting any xp until I reach floor 21!¡± ¡°Small insignificant details.¡± ¡°And you''re a cheater due to the map, but a stupid one for letting it burn.¡± ¡°That''s not insignificant, an example would be you.¡± ¡­ Hilda looks around at floor 18, with it being the exact opposite of floor 17 and being completely ice, even covering the walls though the walls themselves are perfectly intact. ¡°Here''s a tip, the path is the exact same as the 17th floor, I''m pretty sure your will power improves your ability to remember things too so get to it.¡± ¡°Yea, yea, I still remember the path okay?¡± Hilda starts rushing towards the end of floor 18, not bothering to preserve mana at all. As she continues to go full speed, eventually¡­ thud! Hilda''s face collides with an invisible barrier causing her to be sent flying back slightly, rubbing her face as Shila laughs at her. ¡°Idiot! Do you think you are allowed to just cheat again?¡± ¡°... Elaborate.¡± ¡°You gotta fight a boss monster, though it''s been weakened to the 100th level.¡± ¡°That''s easy.¡± ¡°Without using your skills.¡± ¡°Okay, maybe not so easy.¡± ¡°Have fun.¡±You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story. ¡°Nope, you and Jamine are coming with me.¡± ¡°We can''t use skills either.¡± ¡°So what? Both of you twos stats add up to the same as mine, just brute force it with mana, we''ll kill it as fast we possible¡± Shila pulls Jamine out and Hilda starts running, not bothering to give context as the 2 are being dragged behind her. Shila fills Jamine in, lying down beside Jasmine as Jamine also lies down, both having gotten used to just being dragged by the invisible barrier, preventing them from going too far away from Hilda. Eventually, they reach the boss, a giant snowman but with an appearance suitable for halloween. Hilda punches a leg of its while ignoring the boss notification, causing the leg to be blown up as it starts fixing itself, shooting ridiculously cold and big snowballs at Hilda, followed by a beam. Shila and Jamine both take the opportunity when it''s distracted to climb up its body and punch its head with all their mana, causing it to blow up and end up dead in a single hit. ¡°That was easy.¡± ¡°It''s not good with numbers, it''s made to fight one on one, not 3 on one, and your achievement gives you extra skill damage, which affects mana too.¡± ¡°It''s also made to fight at a distance¡­ not be punched in the head. ¡°Why are all the boss monsters so big!!¡± ¡°Because they all belonged to giants before.¡± ¡°Not just the 16th floor?¡± ¡°Yea.¡± ¡°Send me to the 19th floor, I wanna check it out.¡± ¡°Sure, but this may be a little¡­ point consuming.¡± ¡°Huh?¡± Hilda gets sent to the 19th floor alone, as Shila runs away, bringing Jamie with her. Notification, fire is not advised. Warning, user is being exposed to a high level poison for their level. Notification, mental mask is resisting. Warning, mental mask is too weak to resist. ¡°Ah¡­¡± Hilda goes to buy low level poison(rare) resistance. Notification, low level poison resistance is resisting. Warning, low level poison resistance is not able to completely resist, please buy an antidote. Hilda goes to the shop, finding the antidote and that it only works for an hour and for 5000 points each. ¡°Ah¡­¡± ¡°I''m just gonna try something¡­¡± Hilda uses fire magic, making the poisonous gas all burn up, causing her to be in great pain too. Achievement, survivor is in use, user has been healed the minimum. ¡°That would''ve killed me?¡± Hilda buys a healing pill from the shop, bracing herself as she swallows it, feeling a great amount of pain as her burns heal up. As continues in, using fire magic whenever the poison gas gets too close, eventually reaching the center in a couple of weeks where the exit is, realising that the exit is always in the center of each maze. ¡°I''m here! Finally!¡± She tries to burn the poison up but ends up finding that the poison is inflammable and reluctantly, VERY reluctantly buys a couple of antidotes. ¡°Hey Shila, come out.¡± ¡°Yes?¡± Shila appears, checking Hilda''s points, making sure that there''s enough points left for her allowance for skills which Hilda promised. ¡°What is the miniboss on this floor?¡± ¡°Oh? Miniboss? There''s none, but the poison is so dense it''s hard to see through, and it''s also a lot stronger.¡± ¡°So it''s just severely inconvenient and financially taxing?¡± ¡°Yea, have fun.¡± Hild¨¤ very very reluctantly buys the poison resistance skill, replacing her low level version as she steps in, drinking an antidote at the same time. She starts traveling as fast as possible, hoping to find an exit but constantly ending up at dead ends, causing her to drink more and more antidotes, Shila getting more nervous than Hilda with every decrease of 5000 points. Eventually, she makes it to the end after more than a day of looking, reducing her points by around 150 thousand. Floor 20! Hurry up! Shila quickly teleports Hilda, taking a deep breath with the poison now longer affecting her. Finally! Floor 20! My points! I lost so many!!! Hilda looks around, finding herself in a maze similar to floor 1¡¯s maze with Shila shaking her head, indicating that she can''t tell her what changed. Hilda starts walking around, following the path of floor 1 that she remembered, reaching the end in hours somehow despite not being able to reach in days even if she ran full speed. ¡°Huh?¡± She looks around again, finding herself back at the start. ¡°How?¡± Hilda walks back, making sure to pay complete attention but somehow finding herself back at the start despite not even blinking. ¡°...¡± Hilda turns to Shila who is trying to mouth something to her as she focuses on Shila''s lip movement. ¡°Ma¡­..na?¡± Shila nods quickly, putting a finger to her lips, getting Hilda to shut up. Holds tries using mana on herself, eventually using some on her eyes, finding new paths where some walls originally were. ¡°Illusion magic huh? My resistance probably made it a lot easier. Chapter 39. Die. Hilda starts re-navigating the maze, using mana to help see through the illusions easier with the illusions getting stronger the closer she gets, straining her eye further, causing her to take longer and more frequent breaks. ¡°Come on Hilda, nearly there.¡± ¡°Your encouragement isn''t helping at all.¡± ¡°Rude.¡± Hilda keeps progressing, eventually reaching the end, dashing to it. As she''s about to reach it, her sixth sense skill activates as she dodges, feeling a gust of gust under her along with a swinging sound as she sighs, using more mana and finding a monster named mental pursuer, which is also the miniboss. ¡°Oh god¡­ it''s a monster that can use mental magic so it probably has resistance to it, so my sword, mental skills and conversion skill will all be affected¡­¡± Hilda sends a weak wave of mana towards the monster, with the wave of mana passing through it, causing it to disappear, revealing itself as an illusion. Hilda feels her sixth sense skill activating and sighs, ducking downwards as the monster swings at her from behind. ¡°This guy is supposed to use mental magic, why is it even attacking me with physical attacks¡­¡± ¡°Cus your mental resistance and trait combined neutralizes its mental attacks.¡± ¡°But the illusion works on it though?¡± ¡°Illusion magic is it''s specialty, to fit in with the mazes specialty after all, this guy is also not as strong as it should be, it''s around a level 150s strength, it''s supposed to be in the 500s, though it being a miniboss makes it have the stats of a level 225.¡± ¡°A freebie doesn''t hurt either, but it''s honestly pretty annoying.¡± Hilda swings her sword at where it she felt her sixth sense from, missing barely. She sees it in front of her as she swings with it dissipating as sha expected. ¡°Another illusion, maybe I should try this on others.¡± ¡°Won''t work, only for people your stronger than or have a higher agility or movement skill¡± ¡°You do have spatial magic but anybody skilled enough can notice when you use spatial magic.¡± ¡°Also, this guy was born for illusions, it''s his specialty, if he wasn''t so weakened, he could make a normal person go crazy from messing with their sense of time with illusion. Which is something you are completely unable to do for the time being.¡± Hilda gets more irritated as she sees it in front of her again, but not attacking since she knows it''s just an illusion like the past few tens of times. ¡°So what am I supposed to do?¡± Shila shrugs while opening up the shop without saying anything. Hilda checks out the recommendations, and finds an object called ¡°tracking arrow¡±. ¡°Oh, why didn''t you tell me this existed?¡± ¡°Because it cost 1000 points.¡±Stolen story; please report. ¡°So? It''s only a thousand.¡± ¡°Just try it out.¡± Hilda throws the arrow, imagining the boss in front of her and using her homing skill as it hits the wall. ¡°Only works if you can see your opponent or know their general location.¡± ¡°Oh.¡± Hilda goes to try to pick it up as her hand just passes through it. ¡°Only works once.¡± ¡°...¡± Hilda buys another, waiting for her sixth sense to work, throwing her arrow in that direction. She watches as it hits, revealing the monster for a while before the arrow disappears and the boss goes back to being invisible as Hilda looks at Shila again, this time somewhat annoyed. ¡°It''s not guaranteed to work, the lower your level compared to it determines the chance.¡± Hilda sighs, painfully buying more arrows, throwing them all as her sixth sense skill activates, with a few hitting and not disappearing. As they officially stick to it, Hilda instinctively knows where it is despite it going invisible again, sending a strong wave of sword qi and mana at it, killing it due to its low endurance. ¡°Irritating guy.¡± ¡°Hey! Stop spending so many points, you still owe me!¡± ¡°Yea, sure, whatever.¡± ¡°Hilda, do you wanna go to the 21st floor after this or back to the 10th?¡± ¡°Is the 21st floor easy?¡± ¡°It requires time and a lot of willpower.¡± ¡°So there''s no danger towards me or my points?¡± ¡°And me, but yea.¡± ¡°Then let''s go.¡± ¡°Sure.¡± Shila teleports them both into the 21st floor where Hilda reads the notification. Notification. Welcome to the 21st floor, everything is sealed temporarily. Die. Hilda feels her body becoming heavier as she opens her status. Race: Human Gender: Female Level:0(temporary) Stats:(0 S) (0 E) (0 A) (0 M) Trait:sis con(max) Personality:sis con Inventory(locked:temporary) Shop(locked:temporary) ¡°Ah¡­¡± Hilda looks around as she realises the room she''s in is very small, with spears sticking out from the walls. ¡°... I get it now, this is going to hurt.¡± The spears all extend outwards immediately, piercing Hilda from every direction. ¡°What is even the point of this¡­¡± Hilda looks up, the spears still in her as she sees one in front of her face. ¡°Fuck.¡± The spear pierces her head, causing her to finally die before ending up in another room, one the size of a single bedroom as she starts looking around, confused and no longer in pain. ¡°Shila, what is even the point of this?¡± ¡°To get rid of your fear as much as possible, if you get scared a single time, you fail the floor and get sent back to the 10th floor, so you''re pretty amazing for dealing with that first one.¡± ¡°So what''s the current one? Shila points upwards as Hilda''s gaze follow where she''s pointing, seeing a complete lack of a ceiling along with seemingly infinitely high walls. She continues looking up, noticing a glowing light starting to appear as she squints her eyes, a small drop of the glowing substance falling down onto her leg, causing her to shout in pain as she looks down, noticing her legs completely burnt, the bones exposed along with a small bit of magma on the ground. ¡°A normal person should be dead!¡± ¡°yea, but this stage doesn''t allow death till you''re completely¡­ gone? I think that''s a fitting word.¡± ¡°This is going to feel like shit.¡± Hilda closes her eye, looking down as the rest of it starts slowly crawling down the walls with a few random drops around the center as it finally reaches the bottom, burning Hilda to death. She opens her eyes again, finding herself in a new room and a pool in front. ¡°How many more times?¡± ¡°No clue.¡± ¡°Great¡­ well, I can guess what I''ve got to do here.¡± Hilda starts walking into the seemingly adult sized pool, letting herself sink in. As she starts sinking in, she prepares to let herself start drowning as she keeps sinking despite the pool not seeming deep enough to go that deep. Eventually, she opens her mouth, letting herself drown as she reads a notification. Notification. Time before death is allowed. (1:00:00) Starting now Hilda curses at the guide mentally, ignoring her drowning, knowing trying to struggle won''t do anything despite how shitty it feels. As she keeps sinking after an hour, the light still somehow gets to her depth as the counter reaches 0, she suddenly faints, ending up in a new room. ¡°That was the easiest but most time consuming and uncomfortable.¡± ¡°You could ignore it thanks to your will, even without the trait, others won''t be able to speak easily do so, though that white guy probably could thanks to his trait, his trait seems related to water, so his water skills may have the drawback of making him feel like drowning sometimes or if he screws something up.¡± ¡°I''m just that good.¡± ¡°Shut it.¡± Hilda looks around, finding a small vial filled with a dark green substance that looks ridiculously similar to floor 19s poison and sighing as she picks it up, preparing to open it.¡± ¡°This floor sucks.¡± Chapter 40. Stuck between a rock and a hard place. Floor 22. ¡°Finally!¡± ¡°Hilda, it was ¡®THAT¡¯ bad.¡± ¡°Yes, not that bad, I only had to die by like what? Poison, drowning, burning, stabbing, falling, some scary as hell ghosts, disgusting insects, and death by a bunch of animals.¡± ¡°Yea, in case you were scared of them, the floor forces you to get over it.¡± ¡°I''ll hate it.¡± ¡°No surprise, who likes dying? I''m honestly surprised you got through the ghost and insects¡± Hilda looks around the 22nd floor, finding it to be a grassland. ¡°Why are grasslands so common?¡± ¡°How am I supposed to know? But this floor¡­ may be annoying¡­ as hell.¡± ¡°Huh?¡± Notification. Due to the special properties of this floor, achievement, First to kill a life form with a percentage of at least true dragon in its bloodline will be activated at all times. ¡°Huh? Isn''t this a good thing?¡± ¡°No, the amount of blood line is so less you don''t get much of a buff and, this achievement attracts lifeforms with true dragon blood to you.¡± ¡°Well, how bad could it be?¡± Hilda suddenly hears a roar along with her sixth sense, prompting her to look up as dozens of dragons fly overhead. ¡°Oh, I think I get it.¡± Achievement, second to reach level 5 is in use, users level is being increased by 4. ¡°Wait actually, I got a bunch of xp from the maze, what level am I right now?¡± ¡°You want to check? Right now?¡± ¡°Yea.¡± ¡°...¡± Name: Hilda Race: Human Gender: Female Level 130 Stats:(131 S) (131 E) (131 A) (129M) ¡°That''s excluding your achievements.¡± ¡°Show me the stats of the weakest dragon.¡± Race:Wyvern Bloodline:True dragon (3 percent) Level 200 Stats. (200 S) (200 E) (200 A) (200 M) ¡°Unlike the dolls, they do have useful skills so your skills aren''t gonna make up for the difference that much.¡± ¡°So¡­ how strong is the strongest dragon?¡± ¡°I can''t check above level 1000.¡± ¡°...¡± Hilda starts running with the dragons constantly flying overhead, some diving down at her to get her occasionally with her using spatula magic to narrowly avoid it. ¡°This is biased!!!¡± ¡°To be fair, you''re the only person on this floor, the other 9 haven''t reached and this floor doesn''t have enough resources for its dangers.¡± Hilda keeps running, slowly running out of mana and reaching a rally cliff in front of her, a cliff that goes higher than even the clouds as the dragons start landing, trapping her in. ¡°I guess this is what they call being trapped between a rock and a hard space huh?¡±You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story. ¡°Is this the time for your phrases?¡± ¡°Not mine, I''m just quoting.¡± ¡°You know what I mean!¡± Hilda and Shila start slowly backing up, not bothering to call Jamine as she wouldn''t be of help in this situation. ¡°I''ve just died plenty of times, I ain''t doing so again.¡± As Hilda and Shila keep backing up, Hilda pulls out the orb, causing the dragons to all freeze in place, surprised before growling a lot more aggressively. ¡°Why are they reacting so aggressively to this orb?!¡± ¡°It''s not aggressiveness, it''s possessiveness!¡± ¡°Possessiveness?¡± Before Shila gets a chance to tell Hilda to focus on the problem, the ground under them opens up, causing Hilda to fall in and Shila being pulled after with the floor closing up behind them. They keep falling with Hilda giving up and praying and Shila trying to hit her but being too high up compared to her. ¡°hilda! You aren''t even religious, stop praying and think of a way!¡± ¡°May God be with me and bless me.¡± ¡°Shut up!¡± ¡°God, this is how your daughter dies to¨C¡± Hilda gets cut off as Shila buys a pebble from the shop, throwing it at her. ¡°That''s coming out of your 100K allowance.¡± ¡°I don''t care, just think of a way!¡± Hilda sends Shila back into the system, pulling her back out near to her. ¡°What''s this? You''re giving me a hug before death?¡± ¡°use your field magic and slow our fall.¡± *Oh yea, I had that.¡± Shila starts using it, slowly slowing down their fall as they finally land. Hilda hurting a bit but being okay and Shila just using Hilda as a meat shield to tank the fall. Hilda looks around the area they landed in, finding them to be in a big dark empty room, similar to the guides, just black in colour. ¡°Wow, matching aesthetics.¡± ¡°Huh?¡± Hilda looks behind and sees her trail, remembering that it''s also black. ¡°Seriously?¡± ¡°Yea.¡± Notification. You have entered the secret area, true dragons trial. Both Hilda and Shila look at the notification, freezing up as they process it, their eyes widening up to check again, more clearly this time. ¡°What?!¡± They both shout at the same time with the small gap between the tiles of the room glowing blue. ¡°Great, this whole room is just tiles just like the guide¡¯s room, but black.¡± ¡°Hilda, how about focusing on the real problem?¡± ¡°We''re gonna die anyways, go buy me a bible from the shop.¡± ¡°... Sure, why not.¡± Shila goes, trying to actually buy a random bible. Warning, system is unusable in the secret area. ¡°Of course it is¡­ wait, how are you even here Shila?¡± ¡°I''m part system, part me, I have a soul too.¡± ¡°Oh, so we''re okay.¡± ¡°No, not at all, because you don''t know how to use your skills without the system.¡± Hilda tries, managing to activate mana and sword qi but struggling slightly with skills like mental and conversation magic. ¡°That''s actually pretty good of an attempt, though as you get more used, you can eventually use skills without the system''s help.¡± ¡°Nice?¡± Warning: Host is fighting an enemy more than N/A times as strong. Notification. trait "sis con" is active Stats are being increased 10 fold. Trait "sis con" is being strained. Warning: trait "sis con" will be temporarily deactivated in 20 seconds if strained to that extent. Warning:user will suffer severe recoil after deactivation. Warning, due to being a boss, stats have been increased by twice. Hilda and Shila both look over at the cause so Hilda turns her trait off, not wanting to die from the recoil before dying to the nightmare in front of her. ¡°Shila¡­ could you¡­ check it?¡± ¡°I can try.¡± Warning, user is too low level. ¡°That''s¡­ an actual dragon, isn''t it? Not just a wyvern?¡± ¡°Yep.¡± Hilda looks over at the blue scales dragon in front of her, mana being naturally sucked in at a rate that Hilda wished she had and also flowing out of its body, making Hilda think it was threatening her even if it didn''t need to. ¡°Human, why are you here?¡± ¡°Ask the ground, it opened up.¡± ¡°It wouldn''t have opened up without¡­¡± The dragon''s voice trails off, seeing Hilda hold the orb in her hands. ¡°How did you get that orb?¡± The dragon voice rumbles throughout the room, but gets actually aggressive instead of possessive over it.¡± ¡°I stole it.¡± ¡°There''s not a single chance a weakling like you or that fraud of a lifeform managed to steal it.¡± ¡°Well, I did but from a random noble.¡± ¡°Which floor?¡± ¡°The 10th, obviously.¡± Hilda''s voice is filled with sarcasm, causing the dragon to get more annoyed and Shila to cover her mouth quickly. ¡°The 10th, very well, I suppose you can keep it, but lose it and I''ll destroy your soul.¡± ¡°Yea, yea, whatever.¡± Shila covers Hilda''s mouth tighter. ¡°This was called a trial, so where is it?¡± ¡°You''re too weak, come back when you''re stronger, but take this for now.¡± A random blue bead, filled with a certain magic appearance in front of Hilda.¡± ¡°What do you even want me to do with this?¡± ¡°Eat.¡± ¡°No, not happening.¡± The dragon breathes fire at the ceiling, causing the whole room to start turning hot, even causing Hilda to hurt a bit despite being decently far away from the fire. ¡°Got it.¡± Hilda eats the small bead, feeling nothing for a second before falling down to the ground in pain. ¡°That is my makeshift trial for you, do not faint or I''ll kill you myself.¡± Hilda glares at the dragon, feeling a constant pain all throughout her body. After around 10 minutes, the pain stops as she struggles to her feet with Shila''s help, still glaring at the dragon and flipping it off with it just huffing some smoke out in return like it did nothing wrong. The dragon uses magic to take the orb from Hilda, lifting it in front of its face, placing a layer of Amna over it. ¡°What did you just do?¡± ¡°I hid its presence.¡± The dragon returns the orb to Hilda, with Hilda putting it back into her inventory. ¡°Why?¡± ¡°Because I can''t have that fraud finding out you have it.¡± ¡°Fraud? Shila?¡± ¡°Shila? Oh, not that fraud of a life form.¡± ¡°Then who?¡± ¡°You''ll figure it out, do not let anybody know you have it until you grow strong enough to climb to the peak of this jail.¡± ¡°sure?¡± They both get teleported back out with the wyverns now gone. ¡°Hilda, you''re a very daring person.¡± ¡°Yea, I know.¡± ¡°Shila, why did he call you a fraud of a lifeform?¡± ¡°Because I wasn''t born, my soul was made, I''m also not clearly flesh and bones.¡± ¡°Is there a difference?¡± ¡°Yes, but it doesn''t affect me at all, my soul is just different.¡± ¡°Isn''t everybody''s soul different?¡± ¡°Well, their souls aren''t made! Mine is!¡± ¡°Okay, calm down.¡± ¡°You''re annoying.¡± ¡°Ok, why did he call this place a jail?¡± ¡°Don''t you remember? They''re all locked here.¡± ¡°Sure¡­¡± Hilda looks at Shila, suspicious of her as she seems oddly weird after being asked that, with her suspicion shown clearly on her face, getting Shila to elaborate further. ¡°Well, I guess I do have suspicions about somethings, but I can''t tell you, not until you''re stronger and not till I''m clear.¡± ¡°Sure? Who is the fraud he meant?¡± ¡°That I also can''t tell, not because I don''t want to, but because I don''t know, but he somehow managed to interfere with the system, letting me know that the answer is up.¡± ¡°Up?¡± ¡°Up.¡± ¡°How up?¡± ¡°79 floors up.¡± ¡°Sure¡­ wait, did you fail maths? It''s 78 floors up.¡± ¡°Just remember what I said.¡± ¡°Sure?¡± ¡°Oh, he also gave us clearance to g o to the next floor.¡± ¡°Yes!!! But don''t I need the xp?¡± ¡°He gave points.¡± ¡°Dragon guy!! You are my god!¡± ¡°Shut up and let''s go back to the 10th floor first, I would really like to rest.¡± ¡°Same.¡± No chpt. No chapter today, I have to help prepare for cny eve tmr by helping to buy stuff etc. chapter on 1st of Feb since I''ll be celebrating till 30 of January and 31st has exam so can''t on the 31st either. I''ll post 3 chapters up in the 31st in January to partially make up for the lack of chapters.This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road. If you spot it on Amazon, please report it. Oh, should I make a discord? Like there won''t really be anything but for future use, incase so I don''t have to put a notice up on RR instead, if so I''ll get to preparing a discord server when I''m free. Happy new Chinese new year. Chapter 41. Boom Hilda and Shila get sent back to the tenth floor, intending to take a break from climbing the floors for the time being. A moment later, some people rush at her, geared with light armor and swords. ¡°Put your hands up! You''re under arrest for theft, assault of a noble, destruction of private property and first degree murder!¡± Shila immediately teleports back into the system. ¡°... Shila, what are their levels?¡± ¡°None above level 150, trash skills too.¡± ¡°Should I y''know?¡± Hilda uses her right hand, sliding her hand across her throat while sticking her tongue out, gesturing dying. ¡°I would strongly advise against doing so¡­¡± ¡°Fine.¡± Hilda puts her hands up, placing her sword back into her soul following them. ¡°Hey Hilda, can I spend my 100K now?¡± ¡°Sure, on what?¡± ¡°Buff magic and necromancy.¡± ¡°Necromancy? Why?¡± ¡°No reason.¡± ¡°Are you jealous of Jamine?¡± ¡°...¡± ¡°You are aren''t you? But whatever since it''s your 100K¡­ wait, you bought a pebble to throw at me, you only get 99,995 points for that.¡± ¡°Petty.¡± Shila buys buff magic for 1000 points, using another 1000 to ascend it to buff magic before buying necromancy magic for 10,000 points. ¡°I wonder where we''re going though?¡± ¡°I reckon it''s the noble you messed around with.¡± ¡°Oh yea, that''s right, hey here''s a quick question.¡± ¡°What is it?¡± ¡°What is the name of this city?¡± ¡°Unity, it was named since many races live here.¡± ¡°so¡­ say I were to¡­ destroy this city, where would everybody start off?¡± ¡°The nearest city.¡± ¡°Ok, alright, nice.¡± ¡°Why?¡± ¡°Oh, no reason.¡± ¡°... Don''t even try it.¡± ¡°Wuss.¡± ¡°Don''t.¡± ¡°Fine.¡± While following, Hilda spots 2 figures, an elf and dwarf arguing, the same ones she first met when she first went to the 10th floor. ¡°Seriously? Still arguing?¡± ¡°Long lifespan, so long grudges.¡± ¡°wow.¡± ¡°Though since they meet each other more than once despite hating each other, they both might be into political stuff.¡±Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website. ¡°What about painting? They into that?¡± ¡°Shut up.¡± ¡°Nobody appreciates my jokes.¡± ¡°Your sense of humour isn''t socially acceptable!¡± ¡°Kill yourself.¡± ¡°...¡± ¡°As I was saying before you interrupted Me, since they''re doing politics stuff or whatever they call it here, they probably also have a bunch of information.¡± *Are they an information dealer or politicians?¡± ¡°They''re not politicians, well for the most part. They''re ambassadors and politics stuff.¡± ¡°Nice, so if I need information, they''re gonna be my source.¡± ¡°Yep.¡± Hilda eventually gets brought in front of a jail cell where she gets thrown into a prison, reinforced so she can''t get out. ¡°So Shila, what to do now?¡± ¡°Escape, the noble you messed with will definitely find out you''re being kept here and send guards, personal ones after you.¡± ¡°How strong?¡± ¡°Oh, nothing much, at most in the 300s.¡± ¡° ¡®nothing much¡¯ is what you said.¡± ¡°Hey look, the Suvans don''t even have sword qi or as much mana as you, their skills also suck so you could probably kill them easily.¡± ¡°Didn''t some level somethings nearly kill me before? Also what''s Suvan? I assume the name of their species?¡± ¡°Because your stupidity told you to walk in front of them when sword qi would have killed them easily enough, and yea.¡± ¡°Sword qi seems better than I thought.¡± ¡°most people would have to train for a year to get it and even more to level it up.¡± ¡°I guess I''m just that talented.¡± ¡°No, I''m just useful, you''re just obsessed with your sister?¡± ¡°So?¡± ¡°... Just break out already.¡± Hilda calls for the guard to come, grabbing his head through the bars tightly, using mana to strengthen herself, not letting him escape as she uses obedience magic and mental attack too. The man''s resistance slowly dies down, becoming the definition of a slave. ¡°Didn''t I say that doing such a thing was a bad idea?¡± ¡°How else did you expect me to get out?¡± ¡°... Teleport?¡± ¡°Oh¡­ ok, that makes much more sense.¡± ¡°Hey guard, free me out already.¡± Hilda and Shila both walk out carefree as the guard unlocks the door for them. ¡°Hey, what''s the difference between this and an undead? From your necromancy skill¡± ¡°Yours can still feel fear, mine can''t, yours can also level up, but if they level up enough, they''ll be able to break free, yours can also speak and keep their memories while mine can''t most of the time.¡± ¡°How about we just start making them into undead? You need your skill to level up too, right?¡± ¡°Yea but¡­¡± Hilda cuts the guard''s head off. ¡°... Nevermind.¡± Shila starts using her necromancy magic, reviving the guy as an undead as Hilda watches the headless zombie stand up. ¡°If you''re gonna do this anyways, could you keep the head intact?¡± ¡°Sure, but it looks more human than I thought.¡± ¡°Because it hasn''t even begun to decompose, not that it will not since I brought it back as an undead.¡± ¡°So if I kill everybody and you revive them, it''ll be like everything is the same?¡± ¡°People with divine abilities can detect but apart from that, yea.¡± ¡°Nice, I''m not sorry for what I''m about to do.¡± Hilda starts running deeper into the jail, killing each guard by cutting their bodies open with Shila following behind. ¡°I feel like a bad person.¡± ¡°And I feel like an accomplice despite being forced into this.¡± ¡°Forced? That''s so rubbish.¡± ¡°So we can stop this?¡± ¡°No.¡± ¡°... So you''re not forcing me but you''re not giving me a choice either.¡± ¡°yep.¡± ¡°So I am being forced.¡± ¡°Nope.¡± ¡°goddamn liar.¡± After killing all the guards, she goes back into her cell, pretending to still be jailed, bringing all the guards into close proximity to her jail cell. ¡°What are you doing?¡± ¡°Waiting.¡± ¡°For?¡± ¡°Opportunity.¡± ¡°To?¡± ¡°Take revenge for ruining my shirt.¡± ¡°I don''t think you heard it when I said level 300s.¡± ¡°Quantity over quality, but I suppose having a spare plan doesn''t hurt.¡± Hilda goes to buy something from the shop, not letting Shila see by hitting her with the hilt of her sword, sending her back into the system. She places a couple of the things she bought in hidden places all around the cell along with the corridors of the jail. ¡°This jail looks like a dungeon¡­ one where you keep people.¡± Eventually, Shila reappears, hitting Hilda on the head. ¡°What did you hit me with your sword for?!¡± ¡°Secret.¡± ¡°... They are probably gonna reach soon.¡± ¡°Yep.¡± After a bit longer, some people dressed as guards appear as Shila scans them, revealing them to be in the level 400s. ¡°You there, come with me, somebody would like to see you.¡± ¡°Who?¡± ¡°Someone important, hurry up.¡± ¡°I really hope you have a plan.¡± Shila makes herself invisible to others. ¡°Yes, get all your undead to attack them.¡± Shila sighs, mentally sending a command to the undead as they all immediately look in their direction before charging straight at the guards, surprising them. ¡°Shila, if you could make yourself invisible to others, why did you teleport into the system before?¡± ¡°I forgot.¡± ¡°Idiot.¡± ¡°Rude.¡± Hilda watches as the guards start easily cutting the zombie guards down and recovering from their situation pretty easily as Hilda spends a wave of sword wo and mana at them, causing the undead to start overwhelming them slightly. After a while, they kill all the undead, getting injured but still strong enough to right Hioda. ¡°Damn, how resilient huh?¡± ¡°What now Hilda?¡± Hilda teleports out pulling a remote with a red button on it out and pressing it. The dungeon blows up immediately, causing it to collapse on itself as it''s underground along with a bunch of level up notifications. Level up X10. All stats +10 Trait has been improved slightly. ¡°That was pathetic, I didn''t even get an achievement.¡± ¡°Achievements are based on difficulty, doing what you just did won''t earn you one, and also killing other beings who aren''t monsters doesn''t level you up as much. An effort by the guide to prevent mass murder from people like you.¡± ¡°Tsk.¡± ¡°...¡± Hilda walks away, ignoring the stares of anybody. Chapter 42. Nuke. The very next day, rumors started spreading about a strange person who looked female to some and male to some with a black trail following behind, causing explosions around. ¡°Shila, isn''t my mask supposed to prevent the female part of me from being seen?¡± ¡°Yea but since there are many species, some have enough mental resistance to see through partially. Besides Hilda, it''s much easier to hide your gender than other people.¡± ¡°Why?¡± ¡°Because there''s less to hide.¡± ¡°Lesser?¡± ¡°... Normally the mask would hide your face, chest and hair. For you, it only needs to hide your face and hair.¡± ¡°What are you implying?¡± ¡°... Your chest doesn''t have much to hide.¡± ¡°...¡± ¡°I''m deducting a thousand points from you.¡± ¡°Why?! You''re the one who asked an obvious question!¡± ¡°Two thousand.¡± ¡°Seriously? Your 15 year old sister has a bigger chest than you, and she''s 15! Look, you yourself have already known this fact long ago yourself but you''ve been lying to yourself despite knowing it!¡± ¡°Ten thousand¡± ¡°Screw you! I''m never helping you again!¡± Shila angrily disappears as Hilda looks down at herself. ¡°It''s not that bad¡­ right?¡± Hilda pulls Jamine out quickly, causing her to fall down from her sitting position, confusing her. ¡°Mom?¡± ¡°Yes my dear sweet daughter, I need to ask a question.¡± ¡°Anything for mom!¡± ¡°Look at me.¡± ¡°Ok.¡± ¡°Now look at yourself.¡± ¡°Ok.¡± ¡°Do our chest look similar in size?¡± Jamine contemplates for a moment before looking back at herself and Hilda. ¡°Isn''t mom older?¡± ¡°Yea, and so is my appearance.¡± ¡°Our body looks different¡ª¡± ¡°I knew it!¡± ¡°But why does our chest look so similar?¡± ¡°...¡± ¡°Mom? Why does our¡ª¡± Hilda tries to send Jamine back to the system again with Jamine quickly going to the territory before she can do so. ¡°I hate this.¡± ¡°Now that I think about it, I got points for clearing the 22nd floor right? And I should have gotten extra for passing such a trial, yes?¡± Hilda opens up her points. Points:1,162,827The author''s narrative has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. ¡°Some noble has been pissing me off recently now that I think about it.¡± Hilda scrolls through the shop, going to the recommendations and buying the cheapest thing she can find that she needs, for 500K points, causing Shila to appear. ¡°Hilda¡­ it was a joke, you didn''t have to buy this¡­¡± ¡°I''m venting my anger.¡± ¡°Most people vent by shouting, throwing objects and such, not¡­ buying a nuke worth 10 million tonnes of dynamite.¡± ¡°But if I use this, it''ll look like¡ª¡± ¡°No, no more dark humor jokes!¡± ¡°But I hadn''t even finished the sentence.¡± ¡°Was it related to world war 2?¡± ¡°Yep.¡± ¡°Then shut it.¡± ¡°... Fine, but can I still¡ª¡± ¡°Do. Not. Drop. That. Bomb. You''ll die too.¡± ¡°Don''t worry, it''s remote detonated.¡± ¡°Fine, if you wanna do it, you pay up the orb forever.¡± ¡°Fine, but you''ll return it eventually since I know I''ll get into trouble eventually, you can''t even use it, can you?.¡± Hilda tries giving Shila the orb jokingly but even when she tries to give it, the orb sticks to her hand, not dropping to Shila''s. ¡°The dragon did this, didn''t it?¡± ¡°Yep, stop changing the topic, I''m not letting you use that.¡± ¡°It''s already bought, there''s no refund function, and it''s also radiation free.¡± ¡°...... Why did the guide think letting people buy a nuke for 500,000 points was a good idea¡­¡± ¡°So can I use it?¡± ¡°... I give up¡­ I give the hell up¡­ do whatever you want¡­¡± ¡°I take that as approval.¡± Hilda takes another look at the surprisingly compact and small object that''s supposed to be much stronger than a normal nuke, walking and humming happily to herself as she spots the dwarf and elf again. ¡°Hey Shila¡­ I can upgrade my mental magic further, right?¡± ¡°Yea, but it''s gonna be very expensive.¡± ¡°Ok, how many tiers are there?¡± ¡°5 for most. Low level, normal, high, expert and¡­ I forgot the last one.¡± ¡°You forgot?¡± ¡°Yea, what''s the problem?¡± ¡°Isn''t this information obtained from the system? Can''t you just get it back?¡± ¡°... You''re right actually¡­ but I can''t for some reason.¡± ¡°That''s annoying, but whatever, it''s just the level anyways.¡± Hilda goes to try to upgrade her mental magic to high tier to find it costing 10,000,000 points. ¡°Oh yea, sorry, I meant you hit the requirements to level it up but not the points.¡± ¡°Isn''t the requirement just¡­ uh.. oh yea, leveling the skill up to the max?¡± ¡°For the first time, yea. For the next few times, you need maybe system level, achievements, etc.¡± ¡°So what was it this time?¡± ¡°Oh, I don''t know, you just got a freebie since my level was high enough to skip it for you.¡± ¡°You can do that?¡± ¡°To a certain extent, yea, I''ve also been reducing the recoil from your trait and increasing the capacity of it.¡± ¡°Wow, you''re more useful than I thought.¡± ¡°What''s that supposed to mean? Huh?¡± ¡°Nothing, nothing.¡± Suddenly, Hilda gets sent to a white room, the guide''s room as she calls it, somewhere she hasn''t been for quite a while and would''ve appreciated not going back for another couple months minimum. ¡°Guide¡­ what is it now?¡± ¡°Hello my favourite little girl.¡± ¡°What?¡± ¡°What what?¡± ¡°What did you call me?¡± ¡°My favour¡ª¡± ¡°Let me rephrase, why did you call me that?¡± ¡°Well, I''m much older than you, you''re still a minor, and you''re my favourite.¡± ¡°Shut it, no more calling me that.¡± ¡°Fine, but I need a favour back, yea?¡± ¡°... Shila, go blow the most populated area up.¡± The guide sends Shila into the system again before she even has a chance to decline. ¡°Don''t use that bomb you bought. If you are still going to use it, use it at the 25th floor and above since those floors can handle it much better due to their size.¡± ¡°Why should I listen? You better give me something good unless you want the elves to vanish.¡± ¡°... Why the elves?¡± ¡°Why not? They''re basically a fetish on earth, getting rid of them would be for the better good, no?¡± ¡°stop lying and tell me the real reason.¡± ¡°Fine, I may have potentially, possible, perhaps heard of some¡­ valuables they have.¡± ¡°They''ll shoot you before you get near enough, the human-like race can reach up to level 500 before dying from their lifespans. Elves live much much longer and have some up to the 2000s.¡± ¡°So? I''ll strap the bomb to myself and use a dead man''s switch, the survivor trait will save me if I get blown up once anyways.¡± ¡°Dont, they''ll hunt you down, I''m not kidding.¡± ¡°Fine, the Suvans or whatever they''re called then.¡± ¡°No bombing, no bombing, big no. I''ll give 50,000 points.¡± ¡°Sure, that works.¡± ¡°Hilda, you''re the only person to blackmail me so far.¡± ¡°That''s because you have too many loopholes.¡± ¡°Not many people think of committing terrorism. In fact, it''s because of you that I''m re-evaluating what I''m going to do soon.¡± ¡°What is it?¡± ¡°If you want to know, I''m not paying the 50K up.¡± ¡°I have enough points for another bomb.¡± ¡°... If you blow anything, I''ll turn you into a goddamn firework. I''m going to add a subtrait, it won''t be shown in the status, nor will it bring immediate benefits, but it''ll help you get more¡­ synchronized with your soul, making it stronger.¡± ¡°So, what''s the problem?¡± ¡°You''ll see¡­¡± The guide sends Hilda back out where Shila reappears. ¡°Hilda, I''m managing your finances from now onwards.¡± ¡°No, you''re not.¡± ¡°I''m not asking.¡± ¡°Too bad, I don''t allow it.¡± Hilda suddenly sees a notification. Notification. System has locked point usage, permitted by g¨²?d3. ¡°...¡± ¡°No more goddamn nukes.¡± ¡°...¡± Hilda teleports Jamine out of the system with Jamine officially getting annoyed. ¡°Mom! Warn me before doing that! You made me spill my ice cream!¡± ¡°Jamine, no more snacks for you.¡± ¡°Huh??? What???¡± ¡°you heard me.¡± ¡°Why?!?! Mom is mean!¡± ¡°No more snacks till your aunt here removes the restriction on my money.¡± ¡°Aunt! Get rid of the restriction!¡± ¡°No, your mom here tried to blow everybody up.¡± ¡°So?¡± ¡°That''s right¡­ you really are like your mom. No wonder the guide is hesitant about allowing the system to implement in the subtrait.¡± Chapter 43. Psychopath. For the rest of the day, Hilda and Jamine keeps arguing with Shila due to her being completely unwilling to allow Hilda access to her own points. ¡°Shila, pay up.¡± ¡°No.¡± ¡°Aunt! I''ll hit you if you make mom angry!¡± ¡°I''ll put you back into the system if I have to.¡± ¡°Shila, I''m gonna make you regret this.¡± ¡°Sure, I''m still not unlocking it until I know I can trust you.¡± Hilda hits Shila with the flat side of her blade, sending her flying away. ¡°Jamine come on, let''s go, I''m disowning Shila.¡± ¡°Have fun! Don''t worry, I can''t spend any of your points without your permission while it''s locked. If your will is strong enough you can unlock it too!¡± Shila shouts out behind Hilda. A motivation suddenly appears before Hilda and Jamine can walk away too far with Shila teleporting to them both and showing the notification. Notification. Sub-trait will now be added to everybody, it will not be shown due to a lack of physical benefits. ¡°Didn''t you say it would improve my soul or whatever?¡± ¡°Yea, but that''s considered a spiritual benefit, something the system can''t accurately measure the benefits of. The guide is not a god after all.¡± ¡° Notification. Due to the similarity in personality and connection between the user and ¡®Jamine¡¯, both will share the same sub-trait. ¡°Huh?¡± ¡°Yay! Me and mom are the same!¡± Notification. Sub-trait will be activated in 10 seconds and forced to increase by 300 percent to assimilate into the user''s soul easier. ¡°Huh?¡± Notification. The user''s sub-trait is ¡®Psychopath¡¯ due to their lack of care for the majority of humanity, willing to kill anybody as long as it provides benefits. ¡®psychopath¡± will improve your willpower. It will increase being apathetic to other users the user doesn''t seem ¡®close¡¯. It will improve closeness towards those the user considers ¡®close.¡¯ Sub-trait has been activated. Shila starts at these words for a moment before turning back to Hilda and Jamine who is just staring blankly into a random direction with Shila looking in the direction, trying to find out what is getting their interest.The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. As Shila keeps concentrating, she realises she is facing the biggest and only market place along with where the majority of people live. ¡°Hilda, calm down, please?¡± ¡°Shila, I''ll give you 5 seconds to unlock this now, or you''re either going to end up with me converting a bunch of slaves, dead bodies or a detonation.¡± ¡°Yep, got it!¡± Shila unlocks Hilda''s points due to the fact that Hilda would definitely be more than willing to do what she just said this time unlike before. This and the fact that she may end up with a sword in her head if she doesn''t listen. ¡°Shila, good girl, now you''re not going to interfere with me.¡± ¡°Yep, whatever you say ma¡¯am.¡± ¡°Shila, you should know who has been attacking me along with where, bring me there now.¡± ¡°But you know I''m not allowed to do such a thing, nope, too big of an advantage.¡± ¡°Shila, either the idiotic noble or the city.¡± ¡°But¡­¡± Warning. User''s mentality is being affected due to the synergy between trait ¡®sis con¡¯ and sub-trait ¡®psychopath.¡±. Shila looks over at Hilda again with Jamine being somewhat fine still due to not having the same trait. Hilda stares into the air again, muttering something softly to herself as Shila reads her mind. ¡°Lela¡­ protect. Get strong. How? Level up and survive. How? Kill and defend. Defend wastes time. Attack the attacker. Where? Search. How? Skill, tracking.¡± Shila suddenly feels Hilda using her skill, accurately pinpointing the noble¡¯s daughter''s location despite not having fulfilled the requirements sufficiently. ¡°What the hell? She can use my skills, and tracking shouldn''t even work with how far it is and how little contact there was!¡± Hilda starts dashing at full speed, carrying Jamine along as Shila gets dragged along, trying to contact the guide nonstop. ¡°Is that bastard busy right now?!¡± Hilda reaches the noble''s mansion, intruding in with spatial magic and kidnapping the marquess''s daughter before planting the bomb and running away with her. ¡°Hey there little girl.¡± ¡°Mom, aren''t you younger?¡± ¡°Shut it.¡± ¡°What do you want?! I don''t even have anything to steal this time!¡± ¡°If I said your virginity!¡± ¡°Too bad, I''m not into women, especially one who clearly has a role playing fetish, playing the role of a thief at first and now a kidnapper.¡± ¡°I would refrain from insulting me, do you love your father?¡± ¡°Why wouldn''t I?¡± ¡°It seems despite being a nuisance to me, he is a good father.¡± ¡°Why is that any of your business?¡± ¡°Because, unless you fork out everything of value to me, I''ll blow your father on a one-way trip to¡­ whatever you believe happens after death.¡± ¡°Nothing.¡± ¡°Very well, nothing.¡± ¡°What do you even want me to do? All I''m wearing is my dress.¡± ¡°You could be hiding things under it.¡± ¡°I''m not, believe what you want, I don''t care.¡± ¡°I could tear your clothes off to look for valuables.¡± ¡°If you do that, you''ll be hunted down.¡± ¡°Already am, also, I have a valuable hostage this time, two actually. Your home and you.¡± ¡°Hurry and tell me what valuables your house has now or else I''ll really blow it up.¡± ¡°Fine, we have a blueprint.¡± ¡°Huh?¡± ¡°It''s the most important valuable thing we have in the mansion right now.¡± ¡°What is it?¡± ¡°No clue, my father didn''t let me see it.¡± ¡°Where is it hidden?¡± ¡°Not telling, it is protected by special walls, made of a metal you can''t break unless your level 600, minimum that is unless you have a code, which my father does.¡± ¡°Thanks for the information.¡± Hilda uses mental attack with obedience magic, forcing her to obey. ¡°Do you know the code?¡± ¡°Yes.¡± ¡°What is the blueprint about?¡± ¡°The orb, the condensed¡ª--¡± She grips her head, seemingly having a headache, something Hilda knows that isn''t possible due to the mental magic preventing pain unless she allows it.¡± ¡°Ah, the stupid restriction again.¡± Hilda releases the obedience magic on the girl who just glares at her in silence. ¡°Seems you still have a mind of your own if I don''t control you.¡± ¡°Listen up, later the bomb will blow up, you are not allowed to alert anybody, but I''ll give you a chance to save what you''ve got. You should be decently strong, so bring the bomb and blueprint back to me by the end of an hour and I''ll let you go, free.¡± ¡°Promise?¡± ¡°Yep.¡± She tries to start running, thinking it''ll be easy due to not being too far away from her home as Hilda activates the obedience magic slightly, preventing any running, chasing her to glare at Hilda again. ¡°You might want to hurry up.¡± ¡°Bitch!¡± ¡°My specialty.¡± The guide appears again as the noble girl walks off. ¡°Hilda, didn''t we have an agreement?¡± ¡°One that doesn''t benefit me, not that I care about an agreement with you. After this, I''ll slaughter the entire city to level up, Kay?¡± ¡°No Hilda, stop this.¡± ¡°Why should I?¡± ¡°Hilda¡ª¡± ¡°Guide, sincerely. Fuck off.¡± ¡°Hilda, you''ll regret it if you do this.¡± The guide disappears, his original spot replaced with Shila and Jamine. ¡°Jamine, did aunt stop you from following me?¡± ¡°Yea, she teleported me out of your arms with the weird guy''s help!¡± Hilda swings her sword at Shila again who blocks it with ease using a single arm. ¡°Hilda, did you really think that such a halfhearted swing would work?¡± ¡°No, but you should have taken it.¡± Hilda uses her full strength, sending Shila flying again.¡± ¡°Don''t mess with me. Shila, let''s go level up now.¡± ¡°Ok mom!¡± Notification. Sub-trait boost has ended. Hilda clutches her head in pain suddenly as they both fall to the ground despite Jamine not feeling pain. ¡°Finally¡­¡± Chapter 44. Hildas fashion sense sucks. A couple hours later, Hilda wakes up, finding Shila and Jamine sitting beside her. ¡°Hey¡­ I have a few memories which I don''t really remember committing.¡± ¡°Oh my god¡­ I didn''t expect to be called a bitch either¡­¡± ¡°Hilda, she wasn''t wrong at all.¡± ¡°Yea, I got it. I agree with her.¡± ¡°Mom, is bitch a compliment?¡± ¡°Yea, your aunt suits the description more than I do.¡± ¡°So aunt is a¡ª¡± ¡°No I''m not, don''t listen to your mom.¡± ¡°Hey, now that I think about it, didn''t she call you sis before?¡± ¡°Yes, she calls me sis when we''re alone but aunt when you''re here.¡± ¡°What?¡± ¡°Mom said to call you aunt before, so I call you aunt when she''s here.¡± ¡°Your mom is a liar, I''m sis¡± ¡°Then whose aunt?¡± ¡°Ask your mom.¡± ¡°Mom?¡± ¡°Aunt isn''t here, wait a couple years.¡± ¡°Why?¡± ¡°She''s busy.¡± ¡°With?¡± ¡°Jamine.¡± ¡°Yes?¡± ¡°Stop asking.¡± ¡°Ok.¡± ¡°So, sis?¡± ¡°Yea?¡± ¡°you''re not a bit¡ª¡± ¡°Yep, I''m not, stop asking.¡± Shila, what happened after I fainted.¡± ¡°Oh, about that¡­¡± A couple hours ago. The noble girl is slowly walking back to her mansion when she suddenly gains the ability to start running again. ¡°Huh? What happened?¡± ¡°Screw it, just get the blueprint and go, I don''t even know what''s in it.¡± She starts running back to her mansion, reaching quickly due to how close it was and going straight to the safe. ¡°your ladyship, slitider, what brings you to the marquess''s room?¡± ¡°What does that matter with someone like you huh? Open the door and shut it.¡± ¡°Very well your lady ship.¡± After she walks in and slowly closes the door, she immediately starts panicking and runs to the safe, opening it up and taking the blueprint out. As she turns around to leave, Shila suddenly appears behind her, her appearance censored to hide her identity. ¡°Why are you here? I''m taking the blueprint, you better keep your promise.¡±Help support creative writers by finding and reading their stories on the original site. ¡°Let me see it.¡± Shila says in a distorted voice, creeping Slitider out as she hands it over. As Shila''s eyes scan the blueprint, she smirks slightly. ¡°I suppose Hilda didn''t do all this for nothing.¡± She mutters to herself, consuming Slitider as she tilts her head. Shila memories it with ease with the help of the system before handing it back. ¡°Not a mention of this to anybody, you got it?¡± ¡°Sure, just don''t blow everybody up like you agreed.¡± Shila disappears, taking the bomb with her as she goes back to Hilda, placing the bomb back into her inventory back locked away. Back to the present. ¡°Ah, so that''s what happened.¡± ¡°Needless to say, she wasn''t very happy with you Hilda.¡± ¡°Not surprised, but what was on the blueprint?¡± ¡°A very powerful weapon.¡± ¡°Huh? Then why didn''t you take it from them? What if they make it?¡± ¡°It requires a very powerful energy source, namely your orb.¡± ¡°Can we make it?¡± ¡°Yes, if you know how to smelt, forge and have dozens of millions of points spare.¡± ¡°Could have just said no.¡± ¡°So¡­ that weird noble girl¡­ Slitider, was it?¡± ¡°Yea?¡± ¡°I can still control her right?¡± ¡°I suppose.¡± ¡°So, could I sell her off as a slave?¡± ¡°... I suppose so?¡± Shila looks at Hilda with a look of disdain, making her raise her hands up, surrendering. ¡°I''m not gonna, it was just a question.¡± ¡°Couldn''t I make her work for me though?¡± ¡°Yea?¡± ¡°Alright, qs compensation for tormenting her, I''ll make her my slave.¡± ¡°That''s compensation?¡± ¡°Well, I''m eventually gonna kill her father, so yes, that''s compensation enough.¡± ¡°...¡± ¡°Mom, what do we do now?¡± ¡°The 24th floor, duh.¡± ¡°Nope, Hilda, you''re not going to the 24th floor.¡± ¡°Huh?¡± ¡°You were supposed to level up on the 23rd floor but you skipped it, so you''ll get back to the 23rd floor and level up.¡± ¡°No way I''m fighting those things.¡± ¡°Just use the orb, the sight of it will scare them for a moment before they attack, use that small chance to kill them.¡± ¡°Fine, I''ll try it.¡± Hilda reluctantly goes back to the 23rd floor, dozens of wyverns flocking to her immediately. Achievement, First to kill a life form with a percentage of at least true dragon in its bloodline, stats are being increased. ¡°God, I really hate the achievement that''s currently screwing me over.¡± ¡°Hilda, just get to work and kill them.¡± ¡°Fineeee.¡± As the wyverns land, Hilda pulls the orb out, immediately using mental attack magic on them, causing most of the lower leveled ones to screech in pain. As she watches, she uses conversion magic, causing some of the lower leveled ones with near to no mental magic resistance to start bleeding out. ¡°Ok, that''s nice, but my mana just decreased severely.¡± ¡°Not surprised.¡± Jamine and Shila start using leech, pissing them off more than damaging them due to the level difference. ¡°Hey Hilda¡­¡± ¡°Yea?¡± ¡°I miscalculated.¡± ¡°Go to hell.¡± Hilda starts running, letting the two of them get dragged along, attracting even more wyverns. ¡°Fuck!!!¡± Hilda keeps running,using sixth sense and spatial magic to barely dodge as they dive at her. She keeps running, looking back at the many wyverns chasing her as she runs off to a location with just mainly rocks and pebbles, running for hours. ¡°Shila, how much further?!¡± ¡°Till?¡± ¡°Till I can blow the bomb up without damaging the forest!¡± ¡°Why do you care about that?¡± ¡°Guide is gonna be pissed!¡± ¡°Another couple minutes of running and teleporting.¡± Hilda keeps running as Shila takes the bomb out, holding it with her. ¡°Shila, this is gonna hurt, but it''s gonna be much better than during, right?!¡± ¡°Nah, I''ll just go back into the system, may God bless you.¡± ¡°Traitor!¡± ¡°Mom, I''m still here!¡± ¡°Yea but you don''t feel pain!¡± ¡°...¡± Hilda grabs the bomb from Shila as she disappears back into the system, holding up the remote and waiting for the wyverns to get close enough before¡­ Boom. Achievement, survivor is in use. User is being healed to the minimum amount required. As the explosion dies down, Hilda lies down there in pain as she reads the notification. ¡°Fuck.¡± Level up X50. All stats +50 Trait has been improved slightly. ¡°Wow, better than expected.¡± Shila reappears beside Hilda, kneeling down to look at her. ¡°You can thank the fact that you attracted over 100 wyverns, most of which were at least a couple hundred above your level.¡± ¡°Nice.¡± ¡°Also, doing this gave you enough points to buy another bomb.¡± ¡°Nice, but my survivor achievement is on cool down anyways.¡± ¡°Hilda, don''t you have bigger problems right now?¡± ¡°The injuries? Can''t you just send me into the territory?¡± ¡°No, I can''t, I don''t know how to phrase this, so I''ll use a game term.¡± ¡°What?¡± ¡°You can''t ¡®combat log¡¯ and right now you''re about to die, so you gotta wait a couple of minutes.¡± ¡°Ah¡­¡± ¡°Also, you''re naked.¡± Hilda looks down at herself, finding that her clothes are completely gone. ¡°Oh, I should have expected that.¡± Shila reappears from the system, having revived after dying as she hugs Hilda. ¡°Mom, are you okay?¡± ¡°Yea, but isn''t it weird?¡± ¡°What''s weird?¡± ¡°Hugging me naked.¡± ¡°So? What''s wrong with being naked?¡± ¡°Huh?¡± ¡°Hilda, Jamine''s clothes are a part of her body, she''s basically naked 24/7.¡± ¡°Oh. Jamine, don''t show yourself naked in front of others, okay?¡± ¡°I don''t get it, but I''ll listen to you!¡± ¡°Good girl.¡± Hilda sits up, buying new clothes and wearing them.¡± ¡°Hilda, why are your new clothes the exact same as the old ones?¡± ¡°They aren''t the same, they''re a lot more comfortable.¡± ¡°The appearance!¡± ¡°I like it.¡± ¡°Your sense of fashion sucks.¡± ¡°None of your business.x ¡°It is my business! My clothes are the same as yours! Thank god I can choose not to update my clothes or I''d be naked too!¡± ¡°Too bad.¡± ¡°I hate you sometimes.¡± ¡°Same.¡± No chpt Ok, my earlier chapters and current ones have spelling mistakes, and my earlier ones have no quotation marks so for today, I''ll fix those problems first. There may be some days where I''m unable to upload chapters simply because my school''s time table has changed, now I have longer school hours along with more extra curriculum activities. Regardless, I''ll still try to maintain the current chapters per week.If you find this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the infringement. Also, once I either reach the 300K words or 100 chapters on one of my fiction, gonna take a small break, just think of it as motivation for myself. Chapter 45. House preparations? A week later, Hilda is forced to stop this method of leveling up thanks to the guide fixing it, preventing users below a certain floor from buying weapons too powerful. ¡°Finally that''s over, though it''s such a waste.¡± Hilda looks in her inventory which has basically become her own personal wardrobe with over 20 sets of clothes inside. ¡°Yea, though, when did you get used to us seeing you naked?¡± ¡°Last time when my clothes got damaged, I thought about it and decided I didn''t care.¡± ¡°Huh?¡± ¡°Yea, I just didn''t find it important anyways. Besides, at least now Jamine knows she can hug me without giving a damn about my clothes.¡± ¡°Nice?¡± ¡°Yep.¡± ¡°Mom, are you talking about me?¡± Jamine appears, yawning and stretching having been napping in the system. ¡°No, not really, aren''t you still tired?¡± ¡°Nope!¡± ¡°Wow, you don''t care if I''m tired but care about her?¡± ¡°Yea.¡± ¡°Discrimination!¡± ¡°Boohoo, cry about it.¡± ¡°...¡± ¡°Can''t we go to the 24th floor yet?¡± ¡°Sure, but shouldn''t you at least wait for your survivor achievement¡¯s cooldown?¡± ¡°I suppose, let''s take a break then.¡± ¡°Yea, what about the territory?¡± ¡°Huh? I don''t feel like it.¡± ¡°You said you would ¡®eventually.¡± ¡°Yea, ¡®eventually¡¯, so please wait till I''m about to age to death.¡± ¡°You''re a filthy liar.¡± ¡°I know and besides, I didn''t promise anything.¡± ¡°I guess so.¡± ¡°Jamine, what about you, anything you wanna do?¡± ¡°...¡± ¡°Jamie?¡± Hilda looks down at Jamine who is hugging her leg, making sure her acidity is reduced so Hilda doesn''t get hurt but melting through the bottom parts of her pants and sleeping. ¡°oh.¡± ¡°Hilda, so, the terr¡ª¡± ¡°No, we already have a house in the territory don''t we?¡± ¡°Yea?¡± ¡°How about building one? On the tenth floor?¡± ¡°Oh, that sounds nice!¡± ¡°Yep.¡± Hilda nudges Jamine awake. ¡°Mom?¡± ¡°I knew it, you were still tired just now.¡± ¡°I wasn''t!¡± ¡°You were.¡± ¡°Not!¡± ¡°Bad girl.¡± ¡°Hmph!¡± ¡°Jamine, wanna build a house with me and Shila?¡± ¡°House with mom? Yes! Fun!¡± ¡°Alright, but remember, no more arguing back¡± ¡°But Hilda¡­ you have no experience in any form of architecture, do you?¡± ¡°Nope, none at all!¡± ¡°Well, this''ll be interesting.¡± ¡°Mom? What kind of house are we building?¡± ¡°A big, expensive, unique house. One with a great view, every form of necessity with the most important factor being that it''s a flying fortress and weapon, dimly lit, comfortable.¡±This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road. If you spot it on Amazon, please report it. ¡°Hilda, you currently have 600K points since almost every time you blew up you also gained some extra.¡± ¡°Nice.¡± ¡°Mom, where are we going to build it?¡± ¡°Somewhere isolated, somewhere safe.¡± ¡°Sure!¡± ¡°Hilda, nearly no location on the tenth floor exists like that.¡± ¡°I expected it. Hence why we''ll make it.¡± ¡°How?¡± ¡°We need points, I''ll increase my mental magic and combine it with light magic to make an extreme illusion.¡± ¡°The best method would be to go on a slaughter.¡± ¡°Ha, simple enough, let''s kill everybody.¡± ¡°The guide said not to.¡± ¡°No, he said not to blow it up, but if I slaughter them it would be fair play, no?¡± ¡°I¡­ suppose not?¡± Jamine and Shila both look at Hilda who is looking over the town with enthusiasm along with a small bit of fanaticism. ¡°Fuck, I forgot.¡± ¡°Fuck?¡± ¡°Jamine, don''t say that.¡± ¡°What did sis forget?¡± ¡°One of your mom¡¯s goals in life has always been to afford a big, amazing house, second to none for her sis.¡± ¡°For aunt?¡± ¡°Yea.¡± ¡°Shila, Jamine, enough gossiping, leach everybody in the city.¡± ¡°But it won''t do much to them though?¡± ¡°It''ll provide me enough mana to slaughter them all.¡± ¡°Fine.¡± Jamine and Hilda start leeching with most of the civilians not noticing anything while some of the stronger ones notice it but ignore. ¡°Nice, Shila, make as many undead as possible.¡± ¡°Sure.¡± ¡°Jamine, clone as many of yourself.¡± ¡°Ok mom!¡± Hilda sends a huge wave of sword qi and mana, consisting of half her total sword with and mana in one swing, going though many houses and killing many people at the same time. Hilda checks her points, watching with disappointment at how less it increased. ¡°I did all this only for 100,000 points?¡± ¡°Hilda, just stop it and go, there are still many sources of points around.¡± ¡°Sure.¡± Eventually, Shila makes around 30 of herself, having gotten strong enough to do so with Hilda reaching level 225 so far, an army of undead following behind, consisting of hundreds. As they keep killing more of the civilians, some stronger people eventually appear. ¡°Halt this at once, this is illegal under the law of arc¡ª¡± Hilda sends a wave of mana, having recovered enough due to the leach, killing the guard who was attempting to stop her but not hurting any of the stronger ones at all. ¡°Wow, I guess I should''ve expected that it wouldn''t have been so easy huh?¡± ¡°Shila, Jamine, send everybody you got at them.¡± ¡°Didn''t think I would be fighting such a big fight today.¡± Shila''s Nd Ajmine both send their undead and clones, not being able to overwhelm the guards but easily being able to wear at their stamina. ¡°Pathetic, they''ve had so long but are so, so weak.¡± ¡°Hilda, be careful.¡± ¡°Don''t worry, I know.¡± Hilda uses her sixth sense skill, easily dodging an attack from above as the leader of the guards appears, attempting to finish Hilda off in a single blow. ¡°You! You dare to do this? This place is under the guide''s protection!¡± ¡°It is?¡± ¡°Indeed, so surrender imm¡ª¡± ¡°So what? I don''t care about that guy.¡± ¡°Even if you''re invited by him, this is not allowed.¡± The leader of the guards runs at Hilda with great speed, intending to cut her down in a single bow as she teleports out of the way in time with her sixth sense skill. This continues as Hilda keeps mocking him. ¡°Do you lack manners? Didn''t your father and mother teach you any?!¡± ¡°Wow, you really know how to poke at old scars do you? Too bad, only my sister matters.¡± ¡°With manners like yours, I wouldn''t expect anything more than your sister.¡± ¡°...¡± Hilda teleports in front of him, using the rest of her sword with and most of her mana to cut him in half despite his level being much higher than hers. ¡°Wow, looks like skills do matter quite a bit huh? Should''ve kept your mouth shut.¡± Hilda looks up, finding most of the other guards dead with that attack too. She uses mental attack on everybody else remaining, including civilians as she uses conversion magic afterwards to cause the civilians heads to blow up and the guards to die from blood loss slowly. ¡°Shila, Jamine, kill anybody left alive.¡± ¡°Hilda.¡± ¡°Yea?¡± ¡°Problem, the dwarf and elf we saw before are killing the undead.¡± ¡°I guess that that is a problem. ¡°Where are they?¡± ¡°Behind us, about to reach.¡± They turn back as the elf and dwarf appear in sight. ¡°Level 800 plus huh? Guess they''re strong enough to kill one of the guide''s weakest clones. Time to see if I can match that.¡± ¡°As the undead and clones all run at them, they attack faster than Hilda could even see, killing them all. ¡°I guess I should''ve known.¡± ¡°Hilda, I highly, highly doubt that we can win.¡± ¡°No worries.¡± Hilda takes out a bomb from her inventory. ¡°This is the last one, remember? I had intended to use it for an emergency, but regardless, I refuse to believe they can come out unscathed from this.¡± Hilda opens up her shop, finding over a million points. ¡°Nice, guess I really shouldn''t die huh?¡± ¡°Hilda, I''ve got a slight idea.¡± ¡°Yes?¡± ¡°How about bringing the territory here?¡± ¡°What?¡± ¡°We can temporarily change the environment to our territory, letting our units attack too.¡± ¡°Can they even help?¡± ¡°Of course, there''s over 500 now, each has a weapon costing over 1,000 points minimally, so they are worth 500,000 points.¡± ¡°When did you manage to do that?¡± ¡°Hard work?¡± ¡°Good job, I''ll treat you better in the future.¡± ¡°So how do I do this?¡± ¡°An anchor.¡± ¡°What?¡± ¡°Either use me or your sword, as long as it''s connected to your soul or system it should work.¡± ¡°Easy enough.¡± Hilda stabs her sword into the ground, the environment changing from the stony path into a bright lush green coloured grass, her territory right behind with all the villages on the wall which Shila fixed at some point of time. ¡°3, 2, 1¡­¡± Shila prepares them. ¡°Shoot!¡± As they all fire at the same time, most get deflated off their bodies with one managing to scrape them. ¡°Huh? Oh it''s probably that guy, Jacob I believe.¡± ¡°Yep.¡± Shila commutes to Hilda through her mind due to not being able to shout over the guns firing. Once they get close enough to communicate, the dwarf speaks up. ¡°You there, you were not this strong when we first met you, I assume the guide''s suspicious system is free for your usage?¡± ¡°And you, you two seem to no longer be arguing huh?¡± Hilda replies back. ¡°This is a human village, how about coming to an agreement? A truce?¡± ¡°Why should I?¡± ¡°Simple.¡± The elf fires a shot from her now, flying past Hilda, causing a massive hole in her territory like a railgun shot though. ¡°Hilda, those are no way in hell level 800s.¡± Shila communicates in secret with Hilda. ¡°And besides, we would like to get acquainted with you and on your good side. The elf starts speaking instead of the dwarf this time. ¡°What level are you two?¡± ¡°2000.¡± ¡°What?¡± ¡°Hilda, those two are strong enough to survive on the 60th floor, they are probably the rulers or the helpers of the rulers of their kingdoms.¡± ¡°seriously?¡± ¡°Yep.¡± Hilda stares at them before signaling Shila to close the territory up before walking away with Jamine absorbing all her clients back into her body and Shila getting all the undead to leave them alone. ¡°Wait.¡± The elf says. ¡°What is it?¡± ¡°Here.¡± She throws a bag to Hilda. ¡°A present?¡± ¡°Think of it as having high hopes for a friendly relationship, my name is Ayla while the grumpy guy here is named Dhorkic.¡± ¡°Sure, very well.¡± Chapter 46. Deforestation. Hilda watches as the two leave, sighing with Shila as they do so. ¡°Hilda, you could have died if they didn''t see any interest in working with you.¡± ¡°I know!¡± ¡°Anyways, where do we build this?¡± ¡°Somewhere isolated, with a big enough place right?¡± Shila confirms with Hilda. ¡°Nope, just somewhere big enough since I want a flying house!¡± ¡°... K.¡± ¡°Mom, where is big enough?¡± Hilda looks around at the ruins of the village, swinging her sword with more sword qi and mana, flattening out the rest of the area. ¡°... Hilda, all this for a house is messed up.¡± ¡°You don''t seem to disagree.¡± ¡°Of course not, I''m connected to you, my personality is made so it won''t be too much of a deterrent to you, so I''m not too morally upright either, and obviously Jasmine isn''t either since you both have the same sub trait.¡± ¡°Hey Shila, what''s your sub trait?¡± ¡°Didn''t I tell you before?¡± ¡°Nope.¡± ¡°No¡­ I swear I did.¡± ¡°Nope.¡± ¡°Whatever¡­ anyways, my subtrait changed.¡± ¡°It can change?¡± ¡°Yep, but only under certain circumstances.¡± ¡°Like?¡± Shila looks around at the recently committed massacre. ¡°Oh.¡± ¡°Anyways, it''s partial apathy now.¡± ¡°You weren''t as apathetic before?¡± ¡°Yea, though it was on the verge anyways. Though I doubt it''ll change again ever since the subtrait will just keep on fusing into me, making it harder to change the longer I have it.¡± ¡°Oh¡± ¡°Mom! Stop talking to sis! Let''s go make house!¡± ¡°Alright, alright Jamine, calm down.¡± Hilda pets Jamine on her head, calming her down slightly as she remembers the gift provided by the elf and dwarf. ¡°What''s this?¡± Hilda takes out the pouch, opening it to find gold coins which disappoint her before Shila sighs, showing her the coin''s description. Gold coin.Stolen content alert: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences. Worth 1,000,000 shop points each. ¡°How generous huh?¡± Hilda starts smiling like crazy, annoying Shila and confusing Jamine. ¡°Mom? Are you okay?¡± ¡°Yep, we have more than enough for a house now.¡± ¡°Yay!¡± Points: 23,526,927. ¡°Hey Shila, can''t we build the blueprint?¡± ¡°Nope, you still need the skills needed which cost a lot. You still need the maintenance tools.¡± ¡°How much are those?¡± ¡°Oh, nothing much. Just like 100,000,000ish.¡± ¡°...¡± ¡°Then how do I make my house float?¡± ¡°Oh, simple. You go to the shop instead of asking me.¡± ¡°Fine.¡± Hilda opens up the shop, finding multiple usable objects. Floating platform. Gets stronger the more mana is infused into it, the owner and any connected or allowed entities can mold the shape like clay. Resistance to acidity scales with the amount of mana infused. Can self repair at a certain rate. Increases with the amount of mana infused. Weight can be changed by infusing minimum amounts of mana. Mana cannon. Strength increases based on the amount of mana infused. Durability increases based on mana infused. Resistance of acidity scales with the amount of mana infused. Can self repair at a certain rate. Increases with the amount of mana infused. ¡°This should suffice for now.¡± Hilda immediately spends more than half her points on the floating platform. ¡°haha, this is gonna be nice.¡± ¡°Guys, make a floor out!¡± As they start molding, they end up with a figure similar to an upside down pyramid. ¡°Guys¡­ what?¡± ¡°Hey Hilda, this is so your house can balance properly if you intend to land it.¡± ¡°Mom, it looks nice!¡± ¡°...¡± Hilda sighs, jumping on top of the platform, continuing to mold with Shila and Jamine joining in. ¡°So¡­ Hilda, what''s the plan?¡± ¡°Anything, improvise.¡± ¡°Sure.¡± They keep molding, making many changes and arguing non stop with June just playing with it like it''s playdoh as they eventually end up with a castle midair, the originally white coloured cannons and floating platforms turning black permanent under Hilda''s trail. ¡°Damn, the fact the trail is connected to my soul is annoying.¡± ¡°Too bad.¡± After a couple more hours later, the house is completed. An upside down triangle, a giant castle on top of it with a bunch of cannons sticking out from the bottom of the triangle, all connected to Hilda, ready to shoot on her command. ¡°Let''s try it out?¡± ¡°Yay! Mom is great!¡± ¡°Jamine, calm down we helped too, along with the massacre, of course she should.¡± ¡°Oh, is that true? How about I leave you here Shila? Shila shakes her head, making a zipping motion on her mouth as she jumps onto the platform with Jamine following after, the ground beneath her slowly melting but repairing fast enough to negate it mostly. ¡°So what''s to go first?¡± ¡°Me!¡± They both answer at the same time. ¡°Aren''t you two a bit too enthusiastic? ¡°Hilda! Who doesn''t wanna fly a flying castle with cannons!¡± ¡°Yea mom!¡± ¡°Just take turns?¡± ¡°Fine, Jamine can go first.¡± ¡°Yay! Thanks sis!¡± Jamine hugs Shila, causing her to get annoyed by the slow melting caused by her. ¡°Mom, how do I fly it?¡± ¡°Just think, you''re connected to me so it''ll probably work.¡± ¡°Ok!¡± Jamine starts trying it, successfully lifting it into the air as she starts shooting the cannons, annoying Hilda with the unnecessary amount of mana waste. ¡°Then what do we shoot?¡± ¡°... Forest.¡± ¡°Ok!¡± Jamine starts a new form of deforestation, sending the forest where the golems resided to hell. A while later, Jamine stops, watching as the ground below her has been reduced to nothing as she lets Shila start instead. ¡°Hilda, what do I blow up?¡± ¡°Your choice¡± ¡°Hmm¡­ can you buy a mint or something like that?¡± ¡°Sure?¡± Hilda buys something called a speaking platform which increases volume of voice as Shila suddenly starts sending the platform full force into a direction, stopping in front of a cave as she steps onto the speaking platform. ¡°This is revenge! Revenge for talking back and pissing me off!¡± ¡°Huh? What is Shila on about?¡± Hilda looks down, using mana around her eyes as she notices white with his system inside. ¡°Oh¡­¡± Shila starts blowing up the cave, not being able to kill white at all but hurting him and trapping him temporarily and causing a cave in. ¡°Yea good job! Blow his ass up!¡± ¡°Mom? Ass?¡± ¡°Nothing Jamine, don''t say that.¡± ¡°Ok?¡± Jamine goes to the side and watches, remembering something her mom said while blowing up with wyverns. ¡°Fuck em up!¡± Hilda and Shila both turn to her then to each other. ¡°Hilda, this is your fault, don''t even try to blame it on me.¡± ¡°...¡± ¡°Jamine, bad girl. I told you not to say that.¡± ¡°But you said it!¡± ¡°You can''t.¡± ¡°That''s not fair!¡± ¡°Bad girl.¡± ¡°Mom is mean!¡± ¡°I''m not! No saying that or no more food box for you both!¡± ¡°What?! Hilda, why am I affected too?!¡± ¡°Cus I feel like it.¡± ¡°...¡± Shila goes back to blowing white¡¯s area up, leaving Hilda with enough mana to fly them back to the ruins of the city where she buys a massive bed for them to all go to sleep. No chapter. No, I''m not going on another week''s break, just 1 day so I can try to think of what to write. I''m kinda temporarily out of ideas... Actually, no, I just have no clue how to continue it short term, Ive got somewhat of a long term plan though but I don''t want to rush the story too quickly so I''ll spend today trying to figure out any short term goals for the time being. Also here''s a question.The author''s content has been appropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. Should I add a discord invite? I don''t even have a bot to help with the server, nor will there be anything except for a general location for people to talk. I''ll also be basically inactive but should I still make one for now? Chapter 47. Fake. A while later, they wake up to the place shaking. ¡°Ugh¡­ Shila, what''s going on?¡± ¡°Who do you want me to ask if you ask me?¡± ¡°Mom!¡± ¡°Oh Jamine¡­ what''s going on?¡± ¡°Oh, place falling!¡± ¡°What?! Oh oh¡­ I forgot to land it¡­¡± Hilda tries to use her mana only to find basically nothing left ¡°Fff¡ª¡± The place lands, sending Jamine into a splat on the ceiling, Hilda and Shila both init the ceiling too before landing down as Jamine''s remains fall back down, regenerating back into her. ¡°Mom! I don''t like being splat!¡± ¡°... Makes sense.¡± They throw away the bed that''s also got destroyed. ¡°Waste of points.¡± ¡°Hilda, your fault.¡± ¡°I know!¡± ¡°Screw it, how about furnishing the place?¡± ¡°No, not till we make sure this never happens again. Also, I have a better idea.¡± ¡°Which is¡­?¡± ¡°Floor 24¡± ¡°... Right. Fine, I guess your level works well enough now.¡± ¡°Mom, next level?¡± ¡°Yep!¡± ¡°Shila, let''s go!¡± ¡°But you might be slightly pissed off at this floor.¡± ¡°Huh?¡± Without warning, Shila sends them to the 24th floor. Notification. Locate and kill the fake in your memories. ¡°By the way Hilda, the next few floors are like this.¡± ¡°Hm? What do you¡­¡± Suddenly, a loud slam can be heard as Hilda looks over, finding herself in her old school. ¡°Fuck.¡± ¡°Miss Hilda, would you mind paying attention and not using that type of language in my class?¡± the teacher says sternly. Hilda stays silent for a moment before sighting, deciding not to argue back and to quickly finish this floor, standing up quickly. ¡°Sorry teacher¡­¡±Unauthorized duplication: this tale has been taken without consent. Report sightings. ¡°Good, now sit back down and pay attention this time.¡± Hilda sits down, noticing Jamine and Shila beside her. ¡°God, this is gonna be a pain.¡± Hilda whispers to herself but the teacher stares in her direction again. ¡°You got something to say, Miss Hilda?¡± The teacher sounds more irritated this time. ¡°Nope.¡± ¡°Good, another warning and you''ll stand at the back of the class.¡± ¡°Ok teacher.¡± Hilda sits down, deciding to keep quiet this time. ¡°Hey Hilda, she can''t see us by the way.¡± ¡°I know!¡± She writes down on a piece of paper. ¡°Mom looks pretty in school uniform!¡± ¡°Shut it¡­¡± ¡°Yea Jamine, your mom looks like shit in everything.¡± Hilda pokes Shila with a pen. ¡°Ouch!¡± ¡°Yea! Sis deserves that!¡± ¡°I didn''t!¡± Hilda sighs, ignoring their arguing. ¡°Hey, so I have to have a doppelganger in this memory right?¡± ¡°Yep.¡± ¡°And kill them!¡± Jamine demands, sounding angry and annoyed. ¡°Why are you mad?¡± ¡°Because mom is my mom!¡± ¡°Yea, but why are you mad?¡± ¡°If there is another me, won''t mom not like me any more?¡± ¡°Not true.¡± Hilda pets Jamine on the head, catching the teacher''s attention as it looks like she''s petting nothing at all. ¡°Miss Hilda! Get to the back of the class!¡± Shila snickers, annoying Hilda as she does so. Once she heads to the back, she hears another person laughing softly annoying her as she looks in their direction. ¡°What the fuck.¡± Hilda sees her sister, in her younger form around 13 years old she to this memory being when she was 15. ¡°What the actual fuck. This floor cloned Lela?¡± Hilda clenches her fist by her side angrily, as Shila try to calm her down. ¡°Hilda, calm down. You''re gonna need to redo it if you fail, you know?!¡± ¡°Nope, it simply said to kill.¡± ¡°Miss Hild¡ª¡± Hilda cuts off the teachers head, causing everybody to freeze up for a moment before they start running. Hilda cuts off their heads with another swing, leaving only Lela alive. ¡°Is Lela the doppelganger?¡± ¡°... You already fucked this place up anyways, she''s the only survivor left so yea.¡± Hilda walks up to ¡®Lela¡¯ who tried to run but Holds cuts her legs off, causing them to turn into goo as Jamie kneels down, poking her finger into it and tasting it before starting to eat it. ¡°Jamie, what the hell?¡± ¡°Tasty?¡± ¡°Really? Then eat it all, including this goddamn fake.¡± ¡°Yay!¡± Jamie walks up to the fake Lela, who is trying to crawl away to escape before dissolving most of her body by using cloning without actually making clones, doubling her body size and doing it multiple times till she was big enough to dissolve half of the fake Lela, causing her to cry out in pain. ¡°I thought doppelgangers can''t feel pain?¡± ¡°They can''t usually, your dear old daughter here made it so her acidity would make the doppelganger feel pain, probably out of possessiveness for you.¡± ¡°Proud of you Jamie!¡± ¡°Yay!¡± Jamine finishes the doppelganger off, muffling her screams with her own now ginormous body, wrapping it around the other doppelganger, using her much higher acidity and regeneration to dissolve the other doppelganger. ¡°Shila, next floor.¡± ¡°Fine, but no cheating this time, it probably won''t work anyways since the requirements won''t be to kill.¡± ¡°Damn.¡± Shila sends Hilda to the floor 25 where she finds herself at home, sitting at the dining table with Lela, her mom in the bedroom with another man. A cheap dirty and dusty looking urn sitting beside the TV, its presence almost unnoticeable. Notification. Fine and trap/incapacitate the doppelganger with minimum force. ¡°Does this goddamn system only choose bad memories?¡± ¡°Yep, I have no clue who it is, but it''s probably not gonna be Lela again.¡± ¡°good.¡± Hilda gets up, walking over to Lela and sitting beside her as Lela lies down on her lap automatically, looking up at her. ¡°Hi sis.¡± ¡°...¡± ¡°Hey Shila, Jamine, I feel conflicted about this. Am I cheating on my sister?¡± Hilda thinks, letting Shila read at her, voicing it out to Jamine. ¡°Hilda, there''s something seriously wrong with you.¡± ¡°I know.¡± ¡°Huh? Know what?¡± Lela asks, making Hilda realise she said it out loud. ¡°Nothing.¡± Hilda pets Lela''s head, with her falling asleep oddly quickly. ¡°Oh yea, she hasn''t slept for like 2 days since the couch is uncomfortable as hell and our room isn''t sound proof either.¡± ¡°Shila, is there a time limit?¡± ¡°No.¡± ¡°Ok, then even if this is a fake Lela, I''ll take care of her till she''s deep asleep. ¡°...¡± Jamine and Shila keeps pestering Hilda to finish the floor up with Hilda ignoring them, pissing off Jamine. ¡°Mom is mean! Mom''s gonna replace Jamine!¡± ¡°Why are you talking about yourself in third person? And no, I''m not replacing you okay? It''s just the current aunty of yours is having a bad time.¡± ¡°Aunt? This is aunt?¡± ¡°Yea, come see.¡± Jamine quickly runs to Hilda, trying to push Lela off her lap but failing and falling through due to not being able to interfere except for killing. ¡°Hmph!¡± Jamine looks at Lela then Hilda and back to Lela. ¡°Both look same!¡± ¡°Yea, we''re sisters so it''s normal though?¡± ¡°But what is she''s a me!¡± ¡°A you? You mean another doppelganger¡± ¡°Yea! A doppelganger whatever that is!¡± ¡°Don''t worry, she isn''t, if she is, she''ll just die a really painful death.¡± ¡°I wanna do it!¡± ¡°Fine, but later after we confirm.¡± ¡°Ok!¡± Chapter 48. Coup. Hilda waits for ¡®Lela¡¯ to sleep before walking up to her mother''s room, waiting outside the door, listening to make sure of the lack of any potential ¡®sounds¡¯ before using mental magic as strong as she can. ¡°Hilda, did you potentially forget that we have to minimize the damage to the doppelganger?¡± ¡°Nope, but they''re not taking damage are they?¡± ¡°Physically not but¡­¡± ¡°Good, that means I have screwed the conditions right?¡± ¡°Well.¡± ¡°See? All''s fine.¡± ¡°...¡± ¡°Hilda, are you a masochist or is it just those two in particular you enjoy hearing in pain?¡± ¡°Both?¡± ¡°Well, at least you''re honest about it.¡± ¡°Honestly is the best poli¡ª¡± ¡°Oh, shut the fuck up and go in already. You only focus on those sayings and quotes when it benefits you.¡± ¡°Truth hurts?¡± ¡°Shut the¡­ screw it¡­ just go in.¡± ¡°Sure.¡± Hilda steps on her face despite the two nearly naked people in front of her, both fainted with one being her mother and another being¡­ god knows who? ¡°Mom, can I?¡± ¡°Just a¡­ finger from each. Shila, that works¡­ right?¡± ¡°Well, I suppose that damage is minimal enough.¡± ¡°Shila, I choose you!¡± ¡°What?¡± ¡°Oh yea, wrong person. Jamine, I choose you!¡± ¡°Mom, why did you confuse me with sis?¡± ¡°Look similar.¡± ¡°No no no Hilda. There''s officially three people who look like you so you''re getting confused.¡± ¡°... A year ago, I did not expect to have 3. 3! Little mes. And you know that''s bad since you don''t usually hear the word ¡®me¡¯ with an ¡®s¡¯ at the back.¡± ¡°Mom! I knew you would replace me!¡± Jamine runs off crying. ¡°Oh come on! You''re just acting dramatic to get what you want¡­¡± Hilda watches speechless as Jamine keeps running away, leaving massive holes in the ground as she doesn''t bother to reduce her acidity before turning to Shila. ¡°So¡­ either you deal with the two idiots here or¡­¡±Love what you''re reading? Discover and support the author on the platform they originally published on. Hilda points in the direction Jamine ran off along with her mother and the guy on the ground as Shila quickly runs off to Jamine. ¡°... Well, I can''t blame her, I don''t really want to deal with this either.¡± Hilda uses mental magic on their fingers, using conversion magic next, intending to blow up a random finger of theirs. Splat! ¡°Oops¡­¡± Hilda looks down at their hands or lack thereof. ¡°I¡­ should control the amount of mental damage a bit huh?¡± Hilda goes to their limp bodies, checking their wrist and finding blood, only blood. A complete lack of any of the same slimy substance. ¡°Fuck.¡± Hilda teleports downstairs, finding a blue but not slimy lela there. ¡°Shila, get up?¡± She slowly turns over, smiling nervously. ¡°So¡­ the condition is not to kill the doppelganger. Okay?¡± ¡°Where¡± Hilda asks, forcing a smile on her face, looking over at the window as Shila points towards it, finding Lela running away. ¡°Thought you say it wouldn''t be her twice in a row?¡± ¡°No. I said it probably wouldn''t.¡± Hilda sighs, teleporting in front of ¡®Lela¡¯, making her stumble backwards and falling. ¡°So¡­ was it fun?¡± Hilda watches as the ¡®Lela¡¯ quickly shakes her head. ¡°So¡­ I''m just told to capture you or something. Okay?¡± ¡®Lela¡¯ tries to run, making Hilda sigh as she uses a mental attack on her leg, making her fall down immediately in pain. ¡°What bad luck huh? To be with this appearance. Hey, please tell me why you chose this.¡± Hilda watches as the ¡®Lela¡¯ starts shaking her head again. ¡°Hey! Start talking at least, even if it''s just to say no.¡± ¡®Lela¡¯ starts shaking her head again. ¡°Hey! Either you start talking or you turn into a snack for Lela!¡± ¡°Fine! That shitty boss made me!¡± ¡°Boss? The guide?¡± ¡°Does it matter what you call him?! How about a truce huh? Just let me go okay?¡± ¡°Why should I? Also, turn back into your original form. Whatever that is.¡± The doppelganger starts turning into a blue little slime, smaller than Hilda''s head. ¡°Uh¡­ can you still talk?¡± ¡°Yea?¡± ¡°Good. You prefer pain or death?¡± ¡°Neither? But pain would be better.¡± ¡°good, you can regenerate right?¡± ¡°A bit¡­ why?¡± The doppelganger starts sounding slightly nervous as Hilda forces a smile. ¡°Good¡­ so¡­ don''t mind me, okay?¡± ¡°Huh?¡± Hilda rips off a piece of its body, with no reaction from it. ¡°Oh yea, lucky you. Forgot you guys have no reaction to pain unless it''s from magic right?¡± ¡°Yea?¡± ¡°Good.¡± Hilda picks the doppelganger up, holding it up in her fist as she teleports back to the home, throwing it the Jamine, confusing her and scaring the doppelganger as it tries to struggle out to no avail. ¡°New food source, now stop acting dramatic. You can feel what I feel, so¡­ I can feel partially what you feel too. Shila taught you that didn''t she?¡± ¡°Maybe???¡± ¡°Bad girl.¡± ¡°:(¡° ¡°...¡± ¡°Mom, can I eat?¡± ¡°Not the whole thing, just bite a couple pieces off of it.¡± ¡°What! Wait! If she bites directly, the acidity will hurt!¡± ¡°Oh yea, other doppelgangers can hurt each other. Well Jamine, do what you want with me.¡± Jamine looks at the doppelganger, ripping off a small piece of it before eating it happily. ¡°Why are you suddenly acting kind?¡± ¡°She''s acting kind because she knows that my healing will be slowed if she bites directly due to the increased acidity in her mouth due to subconsciously increasing it!¡± ¡°Oh.¡± ¡°What''s your name?¡± ¡°Can''t you just call me Le¡ª¡± Hilda glares at it. ¡°... How about¡ª¡± ¡°Snackie.¡± ¡°What?¡± ¡°That''s what I''m calling you from now, you''re officially female if you didn''t consider yourself female before.¡± ¡°Why?¡± ¡°Because there''s 2 little mes who are female. A third seems to fit in nicely.¡± ¡°... Sure.¡± ¡°Hey Shila, what''s the requirement for clearing this level?¡± ¡°You already did. Just letting you vent your anger just now since I didn''t want to have to deal with it.¡± ¡°Makes sense¡­ I guess? Just send me already.¡± ¡°Sure.¡± Shila sends them to the 10th floor where she ends up back in the ruins of the city with the name that she forgot. ¡°Oh yea, a beautiful place.¡± ¡°You call anywhere that''s quiet and not scary beautiful.¡± ¡°Hilda grabs Snackie from Jamine, causing Jamine to get annoyed as Hilda bites Snackie, annoying Jamine further. ¡°Sis! Mom is stealing my snack!¡± ¡°I''m not, just testing what you like so much about this thing.¡± ¡°I''m not a thing!¡± ¡°You¡¯re what I saw you are so shut it.¡± ¡°...¡± ¡°Jamine. Isn''t your mom mean?¡± ¡°Yea! Mom is mean!¡± ¡°What the hell¡­¡± Hilda passes Snackie back to Jamine as she snatches it back, annoyed at Hilda. ¡°Hmph!¡± ¡°Seriously? I already returned it!¡± ¡°Hmph!¡± ¡°Fine, don''t talk to me.¡± ¡°Jamine, let''s attack your mom as revenge.¡± ¡°Yea!¡± ¡°What the hell is this? A coup?¡± ¡°Yea! ¡°Yea!¡± Jamine repeats after Jamine, not knowing what she even agreed with. ¡°Brats.¡± ¡°...¡± ¡°...¡± They both teleport into the system, irritated, leaving snackie behind as she can''t go in with them. ¡°Annoying¡­¡± Chapter 49. Hildas face. ¡°So¡­ what do I do now?¡± Hilda looks down at ¡®Snackie¡¯. ¡°How about you change what you call me?¡± ¡°... Ps?¡± ¡°Ps?¡± ¡°Portable snack.¡± ¡°Shut the hell up.¡± ¡°J.F¡± ¡°What''s that now?¡± ¡°Oh¡­ nothing, are you gonna take it or not?¡± ¡°I guess¡­¡± ¡°Jamine¡¯s food.¡± Hilda mutters under her breath as she wonders how to get Shila and Jamine back. ¡°What are you doing?¡± ¡°Looking for the other 2.¡± ¡°why don''t you just go to them?¡± ¡°Huh?¡± ¡°Yea, can''t you just go to them?¡± ¡°Not really. I''m human, in case you''re blind.¡± ¡°I still don''t see the problem?¡± ¡°Fine, tell me how you expect me to go into the system without entering the territory.¡± ¡°Just think of it.¡± ¡°Huh?¡± Hilda closes her eyes and tries to imagine herself at her own house with the environment similar to what it was like the last time the guide sent her in to find Shila. As she opens her eyes again, she finds herself in her home holding J.F in her hands. ¡°Oh wow.¡± Hilda walks around, finding Jamine and Shila on the couch sleeping as she grabs them both, imagining herself teleporting out and being successful as they both wake up, covering their eyes from the sun in annoyance. ¡°Hilda, kill yourself. Please.¡± ¡°Mom is mean!¡± Hilda passes J.F back to Jamine. ¡°She''s gonna be called J.F from now onwards.¡± Shila opens her mouth to ask but closes it again as she reads Hilda''s memories and tells Jamine what happened.The genuine version of this novel can be found on another site. Support the author by reading it there. ¡°Don''t run away again.¡± ¡°Would love to, but can''t anyways. There''s a notification.¡± ¡°Which is what?¡± ¡°Read it yourself.¡± Notification. Event. It has been officially half a year since you 10 have entered the tower. This event will be to test how well you have developed and how to improve upon the tower. Further details will be revealed soon. ¡°Lazy bastard couldn''t even be bothered to elaborate on the details this time. When does this thing start?¡± ¡°Go to the 1st floor.¡± ¡°Huh? Why?¡± ¡°You want to ask or you want to go?¡± ¡°...¡± Hilda manually sends herself to the 1st floor with the other 3 following behind ¡°Jamine, send her to the territory first.¡± ¡°Why?¡± ¡°Troublesome.¡± ¡°Fine¡­¡± Jamine tears a piece off of J.F before passing her to Shila who sends her to the territory before eating the piece she tore off. ¡°So¡­ what now?¡± ¡°Go to the center.¡± ¡°Where''s that?¡± ¡°Turn around.¡± Hilda turns around, seeing a beam of light from the sky far away as she sighs, quickly travelling towards it. She reaches within minutes, finding white there too but ignores him as Shila blurs hers and Jamiens face and appearance. ¡°Hey there bla¡ª¡± ¡°Shut it.¡± ¡°How unkind, do you not care for my feelings?¡± He says with a smirk on his face. ¡°Not at all, shut it.¡± ¡°Fine, fine, how unkind, I even got bombarded by you.¡± ¡°Shila, go make sure nobody tries to touch our house.¡± Hilda whispers softly. ¡°No need, I moved it into the territory.¡± ¡°You could do that? Nice. Wait, does that mean you could bring it out right now?¡± ¡°Yea?¡± ¡°Ok, insurance.¡± Hilda lies down on the grass, enjoying the feeling of the soft grass and the absence of ants which is near impossible on earth. A while later, the rest show up but she just ignores them, continuing to lie down with Shila and Jamine who joined her at some time. ¡°Hey, isn''t it about time to get up already?¡± White asks, kneeling down to look at Hilda causing her to shake her head. The guide suddenly appears, kicking Hilda, causing her to fly away, bringing Jamine and Shila, annoying Hilda but not injuring her. ¡°Rude greeting.¡± She thinks as the guide reads her mind. ¡°That''s for wiping a city off the tenth floor.¡± ¡°...¡± Hilda gets up, wiping the dirt off her clothes as Jamine and Shila follow after, both showing the guide a very kind finger. ¡°Ignoring what just happened, due to the absolute lack of users currently, you guys have near to no teamwork with others at all so this event will be tower defense okay? Are you guys okay with that? Nah, joking. You all don''t have a single choice, you''ll get sent anyways.¡± Hilda lies back down onto the ground, listening to the guide halfheartedly while scrolling through the shop and throwing a weak bomb at the guide with him just taking it, continuing to talk while ignoring her. He stops talking as he sees blue walk up to Hilda and kicks her with Hilda just ignoring it due to being over twice his level. ¡°Black, don''t you know that it''s bad manners to lie down on the floor when you''re with other people?¡± He says in a rude condescending tone. ¡°Hilda, you should probably refrain from killing him.¡± Shila says, teleporting into the system as blue tries to kick her too to get the to stand up. ¡°dont worry, I won''t do anything unless he tries to do something like step on me since I don''t really want my clothes to be dirty.¡± ¡°Sure.¡± Hilda keeps ignoring her sixth sense skill as it keeps activating before he kicks as she closes her eyes finally getting tired due to the sun. He gets more annoyed as Hilda keeps ignoring him. ¡°Get up already. And why are you hiding your face? Are you trying to act cool or mysterious?¡± He removes Hilda''s mask, with her finally sitting up, not caring if anybody sees her face. Ignoring the others, she uses mental attacks on blue as he keeps complaining about how someone Hilda''s age isn''t showing him respect, using conversion magic to blow his head up before taking her now blood stained mask from his corpse, lying back down as she puts it back on. ¡°... Hilda, I said not to kill him.¡± ¡°I said sure, but also said that if he went too far, I would kill him didn''t I?¡± ¡°... screw it, bastard guide''s just gonna revive him anyways.¡± ¡°Good, I''ll keep killing him nonstop.¡± ¡°You know that your face isn''t worth that much right?¡± ¡°So what? In 2 years, my sister will probably have the same appearance as I do right now.¡± ¡°You can''t know that for sure, you''re just hoping that''s true.¡± ¡°Whatever¡­¡± Chapter 50. Gem defense. The guide sends them to an arena, around the size of a soccer field if it were circular. The ground a weird hard black rock with small cracks in it with 3 entrances on each side big enough for a 10ft man to fit though, totaling up to 12. Each entrance with 2 oversized torches at the side along with a massive glowing purple gem in the middle. Hilda sits up, taking her time to look around as she notices Blue''s body on the ground, with the guide apparently not reviving him contrary to what Shila said. Hilda stands up as Shila shows her a notification, Jamine going beside Hilda to read it curiously. Notification. Wave(1/5) ¡°5 waves, seriously?¡± Hilda starts hearing foot steals coming out of every entrance at once, using mana to cover her eyes, enhancing her sight as she finds many Lizardmen running straight at towards the center. All of them start backing up against the gem in the center, preparing their weapons and abilities as they prepare to defend. Hilda sends a wave of sword qi at them as she moves closer to them, defending against 3 entrances by herself easily, slicing through them like butter. ¡°Damn, this is fun. Shila, Jamine, please remember to leach, I can''t be doing all the work can I? I also do need mana incase for later, yes?¡± ¡°Ok!¡± ¡°Fine.¡± Shila and Jamine both start using leech, causing some lizardmen to start dead easily. ¡°Wait, what the hell? Aren''t they too weak?¡± ¡°No Hilda, your level is just too high compared to theirs since you massacred a whole city and bombed the dragons or wyverns.¡± ¡°Oh¡­¡± A while later, she finally defeats them all, with herself still in perfect condition but some of the weaker ones a lot more worn out with slight injuries everywhere but people like orange, red, white, and her completely okay with everyone else mostly okay with a few small scratches and panting Notification. Wave(2/5) ¡°Already? Well, this''ll be fun.¡± Hilda looks around, expecting to hear footsteps again along with Shila but it doesn''t come. It remains silent. Hilda notices some weird notices and walks up to one of the doors after an extended period of time of nothing.Enjoying this book? Seek out the original to ensure the author gets credit. ¡°Hey Shila, can''t you just tell me what it is?¡± ¡°Nope.¡± Hilda sighs as she reaches one of the entrances, finding a seemingly infinitely long dark corridor, being too dark to see too far as she notices many slimes slowly bouncing out. ¡°What the hell¡­¡± Hilda starts stabbing them one by one as they keep slowly coming out. Half an hour later. The slimes have finally started coming out properly, over taking most of the users in strength due to being oddly bouncy and toughness which makes sharp and blunt objects bounce away unless the person uses enough strength. ¡°This is fun!¡± Hilda says with Jamine agreeing and Shila sighing as Hilda uses a mental attack on every nearby slime and conversion magic. Not needing to risk a recoil to do her level advantage. ¡°Why is this so easy for you¡­¡± Shila complains under her breath but Hilda hears it. ¡°What''s the problem? It''s better for you if I get stronger isn''t it?¡± ¡°Yeah, but it just feels like it''s unfair.¡± ¡°Not surprised.¡± ¡°Whatever, when''s the next wave gonna start?¡± Notification. Wave(3/5) ¡°Oh, what nice timing.¡± Hilda lies down, not being bothered to wait properly this time as she immediately hears footsteps. ¡°Oh, this is bullshit¡­¡± She stands up, and sees a group of 10 minotaurs exit each entrance, each being around level 190, not at Hilda''s level but their numbers make them a problem. ¡°Dammit.¡± Hilda rushes in, swinging a way of sword qi and mana, aiming to kill 3 in one go but only getting one as she finishes off the other two with her sword. She uses teleportation magic to avoid their attacks, finishing off all 10 from an entrance after a while of teleporting as she looks around at the other people, finding that most of them are forced into defending instead of attacking. Hilda starts interrupting, helping by using mental attacks on all of the minotaurs but not using conversion magic due to the more than possible potential recoil. As she does so, White and Red managing to finish off the ones from their entrances easily as Orange finishes next with Hilda helping with two unattended entrances, defeating those easily with White''s help. After a while, Orange and red helping the others while White and Hilda both go to the front and finish them off. After a while longer, they managed to defeat al the minotaurs with relatively minimal damage to them as they see another notification Notification. Wave (4/5) Everybody suddenly feels massive vibrations coming from one entrance followed by loud footsteps causing them to turn in that direction which is directly in front of Hilda. ¡°Ah, what a joy¡­ of course I''m the one who has to deal with this.¡± Hilda prepares to fight as a Minotaur comes out. This one being about 3 times Hilda''s height and being level 250 as she swings a weak wave of sword qi and mana at it just to test with, finding that it only succeeded in pissing it off without doing anything actual damage to it. ¡°Oops¡­?¡± The minotaur kicks Hilda with her dodging by teleportation. ¡°Hey¡­ big guy, would you mind to calm down?¡± The minotaur roars loudly, swinging faster at Hilda. ¡°Hey, I think I pissed it off.¡± ¡°Yea.¡± Hilda keeps teleporting out of the way as Jamine and Shila keep using leech on it, helping Hilda to reduce the rate of mana she''s losing. ¡°Really about to run out of mana here buddy¡­¡± Hilda teleports to the back of its neck, stabbing it as it cries in pain, shaking Hilda off as she pulls her sword off and continues attacking. ¡°Seriously? I stabbed the back of this guy''s neck and he seems mostly okay?¡± The minotaur suddenly roars in pain again as white starts spraying water at its injury with orange helping with her poison. Red and the rest are unable to help much despite trying. ¡°This is so bull! Why is it only me who gets targeted?!¡± ¡°Because.. you pissed it off first.¡± ¡°Yea mom!¡± Jamine, clone yourself and slow it down! ¡°Ok!¡± Jamine clones herself, hugging the minotaurs leg causing it to roar angrily. Kicking away Jamine''s clones and ignoring the slight amount of pain. ¡°Mom! The thing the level uh¡­ too big!¡± ¡°It''s called too high.¡± ¡°Oh yea, level too high!¡± ¡°You always become forgetful when you use clones.¡± ¡°I don''t! Just took hard to concentrate.¡± ¡°Fine, fine, just joking.¡± As Hilda keeps this up her mana consumption starts reducing till she starts gaining more than she loses after a whole hour. ¡°At this rate, we''ll be able to kill it!¡± Notification. Wave (5/5) ¡°What?¡± Hilda notices loud footsteps and freezes up as Shila shows her the scan results. Race:Hydra Bloodline:True dragon(20 percent) Level:500 Stats. (500 S) (500 E) (500 A) (500 M) "Two at once, and this thing..." "Fuu....." Chapter 51. Jamine. As Hilda gets distracted by the Hydra, she gets sent flying away by the minotaur before she pays attention back to it, using the rest of her sword qi and half her remaining mana to teleport and stab the back of its neck again, leaving it on the verge of death. ¡°Tanky piece of¡­¡± Shila suddenly starts panicking more. ¡°Hilda! Hurry and kill it before it evolves!¡± ¡°What? That''s a thing?!¡± Hilda rushes at it but is too late as it roars loudly, its body bursting into flames but not hurting it as its injuries heal up. White tries to use water to spray it, with most of his water evaporating before reaching. ¡°Shila, hurry and tell me the stats and all the information you have on that thing that I don''t already know.¡± ¡°Can''t, you''ll get a penalty!¡± ¡°I don''t care, I''ll die if I don''t have some other plan ready so just give it!¡± ¡°Fine, give me a moment!¡± A bunch of notifications start showing up, both new and old ones, consisting of level ups, achievements and warnings, suggesting trait usage, all of which Hilda ignores as the minotaurs notification appears. Flaming vengeful minotaur(evolved) Rare evolution of the minotaur. Its conditions are extreme anger towards a person along with needing more strength to fulfill a violent act. Will self-destruct if it''s required. Penalty. 20 less mana. ¡°Are you kidding¡­ I can''t even kill the minotaur before, now I''ve gotta deal with An evolved version and a hydra¡­¡± Hilda keeps trying to kill as while avoiding its hits barely, getting scraped by some stack as she suddenly gets sent away. She looks in the direction she was, finding the hydra''s tail being the thing that hit her. Hilda starts running at the hydra as the minotaur follows her into its tail. It struggles, trying to get her off but Hilda uses teleportation magic to stay on. ¡°Haha, at least one of us are gonna be collateral damage!¡± Hilda runs onto the hydra''s body as it struggles harder, the minotaur staying on barely, hugging the Hydra''s scaly body. Hilda jumps down, stabbing it in its neck by taking advantage of it being distracted as it tries to grab her while self-destructing. ¡°Sorry buddy, not happening.¡± Hilda teleports away, letting it blow up on the hydra''s neck, causing it to screech in pain before dropping to the ground. ¡°Weird sound for something that looks like a snake.¡± ¡°How the hell are you associating that with a snake?¡± ¡°Well, it''s the tail of one.¡± Hilda suddenly notices it start moving as it starts healing as she teleports to it, cutting off the part of the body where all of its heads are connected to. ¡°Easy!¡± Hilda does a peaceful sign while standing in front of the Hydra''s body.Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon. ¡°Hilda, how much do you trust movies?¡± ¡°Huh?¡± Hilda turns around, finding it grows another whole neck back along with an additional one, each with nine heads. ¡°What the fuck¡­ wasn''t it only if it was the heads?!¡± Hilda goes in to try again as all the heads open up, each filling up with a different type of magic, with each 2 heads having similar ones. ¡°Fuc¡ª¡± All the heads start using magic, shield, healing, fire, poison, water, ice, mental, holy, dark. Hilda quickly runs away, dodging without teleportation to conserve mana as she runs off to the others, quickly conjuring 9 shields to block most of her attacks. ¡°Shila, could you use the orb?!¡± ¡°No way, it''s too dangerous.¡± ¡°I know but¡ª¡± ¡°Mom? Mom!¡± Jamie runs to Hilda. Hilda suddenly gets sent flying as the hydra hits her with its tail, causing her shields to shatter all at once, teleporting away the others with spatula magic. ¡°Hilda, stop wasting mana on them!¡± ¡°Can''t¡­ I''m gonna need as much insurance as possible.¡± ¡°Shila, use the orb, but cancel it''s effects once my mana reaches full and reactivate it when I nearly run out of mana.¡± ¡°That''s still gonna strain your mana paths!¡± ¡°Either that or death, so just try it.¡± Shila reluctantly does so, causing Hilda to cough up blood before stopping immediately as Hilda mana maxes out. ¡°Round 2 you bastard if a snake.¡± Hilda uses her mana on her legs, jumping at the snake as she sends a massive wave of mana at it, using teleportation and shield to deal with its attacks. Hilda keeps sending more waves of mana, not caring about her mana usage as Shila uses the orb again, controlling it better this time but still causing Hilda to feel a massive jolt of pain as she grits her teeth, sending another massive wave of mana. Hilda notices as her the Hydra starts aiming for everybody behind as she creates a ridiculous amount of shields, her mana draining at ridiculous speeds as Shila keeps the orb switched on, not having a chance to turn it on. ¡°Hilda, the only reason you''re okay is due to your mana usage right now.¡± ¡°It says endless mana so it increases the amount I''m getting.¡± ¡°No.¡± ¡°Do it, just trust me. Increase it 2 fold.¡± Shila does so slowly, causing Hilda to start coughing blood again, worrying Jamine and Shila but Shila doesn''t slow it down as Hilda starts sending out waves worth her entire mana capacity nonstop, as the Hydra''s shields start to break down quickly, but healing back its injuries as it screeches in pain again. Hilda keeps it up, slowly forcing it into defence as she concentrates all her mana into her sword, no longer making shields as she sends out more waves of mana worth her entire capacity while using conversion and mental magic nonstop, compensating for the recoil with her seemingly never-ending amounts of mana. Hilda keeps it up, causing it to screech in pain as it falls down, Hilda''s own recoil and damage causing her to faint too as Jamine catches her before she falls. ¡°Don''t worry Jamie, she''ll be okay. We don''t need an elixir yet.¡± The rest of the people come running over. ¡°You two, why are you still hiding your faces? We already saw her face when blue removed her mask.¡± White speaks up first as Shila and Jamine ignore, trying to take care of Hilda. As Shila sighs, backing up with Jamine, a tail suddenly swings, hitting directly into Hilda, causing massive injuries to her already injured body. ¡°You bitch!¡± Shila''s body starts turning black due to being connected to Hilda''s soul partially, her stats and skills all copying Hilda''s as she looks like glitching out of reality due to forcing her stats and skills to copy Hilda''s. ¡°Jamine, if you don''t want her to die, I''ll do something to you. You''ll feel a lot of pain, you may go crazy, but yes or no?¡± ¡°Of course!¡± Shila turns to the rest of them. ¡°You useless pieces of shits, you better help hold that bastard off.¡± Shila runs at it, taking Hilda''s sword as she attacks the hydra which returns with physical attacks due to using the last of its mana to save itself. As Shila forces herself to hold it off, the rest send attacks to try to help but not succeeding much due to having high resistance to poison, water and mental magic and more. Shila runs out of mana eventually, placing a hand on Jamines back. ¡°We¡¯ll have to speed up the schedule. This might hurt, but remember it''s for your mom, also you may be affected forever, you okay with that?¡± ¡°Ok!¡± ¡°The chage is temporary. You''ll be able to do this by yourself in the future, but I''m forcing it to happen now.¡± Jamine glares at the hydra with determination as she suddenly feels a sudden massive amount of pain, gritting her teeth in pain as Shila gets forcefully sent back to the system. Jamie slowly turns into fully black, her body turning from slimy into gooish as it spreads out all around the stadium''s ground. It slowly starts spreading upwards, further than even the walls as it forms a dome, black goo dripping down onto the ground everywhere as many eyes and mouths appear all over the dome, each with their own mind and speaking as one last set of set of eyes and mouth appear at the very top, each set ginormous in size with the one directly above being the biggest set. All the mouths suddenly start speaking at once, surprising everyone. ¡°Who?¡± ¡°Me.¡± ¡°Me?¡± ¡°Us? ¡°Us?¡± ¡°Us!¡± ¡°Do? ¡°Do what?¡± ¡°What?¡± ¡°What¡­ protect!¡± ¡°Protect!¡± ¡°Mom 1, kill 2, gem 3.¡± ¡°Kill? ¡°Kill what?¡± ¡°Kill that?¡± Suddenly all the eye focuses on the hydra as spikes made from the black goo pierces the hydra, more spikes extending out of them as the hydra screeches in pain. The hydra tried to move again, barely alive as more spikes pierced it, killing it completely as the event ends. ¡°What the hell is going on?¡± White wipes a drop of goo off his arm as he covers them in a shield made of water. ¡°The guide suddenly appears, causing the eyes to all focus on him as they send spikes all at it. The spikes freeze as they nearly reach him, slowly gathering back into a small blob of goo and turning back into a small blob, Jamine''s original form as the guide sends her to the territory, looking at the dead hydra. ¡°Well, this was unexpected.¡± Chapter 52. Rebellion. Hilda wakes up later in his house, finding Jamine and Shila both nowhere in sight as she finds herself at level 240 along with some other rewards which she ignores. ¡°Shila, Shilaaaaa, Shila, you ther¡ª¡± A note suddenly appears midair in front of her as she grabs it. ¡°I''m busy. This is a prewritten letter by me. So is Jamine.¡± ¡ªShila ¡°... Wow, a free day all to myself? Nah, I should probably get the 25th floor cleared.¡± Hilda tries to manually send herself but finds her system completely not working at all. ¡°Seriously? Then how about leveling up? Shila said that leveling would be needed but I haven''t really needed to do much fighting¡­ except for the event so far.¡± Hilda starts trying to teleport, successfully teleporting but not in the direction not range she wanted. ¡°What the hell¡­ the system isn''t helping with my skills either? I knew that it helped a bit with skills while allowing me to accumulate mana as xp but the system is completely down?¡± Hilda sighs as she starts walking back, not wanting to risk teleporting half her body into the ground. ¡°I wonder when this''ll be fixed, how annoying.¡± Hilda complains softly to herself as a notification appears.¡± ¡°Huh? Notifications still work?¡± Hilda presses on it curiously. Notification. Achievement unlocked. Saviour.(¡ª¡ª) Rebellion against the imprisoner.(¡ª¡ª) ¡°Wow. 2 useless achievements without a rank.¡± Hilda sighs, continuing to walk back. ¡°What to do, what to do¡­ oh right, Shila mentioned something about a trial area on this floor which disables skills which is well¡­ perfect since I can''t use skills right now anyways.¡± Hilda starts walking in that direction as another notification comes on, causing her to click it immediately. Notification. Congrats. You have been chosen as the saviour. ¡°What? Is that it?¡± Hilda closes the notification in irritation as a bunch of bandits suddenly appear, annoying her. ¡°What the hell.. I''ll just kill them and¡­¡± Hilda pulls out her sword, using mental attacks on them or at least trying to as it mainly does nearly nothing and pisses them. ¡°Fff¡ª¡± Hilda starts running as they slowly catch up due to being higher levels than her. ¡°Stupid bandits are actually higher level then¡­ wait, most things are higher level than me, I just have skills as an advantage.¡± Hilda keeps running as the bandits start catching up quickly., causing her to turn around and pull her sword out. The author''s content has been appropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. ¡°Screw it. If I can''t aim, I''ll just attack everything in sight.¡± Hilda uses a mental attack on the area in front of her, wasting much more mana than needed but getting all of the bandits at once as she uses conversion magic, causing the grass and bandits to blow up. ¡°Fucking idiots.¡±Hilda continues her way off to the trial area as she eventually finds herself in another city.¡± ¡°Wow, it looks nearly goddamn identical, should I just¡­¡± Hilda shakes her head, putting her sword back into her soul. ¡°Nah, no way I can win against everybody alone, especially without any skills.¡± Hilda walks around the city, deciding to explore it as she finds a church. ¡°Seriously?¡± She enters it, finding¡­ pictures of the guide inside. ¡°Oh, what the fff¡ª I knew the people on the 10th floor treat the guy like a VIP and all that but what the hell is this? Wait actually, I guess some don''t.¡± Hilda hums to herself, enjoying the peace ¡°Wait¡­ I came to look for the trial, what the hell am I doing here?¡± Hilda looks around and suddenly starts seeing posters around. Wanted. Profile unknown. Estimated to be a woman in her 18s, using magic to conceal her appearance. A black misty trail follows her. ¡°...¡± Hilda hides her trail as she takes off her mask. ¡°What the hell, there were people who survived to tell what happened?¡± Hilda quickly finds somewhere to hide as she starts hearing guards look for her, causing her to run into an alleyway. ¡°What the hell¡­¡± The guards keep looking around with Hilda knowing they''ll eventually reach her if this keeps up. ¡°Dammit.¡± Hilda suddenly hears a door beside her open as somebody pulls her in. ¡°Who¡ª¡± The ransom stranger who pulled her in, wearing poorly sewn together rags for clothes with one over his face, puts a finger to their mouth, signaling for Hilda to keep quiet as complies reluctantly due to the many footsteps and shouting outside. As the door steps grow softer, Hilda starts whispering. ¡°Who are you?¡± ¡°Is that of importance right now?¡± Hilda shrugs in response to him. ¡°Maybe? How am I supposed to know if your identity is important If I don''t know it?¡± ¡°Just follow me if you want.¡± The person starts walking away. Hilda starts following as the person walks into a basement. ¡°So¡­ where are we going?¡± The person ignores Hilda and keeps walking. ¡°Hello?¡± Hilda gets more annoyed as she keeps trying to get his attention. ¡°Hey!¡± She pulls out her sword, putting it to his neck in annoyance. ¡°Stop ignoring me.¡± ¡°You probably shouldn''t do that.¡± The person pushes her sword away slightly with a finger. ¡°Why should I listen to you?¡± Hilda pushes her sword against his neck, causing him to sigh as he suddenly appears behind her, kicking her down the stairs. Hilda tries to stand back up but gets kicked back down again to her annoyance. ¡°Hey! Stop tha¡ª¡± The person holds her up by her collar, being able to do so due to being taller than Hilda despite Hilda not being considered short. Hilda tries to swing her sword at her as he hits her sword away with his free hand, sending it flying. ¡°You probably shouldn''t attack me. I can sell you out to the guards you know? Besides, you''ll be of great help to me and I to you if you cooperate.¡± The person puts Hilda down, removing the cloth from his face, revealing himself as the rebellion leader she saw next to her poster with an estimated level of 400-500. ¡°What the hell do you want with me?¡± Hilda picks her sword back up. ¡°How rude, don''t I deserve some gratitude for helping you?¡± He starts acting hurt in an exaggerated manner, irritating Hilda. ¡°You know, you''re reminding me of a particularly annoying person right now.¡± Hilda recalls how white has basically said the same thing in an identical manner. ¡°You are a guest invited to the tower just like most of us, but you have full access to the system.¡± ¡°Get to the point.¡± Hilda mutters softly but loud enough for him to hear. ¡°I need your help in¡ª¡± ¡°No.¡± Hilda flips him off, effectively interrupting him. ¡°¡ª helping to rebel.¡± He finishes. ¡°I just said no.¡± ¡°Too late. If you don''t, the king will start to hunt you down eventually. ¡°Why would he?¡± Hilda glances around, realising that the room she''s in is particularly big, made with bricks made of stone with a couple of pillars holding up the place. ¡°You destroyed a city after all though¡­ you don''t seem nearly strong enough to do so. Is there something wrong with your system currently?¡± He guesses. ¡°So what if there is?¡± ¡°Then I''ll have to wait for it to be fixed before you''ll be of help.¡± ¡°I already said, I''m not helping.¡± Hilda flips him off again. ¡°Wait and listen to me first. I already said it''ll benefit you.¡± He says, making Hilda hesitate for a moment. ¡°Fine, what is it?¡± ¡°I''ll teach you how to fight.¡± He proposes. ¡°I already know how to fight.¡± Hilda argues back, causing him to point at her sword then his neck. ¡°Try it.¡± Hilda swings her sword at her as he dodges with ease. ¡°You may be strong, but your fighting skills sucks.¡± He keeps dodging her attacks. ¡°So, how about it?¡± ¡°Annoying guy, I want more.¡± Hilda keeps her sword back into her soul. ¡°I''ll introduce you to someone to teach you in the future?¡± He adds on to his previous deal. ¡°Hmm.. fine, but if you suck at teaching I''ll rat you out even if it means I get screwed over too.¡± Hilda claims, making him smirk due to knowing she won''t do so, annoying her even further. ¡°But¡­ are you broke? Is that why I''m not getting paid points instead?¡± He freezes up for a moment. ¡°... Knew it.¡± Hilda sighs. Chapter 53. Disobedient Jamine. ¡°Goddamn broke piece of.¡± Hilda complains to herself as the system suddenly comes back online. ¡°... Shila?¡± Another letter appears, which he tries to grab but Hilda gets it first. ¡°This is mine. Piss off.¡± ¡°But I''m curious.¡± ¡°Fuck off.¡± ¡°Fine.¡± Hilda watches him carefully as she opens the letter. I''m no longer busy. I''m just lazy now. -jamine & Shila ¡°Pieces of shits.¡± ¡°So, what was it about?¡± ¡°Piss off and mind your own business. If you are a rebellion leader, where''s your¡­ idk? Friends? Whatever they''re called. ¡°I''ve got none.¡± ¡°...¡± Hilda starts walking away. ¡°So, let''s start the training now.¡± ¡°No, I''m getting out of here.¡± Hilda keeps walking away as he smacks her, sending her flying and pissing her off. ¡°Right, are you deaf?¡± ¡°What do you mean deaf? I''m simply training you as promised.¡± He moves in front of Hilda, hitting her again against the wall, this time actually hurting a bit. ¡°Piss off you bastard.¡± Hilda swings her sword at him, using mental attacks and conversion magic too, all doing nothing to the point it doesn''t even recoil. ¡°Oh nice, your systems working again huh?¡± ¡°How about you mind your own damn business!¡± Hilda sends a wave of sword qi which gets completely destroyed by a wave of his own his sends with his hand ¡°Your sword qi''s level is pretty high too, I''m guessing around level 40? But at this rate you''ll hit a limit at 50 though that''s still pretty decent.¡± Hilda gets more annoyed, mostly at her failed attacks as she stops attacking. ¡°Screw you, go to hell.¡± Hilda teleports into the system. ¡°Seriously?¡± Hilda looks around for Shila and Jamine, finding them both lying on the sofa. ¡°Hey, what are you two doing?¡± Hilda picks them both up by the back of their collars. ¡°Relaxing.¡± Shila answers, still watching TV. ¡°Yea mom!¡± ¡°Get out and help.¡± Royal Road is the home of this novel. Visit there to read the original and support the author. ¡°Hilda, I''m feeling lazy, don''t wanna.¡± ¡°Same here mom!¡± Hilda sighs, turning the TV off, ignoring their protest. ¡°Come out now or I''ll take the TV with me.¡± ¡°That''s not fair!¡± ¡°Yea mom, not fair!¡± ¡°Get out and help me then.¡± ¡°Screw you! Don''t wanna!¡± Shila goes back to lying down on the sofa, facing away from Hilda as Jamie stands there, not doing anything, including listening to Hilda. ¡°Shila, I got a system upgrade from the event, want it?¡± ¡°Lies! I checked, you didn''t!¡± ¡°Yea but you know the guide can prevent you from seeing it.¡± Shila hesitates for a moment, peeking over her shoulders at Hilda. ¡°Fine, use it and I''ll follow Hilda presses the upgrade in her inventory as Shila faints. ¡°What the hell¡­ is that how upgrades will work from now on?¡± Hilda turns to Jamine who is now trying to force herself to act defiant but failing to the point it''s somewhat cute. ¡°If I give you something, will you cooperate?¡± Hilda asks, watching as Jamie shakes her head but clearly curious. ¡°I''ll give you something if you tell me where J.F is. Hilda watches as Jamine points to the bedroom. ¡°Oh, why did you give her the bedroom instead of using it?¡± Hilda looks at Jamine who glances away nervously. ¡°You okay? What are you doing?¡± ¡°Well¡­ moms bedroom is a bit¡­ dirty and old and uncomfortable.¡± ¡°You could''ve just said that, I already know that.¡± ¡°Aunt''s room also looks like crap!¡± ¡°...¡± Hilda gets slightly annoyed. ¡°Mom, you''re the one who told me to just say it.¡± Jamine says, making Hilda slightly more annoyed as she picks her up. ¡°Mom?¡± ¡°Do you want the thing or not?¡± Jamine nods her head this time. ¡°Then keep quiet and be a good girl.¡± ¡°Fine.¡± Hilda drops Jamine down causing her to get annoyed. ¡°Mom bad! Mom mea¡ª¡± Hilda pulls out a pill for Jamine, for another skill, shutting her up. ¡°Now Jamine, what did you say just now?¡± ¡°Nothing!¡± ¡°Nope, you were saying a lot just now weren''t you? Hilda holds the pill high above Jamine''s head as she tries to snatch it. ¡°Mom is bullying me!!!¡± Jamine starts hitting Hilda despite the lack of damage. ¡°Not giving it till you apologise. You''re getting more disobedient. Hilda watches as Jamine stops hitting her but looking very angry and annoyed. ¡°Fine! Sorry! Mom is mean!¡± ¡°No, not until you say it properly.¡± Shila suddenly reappears, snatching the pill from Hilda. Notification. Your system now has 75 percent of your stats. ¡°Shila, give that back.¡± ¡°Hilda, you do realize that Jamie actually has the maturity of a child, so what you''re doing is actually gonna make her cry at this rate.¡± ¡°It''s her fault for not listening properly.¡± Shila sighs, giving Jamine the pill who grabs it protectively. ¡°Jamine, say sorry to your mom.¡± Shila walls behind Jamine, putting her hands on her shoulders. Jamine glances up at Hilda before softly whispering. ¡°Sorry mom¡­¡± ¡°Fine, fine. Just eat it so we can go back already.¡± Jamine eats it in one go, immediately gaining a new skill. Volume changer(epic) Allows the user to increase the volume of their body however much they want using mana. ¡°Huh? Couldn''t you do that before?¡± Hilda asks as Jamine shakes her head, unwilling to talk to Hilda. ¡°Hilda, she could, it''s just that this skill allows her to do so much more than before.¡± ¡°Nice.¡± Hilda goes and picks Jamine up. ¡°Mom, what are you doing?¡± ¡°Stop being irritating Jamine.¡± ¡°I''m not irritating!!¡± ¡°You are.¡± Jamine starts hitting Hilda again as Hilda bites her arm off, pissing her off. ¡°Mom can go die!¡± She regenerates her arm, using her clone skill to split herself in half before running away and merging herself back to normal. Hilda picks her up again. ¡°Jamine, let''s go back now, Shila, teleport us out.¡± ¡°No! Don''t wanna follow mom!¡± ¡°If you follow, I''ll give you snacks. Let''s go.¡± ¡°Fine. But mom is still mean.¡± Jamine crosses her arms angrily. ¡°Also later, tell me what happened after I fainted in the event.¡± As they reappear outside, Hilda sets Jamine down and swings a wave of mana and sword qi at him who has been waiting the whole time. ¡°If you''re gonna force me to stay here, might as well tell me your name.¡± ¡°Nope, just call me¡­ Evan.¡± ¡°...¡± Hilda swings more waves of Aman and sword qi at him as Jamie and Shila both use leech, debuffing him and cloning ¡°Hey, this is a 3 on 1, isn''t this a bit too unfair?¡± ¡°Nah.¡± Jamine starts cloning herself as much as she can, piling all her clones on him as he uses a wave of sword qi, chasing them all to burst like a balloon. ¡°This is supposed to be training without the system for you all you know?¡± ¡°Yea, so what?¡± ¡°You''ll see.¡± Hilda and Evan keep fighting as Jamie''s clones do nearly nothing and Shila''s debuffs also do nearly nothing. ¡°Stop using the system, we''re trying to improve your skills here.¡± ¡°Don''t wanna, if you''re mad then force me to stop using the system.¡± ¡°Fine, but remember. You asked for this.¡± He suddenly pulls out a bracelet, putting it around his arm as he attacks Hilda with sword qi, causing her system screen to crack. ¡°What the hell?!¡± He keeps it up, causing it to fully break in half as Shila shouts in pain but not disappearing. ¡°I disconnected you from the system, it should fix itself in around 3 months, so we''ll have plenty of time to train pay?¡± Hilda picks Shila up, hugging her to try to help with her discomfort of being forcefully separated. Hilda sends a massive wave of mana and sword qi at Evan, which he simply counters. ¡°Nice, 3 months and you''ll be better able to fight recently at least.¡± Chapter 54. 9400 days is short. A couple days later, Hilda, Shila and Jamine are all lying on the ground. Jamine''s regeneration still working due to it being a part of her and not the system completely. ¡°Hildaaaa, we gotta beat him, when he disconnected me from the system i¡ª¡± ¡°¡ªit hurt.¡± Hilda completes Shila''s sentence. ¡°Exactly so¡ª¡± ¡°So, stop complaining. You''ve been repeating the same thing, we''ll get revenge okay? I promise well, eventually.¡± ¡°Mom, this is fun!¡± ¡°Yea, obviously since you can''t feel pain, you''ve just been sent flying multiple times.¡± Hilda looks over, getting slightly annoyed at how happy Jamine is before sighing. ¡°Fine, I guess I should be happy that your happy instead of disliking it.¡± Hilda admits. ¡°Wow Hilda, you''re finally acting somewhat like a mom huh?¡± Shila jokes, shutting up as Hilda glares slightly at her as they both stand up, their bodies somewhat sore as Jamine is running around happily. ¡°Hey, Shila, where did the bastard go?¡± Hilda looks over at Shila who just shrugs. ¡°Iduno?¡± ¡°... Speak properly.¡± ¡°I.Dont.Kno¡ª¡± Shila slowly and clearly pronounces the words out. ¡°Oh shut up, I understood what you were saying, it was just annoying.¡± ¡°Hey Hilda, is this even necessary? Once the system is back on we could ditch.¡± ¡°I suppose it wouldn''t hurt to actually train would it?¡± ¡°Yea but you could get skills that improve how fast you learn!¡± ¡°I can? Will I be able to keep up how good I am at fighting if I lose the system again?¡± ¡°Yea, since being a skilled person isn''t a damn skill.¡± Shila says like it''s the most obvious thing ever which probably is. ¡°Nice, let''s get it.¡± ¡°Can''t, shop doesn''t work, nothing works.¡± ¡°You do.¡± ¡°Yea, and like I''ve said many times before. I''m part of the system, not the system itself.¡± ¡°... Annoying.¡± Hilda tries to open the system up again but 2 halves of the system appear in front of her, dropping to the ground. ¡°Seriously Shila, can''t you super glue it back together or something?¡± ¡°...¡± Shila walks away, ignoring Hilda. Evan comes back later, annoying Hilda and Shila but exciting Jamine. ¡°Mom, the guy is back!¡± ¡°Yea, I know, I can see. Also, that isn''t a ¡®guy¡¯ that''s a bastard, come on, say it either me. B.A.S.T.A.R.D bast¡ª¡± Hilda gets interrupted as Shila hits her on her head. Stolen from its rightful author, this tale is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. ¡°Hilda, shut up!¡± ¡°Fine, fine. I even got you an upgrade. Come to think of it, what did the upgrade give you?¡± ¡°More stats.¡± ¡°Well, except for that¡­ obviously.¡± Hilda mutters the last part softly so Shila doesn''t complain but it still annoys Shila due to it obviously being rude. ¡°More authority!¡± Shila proudly says. ¡°Which does?¡± ¡°The things that would''ve given you a low level penalty last time are free now. ¡°So the map function is free?¡± ¡°Yea, but it''ll be empty since the higher level then monsters you want to find takes a higher penalty.¡± ¡°Well, it doesn''t have to be monsters.¡± ¡°Yea right, you think you can cheat by finding secret areas or something?¡± ¡°Well no, I was just curious.¡± Shila sighs, walking to pick up Jamine and turning her to face her. ¡°Jamine.¡± ¡°Sis?¡± Jamine replies, tilting her head in confusion. ¡°Don''t talk to random old men. For almost you know they could be¡ª¡± ¡°And you told me to shut up just now Shila.¡± Hilda interrupts. ¡°Be what?¡± Jamine asks very curiously. ¡°Nothing. But here''s a warning, okay? If a random guy tells you to follow him and he starts taking off his pants. Spit acid on him.¡± ¡°Ok!¡± Jamine answers, no longer curious. ¡°Wow, that was easy.¡± ¡°Hilda¡­ shut up.¡± ¡°You started this.¡± ¡°Hey, can you three stop arguing and getting ready?¡± Evan interrupts. ¡°Fine.¡± Shila and Hilda both grumble. Couple hours later, Hilda and Shila lie on the ground, ignoring Jamine who is running around without a care. ¡°Hey Jamine¡­¡± Hilda says weakly. ¡°Yea?¡± ¡°Please just keep quiet. Like, just a little bit more.¡± ¡°Ok? Why?¡± ¡°I''m in pain, your voice isn''t helping.¡± ¡°What''s the supposed to mean?!¡± Jamine runs away angrily. ¡°... Well, I guess the problem was solved regardless.¡± Suddenly, Shila yelps in pain, chasing Hilda to turn towards her immediately. ¡°You okay?¡± ¡°Yep¡­ but being disconnected from the system will cause sudden jolts of pain. Don''t ask me why, I don''t know but I''ll be okay, it won''t get worse.¡± ¡°... Oh.¡± Hilda thinks for a moment as Shila sighs. ¡°I''m not even going to read your mind or memories, no way you''re thinking of anything good.¡± ¡°Rude.¡± ¡°Jamine, come back!¡± Hilda shouts as she sits up, finding Jamine peeking at her from the corner. ¡°Come back, be a good girl.¡± Hilda says as Jamie slowly walks up to Hilda, fidgeting nervously. ¡°What are you nervous for?¡± Hilda carries Jamine by her arms suddenly, surprising her. ¡°Mom, what are you doing?!¡± ¡°Calm down, stop being so petty and holding grudges all the time.¡± ¡°I''m not petty!¡± Jamie crosses her arms as she pouts, causing Hilda to grab a couple of snacks out for her, making her happy again ¡°Jamie, go help your sis, she''s in pain.¡± ¡°Sis pain?¡± Jamine turns to Shila whose glaring at Hilda, still somewhat in pain but mostly okay. Jamine jumps out of Hilda''s arms, running to Shila. ¡°Sis okay?¡± She tugs on Shila''s hand. ¡°Yep, sis okay.¡± Shila pats Jamine''s head, annoying her. ¡°Stop that!¡± *Why? Hilda can.¡± ¡°Because she''s mom! Your sis! We are the same age, you can''t!¡± ¡°You do realize I''m a lot more mature than you!¡± ¡°Can''t!¡± ¡°Fine, fine, I''m okay so go back to your mom.¡± ¡°Hmph!¡± Jamine goes back to Hilda, sitting on her lap while still pouting. ¡°Hey Hilda.¡± ¡°Yea?¡± ¡°Remember how I said we could build a big cannon last time!¡± ¡°Yea?¡± ¡°We can build a smaller version, like a pistol though it can''t use as much mana as the cannon.¡± ¡°Nice, when can we make it?¡± ¡°The territory produces 70,000 points weekly so¡­ not too long.¡± ¡°Nice. But how long exactly?¡± ¡°Seeing as you currently have 6 million points¡­9400 days.¡± ¡°... How the hell is that ¡®not too long¡¯?! ¡± ¡°I lied, also it requires 100,000,000 points since you upgraded me and I got a better estimate.¡± ¡°...¡± Hilda sighs, not bothering to argue as she walks away annoyed ¡°Jamine.¡± ¡°Huh?¡± ¡°Is 9400 days short?¡± Hilda asks as Jamine starts using her fingers to count. ¡°...¡± Jamine looks at her fingers for a moment before turning back to Hilda. ¡°Is this 9400?¡± She holds up 10 fingers. ¡°No Jamine, 9400 is that and 940 times more.¡± Jamie tries to count again but gives but before reaching 30 and nods. ¡°94¡­ whatever number mom said is king!¡± ¡°Exactly, go tell your sis that.¡± Jamine starts running to Shila, speaking for a moment before returning. ¡°Mom, she said you''re impatient.¡± ¡°Tell her she''s crazy.¡± Hilda says as Jamine runs off to Shila again. This keeps repeating as Jamine eventually gives up, running away after delivering another message to Shila. Hilda walks up to Shila. ¡°See what you did.¡± ¡°How is that my fault?! You sent her first!¡± ¡°You said 9400 days was short.¡± Hilda defends herself. ¡°It is!¡± ¡°Not!¡± ¡°You made your sister wait for 5 years yet you can''t wait a simple 3.¡± ¡°Small details.¡± Hilda glances away, ignoring Shila. ¡°You just won''t accept it!¡± Shila runs in the direction Jamine did, to the corner. Chapter 55. Fireworks. ¡°Hilda.¡± Shila walks back to Jamine. ¡°What? ¡°First, 9400 days is short, not up for discussion. Secondly, we can go to the 25th floor since the system just fixed the rest of itself completely.¡± ¡°Nice, let''s go, bring Jamine along.¡± ¡°Sure.¡± Hilda walks over to Jamine, pulling her up to her feet. ¡°Hmph.¡± ¡°Stop pouting, let''s go to the next floor.¡± Hilda starts pulling Jamine. ¡°Don''t wanna!¡± Jamine pulls her arms away crossing her arms, making Hilda sigh as she kneels down in front of Jamine. ¡°You do know that guy hurt your sis, so why do you still wanna have fun with him?¡± Hilda asks, looking at Jamine. ¡°uhhh¡­¡± Jamine¡¯s voice trails off, lost for words.. ¡°And that guy is a bad guy too.¡± ¡°Well¡­ maybe?¡± Jamine starts nodding slowly. ¡°So, you should hate him too. Let''s go to the next floor.¡± ¡°Ok¡­¡± Jamine reluctantly agrees as Hilda pulls her arms to Jamine who teleports them to the 25th floor. Ignoring the notification, Hilda looks around at the busy market around her, holding a very young Lela''s hand as she lets go. ¡°Why is she always with me?¡± Hilda turns to look at Shila. ¡°Because¡­ these are based on your memories. Most of your memories are with your sister¡­¡± Shila points out. ¡°Oh. She isn''t the fakey again right?¡± ¡°Yep, the tower wouldn''t make it that obvious.¡± ¡°Pull the notification up.¡± Hilda crosses her arms, waiting for the screen to appear. ¡°Nah, don''t wanna.¡± ¡°And why is that?¡± ¡°You closed it, you deal with it.¡± Hilda sighs, manually opening the notification and catching a glimpse of Shila''s grin in the corner. Notification. Identify or communicate to the doppelganger. No attacking intentionally. Your memories can not harm you. ¡°What a weird requirement, should be easy enough.¡± Hilda says, looking around at the busy market. ¡°... Nevermind, I take what I just said back.¡± The narrative has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the infringement. Hilda starts talking to everyone, taking forever due to Shila and Jamine not being able to help, pulling the young and confused Lela along. ¡°Hilda, why are you pulling her around?¡± ¡°Well, even if she''s not the doppelganger fake, she''s still my sister even though she''s still a fake.¡± Hilda points out, continuing to talk to people. ¡°Didn''t you get pissed the first time you saw a fake her?¡± ¡°Well yea, but right now the current situation in I''m is previously lost in a market and one before was a shitty family situation. The one I got pissed at was the one at school since seeing a fake with my sister''s face being happy just pissed me off for some reason.¡± ¡°... You''re a weird person.¡± ¡°Rude.¡± Hilda keeps talking to the people as she gives up, walking away. ¡°Hilda, where are you going? You gotta complete this!¡± Shila shouts out after Hilda. ¡°Hey, talking can be done by just saying something and getting a reply right?¡± ¡°A non aggressive friendly one, yes.¡± Shila confirms. ¡°Ok.¡± Hilda looks around, running around and finding microphones, connected to large speakers to steal along with some fireworks, running to an open area without a ceiling as she taps the microphone. ¡°Test, test.¡± She tries as her voice rings out loudly from the speakers, attracting everybody''s attention. As she sees this, she smirks, setting a firework off, surprising everybody. ¡°I have no clue why anybody was selling fireworks but whatever.¡± She thinks as she carries Lela, annoying Jamine. ¡°I''ll carry you later Jamine.¡± Hilda says, facing away from the microphone. ¡°You better!¡± Hilda faces the microphone again, tapping it once more. ¡°Everybody! Who wants to see more fireworks!¡± She lights up more, hearing some claps as some children start asking their parents to stop moving and to carry them so they can watch. Hilda keeps lighting more fireworks slowly, making sure to get the crowd to start responding. ¡°Hilda, you do realize the doppelganger could just y''know¡­ shut up?¡± ¡°Yep, so I''ll just kill whoever is ignoring me afterwards.¡± ¡°... It said no attacking intentionally.¡± ¡°Right¡­ I''ll just go with the flow.¡± Hilda says to Shila, making sure to light more fireworks. Hilda keeps lighting more fireworks, slowly running out as she uses mana to amplify her hearing and sight to check those who are completely ignoring her, spotting 3 people. ¡°So¡­ I see 3 potential people. I guess I gotta specifically identify them huh?¡± ¡°Yep.¡± Shila answers. Hilda quickly lights up the rest of the fireworks, running to the potential fakes one by one. ¡°Let''s start with¡­ the old man.¡± Hilda runs to the old man, trying to talk to him as she gets ignored, annoying her. ¡°Hey, what if you did the attacking?¡± ¡°That would obviously not work!¡± ¡°Fine, fine.¡± Hilda stands in front of the old man as he finally acknowledges her, making some signs. ¡°What the hell is he doing? Is he throwing gang signs around?¡± ¡°Have you considered the fact that he''s potentially deaf?¡± ¡°But you are the one who said they could fake it.¡± ¡°Hence the ¡®potentially¡¯ also, sign language is communication, so he isn''t it.¡± ¡°You know sign language?¡± ¡°You saw it before, though it was just a weird guy who was lost but regardless, I just read that part of your memory, and it seems similar enough so I assume he''s not faking.¡± ¡°Wow, I guess we can go to the next person? You remember what they look like?¡± ¡°Yep.¡± ¡°Alright, lead the way.¡± Hilda says, making Shila sighs as they follow her. ¡°Where are we going?¡± Lela tugs Hilda''s sleeves, causing her to look down. ¡°Uh¡­ finding our way out?¡± ¡°Ok¡­¡± Lela starts yawning as Hilda puts her into a box that was used to contain fireworks. ¡°Seriously Hilda?¡± ¡°What? She''s asleep now and will probably remain so till the level is over.¡± ¡°...¡± ¡°Well? Let''s get going.¡± Hilda starts pushing Shila who gets annoyed but still continues, eventually reaching a middle age man who Hilda immediately walks in front of. ¡°Little girl, get out of the way, can''t you see that people are busy here?¡± He starts scolding Hilda as she moves out of the way. ¡°I guess not him either.¡± Shila says ¡°Yep, so it''s the¡­ who again?¡± ¡°Little boy.¡± ¡°Oh, why the hell have the doppelgangers all been minors?¡± ¡°Who am I supposed to ask if you ask me?¡± Shila points in the way of the doppelganger who Hilda notices immediately, causing the level to end, ¡°Well, that was anticlimactic. I though I would have needed to give chase or something.¡± ¡°Well, it just said that simply locating them and knowing their doppelganger is sufficient.¡± ¡°Nice?¡± ¡°Let''s go to the 26th floor?¡± Shila asks as Hilda nods. ¡°Sure.¡± Chapter 56. ¡°The 26th floor, finally!¡± Notification. Refrain from attacking the doppelgangers for 10 minutes. ¡°Wha¡ª¡± Slap! The sound of a palm cutting Hilda''s face sounds out through her living room as she touches her face a bit, still processing what just happened. ¡°What just¡­¡± Hilda looks in front of her, seeing her mother''s boyfriend standing there as he tries to slap her again, resulting in her grabbing his arm in time. ¡°You little brat! Let go of me now or else!¡± He starts trying to pull away as Hilda slowly tightens her grip. ¡°Hilda, stop that or you''ll break his arm. Remember, it said to refrain no matter how much you want to hit him.¡± Shila reminds as Hilda lets go of his arm reluctantly, walking away while ignoring the remarks being made from behind her. ¡°Annoying bastard.¡± Hilda thinks while carrying Jamine and Shila onto her lap, confusing them both. ¡°Mom, what are you doing?¡± ¡°What? Don''t like it?¡± ¡°No, I didn''t say I didn''t!¡± Jamine quickly shakes her head. ¡°Hilda, she might be fine without an explanation but I''m not.¡± ¡°Either this or I may just go kill somebody.¡± Hilda says, causing Shila to sigh, lying on her body as she sits on the couch. ¡°Hilda just don''t.. don''t kill anybody, their probably all doppelgangers seeing as the quest was simply not to attack and it even said doppelgangerS, meaning plural.¡± ¡°Yes got it¡ª¡± Suddenly another slap sounds out from another room as Hilda sighs. ¡°Screw it, it''s probably mom dearest along with mom dearest¡¯s boyfriend fighting again.¡± Hilda suddenly notices Shila look backwards before looking back forwards nervously. ¡°What are you doing?¡± ¡°What am I doing? What are you doing?¡± Shila replies a bit too quickly as Hilda looks backwards, finding ¡®Mother dearest.¡± ¡°Wait¡­¡± Hilda looks over, teleporting over to where her mom''s boyfriend went, finding Lela on the ground in front of him. Shila and Jamine starts pulling her arms, trying to get her back as she teleport back to the couch surprising Shila with Jamine not caring due to simply pulling Hilda because Shila said to do so. You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story. ¡°Hilda, your surprisingly¡­ calm?¡± Shila tilts her head curiously. ¡°It''s just for 10 minutes¡­ then I''ll blow up another damn city to piss the damn guide off for doing this.¡± Hilda answers, forcing a smile on her smile while looking at Shila. ¡°I¡­ can''t be bothered..¡± Shila what''s for the 10 minutes to pass before teleporting then to the 27th floor without waiting for Hilda to confirm. ¡°Hilda, ignore the notification, just fight. You can take your anger out here.¡± Hilda looks around, finding herself in her home, this time completely devoid of anybody except a clone of her, Shila and Jamine there. ¡°Fight huh? Sure.¡± Hilda immediately uses mental attacks on them along with sword qi and mana and conversion magic, her clone doing the same.¡± They keep exchanging hits, Shila and Jamine both doing the same with their clones. After an hour, they get completely nowhere due to the clones and the originals attacking exactly the same, resulting in no hits being landed and their leech being too slow to kill anybody fast enough. ¡°Hilda, how about we come back later? We have multiple tries.¡± ¡°Fine, but only because I want to sleep on a comfortable bed after so long of being stuck with the bastard.¡± ¡°Sure.¡± Hilda flips her clone off as Shila teleports them to the tenth floor. As Shila teleports them, they get sent to the tenth floor before a glowing symbol appears on their hands, sending them back to the room with Evan. ¡°What the hell.¡± Hilda sends a wave of mana and sword qi at him angrily. ¡°No running away.¡± ¡°Stop pestering me. You may not know this but I absolutely hate people who force me and hurt the people I care about. Hilda sends another wave angrily. ¡°Relax okay? I said I would introduce you to someone else in the future right? Don''t you wanna know who that is?¡± ¡°Fine. Who?¡± ¡°Me.¡± ¡°...¡± ¡°But seriously, I can teach you. But right now we have a bigger problem.¡± ¡°Which is what exactly?¡± ¡°people are here to attack.¡± Hilda turns her attention to the staircase where people swarm in as Evan starts attacking them, killing each of them easily with a single slash of his sword. More starts to come in, some stronger than the others as he slowly gets injured and Hilda passes him a healing potion she bought from the shop. ¡°See? I knew you didn''t hate me.¡± He keeps attacking, eventually clearing everybody up as he turns to face Hilda who is smiling at him. ¡°What, you''re finally grateful for teaching and helping you?¡± Suddenly, he starts to feel something at his nose as he wipes it off, seeing blood there. ¡°What?¡± Hilda walks up closer to him. ¡°I told you before. I hate when people force me, and yea, you did help me but it wasn''t enough for me to forget the fact that disconnecting me from the system hurt Shila too.¡± Hilda says, watching as he coughs up a bit of blood, waving goodbye and teleporting to the 1st floor as he tries to attack her. ¡°Hilda, you''re a cruel person. Instead of a healing potion you gave poison, if it had activated earlier, you would have been screwed by the people coming in.¡± ¡°But it didn''t. Stop thinking so much about it. Right now, the first floor is pretty peaceful so why not enjoy it for a bit for the time being?¡± ¡°... No, I''m going into the territory with Jamine.¡± Shila teleports into the territory with Jamine without hearing Hilda out, quickly hugging Jamine. ¡°Jamine, did you hear that? Your mom does care enough about me afterall!¡± ¡°Yea, mom nice!¡± ¡°Yea!¡± Suddenly, Shila gets picked up as she looks behind, finding Hilda. ¡°I can manually enter the territory, forgot?¡± Hilda says, making Shila visibly embarrassed as she tries to hide it. ¡°Shut up, you''re overreacting.¡± She turns away, avoiding Hilda''s gaze. Hilda suddenly feels a tug at the hem of her shirt, looking there and finding Jamine. ¡°Oh, Jamine, you want to be carried too?¡± ¡°Yea but wanna tell something. What if for the other mes, we attack one other me at once?¡± ¡°Other mes? Oh, the doppelgangers?¡± ¡°Yea.¡± Jamine nods, trying to pull Shila out of Hilda''s hold while Shila also struggles with Hilda not letting go. Hilda turns to Shila who nods while still struggling. ¡°Ok, I guess that works. You''re smarter than you look.¡± Hilda says, making Jamine cross her arms. ¡°Ok, ok my fault. Don''t pout please, it''s always a pain when you do.¡± Hilda picks up with one hand. ¡°I''ll kill you.¡± Hilda says, looking at Jamine who gets annoyed. ¡°Not funny!¡± ¡°Wait, calm down¡­ I mean your doppelganger¡­ wait, a doppelganger of a doppelganger, so weird.¡± ¡°Fine, kill fake me.¡± Shila quickly takes this chance to interpret it as confirmation to teleport them and does so, taking the chance to escape out of Hilda''s hand. ¡°I''m free!¡±