Chapter 8: Solo Leveling

"Good choice!"

"I'll return after I become stronger. But before I leave, what kind of world am I on?"

Estophel smiled at Xerel. With a flick of his hand the wood on the ground formed into a small table. In the center of the table was a green crystal.

The green crystal let off a beam of light then a 3D hologram appeared with planets moving circularly as it revolved around the sun like a ring.

"This is the multi-world map. As you can see, 8 worlds revolve around the sun. Just right above the sun is another world but half the size of the 8 worlds, this is God's Domain. The Utopia of entities whether good or evil. When this world was formed, the first-ever seed that grew to existence was the World Tree. For entities, the fruit of the world tree serves as the tool for reincarnation and everlasting youth and since the tree had grown so big that it reached higher than the skies, many entities wish to travel to the top of the tree but with the energy and pressure that the tree emits become stronger as they get closer to the top, simply climbing or flying would prove to be futile but many are still persistent to reach the top that's why you could see dozens of species flying above the skies of the world tree."

"I understand now. But these 8 worlds, is one of it my world?"

"Correct! Sadly I am unable to tell you much information about the other worlds but what I can tell about your world is that it's still under a development process. Although it's the youngest of the 8 worlds, it's the most fast-growing and most advanced one compared to the other worlds."

"That's interesting. I know this will be a strange question but, is there any way I could go back to my world?"

"Don't worry! There had been a lot of similar cases of getting transported to God's Domain, but to leave the Domain, you had to die and although it sounds inhumane, your body and soul does not belong to this world and in that process, The World Tree returns otherworldly beings to their world in a returner state meaning you will be revived after you go back to your world but you it will take time for all of your full powers to return to normal."

"Oh, that's a relief! I was afraid I'd be stuck here forever. Thank you so much! I'll get going now."

Xerel left the world tree via a portal that Estophel made. With most of the things clarified, more stuff piled up in his head.

'So there is more earth left undiscovered? Now that I think of it, there was no giant race that existed on either Mega or Super-Earth but Estophel had mentioned it. Does that mean there are also other species that we have yet to know? And here I thought we had discovered 99% of the ocean but there's still a deeper trench ready to be discovered.'

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'I'll waste a lot of time if I simply search for monsters on foot. And why would I even look for one when I'm literally on a beacon full of monsters. Estophel mentioned that powerful monsters are trying to climb the World Tree to acquire its fruit but no one has come close to reaching the top because of a powerful pressure that's pushing them down. I still have my invulnerability effect, I'm probably immune to the pressure so climbing the tree might be possible. The question here is how am I gonna climb the tree?'

Xerel channeled his vision to the ward. He controlled the eye to fly above the sky and as the eye permeated to the clouds Xerel's eyes widened in shock.

"So he wasn't kidding when he said there are a lot of monsters. There's thousands of them!"

Ting~

[Storm Wyvern

Rank: Ancient 1

Level: 400

HP: 15,000,000/15,000,000

State: Aggregated]

Ting~

[Mothra Polverine

Rank: Arch 2

Level: 520

HP: 20,000,000/20,000,000

State: Annoyed]

Ting~

[Grievin' Boar

Rank: Arch 2

Level: 600

HP: 50,000,000/50,000,000

State: Hungry]

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There were thousands of monsters swarming the skies. Many of them were winged creatures and those that didn't have one had latched on to the bark of the tree. What made the scene odd was that neither of them had tried to fight one another or even try to fly up the tree. Everyone stayed on the same level in the air just staring above the tree.

"Despite their ranks ranging from ancient and Arch, none of them can traverse up. It's like that was the limit of what they could do. I'm stilled appalled at the height of this tree, and I still can't see it's peak!"

Xerel controlled his ward again to fly higher and as it reached the level in which the monsters had stopped flying, the ward suddenly burst into shards.

Ting~

[ENDER EYE HAS BEEN DESTROYED BY AN UNKNOWN POWER]

'..!'

"No wonder none of them tried to fly higher. Does that mean that there are more monsters above them? But I didn't see anything other than the soaring tree? That's odd, there should be monsters way past their ranks, maybe I'm missing something."

Xerel thought hard of the mystery but couldn't put his head on it so he sighed and focused on other stuff.

"I'll deal with those swarm of monsters but before that. I'll have to use the equipment I got, I'm sure there are useful items I could use."

The first one he checked was the items. There were about 7 items: 2 weapons, 3 armors, 1 footwear, and 1 Adornment.

They were great items that if he was to sell in the market would easily reach billions of dollars of worth. But Xerel made sure to pick the best ones to use.

Ting~

[Millen Spinning

Rank: Silver Ancient

Type: Shield/Courier

MR: 1200

PR: 800

AD: 900

Durability: 2000/2000

Effects:

+25% Flight Speed

+30% Tenacity

(Note: I'll shorten the type of skill to an abbreviation, ex: P for Passive and A for Active. I'll also add the type of use the skill is to specify its uses. DMG- Damage, SPD- Speed, BUFF- Buff, CC- Crowd Control, BLK- Blink/short teleport, HEAL- Heal, AOE- Area Of Effect, DB- DeBuff, CD- Cooldown, P- Poison, B- Burn.)

Millennium Flight- (A)(SPD/BUFF): While on courier mode, movement speed increases by 30%, immune to slow effects, and projectiles have a 50% chance of missing.

Mana cost: 0.5 Mana/per second

Cooldown: None

Protector's Stasis-(P)(HEAL/BUFF): When the player's health drops to 15%, Millen Spinning will disable flight mode and protects the player. Gains a shield equal to 30% of the player's base health that absorbs all incoming damage. Millen Spinning will block all projectiles

Duration: 1 minute

Cooldown: 5 hours]

Ting~

[Phantom Cape

Rank: Bronze Ancient

Type: Outer Armor

PR: 1500

Durability: 2200/2200

Effects:

+1000 Mana

+8 Mana Regeneration

+40% Movement Speed

Misty Shadow-(P)(SPD/BUFF): Agility increases by 500% inside mists, smoke, or darkness. You are untargettable and invisible inside the mist.

Phantom Pursuit-(A)(SPD/DMG): Deal 100 consecutive attacks in 1 second with each dealing 50% critical strike. Dealing Lethal Damage decreases the cooldown of the skill by 2 seconds.

Mana Cost: 1000

Cooldown: 5 minutes

Requirements: 1000 Agility, 1000 Strength]

[Exoterrestrial Leggings

Rank: Bronze Arch

Type: Lower Armor

MR-2000

Durability: 3000/3000

Effects:

+10% Cooldown Reduction

+15 Space Element

Zero Gravity-(A)(DB): The next 5 attacks will cause the target to float mid-air, stopping any motion for 5 minutes.

Mana Cost: 1000

Cooldown: 3 minutes

Requirements: Level 400, 5 Space Element, 1000 Strength]

[Ring of Sol (1/4)

Rank: Hidden

Type: Adornment

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+10 Sun Element

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Millen Spinning was a great sword the size of a surfboard. Its length is 5 meters and its width is 1.5 meters. When placed on the ground, it would levitate which Xerel was able to stand on. He could control the flight using his mind and despite its flat and thin surface, Xerel wasn't toppling on the ground or off his feet as the great sword felt just like one was riding a wave board using telepathy.

Phantom Cape looked very edgy. It was similar to those capes that badass protagonist would wear to blend in with the people so it was quite edgy and tattered. The edges of the cape exuded smoke as every time Xerel moved, he'd leave a faint trace of fog in the air and that although it looked cool, the foggy effect was very impractical considering that the enemies could use the faint fog to be able trace one's location.

Extraterrestrial Leggings was literally out of this world! With the galaxy neon grid patterns on the sides of the pants and the manta black color, it was something one would wear in a fashion trend back on Earth and was not suitable for hunting. Nevertheless, it was better than the baggy grey pants that Xerel currently wore and it had the added Spatial Element which Xerel needed badly.

The ring was the most mysterious one out of all of the items Xerel chose. It had a very bleak description and the design of the ring was very plain. It was the exact resemblance of the ring in The Lord of The Rings series.

'So to unlock the effects of the ring, I need to find three other sets. I don't know where to find them but this was a reward given to me by the World Tree, maybe the other sets are in the world tree. Then I'll have to get stronger and finish all the floors but for now, let's exterminate all these monsters.'

Xerel flew up with the Millen Spinning and stopped halfway through. He summoned Rafiery and pointed it to a monster sticking on the tree.

Ting~

[Mountain Drake

Rank: Ancient 2

Level: 500

HP: 30,000,000/30,000,000

State: Aggravated]

'[Burn Out]'

CHOOOOOOOV!

A fiery beam shot out from the tip of the rapier. It made a loud bass sound and blasted at the weak point of the giant drake.

[-1,500,000]

[-789,000!]

[-100,900*]

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Countless number indicators appeared from Drake's head. It roared as a huge hole had formed on its lower back. Its right leg flopped on the air as it balanced itself back to the tree while reinforcing the hole in its body with the earth.

Graaaaaaahh!

The Drake roared angrily as it averted its head towards Xerel. Its lizard eyes were bloodshot red in anger as it let out a muddy beam towards Xerel.

WAAAAAAAANG!

"..."

Xerel simply stared at the incoming beam as he flew closer to the Drake. The beam went into contact with the barrier and instantaneously dispersed to nothing.

Seeing its attack does not affect the person. It fired bolts of attacks that could surely reduce anyone in range to atoms. Xerel simply grinned at the poor sight of the Drake knowing that none of its powerful attacks work against him.

Xerel started poking the Drake on the different parts of its body as it continued to fight back until it went berserk and let out more powerful attacks.

None of it didn't do any damage of course and Xerel hit the Drake a few more times before it finally died.

The system rang out on his head dozens of window panels averted his view. He earned 30 more levels after killing the Drake and got one of its Runestone.

He proceed to deal with the monsters on the tree first as they were easier to deal with than the flying ones.

The power that the monsters showed was enough to turn earth into a wasteland but Xerel simply saw them like a sack of experience ready to be a grind.

1 hour passed and every monster on the tree died. He earned 135 more levels, 30 runestones, 12 items, and 20 elemental scrolls. He also earned a title.

Ting~

[Monster Slayer- Granted to those who have killed monsters ranging from level 400~600.

Arch ranked monsters and below will fear you while Primordial and Above monsters will be aware of your existence.

Title effects:

+30% Damage against Primordial and above ranked opponents.

+300 To all status

+20% Experience gain from Primordial and above-ranked monsters.]

"Nice! Let's invest some status points before we deal with those flying bastards!"