Akashic Tower III

Taking a brief look at Jun's Servants and their actions on the first floor, they were quite fitting to say the least.

Penthesilea was resharpening her warrior skills that had been somewhat dulled by her previous madness. Liking training almost as much as Jun did, she was quite thorough and methodical about it, just as he was. Currently on the way to the Middle RIng after warming up on the Outer Rim.

Mordred instantly tired of the weaklings of the Outer Rim and was now on the Middle Ring, causing hell but getting progressively worn out.

The Elite Variants of the Skeletons that spawned in the Outer Rim were nearly as strong as a very weak Servant, even though one such servant could take on a squad of them with relative ease if they were smart, there were thousands upon thousands roaming around the Middle Ring.

It was a tremendous jump in difficulty and the Skeleton Commanders that led them were without a doubt as strong as a low to mid tier Servant, which made them quite dangerous to fight when they were supported by their troops.

Mordred was doing well though. The arrows of the Elite Skeleton Archers could not breach her armor and her Magic Resistance (B) just barely nullified the Elite Skeleton Magi's magecraft.

"Clarent . . . Blood Arthur!" Mordred used her anti army noble phantasm in the direction of the Commander and killed him along with countless of his soldiers, while she mopped up the rest.

Panting from tiredness, Mordred thought to herself.

'I wonder if this is what master meant that I was wasting power . . . Getting tired after dealing with a bunch of weaklings . . .'

Moving on to Atalanta She was dominating the Middle Ring. Her Agrius Metamorphosis turning her into a Monstrous Human, with the power of the Calydonian Boar giving her a two rank boost to all her parameters other than Luck made her an avatar of destruction.

She could pull out bird wings, beast claws and even turn into the Boar temporarily. She took out the Commander First to stop it from organizing the troops and then just dashed around with endless stamina taking out the rest and using her Tauropolos, The Bow of Heaven to unleash attacks similar to her Phoebus Catastrophe that was sealed as a consequence of using Agrius Metamorphosis

'Being able to use this without losing my mind is a boon indeed. I must thank master for granting me this . . . No, I must show that I am deserving of such a gift.' Atalanta thought to herself.

Jack was also having quite a bit of fun, thinking her "father" was the best for giving her such a nice gift. Not only did she have unlimited cute clothes, she also had stuff like what she was using now.

Using her new noble phantasm, Natural Born Killers, Jack created over two hundred copies of herself with exactly the same powers as her, then, using her second new noble phantasm, From Hell, she turned them all into powerful stereotypical demons with the power of martial servants.

Normally, the power of the demons was based on population density of the area but Jun had modified it to be based on the amount of magical energy used since he had a lot to spared and such a condition was much more reliable.

With such firepower on her side, despite being the one using the most magical energy at the moment, she was also the one demonstrating the greatest amount of power.

Fran on the other hand was content to slowly advance while testing out her new Bridal Blade so she had yet to make too many waves.

Semiramis was demolishing the Middle Ring with magical beams while using compound magecraft barrier to protect herself as she floated in mid air. Occasionally summoning the slabs of stone that floated around the Hanging gardens to deliver prohibitively powerful spells.

Lastly, there was Jeanne who was standing alone in the Middle Ring with fields of ashen destruction around her as she made full use of her now not so costly second noble phantasm, La Pucelle to incinerate all enemies that crossed her path.

Everyone, knew that there were things they could certainly doo better so they hanged around on the Middle Ring, trying to figure out their style of combat and how to improve upon their skills with their new tools of destruction.

Besides, they all could sense that the Inner RIng was still beyond their current Level which made them wonder how their master had managed to procure such a treasure trove of enemies for them to practice on.

As time passed, with plenty of pauses, most of them had gained months to years of experience, except Jun who secretly put on decades but his perceptive Servants noticed he was going at it harder than them but, knowing he was the one that had lost such a large amount of his own power, they chose to not point it out and just redouble their efforts to grow strong enough to support him.

Everyone had something to be gained but only Jun could exhibit it in his statuses as theirs did not yet have the capacity of growth through training.

'Will they have to do everything again once they have Transcender class vessels for the changes to register?' Jun asked Ahsaka.

'No. The changes will immediately register but their growth speed will be much lower than yours so don't expect extreme changes from the get go unless you have a hnd in them.' She replied and Jun consulted his new status.

Eye of the Mind (True) (B): Heightened capacity for observation, refined through training, discipline and experience. A danger-avoidance ability that utilizes the intelligence collected up to the current time as the basis in order to predict the opponent's activity and change the current situation.

This is not a result of talent, but an overwhelming amount of combat experience. A weapon wielded by none other than a mortal, gained through tenacious training. So long there is even a 1% chance of a comeback, this ability greatly improves the chances of winning.

At B rank, the user is capable of calm analysis of battle conditions even when in danger and deduce an appropriate course of action after considering all possibilities to escape from a predicament.

Eternal Martial Mastery (A->A+)

Eternal Magecraft Mastery (B++ -> A++)

A new skill that marginally boosted the effects of his Demon Palace Laplace (EX) and an upgrade to his Mastery skills not only raising their rank but giving them the eternal trait which made them unaffected by mental pollution but since Jun was already immune to it that was redundant.

These decades, truly passed for Shiki so, they didn't count as time manipulation as such, his Aurea Poculum was steadily accumulating treasure and magical energy at a fast pace, now containing prohibitively large amounts of it.

That did cause a huge change in the noble phantasm but more on that later . . .

Moving on, there were two things to do. One start creating an armour for himself, and give everyone their gifts . . . A Transcender class vessel for each of them.

Once Jun explained it to them, they were of course elated but had a much more important question.

"How much longer than us did you spend inside the tower?"

"Well, about that . . ." Jun was put on the spot.

They knew he had spent more time there than them but the fact he had enough magical energy to make such a ritual for each of them was suspicious to say the least. It made them realize he had spent much more time in the first floor than any of them previously thought.

"I exercise my right as the master to keep that info for myself!" Jun said, making them all pissed but, considering how good of a master he was to them, denying him such small favours seemed to be too much so they let it slide this time around.

Jun then began giving them an explanation of how it would work.

"The transformation is quick and simple, all of you will achieve Palingenesis, not getting all the power you had in life but getting all the power you could possibly have as an heroic spirit if you were not bound by a construct such as a class." He began.

"Additionally, you'll be able to grow further from that as such a state is merely the starting point provided by the transformation of your vessel Finally, you'll also get the class skills of the Transcender class which are quite nice if I do say so myself." Jun concluded.

"Also Mordred." Jun called out.

"Huh, me?" Mordred was zoning out from the technical explanation.

"Yes you. Despite your attitude, you'll get a little extra as promised for your progress." Jun said.

"How do you know my progress!? I was looking forward to showing it off!" Mordred said with shock.

"Because I'm always watching . . . Always! Hehe!" Jun smugly said.

"So you were watching all of our training and evaluating our progress while you did your own training?" Silea asked.

"Yup! I have a skill that allows me to create multiple partitions in my mind to allow me to do such things:" Jun bragged.

"In other words . . . Even more work?" Lanta questioned.

"Huh . . ." Jun was caught.

"Master . . . How old are you?" Silea asked with a smile that was very threatening.

"Near fifteen?" Jun asked confused.

". . ."

"""""""WHAT!?"""""""

"Is that so strange?" Jun asked.

"The why do you look adult!?" Lanta pointed out.

"I can transform my body to a limited degree. I usually keep it at my physical peak form." Jun revealed.

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