Delia stood on the tree, covering herself with the lush leaves, camouflaging behind the leaves while closing her eyes. Her eyes closed, but she could see everything around her very clearly up to a 2 km radius, a wide radius that gave her an advantage when she went hunting.
She did not see directly using her eyes, but she got the big picture of her surroundings as well as the living being in her range. It was more like an awareness of her surroundings than a vision.
She located all the beasts in the radius and picked her target discreetly. It was one of the abilities of her new talent, Primal Nature Heart. After finding her target, she moved silently between the trees, and her instructor followed her.
Her silent movement was something he learned a day after learning from her new instructor. The silent movement helped her to cover her movement, not alerting the sensitive beast with a high perception. Of course, her silent movement was still worse than her instructor's.
Delia stopped as she found her target, the deer and cat mixture creature that her instructor requested to look for. The creature was called Tharlynx, a beast with tasty meat, a delicacy. Her instructor told her that her husband hunted Tharlynx, but did not share it with her instructor. That was why her instructor made such a request when he found out about her perception ability.
They found a group of eight Tharlynx, and Akumbo's eyes lit up as he finally got to taste this delicacy again. He did not remember the last time he tasted Tharlynx. He was pretty sure it was more than a year ago since he ate Tharlynx.
"I will take care of four of them, and you take care of the remaining four, Delia!" Akumbo got into a hunt mode from instructor mode.
"I don't think we will be able to take them down if we take that route, Sir," Delia shook her head, "I have my way of getting them all, but we can't alert them."
Her instructor told her many times how fast Tharlynx was, faster than most of the beast even the Demi-God Rank beast. If they moved as her instructor said, she was pretty sure that half of Tharlynx would escape.
"Do you have a way to get them all?" Akumbo was not convinced that his pupil could do something he could not.
"I guess I can show you," Delia smiled proudly as she gestured at him to stay while she was closing the distance. After making sure that she was close enough, she immediately got into action. She did not use her bow, but another ability she received from her new talent.
The group of eight Tharlynx were enjoying their fresh grass until something came out from the ground. A green vine shot up from the group, catching all the Tharlynx. The vine was the size of a human head, and it pierced Tharlynx's belly, pushing them up into the air.
The Tharlynx did not immediately die, they struggled in the air for a solid ten seconds. Their blood gushed down through the vein, painting the vine with their blood. Their struggle only quickened their death as they stopped moving soon after.
Just like that, Delia caught eight Tharlynx, all of them at once. That was right, it was one of the abilities from the Primal Nature Heart. She could create a vine out of nowhere, but the condition was the soil. The foundation for the ability was the soil or tree. She could not create the vines from stone or asphalt, and it took a lot of mana to create those vines.
Delia grinned at her instructor, and then they came down together.
"Since you get them all, I will only take one… or maybe two…" Akumbo wanted to take four, but he was not shameless enough to ask for four or even three when he did nothing.
"You can take four, Sir," Delia smiled, shaking her head, "You know that my husband has many of them, no? You can take more."
"But this is not my prey… You get them…" Akumbo's voice was getting lower and lower.
Delia shrugged as she put four Tharlynx's corpses into her inventory, "Then we can let the other beasts feast for the remaining two Tharlynx."
"Since you don't want it, then I will take it," Akumbo was quite fast as the remaining four corpses disappeared in an instant, then his eyes locked on the vine that slowly retreated to the ground.
"You never use this during training. Is this a new skill?" He had never seen the vine before, this was the first time he saw Delia using the skill.
"It's a new ability, but I don't really use it because I am learning to be a hunter. I only practiced the ability when we were not hunting. It's my combat ability, not to hunt," Delia was serious about being a hunter. She tried to limit her skills that specialized for hunting only, honing her hunting skills and ability.
"I see…" Akumbo knew the boundary and did not pry further, "So what do you want to hunt today? We still have a half afternoon before the night."
Delia shook her head, "I think we are done for the training, Sir. I have something important tomorrow, and I have to return to get ready."
Today was his fifth day on the second floor. Tomorrow was the day that she would go for an outing with her sisters and her husband. Getting stronger and being useful was important, but there was no more important than spending her time with her husband. On top of that, she had reached her short-term goal, faster than she thought. She reached level 3000 yesterday and was ready for the Legend Rank Trial.
Even if there was no outing with her husband tomorrow, it was time for her to return and be prepared for the trial.
"I will come back once I finish my Legend Rank Trial."
"I see," Akumbo nodded understandingly and smiled, "Then I will be waiting for your return, my pupil."
Tang Shaoyang sped up from the third floor to the tenth floor. He took it slow at first, but he quickly realized that he might not have enough time to reach the eleventh floor unless he wanted to miss his outing with his family. Of course, he didn't want to miss his family outing and used his spirits and the skeleton army to climb the tower as fast as he could.
He managed to finish the tenth floor which had the same quest for the first floor, defeating a floor boss. This took longer than he thought because it was a demon world. All the natives were demons, and they were hostile toward humans. Even though he was a quarter demon, the demon natives regarded him as a human because of his looks.
Even after showing his real rank and power, the demon would rather die than help him. He had no choice but to slaughter the beast and monsters to lure out the boss monster, but it seemed the pattern changed.
No matter how many beasts and monsters he killed, the floor boss did not come out. That meant he must find the floor boss, and it took him almost a day to find the floor boss which was a God Rank Archdemon.
[You have killed the floor boss, Delos the Archdemon!]
[You can access the eleventh floor!]
Tang Shaoyang picked up the treasure chest and the Archdemon's body. It was a God Rank body, a worthy sacrifice. Then he left for the eleventh floor.
He only had less than a day to find out what was on the eleventh floor, and if possible, he wanted to go to the thirteenth or fifteenth floor. He realized that this was a fifty-floor tower. There was no worthy opponent from the first to the tenth floor, but there might be something worthy in the fifteenth or maybe the twentieth floor to really find out if the tower was worth exploring for him.
The floor boss for the tenth floor was a God Rank. The tower began revealing its fang that the tower might not be easy for him.
His vision returned and saw trees, a lot of trees. He immediately activated his Chaos Eyes to scan the surroundings and found out that he was in the middle of nowhere. There was no settlement or natives around him, just untouched lands.
Tang Shaoyang kept his Chaos Eyes up while waiting, waiting for the clue, a quest from the tower about how he got to the next floor.
Ten seconds passed… thirty seconds passed… a minute passed… five minutes passed, and he was still waiting. When six minutes passed, he stopped waiting and started to explore the eleventh floor. He found beasts, a lot of them ranging from Primordial Rank to Demi-God Rank, not a friendly floor for the Myth Rank and lower.
Tang Shaoyang avoided the beast and was looking for a settlement that might be a clue. To her surprise, there was no settlement, no natives. It was truly untouched land, a wild jungle filled with fierce beasts.
"Do I have to find the floor boss?" He asked himself as he kept exploring the jungle. When the tower didn't give him a quest or a clue, it was usually the floor boss type. He must defeat the floor boss if he wants to go to the next floor. But he was baffled as this was the first time on a floor with no natives.
Not even a tribe of monsters lived in this jungle, and he kept looking for another two hours, and he was convinced that there were no natives on this floor. Even though he could not find the natives, he found a lot of natural resources and resource points.
He had found two gardens and two mines in two hours, and he found a wild plant that might be a herb as well.
"What should I do now? Should I start looking for a floor boss?"
Tang Shaoyang was at a loss as each floor usually had its own system, but this was totally different than the previous floors. He could speed run to the next floor, but he was afraid that the other factions might take these resources.