Chapter 1263 - Eighth Time (2) (1/2)

The white tiger growled, clearly not liking Dyon's words one bit.

According to its duties, its original body had split its soul 19 total ways. One was within his main body, while the remaining 18 guarded the various entrances to the tiers. However, this seemingly simple task had become nothing more than a nightmare.

Even when boosting its attack power to account for the ”group” Dyon was in, it still wasn't enough. Dyon would end up using it like a punching bag to hone his skills and even berate the white tiger when it wasn't good enough. For the esteemed position it held, how could the white tiger tolerate this?

”You'd better go all out this time,” Dyon said casually, ”Because I don't plan on giving you a ninth chance. After this, I'll go directly to the 18th tier.”

Dyon swung the spear from his shoulder, brandishing it as a fierce light shone in his eyes.

He had learned a few things since he began this climb. The 18 tiers weren't actually a fixed exam. The flexibility of the battle prowess of the stair guardians made it clear that the challenge was adjusted depending on the person.

The number of people climbing the stairs at one time was only a single factor. It also seemed that the guardian decided the difficulty of the exam as well.

Dyon had evaluated the guardian's prowess as being at the God level, but short of the True God level. Technically, True God wasn't a rank to its own, but rather a subset of Gods that stood above the rest due to their overwhelming results on the trials. Still, Dyon knew there was a distinction.

The reason this was important was because the 'God' difficulty was the highest the guardian was allowed to present to Dyon as there was no 'True God' difficulty. Meaning, the White Tiger gave Dyon the God difficulty because he sensed that it was the difficulty Dyon earned.

If Dyon was correct, if he continued to climb the stairs and passed all 18 levels, there would be the corresponding 'God' reward. However, he had no intention of doing so, mostly because he was quite aware that he wasn't strong enough. After all, as his master had said, this test was only meant to be passed by peak celestials. In his current state, it took Dyon's everything to defeat a normal mid level celestial, let alone a first-grade mid celestial.

Unfortunately, now that he had reached the 8th tier, that was exactly the prowess the white tiger now held. After all, no god level character would be below a first-grade level.

Still, Dyon fighting spirit reached an all time high.

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Two days later, Dyon awoke from meditation at the top of the stairs leading to the 9th tier.

Just below, the white tiger glared at him, but was unable to follow. Clearly it still had some regrets.