“It hurts like hell!”
The knight was incredibly ruthless, immediately covering the wound on his chest with searing fire element magic to cauterize the flesh and force the bleeding to stop!
Then, using the propulsion of the explosion, he flew backward and poured all his strength into turning into a streak of fire, charging straight through the gates of the Demon Tower!
Seeing this, Helena turned toward a nearby team of Extraordinary Rank adventurers who were waiting at the entrance to back up their teammates.
“Oh no! That crazy woman is coming this way! Get into the tower, quick!”
The team of adventurers was scared out of wits, scrambling to squeeze through the tower gates.
But Helena was faster. A flash of pitch-black sword light erupted, skewering the unlucky fellow at the back of the group, and the stone plaque in his hand flew into the air.
Helena snatched the stone plaque out of the air and blurred, chasing the heavily injured human knight straight through the gates of the Demon Tower!
Inside the tower, in a gloomy corridor.
The battered human knight had just let out a sigh of relief when he turned around and saw the space behind him distort. The black-armored female swordsman, missing an arm and shrouded in death energy, had chased him inside!
The knight screamed in despair.
“My goodness! I already fled inside, and you're still chasing me?! Can't you just let me go?!”
Helena didn't say a word. Her black stone greatsword whipped up a surging wave of death energy, thrusting straight at his vital points.
“Die.”
“You crazy bitch! I'll take you down with me!”
As it turned out, the knight was only shouting to bolster his own courage.
He immediately turned tail and ran.
Helena tightly pursued him, dragging her greatsword behind her.
The two of them faded into the distance...
Meanwhile, on the outskirts of the Demon Tower, Qimeng followed the Wings of Dawn adventure group, blending into the crowd to fight.
She wasn't using her full strength at all, slacking off while following the main force to snatch stone plaques from the demons.
Humans and demons were natural archenemies, fighting with zero restraint, every strike aimed to kill.
Before long, Qimeng casually ran her sword through a demon general, catching the falling stone plaque with her free hand.
Seeing this, Alice, the Sage who was currently casting magic, shuffled over and hastily called out, “Miss Qimeng! Put that stone plaque away quickly! Once we gather a few more plaques, we'll team up and enter the tower together!”
Qimeng glanced at her out of the corner of her eye.
“Who wants to wait around with you guys?”
Before the words even fully left her mouth, Qimeng summoned a gust of wind beneath her feet, transforming into an afterimage as she dove straight into the purple light barrier of the Demon Tower!
“Eh?! Wait—”
Alice's outstretched hand froze in midair, leaving her dumbfounded.
“She just left?! She's gone?!”
“Wait... didn't we have a great chat back at the camp? What happened to teaming up?! Huh?!”
Alice was left utterly bewildered, feeling like she had been toyed with by this unpredictable little girl.
The moment Qimeng stepped into the Demon Tower, all the sounds of slaughter from the outside world vanished.
Before her lay a pitch-black corridor.
All-Things Deconstruction, activate.
Qimeng's eyes lit up with magical light, and the structure of the Demon Tower was completely laid bare in her vision.
This Demon Tower was not a building in the traditional sense, but rather a space woven together by complex spatial laws!
The interior paths crisscrossed in every direction, filled with labyrinths and traps.
Any ordinary adventurer entering this place would face near-certain death.
But in Qimeng's sight, these intricate pathways posed no challenge at all, and she quickly mapped out a safe route.
“A maze of this level expects to trap me?”
Qimeng easily made her way through, strolling along the corridors.
Occasionally, a few golems composed entirely of mana crystals would leap out from the shadows. Qimeng would simply activate Devourer's Gluttony Realm, and roots would materialize out of thin air, draining the golems dry in the blink of an eye and turning them into piles of dust.
“This isn't challenging at all...”
Following the safe route, she headed straight up.
Qimeng easily cleared three floors in a row.
At the end of the third floor was a massive ancient altar, with a warm, glowing 【Skill Orb】 floating in its center.
This was likely the reward for clearing the first three floors.
However, just as Qimeng took the orb, a deafening boom suddenly echoed from above the altar!
Boom!
The iron gate leading to the fourth floor was suddenly smashed to pieces by a massive force!
A battered figure tumbled down from above, crashing onto the floor and spitting out a large mouthful of blood.
Qimeng thought some trap had been triggered, but when she looked closer, she was instantly amused.
Wasn't this the 【Dominator Rank】 Flame Knight whom Helena had been relentlessly pursuing?
His armor was completely shattered, and he was on the verge of death, tormented by death energy.
In the shadows of the stairs behind him, Helena was slowly walking down the steps, carrying her black stone greatsword.
“H-Help... help me...”
The knight looked as if he had found a saving grace, desperately reaching out his hand to Qimeng for help.
But in the next second, a pitch-black sword light flashed. Helena swung her sword down, putting an end to his suffering.
“Master, your servant has completed her mission.”
Helena knelt on one knee, respectfully presenting the corpse.
Qimeng opened her black magic book and casually reconstructed Helena's severed arm back to perfection.
“Splendid job, Helena! That's another Dominator Rank fertilizer!”
Qimeng casually devoured the corpse, then stepped through the gates of the fourth floor side-by-side with Helena.
A grand, gothic-style colosseum came into view.
Just then, a dark storm suddenly whipped up at the entrance of the fourth floor!
The pressure contained within that storm far exceeded the Dominator Rank!
“Hmm? This commotion is...”
Qimeng's eyes narrowed slightly as she observed the figure emerging from the entrance of the fourth floor.
He wore a loose black robe, and a terrifying aura radiated from his entire body.
It was the 【Calamity Rank】 demon deputy from the demon camp!
Behind the Calamity Rank powerhouse, the Demon Marquis representing the Demon King City watched coldly.
“Oh? It seems the rule of the fourth floor is a duel.”
The Calamity Rank demon let out a spine-chilling chuckle.
Almost at the same time, flashes of light erupted as two more A-rank adventurer teams were randomly teleported to the fourth floor.
Before anyone could react, the rules of the Demon Tower descended!
Everyone who had entered the fourth floor arena was forcibly pulled into a one-on-one duel.
And standing opposite Qimeng...
was none other than that Calamity Rank demon!
“Hmph, where did this little girl come from?”
The Calamity Rank demon glanced at Qimeng out of the corner of his eye, his gaze filled with pure contempt.
He disdainfully placed his hands behind his back.
“The rules of this colosseum are truly laughable, actually arranging a brat to serve as a mere appetizer. Oh well, stretch your neck out, and I'll give you a quick death.”
“We'll see who ends up being the appetizer~”
Qimeng casually snapped her fingers.
“Devourer's Gluttony Realm, activate!”
Boom!
As if the colosseum were being reconstructed, a world made of pure white roots expanded to cover everything in sight!
In this 【Gluttony Realm】 that belonged solely to her, Qimeng didn't even need to sprout any branches; the entire space was stripping away every shred of energy!
Buzz!
The demon's face fell instantly. He felt the mana and life force inside his body wildly gushing out of his pores!
“W-What is this?!”
He took a step back, his arrogant expression from a moment ago completely vanishing, replaced by sheer shock.
“You're stripping away my power! You... you actually wield an Authority as well?!”
Seeing the look on his face, which was as if he had just swallowed a fly, Qimeng smiled.
It seemed the strongest competitor for the Demon Tower's treasure had run straight into her.
This meant the battle for the final reward was breaking out ahead of schedule right here.
“Excellent. Just in time!”
She had never reached the Calamity Rank in either of her two lifetimes, so today was the perfect chance to test her mettle against one!
“You brat... you actually dare to raise a hand against me?!”
The demon forcefully suppressed the wild drainage of mana inside his body, his face turning as dark as night.
“Good... very good! Today, I will show you what a true Calamity is!”
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