It has been more than one and half years since Tony was separated from Shiva.

The last time they met was before Shiva went to the ’Dungeon of Unknown’ to get the soul stone.

Before leaving Shiva told him a single thing.

"I want the Magic machines restored to their previous glory before we meet again!"

It was not a request but an Order that he gave Tony.

Tony wasn’t offended by that because Shiva didn’t just order him, he also provided him with all the necessary tools and funds to do the experiments too.

He gave all of the Golem cores he had to Tony and also gave him 50 high-grade mana stones as funding.

It was more than necessary since Tony had all the basic components with him except the cores.

But it just went to show how much serious Shiva was with the magic machines.

A year passed and Tony finally managed to build a single machine that could output the power of a High-ranker under circumstances.

but there was no news about Shiva.

Tony didn’t know how to feel about this, should he be happy since a man who was the only one who controlled him was now gone missing? or should he be sad that someone who helped him to achieve his dream was missing?

but he couldn’t help him in any way even if he knew about it.

So he decided to do the next best thing! He decided to climb the Tower.

With the power of Magic Machine within his gasps, he started to rush through the floors silently, and merely in a matter of five months, he was able to climb to the 29th floor.

and finally, a message came to him who was preparing to challenge the 30th floor.

{Come to the 12th floor!}

It was just a short message that he got from what looked like a crow.

But he knew who sent that!

He was about to move down the floors when he noticed a dazzling blinding light that lit up the night.

Curiosity was what drove him to live, so he couldn’t resist the feeling and ran to the location to see what it was.

There he saw it.

A man covered in light going on a rampage cutting down everything on his way!

He saw a single man fighting off against a bunch of masked people.

and a young man was on the shoulder of one of the masked people laying unconscious.

He just stood on the sidelines and watched the fight.

It doesn’t seem like they needed his help! so he didn’t bother to do anything.

But suddenly the man who was on a rampage collapsed holding his head mumbling something!

A sword was about to slice off his neck, Tony got up to do something but before he could do anything, a dagger flew in blocking the Sword.

And then an Oldman appeared trying to protect the man who was collapsed.

But he was clearly not strong enough to fight all of the masked people.

Slowly he started to take in the damage and was also about to collapse.

That’s when tony intervened.

He geared up in the magic machine firing missiles in between the masked bastards.

"Engage flying mode!"

He said something as a mechanical voice answered him in response.

{Engaging in the flying mode in 3s}

{2s}

{1s}

Swoosh!

The massive magic machine was lifted into the sky.

Tony controlled the huge machine, he didn’t try to fight the masked men in vain.

He simply caught William, the young boy, and the Oldman and flew off.

The masked people just dumbly stared at the huge chunk of metal flew off like a bird.

***

Shiva who just got out of the ’Dungeon of Aqua’ received a message from Kara’s crow that was dispatched to Tony.

{I arrived, two more guest came with me! please come here as soon as you can}

Shiva was surprised.

He sent message to Tony in hopes that he could reach the 12th floor by the time he reached there.

but it seems like he was faster than he thought as he arrived before he can even challenge the 11th floor trial and enter the 12th floor.

"I wanted to try out the new skill, guess that will have to wait for the tone being"

Shiva said as he departed from the place on the bone dragon.

below them was the ocean of blood with the bodies of ocean pedes floating everywhere, the numbers of them was so much that the whole sea seemed to have covered by their bodies.

***

A day after Shiva left from the dungeon.

Shiva challenged the 11th floor as soon as he came out of the sea.

The challenge was to defeat a two headed chimera troll, which wasn’t even a challenge for him.

and currently he was sitting on a pub where he was supposed to meet Tony and the two guests that he mentioned.

and obviously he was covered in a ragged robe to avoid the eyes of the big guilds.

He didn’t had to wait for long as a dwarf soon enter the pub coming straight towards his way.

"Lond time no see, boss"

The dwarf waved as he came near him.

"Cut the crap and come to the point, don’t act like we are close or something"

Shiva frowned.

"Well you are the real boss, alright! "

"What? "

"You disappeared for a year and half then you suddenly show yourself saying Come down, I have to check if you are real right? "

Tony said proudly.

"oh! then you want to taste my fist to recognise me? "

Shiva cracked his fists.

"Ah... No need, who would dare to impertinent the dead ruler anyway? "

"Then cut the crap and come to the point, who are the two you mentioned? "

Shiva who was getting enough of his chattering asked getting impatient.

"hoho... You will be surprised to hear"

"I swear I will burry you alive if you speak more nonsense"

";; It was William"

"...!!! "

" That William? "

"yeah!, thaaaaat William"

Shiva’s facial expression hardened hearing the name of the person who beat h to pulp.

"hehehe.... "

But he soon started to laugh!

From what the previous shadows information said, William was a Kind and naive man, who was overly forgiving!, Now that he had him in his grasps, he could make him owe him a favor or he could completely control him.

’ He was too strong to leave him alone ’

Shiva didn’t know how strong William had become in the mean time he aquired a Soul Stone.

He thought that William would be weaker than him no matter how much more he had improved, He thought there was no way William would beat the current him.

So he thought of thoroughly manipulating him.

He also thought about killing him and making him his summon but currently he lacked the chances to amon using <Raise of the dead> skill and it was too much of a waste to summon William as a normal skeleton.

So Shiva decided that it was better to keep him alive and if he someday get the other chance, he could always kill him since he had the Soul stone with him.

"So where is he? "

He controlled his excited emotions as he asked him about where William was.

"He is currently unconscious and resting the base that I prepared"

Shiva had a sigh of relief bit once again remainder that, William was not the only one that Tony bought.

"Wait a minute, you said there were two more with him right? "

Shiva asked noticing something amiss!

Tony who heard joined his hands as he leaned on the table.

" About that... "

***

daily Chapter~~

New title:

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<Yogi>(Incomplete) 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

you who have started your journey in the yoga has gained this title, you are not a yogi yet. The title only signifies your qualification to become one.

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ongoing quest:

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<Test of Capeoco!>

Capricorn, one of the twelve soul generals and the 10th ranked among the twelve, is giving you this test to measure if you, who holds the Soul Stone are Worthy or not to hold the enormous potential in it. According to him only those who are worthy and capable should wield the ’Soul Stone’. don’t disappoint her.

objective - unknown

Reward - Unlock the next seal on Soul stone.

failure - failure to unlock the seal

Time limit - 1 month.

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