The changes

[Aaron POV]

Aaron woke up in a puddle of black blood with a terrible headache. Taking some time to even stand up he was shocked to smell the terrible odor of the black blood. He was fast to stand up and move away from this terrible scent. After standing up and walking a little he was feeling really good physically speaking, even better than before his little nap. Curious about the changes his body went trough, he decided to look at all the notifications he got when he was out. He saw that he took a lot of damage and that he was out for a day! Finally after looking for a minute he saw the first notification unrelated to internal damage.

[The ability of the Golden Apple is resonating with your innate talent, awakening your talent forcibly]

[You talent has evolved in {Perfect Regeneration} and reached the peak of his potential]

Perfect Regeneration {S} : Your body can even regrow lost limbs with such a regeneration. Health regeneration + 500%. Mana regeneration +500%. Stamina regeneration +500%.

[All the impurity of your body have been cleared, congratulations you have attained the perfect vessel to hold your futures powers. Awarding the talent {Perfect body}]

Perfect body {S} : The golden Apple cleaned your body of all the impurities and will prevent futures impurities to enter. All sats +5 for each level. Experience points acquired will be reduced by 90%. Attributes received for each level up will double.

After seeing his gains he was stunned! He even obtained another talent after getting an upgrade of his first talent. He hurriedly checked his status

Name : Aaron

Race : Human

Title : Goblin Nemesis {rare} / Historian {legendary}

Level : 0

Talent : Perfect body {S} / Perfect Regeneration {S}

Tier : 0

Attributes :

Strength : 100

Constitution : 100

Endurance : 100

Dexterity : 100

Agility : 100

Intelligence : 100

Mana : 1000

Health : 1000

Unused : 500

Skill :

universal langage (perfect)

Equipements : none

Looking at his stat he couldn't hide the amazement on his face. Not only the fruit gave him a an S rank talent on top of upgrading his own talent but it also gave him 100 attributes points in each stats!

Looking more closely he couldn't understand how he was back at level 0. He decided to check the system historic only for him toi find out that something really interesting.

[Purification of the body successful, level -1]

…..

[Purification of the body successful, level -1]

....

Regressing to level 0 added to the fact that he got a 90% experience points reduction, he soon understood that the experience points were not something trivial as it seems that the impurities his body absorbed was coming from the experience points. It was all a theory but he was trying to understand a little about this system as it could be a huge advantage in the future. After 5 minutes he still couldn't make a final conclusion and decided to put the matter to rest. He was overjoyed to see that his unused stats points didn't disappear so he distributed them heavenly between all his stats. With this done, he was ready to climb to the second floor.

[Are you sure you want to climb ? There is no turning back after this decision]

Aaron answered without any hesitation « Yes »

After that he was transported to the second floor as the only proof of him left in this floor was a little abode, a sign and a training sword made of wood. Which will have a massive impact in the future. But that is a story for another time.

Aaron was greeted by orcs when he stepped onto the second floor as he was ready for battle the moment he appeared. He made a quick work of the orcs and saw that he already fulfilled half of the condition to ascend to the third floor. But Aaron was not in a hurry as the moment he found the golden fruit he had decided that he'll search under every rock of each floor to find traces of hidden pieces. That was a new beginning so he made sure to follow his last step and build a similar abode near the entrance of a forest. Aaron the explorer was born that day.

[Three Years Later]

[You have slain the Orc King the boss of the 10th floor]

[1000 experience points given]

[You now have access to the first resting area between the 10th and 11th floor]

Aaron was standing on a pile of corpse. Today he had killed the Orc King and his legion. It was not something he had to do to climb but he dit it anyways as it could be a hidden piece. He was in the throne room sitting a pile of corpses. He was not even tired after that fight. He now had all the time he needed to check the castle, so he decided to stay a little more time to search in the castle for hidden rewards. Today was the first day of the 5th year in the tower and he was a little late on his schedule. As the tower consisted of 100 floors, should he wish to clear it he will need to spend 5 years in each 10th floor section and as he had chosen to start a month late he was late of a day now. He had gained three skills during that time, the first one was Aura Slash, the second was Block the last he got after studying for long nights and encountering a lot of orcs was Orc dialect.

{Aura slash} (perfect) : imbue mana in your weapon to increase the power of your attack and defense. Deals 100% of physical damage + 100% of magical damage. Cooldown 5min

Cost : 100 Mana

{Block} (perfect) : You are able to detect even the tiniest physical weakness of an attack which grants you the possibility to nullify it if you strike on it. (Note that If you fail to strike the weak point, you will face the full might of that attack)

Cooldown : none

Cost : none

{Orc dialect} (perfect) : You can understand everything about the Orc dialect and can even use it yourself

He was really proud of those skills as he learned them himself with a lot of efforts. Block was really a great skill to have as it saved him a lot of times, as to aura slash, it was a great offensive move for him. Standing up he walked in the direction of the Orc king and took the drop

[King Orc War Axe]

Rarity : Epic

Characteristic : Physical damage + 200. Health + 300

Skill : Survival

{Survival} (perfect) : Reduce strength by 90% for the next 5 mins to heal the user of 100% maximum health.

Cooldown : 1 day

Cost : none

It was a really good weapon, he equipped it without an ounce of hesitation as it will not only help him to deal more damage but will also help him to stay alive should he find himself in a though spot. Aaron was really happy about the future days to come as it was 5 years of isolation for him. Having chosen to stay behind and start after all the others was a good decision but it was really hard mentally to be in seclusion with no one to speak with. His only entertainments were his training sessions and the diary he wrote. After clearing the first floor, Aaron started to feel lonely and decided to write his daily life in diaries. It was really funny for him to imagine someone finding them and following his adventures. Every time he was about to climb to another floor he hided the diary of the floor In question in his abode. It was a pleasant occupation for him as it helped him to not become crazy.

He was in a good mood as he'll soon be able to interact with someone for the first time in years! He also understood something about the tower trough various experiences. It seems that he was right about his assumptions of the experiences points. To explain the mechanic of this, he used the word "record". It was a term he came up with alone and hence maybe it was not the exact term but it was more simple for him to understand it that way for him, and he couldn't be wrong as no one was here to contradict him. To summarize, every creature had a record inscribed in their soul, every time you kill one, you will obtain a portion of that record, namely called experience points. But the records as the world in itself was not pure and contained a lot of harmful things for an organism. As it will prevent one to reach their peak potential by adding weakness in their records as well. After testifying the validity of his theory he got a better understanding of his talent. His talent and the "debuff" that came with it was a blessing in disguise. At first view he jus got a 90% experience reduction but that was the process of purifying the record of every organism he killed. And that was probably because of it that he got himself double the attributes points for each level.

That was truly fascinating for him as it was something really cool to test and experience. He loved the feeling of searching, experiencing and discovering on his own. Of course he didn't forget to write it in one of his tome, the 7th one to be precise as it was something he really wanted someone to see.

After taking the Axe he went to search for treasures. After a day inside the castle, he already had explored more than half of it but found nothing interesting, he was tired after that search session and decided to go to sleep in the royal bedroom.

In the morning after a night of the best sleep he had since a long time he got up and went for another round, after height hours of searching he finally found something inside the Royal library. It seems that he was not the only one to write and that the Orc king was like him as well. Passing through the useless stuff in the diary, he found out that the king was in possession of a rare treasure and that he decided to put in inside the treasure room.

After learning that he went to search for that treasure room but after 4 more hours he couldn't find it, he was sure there was one but it was hidden by the looks of it. So not wasting any time he went for the architectural plans of the castle. After finding the plan he was quick to find the location of the treasure room. It seems that the king was quite the playful one and that he put the treasure room just under his throne. Not wasting anytime he went to the throne room and decided to destroy the throne with the Orc king weapon, that was quite ironic, as the weapon who was meant to protect the monarchy was the one to erase it. After destroying the throne and waiting for the dust to disperse he saw the stairs that were supposed to lead him in the treasure room. He already saw the plans and knew that there was no traps so he decided to go down.

After going down he saw a massive door and the lock of that door just matched the War Axe. So he put the War Axe which was a key

inside the lock and opened the door. There were not a lot of things inside the room, just mountains of golds coins, gems and something in the middle of the room. He harvested every coins and gems without letting anything behind

[Received 68 057 golds coins, 107 gemstones]

After taking everything he went in the middle of the room. He was shocked to find that the treasure the king was talking about was a stone tablet similar to the one he found on the first floor. It had to be know that even with all his efforts he couldn't decipher even a single letter of that dialect, but he was overjoyed when he noticed that there seems to be a traduction of that text in Orc dialect on this one! Knowing Orc dialect he could finally try to decipher some words of this stone tablet and find its secrets! After taking everything he returned to sleep in his abode as he didn't forgot to put his diary under the wooden floor after updating it. Tomorrow will be a big day as he will go to the first resting area. Aaron went to sleep without knowing that the next day he'll meet Orion and make history with him as it'll be the third day of the fifth year.