The Trial Tower's floors were divided into three stages.
On the first five floors of the Trial Tower, the gap between each stage was not particularly large. However, from the fifth floor onward, every advancement in stage placed significantly higher demands on a player's combat power. Thus, clearing each stage beyond the fifth floor required a considerable period of intense training, let alone reaching the seventh floor.
Throughout the entire Gods and Demons Arena, only experts who had cleared the fourth floor understood how difficult it was to advance by even a single stage, much less Fire Dance and Zi Yan Liu Yun, who had passed through the sixth floor and reached the seventh.
However, Ghost Shadow himself was the most shocked.
Ghost Shadow's record had been the middle stage of the seventh floor. In other words, the two women had reached at least the middle stage of the seventh floor, performing even better than he had.
Having fought on the seventh floor himself, he knew very well just how difficult it was. That was no longer a level ordinary people could reach. Not only did it demand an extremely high skill completion rate, but more importantly, it required near-perfect application of technique. Skills flowed from one's hands as smoothly as ordinary attacks.
It was like an ordinary person wielding a sword compared to a martial arts master wielding one. Though the weapons were the same, their levels of mastery were worlds apart, and so was their combat power.
Skill completion rate, meanwhile, was like the weapon itself. The higher the completion rate, the greater the weapon's power naturally became. However, how much of that power one could actually bring out still depended on the individual's skill.
Ghost Shadow considered himself one of the top experts in the virtual gaming