"…Huff, huff, huff."
Fang Raon stood all alone in the frozen chamber, the blood trickling down the blade of his sword, and his heart pounding in his chest.
He breathed heavily.
It wasn't quite at wheezing levels, but it was close, as if he had been running for hours without stopping.
The headless Young Yeti lay by his feet, still twitching a little bit, as if he were undergoing after-death spasms.
[You killed Young Yeti!]
The corpse of Young Yeti disappeared, and a treasure chest appeared in his place. It was a blue treasure chest.
Fang Raon unequipped his sword and shield and then sat down before the treasure chest and forced it open.
***
[10 items acquired!]
[1x Bag of Square Coins]
[1x Dodge Roll Skill Scroll]
[1x Young Yeti Doll]
[2x Strength Enhancement Earpiercings]
[1x Vitality Enhancement Hand Tattoo]
[1x Durability Enhancement Back Tattoo]
[3x Escape Marbles]
***
'It looks like the treasure chest gives rewards in a way that would benefit the members of the raid. Since I am all alone and I am Warrior, it pretty much gives only rewards for Warrior.
'Same thing as after the first floor after I stole the treasure chest.
'If I had opened the treasure chest with others, the rewards would have been distributed among different classes.
'I guess that's why they wanted to kill us before opening it.'
Fang Raon thought to himself.
He put all the items into his inventory and started heading over to the stairs that led to the 3rd floor.
However, in that moment, a notification appeared before him.
[You have completed the Young Yeti raid all by yourself!]
[You have completed the Solo Clear achievement!]
[Your name will be added into the annals of the tower history. Congratulations, Player Fang Raon!]
Fang Raon swiped his hand and cleared all those notifications, but in that moment, something bigger appeared in front of him.
[FLOOR ANNOUNCEMENT: Player Fang Raon has Solo Cleared the 2nd Floor!]
…
[FLOOR ANNOUNCEMENT: Player Fang Raon has Solo Cleared the 2nd Floor!]
The announcement appeared in the skies above the second floor, and everyone turned their attention over there.
"…That crazy guy did it! He actually Solo Cleared it!"
"I thought he was surely going to die!"
"Does that mean there is another powerhouse of the tower brewing in these newbie floors?"
The players who noticed Fang Raon enter the tower all by lonesome couldn't believe their eyes!
It was shocking.
The rest of the player base on the second floor were equally shocked, and they started taking pictures of the announcement with the help of the game's photographic function.
These Floor and World Announcements didn't happen every day, so it was a historical day, and it was the first time any of them had seen it with their own eyes!
"…Haha, he did it."
The blind old man laughed, and as he opened the Heroes of the Tower book, a new name was added.
Fang Raon's name appeared in the record books of the 2nd floor!
…
"Look at that, chat!"
At the freezing forest of the 2nd floor, a male streamer pointed the hovering camera towards the massive announcement.
His chat interface was hovering right beside him, and he was a small streamer with only 30 viewers, but they were starting to go crazy nonetheless.
[Ricky22: Solo Clear?! What an madman!]
[Yooo: Only crazy bastards try to go for Solo Clear. That guy must have a few screws loose in his brain]
[User Yooo has been muted in the chat for foul language]
"Haha, I never thought I would see Floor Announcement with my own eyes. What do you say, chat, should I also go for Solo Clear?"
The male streamer asked with a grin.
[Ricky22: You would die, haha!]
[WastedGirl: You don't have balls for that! Go for it, if you manage to do it, your stream will blow up in popularity!]
[QueenOfTheDamned: If you do it, I will gift you five subscriptions!]
"Haha, all right! I will do it. I will not forget any of you once I have become popular and rich, haha!"
The male streamer said with a laugh.
…
Swoosh!
Fang Raon stepped out of the door and entered the third floor, but this time around, he didn't appear in some freezing forest.
Instead, he had just stepped out of a building in a busy street of some vulcanic city.
The air was heavy with the smell of smoke and sulfur. The buildings were stained with soot and ash, the ground was hot to the touch, and the sky was a fiery orange color.
'I'll just find a place to check my items more thoroughly, and I still have time before the doctor's appointment, so I will just go straight for the third floor boss.'
Fang Raon thought to himself.
He wasn't actually done with just one Solo Clear.
It might sound crazy and unheard of, but he was also planning to Solo Clear the third floor.
[Next Level: 51%]
'Killing Junior's crew and Solo Clearing Young Yeti has really improved my percentage, but it is clearly harder the closer I get to the hundred.
'However, I think I can reach the second level this week, so that is good.'
Fang Raon left the busy street, found some tucked-away alleyway to rest in, and sat down on a crumbling cardboard box.
He pulled out the bag of coins and opened it.
[+500 Square Coins]
[Coins: 731]
'I am still very poor, but I am getting there.'
In that moment, he took out the "Dodge Roll Skill Scroll" and unfurled it. The knowledge of the skill entered his brain.
It was an evasive skill that would help him to roll out of the attacks of his enemies, and it was another skill that he was pretty pleased to have.
With that skill, the fight against Young Yeti would've been so much easier, whose attacks were pretty heavy and slow.
Dodge Roll could've helped him to easily evade his attacks.
"A doll?"
Fang Raon pulled out a doll from his inventory and it was just a doll of the Young Yeti that he killed, but it was very cute-looking.
'I don't know what I am going to do with this, but I guess I am keeping it for now.'