Mysterious Purple Crystal

Without any second thought, he started climbing through the way from where the body fell down.

"Hmm, my guess was right…that guy is a dreadful bastard."

After climbing 700 meters above....

Lucas was now looking down with surprise when he found out that a frail-looking guy barely in his teens had actually reached 450 meters.

"I must commend him. Even if his equipment is better than mine, it's still a miracle he is catching up under the given circumstances."

Just then, another explosion occurred.

BOOM!

Lucas didn't even bother looking down this time when the explosion took place. He knew the reason.

Lucas had planted bombs in a ring shape around the building. Even if one could see them, the only way to avoid them was by maintaining a distance of 5 meters from them.

But Lucas had placed the bombs with a distance of 10 meters from each other, so avoiding the bombs was almost impossible. Upon reaching near to them, they would explode.

While Lucas reached the 800th meter, 5 of the 10 bombs had exploded, which he had named alphabetically.

While the only person who had hope of catching up to him was at 570 meters or so, he was no one but Shiv.

As Lucas continued climbing, suddenly his instincts told him about an approaching danger. Lucas's instincts had become very sharp after being through so much trouble in his past, so he always trusted them.

He looked down but noticed no changes. Just as he looked up, a dark purple mist had reached his hand. Lucas shook his hand but to no avail.

The purple mist formed strands and attached themselves to Lucas firmly and suddenly pulled him through a broken window on the 850th meter.

There, a machine with huge concentric rings was hovering in the middle, at the center of which was a dark purple crystal.

The room had a huge height. Lucas suspected the last two floors were combined just to fit in these concentric rings.

The entire room was a complete mess with all things broken lying on the floor. Different strange instruments and whatnot could be seen in the room. The room looked like a science laboratory of some sort.

The purple mist then started wrapping around Lucas. Lucas had very high battle prowess, but his fitness was too low to even struggle against the mist. When he attacked the mist, it was no use due to the materialistic properties of mist which could only be dealt with by super abilities.

Super abilities could be gained only after reaching a fitness level of C-Rank and above, but that too would be basic supernatural abilities. These abilities would help to deal with unnatural stuff. For example, even if a person had very high strength, that wouldn't make him immune to fire. Only super attributes and abilities would help him achieve this.

Finally, Lucas's watch vibrated. Just as the strands were wrapping around his eyes, he brought up the strength to move his hand.

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Alert! System analysis complete

Suggested to use Cultivate Skill

Alert!...

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Hope! Lucas finally saw a ray of hope.

"Yes, I have 2 more skills other than harvest. How could I forget this important shit…."

Lucas then activated his Cultivate skill.

"This skill better be as heavenly as the harvest or this shitty mist is gonna fuck me dead…."

The crystal started rotating faster and faster to increase the strands. Lucas was having major trouble, but he also noticed that the misty strands were never increasing; they were always constant, unlike before where there was no end to them.

The mist was entering his body and moving around. Lucas was going through intense pain; it was as if a very hot fluid was rushing through all your veins.

But he withstood it, endured it.

Time passed by 5 minutes…..10 minutes….15 minutes…

Only after 30 minutes did the strands of mist start dissipating into smaller and smaller strings. But in the course of time, there was a point where the mist had become so dense it almost formed a pool of liquid around Lucas.

After the last string disappeared, Lucas, who was floating above, fell down.

"Ouch….what was that before, but the important question is where did it go and what did my skill do exactly?"

"Did the mist get destroyed? Hmm, but that hardly seems to be the case. As the name suggests, cultivate, so it won't destroy anything."

Lucas had no clue about the recent happenings, so he finally gave up thinking and decided to do a Quick Analysis.

Quick Analysis, as the name suggested itself, gave a measure of change within a short period, unlike Complete Analysis, which gave detailed results but required more time.