Ruined Tower

"After everyone's done buying and learning some skills, I think we can already try crashing the tower in Murkwood Forest." Jay thought in his mind while he was lying down in his bed.

After a few minutes, the guild emblem he had with him suddenly started vibrating, which means that someone from the guild is trying to contact him.

He then took it out and spoke. "You guys done? If you guys are done and ready to move out, head to the tower located at Murkwood Forest. I suppose you guys know where it is."

Someone replied to him. "Yes, Guild Master."

"Time to get up." After all this, Jay went to the first floor of the inn and told Nuggets that they were heading out.

"Where we going? Let me just finish this." Nuggets replied to Jay while eating her food.

"The ruined tower, Hedge. It is located in Murkwood Forest. But, if you still want to continue eating, then I will just summon you over there since I am heading out already."

A comical scene then happened.

Nuggets' suddenly increased her pace in eating that she accidentally ate some of the food of the other customers of the inn.

"Hey! What the hell! I paid for that!"

Everyone voiced out their opinions when they found out that somebody ate their food.

"Crap! Better run. Good luck Nuggets!" Jay told Nuggets as he winked at her and ran out of the inn.

Bawk Bawk!!!

When Nuggets saw Jay leaving, she panicked and decided to chase after Jay.

"Jay! Wait up!"

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After some time later, somewhere in Murkwood Forest, Jay and everyone else from 'Golden Phoenix' was gathered outside an old looking tower.

The tower had gray stone walls that had cracks and damages. There was even a large hole on the top area. If observed more carefully, it can be deduced that the tower had 8 floors. But the most eye catching thing about this tower was that every time someone gets close to it, something appears at the large hole and peeks at whoever is close. As for what that thing is, no one really knows.

Before entering the tower, Jay first told everyone something.

"I know you guys probably entered this tower a lot of times in the past, when the system was still available. But now that the system is not available anymore, I want you guys to listen to me well when we are inside."

When everyone heard Jay, they did not take him seriously. But Roselia decided to speak out her thoughts. "It's fine Guild Master. We can handle a few wolves and goblins."

Jay realized that his warning was too light so he decided to tell them of his whole plan.

"I know you can. But, the thing we are going to do right now is something called 'Tower Crashing' which means that we will attempt the tower 4-5 times, increasing its difficulty as we go on. Some kind of event will trigger after that which will cause a hidden boss to appear. And if we defeat that boss, this tower will turn into rubble. So, you guys have any more doubts or questions?"

Everyone tensed up a bit when they heard Jay's plan. The reason why was because the hardest difficulty they tried was only up to Hard Mode. But Jay said that they will attempt 4-5 times while the difficulty will increase per attempt...

"Alright! Let's go! By the way, for the skills you've just got earlier, try not depending on it too much."

Jay told everyone as he and Nuggets entered the Tower of Hedge.

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Tower of Hedge

Before Jay entered, he made sure that he attached his guild emblem to the shirt he was wearing for some purpose. The moment he and Nuggets entered, he immediately received a notification.

[Jay entered Level 20 Tower - Hedge]

[Guild Emblem is detected...]

[Attempt will be recorded into our guild status]

[Please select Tower Difficulty: Normal/Hard/Extreme/Epic/Impossible]

[**Ruined Tower - contains 8 floors]

While everyone entered, Jay immediately picked the Normal difficulty in this first attempt.

[Normal difficulty selected.]

[Experience and Loot drops is set to 100%]

"Everyone, for this first attempt, just do whatever you want." After that useless advice that Jay gave them, he immediately rushed forward while Nuggets followed him.

After hearing Jay's advice, everyone was dumbfounded so they just decided to follow Jay.

Everyone then arrived at the first floor of the tower. The rooms in the tower had a round shape for some reason. And in front of them was the things they were supposed to fight, but are now fresh corpses.

"No way! Just how fast did Jay clear this floor?" Hot Buns said while feeling surprised since there were more than 20 Gray Wolves and 10 Goblin Raiders lying on the floor, dead.

"Guys, let's hurry and see if we can still catch up to Jay." Roasted Boar said as he led everyone towards the stairs to the second floor.

But it was the same thing this time. Corpses of monsters still littered the floor when they entered the second floor.

"Doesn't the monsters increase in number the higher the floor? Just how fast is Jay killing them?" Roasted Boar said as he impatiently ran again towards the stairs to the third floor.

The third floor...

The fourth...

Fifth...

Seventh floor...

Everyone just went on a running marathon since the floors were already cleared the moment they entered.

"What the hell? Does he even need us here?" Roselia, the demon hunter, asked.

Just as they were going to head to the last floor of the tower, they immediately got teleported out.

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Earlier in time...

"Oh yeah! I love this skill so much!" Jay said happily since he just kept on using Instant Shatter on the monsters he faced.

Due to the monsters not having levels anymore, level suppression was not a thing anymore so Jay and Nuggets just killed them easily as they moved through the floors of the tower.

Jay basically dealt around 10,000 damage due to the effects of Instant Shatter and by striking vital points of the monsters. As for Nuggets, she used a new skill of hers, 'Chicken's Charge', which allows her to slam her body onto monsters. But for some reason, it also dealt a high amount of damage.

It only took them around 5 minutes to reach the top. There, they encountered the boss for the normal difficulty, the Hobgoblin. But instead checking its stats, the both of them just rushed towards it and killed it easily. He then received some notifications before getting teleported out of the tower.

[Golden Phoenix (Guild) cleared Hedge Tower]

[Cleared on Normal Difficulty]

[Players receives 0 EXP, 200 Copper coins]

When Jay realized that EXP was still a thing in the game, he wondered "Hmm... Strange. Must be a bug or something since player and NPC 'Level' is already removed. Strange..."