Chapter 308: Ho? I’m The Creep?
Azmond glanced over the details of his system interface and noticed that a lot of things had changed since the last time he opened it. In fact, practically everything, besides a few of his skills, was altered and augmented in one way or another.
The first thing he observed was obviously his strength, which included his stats, skills, laws and law comprehensions, sword aura, cultivation, and, of course, the bonuses he got from his dual cultivation sessions.
And it was due to all of the aforementioned variables that his strength was able to soar exponentially!
He was at least tens of thousands of times stronger now than he was before he started climbing up the steps of the Luminous Grounds!
Steps that he still hadn't made it to the top of...
But that matter was for another, not too distant, time.
Extending off the previous note, what really attracted his attention was all the new law and subsequent law comprehensions he had obtained through his 'clean up' operation.
Although the number of laws he gained was nothing to write home about, it was still quite a lot considering that he had only taken out a couple of Half-Step Tribulation Transcendence Realm monsters.
It looked like his luck actually wasn't too bad if you considered his law-to-realm gain ratio.
But that wasn't even the best part of it all.
The best part was that his gold and spiritual stone reserves had increased tremendously!
If what he had before was considered affluent for one at the peak of the Unity Form Synthesis Realm, then what he had now was at the level of a rich man in the first stage of the Tribulation Transcendence Realm!
"This is good for my health," he mumbled.
There truly was nothing more pleasing to the eye than seeing his gold, exp, and strength stats go up.
...
"..."
Azmond's gaze went back to the Law section as his good mood turned a little sour.
He wished he had a way to increase his law comprehension rates without the absorption of beings who had the same law comprehensions, but he had already asked Boundless about it a few days ago, and she said he would need to reach the Void Refining Realm at the very minimum before he would be able to understand and comprehend laws himself.
He had learned a bit about the Void Refining Realm a while back; the center focus of the topic was on the 'Void Realm' that cultivators who wanted to break through into the Void Refining Realm would need to 'enter' in order to successfully break through.
This 'Void Realm' was some sort of extra layer of space that was immersed in the 'Void Law', and it was only through being exposed to parts of this 'Void Law' that a cultivator could truly begin their path to understanding the uncountable number of laws that make up everything in the universe.
He would naturally learn more about such a thing at a later date.
The only thing he cared about now was resolving the little 'situation' he had with Azure and Sapphire before he attempted to make his way up to the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, and maybe even the twenty-first floor.
Nonetheless, in spite of his ambitions, he still had no clue how to get to the elusive twenty-first floor, and he also had not an inkling of an idea of what exactly hid beyond the world-like steps of the Luminous Grounds.
He, of course, had his speculations, but in the end, they were all just speculations.
No matter how many times he mulled over it or scanned the Luminous Grounds with his Discerning Quantum Eye, he couldn't find out more than the surface level of thingsa surface level that only scratched the surface of each Step that he scanned.
It appeared that the Steps themselves functioned as independent objects or something of the sort.
Azmond wished to delve deeper than that, but it didn't seem like the Discerning Quantum Eye could pinpoint the exact existence of any of the steps.
He had no clue what exactly that meant for him, but he knew that it was likely to be nothing good, for that meant there was something extremely unusual and abstract happening within the Luminous Grounds of the Nightmare Council.
There was also the mystery concerning the sudden appearance of powerful monsters on the lower Steps, and the oddities of the lionkin called the 'Primal Beast'.
So much to understand and no place to start...
Or at least, there was nothing that he could figure out without going past the nineteenth floor.
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"Mhmm"
Azmond was abruptly taken out of his stupor by the sudden movements of a certain blue-haired beauty right next to him.
Sapphire got up with a lethargic look on her face before she ascertained her situation. And that was when it hit herall the things that she and their target had done for what felt like an eternity.
She looked in the direction of Azmond before she said, "Y-You, Pervert! You lured us in before trapping us in your lust fest!"
Sapphire berated him with an aggrieved look on her face as she threw that lusty body of hers in his direction.
Azmond mused with a small smirk on his face before he said, "Are you sure I'm the pervert here? Look down, My Dear~"
"???"
Sapphire didn't understand what he was getting at until she turned her gaze down and saw that she was letting everything hang loose!
"Ahhh!" She shrieked while putting her arms around her breasts.
"St-Stop looking, y-you creep!"
"Ho? I'm the creep here? Who's the one that wanted to 'eat me up' from the very get-go, I wonder~?" He rebuked.
"T-That was"
"That was what~?"
Azmond had already made his way over to the disgruntled beauty as he slid his hands down those unholy curves of hers.
"Mhmff~! S-Stop that~!"
Her moans resounded out as she attempted to thwart his advances; however, her body didn't appear to be listening to her commands!
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