Chapter 348: The 6th Floor

348  348: The 6th Floor

The sound of chirping birds met Cole, nature in all it's splendor seemed to whisper words of encouragement and peace. If he had to be honest he almost felt the need to relax, and fall asleep, but then that was not his way. There was a buzz of notifications in the background, but for now Cole pushed it to the back of his mind as he observed his location.

He was on a hill overlooking a wide plateau. To the east he could see the ocean, and right in the middle of the plateau was a great walled city. But the city itself was not just sitting on the flat lands, in the middle the plateau rose up to create a massive hill that said city was built around. And top of that hill was a very beautiful castle with white alabaster walls and black flags with motifs of golden griffins on them.

The wind blew as Cole noticed patrols of knights/soldiers down on the plateau, patrolling past small farm houses that were outside the city. They all rode massive mechanical looking horses, and had swords and bows strapped to their sides. Cole raised an eyebrow and shifted his eyes to the skyline of the medieval city, noticing airships/dirigibles floating into and out of the city while ships sailed away and towards the city from the horizon.

[Welcome To The Sixth Floor! The Theme For This Floor Is Te Boreas: The City Of A Thousand Adventures.]

[Te Boreas Is The Headquarters Of The Adventurer's Guild On The Planet Meson. The Guild Oversees The City And It Is The Center Of All Requests, Quests, And Jobs. But Just As With Any Government, The Guild Is Plagued By Politics And Internal Strife While Darkness Brews Underneath The Surface. This Is Now Your Life….Live It As Best As You Can. Time To Floor Collapse: 1000 Days]

[5th Floor Main Quest(Complete): Seek The Path Of The Sixth Floor. Buried Deep Under The Sea Is The Height Temple Of The Sapphire Sea. But beware The Path There Is Rife With Danger And Sorrows The Like Of Which You Have Never Seen, and You Are Running Out Of Time./Rewards: 1 Gold Rank Prism Of The Sapphire Sea, 10 Million Gold]

[5th Floor Side Quest I(Complete): Within The Sapphire Sea Are Horrors Of Gold Rank I to X! Slay Ten Of These Monsters To Prove Your Mettle! Reward: 1 Million Gold Per Kill, Gold Rank Alchemical Evolution Stone]

[5th Floor Side Quest II(Failed): Seek Out Peronico Porins And His Family, Then Deliver Them Safely To The Isle Of Meros./Rewards: ?]

This was the first quest Cole had ever failed, but never the less the rewards for delivering Peronico and his family to Meros would have been nothing more than some heartfelt thanks, and unfortunately Cole did not roll like that, not even for the bloody system.

Now that people were getting much stronger, freaking skills that could take a persons life both here and in their reality were showing up. He could take some quest and end up being dog food or something. He might have thrived on the 5th floor, but that was because he was lucky. The standard of strength for the 5th floor's gold rank was probably very weak.

Much like how the standard of strength on the third was really high that Cole could barely survive the attacks from the Banelings, and most were of equal or even lesser strength than him. It has taught him not to underestimate any of the floors he might find himself in.

[6th Floor Main Quest I: You Find yourself in an strange and foreign world, the customs are different even if the language is the same. You will need to blend into this new world to survive, and the best way to do that is through adventure! Pick one of the quest requirements to fulfil, (a)Join The Adventurer's Guild (b) Learn a profession (c ) Join The Militia (d) Become A Criminal]

[6th Floor Side Quest I: Within this city is a secret that would give a hint into the secret identity of Sierra Corp Board of directors! Find it and you will get the answers to the universe./Rewards: ?]

"well this is unexpected."

Cole for one did not give a shit about sierra Corp. They were right in the middle of this somehow, they might not be responsible for the system deciding to eat their reality, but their existence doesn't add up. If they were enemies then Cole needed to know.

Of course apart from when he had won the shares, and when they had sent him his personal security team, Sierra corp had not really showed themselves in any way or form. But Cole knew they were there, waiting in the shadows, moving things in place and plotting.

He needed to know how they got here, and why they built Titan Rising Online and made it possible for people's souls? To travel across the fabric of reality, gain a body here and get strong. All of the answers that a person could possibly want about all of the shit that has been going on. All those information lay in the hands of Sierra Corp board of directors, and Cole needed to either bring them down or get them to give him and the rest of humanity some answers.

"Well I wont be getting those answers while I'm standing here. Will deal with that once I get back." Cole mumbled to himself as he took one more careful look around.

Other Aspirants had showed up, funny enough none of them seemed to be Raens. Looks like it was right back to being randomly thrown in different places. Plus with the influx of new aspirants, there would be too many unfamiliar faces. He waited a bit, even making sure to get a vantage point just to see if he could spot anyone he recognized, or any Raen, but there was none.

After that he wasted no more time and began to make his way towards the city, then thought better of it and just logged off. The next part of his adventure would be in his reality and he needed to be ready, after all...the apocalypse has started."