The sudden death of the Black Stone Leader left Bai Ye and Shang Buyan stunned.
"How did he pull that off?"
15% health wasn't much, but it wasn't negligible either.
The Black Stone Leader's skills were quite special — the lower its health, the harder it became to deal with. But in the time it took for the progress leaderboard to update just once, the Black Stone Leader had been finished off. Given their understanding of the Divine Realm, they couldn't figure out how anyone could have pulled it off.
"Could he have used multiple Tier-3 magic scrolls in succession?" Bai Ye suddenly thought of a possibility; otherwise, the Black Stone Leader couldn't have been killed so quickly. "That's insane — he's going this hard on just the second floor? Does he think the trials on the third floor will be easier than the second?"
"Or maybe he knew he couldn't obtain the inheritance on the third floor, so he's dumping every trump card he has on the second?"
This was the only guess Bai Ye could make. After all, using consumable items to grind down a Grand Leader of the same level was an incredibly extravagant expenditure. Every one of those resources had been earned by slaying countless bosses and completing adventures, making them exceedingly precious. Without some special objective or enormous potential gain, no one would ever do something like that.
Knowing he lacked the resources to compete for the third floor's inheritance, going all-in on the second floor's rewards was a very plausible choice.
At the same time, Shang Buyan's thoughts were much the same as Bai Ye's.
Though unwilling, he quietly continued to chip away at the Black Stone Leader's health, preparing to enter the third floor as quickly as possible.
Meanwhile, on Shi Feng's side, having single-handedly killed the level-50 Black Stone Leader, his experience points had increased considerably. But his greater reward was the three items that had materialized out of thin air on the second floor.
At the center of the second floor sat three gleaming crystal balls, each housing an item within.
System: Congratulations to the player for being the first to clear the second floor of the Star-Falling Tower. The player may select two items from the three.
"So they're not that generous after all," Shi Feng silently scoffed.
The investment he'd made to kill the Black Stone Leader as quickly as possible had been substantial, and in the end, he was only given two items.
He walked forward to examine them closely.
"Incredible!"
After a careful inspection, his eyes gleamed with excitement.
All three reward items were extraordinary — no wonder the system only let him choose two. If he could get all three, it would be an absolute windfall.
The three items were the Celestial Weather Tome, the Spacetime Medicine Garden, and the Body Technique Manual.
Each of these items was something every major guild dreamed of possessing. Even for Shi Feng, choosing between them was agonizing.
The Celestial Weather Tome was an epic-grade item capable of controlling regional weather, though it had been damaged in an ancient divine war and could only exert a fraction of its power.
Skill One: Weather Manipulation — can alter the weather within a 2,000-yard radius for a duration of two hours, with a ten-hour cooldown.
Skill Two: Heaven and Earth Transformation — can concentrate magic power within a 200-yard radius, increasing the ambient magic density by 100% within a 15-yard radius. Can be activated directly from the inventory with no cooldown.
The tome was currently severely damaged. The initial repair required 100,000 Magic Crystals. (Currently absorbed: 0)