In the anime, their emotions can be combined into strange props

Could it be that Dreyfus, the god of death, turned them into immortals?

Then these strong men, perhaps in order to gain immortality, choose to remain in the Tower of Death forever, so that they can continue to compete with countless other masters forever.

——Anyway, this is how the background of the Tower of Death is written.

This background story may also be one of the origins of the replica of the Death Tower built by Xia Yan, where one will not really die even if they die in battle. And perhaps for this reason, they may have the opportunity to meet those powerful people who are familiar faces in the continent of Arad in the tower.

Anyway, Xia Yan used this background story as a basis and made up a corresponding task and sent it to Hikigaya and the others.

Among those who received the mission, some were probably extremely excited. After all, Xia Yan himself actually quite liked this story—men were like that, so what if they challenged the strongest?!

Well, let’s not talk about this for now.

[Please select the fragments to be invested: Purple □/Blue □□□]

As Xia Yan threw in the blue fragments, the two huge doors with reliefs of the Grim Reaper in front of him gradually opened to both sides.

As the crack in the door gradually widened, the deep darkness revealed itself, as if the gods of death on both sides were personally inviting him to step into the darkness, undergo the trial of death, and prove his identity as a strong man!

Xia Yan had two goals in entering the Tower of Death. The first was to test the Tower of Death's more specific mechanisms and rules, and the second was to...

DNF has high-level equipment from rare to artifact, epic, various recovery items, various secondary job puppets and other items, equipment enhancement, and most importantly...

There are various professional systems that can climb to the first, second, and even third awakening, heading straight for the God-killing!

These are all Xia Yan’s goals. This time, let’s see how many floors of the Tower of Death he can climb and how much he can gain.

As for the DNF professions that suit him, he seemed to be able to think of them instinctively without even thinking: Mind Qi, Fighter...

"Om~"

As Xia Yan stepped into the huge gate of the Tower of Death with his thoughts in a trance, he suddenly became distracted and when he came to his senses, he found that the place he came to was not the stone-like tower of the Tower of Death.

Instead, it was in a gloomy forest with a gloomy sky and a light rain.

"Swish swish~"

And in the forest, there was a strange big cat that seemed to be enlarged to almost human size. It was gray-brown and skinny, but had a pair of huge bloody claws. It was kicking the trees in the forest left and right, leaping quickly as if leaving a trail of afterimages, and waving its claws to attack Xia Yan.

"Cat demon, huh? Its speed is pretty good."

Xia Yan's eyes moved quickly, easily following the cat demon's high-speed jumping left and right figure. In addition to his comments, the scene prompts also sounded:

Death Tower, first floor, number of monsters: 1 Cat Demon (Level , Silver)

"Crack!"

Facing the cat demon that pounced from mid-air, Xia Yan casually kicked it high in the chin, breaking the bones of its entire head and sending it flying backwards into the sky.

One kick, dead.

As he passed through the first level of the Tower of Death, a circle of light green light suddenly spread out from Xia Yan's body. He was stunned for a moment when he saw this. Although his body did not change much, he seemed to remember something.

At this moment, the surrounding scene suddenly changed. Although the environment was still in the forest, the distribution of trees and shrubs had changed significantly.

Moreover, the most conspicuous monster that Xia Yan saw first this time turned into a tall figure with a height of more than 2.2 meters.

It is in human form, with gray-white horns pointing upwards, green skin, muscular body, and a bull's head.

Death Tower, Second Floor, Monsters: 1 Minotaur Vanguard (Level 1, Blue), Cyan, Red, and Throwing Goblin (Level , Blue)

"Just right."

Looking at the minotaur charging towards him with its head lowered and its sharp horns, Xia Yan secretly changed his usual fighting method. He bent the five fingers of his right hand and gathered them at his waist in the shape of a palm.

Then the mental energy gathered here, and as he pushed out with his palm, a basketball-sized mental bullet suddenly shot out from his palm.

This is the release-type use of Nen ability, and it is a skill that Xia Yan has hardly ever used. It doesn't even have a name for the move.

If he uses his mind energy to strengthen his body for combat, this strengthening method can exert the same power as 100 points of mind energy.

If used as a release system, theoretically he could only exert 80 points of power. In reality, the power of the release system attack he launched was less than 40 points, which is less than half of the theoretical value. More than half of the energy was wasted.

There's no way around it. This is a problem of insufficient training. After all, Xia Yan has always focused on strengthening his body for combat, and hasn't practiced much in the techniques of using mental energy to release energy.

Of course, the use of this insufficiently trained psychic bullet also depends on what kind of enemy it is used against.

Against a fourth-level monster, or even a third-level monster, this telekinetic bomb wouldn't be enough, but if it was against an ordinary Minotaur.

Xia Yan's mental bullet penetrated the chest of the bull-headed striker without slowing down, and continued to shoot behind it, finally landing among the goblins and suddenly exploding!

From then on, the whole team was wiped out!

The reason why he had to use such a troublesome skill to deal with these monsters was mainly to test the mechanism of the Death Tower that had just affected him.

As expected, as Xia Yan passed the second level, a circle of light green light spread out from his body again, and the mental energy that he had just forcibly consumed was replenished at once.

This made Xia Yan's eyes light up. It seemed that in terms of recovery, the mechanism of this Death Tower was the same as the original one: every time a level was passed, the challenger's health and mana bar (mind energy) would be restored in proportion.

In this way, the challenge mechanism of the Death Tower is also quite clear.

Chapter 130 Female Qigong Master Anasta

Don’t think that Xia Yan looks very relaxed when dealing with these monsters in the Death Tower.

In reality, this was just a benefit for him to fight low-level monsters that were not in line with his current strength level.

When he reaches higher levels and gradually encounters enemies of equal strength, he will inevitably be injured and face the more serious problem of exhaustion of his mental energy and a significant reduction in his combat power.

At this point, every time you clear a level of the Death Tower, you will recover about... 10% of your health blue bar, which will become extremely valuable.

Therefore, the way to challenge the Death Tower is to fight quickly in the early stage, and use the recovery effect in the tower to maintain a perfect state until the middle stage;

Then in the mid-game, when facing enemies close to your strength, you must start to carefully consider the skills you want to use. While controlling the extent of your injury, try to reduce your mana consumption as much as possible - after all, the recovery effect in the tower is divided into health and mana. You must try to take advantage of all the recovery effects to fight this protracted battle.

Only in this way can you try your best to reach higher levels of the Death Tower and get more rewards.

And in the later stages... well, at this time you have to consider whether to quit while you are ahead or die with dignity.

After all—the Tower of Death has 45 floors.

Soon, Xia Yan felt the pressure that came with climbing higher levels.

Monster on the third floor of the Death Tower, Minotaur Guardian (Level 2, Purple)

On the fourth floor, the Minotaur guards were still leading the charge, but it had become a Minotaur charging head-on, cat demons roaming outside, and goblins attacking from a distance. It was a standard mix of monsters from the Gran Forest, coming to gang up on him and trick a small adventurer.

Then to the fifth floor...

"Roar!!"

A giant bull-headed beast with brown skin, over six meters tall and weighing more than 20 tons when standing up, opened its mouth full of fangs and roared fiercely at Xia Yan in front of it.

In an instant, the air in front of it seemed to vibrate.

The Minotaur, the weakest lord boss in Gran Forest, is the epitome of being strong on the outside but weak on the inside.

Although it could support the strength and physique of its huge body, it was indeed very powerful. With a few punches, it would create two or three meter deep pits. Its huge roar could also stun nearby enemies, allowing its attacks to hit them, but...

Its movement and attack speed are too slow. After all, it has such a bulky body. As long as the attack power is strong enough, it can be easily kited to death by the enemy, for example, by bombarding it with multiple rocket launchers.

Therefore, its strength rating is only Level 3, White Name.

The good news now is that the Minotaur is indeed a bit strong on the outside but weak on the inside, and the bad news is... it has the strength of a third level, and this is only the fifth level!

Xia Yan took a few steps back, then suddenly raised his left arm with a sigh. At this time, he was already wearing armor covering both arms with the Quinque Armor Dragon Claw.

As he moved, the armor on his left arm began to rise at the front, and then a bright yellow electric light began to flash inside it with a "sizzling" sound, and the next moment.

"boom!"

The Ming Shen Yu Cannon roared and shot out a column of lightning, crossing the sky.

"Gah?"

The bull-headed beast's originally ferocious roar came to an abrupt halt. The next moment, bright yellow lightning instantly pierced through its head, plunging its consciousness into complete darkness.

The continent of Arad is truly a world worthy of being called a high-magic, or even a super-magic world.

Not to mention the fights between gods in the later stages, even the lowest-level monsters are a bit ridiculously strong.

The ordinary cat monsters on the first floor of the Tower of Death are the weakest monsters that can be found except for goblins.

However, even monsters of this level are only comparable to top-tier martial artists or parasitic beasts in the main world.

After this entry-level benefit level ends, starting from the second level, the strength of the monsters in the Death Tower will generally increase to level two, and from the fifth level onwards, they will generally be level three.

Although as Xia Yan gradually fought his way upstairs, he found that what kind of monster he could "shake" out seemed to be determined by a lot of luck. Sometimes the monster that was shaken out would be stronger, and sometimes weaker, but no matter how weak it was, it would not be weaker than a certain threshold.

Judging from these examples, it may be a problem for Hikigaya to even pass the 3rd floor, so it is a pure waste to let him enter the Death Tower.

For others, reaching the 5th level is a hurdle, and whether they can pass it depends on luck. Even if they pass this threshold, they will definitely not be able to reach the 10th level.

because……

[Ninth Floor of the Tower of Death, Guardian: Anasta the Unable (Level 4, White)]

When Xia Yan stepped onto the ninth floor, he found that this floor seemed particularly unusual, because in the darkness, the first thing he saw was a shield with a cross emblem printed on it, and the words "Absolute Defense" appeared on it.

When the image disappeared, the person who appeared opposite him was a girl with short, slightly curly golden hair that fell over her shoulders. She was wearing a plain white swallowtail dress with gorgeous patterns and a lot of velvet trim on the neckline and hem. Her fair, firm and attractive thighs could be seen from the front.

Although she was dressed like an elegant noblewoman, the light arm armor on her hands that extended past her elbows revealed her identity: a female fighter.

Moreover, Xia Yan discovered that the surrounding environment had changed for the first time. It was supported by elegant marble columns with carved patterns, and black square floors were staggered. Behind both the enemy and the friendly forces, there appeared a tower scene with stairs going up and down with luxurious red carpets.

And for the first time, the figure of the referee-like God of Death Dreyfus appeared between the two who were about to fight.

"Ah, another stupid challenger? No, it seems like you, a little challenger, are also a fighter? But why does your energy seem a little off?"

The female Qigong master, Anasta, spread her slender fingers covered in arm armor, proudly raised her head, and placed them lightly against her lips. Just like her appearance, she made a teasing sound like a passionate elder sister: "It's not very clear. In that case, let me, the elder sister, use my body to experience it personally and teach you personally, little brother~"

Xia Yan's eyelids twitched when he heard this. Of course, it wasn't because of this guy's teasing... Well, that was partly the reason, but more of it was - he hadn't played the game for a very long time, but what was with that inexplicable sense of déjà vu that this guy exuded?

Just at this moment, Anastasia, just like Xia Yan had done before, suddenly put her right hand at her waist, and a huge white energy turned into substance and rose from her right hand.

In just a blink of an eye, Anasta's right palm suddenly pushed out, and a terrifying charged energy cannon with a width of nearly ten meters pushed horizontally and pressed towards Xia Yan.

Seeing this, Xia Yan quickly dodged and his mouth twitched as he remembered something.

"Fuck! It's you! The Explosive Maniac, the clone of the Tower of Delusion!"

Chapter 131: Mind Qi Guidance Battle

Anastas's telekinetic cannon has a very large coverage area and its firing speed is also very fast.

In the end, Xia Yan used the Mingshen on his left arm to shoot out a beam of lightning, which offset some of the power of the mind-accumulating cannon, and was then able to break out from the side of its edge.

But the next second, after the huge telekinetic cannon that blocked his entire vision disappeared, he saw Annatas in the distance. At this time, her right hand with arm armor was already gracefully waving in front of her.

In an instant, in the area where her right palm passed, waves of mental energy emitting blue light quickly formed one by one in mid-air and shot towards Xia Yan.

Although the size of these mind energy waves is not as exaggerated as the mind cannon just now, each one is close to half a person's height in diameter, so their power should not be underestimated.

However, seeing this, Xia Yan did not retreat but advanced. While rushing forward, he also adjusted Ming Shen's attack mode. With a sweep of his left arm, several similar spherical lightning bolts were shot out.

"Boom~"

The light blue and bright yellow lightning balls collided in the air, exploding into balls of dazzling lightning and exciting lightning.

The essence of the Qigong master's mind energy has been transformed into a light-attributed form, and most of his skills also carry electric damage. Therefore, when he and Xia Yan, who also transformed the RC cells into lightning properties, clashed against each other, they produced this kind of thunder-exploding effect.

"Flow, bang!"

Xia Yan controlled the flow of mental energy to his right fist, and with one punch, he intercepted all the enemy's less accurate mental energy waves. After blowing up the remaining mental energy waves in mid-air, he continued to swing the remaining punch towards Annatas' beautiful face.

Anastas looked at the punch that was almost coming in front of her without any mercy. She was not panicked at all and had no intention of dodging. Instead, she spread her white legs apart, clenched her fists and put them at her waist, as if she was going to withstand the blow.

And this was indeed the case. As her powerful mental energy spread, a golden circular protective shield rose out of thin air about two meters around her in an instant.

All-round 360° defense without blind spots - Mind Shield!