"It's settled, let's go back to the island." Luan grabbed Ingrid around the waist and flew back.

He noticed the action of the Queen of the Nymphs and let it go, she gave her life for her children and the other Nymphs and didn't put hateful memories in them, that's enough for him not to chase them and leave them alone.

Arriving on the island, Luan began to purify the Monster Cores.

After doing this, he created a large hole in the center of the island and started throwing the Monster Cores into it. Spells were cast and veins appeared, along with his connection to the Origin of the Spirit Tree, he created a vein of Spirit Qi on the island with the Monster Cores nourishing the vein.

The Qi on the island increased a lot, it was so high that the fairies that used to only stood at the top of the tree came out and started to party, they even gave Luan and Ingrid who was on the island some kisses on the face, this was a kind of buff from fairies, now they felt enlightened and sat down on the ground because of the new discovery.

*

- Los Angeles - California -

Finishing second in the 'Online Survival' tournament made Peter Christopher Martin a successful man for the first time in his 20 years of life. He tried hard, even though he was a young adult who liked anime and worked just to survive each day and played games, but he was antisocial, didn't leave home except to work or shop.

The truth was, he had low self-esteem, and he didn't feel motivated to go out, nor was he brave enough to find a girlfriend. Mainly because he has a beer belly and is not particularly handsome, with black hair and dark brown eyes, even in his teens, he has only managed to kiss one girl in her entire life. Even worse, what ruined all his self-esteem was that this girl kissed him for losing a bet.

After this day, Peter felt unwilling to live many of the times, which saved him. You could say it was the anime and comic books that he often read. Getting immersed in a fantasy world made him forget how he felt like crap.

When the Online Survival ad appeared, he downloaded the game and signed on out of curiosity, it was after all a fair price and something he wouldn't miss. After playing and discovering the amazing system of the game and realizing that in 1 month he practically lost all the fat on his body. Peter became addicted to the game and started making videos of him playing.

At first, he gained few hits, but after seeing his body change, and as the game character was changing in weight and shape just like Peter was, it left a lot of people fascinated and his number of followers on Youtuber increased. to 100,000 in a short time.

In the first month, he didn't make money from his videos, until then, he liked it and enjoyed it, he finally felt more motivated. He smiled more often and even got a few girls' numbers. However, he was still addicted to the game, he spent most of the day playing and making videos online, and when he started making money from his videos, Peter quit and focused completely on the game.

He was one of the first to reach the Second Order playing the game, and he was also runner-up in the tournament he had in the United States.

After everything that had happened, he was now anxious, in front of the tower, to have been given the chance to enter and stay for 15 days.

Although not the best, he was still happy and intended to meet the deadline, or he would be detained in jail and even deprived of access to the tower, the law they created was very strict, it was better to respect, rather than infringe on wanting to get along.

In fact, there were special circumstances, if he got stuck in something he needed to register and justify, or if he died inside the tower, it was not their responsibility, as they couldn't control their every move inside the tower, and they didn't even know what exactly had it in there, they couldn't bear the responsibility of many people.

Peter was an orphan, for him it was irrelevant, if he died, he died. There was nothing to be done, what about them taking responsibility? What's the use?

In any case, Peter had an even bigger secret, he got it after training a lot and with the recent update of Survival Online he managed to train for a day and his talent with Qi was impressive, of course, he didn't go to heaven. right off the bat, he was still weak compared to when the people who stayed 1 month inside the tower came back. He also had to sign 1 contract to have to kill X number of monsters after leaving the tower.

This also happened for the other players who made the top 100. Of course, the difference in time that I could stay inside the tower followed the rank of the game. The first place can stay 1 full month inside the tower, twice as much as Peter could stay.

But that didn't let Peter down, now that he trained and grew physically and mentally, he could at least understand the basics. If he wanted more benefits, he needed to bring more benefits to his country. So he was determined to get as strong as possible in those few days inside the tower and go back and kill as many monsters as possible.

And then, he could gain new chances to enter the tower again.

"Mr. Peter Christopher Martin, your turn." As soon as he heard his name, Peter got up and walked excitedly towards the entrance to the tower.

The man put a watch on his wrist and the 15-day countdown began. It was a digital watch, and it kept some information about it. They have yet to come up with a device that would warn the owner who wears the watch dies, but it was something they had been working hard on for the past few days.

By the way, the monsters in California were almost all dead, many that had entered the tower before gained unimaginable powers, and could now compete against the monsters. Not only that, with the monsters' remains, the United States government managed to invent many firearms capable of blasting the monsters to pieces, mostly weapons using energy from the Monster Cores.

Currently, the Monster Cores became an important resource for each country, and because of that, they were also unwilling to ask the neighboring country for help. They didn't even want the help of the Dimas Family, as if they did, they could ask for the Monster Cores in exchange, they're not fools, they've already researched and found that all the Monster Cores, or almost all of them, were collected by Luan Dimas.

This type of scenario was not ideal for them, although it was regrettable the loss of many lives, they had to think of the big picture, not just what was threatening them now. If they continued to have to rely on an outside force, they would sooner or later lose control of the country.

The number of races that we're watching and waiting for at this moment was pretty obvious. I just didn't see who didn't want to see.

Peter finally went through the portal. When he entered, he saw a huge staircase and for some reason, he thought of the movie 'Rocky Balboa'.

Taking a deep breath, he started to climb the stairs, but when he reached the 36th floor, sweat was running down parts of his body that he hadn't sweated there for a long time.

'Is this my limit?' Peter knew for sure whether it was good or bad, but he knew that there had been people who had reached the 40th floor. That's why he was aiming for that level.

Sighing, he descended a floor and arrived in front of the metal door. Opening it, he finds that before him, billions of people had entered before him, however, that wasn't logical, unless it was like the voice in his head said, since the birth of the earth, that is, this shouldn't be the first time the towers appeared on earth.

Taking a deep breath, he walked and bought items he found necessary for his day-to-day life, and bought blank contracts that cost few credits, were low-level, but he learned about 1 or two things, and he knew it was good to have something so that you can trade with the other races that live inside the tower.

There was also another rule, you can access the tower store for the number of days you gained access to it. 5 days, 1 time, 10 days, twice. And so on.

He still had three times and he didn't want to waste them, Peter walked through the crowd of people who crowded around him like an ant and suddenly he just disappeared.

"Where is he, where did he go?"

"He seemed so easy to fool, what happened?"

Many people were upset, his presence meant they might have a chance to get new items from the tower for a low price.

But even those close to the Third Order couldn't track Peter, it was as if he had turned to wind or smoke and just disappeared.