So Shila, since floor 10 has other people, does that mean from here on, I''ll see other people?
No, floor 10 is different, it''s basically as big as earth is and those lifeforms can''t travel through floors.
Why do you call them lifeforms?
Seriously?
Yes seriously.
I used to call everything lifeform, I only called you user but that was before you upgraded me so now I just call it monsters because it''s simpler, also, I''m just used to calling other intelligent species lifeforms instead of monsters.
Oh, anyways let''s go to floor 11?
No no no, we need our food first and this floor has benefits.
Benefits? Such as?
I want the food first.
Hilda sighs before agreeing.
Couple minutes later, they sit in restaurant, with steak with honey over it, which tastes a lot better than it sound, while waiting for her to finish the food, she looks around as she notices even more species such as beast man who were just completely animals but human shaped instead, with siren of the speakers ones being half.
She realises that she stared too long as some of the other beast men noticed her and glared back at her, causing her to look away immediately as Shila just smirks at this, causing Hilda to glare at her with Jamine eating in the background, being as quiet as she usually is.
You two done eating?
Yea. Jamine nods along with Shila.
Ok, send me to floor 11, but what monsters are there?
No monsters.
Huh? Why?
The tower is also made to improve your skills, so there will be doors without monsters but just to train you.
Huh? Whatever, send me.
Sure.
Shila teleports all of them to floor 11 where Hilda receives a notification.
Notification,
Trial of smell, for this trial,you have to differentiate the normal apple which has no smell and a severely poisonous one which barely has any smell and consume the normal one.
During the trial, you will lose all of your senses except for your sense of smell temporarily.
Huh? That''s… interesting?
Hilda turns over to Shila and Jamine for help before everything goes dark and silent, indicating the loss of her sense meaning the start of the trial.
Great…
Hilda goes over to where she remembers seeing a table and stubs her toe as she grips onto the table and starts feeling around.
As she feels around, she notices that her sense of touch still works despite it being a sense as she feels two apples, both with the same texture as she brings both of them to her face.Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.
Ok, I''ll just name these two the left and right apples.
Hilda brings the apple she designated as the left apple to her nose as she smells it, and finds no smell before she does the same with the right apple, only to find it has no smell either.
This is gonna be much harder than expected isn''t it?
For the next hour, Hilda focuses on the right apple as she keeps smelling it, she concludes that the left apple is the poisonous one but smells the left one again just to make sure.
As she smells the left one for hours also, she lies down on the floor, considering just giving up and eating both.
Wait… if I eat both, wouldn''t it work too?
I mean, I might die but I could just use my trait no?
Screw it, not worth the risk.
Hilda keeps smelling it and eventually decides to put them down before slowly backing up until she walks into Shila who is keeping her at arms length literally by extending an arm to stop Hilda from moving back.
Feeling Shila''s arm in her back, Hilda pulls her arm immediately and goes back to the table where she feeds the apple to Shila due to Shila not being able to actually die, only getting injured and knocked out of commission for a while.
Wow, that was a simple solution wasn''t it?
Hildas senses slowly return as she lets go of Shila''s arms and reads her notification.
Notification.
Level up x5.
All stats +5
Trait has been improved slightly.
5 levels? I''ll take it, Shila, let''s go to the next level. As Hilda prepares to be sent to level 12, she reads a notification that a dagger has been bought for 100 points as she looks at Shila and barely dodges the dagger throw at her.
What was that for!
Hilda looks over again at Shila who is on the floor and hugging herself in pain while glaring at her.
What are you doing?
You fed me a poisoned apple and dislocated my shoulder!!!
Shila buys another dagger and throws it at Shila and disappears back into the system.
Oops… okay, I admit that was my fault.
Mother a-abuse?
Hey, I''m not abusive, I''m just a bit rough? I forgot you guys have stats half of mine okay?
Can you call her back out? I can''t really do so right now.
No.
Damn.
As Hilda thinks of a way to get Shila back, she gets sent back to the white room with the guide.
Hey Hilda, you weren''t supposed to solve the trial that way.
I know, but I wasn''t gonna sit around and smell the damn apples for the next hour.
Hilda, these trials in the tower are to help strengthen you all but you simply cheated through, for the next trial if you do so again, I''ll remove 5 levels from you.
What the hell?! Then just make a fool proof trial!
Hilda, I don''t feel like arguing with you and don''t you need to go find your system, what was her name again? Oh yea, Shila. That apple in the trial is supposed to kill so even if Shila can''t die, she''ll feel a lot of pain.
Yea yea, just send me to wherever she is along with Jamine I''ll buy her a cure.
There''s a cure in the shop, I made the poison personally to kill, but since Shila can''t die, it''ll go away in around 20 minutes.
Just send me already you bastard!
Sure.
Hilda gets teleported and looks around at the oddly familiar sight for the inside of her home.
Jamine, is this where you end up everytime you go back into the system?
Y-yea.
Ok, let''s go find Shila.
Hilda and Jamine start looking through every room with the last room and the only locked room being Hilda''s old bedroom.
As Hilda opens it eventually due to the lock being lousy, she sees Shila lying down hugging herself, ok the brink of tears as Hilda joins her on the bed beside.
Shila, I''m sorry, okay?
Shut up, you actually fed me the poison!
Hilda brings Shila onto her lap hugging her while she starts to cry a bit because of the pain.
After a while, Shila falls asleep while Hilda uses the system to manually teleport them back, something she hasn''t done in a while due to Shila teleporting them conveniently.
As Hilda teleports them back to the tenth floor, she brings them to the closest inn she finds while blurring Jamine and Shila''s face with her not needing to do anything to herself due to the mask, not like she is able to blur herself anyways.
Hilda reluctantly pays for the most expensive room they have as she puts Shila onto the bed with the poison mostly wearing off as Shila wakes up, glaring at Hilda.
Fine fine, what do you want me to do to forgive you?
Rest day.
Rest? You mean a break?
No, you bring us around the city to enjoy and buy us whatever we want!
Fine, fine, but only under a thousand points.
No! Anything we want!
Fine fine, 3000 points.
Anything we want!!!
Fine, fine! But no more than half, I''m not going any higher.
Fine, I''ll let you off with just half.
Jamine come here and lie with me, Hilda you go away, I don''t want to see you till I''m completely not in pain anymore and go plan a day for us!
Fine fine. Hilda steps out of the room, noticing curious people around looking in her direction, probably due to the noise caused by Shila''s shouting and shouting and the fact that Hilda went into a room alone with two children who look severely similar to her.
What are you all looking at? Mind your own damn business. Hilda pulls out her sword, learning not too long ago that floor 10 also has quite a couple of weaklings too while checking their status, causing them all to immediately walk away quickly as she keeps her sword back into her soul.