There were monsters on the remaining two paths as well, a three-headed hydra and a heavy crab, both one-star monsters. They dropped one Divinity point and one material item each after being defeated.
Upon comparison, the drops from the Mud Monster were indeed a bit better.
[You have equipped the ’Slime Poison Gland’, ’Demon Breaker Hand Cannon’, ’Omniscient Crystal.’]
[Successfully defeating the first demon filled you with excitement, feeling a step closer to your goal of defeating the Demon King. You boldly continued forward.]
[You accidentally fell into a pit of acid!]
[The pit was full of recently slain Mud Monster corpses. The venom of the Mud Monster was continuously corroding your HP!]
[With all your strength, you finally climbed out of the acid pit! Your HP decreased by 11 points, current HP 30/41.]
[You discovered that a Divine Crystal you just obtained had gotten stuck in the acid pit. Moreover, there were more crystals shimmering inside the pit, which were Divine Crystals lost by other heroes who had passed this way.]
[You hesitated, wondering whether to risk the corrosion to retrieve those Divine Crystals?]
Two options [Fortune Favours the Brave] and [Cut Your Losses].
"Fortune Favours the Brave!"
[Not willing to leave just yet, you turned back and jumped into the acid pit again, battling the corrosive acid as you swam towards the nearest crystal.]
[You obtained 1 Divine Crystal, your HP decreased by 1 point]. Continue to pick up more?
The options remain [Fortune Favours the Brave] and [Cut Your Losses].
Mu You checked his HP and chose to continue. Facing the monsters in this tower barely cost him any blood, and he had the ability to heal after fights, so he decided to take a gamble for fortune.
[You obtained 1 Divine Crystal, your HP decreased by 1 point...]
[You obtained 2 Divine Crystals...]
Mu You kept choosing to continue, stopping only when his HP fell to 15, considering he would lose more on his way back.
[You swam back to the shore, your HP decreased by 11 points, current HP: 4/41.]
[You’re a greedy madman, but your crazy harvest has brought your Divine Crystal count to 19 points, equivalent to the income of killing 19 one-star demons!]
[Now, how will you allocate this unexpected windfall?]
Mu You looked at his empty ’Faith’ and first allocated five points there, as it seemed to promote an advancement.
[You offered five crystals to the Earth God, gaining five points of faith.]
[Congratulations, due to your devout actions towards the Earth God, you’ve been promoted from ’Earth’s Hero’ to ’Earth’s Follower’, War God’s Hammer +1, God’s Defense +1, real HP +10, and obtained the Divine Art ’Ares Hammer’: Condense a war hammer to smash down on the enemy, causing damage of 5 times the War God’s power and stunning the enemy.]
After the promotion, all stats including offense, defense, and health were boosted, plus a new divine spell was unlocked—the improvement was tremendous!
However, for the next promotion from Follower to Priest, it required 25 faith points, a fivefold increase. Mu You didn’t know how many more levels there would be, but if the pattern stayed the same, the faith required would soon become an immensely large number.
With only 14 faith points left, not enough for another upgrade, Mu You tried upgrading two Divine Arts. Each first-time upgrade of a Divine Art required only one Divinity point, five points for the second upgrade, and 25 points for the third, and so on.
Mu You now only had enough to upgrade to level three.
[Blood of the Warrior upgraded to LV3: After each enemy kill, regenerate 7 HP.]
[Ares Hammer upgraded to LV3: Condense a war hammer to smash down on the enemy, causing damage of 9 times the power of War God and stunning the enemy.]
After the enhancement, only two Divinity points remained.
Mu You continued onward.
[Dragging your severely injured body, you moved forward.]
[You encountered a ’Suture Flesh’ (1 star)...]
[You threw the Ares Hammer, easily taking down your target,]
[Blood of the Warrior activated, your HP recovered by 7 points, current HP: 21/51.]
[You found 1 Divine Crystal and 1 ’Suture Hide’ at the place where the Suture Flesh died.]
[You reached the exit of the first floor of the Hero’s Tower, a staircase soaked in dark red blood presented itself before you, will you go to the second floor?]
Only three events on the first floor?
Mu You was stunned. In this case, climbing to the top of the tower would only encounter 300 events,
Getting to this point, Mu You had a preliminary judgment of the tower: since each death and exit from the tower meant restarting from scratch with all power retracted, it could basically be considered a "meat grinder" type of game.
He needed to enhance himself enough to confront the Demon King in these 300 events from the first to the hundredth floor.
And this ’Demon King’ was likely referring to the ’Demon God.’ Meanwhile, the hero’s process of increasing faith and rising in rank could also be seen as gradually growing into a creature nearly resembling the corresponding deity.
If that was the case, then instead of ’Hero’s Tower,’ the game could more aptly be named ’Ascend to Divinity Simulator.’
Mu You boldly speculated about the final showdown, possibly involving nine different badges corresponding to deities, challenging the Demon God at the top of the tower.
Understanding this, Mu You could also grasp the relationship between this tower and Sky City: every player in the future could come here to experience the powers of the nine deities to decide which one they wanted to follow.