Bai Qiu was genuinely stunned by its grotesque appearance.
He immediately flew upward within the Tower, avoiding the tentacles reaching up from the Mutated Kraken.
The concealment cloak he wore was completely useless against it.
One after another, the Kraken’s green eyes fired magical beams, forcing even Bai Qiu—who held absolute aerial advantage—into a tight spot.
If not for his Sevenfold Arcane Crystallized Eyes allowing him to predict the trajectory of those beams in advance, he would’ve already been riddled with holes by this barrage of dense rays…
That said, killing—or even confronting—this monster head-on wasn’t actually that difficult.
It was just that Bai Qiu had no intention of using Radiant Star inside the Tower.
After all, it took over twenty days to naturally synthesize one.
Even in the Tower, he’d need to clear ninety floors just to produce a single piece.
As a high-tier resource without synthesis limits, he wouldn’t use it unless it was a true life-or-death situation.
By now, Bai Qiu’s Wind-Gathering trait was fully stacked.
He didn’t use his Noble Phantasm—because even a pause of nearly two seconds would be enough for the Mutated Kraken to turn him into a sieve.
The moment he found an opening, he hurled the Dragon-Slaying Star Breath Spear repeatedly, severely injuring the Kraken.
At first, it didn’t take him seriously at all—it simply couldn’t believe that a “fleeing insect” could harm it.
That changed when its magical beams were effortlessly evaded, and one of its eyes was pierced—along with over a dozen surrounding eyes and chunks of flesh exploding apart.
Only then did it realize the terrifying power of the Dragon-Slaying Star Breath Spear.
It increased the firing rate of its Hundred-Eye Beams while also guarding against Bai Qiu’s throws!
Whenever Bai Qiu launched the spear, it used its tentacles to intercept it.
Though the tentacles were instantly blown apart, they still managed to halt the spear’s momentum.
As Bai Qiu recalled the spear, he also had to watch carefully—those flying chunks of flesh might be hiding incoming magical beams behind them.
“No wonder it has two B-rank attributes… it’s really troublesome!” Bai Qiu was genuinely surprised.
From start to finish, the Kraken’s Hundred-Eye Beams had almost no downtime.
It wasn’t that it maintained a single continuous high-intensity beam.
Rather, each individual eye fired a beam, and after just one second of cooldown, it could fire again.
As long as it didn’t unleash hundreds of eyes at once, there was practically no gap in its attacks…
Even after firing all the eyes on one side at Bai Qiu, it could simply roll over in the water and continue firing from the other side.
By the time that side finished, the first side would be ready to fire again.
What kind of extreme environment could possibly produce a monster like this?
Left with no choice, Bai Qiu could only keep dodging.
At times, he didn’t even have the opportunity to throw his spear.
Fortunately, maintaining such a high-intensity barrage also consumed a significant amount of the Kraken’s mana.
After dragging the fight out for nearly an hour and a half, Bai Qiu finally exhausted its mana reserves…
The Kraken’s once-smooth skin became shriveled and wrinkled.
The vertical pupils that once glowed with eerie green light turned pale and unfocused.
Severed tentacles no longer regenerated, and the entire sea was filled with a heavy aura of death…
Bai Qiu himself was also exhausted.
His mana reserves were still fairly sufficient—after all, controlling wind and maintaining the Sevenfold Arcane Crystallized Eyes didn’t consume much.
He still had about 85% of his mana left.
But after enduring an hour and a half of relentless laser fire, his eyes were nearly blinded…
Just as the Mutated Kraken tried to flee after finishing its barrage, Bai Qiu immediately activated his class Noble Phantasm and, before it could fully submerge, struck—piercing straight through its core in a single blow.
Just how important is gaining aerial superiority inside the Tower?
Put simply—three out of the Mutated Kraken’s five skills were rendered useless.
There’s no need to even mention Viscous Ink and Tidal Surge—they were completely ineffective.
Tidal Soundwave was used quite a few times, but Bai Qiu was too far away for it to have any effect.
On top of that, Bai Qiu had layered a magical shield over his body, blocking everything outright.
Against Bai Qiu’s utterly shameless fighting style, the Mutated Kraken could only fall in resentment!
Bai Qiu felt his depleted magic instantly refill, and the cooldown on his class Noble Phantasm reset.
Naturally, he knew the Mutated Kraken was dead.
Looking at the staircase that appeared in the water, he couldn’t help but shake his head in amazement—if you couldn’t fly, who could possibly defeat that thing in the ocean?
Walking toward the altar, he saw a massive eyeball radiating a terrifying aura.
Hundredfold Demonic Eye (Quality: B)
Description: An eyeball filled with the Mutated Kraken’s magic. It can be embedded into equipment as an ornament—who knows what unexpected effects it might bring.
The amount of magic stored in this eye was immense—likely more than twenty times Bai Qiu’s own—and there were no clearly stated negative side effects.
“Embedded into equipment…” Bai Qiu glanced down at his Skyward Battle Armor, then at the human-head-sized eyeball on the altar, and fell into thought.
From the 61st floor onward, Bai Qiu could no longer easily defeat the guardian monsters on each level.
He either seized aerial superiority and fought a war of attrition, or relied on his concealment cloak to dodge around and look for openings.
Generally speaking, these massive guardian monsters would have one or two attributes that completely surpassed Bai Qiu, while also having one or two weaker than his—after all, his stats were fairly balanced.
So Bai Qiu would avoid clashing head-on where he was weaker, continuously amplify his strengths, and wait for the monster to expose a fatal opening—then finish it off instantly with a single Noble Phantasm.
It’s worth mentioning that even by the 69th floor, Bai Qiu still hadn’t encountered a transcendent creature he truly liked.
Ever since the appearance of something like the Mutated Kraken on the 60th floor, all the monsters he encountered had been extremely aggressive—and their appearances were… hard to describe.
The kind that made you uncomfortable just by looking at them.
…
By now, it was daytime.
Countless players crowded outside the Tower, watching as the number jumped from 69 to 70, erupting into cheers and excitement.
“Insane!”
“He actually broke through the 70th floor! No wonder Boss Bai Qiu didn’t wait until the last day to push—how is anyone supposed to catch up now?!”
The players all understood that as the floors increased, the difficulty multiplied.
Just looking at Bai Qiu was proof—starting from the 60th floor, each level took him over an hour to clear.
From last night until this afternoon, he had been fighting for nearly twenty hours straight!
And it wasn’t just Zone 2233—other regions were also silently watching the highest floor reached on the Tower…
In Zone 2201, Li Zhongjun suddenly looked at the stunned Li Qingshan and asked, “Qingshan, how many floors do you think you can climb this week?”
Snapping back to his senses, Li Qingshan gave a bitter smile and shook his head.
“Commander, don’t make things difficult for me. Starting from the 50th floor, even the weakest monsters are at least on par with the final boss from that asteroid mine last time.”
He let out a sigh and added, “Whether I can win or not really depends on luck. Last time, I got slowed down in a swamp and was swallowed whole by a crocodile… Maybe things will improve after I obtain a transcendent item card.”
— The end of the Chapter–
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