EX-Grade Ability Card: Tower Ascension with My Absolute Restoration-Chapter 42: Limits

"Wait, how can he even move that fast?"

"Forget about his speed, he’s so nimble for his size as well!"

"Stop talking about him, try to search for him again! We don’t know if there are other factions who is aiming for his life!"

Somewhere even farther away from where the previously dispatched group was hiding, another group is current observing Azrael, this one starting to get panicky as they also lost vision of him all of a sudden, some of them even worrying that they might just be the next one to be murdered brutally by the young man.

"Still, that is really scary, dealing with more than a dozen fifth-floor ascenders in such a short amount of time" recalling the event that just unfolded, one among these ladies mentioned making the remaining ones agree with her words, acknowledging just how powerful this man is.

"Enough chattering, we already lost that man, beware of your surroundings, we never know when and where he might attack us..." interrupting the conversations between the other ladies, the one who seems to be the leader of this group said, her words authoritative enough to stop the already gossiping ladies, her reminders making them wary of their surroundings as they gradually start decreasing their movement speed in order to focus more on what is happening around them.

After almost an hour of feeling tense, recalling how easily the young man they are observing dealt with fellow fifth-floor ascenders from a different legia, these ladies finally let themselves relax as there’s not even a single threatening movement that they detected in their surroundings other than the ones that came from monsters.

"He’s really smart, to think he would leave us behind like this..." realizing that the young man has no intention of dealing with them in the first place, the leader of the group said as she shakes her head feeling defeated in a battle of wits she never knew she was competing against their target.

"Whatever, it’s not like we’re here to do something against him, the leader only mentioned to deal with other people that might find trouble with him, but seeing how easily he dealt with those from the Heavenly Sword Pavilion, I doubt he even needs our help in the first place" the one previously praising Azrael’s skills pointed out, her words earning the agreement of even their leader as she decided not to dwell too much on this matter anymore.

"Let’s return to the tenth floor and report everything that happened to the leader" she said with a stern voice, earning the nod of her members, their figures disappearing from the lush green forest, leaving nothing but specks of light that seem to disappear after a brief moment as well.

Meanwhile, the person they are previously trailing now arrives at his destination, a massive city specifically built for ascenders like them, the lively streets of the city filled with people bargaining for themselves to gain more benefits from the person they are trading with, with some of this bargains and trades even resulting to violence, something not really surprising given the obvious disparity between ascenders in this place.

Minding his own business though, the young man then masterfully moves and weaves across the road, moving towards the store where he sold his loot for the past week, smiling as he starts looking forward to how much he is about to earn today.

While he is still on the way to said store though, he is also looking at the floating azure screen created by the guide, specifically staring at his current stats now far different from when he just took his first step on the second floor of the tower, the base numbers already reaching the limits of what a second-floor ascender can have.

However, due to his Evil Fang Sword, Azrael’s stats had broken through the limits of the second floor, something that pleasantly surprises him as he now gains even more confidence dealing with the monster guarding the greatest treasure of the second floor.

’Of course, that would be after I dealt with the boss of the second floor, who knows what sort of useful rewards I can get from them’ hoping that he acquires something that he can use to deal with the treasure guardian of the second floor from the second floor’s boss, Azrael thought to himself as he starts scrolling to the azure screen floating right in front of him.

Name: Azrael Weiss

Floor: Second Floor (8 days)

Title: Cross-level Combatant, Decade-old Newbie

[Basic Stats]

Strength: 1000 -> 1240(actual stats due to all bonus effects from equipments)

Agility: 1000 -> 1240

Stamina: 1000 -> 1120

Dexterity: 1000 -> 1120

Intelligence: 1000

Insights: 1000

[Hidden Stats]

Perseverance: 200

Charisma: 100(Limits of First Realm beings)

Lunacy: 100 -> 101.2

[Quest]

[The Lord of the Oceans (Second Floor Main Quest)]

[Mountain Madness (Second Floor Prime Treasure Quest)]

[Skills]

[Active]

[Stone Transformation (Active)]

[Fortress Golem’s Might (Active)]

[Murderous Aura (Active)]

[Passive]

[Living and Production Skills]

[Gigantification (Passive)]

[Abilities]

[True Treasure Hunting (SSS-Rank Active Skill Card)]

[Absolute Regeneration (EX-Rank Growth-type Active Skill Card)]

[Storage]

[Fortress Golem’s Iron Heart]

[Fortress Golem’s Silver Blood]

[Rocky Scaleskin]

Looking at his stats that is anything but normal, Azrael couldn’t help but smile as he thought that maybe, this floor, he will have a little bit more ease defeating the guardian of the greatest treasure here, realizing that even if he couldn’t increase his base stats anymore, he can still improve the level of the Evil Fang Sword in order for him to increase his stats further.

Other than this, what piques his interest the most is the indicator lying right next to one of his hidden stats, Charisma, the word attached to it making him wonder what a First Realm being is.

[The ascender is not yet qualified to know about the Realms, it is recommended that the ascender reach higher floors to acquire the qualification to know about this subject]

Seeing the azure screen in front of him though, he knows that it will take some time for him to know what this realm is.