Tower Climber (A LitRPG Adventure, Book 1) by Jakob Tanner (interesting books to read for teens .txt) 📗

a massive dent and Max was pretty sure the defensive wards weren’t used to protect the literal streets.

The dragon and werewolf hurtled downward like a meteorite until—

KABOOOOM!

A massive explosion and tremor followed the two creatures smashing into the ground.

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Samuel wiped dirt off his long black jacket as Sakura stared at him from across the arena battlefield.

The wind howled around them.

“You think we didn’t plan for this,” Samuel said, stretching out his hands.

So the cocky bastard had contingency plans. He was slightly less arrogant than Sakura gave him credit for. Oh well. She stood with her fists up, readying herself for whatever attack he brought forth.

The arena ground cracked and a fist made of stone burst forth from the dirt. Followed by another.

Next thing she knew two rock golems had pulled themselves out from under the ground.

“I have monsters everywhere,” cackled Samuel. “And with A-rank cellular manipulation, I can do whatever I want with them. Like use them to kill you!”

So the battle suddenly became three on one, but Sakura wasn’t scared. The rock golems were C-rank at highest but probably lower. Maybe Samuel could use them as a distraction, but they were mere pawns.

“Big whoop,” said Sakura. “You can control some lesser monsters. You’re nothing but a bully and a control freak, Samuel. Bring it on!”

The rock golems rushed forward.

They raised their heavy boulder sized fists to pulverize her with.

“Don’t underestimate my minions,” shouted Samuel.

The rock golems had a particularly powerful smash ability. The attack dealt damage that multiplied its strength stat by at least 1.5 meaning it could severely hurt things above its rank.

Sakura couldn’t let herself be hit by these things. She would be forced to dodge.

The rock golems delivered a hammer blow right where Sakura was standing.

SMASH!

The woman managed to backflip away from the attack in time.

“Nice escape,” said Samuel. “You can dodge all you want, but you’ll eventually get tired. Or even if you don’t run out of stamina, you’ll run out of time and the city you love so much will be destroyed. Your choice.”

Damn. So they both had similar strategies to run down the clock, they just expected different outcomes at the end. Samuel was confident that the city would get destroyed. Could she say she felt the same about the other climbers defending the city? She thought of all the climbers out there on the field, fighting for their lives. They needed her there.

She needed to stop wasting time.

Sakura rushed the rock golems and triggered her slice ability.

“If only the common slice ability had more versatility,” Samuel declared sarcastically.

Sakura ignored him. He was an idiot if he believed what he was saying. Sure, an E-rank level slice attack wasn’t very powerful, but at the level of B-rank. She could do a lot with that blade of energy.

The golden energy blade formed in front of her and she mentally commanded the blade to separate into multiple blades.

She then shot the blades forward at the rock golems from a multi-pronged attack.

“You call this low versatility,” shouted Sakura.

The energy blades ripped through the rock golems, tearing them to pieces. They fell to the ground in a rubble, before glowing out and disintegrating down to golden monster cores.

Ah, so they were C-rank.

Sakura smirked at Samuel.

“What else have you prepared? Or are you all out of tricks?”

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Samuel’s eye twitched as he looked out at the stray monster cores where the rock golems had just been standing.

He reached down to his pouch and materialized two shield slimes.

“Very well, Sakura. You’re making me pull out my big guns,” said Samuel.

The man carried literal monsters in his pouch!?

Sakura couldn’t believe what she was seeing. Also, his big trump card were two of the low level monsters they used to train students?

Samuel looked down menacingly at the two shield slimes in either hand and slowly manipulated them from the inside out with the use of his cellular manipulation ability.

The shield slimes melted before his very eyes, liquefying and coating themselves around his fingers and palms.

“What the—?” said Sakura both in shock and repulsion.

He had manipulated the two monsters into gloves. It was demented and evil all rolled into one.

“Shield slimes are quite interesting, you know,” said Samuel, clenching his new oddly colored fists. “Their shield is super powerful and while they never use it offensively, if one could, it could deal a lot of damage.”

“Stop trying to scare me, Samuel,” shouted Sakura. “C’mon, show me how powerful your deranged slime gloves are.”

Samuel rushed towards her.

He leapt forward and held back a fist before slamming it in the ground.

Sakura jumped away to avoid the impact of the blow.

How powerful could a shield slime really be?

CRACKKKK!

A line of dirt crackled across the arena floor like it had been hit by a massive earthquake.

“I’ll hit you eventually,” snickered Samuel, rushing after her once more.

Sakura made sure to keep her distance from the man.

The power of the shield slime used offensively was much stronger than she had expected. It was pretty impressive.

Sakura needed to keep dodging his attacks, until she found an opening she could exploit against Samuel.

SLICE!

As Sakura had been trying to dodge the attacks a new one had hit her, piercing her in the stomach.

She looked down and saw a red hole leaking through her jacket, more than that she saw a thin sliver of the shield slime had punctured her.

The pointed sliver of the shield slime pulled out and returned to Samuel’s fists.

“That’s another fascinating thing about shield slimes, especially combined with my cellular manipulation trait,” mused Samuel. “I can get them to stretch and harden into knives right at a crucial artery.”

Sakura clutched her wound, pain taking over her entire body.

“Without medical attention,” Samuel grinned. “You’ll die in a matter of minutes.”

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A cloud of smoke erupted between the skyscrapers, emanating from the bottom ground level where the werewolf and dragon had fallen in a powerful smash.

Battles across the city continued even if the most epic of them had temporarily paused.

“Are they dead?” asked Casey, scratching her head.

It had been