The Stairs of the Ancient Dragon Five Star Hotel

Sylver continues rushing through the building stairs, taking them two at a time and only occasionally stopping to slaughter the demons along the way. But as he makes his way further up the building, he eventually realizes just how powerful the demons are getting and slows down a little bit.

It’s only the fortieth floor, and there are already level sixties? Shouldn’t they be higher up if this is a Class I…

His eyes widen in shock as he mutters, “Oh shit.”

In a rush to confirm his theory, Sylver speeds up his stair climbing to leaping from the bottom of each staircase to the top without wasting any time until he eventually runs into a Class II, level 102 Demon Fomorian. The creature has a humanoid form with grayish green scales coating its entire body, a set of worn out looking leather armor, and the head of a crocodile with a sword as equally worn out looking as its armor.

“Fuck!” he shouts before jumping around the creature’s sword to throw a bolt of silver lightning at its back, which he follows up shortly by extending a blade from the armor at his wrist and stabbing it into the creature’s neck. Sylver then reaches out and taps a few times on the terminal on his arm, sending a call out that is quickly accepted by Sage. “This is not a Class I Fracture! I repeat! This is not a Class I Fracture!”

Sage’s face changes from her usually indifferent one to show surprise before her eyes narrow and she asks, “A Hidden Core?”

Sylver nods his head as he starts running up the stairs again.

A couple seconds pass with the only noise being that of the demons in the building and his feet touching the stairs until it’s broken by Sage eventually saying, “Confirmed. On second diagnosis of the building, Class II signatures can be read from floor seventy and up. And on further analysis and inquiries to the bunkers on the floors surrounding the suspected location of the Class I core, we have confirmed that a bunker was indeed sealed by a panicked individual after they saw demons attempting to leave the bunker. However, the individual felt too guilty to come forward about it until asked, and it was therefore left unreported until now.”

The man nods his head, “Thanks,” before ending the call, slaughtering another fomorian, and then pausing.

Scarlet is left down there unknowing of the other core…

He frowns as he looks back down the stairs, only to shake his head and continue climbing upwards anyways.

She can handle herself if it’s just the first half of a Class I Fracture.

Despite that thought, he does send a drone back down the stairs without stopping, with the drone having the orders to relay a message to her.

Scarlet

The first four floors don’t take long to clear of demons as all there are on them are the level ones through level fives, and I can hear every last one thanks to my ears.

I don’t stop moving until I reach the fifth floor, where I pause at the stairs to ask, “Show me my System messages please.” And the System immediately does as asked, showing a pretty impressive list of messages, most of which are from me killing lower leveled demons.

{Level 3 Demon Spawn defeated. An EXP penalty has been extracted for killing a creature below your level.} x14

{Level 1 Demon Spawn defeated. An EXP penalty has been extracted for killing a creature below your level.} x20

{Level 2 Demon Spawn defeated. An EXP penalty has been extracted for killing a creature below your level.} x21

{Level 4 Demon Spawn defeated. An EXP penalty has been extracted for killing a creature below your level.} x10

{Level 5 Demon Spawn defeated. An EXP penalty has been extracted for killing a creature below your level.} x7

{One Skill Point is awarded for killing a demon.} x39

{Ten Skill Points are awarded for killing over one hundred demons total. Skill Points will no longer be earned through killing demons ten or more levels beneath your own.}

{Ten Skill Points are awarded for killing ten each of three or more different types of Demon Spawn.}

{Congrats, you have leveled up to level 16. Two Free Points have been awarded to you and your stats have been updated.}

{Congrats, you have leveled up to level 17. Two Free Points have been awarded to you and your stats have been updated.}

[Skill ‘Blood Siphon’ has leveled up to level 3.]

[Skill ‘Life Drain’ has leveled up to level 2.]

I can’t help but grin at the pleasant feeling of raising my stats after using the free points before opening my status to check out my stats and total skill points.

Name: Scarlet Asger

Species: Human/Blood Lycan Hybrid

Magic: Blood

Age: 19

Level: 17

SP: 103

Stats:

Physical: 52

Mental: 46

Magical: 49

Physical/Level: 2

Mental/Level: 1

Magical/Level: 2

Free Points: 0

Mana: 501/1127

Free Points/Level: 2

Active Skills:

Blood Claws

Skill Level: 3

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Blood Siphon

Skill Level: 3

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Life Drain

Skill Level: 2

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Blood Boil

Skill Level: 2

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Clean

Skill Level: Static

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Repair

Skill Level: Static

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Passive Skills:

Predator IV

Skill Level: Static

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