Tower – Between the Floors
Lucifer sat motionless.
The blade in his hand wasn’t a weapon—just a tool now. A simple, curved dagger. Not enchanted. Not nad. The kind of thing you’d forget in a war chest. He used it anyway.
Scrape.
Again.
The edge slid across his palm, opening another shallow cut. Blood welled up, shimred, then retreated back into his veins.
Scrape.
He wasn’t doing it for pain. Pain was a joke to him now.
No.
He was testing sothing.
He’d started noticing it back on Floor 9—how the blood responded before he gave it command. Now, it pulsed with him. Moved without gesture. Reacted on instinct.
He called it Living Blood.
Not officially. The system didn’t na it. But he knew it had changed. And he needed to understand it.
Lucifer closed his eyes.
Let his aura fade.
Then he inhaled slowly, held it... and exhaled.
The world around him faded into black silence.
Then he cut again.
This ti, instead of just bleeding, he focused on feeling it.
The blood that left his hand hovered in the air.
It spun slightly.
Then... split. Beca two droplets. Then four. Then a dozen. All rotating in perfect orbit around his hand, forming a shape.
A circle. No—a glyph.
Lucifer opened his eyes, brow twitching slightly.
"...It’s learning."
The blood wasn’t just reacting—it was copying the shapes of battle spells he’d used. Mimicking the structure of glyphs without his input. On instinct.
He lifted his finger and snapped.
The droplets aligned instantly.
He whispered, "Shield."
A barrier pulsed out in front of him. Crude. Weak. But solid.
Then it lted, returned to his palm.
Lucifer leaned back, rubbing his jaw.
"If this keeps up... I won’t need to cast. I’ll just think."
He looked at his hand.
Then closed his fist.
"Good."
For the next hour, he tested it. Practiced subtle movents—small twitches of the wrist. Whispers without sound. Thoughts behind thoughts.
He learned that if he directed the blood with emotion, it responded faster.
Anger made it sharper. Grief made it heavier. Hunger gave it shape.
He tested it all.
One mont, he summoned a long lance that pulsed like a heartbeat.
The next, a thin whip that slithered across the stone floor and wrapped around a boulder. When he pulled, it cut straight through it.
No resistance.
No effort.
His blood had beco his shadow now. Sothing between magic and weapon. Sothing alive.
Not a servant. Not a pet.
Sothing else.
He didn’t smile. Not yet.
He just kept going.
Eventually, he stood and raised both hands. Let the blood pool beneath his boots, spreading out like ink.
"React."
He said the word like it was a test.
A command.
The blood rose instantly—ford dozens of blades, shields, claws, and spikes. They hovered. Twitched.
Then shifted.
Combined.
Morphed into a single form: a floating ring of blades around him. Like a crown made of weapons.
Lucifer stepped forward.
The ring moved with him.
He spun, and the blades danced.
He raised a hand—and they vanished into mist.
This was new.
And it wasn’t just flashy.
It was useful.
He snapped his fingers.
A dart flew from his fingertip—clean, silent, precise.
A crack split the far wall.
He’d sent it through stone.
"Faster," he muttered. "Sharper."
He cut himself again, deeper this ti.
Let more blood spill.
Then focused—not on forming a shape, but on forming function.
The blood snapped together into a skeletal gauntlet around his arm. When he flexed, it mirrored him perfectly. When he punched the air, a pulse followed behind it—an echo strike.
He was making things now.
Not just weapons.
Extensions of himself.
At one point, he tried creating two constructs at once—a gauntlet on the left arm, a bladed whip on the right.
His vision blurred.
Blood drained too fast.
He dropped to one knee.
But he didn’t stop.
He slowed the draw. Stabilized the process. He learned to pace it.
A few monts later, he stood again.
Both constructs held.
No flicker. No drain.
He rolled his shoulders.
"Better."
He walked to the edge of the platform. Kicked a stone into the void. Watched it fall for a few seconds, then vanish into the abyss.
Still no tir reset.
He didn’t mind.
He dropped to a crouch and started forming sigils on the ground using thin streams of blood. Tiny circles. Interlocking shapes. Traps. Buffs. Movent enhancers. Runes of sight.
Each one clicked into place.
A small array lit up beneath his feet.
Lucifer stepped forward—and blinked.
He moved ten ters instantly.
"Teleport rune..." he murmured. "Never bothered with them."
He tried again.
This ti, created a wide arc on the floor. When he stood in it, his blood sharpened—his reflexes heightened. It was a buff circle.
But again—made by blood.
And not just by thought.
By instinct.
Lucifer stood back and examined it. He didn’t need a spellbook. Didn’t need the system.
This was sothing deeper.
Old blood. First blood.
His heritage. His curse.
His advantage.
Then it hit.
A slight ping.
Not loud. Not dramatic.
Just a quiet notice that floated in the back of his head.
[System Notice: Floor Tir Reset – Access to Floor 11 Available.]
Lucifer didn’t flinch.
He didn’t move right away either.
He just stood there—blood dripping slowly from the tip of his boot.
He stared at the stairs ahead.
At the gate beyond.
Then exhaled.
He reached into his coat and took out a single red coin. Stared at it.
An old relic from the realm. Useless here.
But he flicked it anyway.
Watched it bounce once. Twice.
Then vanish.
He turned toward the gate.
Stepped over the training circle.
His shadow didn’t follow—it led him this ti.
Lucifer walked toward Floor 11.
No words.
No system prompt.
No declaration.
Just blood.
And silence.
And the tower waiting.
Again.
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