The first-floor boss was...
A tall, red Giant roared as it collapsed and disappeared. Su Luo calmly walked out and stopped in front of a large gate.
This is the last room at the bottom of the Tower, which is also the boss battle area.
In these rooms, Su Luo obtained a Relic.
[Strawberry]
[When picked up, increases your maximum Health Points by 7. Restores 1 health at the end of each battle.]
"This is so delicious! I haven't seen this since the Desolation Plague." -- Lan Weide
It's Desolation Plague again, and Lan Weide again.
However, Su Luo could see that the Desolation Plague was an event, and this large Dreamscape — the Eternal Night Court —could be divided into the pre -Desolation Plague era and the post -Desolation Plague era. The Tower was also closely related to the Desolation Plague.
"Wait! Lan Weide, I think I know!"
The Iron Guard next to him received another card, recalling a memory that felt strangely familiar.
"This guy... I've encountered him many times while climbing the tower; he seems to be a biologist."
"Do you remember how many times you've climbed this tower?"
Su Luo wasn't surprised that the Iron Guard recognized the person described in the Relic's description. In his view, the Iron Guard, the merchant, the Smurf, and even this "Lan Weide" were likely all "permanent NPCs" in this Tower's endless Cycle, each playing a different role and possessing varying degrees of memory retention and interaction patterns.
"Yes... my path of revenge has been climbing this spiral for countless years. Falling, getting up, memories shattering and rebuilding, power growing and dissipating... and I always die here, at the end of the first level, or somewhere higher."
Iron Guard stepped forward and stroked the unknown patterns on the gate.
Su Luo then began to organize her deck of cards.
He printed four more cards for these rooms.
Another [Elemental Collapse] image.
A [Zero Protocol].
Effect: Removes X buffs and all blocks from all enemies. Costs X energy. Gains 1 Source Essence for each buff removed. X is the number of buffs on the enemy.
A [Energy Defense].
Effect: Gain 6 Block. Gain an additional 4 Block for each card played this turn. Costs 1 Energy.
A [Precognitive Inference] document.
After use, preview the top three cards of the deck. You can choose to discard them at will. It costs 0 energy.
In addition, I spent ten Source Essence to permanently gain one point of maximum energy, and also spent Source Essence to increase my initial armor value to eighteen per round, as well as three points of permanent strength and three points of permanent agility.
Su Luo originally planned to print several special cards directly, and through card combinations, draw cards infinitely to create Cycle and play an infinite strategy, which could crush the opponent in one wave.
But Iron Guard immediately shook his head to stop him:
"The Tower does not allow infinity, nor does it allow for extreme deconstruction that is 'too gamified.' In my past life, I have also achieved infinity many times, but I was immediately punished."
"In a game, excessive gamification is not allowed... so what are the penalties?"
Then Iron Guard couldn't remember the details of the sanctions, but still strongly advised Su Luo not to build an infinite deck.
Su Luo decided to keep this idea as a trump card.
The two of them pushed open the heavy metal door with their combined strength.
Behind the door, the scene wasn't as grand as one might imagine. The layout was similar to many of the previous battle rooms, only a bit more spacious. In the center of the open space stood a figure.
When the figure was clearly seen, Iron Guard was struck dumb, frozen in place, and even the purple flames around him momentarily froze.
It was a tall, humanoid creature, its outline bearing a striking resemblance to the Iron Guard, and it too wore tattered, antique-style armor.
But his skin was an unnatural, Burn red, his muscles were bulging, and he was full of Berserk power. He wore the same mask, but his eyes Burn with purplish-red flames as he laughed.
In its hand it also held a huge serrated blade, but the blade was wreathed in solidified dark flames.
Su Luo's gaze shifted back to Iron Guard, observing his reaction.
"This is... me?" Iron Guard himself was shocked.
The Tower he was determined to climb, only to find that the boss on the first floor was himself.
[Demon Doppelganger]
[3200/3200 (affected by the Blight Shield)]
He experienced countless Feasts...
"This must be my past self," Iron Guard forced himself to calm down and analyzed, "Judging from this exaggerated health bar, he must have used cards or abilities like [Feast] many times in his past 'lives'."
Su Luo knew that the effect of [Feast] was to permanently increase maximum Health Points after killing an enemy, making it a typical snowball-growing card.
"He ate himself into a monster..."
As Iron Guard finished speaking, he realized the monster's intentions and his eyes narrowed!
"He will deal sixty damage in the first round and inflict two stacks of Vulnerable and Weakness on us..."
Su Luo glanced at the cards in her hand and her meager health of only thirty-something, sensing something was amiss. Her gaze shifted to the Source Essence Circulator...
"Lord Luo... is Mr. Su... outside?"
Nanmen Shi carefully moved to the side of the lab table, looking at the figure standing in the center who had the exact same appearance as Su Luo but a completely different temperament. His voice was a little dry.
He knew that the body was now controlled by Su Luo's Clone consciousness—the one that Yun Xiaoxiao called "Xiao Luo".
Nanmen Shi didn't have that many heads, so he only dared to call him Lord Luo.
The way this "Lord Luo" looked at them was Essence different from how Su Luo herself looked at him.
Su Luo's gaze was inquisitive and occasionally discerning. Although she didn't treat them like human beings in her behavior, she was still very polite in her interactions with people and things.
Xiao Luo's gaze, however, was more like that of someone looking at a set of parameters or a tool—pure, direct, and devoid of any superfluous emotions, as if even the concept of "human" was just an insignificant label.
He went out to play cards.
Xiao Luo saw Nanmen Shi suddenly leave the inner room of the Laboratory, realized something, and stopped the construction of the Laboratory.
"I remember one of the tasks was to breed you..."
Nanmen Shi was terrified, feeling that Xiao Luo was looking at him like he was looking at livestock, completely devoid of emotion.
He wasn't afraid of mating, but he was terrified of Lord Luo, always feeling like he was about to be disemboweled.
Fortunately, Xiao Luo checked the mission and felt that Nanmen Shi was more valuable for the inheritance experiment, so she threw him into the cultivation chamber to enhance his strength.
Using Nanmen Shi as a test subject again, Su Luo did not choose Survivors in the area to conduct the inheritance experiment, which was indeed not very safe.
An invisible force precisely "Throwing" Nanmen Shi into a cylindrical culture chamber next to him. The chamber door closed silently, and Nanmen Shi only had time to cry out before he was submerged in the strange enhancement liquid.
He felt his muscle fibers being torn and reorganized, his bone density increasing, the chaotic Mana pathways within his body being forcibly altered, and all sorts of basic knowledge about the Fire Element being crammed into his mind... Pain and a sense of fulfillment intertwined.
"Let the remaining two handle the breeding," Xiao Luo said before heading out to continue modifying the Laboratory.
Hearing this amidst the excruciating pain, Nanmen Shi breathed a sigh of relief with mixed feelings, but then a strange sense of regret arose within him, and he began to envy the remaining two.
Holy crap, breeding? That would be incredibly satisfying...