Chapter 258: Young Dragons and Unicorn Pigs

Chapter 258: Young Dragons and Unicorn Pigs

William Oh once spared what was to him, a lowly spider, from being squished.

That spider went on to threaten the dragons with extinction.

• Jason Salazar

You are now a level 59 World Traveler!

Now that you have reached level 59, experience gain on the 13^th Floor and below has been nerfed.

If you wish to continue to accumulate power, you must Climb to the 14^th Floor.

Will checked his Stats.

World Traveler Level 59

60 + 436 Strength

180 + 302 Resistance

177 + 351 Kinesthetics

232 + 174 Acuity

118 + 211 Focus

Charges: 284/329

Free Points: 0

Non-stat Item Abilities: +30% Move/Attk, Scaling Move SpeedX2 (Kin/Res), +65% Dimensional Potency, +85% Rogue Potency, 50% A/V reduction, Ghostwalk, +40% All-radius, Homeland Advantage, +85% Detection Radius, Scaling Rogue Cooldown, 25% All Dmg Mitigation, Scaling Ranger Ability linger, +90% Ranger Potency, +40% Terrain potency, Scaling footing boost, Freedom of movement: Terrain.

Phantom Hand Slots: -(Hammer of God)- (Ring of Explosive Doughmaking) (Wand of the Undead Retainer) (Sickle of Malignant Silence) (Dimensional Coiled Serpent Amulet)

Primary Abilities: Aspect of the Immortal Serpent**, Phantom Hand*(x6), Map**

Secondary Abilities: Sourdough** Uru Drake’s Eye

Tertiary Abilities: Phantom Eye

Secondary Ability Upgrade Available!

Oh right, I still have a Secondary upgrade.

Will still hadn’t found a good Sacrifice for Uru Drake’s Eye. He’d been holding off on upgrading it in the hopes of fully adapting his body to Uru Drake’s Eye before upgrading it.

And then I kinda just…forgot about it?

“Did everyone else get to level fifty-nine?” Will asked, to scattered nods.

“Okay, let’s pack up and head out. Can’t be healthy to stay here forever.” Will said.

They got their gear sorted and headed through their respective Doors.

The world turned pitch black and all sound was lost as a torrential downpour slammed down onto him.

Welcome to the 14^th Floor.

There is a Stronghold to the east, and a Key Site in need of clearing to the south.

In an instant, Will was soaked. In the distance, Will spotted Loth waving some torchbugs, their warm glow nearly scattered by the rain.

Will wove his way around a tree and joined up with Loth, followed shortly by Brianna and Travis.

Travis set up a shelter and they spent the night huddled down, watching the rain roll off the invisible barrier set up above them.

I wonder if I can make a wand out of giant bone that could copy the preservation Ability that Badur has. That would cut down on the number of people and the danger we’d be exposing noncombat Classes to.

Truthfully, Will hadn’t had a strong sense of danger from Climbing in quite some time, owing to his prodigious growth. The monsters of the 12^th and 13^th floor were more annoyances than threats.

That too, could be a problem. If Will’s sense of what was dangerous got too messed up, he might eventually get some of his own people killed by accident.

They camped out under the boughs of a tree and slept, with Travis’s illusions keeping watch. Any Climber worth their salt was able to fall asleep at a moment’s notice.

Will woke up when the light began shining directly through his eyelids, flickering and swaying with the sound of the wind through the leaves.

Will peeled an eye open, unwilling to get out of his bedroll for anything less than a clear and imminent threat to their safety.

Wow. Will’s eyes opened the rest of the way as he sat up, scanning his surroundings.

Will had never been in a forest.

Not one like this, anyway.

The jungle of the 7^th Floor had high underbrush and a low canopy that created an oppressive atmosphere, especially when combined with the heat and humidity.

The 9^th Floor’s perfect forests were pristine, almost gaudy and too-convenient to be believed.

This one blew them both away with raw majesty.

The tree they’d made camp up against was bigger around than the orphanage Will had grown up in, and it reached up into the sky nearly as high as the dead metal towers from the 8^th floor, forming a canopy that felt like a second sky.

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And through the leaves, the dappled sunlight streamed down on them. A cool breeze wafted through, carrying the smell of fresh rain.

Their camp wasn’t actually tucked up against the trunk of the tree like he’d thought, but instead had made their camp in the hollow created by a single root rising up into the air, large enough to shelter them from the sight of monsters.

A nearby spiderweb a little bigger than Will’s palm glistened with beads of water strung like jewels across the thread, reinforced with Miasmatic Structures to allow it to capture the extra-strong bugs of the 14^th Floor. If only Akul nobles had jewelry this pretty, Will thought.

I’m kind of jealous Carrie got a stronghold on this Floor.

Will got…a desert.

Will shook the momentary spasm of envy off and picked his way around the spiderweb, being careful not to damage it as he climbed the tree-root.

The view up here was even better. The trees were spaced much farther apart than they’d been in the jungle, and the underbrush was nearly nonexistent, allowing Will to see for hundreds of feet before the trees eventually blocked all sight.

The trees themselves had strands of miasma flowing through their wood.

Will placed his hand on the bark and studied his Class compared to the wood.

The pattern of the Miasma along the wood grain is nearly identical to what I believe is the Resistance stat in Climbers, Will thought, comparing the strands reinforcing his right hand to the ones in the tree.