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Chapter 851 - 419: Passing the Flower by Beating the Drum

Chapter 851: Chapter 419: Passing the Flower by Beating the Drum

Just do it!

Mu You immediately went to the forum and bought back a badge of the Wind Element.

This item was in high supply, with almost every player having at least one, so the price wasn’t high. Except for a few of the most popular badges, the average badge was only valued at around twelve to twenty years.

With the badge in hand, as soon as the point hit one o’clock, Mu You entered the tower on time.

[Detected that you have encountered the Demon King once, the "Try Again" blessing is triggered, your Divine Power in the tower +1, God’s Defense +1.]

This blessing from yesterday’s fairy added +1 to attack and defense every time the Demon King was encountered. If he encountered it hundreds or thousands of times, he would start each tower entry with thousands of points in Divine Attack and Defense in the future. Then, not to mention the first ninety-nine floors, even the Demon King could be Steamrolled!

Unfortunately, the bonus from this blessing was only effective inside the tower. After all, it was just simulated data in the ’Simulator,’ not a real existence, and would vanish like a bubble once out of the tower.

In other words, this blessing was actually meant for players to fight the Demon King. With this effect, theoretically, all players could clear the tower, though the completion time would vary greatly depending on the individual’s strength. Without using special methods like Mu You to cheat the system, even the fastest player would probably have to wait until their Divine Attack and Defense were stacked in the hundreds or thousands before having a chance to clear it.

Coming back to his senses, Mu You’s attention returned to the game. He set the Moon Element as his Primary Faith, the Fire Element as his Secondary Belief, and started climbing the tower.

[You have encountered Hero Number 1...]

[After a battle, you easily defeated Hero Number 1.]

...

On the second floor, he encountered Number 1 as usual, but the gap in their initial attributes had gradually widened, and the battle was a complete steamroll.

Mu You had no choice but to remove the God Slayer title and revert several times before finally managing to get a ’Thrilling Kill’ result.

Mu You shook his head; this was also a significant problem.

If things continued this way, Number 1 would eventually become aware.

Mu You was considering whether to let Number 1 win the next day to give him a taste of victory; otherwise, he’d be in trouble if Number 1 suddenly awoke and refused to continue being the fall guy.

But back to the main topic, Mu You continued to push through the tower.

This time, his luck was quite average. Still, bolstered by two Divine Artifacts, he managed to advance both the Moon and Fire Elements to the divine level before the eightieth floor, crafting the Lunar Eclipse Staff.

With this staff, things were going to be easy.

Every battle in this tower was independent. There was no situation where, after a battle, an item or Divine Art had a cool-down in the next battle.

Therefore, the ’Lunar Eclipse’ tactic could be used not only when facing the Demon King but also against regular monsters, and the monsters didn’t have the Demon King’s freakish abilities. Surviving ten minutes against them was too easy.

So even though this run’s event luck was average, Mu You still forcibly passed the last and hardest twenty floors using the Lunar Eclipse Staff and once again reached the top of the tower.

Unfortunately, this time he didn’t have enough Divinity to promote to 13-Star, and he also didn’t obtain the Wind God Boots later on. Upon entering the hundredth floor, he was directly killed by the glaring eyes of the Demon King’s ’Sin of Arrogance.’

"What a pity..."

As Mu You looked at the ’You have died’ prompt and shook his head, indeed this method was difficult as well. To advance three Elemental badges to 10-Star, and one of them even to 13-Star, required a massive amount of Divinity!

And all this Divinity had to be fought for during the total process of three hundred steps; one could imagine the difficulty. It was probably only when the gains from all aspects were maximized to almost an extreme that meeting the requirement was possible.

Of course, the result this time at least proved that the method was feasible, so Mu You wasn’t too frustrated. He just needed to persist in climbing the tower every day and wait for an opportunity when luck would massively strike.

Moreover, with the ’Lunar Eclipse’ strategy, Mu You could now set the Fire Element as the Primary Faith in the usual tower entries without encountering Number 1 and having the Moon Goddess’s Eye, and he could craft the Lunar Eclipse Staff first thing to forcefully clear 100 floors. Although he definitely couldn’t defeat the Demon King this way, at least he could steadily increase the ’Try Again’ count each time.

...

That morning, Mu You went out to take care of breakfast and returned home prepared to continue his fierce battles in the Demon Tower.

But upon entering the door, he saw Fuya sitting in front of the doorframe, her eyes swollen and red, obviously having just cried.

Cola, who usually dozed off out of boredom during the day, was also unusually well-behaved, lying on his master’s legs, allowing her to stroke him, and making various endearing gestures to please her.

"What happened?" Mu You asked, somewhat puzzled.

By then, Fuya had taken off her Wizard’s Robe and changed into an ordinary modern woman’s clothing, and her pigtails were let down naturally behind her head. She sat listlessly on the doorstep, unconsciously petting the cat in her arms, bearing a melancholic young girl’s appearance.

Only upon hearing Mu You’s voice did Fuya snap out of it. She hurriedly wiped away the tears in the corners of her eyes and looked at Mu You somewhat embarrassingly, saying awkwardly, "I... I received a letter from my parents..."

"Oh? How was it?" Mu You asked.

"Your guess was right; our family indeed carries the bloodline of the Fool, but to keep me from feeling inferior, my parents never told me..." Fuya sighed.

"Oh..."

Mu You wasn’t surprised and just looked at Fuya strangely, "But you already knew about this, right? No need to cry over it..."