Chapter 28: Ascension stage Slith

Health: -71 points depleted

In a warm lit room after the dust settled down, I rolled over near the Stone Table, and looked at the pillar that continued to extend to the next top floor, gazing around I noticed neatly packed knives and pots, "Hey! You what is going on here?" said a man as he trembled as his chef's hat fell down.

I then ignored him and stood up,

*Appraisal: Non-cost skill*

*Properties of blue ocean shield*

Durability: 3 reduced

Hardness: 2 reduced

Toughness: 4 reduced

Looking at the properties I inwardly cursed at thirteen generations of Slith's family ancestors for ruining the treasure I worked hard to make, and if It got another hit it would crumble like the bone hammer. I needed a way to stop Slith's connection with his power residence Tower.

I then appraised the room I was in.

But then activated dragon white eyes simultaneously with appraisal to form a 3dimensional image of the whole tower, to look at its energy threads and how they flow.

*Blueprint generator: -5 spirit energy*

*Tower design copied and installed to archives*

*Appraisal*

Ping! Ping! Ping!

*Tower structure weaknesses identified*

Looking at the blue 3-dimensional image red dots started to appear on the image at an alarming rate

"Wow! how is this tower so flawed, to not even have a structural failure is even a miracle that it is still standing right now this is too unbelievable," I said.

Immediately a pair of dark eyes opened up from the pillar in front of me, then they curled up into a noticeable grin, "So you survived that didn't you little boy" said Slith.

My eyebrow involuntarily twitched at the word, "Little" that I hated being called. my Napoleon complex still stuck to me even in this world.

"How does it feel to be always looked down upon because of your dwarf race you're always destined to be gazed down on by us Hahahah," said Slith filling up the whole room with his laughter scaring the chef senseless till he fainted from the ascension stage cultivation pressure.

With a poker face, I blurted out what my previous mother always told me to Say to loud-mouths like Sloth, a phrase that grew in me and that I always said as a kid or worker before facing my foe or a big challenge.

"Don't get it twisted you're not looking down on me you are just born a head taller to be a better, stepping stone for me when you kowtow after I defeat you senseless,"

I could hear teeth grinding against each other, followed by "Why y-you little.."

Boom!

A pillar burst out the wall behind me, shooting towards my back, "HOW VICIOUS," I said, then did a backflip holding my Shield in mid-air and landed on top of the pillar, instantly two pillars Burst out the kitchen wall trying to sandwich me into meat paste.

"Fuck! You Slith," I screamed, plunging the shield on the pillar below my feet and climbing on top of it then jolted up the air.

Bang!

The blue ocean shield instantly got crushed to smithereens.

My last weapon had been destroyed and even though my vitality was working fast to replace my lost energy, I needed to get out of here to the top of the tower where Slith hid the beast core of the tower.

"As long as I get to the top floor I can destroy the origin energy circle holding the core to disconnect his bond to the tower and his spirit, which is already weak since he is not a soulist like me, a dual cultivator will easily get injured.

"The tower amplifies his earth power making it easier for him to use his earth elemental power at a much faster rate rendering me incapable of going back down to stop him. But having seen the structure of this tower it consumes a lot of energy," I mumbled.

Still using the attacking pillars as stairs to climb up to the ceiling in order to get to the third floor that has the beast core acting as the heart of the tower.

Dodging, bobbing, and weaving, the pillars constantly grazed my long brown Spikey-haired head, "This psychotic kid is too vicious, always aiming for my head but I can use this as an advantage," I smiled inwardly.

Running up a diagonal pillar another pillar burst from below going up to the roof, 'This better work,' I thought

Ice Ki: -5 origin energy

Then I intentionally let the pillar hit my frosty head, 'Origin energy manipulation' taking out cerebral's core and injecting my origin energy into it, I tossed it towards the ceiling then immediately hanged by the pillar with one hand covering myself with the thick snakeskin cape.

Boom!

A giant hole formed on the ceiling and immediately the pillar I was holding on stopped midway before going up the ceiling.

And Slith's voice could be heard laughing, "You think I didn't know what you wanted to do get back here," He said

The hole formed on the ceiling started to close up and I had no choice but to jump up, followed by another pillar coming to my side and bashing my hip, savagely blasting me to the wall face first creating a concave on impact into the wall.

Bang!

"Heuk!" my innards felt as if they had been tossed in a blender and before I could take a breather a pillar blasted my face from point-blank bursting from the wall I was stuck on.

Boom!

"Ack!" My body got sent flying and hit my back on the corner of the stone kitchen table.

"Snap!"

"Damn! I think I broke a rib," I said, watching the hole from the ceiling close up shut.

"So much for that plan, now do I really have to ask for help from Leo? No, I don't want to be indebted to him than I'm already am, plus I don't want him to reveal his identity yet, this is a good training opportunity if I meet other people like Slith in the future who want to cage me up and use me as a forging machine,

I need to be able to defend myself from them no matter how much stronger they are than me, and since this guy is an Ascension stage cultivator with the boost of his 'power residence' I can't be reckless just because of the system and the secrets in my body I need to be smart," I thought

"You really think you can leave unscathed when facing an ascension stage cultivator brat," Said Sloth with a smug tone.

Then as I continued to dodge the pillars while ignoring the provocations of Slith's voice an idea came to me.

"Haa! Fwuu!" breathing in and out I activated

Dragon white eyes:-5 origin energy

And seeing the strings that were inside the walls like a spider net, I nodded my head and activated the second skill

DWARVEN LAW TOUCH(F): -5 Origin energy

The system never tells me the extent of my skill. I just instinctively know how to utilize them after activating them and the more I use a skill the more I feel I am mastering it to a higher realm.

While simultaneously dodging the pillars I gazed around seeing red spots and even though before, I felt like I could not touch them unless I used a heavy amount of force like a hammer striking them,

This time I simply stretched out my hand in a grabbing motion towards the red spot in the wall to my astonishment, managed to grab the red spot, and pulled as hard as my hairy bronze hands could.