(Failed to write ten thousand words today! Tomorrow for sure!)
Slaughter Tower, Sixtieth Floor.
Breaking through to the Sixtieth Floor was only a matter of time for Xun Hui.
Finding himself on the Sixtieth Floor now came as no surprise, either.
But the scene on the Sixtieth Floor did strike him as somewhat... bizarre.
Not long ago, Xun Hui had killed a chattering Slaughter Tower creature that could understand human speech-Slaughter Rena.
A girl who had sacrificed her own father long ago.
She had not been particularly troublesome. Xun Hui had smashed Rena's head apart in three punches. Strictly speaking, only one punch had actually blown her head apart.
It had taken three punches because this was the first time Xun Hui had encountered anything like her.
His first punch struck Slaughter Rena, making her shriek in agony as her head nearly split open.
By all rights, no one should have survived that.
Yet Rena was still alive, and she had grown stronger.
Xun Hui had the sense that his punch had not injured Rena at all. Instead, it had given her a feeling of "pleasure through pain."
Pain seemed to delight Rena.
So Xun Hui threw a second punch to test it. With no less force behind it, that second punch drew a taunt from Rena:
"Is that all? Is that all? Heeheehee, I'll eat you! I'll devour every last one of your organs!"
Though Rena had enjoyed the pain of the first punch, it had still hurt enough to make her grimace.
The second punch had been just as powerful, but Rena clearly no longer thought it packed much of a punch.
And so Xun Hui became certain of one thing.
This Rena had an astonishing capacity for growth.
He was wrong. In truth, Rena's pain tolerance had