Inside the Acropolis, a lone humanoid figure stood surrounded by white. A woman with long black hair that reached her hips was waiting. Her eyes black, yet her face shined with a white radiance. She had a white dress that hid even her feet. Her face pure without any single deformities. Her rosy lips and cheeks added to her charm. If anyone were to see her, they would think she's an angel. Not because of her transcending beauty, but because of the pair of pristine black wings on her back.
The wings were spread out as if to intimidate people, yet it served the opposite purpose. Anyone who saw the wings would undoubtedly approach the woman. Ed and the others couldn't help but admire her while walking. In addition to her beauty, even the air around he felt majestic.
Not long after, the woman noticed Ed and his companions and spoke. "Thee who is't cameth to dare me, prepareth yourselves!" in a heartbeat, the majestic air disappeared because of the way she spoke. Not only were her words weird to listen to, but even her actions while speaking was absurd. She waved her hands around and put them up every time she hit a high note. Ed and his teammates stood there dumbfounded. The original high expectations they had for her was gone.
"Is something wrong with her Suu?" Suika looked at Ed in a worried way. "I hope not…" Ed didn't want to fight a mentally retarded angel. He met enough unique beings to last him a lifetime.
"Why do you speak this way?" Ed couldn't hold it in and asked her.
"What doe-doth thee mean?" The angel woman wasn't dropping her act. It was apparent that she was faking this, as even she struggled to speak.
"Stop speaking that way, it's weird," Ed told her bluntly.
"How dareth thee? The way I speaketh is p'rfect!" Not wanting to believe Ed, she pointed her finger at him and shouted.
'No, it's really weird…' Ed thought to himself while a wry smile forcefully formed on his face.
"Is it really weird?" right after Ed finished his thought; the angel woman spoke to him. Ed was shocked but still answered her. "Yes."
"Then I'll stop. I thought it made me sound cool." Everyone couldn't help but think it was a stupid reason.
"Well then, Mr. Edward. I'm guessing you'd like to move on to the next floor." She spoke to Ed while smiling.
"I don't remember telling you my name." immediately, Ed noticed something was wrong and confronted her. The smile on her face growing bigger, she spoke.
"It is simple for me to read someone's mind." Her answer let Ed know that the battle wasn't going to be an easy one. But at the same time, he knew that her power would be useful. Plus, her character wasn't bad so he attempted to ask her something.
"Only if I lose. There is no benefit for me to follow someone weak." Before Ed could speak, the angel already read his mind. She gave him her condition for joining him.
"That can be arranged!" everyone present switched to battle mode. Their enemy is a Heavenly Establishment level 8 Angel. Not exactly an opponent they can take it easy on.
The angel shook her wings a couple of times, and hundreds of feathers were removed. Instead of falling to the ground, they floated as if caught by something. The hundred or so feathers targeted Ed and his companions. Their speed was impressive, as they could keep up with the high-speed movements of everyone. Agumon, being in his rookie form, was almost caught and had no choice but to digivolve. He turned into MetalGreymon and blocked the feathers with his metal arm. Similarly, Ed and the others handled the feathers in their own way.
"Oh, then how about this." Sounding impressed, the angel flung her wings for a bit and disappeared from her position. She didn't teleport, but her high speed didn't allow anyone to be able to follow her. Except for Ed. Ed intercepted her while she was still moving.
"Oh my, could it be that you can also read minds?" the angel stopped Ed's slash by one of her wings and attacked him with the other.
"Something like that." Ed dodged to the back. He used his Observation Haki and Ryuusui Seikkuken. Predicting the movement patterns of the angel this way was mere child's play.
Now only Ed and the angel fought. The others noticed Ed's intentions and stood-by. Even if they tried to do something, they wouldn't help much. It was a better idea to wait for a chance to finish things up. Unfortunately for Ed, the angel's abilities were very high. Even with his skills, he was still getting injured from time to time. Thankfully, his natural healing abilities could keep up with the injuries. The angel was getting restless as well. She was using her full physical ability, yet only managed to lightly injure him.
"Take this!" She flew back, and a circular portal appeared above her. "Holy Smite." A blinding light beam left the portal and targeted Ed and those behind him. The attack was a large scale attack that managed to penetrate the floor down to the mountain's ground In fact, the rock wall that surrounded the Acropolis was melted by the attack. Luckily, Ed, Sieg, and Rakiou managed to save everyone. Ed and Sieg teleported everyone to safety. While Raikou carried Suika and Gobuta in a high-speed escape using his lightning clad.
"I can use more of them." The angel went through the same procedure, but this time two portals appeared. Before Ed could teleport everyone, he noticed Raikou and Gobuta running towards the beams. Gobuta's sword was clad in a purple dark aura and his tattoos glowed the same way. Raikou's mist grew thicker around his body. Gobuta's sword managed to block the incoming beam, and after a slight struggle, he changed the direction to the sky. Raikou, on the other hand, seemed to absorb the light beam down to the last drop. His mist grew even thicker by the time he finished.
"What?!" The angel was surprised and reacted slowly. Noticing MetalGreymon's thoughts, she used her wings to shield herself from two missiles that he released. He used his signature ability the Terra Destroyer. The explosion was a large scale one, but the angel emerged with only a couple of burns on her body. Her mind reading ability couldn't keep up with so many people attacking her. Everyone found the chance they were waiting for. She was able to dodge Suika and Garu who used poison, and ice magic respectively. Goburou managed to catch her off guard and injured hern albeit only slightly. She was unable to dodge the metal arm of MetalGreymon that bound her.
"Give up!" Ed stood in front of her as if declaring his victory. Yet, the angel refused to yield. Ed tried to swing his sword in order to scare her, but the direction of the swing was the opposite of what he thought. The angel broke out of MetalGreymon's binding and flew. Ed wanted to follow her but ended up running to the back.
"What is this?!" Ed was surprised by what was happening.
"Leave it to me Suu!" Suika latched on to Ed's head, and he felt his mind becoming clearer. The angel used a magic to disturb his senses, but Suika's white magic was able to nullify it. Ed looked quite ridiculous since Suika was in her slimeball form, making it like Ed had a golden helmet on.
"You won't be able to escape this!" the angel caught her knees with her hands, and her wings surrounded her. A white light started surrounding her body.
"Raikou, Gobuta. I need an opening!" Ed knew that only the two of them could stop the light. Ed thought about sending flying slashes through the ball of light using his Space magic. But, it wouldn't be enough to stop her.
"Holy Nova!" The angel's muffled voice sounded from inside the sphere. Raikou and Gobuta stood next to each other as they used the same thing as earlier. Gobuta sent a flying slash toward the incoming sphere of light, while Raikou made his own sphere of shadows. They were successful in making the light disappear, but only in the area in front of them.
"That is enough, thank you!" Ed jumped past them while using his strongest sword skill. "Providence Blade!" The skill managed to reach all the way towards the angel, blowing her and the light away.
The angel tumbled around on the ground before stopping and standing up. She was badly injured but still looked like she wanted to fight.
"Let's stop. I truly meant it when I wanted you to come." Noticing that Ed truly meant what he was saying, she let her guard down.
"Even though I'm a monster?" Still doubtful, she asked him.
"All of my companions are monsters!" Ed smiled while answering her.
"I see…then take care of me!" She extended her bloody arm to Ed, who used a healing card to heal her. Although it was overkill, he wanted to show his good will.
"So how will you break my connection with this tower?"
"You'll see!" Ed smiled while contacting the system in his mind. He wondered if she could hear him speaking with the system, but it was an exclusive channel in his mind.
'Do your thing.'
[Sure]
Hello everyone! Longer chapter than usual, enjoy.
About the way she speaks, it's similar to Shakespearean English, which sounds weird now. If you want the exact sentences in regular English I can post them in a comment or in this author note.
Ed went through the same procedure he had done with Sieg. After the system finished, the Angel disappeared and Ed found a new card in his Inventory. Crushing the card, the Angel reappeared once again. However this time her cultivation dropped to Heavenly Establishment level 7. This was due to the system's new monster function. Unfortunately, it lowered her level unlike in the others' case.
The Angel looked around at her body and wings and then gazed upon Ed. "Nothing changed." Apparently, she was expecting some grand ceremony to happen once she was free from the tower.
"Well sorry, abou-" Before finishing, a light surrounded them all and they teleported.
Ed finally reached the last floor of the tower. Unlike what he expected, it was a large ring arena. It looked like it spanned at least 20km in diameter, giving a lot of freedom to the challengers, and boss alike.
'Will this be a one boss challenge?' Ed wondered as he strolled around the ring. He had his guard up in case of some traps.
"Edward!!" The Angel's voice sounded urgent, which caused Ed's heart to leap. In fact, everyone was startled and approached her in a hurry. She was at the edge of the ring waving at them.
"What's wrong?!" Worry could be heard from Ed's voice. Although he could see she was alright, he still worried about her. She was a new companion, a very new one, but it didn't change the fact that she is his companion.
"The ring is flying in the air!" She played with her wings excitedly while looking outside. Ed also took a look and noticed that they were indeed flying. In fact, flying is a wrong word. They were suspended in the air. The ring was unmoving, and nothing could enter or leave it. Ed noticed that there was no creature outside the ring, so no one would enter. But, when attempting to leave, he found a barrier surrounding the place.
"Isn't it cool?!" The Angel was still in high spirits. Ed asked her about her reason for being so jolly, and it turns out that she never left the Acropolis. Her routine was simply to spawn and fight. She was a blank slate in everything other than that, much similar to Sieg, but actually a little worse since Sieg at least had the undead keeping him company.
"You…Oh, by the way, you don't have a name do you?" Ed's words attracted her attention, and she flew down towards him. She shook her head a few times in agreement with his words.
"Then how about Merry?" Ed asked her, but he knew she would accept. The name is one that describes her personality very well.
"Merry…I like it!" She flew around in circles, repeating her name as if she was afraid of forgetting it.
"My liege," Sieg didn't change the way he addressed Ed this time. When Ed looked toward him, he pointed at a magic circle. 'That's the boss.' Ed and the others got ready for combat. Even Agumon digivolved into MetalGreymon in preparation. After a couple of seconds, smoke came out of the circle, indicating a grand entrance.
"What the hell is that?!!" Ed was surprised by what came out of the smoke. A 1.6-meter tall humanoid figure stood there looking at them.
A squeak came out as the figure drew a rapier. The figure looked like a rabbit, with long ears, buck teeth, and a fluffy tail. On top of that, its clothes consisted of a large hat, with bunny ear holes, that had a feather plume. A black tabard with a white Fleur-de-lis design on both sides. A white undershirt, and leather pants, shoes, and gloves. 'A bunny musketeer? Bunnyketeer?' Ed thought to himself.
The Bunnyketeer approached them at high speed. The rapier in front of its face, as if indicating the start of a duel to the death. Its speed was very impressive. That is until, "Eh? Raikou?!" Ed noticed that Raikou's eyes shone as if a hunter found its prey. The next instant, He was already behind the bunny as he clad himself in lightning. The next thing that happened shocked everyone. Raikou who was behind the bunny…snapped its neck killing it instantly.
'…' Everyone, including Raikou, had a blank look on their face. "What the hell is wrong with the Bunnyketeer?!" Ed shouted in disappointment. He thought that the bunny was a strong challenger, but instead, it was very weak.
"Bunnyketeer?" Merry heard what Ed said, and started laughing loudly. 'Oh no!' Ed noticed everyone's looks and started feeling embarrassed. They all started teasing Ed about his naming sense.
"By the way Raikou, what's the boss we killed on the first floor?" Ed changed the subject to something that mattered more. He noticed that the bunny was weak; it was definitely not the twelfth floor's boss. He had a hard time remembering the first floor boss due to its weakness.
"Big Bunny Suu ~~" Suika answered instead of Raikou.
"Perhaps, the last floor is a re-challenge of all the floor bosses." Ed thought of a possibility, and his hopes and expectations soared. The boss that they killed right now was not the one they met on the first floor. But this didn't mean they wouldn't meet those that they killed. In such a case, they still had a chance of encountering Mehen.
The interval between boss spawns turned out to be the same as the other floors. It took a week for the second boss to appear before them. It the three golems again, and were dispatched easily. Ed was now inside the tower for eight months. By the time he kills the last boss, he would still have enough time to return to Avalon kingdom.
Ed spent the week in between training and resting. He would train for two days straight inside his dimension, and rest for one normal day. He was now focusing on his Telekinesis which was at level one. He could barely move one thing on the first day, but as time continued he started improving. Ed felt that the skill was similar to a rope made by thousands upon thousands of threads. The more he trains, the more threads are untangled, enabling him to control more things.
Ed also didn't forget to cook food for everyone. Especially Merry whose first time tasting food was at Ed's hands. She was even more excited compared to the time when she noticed the flying ring. Ed was thinking about making some desert, but he lacked the ingredients. He could only make them after he gets out of the tower.
Weeks went by, and Ed continued to kill bosses. They encountered the Kyuubi again, which lost its previous threatening aura in front of Ed's group. The floor boss in place of Sieg was a six-meter tall zombie/ghoul hybrid which had devastating attack power.
Since the eighth-floor boss was defeated, a week passed and the ninth floor boss was spawning. Ed could only look in anticipation, hoping that is would be Mehen.
Hello everyone! There will be a change in the number of chapters posted. I will reduce it to 4 chapters a week.
JK, Instead of on Sunday, I will release three chapters tomorrow. These chapters will mark the end of Volume two, which will end in a massive cliffhanger. After which I'll take a year-long hiatus muhahahaha!
remember, since I will post three chapters tomorrow, there will not be a third chapter on Sunday.
Hope you enjoy the chapter^^(And forgive my little prank :P)
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