Eldritch Creature's Guide

8th Floor of the Tower, Human Continent, Central Area, Outskirts of the Selangrad.

Samiel observed how the forces of the Star-Moon Coalition were pouring into the former capital of the Human Brotherhood, conquering street by street, district by district and soon enough, even Layer after Layer.

Forces of the Star-Moon Coalition were far more efficient in this case compared to the Army of the Golden-Horned Demon Tribe; that was indeed the fact; just considering the speed and proficiency at which they were fighting signified that they were under a skilled commander and were actually using some tactics aside from just blindly rushing in with overwhelming power.

In the end, it didn't take a long time for the army of the Star-Moon Coalition to arrive and lay siege to the Heart of the City Layer, where the toughest resistance of the army under the Golde-Horned Demon Tribe was stationed, as the Golden Ones stationed there the majority of their forces, that were withdrawing from the other parts of the Selangrad.

Additionally to that, the Heart of the City was the least damaged Layer of Selangrad; thus it was suitable for siege warfare... unfortunately for the forces of the Golden Ones, it didn't go their way, as the forces of Star-Moon Coalition sent there more than twenty Gold-Tier Professionals, who breached the defenses through the sheer brute force and forced their entrance to the Heart of the City.

Both Samiel and Juulius, as people who were relatively well-versed in the military strategies, had to admit that the tactics that the leader of the demon army under the Golden-Horned Demon Tribe and their vassals, Lord General Qais were good, very good commander, probably open of the best that the Golden-Horned Demon Tribe could send.

He practically went for not the best defense, but he opted for steps in which he would inflict as big damage on the forces of the Star-Moon Coalition as possible, which in truth was going very well for him.

Due to countless suicidal attacks, some demon soldiers were blowing themselves up through the usage of the magitek explosives or those who could, could initiate self-destruction. This was actually a pretty good strategy considering the situation that they were in, as their aim was just to cause as big damage as possible.

"It seems that the Heart of the City will be decorated with the body parts and blood of the demons under the Star-Moon Coalition. The Golden Ones are going essentially take them down with them... most interesting situation, I wouldn't think that those self-centered cowards would do something like this."

Samiel muttered as he watched an enormous explosion take place; as one of the injured Gold-Tier Professionals of the Golden-Horned race blew himself, taking with him to the grave, another one of the Gold-Tier Professionals of the Star-Moon Coalition and an entire regiment of soldiers of the Star-Moon Coalition that was unlucky to be in the vicinity of the explosion.

"They don't have many options, truth to be told. If they didn't die here, they would be executed by the higher-ups of their respective tribes, as the Golden-Horned Tribe would need to punish them in one way or another. Through sacrificing their lives to kill as many of the Star-Moon Coalition, at least their families would be safe... probably."

Samiel heard Juulius say and the end of the explanation indeed sounded pretty ominous, but it sounded logical. He understood the thought process of those who chose to fight to the death; while it was not applicable to the commoners of the demon races and tribes, the ones, who had some social status in their respective, whatever organization name it was, had only one choice.

Death.

Though depending on where and how they died, they could at least save their own dignity and probably the lives of their families. Maybe they would be lucky and kill someone important through their ferocious suicidal attacks.

"Someone like General Qais, who comes from the Noble Family within the Golden-Horned species, has a lot to lose if he decided to desert... not only would he be then hunted down with extreme prejudice and killed in the most brutal way, but his entire family would be sentenced to the same fate and entire Noble House would be extinguished, stripped of status and declared as eternal traitors, destroying the heritage of countless millennia..."

Samiel wasn't that surprised hearing this because Golden-Horned Tribe was known for its ruthlessness even towards their own subjects... while 5th Prince Kairos was an incompetent idiot who created trouble everywhere he went and was a great help to the success of Demon Breaking Plan, even Samiel was shocked that his father would sentence him to the Demon Realm... known that it would be soon Conjunction of Spheres between Demon Realm and Heaven Realm.

And there was no worse way of death than being killed by Angels... hypocritical feathered pigeons. Initially, Samiel thought that his father, Patriarch Angol, would just execute him publicly and be done with it... he would have never thought that his own father would technically send him to die in the hands of Angels... that was rather cruel even for the demon standards... something that even some people in the Hall of Kadath whom he talked about it were surprised about.

Soon enough, one by one, the Gold-Tier Professionals of the Golden-Horned Demon Tribe and their army were being killed off, as the forces of the Star-Moon Coalition were too many and were severely outnumbering them.

However, it was still important to say that the demon army of the Star-Moon Coalition was sustaining severe losses when the ones of their enemies stopped caring about their very own life and were doing everything they could in order to cause their enemies as high losses as possible.

"We should be going to the higher floor."

Samiel stated as he looked at the translucent window from the Akashic Records that appeared in front of his eyes not long after the Golden-Horned demon army conquered the Selangrad.

It was a sign that he had succeeded in completing the Advancement Mission of the Tower's System and even though there was no Unique Mission or Hidden one, he wasn't overly sad about that fact because he had already obtained a lot on the 8th Floor of the Tower.

[Advancement Quest: Fate of the 8th Floor has been completed!]

[Advancement Quest: Fate of the 8th Floor

Description: The 8th Floor has been locked in strife and fighting factions for countless centuries and millennia. Join one of the warring sides between the Human Brotherhood or the Demon Tribes and help decide the outcome of the war.

Status: Completed - Joined on the side of the Demon Tribes.]

[Calculating the Contribution for the Advancement Quest: Fate of the 8th Floor.]

[Contribution for the Advancement Quest: Fate of the 8th Floor has been calculated.]

[Calculating the Rewards for the completion of the Advancement Quest: Fate of the 8th Floor based on the achieved Contribution. User Samiel Zentaur has achieved significant contributions for the task; please wait until the rewards for the Advancement Quest are calculated.]

[Rewards have been calculated.]

[User Samiel Zentaur has been rewarded with the Item stored within the Akashic Records.]

[Akashci Records has rewarded user Samiel Zentaur with the ingot of the NthMetal due to its suitability to repair the Holy-Grade Armor Rao's Vengence.]

Samiel read the notifications from the Akashic Records as he was partially stunned at this because he knew that the Nth Metal was one of the hardest metals in the Material Plane of the Cosmos and would do very well with the repair of the Holy-Grade Armor Rao's Vengence as relatively small shining silverfish metal ingot appeared in his hands.

[Holy-Grade Armor Rao's Vengence has activated its 4th Ability Growth and is currently absorbing the Nth Metal Ingot.]

Suddenly out of his armor that was hidden beneath his leather trenchcoat wave of miasma burst out as it enveloped the Nth Metal Ingot and started greedily devouring it, or more like, absorbing it to repair itself.

[Holy-Grade Armor Rao's Vengence has been repaired by 1%.]

[Holy-Grade Armor Rao's Vengence has been repaired by 1%.]

[Holy-Grade Armor Rao's Vengence has been repaired by 1%.]

[Holy-Grade Armor Rao's Vengence has been repaired by 1%.]

[Holy-Grade Armor Rao's Vengence has been repaired by 1%.]

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[Holy-Grade Armor Rao's Vengence has been repaired by 1%.]

[Holy-Grade Armor Rao's Vengence has finished the repair process. The Holy-Grade Armor Rao's Vengence is repaired at 15%.]

[Name: Rao's Vengence

Grade: Holy (seriously damaged)

Description: Armor made from the corpse of an Ancient Primordial God of Sun Rao and various rare metals collected across the entire Cosmos, containing all of his resentment and hatred for the world of the living, it was named Rao's Vengence, and after thousands of years of absorbing negative energy and souls of its bearers, it developed an Ego, becoming an Ego Artifact.

After it was almost destroyed, the armor of Rao's Vengence fell to the Holy-Grade and is currently deteriorating. To repair it completely, multiple precious ores and metals are needed, additionally as other things.

After it found its new owner, Rao's Vengence started preparing itself and the deterioration process has been temporarily stopped.

Abilities:

1st Corruption - Has corrupting effect on its bearer and usually leads to madness.

2nd Berserker - Upon Awakening the Armor, ignored all physical or physical pain for the host to continue to fight on. (Sealed)

3rd Mana Absorption - Can absorb Mana and Spells, making the User nemesis of magic casters. (Sealed)

4th Growth - Can grow and restore itself by assimilating material, metals, ores, crystals, and even souls of powerful beings.

Note: Currently, all abilities aside from Growth are sealed until the armor is restored to optimal condition.

Restoration Process: 15%]

After that, the process was done; Samiel opened the record of the Holy-Grade Armor Rao's Vengence to check on the differences and while it didn't seem that much had changed, in truth, the armor had gone through enormous revitalization.

He knew that one single ingot was not enough to repair it completely, but he achieved something great today with it. He managed to repair a Holy-Grade Artifact to 15% from an original 1% and most importantly, he managed to stop the deterioration for a very long time, and right now, he could use the armor in a fight and tank some heavy hits... probably.

"We should be going out of this Floor... now that this mess has ended, it is highly probable that the Legendaries of demons would descend down."

Samiel said as others agreed with him because there was nothing that would be for them on the 8h Floor of the Tower. Dharzug, probably out of all of them, had the easiest Advancement Quest; from what he said, the Green Gods always assumed the same Quest, which was to participate in the Waaaggghhh and smash skulls.

Naturally, the rewards were nothing much, but the Green Gods were not known for their generosity either, but at least, the ork had a relatively easy time climbing the Tower in most of the instances.