Chapter 9 - Third Floor (3)

Tun Drek is a dark-skinned humanoid with a bald head and green eyes. The only thing making him different from a human is the fact that he has only three fingers on each hand.

Tun is a Ranker of the Tower and the only Test Administrator under Eurasia Diana, the Ruler of the 3rd Floor.

Diana, like many others from her bloodline, carried the specific trait of the Eurasia's family, being extremely lazy.

Since she didn't want to bother too much with the Regulars, she made the Test of the Floor in a way where she would only need to explain the details once and be done with it.

The only reason Tun works for her is that she had to pick a Test Administrator for appearance's sake.

Every week or so, he would go through the various reports sent to him by Regulars on the floor. A particular report about a new Regular and his team caught his interest.

The report came from a Regular working at the Monster Parts store. The shop is the only place where you could sell off the monster parts from the Hunting Area. Supposedly those guys have brought 15 Peaches and 5 red scythes as their first haul.

"So it's that time of the year again when new Regulars get sent to our floor. Let's see what's so special about those guys."

Tun checked the information and found out that 3 Regulars passed the 2nd Floor by winning the Crown Game. The game itself is not something new to him, but he knew that only the best of the best would get to the 3rd Floor by winning it.

What surprised him the most is that the report came on the same day that Regulars reached the Floor.

He checked the names of the Regulars and found out that the team consisted of Fai, Tiana, and Lumen Terminus. The two girls had no family name, and he didn't recognize the name Terminus.

"Odd. None of them are from one of the 10 Great Families. It's quite possible that Lumen is a genius from a branch family. Let's take a look at the video footage."

Tun checked and saw the three appear in front of the fountain. Diana shortly came, told the rules of the Floor, and left.

After that, he saw Lumen walk straight towards the Hunting Area alone. A few hours later, he came out of the forest and explored the Commercial District.

"Definitely a genius from a branch family. Now the question is from which Great Family is his branch."

He checked Lumen's footage from the next few days and saw him doing physical exercises like a madman. In his eyes, he was very weak physically, and his strength seemed to regress rather than progress.

But what really caught his attention, is when he saw him shooting light beams. Yes, light beams, not light beam. He wasn't even shooting one, not even two, but three!

"He has already made a Contract with the Guardian of the Floor and can use 3 Bangs of Shinsoo already! He even has a quality applied to his Shinsoo. Such a genius must be from a branch family of the Eurasia. No other Family has such good control over Shinsoo. Such a shame his physical capabilities are so low."

Normally, a Regular would have to form a Contract with the Guardian of the Floor, before he is allowed to manipulate the Shinsoo of said Floor.

The only exception to this rule is Irregulars. They do not follow the rules of the Tower and can manipulate Shinsoo without forming a Contract with a Guardian.

Tun didn't think, for even a second, that the ability shown by Lumen, didn't require him to manipulate Shinsoo. He also didn't think that the young man is an Irregular since those guys are scary strong.

"Since he is a branch member of the Eurasia Family, I would just escalate this report to Diana. She would probably look into this in a year or two."

He continued looking through the various reports, but none were as interesting as Lumens.

Four days later, Lumen had already been on the 3rd Floor for eleven days. He had managed to even increase the gravity on himself up to 5x. To top it off, he could easily fight against Iron Monkeys with a 2x gravity applied on himself.

For the past four days, he went to the Hunting Area and trained like a lunatic. He could already shoot five lasers at the same time and managed to keep his Light Spear stable. He was currently working on making 2 Light Spears.

Lumen even started experimenting with his Zushi Zushi no Mi. But that proved to be more difficult than he expected.

Applying his ability to himself, easy. While applying it to something else is an entirely different thing.

Let's not even talk about changing the gravitational forces from a vertical one to a horizontal one.

Nevertheless, he was pleased with his accomplishments, so he decided to explore deeper into the Hunting Area today.

Since he visited the forest each day, he now had a stable supply of Points, and he currently had a total of 1580.

Walking inside the forest, he had already killed six Red Scythes and just killed another one. This one he had managed to take down without blasting the insect with a laser to the face.

Lumen might have cheated a bit and applied a gravitational force of 10x on the monster, but he killed it by smashing his head.

He is aim is to be able to kill a Red Scythe without using any of his Devil Fruit powers. Only then would he feel confident in climbing to the next Floor.

As he was cutting off the insect's forelegs, he heard a buzzing sound moving in his direction, and he felt extreme danger coming from it.

On pure instinct alone he entered his Logia form before a giant blade separated him in half. Had he been a second later, he might have lost his life there.

His two halves joined together, and he blasted the giant insect with five laser beams to the face. The beams easily pierced through his head and killed the beast.

The Elder Red Scythe, seeing his kin being killed off so easily, immediately decided to book it. It wanted to kill the stupid human that was hunting their children, but it didn't expect the human to be so strong that their blade didn't even work on him.

However, Lumen had none of that. He was almost killed by an Elder Red Scythe so he wasn't going to let that one run away.

With speed far faster than what the beast could perceive, he jumped on its back. Forming a giant light beam between his hands, he destroyed the monster's upper body.

The Elder Red Scythe weekly fell on the ground with Lumen on his back.

"FUCK!" He cursed out loud. That was too close for his liking. He had survived the sneak attack from the monster on pure luck.

If he had entered his elemental from just a second later, he would have been dead!

His plan of killing Red Scythes bȧrėhanded was scratched and he had a new aim now. Lumen wanted to be able to kill this monstrosity without using his Devil Fruit Powers.

Nevertheless, he was angry at the beast and went around killing Red Scythes like a madman for the rest of the day. Every time he found one, he would shoot it with a laser, store their forelegs and move on.

By the end of the day, he had killed a total of 20 Red Scythes and 2 Elder Red Scythes.

"Heya Lumen~ You seem upset. What's wrong?" For the past few days, he has been visiting the store daily so Eli got used to him. Most of the time he had a neutral look on his face. But this was the first time that she saw him visibly upset.

"A stupid insect sneak attacked me and almost got me!" Lumen spat out. Eli observed him for a moment but didn't find any injuries on his body.

"Hey, at least look at it on the bright side. You managed to survive scot-free and learned to be more careful in the Hunting Area." Eli consoled him. Seeing him not respond she continued.

"You know the drill~ Just place what you got on the counter and I will transfer the Points to your account."

Lumen pulled out the 20 pairs of red scythes and placed them on the counter.

"Wow~! That's the most I've seen someone bring in! You must've had it tough killing so many." Eli was very surprised that a team had managed to kill 20 Red Scythes, but what she saw next, left her speechless.

Lumen pulled out eight 2m long red scythes and placed them on the counter. Clearly, those were from Elder Red Scythes. Eli's eyes nearly popped out of her socket and her mouth hung open.

Looking at the 2m long blade, she didn't know what to say. This was the first time she had ever seen one and there were eight at that. So Lumen's team must've killed two Elder Red Scythes. How amazing is that?

Eli didn't even know when was the last time a team had hunted an Elder Red Scythe, but it was definitely over 100 years ago. She has been working at Moster Parts for the past 80 years and no one has brought such a thing before.

After a moment, she regained herself and sent 1 800 Points to Lumen's account.

He quickly left the building, visited a restaurant for a hearty meal and went to bed. By the end of the day, he had a total of 3280 Points to his name.

Eli, on the other hand, quickly sent an urgent report regarding this. Hunting an Elder Red Scythe was a big thing, and the higher-ups had to know about this.

Tun was enjoying a glass of whiskey when he suddenly received an urgent report from Monster Parts.

"What's happening now? Did the rest of the Regulars from the 2nd Floor finally reached this one and are causing a commotion."

He looked over the report and noticed that it's regarding Lumen.

"Him again? What did he do?"

Tun had to read the report a few times to make sure that what he read was correct. He simply couldn't believe it.

Hunting an Elder Red Scythe was a big deal since it would mean that a group of monsters has appeared. But that wasn't the case here. He knew better than anyone that Lumen went to the Hunting Area on his own.

"This guy's a monster! Lumen is from a branch family of the Eurasia Family, so if I don't tell Diana she will kill me. But if I wake her up from her nap, she would also kill me."

In the end, he decided to risk and went to inform her. Using his rights as an Administrator of the Floor, he teleported himself to a giant ship in the sky. The ship had a cloaking system, so the Regulars didn't even know that it was there.

Tun reached Diana's room and mustered up his courage to knock on it.

*Knock* *Knock* *Knock*

"Diana, I have something urgent to report to you."