William appeared inside the hall of the 2nd floor. It was more like an empty world of its own with well plastered floor spreading all over the horizon.
A heavy weight pressed over his body. It was double times when he was in the 1st floor.
"Just standing here take a toll on my body. It is also not only the pressure of weight. There is also a sense of fire intent burning in the air." He muttered, "Alright, let's adjust to the weight of this floor first then I can only begin comprehending and ascending those steps."
After fifteen minutes he got use to the new weight. He stood up and looked around to see that no one was still able to ascend the 2nd floor. He thought about his retainer especially Silver.
Shaking his head he approached the the steps for the next floor. As he approached the air get hotter and hotter. May be because of his strong Primordial Spiritual Foundation, he felt the temperature in the hall was spiking as he walked forward but his skin didn't even felt any of heat discomfort.
He thought about using the wind intent to flash forward but chose not to at the last instant thinking that adding wind to fire would only worsen the fire intent.
When he reached just before the first step, he began to feel warmer. He knew it would become hotter and hotter.
With much care he stepped into the first step and he felt as if he was jumping into hot water. Hot!
The pain and discomfort of such level was far cry from his threshold. Plus he was a top assassin in his previous life to begin with. If he wished he could climbed forward and ascend the next floor without comprehending those intents.
However he chose the otherwise.
Like that he began his new routine of comprehending the portion of fire intent on the step and moved forward and continued the routine.
When he reached half the path to the next floor, Silver passed through and reached the 2nd floor.
A few second later, Ashley also entered the same floor.
Next one to come was a youth wearing a yellow doaist robe.
Fifteen minutes later, Wilson and Gon entered the space of the second floor.
Seeing the people who were already there, Wilson frowned and he felt better learning that Prince William was not among the group sitting and adjusting their the pressure of the room.
"Where is Seventh Prince? Is he somewhere far from this place?" Gon asked looking around all the way to horizon.
"He's not here yet." Ashley said proudly.
"What do you even know? I've already looked around and see a shadow of my brother far above in the stair." Silver spoke.
Ashley and Wilson had an ugly expression hearing that. They felt inferior more and more as they compared themselves to Seventh Prince which they loathed since the beginning of this trip. They believed her word as she was the first person to come to the second floor among the group.
"Hey, there is fire intent all around in this floor. I believe this will be very beneficial for bloodline with fire dragon. Wilson, you and princess Ash quickly used all the time you need to train in this room." It was the fatty Gon who spoke with a serious tone.
They all nodded and agreed.
They all sat down and tried to adjust to the pressure of the room.
Not long after, more and more people began to ascend the second floor. In the next half an hour ten more people ascend the floor. And more were ascending the 2nd floor.
At that time, William had finally finished comprehending and absorbing the last portion of the fire intent making another fire intent marked in his heart just adjacent to wind intent marked.
He saw the large wall of red fire blocking his way to the third floor. He knew what to do.
He used the Fire intent a reddish aura covered your body and took the step forward entering the 3rd Floor.
Like before he felt the bigger pressure. This was a different space as their was not much light, what he saw was a large lake more like a small sea.
There were ranges of mountains at the far horizon. Plus rain was pouring without any stop.
"So this time it's the intent of water." He muttered with a fiery eyes.
Outside the pagoda, the crowd saw many names on the virtual wall ascending the second floor. The number of youths kept increasing.
This might be an astonishing and amazing things to those youths but not for the twelve elders of the Blood Awakening Towers.
They sat down closing their eyes surrounding the large pagoda in the center.
One of the youth pointed and said, "Amazing! Absolutely amazing, look at that William Drake, he had ascended the 3rd floor."
Many youths had various notions in their hearts and minds.
"Who is this person? If there was someone who knew of him, I will buy the information with reasonable prize." An elder wearing black robe spoke.
Many people glanced at him suspiciously.
Someone with strong background spoke out what others were thinking in their mind. "Is he planning to robe in William? Hmph, he's simply daydreaming. He seems to forget what place he was currently in."
Suddenly, the mass of people thundered again.
"What?! Am I dreaming? That Lady Sally Saltimore has ascended two floors at one swift. Now she is in 5th Floor."
"Jumping two floors all at once. Is that even possible?"
Suddenly, attention of the people shifted from William to Sally.
Many old people among the crowd began to hunt down for any information regarding the lady in the top of the leader-board.
From the crowd a group of people walked out. They wore black silk robe with red dragon marked on their back
"Hey, who are those people? They seemed to newcomers. It was twelve of them." Someone spoke.
They all wore cloak and high neck masks covering all the way to their nose. Only the one wore a iron masked.
He walked forward and asked, "Seniors, can I still join this competition?"
He was talking to the ten elders.
One of them responded, "If you are under 20 years of aged, you can free to enter as you wish." Then he shut his eyes again. Ignoring them.
The iron masked man raised his right palm and the other ten people behind him moved like a mist and disappeared all of them entering the colorful energy wall.
The iron masked youth glanced at the leader-board in the air and people could hear a snort as he swaggered into the first floor.
On the virtual leader-board, his named came as 'Ashura'.