Villain With The Strongest System

He had long wondered as to why the truly powerful beings like Gemini Gods even needed Champion's?

If they wished to exert influence over the universe or gain more followers, they could directly buy the loyalty of powerful beings such as Floor 80 monarchs, or Bless heads of religious groups with small benefits in exchange for their loyalty.

If the only purpose that Champions' served was to help gain more followers for the Patron God, then they would not be such valuable pawns to True Gods anyways, as the value they brought was easily replaceable.

However, looking at how True God's truly treasured their champions and went to great lengths to ensure that they developed properly, there had to be some big reward in it for them as well, as without a proper reason, no True God was ever going to invest in the development of a mortal.

"The reason behind why True God's need Champion's is because their own ascension depends on it.

Beyond floor 90, you cannot just challenge the next tower floor at will and need to earn every opportunity to proceed.

For True Gods, this opportunity is only given when their chosen Champion crosses a major floor.

I.E.

For a True God to gain the chance to challenge floor 91, their chosen Champion must cross floor 10.

For them to challenge floor 92, their champion must cross floor 20 and so on.

Hence, for a True God to ever hope to reach the final floor of the tower, challenging floor 100. Their chosen Champion must become a True God on their own, as only when a Champion clears floor 90, becoming a True God themselves, can their host god challenge the final floor of the tower" The note read, as Rocky felt enlightened listening to this information.

His entire perspective about true gods shifted once he realized that they needed their champions as much as their champions needed them, as without the champions progressing, they had no hope of progressing further on their own.

This was definitely invaluable information not known by many, as never had Rocky seen mortals discussing as to why Gods needed champions to grow stronger.

Turning the first page, Rocky looked at the back, and thankfully there were more handwritten notes scribbled upon it too.

"The floor challenges in the tower are not as simple as it seems.

Not at least for Champions.

It will not be as evident when you're only climbing the lower floors, or climbing uptil floors that your patron god has already ascended beyond, however, once you cross the threshold of where your patron god needs you, the tower itself will start to plot against you.

The tower of ascension does not want anyone to reach the floor 100 and hence hidden events, unseen dungeons, life-threatening incidents will randomly start happening on floors you're raiding, as the tower will deliberately plot against you, trying to kill you harder with every floor that you ascend" The note warned, as Rocky shuddered reading this warning.

Currently the tower of ascension was a very predictable landscape, with manuals on how to clear most floors already being available as public knowledge.

Rarely did one ever encounter hidden events or dungeons during their floor raid, however, apparently according to the person who left behind this message, Champion's seemed to receive a completely different experience of the tower, compared to normal climbers.

"If you think you are ready to face whatever dangers the tower throws at you, let me assure you, you're wrong.

I'm writing this message after barely surviving floor 16 and I've already came close to losing my life 18 times in the past 3 floor raids, surviving only by the breath of a hair.

My patron god is an asshole whose previous Champion only cleared floor10 barely, before dying on floor11, so my share of difficulties started from floor 11 itself, which is much worse than what other Champion's in this book faced" The man warned, as Rocky now understood the reason behind why the man warned him to not continue pursuing his life as a climber and instead live life as a commoner outside the tower.

That way, he could at least have a shot at living a long happy life, as the tower would not let him survive otherwise.

"However, the worst dangers lurk not on the normal floors, but on the ascension floors. 10-20-30.

These floors provide a special promotion test for Champions, which are completely different to what any other climber experiences, with three to ten times the difficulty.

The term 'Vorithra Slyithen' refers to the special pocket dimensions that test the Champion's on ascension floors.

It's an ancient language that has been long forgotten, however, this is what I've been able to understand–"

The message cut off after the words, this is what I've been able to understand, as Rocky flipped the page hoping to continue reading what the man said, however, noticed that the next page was torn.

Someone has deliberately torn off the second page of this book, cutting off the man's warning, as atleast someone seemed to have picked this book over the years, except Rocky and the individual who wrote it.

Flipping the pages of the book quickly, and checking at the back, Rocky tried to see if there were any more handwritten notes within the book, however, to his dismay he could not find anything more.

'I need to find this guy if he's still alive…. I need to find out more about 'Vorithra Slyithen' and the dangers it poses' Rocky thought, as he walked over to the old librarian with this book in hand, hoping to ask him about the identity of the man who picked this book up to read before him.

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/// A/N - Bonus chapter for hitting the GT Target, good job everyone! ///