章 13: Chapter 12

Seeing the puppet in fighting stance Robin realized she needed to defeat the puppet to advance to next level.

She immediately summoned five clones and surrounded the puppet after running around in a haphazard way to make the opponent loose track of the original one, surprisingly the puppet was facing the real one, no matter what she did the puppet would always identify the real one. Seeing her clone strategy will be useless in this fight , she dispelled her clones attacked the puppet , but to her dismay no matter how many time she managed to pummel the puppet into the ground it would stand back up and assume the first stance , soon Robin realized the only way defeat the puppet was via using the the martial art she just learnt. Sure enough as soon as she tried to attack with one of the stances, the puppet immediately countered her with another stance so picking up pace Robin attacked the puppet quickly but accurately and thanks to her observation Haki she was able to predict the puppets every move hence suppressing it completely without even letting it attack once. Sure enough the puppet was defeated once again but now with her newly acquired martial art. And the gate that was blocking the stairs to descend opened. As the gate was opening an announcement appeared in her mind, according to it Robin had completed the first floor in one day and still had 729 days remaining to complete the fire trial.

The second floor was exactly like the first one except there seems to 2 boxes full of weapons at the entrance , after picking a glaive she went and stood in the center and this time the martial arts being taught was for one with weapons.

Unlike the first floor the second had 100 stances to complete and as soon as Robin completed 100 stances in 50 seconds the puppet guarding the exit prepared itself for a fight. The puppet was holding a glaive too. As soon as the puppet came to the middle Robin attacked immediately. Unlike the puppet in the first floor Robin wasn't able to suppress the puppet, the puppet was able to trade blow to blow with Robin. The puppet this time was faster and seemed to have basic observation Haki. As the fight progressed Robin started to use her Qi to improve her speed and power, luckily the puppet wasn't able to match Robin's speed now, but the puppet had its own ace up its sleeve. The puppet started to externalize the fire Qi that was generated from the martial arts, this greatly surprised Robin, but luckily Robin's skin and internal organs had been strengthened by Armament haki and Metal Qi combo and recently been tempered by the fire Qi of her own, hence puppets fire imbued attacks did not burn Robin even in the slightest. After a gruelling fight, Robin had come out on top mainly due to her superior speed and observation Haki. As soon as she defeated the puppet the exit unlocked and Robin was informed that she had taken 9 days to complete this floor. Robin instead of proceeding to next floor decided to meditate for a short time to consolidate what she learnt from the fight. During her short meditation she realized couple of things, even though it had been over 10 days she didn't feel hungry, as previously she could go almost 5 days without food, and even though she had used up nearly 30% of her Qi, her Qi reserves was already full and she without her knowledge had yet another break through in her cultivation, she was now had 60% of her previous lifetimes cultivation, generally she needed about an hour to fill 10% of her With when depleted and most importantly importantly even though she felt a bit fatigued after her fight, she was now already in her top condition. Realizing all this Robin decided to make the best use of the recovery speed provided by the tower and increase her cultivation as much as possible, as one of the best ways to increase one's cultivation was to deplete and recover Qi over and over again.

What excited her the most was that as she descends she might be able to find a way to externalize her Qi just like the puppet.

After she had finished analysing and consolidating she went down the stairs. The stairs this time seemed much longer than previous one. As she was about to reach the halfway mark, suddenly large amounts of flame came from the third floor engulfed the next half of the steps. Robin realized that the fire in front of her was capable of completely turning her into ashes. It was obvious that to reach the next room she had to walk through the fire, and the only way she knew how was to externalize her flame Qi and produce flame armor of higher purity than the fire in front of her. This was similar to one of the simple tests used in her previous world to test a person's understanding in laws of fire.

It looked like it was up to Robin to find a way to externalize her Qi and the tower won't be assisting her.