[Activating Skill: Eye of Depravity (EX)]
[The Orc Lord, Uruga, has been temporarily deprived of his strength.]
[Every part of the Orc Lord's body becos a weakness.]
[Damage amplification increases by 200% for 3 minutes.]
The nurous gigantic crimson eyes that appeared from space caused Uruga to falter, stopping his offensive as his expression stiffened. He felt like his body turned into a doll, full of vulnerability, and had no way to defend itself — waiting to be mutilated by a playful child.
Then, at that mont, behind the Orc Lord, the most gigantic crimson eye compared to others opened itself, looking down at Uruga as though he was a filthy bug.
[Activating Skill: Sickles of Depravity (SSS )]
The gigantic crimson eye that appeared behind the Orc Lord now cast its gaze on Anya. The air inside the Boss Room vibrated, and the illuminating flas from the ancient torches from the walls and ceiling wriggled. Then, after so ti, the chained double-sickle, Anya's Personal Weapon, Blood Reaper (Legendary), opened its eyes.
Her weapon was a chained double-sickle. Its design on the sickles on both ends contained nurous streaks of lines, but... its true nature was that of sleeping eyes that depicted the depravity of human nature as the eyes' expressions were those of different emotions with malice.
When the eyes of her weapon opened themselves with the help of the gigantic crimson eye behind Uruga, her weapon transford into a gigantic crimson scythe, carved with crimson eyes that depicted depravity and torture. The gigantic eye behind Uruga disappeared because it seed to transfer itself to Anya's weapon as the blade of the scythe produced an eye bigger than those from the handle, but smaller than the eye from Uruga's back earlier.
The party, who watched the skill execution for a few seconds, had terrified looks on their faces except for Russell — who knew about it beforehand — and Samantha — who has soone greater in her head.
Celine, invisible sowhere, fell to her knees before she fainted due to the horrifying sight. Her last thoughts were, 'I-I didn't sign up for this!'
"Let's start, shall we?"
In the blink of an eye, Uruga's lower leg was cut off, and dark green blood gushed out.
With the Skill: Eye of Depravity, every part of Uruga beca a vulnerability partnered with damage amplification, and with her Unique Skill: Sickles of Depravity, Anya's weapon...
[Your weapon attack speed will be almost instant.]
[Every successful hit will increase your damage amplification by 2%.]
[Every successful hit will apply a Corrosive effect for 1 second.]
[Corrosive effect will disrupt the target's movent.]
It ans that Anya's attack, even from quite a distance, would instantly appear on the spot of her aim. Although the original form of her weapon turned into a lee scythe weapon, it contained the range of the chained sickle; her every attack instantly sent a scythe wave every swing, even if she was afar or not making contact with the target.
"ROAARRR!"
Uruga cried out and fell on his one knee like a true warrior.
Samantha and the others didn't waste any more ti as they started to launch a barrage of attacks, but Uruga, with the gigantic tallic shield, blocked them skillfully. Losing a leg was a bane of a warrior, but a warrior would also fight valiantly until the end.
"HUMAAAAANS-!!"
[Duration: 1:39]
Anya, from a distance, aid at Uruga's arm that was holding the sturdy shield — it was cut off shortly.
Spurt-!
"ROAARRR!"
"Go the f*ck down will you?!"
Russell cursed, he jumped again from behind the Orc Lord; Jiho aid for the Orc Lord's chest; Samantha and Anya parried the quick swings and thrust of the bone harpoon as Uruga struggled with all his remaining might; while Freya, Ary, and Alie aid for the remaining leg, trying to falter his montum.
"HAAAA-!"
Anya, who seed to find an opportunity to strike, jumped to Uruga's gigantic hand and aid the scythe at Uruga's neck.
"ROAAARRRRR!"
A roar, louder than previous ones, reverberated throughout the Boss Room. Anya's montum was disrupted for a mont, as well as Russell's and Jiho's, while Ary sneaked behind the kneeling Orc Lord, and used her sword technique.
"The f*ck was that?!"
Alie exclaid, seeing the cut-off limb — a leg and an arm — regenerating.
"Don't let him!"
The original purpose and aim of the strike continued, and after an arduous amount of ti...
Thud-!
Anya, who used the Orc Lord's remaining arm to walk on, slightly managed to close the distance to reach the neck of the Boss Monster. Successfully swinging the Blood Reaper weapon, Uruga's neck flew off, and his body fell forward.
[The Player Party has defeated the Orc Lord, Uruga.]
[The Player Party has successfully cleared the 5th Floor of the Tower of Growth!]
[A random reward will be given to each party mber.]
[Generating the rewards...]
[...has received the...]
[...has received the...]
[The Player Party will be transferred to the "Waiting Room" in a minute.]
Rough breathing and sighs of relief could be heard from each of them.
"I-it's very hard... Do you think we can conquer this?"
Jiho asked as he slumped on the ground.
"According to my father, or specifically, his n, we need to go all out on the 25th floor. It's at least a B- rank Boss Monster, based on Post-Reboot information."
Anya replied as she recalled the information given by her father; though she's been advised not to let their guards down because the Tower might be unpredictable.
"Apart from that, the next floors; from 6th to 9th will be avian creatures... So, it'll be hard, especially since we don't know exactly what the topography of the floors would be."
Anya added, causing Jiho to ponder sothing.
"Hm. it's really beneficial when you have the resources. But thanks to that, we know what to expect. Ah... By the way, I have a request, if we're going up against the Boss Monster, let be in front."
Jiho spoke, thinking about his Attribute: Will of the Sword (SSS ), which would let him adapt in battle the longer it's fought, and then would let him use the First Movent of the mysterious swordsmanship he had — Dawn of Heresy.
"Where's Celine?"
Samantha interjected, she glanced around, which prompted each of them to do the sa. After a few seconds, Samantha saw her, with the run-out duration of Invisibility Potion, lying on the ground, unconscious.
"She must be scared."
Samantha muttered before she approached Celine, who fainted upon seeing the horrific eyes that appeared out of thin air because of Anya's skills.
***
'He must have received it."
Russell thought about Jiho's floor reward upon successfully eliminating Uruga. It was the mysterious fragnt that Jiho needed to collect according to his Authority: Fragnts of the Lost Light.
Russell nodded, then walked casually towards the dead body of the Orc Lord, while the other party mbers were comforting the grumbling Celine. With 3 seconds remaining, he picked up the bone harpoon, put it inside his Dinsional Inventory, and then...
[You have collected the Chaos of the Orc Lord, Uruga.]
[Chaos stored increases by 10.]
[Stored Chaos Power: 90.]
As the one-minute duration ended, all of them turned into blue lights, and then transported to the plain-looking waiting room.
***
[The Player Party has arrived in the "Waiting Room"]
[Additional Reward: Great Rejuvenation.]
[Each of the Player Party mber's Health, Stamina, Mana, and Power will be restored by fifty percent.]
[Duration before automatically proceeding to the next floor: 9 minutes, 0 seconds.]
[The Player Party Leader can solely decide if the party will proceed to the next floor.]
"Yay! This cozy bed again."
Alie quickly slumped down on the gray mattress on the single bed.
Freya first replied, and Alie then followed after.
Russell thought about his average Luck stat, even though it couldn't influence the Tower itself. He wasn't lying when he told them about his reward, instead, a smile of satisfaction ford on his face.
***
"Mother... what's Project Black Veil?"
The execution of prisoners ended after a few hours. Elizabeth and Rumia had executed at least ten guilty prisoners — five for each of them. The one guilty prisoner who told the forr in his dying breath about Project Black Veil was the last guilty prisoner before the executions ended.
Sitting on one of the high-back chairs in the dining room, after finishing their dinner, Elizabeth asked, curious. The last words of the last guilty prisoner seed ingrained in her mind.
The Queen of Nereia and Rumia were with them. Rosalin looked at Eliana, seemingly waiting if the latter would answer her daughter's question.
"It's a project by the most wanted Player Terrorist organization, Black Sky Disorder. Its purpose is to destroy or bypass the thick black veil on the other side of this world."
The two princesses' eyes widened, their mouths slightly agape. They knew... No, every human in the Orion Continent that's capable of understanding would know, that humans have yet to explore the other parts of the world, and the previous attempts of sending unmanned spacecraft or drones were futile as they were mysteriously destroyed.
"But don't mind it for now. We are pretty sure that it will not be destroyed since things seed to happen in order, even though we do not know what the future holds.
"Because... if it could be easily or even possible to destroy, whatever's on the other side of the world would have done it first."
The last sentence of Eliana caused turmoil in Elizabeth's and Rumia's minds due to its possible indication that they realized.
"But, in any case, if sothing unexpected happened on that mysterious black veil, it probably won't affect the Orion Continent for so ti since its distance is too far.
"So... both of you, stop minding it, and instead, prepare in raiding the Tower of Growth."
Eliana looked at the two princesses, sitting across from each other. Rosalin, on the other end of the long mottled, luxurious table, interjected.
"The two of you will be accompanied by two S ranks, together with your other party mbers. You know very well that it's dangerous to venture into the unknown, especially since the Failure Penalty has yet to be revealed."
Elizabeth and Rumia nodded their heads, never daring to complain.
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