The tower

I spend the weekend the same way I spent the week before school started, sparring with Tila, eating with her, Thomas, Nali, and Noah who is Thomas's fiancé.

  When Monday rolled around you could feel the buzzing of all those who passed the requirements to enter the tower while the wailing and complaining of those who didn't, the tower is a safe place to get experience without dungeons and you are revived if you die below the tenth floor for free.

With that being able to enter is the best way to prove your strength and capabilities so as to attract more attention and better offers from different families and factions.

But what I want isn't to attract better offerings but instead to compare this worlds tower to my worlds Trials, although the amount of information one can give to those at lower levels is limited they can still give some info, and so far from what I heard they are near identical if not set to different ranges due to different cultivation styles.

When you enter you gain a player screen that only shows in the tower telling you your current stats and abilities, it also lets you absorb knowledge easier so as to increase ones learning speed like in my world.

There is a tower specific auction and store along with different goods you can only find in the tower to help yourselves advance and increase cultivation speed.

It almost sounds like one of my worlds old games but after the tenth floor if you don't have enough tower tokens it is a real death, because of this teachers discourage students from dying as much as possible while still testing their boundaries in a safe environment. Best if no one got used to dying and cause overconfidence only to face a real death later and become truly dead.

Standing in the physical practice room from the first day we wait until the teacher arrives in either excitement or dread depending on their position.

When he walks in he sees a mix of excited and sullen faces, he smiles at them and says "For those that pass the base requirements of c-grade in all but one and at lowest a D-grade for the one may go to the railway that will take you to the tower for those not at that level get to your treadmill and get going."

Following the others to the railway we come to see a sleek thin tube looking object pull up in front of hundreds of students, they get in as much as possible easily having fit four to five hundred students before closing it's doors and taking off.

The next one pulls up five minutes later and we all get on, the seats are compact ones with a strap to go around ones torso, getting a seat and buckling in I wait until it takes off.

And take off it did with a jolt that had my head spinning, it takes off from 0 to 200 kilometers an hour in less than five seconds and it's speed increasing before rapidly decreasing, I can hear the younger students barfing in the back as the older ones unbuckle easily and start heading out. Slowly standing I follow Thomas to the massive standing pitch black structure, when you stepped against the wall it seemed you melded with it before completely disappearing.

Stepping inside I come to see a pure white room with only a bed barely big enough to get up and walk around in, "status screen.'" I say and it appears in front of me.

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Status Window

Name: Aadi Null

Age:17

Awakening Age:10

Affiliations: Planet Cerulean Base no.4, Neelan-Turnover city

Spirit Energy status: Core forming stage

Mental realm status: Body and mind melding phase

Energy type: Healing, buffing, water, fire, earth, wind, ice, lightning, metal, mist, oscillation, etc.(expand to see full list)

Combat arts: Conductor spearman ship, Military style dagger art of planet cerulean base no.4, etc. (expand to see full list)

Strength:15 (the human limit with no energy is 3)

Speed:20(the human limit with no energy is 3)

Agility:21(the human limit with no energy is 3)

Stamina:25(the human limit with no energy is 3)

Endurance:25(the human limit with no energy is 3)

Spirit Energy: 50(the average amount for your current level is 0.1)

Mental energy: 100(the average amount for your current level is 1)

Current skills: sense control D-grade, reaction speed D-grade, mental energy control D-grade, etc. (expand to see full list)

Current level: Low D-rank

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I stare at the screen in shock as the information presented is beyond my expectations, it said both my current affiliation as well as my one to my original planet. Lucien will have to be informed of this as soon as possible as it means the tower is most definitely linked to my world in some way.

Luckily one can't see another's status screen no matter what and there is no way for anyone but me and who I tell to know this information.

"Tutorial start." I say and am transported to an area with about 500 other people with a small village with a few villagers around, we are all in thin worn down leather armor with a basic weapon to fit our preferences.

With an old clearly used spear in my hand I wait in line standing in army position for someone to come, and come they did.

"You lot have been sent here for training purposes, you will remain here until both you and I view you as capable enough to survive on your own. I will put you through the ringer to make sure you are at least F-rank before allowing you to even set foot outside this village and at least peak F-grade before you are considered to be capable enough for advancement, if anyone thinks they are to advanced to go through this step forward for testing now." No one does, not even myself.

I could easily advance right now if I wished but I want to further my studies not in combat but in manufacturing and making things, the first floor is the best floor for practicing whether it is for physical training or studying theoretical and more arts and crafts based things.

"Now that none of you choose to advance you will be divided based off your skill set, for those in combat go to the left, those in support stay in front of me and those for production and creation to my right." I step to his right, I am already more advanced then those my age in combat and support what I need to do is tie up my short coming.

If I ever ended up trapped by myself again I needed to be able to make a basic weapon, healing items, clothes, and food for myself.

The best way to learn that was through the production classes on the first floor of the tower as my studying speed will be ten times faster than outside of this floor meaning this is the most optimal time for me to properly learn and develop it.

"Combat classes will be personally taught by me, support classes will be taught by Samantha" he points to a blonde hair blue eyed beauty, "production and creation will be taught by Samuel."

A buff black skinned and bald head man steps forward at these words, it is easy to tell he is a more physically inclined production person most likely in blacksmithing or farming. "All you follow your respective person and prepare to begin training, one month in here is a day outside so you will spend half a month everyday till you are up to standard. Don't worry your body's time still follows your own worlds time so you won't age rapidly while in here."

Finally we all head to our respective training locations, the craftsmen training spot was heavily organized and clean to spotlessness, there are ten different buildings each with their own designs and a massive field for planting and growing things surrounding the place.

You could even see a greenhouse all the way in the back, most likely for herbs and hard to grow crops.

The brick building meant for craftsmanship for heat related things is easy to identify along with the one for woodworking as their is a massive orchard behind it, the potion one was also clear for the herbs and things hanging on it to dry.

The hospital one was a bit harder to tell as there were fewer tells but the only other one smelling like herbs and disinfectant it was one identified by crossing out the other possible ones.

The massive barn and farm shed gave away which one was for farming and animal caretaking, the tannery/leather working area was beside the barn and was identifiable due to the tanning racks in the back but the others were a bit harder to tell as what they could be was unidentifiable without seeing what was inside.

"These two smaller buildings in gray are your rest areas and will be separated by gender, males to the right and females to the left , the barn one is the farming and animal care location, the purple one is the apothecary, the blue one is the hospital, the brick one is forging, glass blowing, and jewelry making, the wooden one is wood working, the brown one is tannery, leather working, and clothes making, the yellow one is rune and enchanting work although considered outdated it is a required course to master here, and the last one is miscellaneous for ones not big enough to be required but good for extra credit if you learn it."

"Since it is still your first day we will start off in whatever you have experience in, although I am the main head instructor their will be different people in each building to teach you more in-depth things for that specific craftsmanship. Any questions?" No one raises their hand, it will be a busy period from this point forward.

Farming first thing to water the plants and give care to the animals, then it is forging, a lunch, followed by apothecary and learning more in depth healing arts that can't be done with first aid and emergency care. That is the first schedule.

The other schedule is glass blowing and jewelry making, followed by Tannery and leather working, then it is wood working and finally it is enchanting and rune work.

The two schedules are swapped back and forth everyday to make sure all the bases are cleared while leaving Sunday open for anyone to look into and learn a miscellaneous production method separately. It was a grueling schedule that left most to exhausted by Sunday to learn anything extra even I didn't want to get up but I came to learn as much as possible to survive if I am ever stuck and even one more thing could be the difference of life and death.

Entering the miscellaneous area I see a masonry are for stone work, an area for building machines, a kitchen for cooking, and a small library in the back with an assortment of item from rune work, apothecary items, and even some wood work and metals from the forging class.

I intend to fill my Sunday just like the other days of the week, doing one of every class in the miscellaneous area from first thing in the morning till late at night until sleep time comes.

First is cooking, followed by masonry, next is machine building and  finally I come to the mish mash room in the back to see what it is. Entering the room I see it is disorderly and messy compared to all the other facilities with items strewn together in areas that make no sense, the iron ingot is place with a fire energy gem from rune making and frosted flower from the apothecary.

It was a hosh posh of things all strewn out but put in piles that made no sense, waiting for the teacher of this area to show up I am surprised to see Samuel come from the spiral stair case.

I had assumed him to be from a more physically demanding creation means, but whatever this is it appears more like rune making in that it was energy based rather than physical based. He also appeared equally surprised to see someone actually there, not that I blame him who would want to learn a completely unknown craftsmanship that even most people have never even heard of.

But I am here to learn as much as possible and a completely obscure type of item could mean me dying and not even knowing how I died.

"I didn't expect anyone to come to this area so soon usually it takes at least a month before people are accustomed enough to such heavy class work to look into the miscellaneous section and usually only if they are doing poorly in a majority of there other classes so they come hoping to get a bonus so as to barely scrape by a passing. What has you coming in here so soon, you are one of the better students who is showing great promise in all of the craftsmanship's you don't need extra credit to pass." Samuel says.

"If I just wanted to pass I would have stepped forward the first day when he asked if anyone thought themselves capable of passing the tests that day." I reply, he appears amused at my statement as though he views it as cocky.

"You know the passing assessment on the first day is high E-grade not peak F-grade like it will be at the end of the assessment correct, you would have failed miserably if you had attempted even if you are from the Enhanced Being College." He says, and I shrug it is easy to guess from my size and attitude I consider myself above them so no question how he knew I was from there. In this group of people I am the only one this young looking so of course I stand out.

"Still if I wanted an easy time I would go to combat or support to easily wing it out until the assessment and pass easily, I am a healer/buffer who has an S grade in their physique I can easily pass either of the other two options. I came here to learn of all the hidden pieces and identify hidden means so as to not die without even knowing how through something like poison or stepping on a rune trap and dying. I want to make up my short coming as much as possible and this is where I am the most worst off." I reply.

I can see him grinning in appreciation for what I had just said. "Fine, the place you are in is for energy forging a unique type of production that requires intense physical and mental energy to be able to perform. You are much to young to even think of learning it, come back when you reach a base of D-Level as that is the base requirement to perform even the smallest bit in this style."

"I am already at D-level so it should be fine right?" I say.

He froze and looked at me before asking, "How old are you, boy?" "17" I answer.

"Ha, you expect me to believe a seventeen year old has reached a D-level most that age can hardly reach E-level." He replies with a certain amount of ridicule.

"You can do an assessment yourself if you don't believe it but the tower says I am a D-rank, so I should be able to do the basics as you call it." I look him in the eyes conveying my seriousness and truthfulness to him in my gaze as well as my assuredness at passing any test he threw.

"Fine I'll test you but if you pass you are to be here from Sunday morning to night learning this nothing else can be learned as this is a harsh course that will require all of your attention and energy to just barely keep up with at D-level. I made that the base requirement not the preferred requirement for a reason." He said and indicates for me to follow him upstairs.

The room has a basic treadmill, weight station, obstacle course, the sensory rooms door is open, and the items for testing ones energy level and control are also there.

One by one I test each attribute and meet the requirements, once we reach the clear ball however I hesitate.

"If you don't think your energy is enough say so now." He says.

"I am unsure if your clear ball can handle my energy the last two I was tested on broke and I don't want to break yours." I say.

He appears taken aback at this and then says, "this is a clear ball made by the tower to test energy, it can bear up to S-level energy, both in amount and intensity there is no chance you can break it."

So I put my hand in and begin to input energy, and unlike last time it does not break. 

A bright white color shines from the ball in a near blinding amount, more and more it gets brighter and brighter when a small crack was heard but stopped a second later.

I can see Samuel looking at me like a scientist would a new monster in horror and interest clearly this was a pass. Samuel approaches with a sheet of paper and puts I on the crystal ball pushing a little mental energy against the paper words begin to appear, he looks at the paper then me and says, "We start today, you are to show up every Sunday from this point forward." He hands me the paper.

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Mental Energy test

Amount:100

Purity/Intensity: SSS-grade

Type: Healing/Buffing

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My energy amount was bottom of E-level but my intensity level was max.