All of a sudden, Billy saw himself standing in a different world. That was the third time, but the surprise was always unpleasant. He really tried to control himself, but considering the whole situation and what he could lose, he failed at doing so.
"Shit… that motherfucker have done it this time…" Billy said while looking at his current body. "I feel so weak, and I can't feel my mana at all… to think that he would be so close all this time… "
At the last moment, Billy felt the spirit of death and life hitting him. While it felt like an attack, it seemed that they had sent him somewhere else. Billy looked around and couldn't see anything aside from darkness. He could see a hard floor below him, but only that… even his eyes weren't like the ones before. The situation couldn't have been any worse, but he knew that those two only did to avoid the worst ending possible.
"I can't panic, but I need to do something about this and fast…" Billy said and then took his armor since it was too heavy.
Billy frowned when he saw his arms. They looked like twigs that were about to break. Almost no muscles… only skin and bones. Billy could imagine that Uvish took the body of someone dead or almost dead to pull that off since, apparently, he couldn't change his body very often. Still, for every rule, there is an exception…
"He chose this body to kill me for certain once he took mine, but thanks to the intervention of those two, that didn't happen…" Billy began to bite his fingernails. "I have to return home as fast as possible. Otherwise, the others will be in danger… my kids, my wives… everyone…"
Billy took several deep breaths to calm down… he couldn't panic. He told himself that time and time again. The spirits of life and death sent him to somewhere that could be useful to him… probably, and they wouldn't save his life only to condemn the entire world… In any case, Billy had to hurry because his current body was on the limit.
After walking around for a while, Billy found walls in all directions, so he realized that he was inside some building. It was a pretty weird one since it didn't have windows or doors, and apparently, the interior had an octagonal shape, and each of the walls was at least one hundred meters long.
"Is this a tower?" Billy thought. "Shit… I don't have time for this. I need… As expected, that asshole even took the system from me."
While that was within Billy's expectations that such a thing would happen. It still was annoying… he had trained hard for those two techniques, and now he couldn't use them, even though they were his skills.
"All right… I learned those with a little help from the system so that I can learn without it," Billy said. "Let's look for an exit while I think about how I can pull that off…"
While Billy was thinking, he headed to the center of the room, and then he found a spiral staircase. Hopefully, he will find the Legendary sword at the top of the tower, and he will be able to bend space and time with it without having to use mana… Thinking that such a convenient thing would happen was stupid, but no one has to pay anything to be hopeful.
While Billy was climbing the stairs, he tried to use Chi. Unfortunately, not even the basic level of the skill was working. It would be hard to do that technique with such a body at that rate… To make things worse, he got out of breath before he could even reach the next floor… Even though he had climbed a few dozen already, that was a bit too much.
"Remember, Billy… Mana is the power of spirit and mind… I might have left my progress of the last thirty years on that body, but the core is still here…" Billy said while taking deep breaths. "Focus, focus… Focus…"
Before long, like a small candle had been lit inside him, Billy felt some mana in his body. It looked like he managed to activate Meditation, and that was one of the most fundamental skills that helped people increase mana and their magic power.
"Now I just need to recover my thirty years of progress without the help of the system in three hours or less," Billy said. "It is definitely feasible."
Putting jokes aside, Billy got up and then kept climbing. While he couldn't see how much mana he had, he knew that his magic powers would increase if he learned certain things that were supposed to be beyond his current level. He wished that he could put a such strain in his body, though.
"Let's see… If I can sense mana, I should be able to use Chi now," Billy thought.
Billy's senses improved a little, and he managed to activate Chi. It seemed that he was sent to a world where mana existed, so that was a relief. With the extra energy, Billy managed to climb the stairs a bit faster, and then he reached the next floor, but he found nothing. To make things worse, the stairs ended there… Only after s couple of minutes did he find the continuation at another location.
"The designer of this crap probably was a son of a bitch…" Billy thought.
Billy was tired of climbing and searching. Still, after a short while, he will have enough mana to keep Magic Eyes active. Moreover, his body didn't feel like it was made of cardboard anymore. The effects of Chi were helping him more than a little bit.
Eventually, when Billy could use Magic Eyes, he realized that all the floors were basically the same, only the location of the stairs changed. He had climbed around ten levels in half an hour, but there was no sign of the top…
