On the twentieth floor, Mu You gained another opportunity to choose a permanent reward. This time he didn’t hesitate and immediately chose Divine Power.
By the twenty-ninth floor, Mu You encountered the Crow Merchant for the second time.
And in the store this time, a new Divine Artifact of the Moon Goddess actually appeared.
[Moon Goddess’s Eye: A Divine Artifact crafted from the Moon Goddess’s own eye, which only opens during the full moon. Once equipped, after each battle it will guide you to the extra treasure locations and secret chambers hidden within that floor of the tower. Price: 5000 Divinity.]
"There are extra secret chambers in the tower?"
Mu You was stunned. Although this artifact didn’t enhance Combat Power, it was an extremely valuable auxiliary tool that could significantly increase the profits after each battle. The Moon Goddess’s Eye, which only opened during the full moon, was the perfect match for the Moon Scepter.
It’s just a pity that he didn’t have enough Divinity...
Having climbed up to the twenty-ninth floor, it wasn’t that he hadn’t accumulated 5000 Divinity in total, but as it came in, it also went out. He had spent almost all the Divinity he had obtained along the way, and now he only had a two-digit sum left in his account, nowhere near enough to afford it.
Mu You was helpless and could only watch as he gave up the artifact and continued upwards.
This incident also served as a reminder to him; it seemed necessary to save some Divinity for the shop’s goods...
[You step onto the blood-stained stairs and ascend to the thirtieth floor.]
[Congratulations, you’ve reached the highest progress of 30 floors in the Tower of Heroes! Your current ranking is: 1st place!]
[When the hero reaches every multiple of ten floors for the first time as 1st place, they may select two permanent rewards (these rewards will not disappear upon leaving the Tower of Heroes).]
[Please choose from the following four rewards...]
The options below were the same four.
However, the difference this time was: he could choose two!
Mu You glanced over them, surpassing the twenty-ninth floor, his progress indeed placed him in first place. Being first to enter every tenth floor meant an extra choice opportunity!
With this, the importance of progress through the tower became even greater. It was not only about being the first to reach the fiftieth floor; he should strive to be first at every multiple of ten floors in the future.
Looking back, the two rewards couldn’t be the same, so Mu You grudgingly chose one for offense and one for defense, otherwise, he had planned to select Divine Power twice.
"I’m actually second?!"
What Mu You was unaware of was that, just as he continued on his journey after claiming his rewards, over in Indonesia, within a luxurious building, an elderly black man with graying hair slammed his fist on the table and roared.
At this moment in his game, his character had just stepped onto the thirtieth floor. Only a few seconds behind Mu You, but these few seconds demoted him from first to second, costing him the double rewards for the first completion.
Regret, an inability to accept the situation, and a variety of emotions flitted through his mind. However, much he resented it, he could only face reality.
"It clearly showed that I was in the first place after passing the twenty-ninth floor... Didn’t I just get a bit carried away and space out for a moment... Which one of those boys was without honor, taking advantage of this old man’s slow reflexes?"
The elderly black man was brooding darkly.
He was Isaac, like Hal, a local leader of a major power in Indonesia, and in the Tower of Heroes, he was known as number 1, the earliest to trigger this mission.
There was another leader of a different power, named Casanova; the three of them had formed an alliance, virtually monopolizing this mission. All the latest information and strategies related to this mission were in their hands.
So now, discovering that he was overtaken and lost first place at the last moment, Isaac immediately suspected his two partners.
"So you two, which of you reached the thirtieth floor first?"
Isaac tagged the other two in the group chat set up especially for the three of them, feeling somewhat puzzled. Despite being partners, there was a sense of competition between them, and usually, whoever made a breakthrough achievement would show off in the group right away.
To his bewilderment, such a significant milestone of breaking through the thirtieth floor happened today, and no one bragged about it?
As he pondered, someone in the group spoke up.
Hal: Hm? Old Zak, you’ve reached the thirtieth floor?
Isaac: Yeah, but I’m second. Someone outpaced this old guy by a few seconds!
The words of the old man were laced with the implication that the first place should have been his.
Hal: Ah? Not me, I’ve had bad luck today, died early below the twentieth floor on two occasions...
Isaac: So that means it was Nova? @Casanova
Casanova: ? Not me either, I’ve used up all my attempts.
The elderly black man was taken aback; so it wasn’t either of them? Then who had surpassed him?
Could it be that among their subordinates, someone had incredibly broken through to the thirtieth floor?
That would be even more frustrating, their hard work building up the foundation had allowed a subordinate to pick the fruit first...
Casanova: Embarrassing to say, I had hopes of breaking through the thirtieth floor on my second attempt, but I was killed by a newcomer who came out of nowhere. Emoji: Facepalm.
Hal: @Casanova, was it 2459?
Casanova: ? How did you know? Did you also...
Hal: My first attempt was on the second floor when I met this guy—a Terra Warrior with only half health—who directly finished off my full health. I thought there was a bug at the time, but it seems this person is indeed a bit tricky...