The portal appeared again. Xenos entered it again. In the next ten floor all the monsters were phoenix, but in each floor their elements changed. In 51th floor fire phoenix, 52th floor ice phoenix, 53 thunder phoenix, 54th floor light phoenix, 55th floor dark phoenix and from floor 56 to 59, all the previous elements phoenix were present.
But in floor 60, only one of the phoenix had a terrifying elements. It was space and the phoenix was level 30. Killing it was the most difficult in the whole trial until now. It could teleport and release space attacks. He killed it with much hardship.
He didn't recover in any of these these 10 floors. His body was full of bruises. He had to face the phoenix's elemental breath directly countess times.
From floor 51 to 60, he was no longer the predator. Because the phoenix didn't run away from fights. They were prideful creatures. They faced him head on without any fear. But because of his curse, even after having terrifying stat difference he had to face a lot of trouble and had to take rest every 10 hours, even if it's a little.
But because of his Progression talent, his elemental resistance became terrifying. His resistance can now rival even the phoenix. He also got space affinity from the space phoenix. He can now manipulate space with his Elemental Manipulation skill.
Then he stepped into the 61th floor. He recovered completely. But...
[You have been given the curse of Numbness. Your body will feel numb every 9 hours.]
'Fuck the tower,' he just keep cursing the tower, because it's just indirectly telling that it doesn't want him to move any further.
But Xenos is also the stubborn one. Before he really wanted to just leave this tower. But seeing the tower making everything very difficult for him, he set his mind to conquering the tower.
He looked up and shouted, "Make it as much difficult you want... but I will conquer you."
Then he noticed the monsters in this floor. They were not physical monsters, rather they were spirits and all of them were level 30.
He discovered that he could not hurt spirits physically. Spirits were the natural friends of elements. They don't have any physical form. They are made of energy.
Then he tried something new. Using his energy art, he condensed surrounding energy in one place and attacked. Surprisingly, it hit the spirits and killed them.
But the spirits could also manipulate elements like it is a part of their body. So, it was not easy, because their elemental attacks were more powerful than the phoenix.
So, Xenos started cultivating his energy art. He practiced it for ten thousand years and reached the beginner stage.
Because it didn't need physical attacks, it was rather quick to kill them with his stat bost. And because his elemental resistance was very high he quickly reached the 70th floor. His curse also couldn't stop him, because he didn't need to move much excluding dodging and if his body became numb, he could use Telekinesis and Gravity Manipulation to control his body.
This time also there was a space elemental spirit in 70th floor and it was level 40 and it was a very great problem, because in every ten level one's stat points would multiply according to their status and this spirits most of the stats were over 700,000. But this time he also could manipulate space. So he somehow managed it with much hardship.
But another problem rose quickly. Because from the next 10 floor every monster will be at level 40 with king status and their stats will be ten to eleven times more than his current stats. His every stats were around two hundred thousand. Because he cleared the floors from 61 to 70 quickly, he could not train his body much.
But didn't get scared. He had his War Dominator title. So he entered the 71th floor and saw the monsters. They were hydra. They had seven heads.
Xenos was surprised. Hydra is a monster of myth. Its speciality is it's insane regeneration. It has deadly poison.
Then he got the curse.
[You have been given the curse of freeze. Every 8 hours you will freeze for 5 minutes.]
Xenos was speechless. "Why don't you directly give me a death sentence," He said.
While fighting if by chance he gets freeze, there is no way for him to be alive. So, in every 8 hours, he have to hide for 5 minutes.
He also have to train physically. In the later floors he have to solely depend on his title effects. But if his calculation is correct, from floor 91, the monsters will get improve in quality, rather than quantity. So, he have to make the best of it until floor 91.
He started his training. He cleared up to 78th floor and went to seclusion in 79th floor.
He trained tirelessly in both physical strength, skills and arts.
He reached intermediate stage in energy art, became more proficient in using skills and his basic stats became terrifyingly high.
...
A lot of time passed.
It has been 47,000 years since the trial began.
Xenos came out of a cave. Then within just a month, he killed the remaining monsters in 79th floor and went the 80th floor.
In the 80th floor, among the other seven headed level 40 hydra, there was also a nine headed level 50 hydra.
Xenos's each basic stats was now in tens of millions. But the nine headed hydra's basic stats was hundreds of millions.
However, it didn't matter. With his title he had more than 6×10¹⁶% bost in stats. With this he found the nine headed hydra and killed it with one slash and soon cleared the floor.
He appeared in the 81th floor. The monsters in this floor were behemoths. With their status plus the level they had billions in stats.
[You have been given the curse of bleeding. Even if you get a scratch, you will bleed until death.]
Xenos had already got used to it. So he didn't react.
In the first 3 floors the number of monsters were too low for enough bost in power. So, Xenos used his death mark skill on them. This skill has gone through a lot of improvement. Now, it can hold a zillion of death points.
Because the behemoths were so large in size, he didn't have to face the trouble to find them. They also had elemental types.
He quickly reached the 90th floor. This time the boss remained level 50. But... the biggest problem was it's element.
[Space and time behemoth
Level : 50
Status : Emperor]
It had both space and time element. Even with the power bost Xenos can't kill him if it uses its time element.
"Human, give up. Even if you are strong, this is as far as you go," the behemoth said. It was the first time a monster had spoken with Xenos in the trial. He thought maybe all these monsters were created by the system and thats why they could not talk.
"No monster in these 54,000 years have talked with me. Why did you talk to me? You could just attack like others as soon as you saw me." He asked.
"You are worthy of this much respect. It has been a lot of time since any human has reached this floor. But unfortunately this is as far as you go." The behemoth said.
Xenos's eyes turned cold. He didn't reply. He pointed his sword towards the behemoth. The behemoth understood.