Ed and his companion charged at the white tiger. It might look like a dirty way of fighting, but Ed wanted to move to the next floor. He already spent a couple of months of his time, and he would spend even more. Baekho was tense seeing the group of 'monsters' charge at him. If Ed knew that he was categorized as a monster, he would be heartbroken. On top of his friends, now even monsters would call him a monster.
"You damned humans!" Baekho seemed to take matters more seriously and charged at them as well. Ed who was at the front of the group started the fight with a flying slash. However, Baekho dodged it by side-jumping to the left. In return, Baekho seemed to charge his claws with something as he swung with his front left leg. It was the same thing as Ed's flying slashes, except it was enhanced with some type of magic. Baekho seemed to be using the light or holy magic. Same thing as the type Suika can use.
"Leave it to me." Sieg took the front and blocked the incoming attack for Ed and the other. Not a single dent in his barrier even after taking the attack head on. The difference in cultivation didn't seem to bother Sieg. "Grrr" Baekho seemed to be on edge due to the constant display of abilities by Ed's team. As soon as he looked like he lost focus, a red flying slash that looked like a cone made its way towards him. Baekho regained his focus and dodged the attack, but not without being injured. His snow white fur was now decorated by a little bit of red near his right shoulder.
Baekho looked towards the one who used such an attack on it and saw that it was Goburou. It was his special attack, but a rather humble version of it. Goburou and the others managed to level up as well on this floor, making their abilities a little bit better. Once more, as soon as he lost focus, he was attacked. This time it was Gobuta who impaled the ground with his greatsword and swung towards the white tiger. The earth was pulled out with the flying slash, and Baekho had to dodge the slash and the rocks that accompanied it. Garu also joined in on the fun, using Ice and Fire to corner Baekho.
Looking like he had enough, Baekho's body glowed in white. Not a second later he looked like he was about to explode. "Enough!" Blinding light exploded out of the tiger's body. This was similar to the skill that Alicia used on Ed in the tournament, only at a much larger scale. Everyone present lost their ability to see, other than Baekho. "Now it's my turn!" Baekho charged towards Sieg who was the closest to him and wanted to break his barrier. However, before he could reach him, he felt an aura enveloping him. "You won't get your turn." Before Baekho could register what happened, Ed was already in front of him.
Ed used his En to pinpoint the position of the white tiger, as well as Observation Haki to feel his next move. The rest was easy, he simply teleported in front of him in order to hinder his plans. "A weakling like you shouldn't stand in front of me!" Apparently, Baekho considered Ed to be weak. He didn't know that out of all those present, the most problematic one to fight is Ed. "I already dodged that attack!" Ed used a flying slash once more, and Baekho seemed to dodge it. Yet, he was still injured. With a confused look on Baekho's face, he looked towards Ed as if demanding an explanation. "I wouldn't tell you how I did it now would I?" Ed only stated the obvious.
As the fight dragged on, Baekho was getting filled with injuries. Since he didn't have a troublesome ability like Sieg's barrier or monster summoning, he didn't pose many problems. Once more, his body glowed in a white blinding light, but slightly different than last time. "You will all die!" Baekho screamed confidently while seemingly exploding.
"It won't work a second time." The voice that sounded this time was unlike any other. It was a deep confident, yet calm voice. It was much more collected compared to Baekho's. The one who spoke was Raikou. It was the first time his companions heard him speak so it stunned them as well.
The shadow under Raikou seemed to expand to a ridiculous degree. It covered almost 100 meters with him at the center. It was almost the same size as his En. The shadow seemed as if it was alive, wriggling around as it concentrated on Baekho. The blinding light that covered his body lowered in intensity until it was no longer there. "How is this possible…" Baekho was stupefied. Yet Raikou didn't even give him the chance to calm his mind. The shadow under him seemed even livelier after absorbing the light. Suddenly, several spikes erupted out of the shadow and penetrated Baekho.
Not even giving him the chance to speak his last words, Baekho died instantly. Before being teleported by the light, Raikou caught the sly faces of his companions and knew. He was going to be teased.
After the light disappeared Raikou was waiting for the reactions. And as he expected it came.
"Why didn't you speak before…Were you waiting for the chance to look cool?" Raikou looked towards Ed's face which seemed to be big and looking up.
"Raikou, speak once again" Similarly, Sieg was trying to tease him as well. A smile on his dead face.
"Suu! Suu!!" Suika was also encouraging him to speak. Behind her, Gobuta Goburou and Garu holding back their laughter.
After the constant demands to speak, Raikou didn't comply and ran away from them. He didn't disappear on the new floor but instead went into Ed's shadow. This way, none of them could annoy him.
"Hahaha, seems like we annoyed him!" Ed was smiling all the way while searching for a place to spend the night and check his notifications.
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Ed made it to the eighth floor. He lost how much time he spent getting here, but it was many months. Ed looked around and could only see sand as far as his eyesight could reach. It was nighttime, so it was very cold. Due to the desert not having much vegetation, there was nothing that could absorb the sun's heat during the day. A desert's polarity was as such, hot during the day and cold at the night. This made it difficult to survive, as a human's body couldn't handle the changes so easily. On top of that, it would be dangerous to light up a fire during the night. Since monsters would be roaming and might be attracted to the light.
Yet, such things were meaningless to Ed. What was the temperature compared to his eye power? What were monsters compared to his companions? At least, if the floor boss didn't appear in front of them, Ed could sleep outside and still be as safe as he would be in his pocket dimension. But, it would be a waste not to use his abilities. He continued to search for a suitable place to stay. Almost half an hour later, he stumbled upon an oasis of some sort. An oasis wasn't very common, so Ed was lucky to find one. It even came with a small lake.
"We'll stay here for today," Ed told his companions as he activated his Mangekyo Sharingan. Instantly, a pocket dimension was activated and they went inside. As usual, the dimension took on the look of the surrounding area. However, unlike the actual desert, things such as the wind, the heat, and the noise could all be manipulated by Ed. He set up the perfect temperature for relaxing and created some beds. But first, he was going to cook. Even after so many months of staying inside the tower, Ed still didn't run out of food. He was replenishing his stock by hunting monsters in the tower and eating them.
Even now he was cooking up a python of some sort that he killed in the previous floor. Ed couldn't bring himself to eat Gorillas or ants, but a python didn't disgust him at all. In fact, he felt that the taste was similar to chicken. Grilled chicken to be exact as that was how he cooked the Python. Similarly, none of his companions had any complaints about his cooking. His skill provided him with a deep understanding of corpses. Things such as poisonous glands were a breeze to him. It wouldn't affect him even if he ate the poison. Unless them monster had poison on par with Suika's, Ed would be fine.
After taking a bath, Ed and his companions each chose a bed to sleep on. Ed surveyed his Inventory before sleeping. He now had 7 Gacha tickets. He also checked the notification and noticed that he acquired 200.000 Exp points. 'Lower than I thought.' Ed's consciousness drifted away with those thoughts.
First thing in the morning, Ed went hunting. He had to raise his level, and he had to do it fast. He started lagging behind on the last floor due to the lack of suitable monsters to kill. However, things were different on this floor. He noticed that many monsters were clustered together which made him happy. All the more happy since they would definitely we strong monsters.
After traveling to his first monster hotspot, he noticed that they were an all too familiar race. The monsters in front of Ed were a group of camels, and they looked stunningly like Bactrian camels. Except for one thing which was different, their humps. Instead of the usual round humps, these ones looked like they were a pointy mountain's top. 'They definitely evolved in order to stop anyone from riding them.' Ed thought with a blank look on his face. One of the camels seemed to notice Ed's group coming and turned its head towards them. Its cheeks swelled up and 'something' came out of its mouth. At an incredible speed, it reached Ed's group, specifically Ed and almost hit him.
'That better be Water magic…' Ed looked suspiciously at the liquid that being absorbed by the sand. He looked towards the camel that shot it out and it looked as if it was mocking him. "You're mine…" Ed spoke while rushing towards the group of camels. The group that consisted of over twenty monster camels retaliated back at Ed's group. The weakest one among them had a cultivation of Earth Establishment level 8, same as Ed. While the strongest was at Earth Establishment level 10. Ed didn't need to scan them, as he could tell how strong they were by feeling their QI.
"No Heavenly Establishment…" Ed thought while he started slaughtering the camels. The cultivation difference didn't matter to him. Neither did the skill and power of the camels. All were meaningless before his blade. Each one of the camels was killed by one slash. Only the one who had thrown some 'liquid' at him remained. A look of terror on its face. "Next time, don't mess with someone strongest than you." Ed gave him one last piece of advice before killing him. He looked around and stored all the bodies he had killed.
Ed never had the chance to try camel meat back on Earth, but things were different here. He had heard that it was a luxurious kind of meat, as well as a delicious one. His curiosity as a cook spiked and he was going to try it out. This way, his stock would keep increasing and he wouldn't have to worry about food.
Ed tried to check the string of notifications to see if something had dropped. But, he was interrupted by a rumbling under the ground. Ed and his companions backed away from that spot, and no sooner a gigantic 'worm' devoured the whole area. Sand and everything was sucked up into its gigantic body. Apparently, the smell of blood from the camels drew it over.
Without having any eyes it had to rely on its hearing and smelling senses. And it looked as if it could detect Ed and the others. Its stomach bulged up and it let out a 'liquid' towards them. All of them dodged easily, but Ed looked annoyed. "What's wrong with this floor and spitting on people?!"
He wasn't going to let this worm get away.
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