Levi started to climb one leg after the other. His physique had improved drastically by the regeneration and poison resistance blood art and also, his cultivation had improved compared to the last time, making the ascension almost too easy.

One step, second step, third step. By the time he reached step ten and the platform of the first checkpoint, he wasn't even breathing hard.

The treasures he had taken during his previous visit here were gone, of course. He had already taken the pendant and the demon ring. But that left nineteen more checkpoints above him, each one holding new rewards.

He continued upward toward the second checkpoint, and here the pressure began to increase noticeably. By step fifteen, he could feel the strain starting to build in his muscles. By step eighteen, he was having to actively focus on his breathing technique to maintain the balance needed to proceed.

He reached step twenty and the second checkpoint. At this point, his body was already covered in a layer of sweat.

But he wasn't affected much.

The glowing light faded and the treasures were revealed. On the right side, the god statue held a long sword that radiated a pure white light.

While in the right, the demon statue which seemed like an humanoid elephant with short trunk held a long and thick saber.

Levi's eyes were immediately glued to the saber. It's extremely dark in color but its handle was entirely crimson likely blood. Sometimes it looked as though it was dried blood that coated the handle but most times it glistened.

Levi was immediately interested in it. His cleaver had cracked and at this moment, he possessed not a single decent weapon he could use to battle

He first approached the god side and claimed the sword. The moment his hand closed around the hilt, he felt a slight surge of divine energy flow into his arm and he felt as though he internal injuries were about to heal.

This was a Tier II relic called the Blade of Purification, designed to be especially effective against dark dimensional creatures.

He didn't check out the sword much and placed the sword in his spatial ring and then crossed to the demon side.

Levi loves keeping the best things for last.

The blade was called Severing Abyss. It didn't have much fiction except for the fact that it was extremely sharp.

So sharp that when Levi dropped a strand of his hair on the blade's sharp edge, it hadn't even touched the saber when it was sliced into two.

"Hahaha! Good Saber! Very good saber!"

Levi was very satisfied as he weaves the saber. While it wasn't a cleaver, it was extremely close to one.

Two more treasures secured. Eighteen remaining.

Levi continued to move towards the stairs. The third checkpoint required him to push himself significantly harder, and by the time he reached step thirty, he had no choice but to activate Divine Thunder Might although partially, causing faint crimson lightning to crackle across his skin as his body struggled against the mounting pressure.

The third checkpoint held a defensive robe on the divine side and an arrow on the demon side.

He claimed both, though he could feel his energy reserves beginning to deplete from the continuous strain of climbing under such intense pressure while maintaining his breathing technique.

The fourth checkpoint was where things became truly difficult. Around step thirty-five, the pressure increased to a level that he had no choice but to activate divine tiger might to the highest stage, making his body expand as his body grew to two meters as fangs, claws, horns and furs extended from his body.

His muscles strained with every movement, and his bones creaked from every step as the force pressed down on him.

But he made it. Step by step, fighting for every inch of progress, he reached step forty and the fourth checkpoint. His breathing was heavy now, and sweat poured down his face despite the cool temperature of the void space surrounding the staircase.

The treasures at this checkpoint were two different manual.

Levi didn't dare to read them at this moment.

Both were incredibly valuable, and Levi claimed them with trembling hands.

He looked up at the staircase stretching above him, at the remaining sixteen checkpoints that waited in the distance, and without hesitation, he detonated the first Golden Elixer.

"BOOM!"

The condensed energy erupted outward through his entire body, flooding every cell, every meridian, every fiber of his being with an intensity that felt like burning lava being poured directly into his veins.

Levi felt as though he had taken 10 cans of red bull at once. Adrenaline filled his every being as his massive form moved forwards, step by step as though he was jogging.

He had just reached the fifth checkpoint when suddenly, his danger sense tingled with an intensity that made his blood run cold.

Levi's head snapped around, searching for the threat, and his eyes widened in shock at what he saw.

The sky itself literally split open'

A massive crack opened up above the starry skies of the ancient ruins and through that crack, an overwhelming pressure bled into the world.

This wasn't the pressure of the staircase or the oppressive atmosphere of the Blood Moon Frenzy. This was something else entirely, it was the pressure of a rabbit meeting a Saber tooth tiger.

It was indescribable but vivid at the same time.

Through the crack in the sky, two figures shot out the void, and the sheer energy they radiated made Levi's eyes widened and his now morphed body struggle as veins expanded from underneath his white skin.

"W-what the actual fuck!?" Levi cursed as he stared at the skies with shock on his face.

One of the figures wore the familiar dark cloak of the Ancient Ground of Dark Matter, but this person's aura was completely different from Seraphina or Marcus or even the other dark cultivators he had encountered. The energy radiating from this person was vast and deep, like staring into an abyss that could swallow entire worlds.

Behind the person was a massive twenty meters tall dark phantom. The phantom was huge, with a female crown on their head as it held a massive fork in its hand. From the vague face, it was obvious it was an incredibly beautiful female.

The other figure, opposing the dark cultivator, radiated a completely different kind of power.

This person wore elegant crimson crop top and crimson skirt that fluttered dramatically despite the lack of wind.

The entire space changed as the temperature rose dramatically.

The air seemed to have been boiled as a massive creature blazing with intense flames, more than twenty meters tall could be seen behind the figure.

Levi immediately recognized this person. The scarlet devil! It was the Sub-Dean of the academy.

Her beautiful features set in an expression of cold fury as she stared down the dark cultivator. And the power emanating from her was so far beyond anything Levi had ever experienced that it made him dizzy just to sense it peripherally.

They were about a kilometer in the skies but Levi even through the distance, Levi found it incredibly hard to breath from the pressure the two were emanating!

One part was sinisterly cold and chilling while the other was a burning inferno that threatened to burn everything, including space to ash!

These were not people that a mere Super Soldier like himself could battle against right now.

These were walking nuclear weapons! Their battles could crack space and invoke catastrophes!

And they were about to fight right above him!​​​​

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