MMO: Pierce Heaven Til’ It Breaks

“One day, I’ll pay you back in full…”

Before Bai Xiaoya had completed her sentence, she vanished. All that was left was Dolly floating in mid-air with her hands spread wide open. She was still attempting to suck something into her tiny mouth…

“Gack, wehh wehh…”

Since the meat bun before her had suddenly vanished, Dolly lost her cool. With a twitch of her mouth, she then bawled her eyes out.

“Don’t think I’ll forget this, Dark Wing.”

The Orc Warrior released his soul, and his corpse vanished.

The remaining members dispersed as well, and in a blink of an eye, not a single corpse remained.

“Thud…thud…thud…”

Li Yi fired a few shots of Meteor Arrows at the green-skinned monster, killing it.

Although Bai Xiaoya had died, there was still the possibility of Bai Xiaoya bribing someone to keep tabs on the monster. Due to this, Li Yi had determined that it was best to finish it off.

The quest monsters in the Tower of Remorse would only respawn once every ten days. Since Li Yi had slain the current instance of the quest monster, Bai Xiaoya could not do anything even if she had re-entered.

Although the mazes were different every time players entered it, the pathing was more or less the same. Since Li Yi was familiar with the forest stage, it did not take long for Li Yi to clear the stage.

The Tower of Remorse had over a hundred types of stages. Among all of them, the one that gave Li Yi the most difficulty was the gear stage. If Li Yi was unfortunate enough to encounter it, even he himself was unsure whether he would clear it.

“Stage Cleared!”

“Congratulations!”

“Transporting you to the next floor…”

“Stage Cleared!”

In the following stages, Li Yi was on a roll. He successfully cleared all eight stages and made it to the twentieth floor.

Similar to the tenth floor, there was a 50% chance that players encountered a boss, and another 50% chance players encountered an extremely difficult stage.

Lady luck had smiled upon Li Yi as Li Yi did not encounter a difficult stage, and encountered a boss instead.

At the center of the room was a boss that was similar to the Golden Hand. The only difference between the two statue bosses was that Golden Hand had both its hands covering its chest, whereas this one had raised one of its legs up, standing in a golden rooster stance.¹

The boss’ name was Golden Leg, and it was Golden Hand’s brother.

Another great thing about encountering boss stages was that it was free from the disruption of other parties. In other words, boss stages were like an independent dimension that belonged only to a single party.

Any party that had great luck would be able to encounter the bosses.

“Water Clone!”

“Chrono Stinger Arrow!”

Tch—

Spurt-spurt-spurt…

Unlike when he faced Golden Hand, Li Yi immediately unleashed his most powerful skill.

“Ahh lalalala…”

Golden Leg flung open its eyes, and just as it was about to act, a terrifying damage figure popped out of its head, instantly bringing it down.

A one-shot kill!

Golden Leg would not revive. Once it was down, it remained downed.

Ding!

[Congratulations! You have successfully slain the boss of the twentieth floor of the Tower of Remorse. Time used: 4.5 seconds. A new record!]

[Your challenge attempt has been recorded. Your party has entered the World Rankings, and you are currently ranked at 998th place.]

Li Yi had finally made it into the World Rankings.

“Kekekeke. Frail little creature, you amaze me.” The red-robed spirit had appeared yet again.

Another three teleportation gates appeared behind it, similar to the scenario on the tenth floor.

‘Can we claim prizes again?’

The thought crossed Li Yi’s mind, and he walked forward to talk to the red-robed spirit.

Tch! Tch!

The teleportation gates on the right and middle disappeared, leaving only the left one remaining.

Using the Resurrection Pearls, Li Yi revived Qian’er, Little Elf from the Magical Realm, Jiaojiao, and The Cat that Sings. The others would have to wait as Li Yi had run out of pearls.

“Alright, let’s get ourselves some treasures.”

Li Yi gestured for the party to follow him as he entered the reward stage.

Woosh…Woosh…Woosh…

A rainbow-colored light flashed in and out, and when it stopped, hundreds of treasure chests of various colors laid in front of Li Yi.

This reward stage did not contain any dangers. Furthermore, the space was not huge by any means. It was a square room, and for as far as the eye can see, there were no mechanisms whatsoever. There was only one type of item.

Treasure chests!

There were only treasure chests in the room!

The red-robed spirit appeared yet again. “Each of you can only open five treasure chests. The treasure chests contain items of both good and bad. Should fortune smile upon you, then you might receive a piece of divine equipment. If not, then, hahaha, let me just express my condolences in advance.”

“Wow… So many chests.”

“We’re gonna be rich! We’re gonna be rich!!”

“F*ck, I’d better get something good this time!”

The ladies were ready to pounce, but they were stopped by Li Yi.

The reward stage is the Tower of Remorse’ best reward stage. It was not ‘among the best’, as it was THE best stage. It was a hundred times better than the gear stage, and as such, Li Yi would not allow the ladies to squander this opportunity.

After all, how big of a waste would it be if they were to throw this chance?

Li Yi asked, “Do you know why this tower is called the Tower of Remorse?”

Qian’er raised her hand. “I do, it’s because the God of Death, Remorse, resides at the top of the tower.”

Li Yi shook his head. “That’s only one of the reasons.”

“Then what’s the second one?” asked Jiaojiao.

“The second one, eh…” Li Yi gave a cryptic laugh and pointed at the hundreds of treasure chests. He then continued, “The reason this tower is called the Tower of Remorse is not only because of the God of Death that resides here. There’s a literal meaning to it as well.”

Little Elf from the Magical Realm was confused. “What literal meaning?”

“The luck of the draw will cause you endless remorse!!”

“Huh?”

“The true meaning behind the Tower of Remorse lies not in the God of Death, Morse, but rather, the remorse you’ll likely experience from it. This tower contains all sorts of precious items. You’ve already seen the Orange Quality Weapons with your own eyes, but what if I told you that there’s something of an even higher tier than Orange Quality Weapons?”

“God-tiered Items!”

“See these chests before us? If we’re lucky, we might get god-tiered items from them.”

“However, the rate of these god-tiered items being produced is abysmally low. Some have looted these chests over 50 thousand times, and yet, they still came up short. It was for this reason that the Tower of Remorse had gotten this name.”

“Did I hear that wrongly? Fifty thousand times…” Missus Rong was dumbfounded.

Li Yi gave a faint smile. He did not bother to elaborate on the story and instead gave an explanation on the treasure chests.

“The best item that’s produced from the red treasure chests are equipment pieces. The green ones have the best scrolls, whereas the gold chests’ best items are mounts. As for the purple chests, their best reward are pets.”

Jiaojiao’s eyes lit up. “Equipment pieces! Scrolls! Mounts! P-P-Pets? Are these pets not restricted by classes?”

Li Yi nodded his head. “Yep, so do you gals now understand why the chests are separated by different colors?”

“Yeah.”

The Cat that Sings gave Li Yi a thumb’s up. “F*ck, you really do know a whole-f*cking-lot, huh?”

“Any chest could contain the best reward. Alright, now that I’ve told you girls about the colors, you can go loot whichever chest you want.”

Li Yi stepped aside and made a gesture for the four girls to proceed.

“I’ll go first! I don’t care about equipment and I have no need for those trashy scrolls that could only be used once. Since I’ve already gotten the Red Dragon Queen as my mount, my only priority now are the pets. Off to the purple chests I go!”

Jiaojiao ran toward one of the purple treasure chests, gripped the chest by its sides, and vigorously opened up the chest.

Chit-chit-chit—

“Mama!”

Three rats scurried out of the purple chest, scaring Jiaojiao so much that she fell onto the ground…

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