Chapter 695 - The Situation outside the Tower
Outside Potential Tower, the Great Elders were watching the disciples coming out of the tower.
A blue light shone brightly, and when the elders saw it, a trace of astonishnt appeared in their eyes. It turned out that the one that shone was the Ninth Floor of the tower.
The disciples below were stunned when they saw this.
"What?! Soone has reached the Ninth Floor?!"
"Who is it?"
"Space Temple's Ryuu? Dark Temple's Alia? Or Fire Temple's Daphne?"
The excitent was also transferred to the Great Elders as their hearts started beating rapidly, especially the three Great Elders. They were wondering whether it was their disciples or the others. This excitent was mixed with anxiety.
On one hand, they wished their disciple was the one who ca out. On the other hand, they wished their disciple didn't co out yet and only ca out after reaching the highest Floor.
Their eyes glued on a platform next to the Potential Tower, where the Tower usually teleported them outside. It was a small white platform without any interior, and they gulped down the mont an array appeared on the platform.
"Who is it?" They thought while looking at each other.
Suddenly, a female appeared out of the array. Everyone would think it was either Dark Temple's Alia or Fire Temple's Daphne. Aileen beca dejected after seeing her figure before she was stunned. The woman that appeared turned out to have pink hair tied into a ponytail. She was wearing a one-piece white dress with so pink stripes.
"That is…" Aileen gasped as the other Great Elders beca speechless.
"No way!"
"This… This is impossible!"
"Really?"
"She can reach the ninth Floor? Has the Potential Tower beco so easy?"
"That is Maya Ai from the Space Temple!"
The disciples were utterly shocked by her appearance as well. Their bewildernt was justified because Maya Ai was known as the laziest Great Elder's disciple and rumor said that Aileen had given up on persuading her. Yet, the sa person had just reached the Floor that only a few people were capable of.
However, Aileen suddenly teleported to her front and hugged her tightly. "Are you really Maya? You have reached the Ninth Floor?"
"Master… You are suffocating ." Maya patted her back a few tis.
"Ah!" Aileen was too excited just now and quickly released her. She cald down a little bit and asked. "Have you really reached the Ninth Floor?"
"Of course." Maya nodded with a smile. "At first, I was not sure as well. I just rembered that Alex's teaching about the spear and sohow beca my strongest weapon for this tower. Unfortunately, I failed not long after entering the Ninth Floor. If only I trained myself more."
"Good child! You are a good child." Aileen hugged her once more as she pictured Alex in her mind and thought. 'That person is really a godsend. To think that Maya can achieve sothing like this… Ah, I can retire after Ryuu reaches 7-Star Martial Saint, I guess. Maya will be supporting him. I shouldn't be a cheapskate to Alex. I will co up with sothing later.'
After calming down her excitent, she snapped her finger and appeared on top of the tower, regrouping with the other Great Elders. She smiled smugly. "Hehe… To think that my Maya can reach the Ninth Floor!"
"Hmph!" Viola and lva snorted and looked away while the other Great Elders were staring at Maya curiously.
"Great Elder Aileen, this is truly surprising to see your disciple reach the Ninth Floor. I don't an I'm underestimating her in any way of course." Licht squinted his eyes and stared at Maya.
Maya twitched her eyebrows and hid behind Aileen.
"Great Elder Licht! I hope you don't scare my disciple away." Aileen smiled brightly while releasing her aura. She was filled with joy and anger at the sa ti. Maya was scared of Licht because of his brain, so she needed to stand up for her.
"I don't an to be offensive. Still, to see another disciple reaching the ninth Floor makes happy." Licht shook his head.
Not long after, Alia, Ryuu, and Daphne ca out in succession. The shock shook the Freedom Sect once again. Usually, Ryuu would rank third after Daphne and Alia, but today, he managed to pass Alia. Although it was unclear how their progress, they usually used the ti to asure their talent. Hence, Aileen was the biggest winner in this event.
Aileen was smiling this whole ti, looking at the other Great Elders with contempt.
The event was supposed to end after these three ca out of the tower, but… To everyone's surprise, the Great Elders didn't end the event yet as if they were waiting for soone.
The red-haired girl behind Viola whispered to her master. "Master, why haven't the Tower closed yet? All of us have co out."
Viola glanced at Daphne and shook her head. "I haven't told you this yet. But you can say that we are still waiting for soone."
"Soone?" Daphne tilted her head in confusion.
"Just wait, and you will know." Viola smirked before glaring at Licht. "Great Elder Licht, I hope you still rember our agreent, right?"
"I won't do anything bad. I am ready to lay my life for this." Licht said with a solemn expression.
Viola looked into his eyes for a few seconds before nodding her head. "Then, I will wait."
Only the Great Elders knew about this matter. Even Ryuu and Maya only knew that they were waiting for Alex, not the deal that Licht wanted to talk about.
They were waiting for another hour and made the disciple confused. But that confusion turned into an uproar when the Potential Tower shone in blue light.
"This?" Daphne was utterly shocked. They were on top of the tower, AKA, the tenth Floor. Seeing it was light up, it ant soone reached the Tenth Floor. "Soone reaches the Tenth Floor?"
"You are wrong, Daphne. Look at the tower as a whole!" Viola said with a serious expression.
"!!!" Daphne's body shook before she flew off the tower, and she dropped her jaws to the ground when looking at the tower. "This is—!"
The Great Elders closed their eyes as their expression turned grim.
anwhile, the disciples around the tower fell into silence. They never saw sothing like this in their entire life, and that silence turned into an uproar not long after.
"What?!"
"The entire tower shines?"
"No way? Normally the tower will only shine on one particular Floor to let the others know they have reached and been defeated on that particular Floor. This… This shouldn't happen!"
"Do you an there is soone who can light up the entire tower?"
"What does that an?"
"Whatever it ans, we will know it as soon as the person appears on the platform."
"That's right."
Unfortunately, when they turned to the platform, four Great Elders: lva, Licht, Viola, and Aileen had stood in front of the platform. As soon as the array appeared, Licht and lva raised their hands and created a sphere. It was acting like a curtain to prevent anyone from spying.
"What?"
"Who is the one that can light up the tower?"
"That's right. We want to know that person as well!"
The disciples were raging, but could only shout from afar as there was no way they could fight the Great Elders. anwhile, Daphne was looking at the middle-aged Great Elder from Thunder Temple, Riadon.
He looked at her along with the other Great Elder disciples and sighed. "I shall explain it to you. First of all, do you know why the Potential Tower would shine like that?"
They thought for a mont and shook their heads before Ryuu realized sothing. "Soone reaches the tenth floor?"
"Close."
"Soone beat the Potential Tower?" Maya opened her mouth wide before recalling Alex's figure while the others were speechless.
Riadon took another glance at their expressions and nodded. "If we reach the eight Floor and get defeated, we will be recognized as soone who has passed the eight Floor. However, there is another saying about this and one that sohow hit our ntal hard, so we don't use it anymore.
"The saying ca from a few thousand years ago. They were classifying those who managed to lit up the eight Floor as soone who had beaten seven floors. Depending on how soone looked at this matter, they would likely feel better knowing that they had reached the eight Floor, right? It would boost one's confidence, and the training might beco even smoother when hearing that."
The Great Disciples nodded in agreent while the disciples fell into deep thought. Ryuu agreed with his statent. He would rather learn that he had reached the ninth Floor because he knew that he would reach the Tenth Floor after that. However, if he learned that he only managed to beat eight floors, it would an that he had another two stages to go. It might even hurt his self-esteem. And the others also realized this.
Riadon sighed and continued. "Anyway, that is the history of the tower. As for the real reason, why would soone light up the entire tower… Let's take it to another perspective. If you have reached the Tenth Floor, the top Floor will shine, only the top Floor. Because you have failed on the top Floor while there is no proof if soone says he/she has beaten the entire tower.
"This trick was once used by a disciple and got caught red-handed that he was lying. We once believed it, but everything changed when Great Elder Maxwell appeared before us and beat this tower.
"The tower shone like this as well, and he explained it to us that only soone who had beaten the tower would light the entire tower. At the sa ti, he told us not to seek the tower's secret no matter how curious you are. We, of course, obeyed the advice of Great Elder Maxwell.
"Rather than learning about the truth, we would be better searching for the way to let soone beat the peak again." Riadon paused for a mont, so Ryuu and the others could swallow all the information first.
"A way? Is there really a way to conquer that hard tower?" Daphne asked while sweating.
Riadon looked at the rest and realized that they were also curious. He glanced at the other Great Elders whether it was alright to tell them, and they nodded, so he continued. "We are not really sure about this, and even if we say a way, it's simply raising one's chance to beat the tower. It will depend on your wisdom and talent again.
"After looking at this person, we have realized sothing. People can only have one elent, right? Then why could this person and Great Elder Maxwell beat this tower?"
Ryuu suddenly realized because he knew Alex personally. "Dual Elents!"
"!!!" Daphne and the others widened their eyes.
"The tower itself usually tests you from the easiest to the hardest for your elent. No matter how hard we try, we will have our arch-enemy. Like Fire and Water, Water and Ice, Fire and Ice, and so on. Not long ago, we suddenly realized sothing absurd. What if we have two elents? Does that an we can fight our weakness with the second elent?
"Just like how people who have mastered their weapons would have a better chance to advance higher. We think that if we give an additional elent to soone, she can reach even further. And today, we are convinced. Once again, this is not a sure way, but it surely increases one's chance to reach the top Floor and might beat it.
"I am afraid after today, we might have a joint event with the other temples to create soone that can withstand two elents and have enough talent to nurture both elents and the weapon. As for who they are, it will probably decide in the next Council eting… To think we will hold the Council eting a few tis within this short ti." Riadon sighed. "Still, I sohow want to see if this will really succeed as it will also open our horizon."
The others gasped at such an explanation.
"Now, our job is to wait until Great Elder Licht finishes his business." Riadon looked at the white sphere.
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