Meanwhile; On the seventh floor.
After entering the golden portal, Alec saw himself inside a new environment.
The moment he stepped out of the portal, he felt a burning sensation under his feet. With a small wince, Alec hurriedly coated his feet with mana and looked down.
The ground was crimson and he could also see some fire sparks coming out from the red soil.
Suddenly another person arrived beside him. Alec hurriedly turned around and saw Jian.
Jian jumped the moment he arrived beside him.
"What the! Why is the ground so hot?"
Both of them looked around with squinted eyes.
There were no trees, no vegetation. The sky was dark, filled with lighting clouds.
In the distance, they could see cone-shaped volcanoes, lava lakes, and large red fire rocks.
The Temperature was also high, making them sweat profoundly within a few seconds.
Jian couldn't help but shudder while looking at their surrounding.
"What the hell are we supposed to do in this place?"
The moment he spoke, a figure wearing dark clothes flew out from behind the clouds. The figure was yawning seemingly uninterested in the two individuals who just arrived on its territory.
Alec and Jian both immediately looked at the figure. It had brown skin with two black horns protruding out from its head. Also, in the middle of the figure's eyes, they could see red lines instead of pupils.
After gazing at the duo, the figure spoke in a cold voice.
"Hmm, even though it was my turn to come down but I didn't expect anyone to arrive on this floor. Very well, now that you both have stepped on my territory I won't make things difficult for you."
"To pass my trial each of you need to find and kill one thousand fire skeletons."
After speaking, the figure wearing black clothes snapped its index figure and under Alec and Jian's gaze a fire skeleton crawled out from the ground.
The skeleton's eyes were hollow and its body was black. A ball of fire was also burning in the middle of the skeleton's chest.
The figure pointed at the fire skeleton while looking at Alec and Jian with an emotionless face.
"As you can see this is a fire skeleton. The red fire orb burning in the middle of its chest indicate the power of the skeleton. There are three types of fire skeletons in this place each with a different color fire core."
"Red color orb is the weakest and it's almost equal to a (-D)-Rank warrior. The second color is blue and it's equal to a (+D)-Rank warrior. Lastly, the ones with purple color orbs are the strongest skeleton warrior. They are equal to a (C)-Rank warrior."
"It doesn't matter what skeleton warrior you kill, you just need to kill one thousand of them and you will pass the trial."
The figure paused and looked at the duo who was swallowing all the information.
"After you are done you can leave for the next floor."
"Any questions?"
Jian and Alec looked at each other. There was a bitter smile on their faces.
What the fuck!
The weakest skeleton was (-D)-Rank!
Jian was only (+E)-Rank. On the other hand, after receiving the mission completion reward from the system, Alec directly broke through to (D)-Rank.
Still, it would take them months just to kill so many fire skeletons.
Suddenly Jian raised his hand and spoke with hesitation.
"What about the reward?"
The floating figure raised its brow at Jian's question before speaking indifferently.
"While finding and killing the skeletons you will probably stumble upon incredible treasures buried around this floor. That is your reward."
Jian expression turned ugly.
So even after killing one thousand skeletons, there was no reward!
Also, he knew from his experience that he almost had a zero percent chance of stumbling upon any treasure.
For a moment, Jian thought about Kyle before shaking his head with a smile.
"Kyle would have probably found something precious even if he casually stroll around this place!"
Jian mumbled under his breath. He was a little jealous.
Meanwhile, the figure floating in front of them clapped its hand.
"No more questions?"
Alec and Jian both nodded.
The figure snapped its figure again and a zero mark appeared on both Alec's and Jian's wrists.
"Alright, I put a counter on your body It will tell you the amount of fire skeletons you killed. After the counter reached 1000 a portal will be formed in front of both of you. The portal will take you to the next floor."
After speaking its final words, the figure turned around and disappeared among the clouds with a sleepy face.
After the horned figure disappeared from their view, both Alec and Jian got familiar with each other. They were the only ones present on this huge floor so it was better for them to roam around together.
While they were talking suddenly the ground a few meters away from them trembled and a black skeleton suddenly crawled out from the ground. Its core was blue.
With a sigh, both Alec and Jian immediately got ready for combat.
They have to kill one thousand skeletons with as minimum time as possible. So they can advance to the next floor.
...
At the same time, On the first floor.
A small shockwave shook a large tree. On top of the tree was sitting a small red bird. A beautiful golden fire mark appeared between the bird's brow as she laugh madly.
-'Kyle, I directly broke through to (+D)-Rank! Also, my fire skills become stronger than before!'
Bia shouted excitedly while flying toward Kyle who was looking at her with squinted eyes.
"Why are you still small?"
Bia stopped and looked at Kyle with a deadpan expression.
-'I told you I broke through and you are calling this majestic me small?'
Kyle immediately changed his expression and looked at Bia while blinking his eyes innocently.
"Um, Congratulations."
Bia narrowed her eyes hearing his insincere congratulation. With a flap, she threw a fireball toward a nearby tree.
Kyle's eyes widen looking at the large head-sized golden fireball before he immediately stepped side way and the fireball collided with a nearby tree.
-BOOM!
Under Kyle's shocked gaze, the upper part of the tree blasted into tiny pieces.
Seeing Kyle shocked face, Bia had a proud expression on her face before she flew toward him and sat on top of his head.
Kyle sighed looking at the half-burnt tree. She just blew a towering tree with a single fireball. That was the power of the future (+SSS)-Rank Phoenix!
-'So, what's the plan now.'
After hearing Bia's words, Kyle smiled.
"What else, we are gonna take everything from this floor!"
-'I like this plan!'
Now that Kyle was (-D)-Rank and Bia was (+D)-Rank. Both of them were very confident in their abilities. Also, they could face everything as long as they didn't encounter any monster above (-C)-Rank.
