Skyward Over God

Fei Lei and Eriks stood up front and swung their blades cutting through hoards of enemies at once, extending his telekinetic blade to ten feet he cut multiple magical beasts down at a time, as the bodies dissipated and dropped their magic cores, he suddenly stopped and said "I'm doing this all wrong."

Fei Lei retracted the blade and said, "Keep the blade small, and when I reach the peak of my swing." Fei Lei's arm rippled, as he pulled Clear Mist to his waste and performed an Iai-Jutsu strike, "Quickly magnify the size of my blade."

Suddenly the telekinetic blade increased to 20 feet and shot through dozens of enemies all at once.

Eriks suddenly equipped a suit of lightning armor as the power of a level 3 spell rippled from his body, he shot out at an unimaginable speed as he cut through dozens of enemies in a single second.

Yan Mei shot out a large arrow as she used her level 2 Scatter shot, it dispersed into dozens of arrows that struck their targets with incredible accuracy, Hina, and Terry kept the hoard of enemies from getting close to the light barrier, and Hachi constantly killed anything that got between Hina, and Terry's net.

The Light Maiden suddenly raised her hand and said a few prayers before shouting, "Holy Circle!"

The dome of light suddenly glowed with a slight green hue as the group felt their Mana slowly starting to recover.

Fei Lei and Eriks stepped up their game and started to pick up the pace, this continued on for almost a full hour. As Fei Lei killed his last beast, he stared at the ground littered with a few thousand level one Magic Cores of all six different elements.

"So do we spilt this evenly, or do go by contribution? Eriks asked with a grin on his face.

"I claim all light cores!" June said with a innocent smile on her face.

Fei Lei shook his head and said, "We'll split all cores equally, if you wish to exchange specific Cores with the others, then do it after we've divided them."

Everyone agreed to do as he said, and began collecting the cores, altogether they made around 5886 Mana Cores, they split the cores into to even elements and each of them earned 654 give or take a few broken cores.

Altogether Fei Lei had 109 level-1 cores of all 6 elements, many of them traded the Cores that they wanted when June came up to Fei Lei and asked for his Light Cores.

"No, I have a use for them." Fei Lei answered as he stored them all in his new ring.

Yan Mei and Hina kept all there cores as well, making June frown, and say, "I don't see why you need them, after all, it's not like a Non-Elementalist can use them!"

Fei Lei laughed and thought, "Of course I can't use them, they're not for me, but the Mages that will join my city someday."

Seeing that neither of them was trading the Light Mage sighed and chose to deal with them at a later time.

The group stood next to each other as they stared down the stair way to the next level when Eriks said, "The next floor will have even stronger magic beasts, stay alert and watch out for item drops."

"Item Drops?" Fei Lei asked lifting a brow.

"Sometimes on the lower levels, rare monsters that will appear have a very small chance leave a magic item, or unknown material, the lower the levels in a dungeon the stronger monsters we'll face and the higher chance we'll have for an item to drop," Hina explained to the two first-timers, Fei Lei and Yan Mei.

"Sound like one of those games Isaac used to play," Fei Lei thought to himself.

As they approached the second floor they wondered where the Grey Mage was. As it turns out the Grey Mage was already on the lowest dungeon floor, he walked up to a strangely built room that was in the form a 200 mile radius bio-dome full of trees and shrubbery, the artificial sky shined with a pale blue light, the walls surround the entire terrain seemed to be made of an estranged material that was a cross between a stone and metallic texture.

The Grey Mage walked up to the center of the room revealing a powerful orb shaped dungeon core that shined with a rainbow of colors.

The mysterious mage then placed his hand out to touch the core and frowned as an electric shock traveled across his fingers, he pulled off his hood and showed a pair of silted pupils that represent the Demon Race's main defining physical feature.

"Odd, I thought I had enough power to now? This demon's body still isn't enough to absorb a Dungeon Core!" A strange voice called out, it sounded like the blending of two different voices in one body.

The Grey Mage's eyes were suddenly filled with a black and blue fog, he stared upward and shouted at the ceiling "How much longer can you keep my brethren imprisoned! I refuse to let such a low born species harvest our power."

A loud roar the barely sounded bird like cried out shaking the room around them, the trees in the distance started to fall over as the sounds of something incredibly heavy stomped through the terrain.

"If I can't absorb the core with this body, I'll need to start my search all over again. Since you volunteered yourself, why not become my pet? I'm leaving. Keep those disgusting sub-species filth away from the core."

Raising his hand, a large quantity sinister energy flowed out from his body and flew into the forest, only a loud screeching noise was heard as the several dozens 3-Star Avian Magical Beasts flew away from the area.

Fei Lei and the rest were completely unaware of what was transpiring below them before they moved to the next floor, they discovered a resting area that seemed to recover their Mana and heal their wounds.

A large estate that had a water fall running through it and it was well lit, like the early morning skies. The Party explored the area before taking brake, Fei Lei seeing that although they weren't exhausted from fighting just 1-Star threats, they still used a decent amount of their Mana.

"Let's rest up here." Fei Lei said as he started to head inside the house.

The rest of the party started to remove and perform various maintenances on their gear, Fei Lei searched inside the house and saw that it had a kitchen with wood burning stove, and several rooms, outside of the house was a large lake with a single waterfall running through the area.

"Set up base camp, the recovery zone will be how we survive this next level, if you get tired or run low on Mana, you'll be sent back here while the rest of us continue to battle on the floor below," Eriks called out to his troop, his three followers started spreading out, collecting water and claiming their rooms.

Fei Lei smiled and headed to the kitchen, he started to prepare a huge serving of meals cooked from food he stored inside his ring, he brought several stocks he had saved up over his time at his place, even managed to get a few farms off the ground, and the best part was the spatial rings ability to keep things fresh.

Before the party knew where Fei Lei went their nostrils were suddenly assaulted by a delectable scent, it filled the cavern up with an irresistible aroma that made them all salivate.

After a few minutes, Fei Lei walked outside carrying a large tray of 3 Star Magical Beast meat, along with what looked to be blue rice, and many of his vegetables, and fruits that he found on his mountain.

Fei Lei then pulled out a wooden table that was inside the house with his telekinesis and placed the food down in front of everyone, he then set up 9 large stone carved plates and handed them out.

"Eat." Fei Lei said sitting down.

Yan Mei, and Hina was the first to start digging in, "Delicious!" The two called out, making the other competitors / allies swallowed their saliva.

Seeing that it wasn't poisoned everyone started to dig in, they all let out cheers on how good it tasted as they filled up their plates. Everyone but Fei Lei and Eriks had started eating.

Eriks looked to Fei Lei and asked, "Why aren't you grabbing your plate?"

Fei Lei laughed and said, "I already have, I'm just letting you guys grab what you want first." Fei Lei pointed to the plate that had the all the food on top of it.

Eriks lifted a brow and said, "Isn't that too much?"

Fei Lei smiled and said, "Fill up your plate so I can eat please."

Eriks looking bewildered shrugged his shoulders and started eating, after tasting the food he quickly filled up his plate and started chowing down. Fei Lei then sat at the end of the table and started to eat faster than everyone combined, everyone except for Yan Mei and Hina stopped eating their meals to stare in shock at Fei Lei.

Fei Lei was like a black hole, as he chowed down on the food and dispersed the matter into energy his Sigil glowed over his head, making many people shocked.

He had managed to keep his Sigil a secrete throughout the whole tournament and kept people guessing, but know that he revealed his Human Transfiguration Sigil, the Party didn't know how to respond.

Fei Lei continued to eat, and watched as the small mountain full of meat vanished into his stomach, he then stood up and excused himself as he went to his room to practice his Breathing technique.

As he walked away, Eriks looked to his back when Udo said, "Hey Cap, does he look like he got a bit larger since we started this whole ordeal?"

Eriks frowned and nodded his head, "He's been slowly gaining muscle mass every moment he's been in combat."

Fei Lei smiled as he heard them say this, continuing to his room he thought, "What an observant fellow."

Fei Lei was indeed using this opportunity to build his new muscles up; before when he was working up muscles gained through training, he thought that building the muscles in combat would be better suited to making a stronger frame than just his usual training.

He decided to use his next compression to create Combat Muscles as his second layer. Fei Lei went to his room and sat down, starting his breathing technique he continued to temper his body relentlessly, after eight hours or so, the group was ready to head out once again.

They all reached the second floor and once again monsters started spawning from the walls, floors, and ceiling. The used a similar set up to how they fought this far and continued to cut through hoards of these shadowy figures. Fei Lei started to release the natural muscle building steroid he mixed out of his own organic chemicals.

Little by little Fei Lei's body started to grow more muscular, he constantly dosed his body with his muscle growth formula and discovered that it was taking much longer to build up his body compared to before. As he swung down his hand he felt his power growing, the 2 star monsters were no threat to him, only their sheer number was the issue.

Gun shots echoed throughout the cavern as Eriks shot his Elemental Burst Pistol and swung his Jet Sword around like it was made of a sheet of paper, long, middle, and short ranged combat all combined together in a massive battle.

A large explosion went off at the corner of his eye, he turned back to see Yan Mei smiling at him, Fei Lei smiled as he dodged the attack a 2-Star beast and crushed its face in with his bare fist. A large rack was thrown at his head when suddenly, a barrier of water appeared before him and blocked it, Hina shouted, "You're welcome!"

Fei Lei then took a look around him and saw everyone fighting alongside him and thought, "It sure is nice to have allies."