EX-Grade Ability Card: Tower Ascension with My Absolute Restoration-Chapter 54: The Eternal Flower Feeling Threatened

"Tsk, it’s been a while and it’s still maintaining that amount of fog..." looking at the Abyssal Rot Eternal Flower with the defense on its body not getting any lower from the moment that he starts attacking it previously, Azrael couldn’t help but click his tongue in annoyance, wondering how he should progress at all.

’Not to mention this becomes useless with that amount of fog as well...’ he thought as he looked at the information of the only weapon skill he has, shaking his head as even this extremely overpowered skill was rendered useless due to how large the Abyssal Rot reaches.

[Domain of Absorption (Basic Mastery Level 3)]

[Creates a brutal domain that absorbs and turn any life force inside it to pure energy to nourish the weapon and the ascender blood-bound to it, the range of this domain, the rate of absorption and the amount of life force converted to nourishment for the weapon and its blood-bound individual is dependent on the mastery level of this weapon skill]

[Current Level: Basic Mastery (Capable of taking away life force from any opponent within ten meters of the user, the rate of absorption is about three in ten thousand of the target/s’ overall life force per second, and can be stopped if the target/s has a skill with a Basic Body Mastery passive skill on it)]

Despite its fairly large range, Domain of Absorption still fails to have an effect on the Abyssal Rot Eternal Flower, especially when the fog defending the entirety of its lower body spans over twenty meters in range, completely overshadowing the size of the domain.

"Looks like you can maintain that amount of fog indefinitely from the start..." shaking his head as he swung his sword, creating another black arc directly hitting the flora, Azrael said with a hint of annoyance in his voice, his words earning another shriek from his enemy, this one sounding like it is enjoying tormenting its target extremely.

"Laugh all you want fucker, let’s see who’s going to have the laugh in the end" the young man added as he just couldn’t stand receiving the obvious mockery from the plant he is fighting against, his words only serving to make the Eternal Flower shriek in an even better celebratory mood.

’If I want to use the Domain of Absorption against it, then I probably need to reach higher since the fog settles on the ground...’ observing this phenomenon previously, noticing that the Abyssal Rot actually comes from the opponent’s leaves protecting its flower rather than directly from the body it is defending, the young man thought to himself, now changing his target and aiming to launch himself up somehow to reach the flower itself.

Still, with the Abyssal Rot seemingly just increasing in density and range more and more as time goes by, he knows that there’s just no time to waste now, hence why he intends to end this fight in a few minutes, capitalizing on both the Domain of Absorption and the natural absorption property of the Evil Fang Sword.

"Ready for the feast partner?" looking at the sword in his hand, Azrael asked with the confidence still brimming in his voice, the Evil Fang Sword responding by letting its entire body shake expressing its excitement, boosting both their morales as the guide’s azure floating screen appears in front of the young man once again, bearing good news amidst this disaster he got himself caught into.

[Detected that the equipment: Evil Fang Sword is continuously using its weapon skill (Domain of Absorption) to absorb the ambient life force in the environment. Detected a drastic increase in the mastery of the mentioned weapon skill]

[Detected that an equipment’s weapon skill: Domain of Absorption (Evil Fang Sword) has leveled up]

[Domain of Absorption (Basic Mastery Level 4)]

[Current Level: Basic Mastery (Capable of taking away life force from any opponent within ten meters of the user, the rate of absorption is about four in ten thousand of the target/s’ overall life force per second, and can be stopped if the target/s has a skill with a Basic Body Mastery passive skill on it)]

It wasn’t the end of the good news though, as the guide also notifies him of the Evil Fang Sword itself improving its strength once again, making him more energized than ever before as an even stronger power starts surging through his entire body.

[The ascender already reaches the limit of stats for the current floor, due to this, the life force absorbed by the Evil Fang Sword will go solely to the weapon, increasing its rate of growth]

[Detected that the equipment: Evil Fang Sword has leveled up]

[Evil Fang Sword (A-Grade Weapon, Upgradeable)]

[Current Level: 6 (Reach level 20 to upgrade the weapon to S-Grade)]

[Weapon Skills: Domain of Absorption (Basic Mastery Level 1)]

[Usage Requirement: Blood-bound individual]

[Effects: +30% strength, +30% agility, +15% stamina, +15% dexterity, +1.5% lunacy, Improves the efficiency of life force absorption by 10%]

"Hahaha, looks like prolonged fight is not only tilted for you..." feeling his strength improving once again, Azrael said towards the already victoriously shrieking Abyssal Rot Eternal Flower, his face revealing a maniacal smile as he found that his Immortal Energy is already recovered after spending time circling around the giant mess of a plant he is fighting against.

Sensing the subtle increase in its opponent strength, the Abyssal Rot Eternal Flower couldn’t help but respond in aggression and wariness, not expecting that this little creature has the ability to improve its own strength while in battle, making it want nothing more than to end this fight as quick as possible as somewhere in its mind, it is well aware that fighting a prolonged battle against this sort of individuals is the most foolish thing anyone except the same kind of people as them can do.

Hence why it starts shrieking even louder than ever before, the previously pristine white petals surrounding its core now transforming into a grotesque black with flesh and vein-like structure covering it, seemingly completely revealing its true, twisted form for its opponent to see.

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