Chapter 14 – Monster Tower

On the next day at Snow Villa.

Alan was lying comfortably with Erica on the bed. His Injuries were healed by Jessica. He could not stop thinking about the "No. 1" sign on John Pride yesterday.

"I wonder what does it mean? No.1? Loyal aid? Does it indicate that John now is my first loyal aid? Isn't that mean that I can find more?" Alan thought.

Alan stared at Erica, who was sleeping beside him. "Then what about others?" he thought.

Suddenly, a window popped out in front of Alan.

.........….

Character: Erica Bright

Affection: 100, MAX (Lover)

.........….

"Oh? I can see their affections towards me?" Alan was surprised. He never knew that he had this feature.

What shocked Alan more was that Erica's affection towards him was max.

"Why do you like me so much?" Alan softly said while caressing Erica's face.

"Hmm…" Erica snuggled into Alan's embrace. She looked peaceful.

Alan waited for Erica to wake up before he went to look for others. Since Alan was staying in the villa, Jessica and Tracy stayed there too.

Alan walked to the living room, where all of them were chatting and playing together. Alan looked at their affections towards him.

All of them love him so much. Although their affections not as high as Erica's, it still considered very high. Neutral affection would be zero, but theirs were approaching the max.

Only Erica and Jessica were shown as his lover. The other girls were either siblings or close friends.

Alan was quite happy to have this feature. Now, he can see who is friendly or hostile towards him.

After Alan had breakfast and chatted a little bit with the girls, he went back to the training center. He wanted to upgrade his swordsmanship, but yesterday, his plan was ruined by an idiot.

Alan did not want what happened yesterday, where the girls were in a dangerous situation occurs again. He summoned Cerberus to follow and always protect them when he's not around. Although Erica was super powerful, she did not care about anyone else except for Alan.

When he arrived at the training center, he saw John Pride was also training with his sword.

Alan entered the building, but what surprised him was that John was running towards him.

"Alan! Here!" John shouted happily.

"What the ****? Why he acts like this?" Alan was stunned. In the novel, he never read about 'Cheerful' John Pride.

He looked at John, who was running towards him, and a window popped out.

.........….

Character: John Pride (Subordinate No.1)

Affection: 100, MAX (Friend)

.........….

"My guess just now was correct. I can have subordinates, and somehow John Pride is my first loyal subordinate." Alan thought.

"Oh, hi there." Alan waved his hand.

"Alan, you're going to train?" John asked.

"Yes. I'm going to train my swordsmanship." Alan said.

"Really? Me too. Let's train together." John politely said.

"Sure." Alan calmly said. Having a training partner saves more time.

They trained together for almost a week, and Alan also grew fonder of John. On the last day, Alan's swordsmanship leveled up to Upper Elementary.

"Hey John, do you know where I can kill or hunt for monsters?" Alan asked.

"In the academy, there's one, which is the Monster Tower," John replied.

"Oh? Can you describe the Monster Tower for me?" Alan asked.

"Sure. The Monster Tower has fifty floors, and each floor contains hundreds or maybe thousands of monsters." John said.

"So, did someone ever reached the last floor?" Alan curiously asked.

"No. Even for me, I only managed to reach floor thirty-nine. Most of the excellent students only managed to climb to the thirtieth floor or slightly higher." John replied.

"Then how about other people who are not a student at the academy?" Alan asked.

"No, they can't enter. Only the students of the academy have the privilege of entering the tower, even the teachers or the higher-ups of the academy could not get in. There was some kind of power restricting others from entering." John said.

Alan already knew about the Monster Tower. He was just asking to verify whether his knowledge from the novel he read was the same as this world regarding the tower.

"So it's the same. From what I know, in the latter part of the novel, someone triggered something in the tower, but the author never describes in detail how it was triggered." Alan thought to himself.

Alan thought of something. He looked at John and asked, "The top floor, do you know what's in it?"

"I'm not sure, but people said there was something powerful like sort of a weapon on the top floor," John said.

Alan's pupils trembled. He knows what is on the last floor. It was a mythical fragment. A source of knowledge that gives the one who obtained it its mythical power. This was one of the reasons that triggered the catastrophe in Unity.

"I see…" Alan calmed himself down. He must become more powerful than ever to protect his family and friends.

"I'll get this fragment. No matter what." Alan thought.

"Ding! Sudden Quest triggered! EXP will be given!" the system announced.

............…..

Master Quest:

Be the world's strongest.

Main Quest:

Level up to level 40 in ten days. (32/40)

Side Quest:

1. Help Jessica resolve the problem with the Cain family.

2. Enhance Alice's magic staff.

Sudden Quest:

Conquer the Monster Tower and Obtain the Mythical Fragment.

............…..

"Even if you don't give me the quest, I still will do it, but oh well, I'll get free EXPs then." Alan smiled.

Once his training was over, he went to the villa and cleaned himself up.

In the living room, all the girls were there except for Tracy.

"Where's Tracy?" Alan asked the girls.

"She's working," Jessica replied.

Alan nodded. Tracy was aiming to become the wealthiest businesswoman after all. That was why she met Alan in the dungeon that day. She was working.

"It's late already. Why do you guys still awake? Go to sleep." Alan calmly said while walking towards his room.

Erica stood up and followed him.

"Big Brother! I want to sleep with you today!" Alice ran towards Alan.

"Me too!" Mary followed behind.

Alan did not mind. He liked it. He never had a loving life like this before.

Jessica was left alone.

Suddenly, Alan stopped and looked at Jessica, "You're going too or not?" he asked.

Jessica was blushing before she mustered her strength and replied, "I want to sleep with you too."

Alan smiled while looking at Jessica's cute blushing face, "Come on then. Let's go." He said.

Jessica stood up and ran towards them.

In Alan's room, the girls were fighting who gets to sleep beside Alan while Alan was already lying down on the bed.

"I'm his fiancée, of course, I'll be sleeping next to him," Jessica said.

"You are, but I'm his sister!" Alice gritted her teeth.

"No, I'll sleep beside big brother!" Mary said.

"What the hell are you guys doing?" Alan thought.

Erica ignored all of this and straight away, climbed onto the bed, lay down, and hugged Alan's arm.

"No! It's not fair!" Jessica Shouted.

"First come, first serve." Mary ran towards the bed.

"Hehe, …Don't you dare look down on me." Alice chuckled before she jumped and landed on Alan's body.

"Argh! Hey…watch it." Alan grunted.

"Hahaha." Alice laughed.

Not long after that, Mary arrived beside Alan. Jessica was the last one.

Jessica lay down beside Mary while pouting before she felt someone caressing her head.

Alan was stroking her head while looking at her, smiling. "Next time, you sleep beside me, okay?"

Only after that, Jessica stopped pouting. Now, her face was smiling happily. "Un." She nodded.

On the next morning, Alan did not go to class. He asked Jessica for a class exemption. Throughout the academy, only Alan was capable of doing this.

"I still can't believe Alan got a class exemption. It's not fair." A student complained.

"If you think it's not fair, then you can be the President's fiancée." Another student snorted.

"It's impossible. No one can compete with Alan. His strength, his character, and even his looks are top-notch." The student who complained just now replied.

"Then, quit complaining. It's useless." A student replied.

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Alan went to the Monster Tower alone. When people saw him walking towards the Monster Tower, they were shocked. They posted on their social media, even the academy's forum saying that Alan was entering the Monster Tower.

Alan was like a celebrity. Other people saw everything he did. He was quite numb with these kinds of things. As the ruler of a powerhouse country in his previous life, he was much more famous than any celebrity on Earth.

What Alan did not know was that majority of the students skipped classes just because they wanted to see Alan's progress climbing the tower.

The students can enter the tower in batch. Each time the tower was opened, only a hundred participants can enter at a time.

Alan was lucky. He came on the day when the tower was opened.

Before entering the tower, everyone needed to wear a bracelet. The purpose of the bracelet was to show which floor the students were.

Alan quickly wore the bracelet and entered the tower. Inside, Alan was amazed to see that there was a small world inside the tower. As for the floor he currently at, which is the first floor, it was like a jungle full of monsters.

Many people started killing monsters and immediately went to the second floor. Alan was different. Although one can proceed to the next floor without killing the monsters, one of Alan's purposes entering the tower was to level up.

People outside were confused about why Alan still not proceed to the next floor.

"Mary, why did big brother still stuck on the first floor. Did something happen to him?" Alice worriedly asked.

"Don't worry, the monsters on the first floor were low-level ones. With big brother strength, nothing wrong may happen. He must have something to do." Mary said.

Mary was right. Alan ultimately killed all the monsters on the first floor before he proceeded to the second floor.

Once again, Alan was slower than other students. Once he arrived, almost all the students have already entered the next floor.

Until the ninth floor, Alan was slower than everyone, but he still proceeded like everyone else.

When Alan came to the tenth floor, he was shocked to see that the monsters on this floor were two or three times more than the previous floors.

"Seriously? I bet that there are almost a thousand monsters here on this floor." Alan wryly smiled.

"Better kill them all quickly." Alan smiled. The monsters were low-level, so it was not that hard to kill them.

On this floor, Alan was much slower than usual. People who were watching outside felt curious about what Alan was doing inside.

After nearly five hours, Alan finally killed every single monster on the floor. Alan levelled up to level 33.

Suddenly, there was a voice.

"Congratulations, you are the first to kill all the monsters on the first ten floors completely."

Alan was surprised after he heard the voice; a key was flying towards him.

He caught the key. "A key?" Alan thought. He kept the key with him before proceeding to the next floor.

What Alan did not know was that a part of this happened because of his God's Blessing talent was in effect.

From eleventh until the nineteenth floor, Alan killed without leaving a single monster behind and still was slower than others.

When Alan proceeded to the twentieth floor, the key that he kept before disappeared. When he entered the floor, he was shocked to see all the monsters were waiting to fight him.

"What the ****?" Alan was bewildered. Not only because all of the monsters were waiting for him, but the numbers.

The monsters were so many. There were maybe thousands of monsters battalion looked like they were ready for war.

"Screw it. Either I or all of you will die." Alan smiled. He gripped his sword tighter and dashed forward to kill.

Alan used every single technique and skill he had to fight the monsters. If people saw this, they would shit in their pants.

Blood was squirting everywhere, and Alan himself was covered in monsters' blood.

The battle took almost a day before Alan managed to kill every single of it. He levelled up to level 36.

*Thud!

Alan fell on of his knees while supporting himself with his sword.

He breathed heavily.

"Hah…Hah…I did it." Alan weakly said.

Suddenly, A voice rang out, "Congratulation, I'm impressed." Before another key was flying towards him.

Alan caught the key and thought, "Why there's no one here on this floor except for me? Does this key lead to a different version twentieth floor? If yes, then that explained why the key suddenly disappeared before entering."

Alan rested for a little bit before proceeding to the next floor. As usual, he killed all the monsters until he arrived on the thirtieth floor by using the key he got.

On the thirtieth floor, there were no monsters at all. Alan strolled until he saw an arena.

On the arena, a man was facing his back towards Alan.

Alan went onto the arena and greeted, "Hello?"

The man turned his body and faced Alan, "You've arrived." he was smiling.

Alan was shocked. This was the first time he felt like this since he arrived in this world.

"W-who are you?" Alan asked.

The man smiled before he said, "I am you."

That man was 'Alan'. The 'Alan', the genius prodigy, the ruler on Earth.

Alan's past.