Chapitre 34: Chapter 33- Interesting Conversation

Aurora invited Zach to cohabitate with her for a free stay and free food. It was a golden offer for Zach, and Aurora was aware of it.

"Before I answer, I am amazed how you insulted me like it was a normal thing to do." Zach furrowed his brows at Aurora and uttered, "Sometimes, you are truly rude."

"But I just stated the fact. Am I wrong?" Aurora wondered with an innocent look on her face. "I didn't mean anything bad by it, and if you felt offended, then I apologize."

"Unfortunately, I can't stay at your place." Zach casually denied Aurora's golden offer.

"Why?!" Aurora exclaimed. "Is it because I said all those things?!"

"No." Zach shook his head and said, "I have already paid for the week in advance. So if I check out now, my money will be wasted."

"So, does that mean you will come after six days?!" Aurora asked with a curious and excited look on her face.

"I can't promise. Once I reach level 20, I am ascending to the first realm," Zach answered. He knitted his brows and uttered, "Wait a minute… what will happen to your house if you ascend to the higher realms?"

"According to the information provided, I will still own the house, and I can descend whenever I want. However, suppose that if I am in the first realm, I can't teleport directly to my house in this realm. I will need to descend to this realm, and then only I can enter my house."

"... why would you want to descend…?" Zach asked with a puzzled look on his face. "And you just wasted your money on the house."

"There is also an offer that I can buy houses in any realm,"

"Still, you wasted your money."

"Free of cost," she added.

"Let's talk about it in detail." Zach suddenly changed his way of talking.

"If I buy a similar type or same size house, then I can exchange for free of cost, but I will have to pay extra if I want a bigger one," she asserted.

"That's actually interesting."

"..!" Aurora recalled what Zach said a while ago and uttered, "Wait, you are going to ascend when you reach level 20?!"

"Yup."

"What about that physique requirement?"

"Everything is set. I can ascend now if I want, but I will wait until I reach level 20," Zach stated in a calm voice.

"Why 20?" Aurora wondered with a confused and curious look on her face.

"Think about it. The players who have already ascended must be stronger than me, so if I ascend now, I might be the weakest one." Zach wasn't considering his skills and Aria's blessing when he said that. He only considered his stats, which were higher than most of the players.

His physique was the biggest advantage for him, plus his unique cultivation and hidden class.

"What level are you at right now?" Aurora asked reluctantly.

"18. What about you?"

"I am also 18…" Aurora replied.

"I thought you would be higher."

"I could have been if a certain someone hadn't obliterated 75 wolf monarchs," Aurora remarked. "Thanks to me," she added.

Zach smirked and asked, "Are you salty about that?"

"Why? In fact, I am glad," Aurora answered honestly.

The smirk on Zach's face vanished, and he furrowed his brows. He moved his hand to Aurora's face and pinched her nose. "Stop that."

Aurora's nose had become red as a beet, but her face was redder because of the embarrassment.

"Well then…" Zach waved to Aurora and said, "See you tomorrow."

"Wait!" Aurora stopped Zach by pulling his clothes.

"What is it?"

"Show me your status menu," Aurora demanded.

"Why?"

"So you still don't trust me even after we survived a life and death situation?" Aurora muttered with a sad and disappointed look on her face.

Zach sighed and flicked his finger on Aurora's face. "This cute face won't work on me. And It's not as though I don't want to show you my stats. Even if I did, you wouldn't understand anything."

Aurora squinted her eyes and said with a confident look on her face: "Try me."

Zach opened his status menu and showed it to Aurora.

10 seconds Later.

"What the hell is this?!" Aurora exclaimed with a baffled expression on her face. Her cute face looked terrible.

"What happened to that 'try me'?" Zach commented with a grin on his face.

Zach's current stats:

Level 18.

HP- 10500/10500

ATK- 363.

Physical Strength- 363.

Mental Strength- 800

Soul Strength- 0

Physical DEF- 340.

Mental DEF- 730

Soul DEF- 0

AGILITY- 469.

MP- 0/∞

EXP- 59850/90000 (to level up.)

Physique- Celestial- Max.

Class- Cultivator. (Maxed)

Secondary class- Healer

Guild- Not joined.

Title- 1) Forbidden Existence. 2) Child of Atrocity. 3) Sign of Impurity. 4) The Last Survivor

Skill- 1) Martial Warrior. 2) Dominator's Touch.

Zach's MP was currently Zero, so Aurora couldn't see the infinity sign.

"There are so many things I don't understand. And what are these titles?" Aurora asked with a surprised and curious look on her face. "What did you do to get such horrible titles?"

"Except the last one," she added.

"You don't need to know, or rather, I can't explain it to you even if I wanted to," Zach replied.

"I don't want to be annoying, so I won't ask any more questions." Aurora opened her status menu and showed it to Zach after saying, "Here. You can look at mine too."

Aurora's stats were:

Name- Aurora Edens.

Level- 18.

HP- 10500/10500

ATK- 390.

Physical Strength- 250.

Physical DEF- 350.

AGILITY- 300.

MP- 0/395

EXP- 14750/90000 (to level up.)

Physique- Mortal- 820/1000 (to evolve.)

Class- Warrior

Secondary class- Healer

Guild- Not joined.

Title- 1) Holy Maiden.

Skill- 1) Lyda Strike. 2) Super Healing

Aurora's stats were incredible too. However, Zach was focused on her physique.

'It was 800 before. Now it's 820.' Zach pondered for a while and uttered, "I guess you can get physique points for training your body since that's what the name means."

After talking with Aurora for a while, Zach went straight to his inn room and slept like a slob for the entire night.

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Total players in the game 109242

30977 new players logged in.

8521 players died.

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[Weekly target.]

«150 power stones- 1 chapter.» (not Reached)

«200 power stones - 2 chapters.» (not Reached)

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Author's Note - The player count in this chapter includes the time passed in the chapter + plus the entire night Zach slept (14 hours).

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Chapitre 35: Chapter 34- Tower vs Dungeons

Zach woke up and rubbed his eyes. He yawned and stretched his hands in the air.

"That was a nice sleep."

Zach opened his status menu to see how much MP did he cultivate while sleeping.

"900… not bad," Zach muttered.

He then looked at his quest menu to see his new quests.

[«Quest- Cultivate 5000 MP.»

‹Time- 6 days.›

«Reward- ???.»

Progress- 1300/5000.]

"This is the old one." Zach pondered for a while and uttered, "Even if I cultivate for three hours daily, I can finish this quest in under four days."

"Although I am more curious about the reward," he added.

[«Quest- Equip a mythical grade rank weapon.»

‹Time- ∞.›

«Reward- 50 Royal grade jade runes.»

"I already have the mythical rank weapon." Zach conjured the cursed dagger in his hand and saw the prompt.

[Congratulations! Quest 'Equip a mythical grade rank weapon.' has been completed!]

[Congratulations! You have received the reward of completing the Quest. Reward- 50 Royal grade jade runes.]

"Nice."

It hasn't even been a minute since he woke up, and he has already finished one Quest.

[«Quest- Deal 50000 DMG within one second.»

‹Time- 24 hours.›

«Reward- 1000 Epic grade material powder. (Can be used while crafting new equipment to boost its stats. 1 powder = 10 points.)»

"This type of quests are annoying," Zach sighed.

[«Quest- Reach level 25 .»

‹Time- ∞.›

«Reward- 50000 coins.»

"Now, this is what I like," he said and closed his menu.

Zach lazily got off the bed and made his way downstairs to eat breakfast. There he saw Shay and Kayden waiting for their order to arrive.

"Someone forgot to invite me," Zach remarked and sat beside Kayden as he was the closest.

"I was going to invite you, but Kayden said you might have gone to grind EXP," Shay defended himself and continued, "You are alone? Where is that chick from yesterday?"

"Who knows." Zach shrugged his shoulders and said, "She must be wandering around this realm."

Zach had told Aurora to message him whenever she goes to clear dungeons or towers. Since Aurora hadn't messaged him yet, Zach assumed she must be busy with something else.

The waiter placed the dishes on the table while saying, "Here is your order."

Zach ordered his breakfast and opened his friend list to check something.

"Phew!" he sighed in relief after confirming Aurora's name was still there. He was afraid that she might have gone somewhere alone and died.

"So…" Shay took a bite and asked Zach: "Have you two done it yet?"

"Hmm?"

"You know what I am talking about." Shay winked at Zach with a knowing look.

"Oh! No… what the hell is wrong with you?" Zach replied with a disgusted look on his face.

"What do you mean? That's a normal thing to ask…" Shay turned to Kayden and said, "Is it not, Kayden?"

"Well…" Kayden looked at Zach from the corners of his eyes and replied, "Zach's normal is different than ours."

"Argh!" Zach groaned and wondered with a curious look on his face: "is it possible to do it in the game, though?"

"Yeah." Shay nodded. "In fact, almost 50% of the VR game players play a VR game for that."

"I wouldn't be surprised if that's true," Zach scoffed.

"You know, even the players who are in a relationship in the real world do it with other players for fun," Shay added.

"Isn't that cheating?"

"They say 'It's not real, so it's not cheating'," Kayden quipped.

"Oh!" Zach exclaimed and uttered, "Just like how some say, 'Sex with a condom isn't cheating because you are not making direct contact.' This is like an upgraded version of that one, right?"

"Yup."

"I don't understand why would they cheat if they truly love their partner?" Kayden asked with a disappointed look on his face.

"Heh!" Shay scoffed and said, "You have never been in a relationship before, so you wouldn't understand. Even Zach has been in a relationship. You should give up on your step-sister and find someone else."

"There is no need for that," Kayden replied in a calm tone. "We are engaged now."

"How long are you going to—" Shay stopped speaking and furrowed his brows, "What did you say?!"

"Misha and I got engaged, and our parents know about it," Kayden repeated.

"When did that happen?!" Shay exclaimed in disbelief.

"Last week."

"Why didn't you tell me about it?!"

"Someone was busy with his birthday party when I called him to inform the news," Kayden stared at Shay with a furious look on his face.

Zach and Shay's birthdays are on the same day, so they couldn't celebrate them together at once.

Zach's order arrived, and all of them ate without speaking a word.

After that, Zach received a message from Aurora: [Do you want to try out the towers?]

Zach had nothing else to do, so he agreed.

Unlike the dungeon, the player could retreat at any time— even in the middle of the battle. Hence, most players preferred that over the dungeon. However, the EXP gain from the tower was only 10% of that of the dungeon. But the tower guaranteed treasure chests to drop on every boss floor.

The tower was similar to the dungeon in one aspect, that was the tower type. The players could play solo and with a team, where the players were rewarded according to the DMG dealt to the monsters.

Zach cleared the first 20 floors of towers with Aurora and returned to the inn after late noon. Unfortunately, the HP of the monsters on the first 20 floors was low, so Zach couldn't complete any of his quests.

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Total players in the game 127873

20952 new players logged in.

2321 players died.