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chapter 1757: burst-through!

the sword attack had broken the illusion of the bright sky above. as the pieces of tower continued to fall on the city, the residents raised their heads and stared up in shock, their hands plastered over their mouths, and the children in the area were crying, looking at the scene.

after all, some of them had lived in the tower all their lives. because once one person had entered the tower, the whole of their family could also join, and so could the future generations. therefore, not all those who lived in the tower were strong amra's, nor had they stepped foot from outside. and seeing the damage caused by the blood sword, they could only think that it was the world's end. to them, a demon had created a sword of blood that everyone could see, and now the sky had turned blood red as the hell had descended.

as for the person responsible for it all, he was still standing in the courtyard, looking up at what he had done.

"my theory was correct after all." quinn thought.

after exploring the celestial space, quinn had linked the special tower doors and the tower together. it was strange how each floor felt like they were in a completely different place, almost like they were on another planet, and that's when it clicked.

it didn't just feel like it was a different place. each of the doors was almost like a portal to another area. when looking at the outside, although the tower was expansive, it wasn't enough for the space they were exploring.

things didn't match up, meanwhile on the tenth floor the sky looked extremely high and the blue light of energy must have meant something, which is why quinn believed that the rest of the floors, the living quarters where the amras actually lived, were real parts of the tower.

having blasted a hole straight upward, it looked like he was right.

"the celestials were able to create the celestial space, so creating actual dimensions, trial rooms and other things for themselves wouldn't completely be out of the question." quinn thought.

since he was no longer using his celestial energy, his armour wouldn't burn if he was to use it. now using his shadow, the chest piece had soon attached to him again, and his wings had sprouted.

"i will ask you guys again, are you sure you want to come with me? if so, then you will need to hold on." quinn said with his hand held out.

the three amra looked at each other, they honestly were stunned by everything happening and didn't know what to do, but in the end, there was one that took the first step.

"you are one crazy human," geo replied, holding his hand. "i have never seen anything like you. for a long time, i have thought, why are the lives of those in the tower different from those outside it? i want to ask our god these questions."

quinn now started to know why he liked geo quite a bit, and the answer was because he reminded him of himself. reminded him of his old self.

after seeing that geo was going along, nock couldn't fall behind and quickly ran over as well, and finally, there was dober, who just smiled as he held on to one of the wings.

You won't need to do that. I will let you guys see everything when I get up there." Quinn said as he activated his shadow and placed each of them into his shadow space.

Straight after, bending his knees, Quinn blasted off into the air. The arma from below could see a small person flying up to the hole that he had just created in the distance.

They couldn't quite tell what it was but could see large black wings on its body. This was because Quinn had activated his shadow.

"What is happening? Is that an angel!" A little child looked over in awe.

"An angel? Don't be foolish. I don't even think that is an amra. Don't look at it." A mother said, placing her hands over the child's eyes.

Quinn moved fast with his wings and was able to reach the hole quickly. He wasn't flying as fast as he could run, but he was still agile and swift. When going through the hole, it was as Quinn had expected.

The next moment, he found himself on the ground floor of another city. This time it looked different to the one below. The technology being used had advanced, and Quinn could see more high-rise buildings and different technological specs here.

The Amra even seemed to wear more clothing similar to humans in fashion. However, the style was completely different as everything seemed to be a different shade of green and nothing else.

"Catch the intruder! We have to stop him at all costs!" An amra guard shouted.

Continuing to fly upward, Quinn could see most of the Amra on this floor were already alerted of his presence and had equipped themselves for a battle. They also wore slightly different coloured clothes, which was most likely to show the status of being someone from the 25th floor.

In their hands, they had large tube-like weapons, imitating something somewhat like a bazooka. While others had objects that looked like canons, and finally, some just had rounded rocks in their hands.

"Fire!" the commanders shouted.

Being thrown by the larger, stronger amra were several different coloured rocks of all shapes, sizes, and colours.

The first one to reach Quinn was a red-coloured rock. Using his wing that was covered in the shadow, he was able to block it, but the second it made an impact, it exploded.

The amra who had made the hit had jumped for joy until the smoke had cleared up and everyone saw that Quinn was unharmed.

Of course, he was because the demon tier armour and shadow powers were the best defence one could get. And when the other rocks started to come towards him, Quinn decided to do something else.

One green-coloured rock came from his right, and using his wing he sucked the rock in. Then straight to the other side, the rock had come out of the other wing and aimed below at some amra guards.

It came out just as fast and destroyed the whole building in which it crashed.

"That was a powerful throw, but not nearly as much as the one I received earlier, which means there are even stronger ones above." Quinn thought while holding two more rocks in his hand that he had caught mid-air.

Once again, Quinn threw both of these down at those below as he sped up and started to fly even higher into the sky. After all, Quinn's goal wasn't on the 25th floor, so there's no need for him to waste any time here.

Now that the Amra were alerted and would be waiting for him on every floor, it didn't seem like they would give him the ship's equipment without a big fight.

The far quicker and in this case and moment, the easier option was to talk to the tower owner and ask them directly to get him a ship so he could leave this place. Flying up higher towards the purple sky this time, Quinn was about to reach the second hole he had created.

As soon as he passed through, he reached the next floor and landed on the hard grey-coloured ground. He stood with spread wings, looking up. This was because there was no hole in the sky this time.

"So my attack could only go through two floors? Whoever made it must have made this tower out of some strong stuff."

Seeing as there was no one around them for now, Quinn decided to release the others. When they got out, they stumbled a bit but quickly regained their balance and began to look around.

"Wait, where are we? This doesn't look like where we were before. Are we on the 12th floor?" Nock asked.

"Wait, I've been on the 12th floor too. This looks nothing like the 12th floor." Geo said.

When the other two looked around, they noticed huge three-tiered mansions off in the distance. They were all somewhat shaped like a temple. The ground was flat everywhere, and the only thing they found was the large mansions, around twenty in total.

"I have only heard about this place." Dober started to speak with sweat running down his face.

"This is where the 'Sedi' Ranked amras live… some of the strongest amra live here… Oh my… we are on the fiftieth floor!"

Just as Dober finished speaking, the suddenly began to shake and before the three of them could react, amra's, much larger than all of them, began to land on the grey floor in front of them.

Other than their size, another thing to note was that some of them ever had a different coloured outer skin than the rest.

"This is nice… I guess I get to use a little more strength against you guys." Quinn smiled, unphased by the huge amra's in front of him.

[Item type soul weapon activated.]

Chapter 1758: The Amra Evolve.

"There is something seriously different about these guys compared to the others." Quinn thought, looking at the Amra that were known as the 'Sedi' rank.

They were slightly larger in size by about a quarter compared to others, their shoulders were broader, and the colour of their outer skin was also different.

It almost looked and felt like they were part of a different race. It was hard to believe someone could change this much.

Is it the tower? Has some sought of evolution made it, so their bodies have Changed?' Quinn thought. One thing was clear. They were far stronger than the other Amra. It was why he had decided to summon his Soul weapon.

Either way, it didn't matter too much, and this didn't look like a situation that Quinn could just fly out of this time. Immediately, two of the Sedis had a strange green-coloured rock and threw it right at Quinn.

Using his demon tier piece of equipment that still had the shadow activated, Quinn stretched them out to hit the rocks. This was because bringing them in to defend himself would have taken more time.

It was the quickest action he could take. As the rocks had hit Quinn's wings, they had stopped mid air, but something strange happened that hadn't occurred before. Several vibrations came out, hitting the air like ripples.

When attacks hit Quinn's shadow, it would either slow it down or stop the attack altogether if it was a more condensed form of the shadow. Because of the Demon tier chest piece's special ability, the wings shadow acted more like the latter, as a defensive mechanism stopping any attacks it touched, no matter how great.

Although this had stopped the physical aspect of the attack, it seemed like something else was occurring Hitting the air, a large ringing sound could be heard in Quinn's ears, and it was becoming extremely painful for him.

I can't hear anything! My head feels like it's going to explode! Quinn soon could see around eight more of the green rocks coming towards his front.

Tyring, his best, he shook off the strange feeling and decided to face the other rocks head-on.

"If blocking them isn't the right thing to do, then I will just have to attack head-on instead."

Lifting up the twin tails blades one would think he would start to swing them towards the Sedi. However, Quinn instead had bashed his two weapons aga inst each other. At that moment, several chains had broken off his blade.

There were five parts from one part of the weapon and five parts from the other, allowing for ten links to be in the air. The blade looked broken for a few seconds, and where the parts had come off, it almost looked like human muscle.

The chains, deep within Quinn's body, started to swirl around more and the two twin tail blades extended out again, returning to their original length, but the ten pieces were still floating about, and they soon started to glow red.

Quinn had retracted away his shadow wings once more, and the red veins on his body started to show, as celestial energy was also running through his soul weapons.

"I'm sorry, but unlike the others, I don't think I can give you the chance to live, but if you give up now, I will spare your life," Quinn stated.

The Sedi didn't listen and instead picked up more rocks they had brought with them, ready to attack from a distance again. Seeing this, Quinn had no choice; the floating chain links grew red, and went straight towards the rocks.

It had pierced right through them. The rocks were split to even more parts going past Quinn, but he could easily avoid them, and for the ones that he couldn't he lifted his blade slightly, allowing it to deflect.

"What is that weapon, and those links able to block an attack from the Green rock. That weapon must be something from the gods!" One of the Sedi said.

In a way, they were right. Similar to how Quinn could now create celestial weapons, his soul weapon had become a celestial weapon itself. There was a large boost in its power, its durability, just like when celestial points were given to the others, and at the same time, there were more things it could do compared to before.

"Let's get rid of a lot of you in one go!"

With celestial blood running through the weapons, Quinn could control the other links with his blood powers. They went right past all of the Sedi, moving at an incredible speed, but the Sedi also knew they weren't coming towards them, so they started to leave.

However, they did do something strange. There was a separate link that was placed in between a few of the Sedi. Placing both his weapons out to the side, they started to glow bright red, and so did the links.

The next second, a red aura, just like when Quinn used blood, came out of the links. It continued to move, and the red aura had wrapped around, the back of the Sedi connecting all of the links together and finally connected back to Quinn's blade.

It was then, using all of his strength, Quinn pulled forward, while also restricting the aura, to constrict and make the area smaller. The Sedi felt something suddenly hit their backs, a strong force that was slightly burning into their skin from behind.

They were lifted off their feet and were coming directly towards Quinn. When they were only a few metres away, the twin tails glowed bright red again, but their form started to change, and this item looked like gauntlets.

Meanwhile, the ten or so links that were behind them had changed their form into swords as well.

"I learnt just like with Peter, how he had an image in his head he could create when using celestial energy, that I could do the same." Quinn thought.

Moving his hands, it looked like a red aura around the whole area was gathering in seconds. Just with his fingertips, he made what looked like a type of claw shape. Red lines were cutting the air around him.

The whole area was distorting, and even the ground around Quinn's feet was disengrating a little.

"Inside that space, I learned to return to my roots a little. I always prefered hand-to-hand combat rather than all of these blood skills, so why not do something that's more suited to me."

The Sedi had somewhat recovered in the air and had wound up their fists, ready to punch the enemy in front of them.

Twisting his foot on the ground, Quinn had pounced from his position, leaping with great power, and swiped his hand, aiming for the fist. The red lines of power still flowed, and as they touched the hard rock hand of the Sedi, it had gone through like it was butter. Blood could be seen for a split second coming out of the hand, but it almost evaporated into a mist and had joined the red aura behind it, making it grow larger.

Using his other hand, Quinn had slashed at its stomach, and the same thing happened there. Then before it could do anything, Quinn continued to slash with his hands causing the enemy in front of him to disappear into nothing but more vampire aura.

Quinn quickly moved, from one to another, using his new Celestial blood gauntlets to cut through all of the Sedi's attacks. Anything they touched looked like the enemy in front would just disappear, and Quinn was faster than them, and even if he wasn't and they were to touch his deadly claws, they would lose their own limbs.

In the end, the other three that had come with Quinn could see only him standing there, with the bodies of the Sedi on the floor, whatever was left of them.

"I'm sure there should be something on this floor we can use to trade for the spaceship parts you need." Quinn said.

Moments later, something could be seen falling from the sky, landing around 200 metres away. It was heavy and caused a loud dust cloud to rise, blocking the view of them all. Although Quinn couldn't see, he could sense the energy.

"It looks like the big guy has decided to see me in person."

Chapter 1759: A meeting of gods.

The large object had crashed at such a speed that Quinn could not react against it. The only thing he did see was that it wasn't just a single object; rather, he had seen three in total. The dust cloud made by them had created a wave.

The grey-coloured flooring tiles were cracked, and the floor was covered in the smoke of dust. Looking around, Quinn noticed that the other three had been struggling to move ever since they had gotten here.

"Is it the Gravity?" Quinn thought.

"It is heavy here. my body was able to adjust to the speed a lot quicker, but for them, they were meant to get used to the changes from each floor."

"Jumping directly to the 50th floor might have become a problem for them."

All three of them had their hands on the floor, pushing off it like a giant weight was sitting on top of them. They were shaking as they utilised every muscle in their body. Lifting his head, Geo could see the wall of dust coming towards them and the hole not too far behind them.

"If we get hit by that, we're going to get thrown back into that hole! We have to move!" Geo thought.

"Nock, Dober, if we don't get out of here, that wall will hit us! Move your arses!" Geo shouted.

"Why… are you telling us…vsomething when you can't do it either!" Nock shouted back and managed to place one foot on the ground, and his upper body was upright. Two of his arms were pressing off his one knee, and Nock was now the one doing the best.

"Haha, at least if we die, I can say I bested you in my final moments." Nock smiled.

Dober was at the back, and that's when he could see something happening. The outer skin on Geo's leg looked like it was beginning to crack. At first, Dober thought it was a wound that Geo had received somehow, but he couldn't remember them getting hit.

When taking a closer look, he could see that there was no blood though, and instead, it looked like parts of his rocky skin were falling over, and a new shade of rock was coming through. In addition, the hide of the rock was somewhat thicker, increasing the length and size of Geo's legs by a little bit.

"He… is evolving into one of the Sedi ranks!" Dober noticed, but he also saw that it might not matter because the wall of debris was already upon them. Then, from the side, dense red energy came out of nowhere, sending the debris off in the distance through the air and crashing into one of the large mansions that was originally owned by one of the Sedi rank Amra.

"Did you guys think I forgot about you all or something? You guys chose to follow me, you guys are helping me out, so I won't just let you die." Quinn stated, still not looking at them instead of looking off in the distance.

Quinn briefly looked at his hands for a second, which were still covered in his celestial gauntlets. They made his hands look around double the size and were almost a solid black, like when Peter transformed, but also still had several red glowing lines coming down to his wrist and continuing on his skin.

Strangely, the chains that would be stuck in Quinn's body were still there, connected from the base of the gauntlets, sprinkling to his body till his shoulders and the top of his chest.

"The tiger form martial arts I practised did well when mixed with the power of these gauntlets, but every time I change the shape of the soul weapon, it has a different effect with blood."

"My fists were getting stronger each time my fingers went through their bodies. I could feel the blood was merging with my own powers."

But now that he's here, if I have a big fight ahead of me, I will have to use everything I learn in that space right here and now."

Walking forward, Quinn didn't decide to be aggressive, but he wouldn't get out of this either in case he needed to use it at any moment. It was then that he felt a surge of energy from behind.

Although he didn't want to look away from those in front, turning around, he could see Geo standing there; at least Quinn thought it was Geo.

"It looks like I was right. The Sedi can evolve, which has something to do with this tower." Quinn thought.

Geo's skin now darkened, turning pitch black compared to before. There were also little sparks of white rocks throughout his skin, making Geo somewhat like a rare ore. At the same time, Geo was now just as large as the Sedi rank Amra. And he didn't just go through a simple evolution, but it looked like he evolved to the point where he could match the older Sedi rank Amra on this floor.

"I wonder, why do all of their skin differ from one another, even though they have all evolved."

Quinn thought as he saw Geo lift Nock and Dober off the ground with ease, placing them upright so they could stand on their own two feet.

"The two of them haven't evolved either."

Turning his head to focus on the front, Quinn found that the smoke had now slowly settled, and he could see two females with a golden-like skin colour on the outer scales. Since they were female, one thing to notice was that they had two arms instead of the four.

They were roughly the same size and width as the Sedi Rank, but he had never seen this colour on any of the Sedi ranks. The other difference Quinn could see and feel was that they both had a marking on their head.

It looked like a rectangle pointing upwards with two snake-like figures wrapping around it, but they did not have heads. Thinking about it, it somewhat looked like the tower from the outside in the distance and sensing the Celestial energy in them, Quinn could tell they were beyond that of the Sedi Rank Arma he had just fought against.

Finally, there was what could only be described as a literal giant. It was a large Amra that had similar traits to the rest. Its colour was also one that Quinn had never seen either. He had a platinum shine that was almost reflective like a mirror because his skin was somewhat reflecting everything surrounding him, from the Sedi Amra to the buildings.

However, the biggest difference was that this Amra had six arms, three sticking out from either side. This was the first for Quinn, and this perhaps was not just an Amra because Quinn could tell this giant was a Celestial too.

"This has become quite an interesting predicament. I never expected a god to just come to this place unannounced." Athos said in a booming loud voice that shook the entire area.

"This…this is our god… the god of the tower!" Nock said in a quivering voice as the echo from Athos words dimmed. They had never seen him before, never seen any images of him, but at first glance, they could tell who this was.

"Quinn, I was right about you… from the way you stand calmly, I can tell you don't feel anything in his presence. You really are on the same level as him." Geo thought.

"Maybe I can tell more now that I am just a bit closer to the two of you, but for me to reach where you two are, I think it would just be impossible for me."

"Good luck, Quinn… my friend."

"I never expected to come to this place either," Quinn said, still walking forward, not halting his advance.

"I only have one simple wish: to get off this damned place so I can return and help my friend. First, though, I might have some questions to ask you."

"I won't disrespect you since you are like me," Athos expressed.

"However, you have caused a lot of trouble on my planet. I am curious about your name and where you are from."