Chapter 191: 7.29

Yunyu binge-watched the first season of Sailor Moon until he got the notification from Pupa. 

[Pupa: Ding! Breakmeter increases to 50%.]

With that, he also got the notification from the Tower of God;

[Floor 50 has been cleared.]

Yunyu finally paused the anime and checked the peeking mirror. He saw XuanLake was fighting against the boss of floor 51 without breaking a sweat. Yunyu shrugged, "Wow, he is really dedicated. He doesn't rest at all."

"He doesn't need to rest because all of these bosses were just ants compared to him now," Pupa commented, "He will start struggling after he reaches floor 85, though. Because PoisonLily is a perilous enemy even to a high leveled player. Because her poison could kill really fast, and she is agile."

Yunyu remembered how XuanLake lost against PoisonLily in that cave because she was really agile, "Hm… then I will watch over XuanLake in case he screws up again when facing PoisonLily!"

It took a while until XuanLake cleared floor 84. When he entered floor 85, PoisonLily was ready with her corroding sword. In the middle of the floor, there was a corroding lake that would corrode anything it touched, and PoisonLily was slithering around the corroding water without worry.

"Ah, look who is here, the betrayer who want to sacrifice Master Cutiepie69, what a surprise that you can actually reach my floor," PoisonLily taunted. 

'Legendary PoisonLily || Level 110 || HP 100% || Passive: Enchanting Beauty.'

'XuanLake || Level 100 || HP 100% || Class : Warrior || Passive: Debug' 

XuanLake said nothing and summoned his sword. He used flight, so he didn't need to touch the poisonous lake. He hovered above the water and used his first attack, "Air Slash!"          XuanLake opened the battle by attacking PoisonLily with the air slash. PoisonLily dodged easily and spit poisonous needles towards XuanLake. 

XuanLake flew higher to dodge, and PoisonLily followed XuanLake's direction and continuously barraging him with poisonous needles until she stopped because the poisonous needles would constantly drain her mana, and none of those needles actually hit the agile XuanLake who flew and dodged around.

XuanLake smirked, and he suddenly teleported in front of unsuspecting PoisonLily, "WHA—?!"

XuanLake slashed PoisonLily quickly and cut almost 40% of her health, "ARGHHH!"

'Legendary PoisonLily: HP 61%.'   

PoisonLily slithered back and dove inside the lake to recover. XuanLake saw how her health slowly regenerated. It turned out, the corroding lake was also a way for PoisonLily to heal.

"HAHAHA! You can't reach me!" PoisonLily taunted as she was submerged inside the corroding lake. 

'Legendary PoisonLily: HP 65%... 70%... 75%.'

XuanLake didn't want her to recover until she got all her health back. He flew higher and took something out of his storage. He made a potion by extracting the essence of frost golem on floor 54 and put it inside a bottle.

After that battle with PoisonLily in the cave, he realized that this monster had many attacks that could counter fire. She also had many attacks that could stop steel from hurting her body. 

But she didn't have any counter to this, "I come here to defeat you because I want to meet Yunyu soon. I will make this as redemption for myself because I've abandoned Yunyu in that cave."

XuanLake threw the potion filled with frost golem essence. When the potion touched the corroding lake, the glass got corroded immediately, and the frost essence was poured on the lake.

Zing!

The frost essence froze the whole lake until the lakebed. PoisonLily, who was inside the lake, could do nothing since she was also frozen in the spot. 

[Woahhh, that's smart! Xuan knows that he cannot enter the poisonous lake, so he just froze the lake instead! What a resourceful player!]

[Pupa: Unlike you, who would often screw up because you just want to show off.]

Pupa and Yunyu were actually watching from the sideline. Both of them were invisible, with Yunyu snacking on popcorn. He was always ready to protect XuanLake in case he screwed up. But seeing this development, maybe Yunyu's concern was a bit overexaggerated. 

XuanLake could handle this easily. He stabbed his sword over the frozen PoisonLily and then used one of his ultimate, "Final attack: Part the waters!"

"GYAAAAHHH!" PoisonLily shrieked when XuanLake's sword suddenly sliced the frozen lake in half and cutting her body in the process. 

'Legendary PoisonLily: HP 5%.'

The parting ice gave a chance for PoisonLily to escape, but she was already at 5% health, and there was no way she could fight XuanLake at this rate. She would die soon.

PoisonLily glared at the nonchalant XuanLake. She gritted her poisonous fangs and shouted, "I will not die without a fight! I will bring you down with me, you cheap man!"

PoisonLily suddenly sucked a lot of air, and her body started to bloat like a pufferfish. She got bigger, bigger, and bigger until she was ready to explode with just one pop. 

However, XuanLake didn't seem to be bothered with it because he already had three Advanced Chip from that Lost Android planted inside his gear, so he was absolutely immune to poison. 

But Yunyu didn't know about the three chips. He thought that XuanLake would die if he inhaled the miasma.  Thus, he threw away his bag of popcorn and dashed towards XuanLake. 

"I WILL TAKE YOU DOWN WITH ME!" PoisonLily yelled as she exploded and created a massive wave of giant miasma that covered the entire floor. Pupa teleported away out of the floor immediately, but Yunyu dashed towards XuanLake and used his skill, "Yunyu's Love Bubble!" 

XuanLake was surprised when Yunyu suddenly appeared in front of him and engulfed their body with a pink bubble that protected them from the miasma. They faced each other until their noses were touching.

Amidst his shock and confusion, XuanLake tried to hug Yunyu. Yunyu briefly smiled at XuanLake and teleported away before Xuan could hug him. In the end, XuanLake's hand only hugged the empty air.

He was trapped inside the pink bubble until the miasma dissipated. He was staring at the empty floor with a notification over his head.

[Floor 85 has been cleared!]

'Yunyu… why did you save me? You must have thought that I only have one advanced chip that would risk me dying against the Poison, but why would you need to protect me after all the horrible things I did to you?'

'Do you hate me… or do you actually love me?'

[Pupa: Ding! Breakmeter increases to 85%.]

"Phew, that was close," Yunyu said as he teleported back to floor 100. He flew to the refrigerator and opened a bottle of fresh mineral water, "Well, since PoisonLily has been slain, I think Xuan can reach my floor in no time!"

Pupa wanted to say that XuanLake had three advanced chips before, but since Yunyu acted way too fast, he dashed towards Xuanlake and protected him. Pupa couldn't help but sigh and pity that guy, "Poor guy, he must have been confused and heartbroken right now. I bet he thought that you are still in love with him."

"Huh? What?" Yunyu ignored Pupa's comment as he already turned on the television and continued with season 2 of Sailor Moon.

"… nevermind, you rarely think anyway."

***

Since the bosses on floor 86 and above were all angels, XuanLake finally took out the sword that he forged for this occasion, the sword that might also defeat Yunyu. He summoned the Blood of Demon King Sword.

His heart was still grieving over Yunyu. He thought that Yunyu's previous action to protect him was a form of goodwill.

'Does this mean I still have a chance? Does this mean we can still mend our relationship?'

XuanLake clenched his sword as he slashed the boss in Floor 86 easily. The Blood of Demon King Sword was a unique sword that would get sharper and deadlier the more he slain monsters, especially when it slew angels. 

XuanLake could feel the power from the sword entering his body. It was excruciating as if his body had been burned from inside out. But the moment it finished, XuanLake felt that his strength increased exponentially. 

He repeated this by slaying all the monsters on each floor without mercy until he reached floor 99, where an archangel with light mace was waiting for his arrival. The archangel started attacking first by charging towards him, but XuanLake dodged easily and killed the Archangel with one slash and drained the archangel's life essence for his sword.

'Master of Archangel: HP 0%.'

[Floor 99 has been cleared!]

[Pupa: Ding! Breakmeter increases to 99%.]