The Garden

{Orc killed. You have received 1000 experience points}

{You have leveled up}

Aaron was really happy about this new, he was grinding non stop for the last 2 years and he was finally able to reach level 50 today. For the last 2 years he was stuck on the first floor because of he choose to ascend the second he'll never be able to come back. So he was building his strength during this 2 years hoping he'll find something worth when he explore the garden. To this day, nobody still has explored it, he has all the time to do it and he was finally ready to do it. Closing his eyes a moment he felt the breeze of the wind on his skin before opening them again and looking at his status

Name : Aaron

Race : Human

Title : Goblin Nemesis {rare} : (You are responsible for the genocide of the goblin on the first floor, all goblin based specie will fear you and try to kill you shall they think they can. +50% damage to all goblin based species)

Level : 50

Talent : Hight blood cells production (you got a hight blood cells production, it is hard for you to die from blood loss and disease){E}

Tier : 0

Attributes :

Strength : 28

Constitution : 33

Endurance : 50

Dexterity : 20

Agility : 24

Intelligence : 50

Unused : 500

Skill :

universal langage (perfect)

Martial art {rare} (intermediate)

Swordsmanship {rare} (advanced)

Mana control {rare} (beginner)

He was satisfied seeing the numbers on his panel, during his training time he learned a lot of things about the system, firstly he can upgrade his stats while training, he had done that and he had maxed out his stats trough training for his tier 5 months ago. Secondly it seems that the moment a skill reach the perfect mastery it will evolve in a higher skill, it will drop the mastery to beginner again but the skill itself will be of a higher rank. And lastly he learned that he was right about his decision to lay a solid foundation as only a hundred thousand people of the Primordial Tower were left alive. What started as a rush was slowly turning in a marathon, as while the first 6 floors were clear within a month, 2 years later the top ranker was only at the 12 floor.

He was not in a rush so he returned to his abode and prepared everything he needed, he checked his stuff, and once everything was ready he planted a sign in front of his door. Then he leaved for the garden with a gesture of his hand.

"Here was Aaron" could be read on this sign in the rain.

When he was in front of the portal he took a deep breath and finally push the doors. He was greeted by a notification when he took the first step inside.

{Welcome to the corrupted fabulous garden of Atlas and his three daughters}

He was stunned, so this garden was really something incredible, he was not really well versed in the Greek mythologie but he was not dumb so he knew a few things about this place. The only thing that surprised him was the word corrupt, what was the meaning of this word. He was not sure but he vowed to find out during this expedition. And he was quick to find out, where there should be a beautiful apple three there was only a dead tree and treants monsters. It seems that this land was corrupted like the system said and that nothing alive was growing there. He was sad because he really wanted to to see the magnificence of this garden like it was described in the legends. But well he was left with treants and a desolate sight.

He made a quick work of the treants and went to explore more, but an hour later he was depressed as there was nothing here to feast on. Maybe someone already took the treasure and he was just to late. But he couldn't understand how the awakeners before him died, he couldn't comprehend it. After all he didn't even distribute his unused stat points and the fight was still easy.

Unknown to him, he was just lucky to survive, because the treants he met were just level 10 and he just met a hidden condition to not turn into a living target. Had he not reach the level cap for tier 0, he would have be just a corps now. The treant would've turned into level 100 boss and kill him on the spot. Just when he was ready to leave the sun finally arise and the rain stopped. Unfortunately there was no beautiful sight as the garden was corrupt and there was nothing alive here, only a desolate space where even the ground was black. But he saw something shining, something was shining just beneath the root of the dead apple tree !!

Without wasting any time, he rushed in the direction of the tree, when he arrived he destroyed the trunk and was stunned on the spot. He discovered 2 things, the first one was a stone tablet with a strange dialect he didn't understand. Just as he was about to look at the second thing he received a notification.

{Congratulations, you are the first one to discover the trace of the Primordials}

{Awarding the Title : Historian}

He was stunned! The only thing he did was to look at something he didn't even understand but got a title for that! What a robbery!

{Historian (legendary) : As the first to witness a primordial dialect before the integration you have been awarded this title which will halve all your difficulties for mastering a foreign language} (note : the path is hard don't be complacent you still need to work hard even with the difficulties halved)

What a day! And what a powerful title! Aaron was overjoyed, not wasting anytime he took the stone tablet and put it in his inventory, whatever was written on it should be precious just based on the rewards he received for looking at it. Just after that he put his attention on the second thing that was here, and that was a golden apple, focusing his mana around it to appraise it he was quick to receive the report.

{Golden Apple (primordial) : The last fruit bore by the fabulous garden of Atlas before the corruption took place. Consuming it will bring many benefits} (The level of the skill is insufficient to see more)

What a jackpot !! He was as happy as he could and without even blinking he ate the apple, in the mythology those apple were even prized by the gods, he just found something priceless, without even talking about the rank of the item which was a freaking Primordial rank item! The highest possible rank!

Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly felt hot and nauseous, he couldn't keep his balance and fell on the ground. He started to sweat like never before and was even panting. He couldn't breath anymore and even felt like his bones were being broken one after another. Just before loosing conscience he heard a notification.

{Internal damage taken, Health points -10}…. {Internal damage taken, Health points -10}...

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[Orion POV]

Orion was a poor man before the awakening, he was homeless, without family and without any future. The awakening was a blessing for him because it gave him a chance to make something, a new beginning for him and he was determined to not waste this chance, he was determined to not let his life take the wrong turn once more. Orion was not very smart, he was not very strong but he was talented with his hands and he was devoted to the task. For that reason coupled with his talent he took a fancy in the Artisanal Tower.

While everyone was rushing to take the early lead, Orion had a feeling that he shouldn't take part in this race, and so he made the decision to learn everything he needed to learn before advancing to the next floor. And he was right because of hard work and repetitive actions, he found out about the way of gaining stats points without leveling up, he was sure that it was going to be useful for him even if he wasn't a warrior, because he needed a lot of mana to make good potions. Yeah his center of research was alchemy and it was closely related with his talent.

Name : Orion

Race : Human

Title : None

Level : 34

Talent : Gaïa Hearth (You are blessed by the nature, you can understand everything about every life) (Allow you to summon the book of alchemy that contains every known alchemy recipe and grants you detailed informations about every material usage upon inspection with the eye of Gaïa) (Every potion you drink will have negatives effects nullified while every potion you take will have permanent effect) {S}

Tier : 0

Attributes :

Strength : 22

Constitution : 15

Endurance : 23

Dexterity : 60.5

Agility : 16

Intelligence : 40

Unused :340

Skill : universal langage (perfect)

Summon Book of alchemy (perfect)

Eye of Gaïa (perfect)

Buff :

Health regeneration +10hp/s ∞

Strength +10% ∞

Dexterity +10% ∞

Experience points +5% ∞

His talent was a cheat and he knew it, he made the decision to become an alchemist because of it actually. He was one of the few who got an S rank talent and he was sure to make the most out of it. The majority of them went to the Primordial tower and died, they thought they were invincibles. They thought of themselves like the chosen one because they were "talented" and didn't even thought about their talent orientation. Orion made that mistake once and as a result he became homeless, so he was sure to never rush a decision again, even if he was not a smart one, Orion was a fast learner and never made the same mistake twice in his life.

Today Orion was resting, he was ready to ascend to the 6th floor after 3 months inside the 4th floor. He had learn everything he could here and intended to move tomorrow as he was taking a day off today. Orion loved the gossip so in his free time he was adept at looking the forum to inform himself about the news of the tower and try to learn something and today was such a day as there was some big events going on the 1st resting zone.

Looking trough the forum he saw that there was a war going on. Reading the details about the feud that happened he understood that there was a man from the Godly Tower that climbed to the first resting area a week ago and had been trying to take control of everything since then. What surprised him was that he was from the godly tower and by the looks of it, nobody even the Primordial Tower rankers could hold a candle to his skills.

The hierarchy in the resting area was simple, the stronger takes all, as while it was easier to climb the easy tower and the easy towers ascenders were the first one to populate the resting area, when the stronger ascenders comes, the balance always shifted. But it seems that it was the opposite today as a Godly ascender took the light from the Primordial ones. The only thing that Orion was sure was that this ascender was like him and choose the late game développement instead of the immediate benefits path, and today he was making his mark as powerhouse. This awakener was putting a taxe system and he was recruiting talents to be a part of his guild. He wanted to be an overlord and rule like a king.

Letting out a long sigh he clenched his fist and went to train himself, today event reminded him that he needed to be stronger if he didn't wish to be under someone like this Allen. Unknown to everyone, this decision to look the forum at this time and train like a maniac until he he was dead tired delayed the depart of Orion of 2 days which lead him to encounter an even crazier psycho than Allen. Oblivious of the fact that this decision will lead him to encounter the one referred as the "Sky" in the future and be his right hand man, Orion went to sleep with a smile on his face as he was happy about the training session of today "rest day". Not knowing that he'll only wake up two days later due to mana exhaustion.