23 14th Floor (1/2)

[Congratulations for defeating the thirteenth floor, please choose one of the following as a reward:]

[First Option: Improved constitution, effect: Slightly increases HP and reduces damage taken on hit]

[Second Option: Heightened awareness, effect: Makes your senses(Vision, Smell,...) acuter]

[Third Option: Improved body coordination, effect: Improves synchronization and control on your body]

[Note: These are a type of passive skill with less visible effects, they will not appear in skill window.]

Li Wei was standing still, slowly calming his breathing. He blankly stared at the options, the rewards were good as expected but he did not know which one to choose.

The 1st one was good, but what Li Wei wanted was more offensive power. The second one could be useful but Li Wei already had pretty good awareness since he could sometimes sense his enemies. The 3rd one was what Li Wei needed the most to improve his dual sword style, but he could also gain this over time by training and then it would then be a waste of the reward.

The better the choices, the harder the decision. Li Wei thought for a while, the voice did not prompt him to make a choice, and eventually, Li Wei settled on the Improved body coordination.

Short term power spikes were not necessarily bad and the coordination did not limit itself to the hands.

When Li Wei made his choice, light in the arena suddenly disappeared, this sudden change alerted Li Wei. He could not see anything, but still focused to try to hear something.

A few seconds later, he suddenly felt sleepy, that feeling invaded his whole body, making him move sluggishly. ”Yawn”, the feeling only got stronger with time and eventually, Li Wei could no longer keep his eyes opened, he lied down and lost consciousness.”I must not sleep...” were the last words Li Wei said.

...

An unknown amount of time later, Li Wei felt the cold feeling of the floor on his back. He suddenly woke up and stood up grabbing his swords that fell right next to him.

Li Wei looked around only to find that he was standing on the 14th floor. A female rogue was standing on the other side of the arena calmly watching Li Wei while playing with her long red hair. She wore a mask, covering the lower part of her face but the rest of her equipment was exposing a lot of skin. Her armor was similar to a crop top shirt and her 'pants' barely covered her thighs. However, just from one glance, Li Wei could tell that her equipment was not simple.

Li Wei naturally let his eyes float a bit longer at the level of her chest, he was still a young man and in front of him was a young woman wearing such clothes. The rogue was not extremely beautiful, but she could be considered above average.

Li Wei quickly got himself together. ”I don't feel anything different... what happened ?”

He checked his event logs and found the last entry

[Your body has undergone a body modification, modification success, improved body coordination by 10%]

”Body modification ???” exclaimed Li Wei

[Would you like to begin the fourteenth fight?]

As Li Wei was checking his logs, the announcement came out, but Li Wei immediately declined.

”No, give me a few minutes to familiarise myself”

The voice did not answer and the rogue just continued to play with her hair while watching Li Wei.

The latter ignored his surroundings, he took his swords and started swinging them, imagining a target in front of him. While doing so, Li Wei immediately felt the difference, there was not much difference in the movements, just with the feeling he got while executing them. Everything felt smoother, it was as if is body already knew what he wanted to do next to a certain extent.

After a few sets of movements, Li Wei sat down to calm down and get back to his peak condition.

Few breaths later, Li Wei finally stood up and shouted: ”I would like to begin the next fight.”

Hearing that, the rogue also stopped playing with her hair, focused and drew 2 curved daggers from her belt.

[Floor 14: level 14 Rogue, begin the fight in 5]

[4]

[3]

[2]

[1]

[Begin!]

[Stealth], as soon as the fight started, the rogue activated her level 10 skill, the bread and butter of rogue classes.

Li Wei saw the rogue's figure quickly distort in front of him and 1 second later, completely vanish.

'So this is Stealth... It's really different when you see it right in front of you... I cannot feel anything' thought Li Wei, while raising his swords and taking a defensive stance.

He calmly waited, focusing on his surroundings but nothing happened. The rogue was still stealthed, the skill lasted for one minute.

30 seconds had passed and still, nothing happened. The longer it went on, the more stressed Li Wei felt. He constantly looked around him, spun around himself, to make sure the rogue won't jump from behind.

20 seconds left on the duration of [Stealth] and the rogue had yet to appear. Li Wei became more nervous, he started to walk in random directions trying to find the location of the rogue. He was regretting not choosing to improve his senses.

10 seconds...

Suddenly, Li Wei felt something move behind him, he tried to move but it was too late.

A dagger pierced his leg and moments later, his other leg was also pierced. ”-19”,”-21”