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Chapter 347: Chapter 217: The Plot Begins (Part 2)_1

Although it’s a bit embarrassing to say, Teddy Bear had fantasized many times about slaughtering his way through the Tower of Competition after officially starting to climb, tearing through the ranks with the unstoppable prowess of a genius, to give this world a little shock of talent.

But once it actually started, the act felt a bit odd.

Before climbing the tower, Monkey had directly removed its own chip and plugged it into the mecha’s slot.

Up to that point, Monkey’s actions were still normal.

But then, Monkey climbed into the cockpit and stated they would climb the tower together with Teddy Bear.

In this process, Teddy Bear needed to leverage its high responsiveness and computational capabilities, while Monkey needed to make Teddy Bear harmonize with his own consciousness, to ultimately achieve an effect greater than the sum of their parts.

Actually piloting the mecha felt no different from the simulations, and in some ways, being in a physical mecha made it feel even freer.

It was just that now Teddy Bear’s body had an extra Monkey inside, and Monkey had higher operating permissions than Teddy Bear itself, which felt very strange.

Patting its own belly, Teddy Bear said, “This feels weird, this kind of gameplay is a bit too advanced for me.”

“What gameplay?” Monkey asked in confusion.

“Anyway, it’s the kind of gameplay you kids shouldn’t know about.”

“Aren’t you a baby too? By the way, you also claim to be a baby, so why do you enjoy telling dirty jokes so much? Isn’t that illegal?”

“The law says you can’t listen to dirty jokes, but it doesn’t say you can’t tell them.”

This question baffled Monkey a bit, delivering a great shock to his young mind, making him realize there were many things in this world that didn’t make sense.

Monkey, still a bit muddled, was led by Teddy Bear to the entrance of the Tower of Competition.

This towering structure soared into the clouds with over a thousand floors, its massive steel edifice covered in tempered glass outside, with layers of force fields surrounding it, ensuring it wouldn’t be easily destroyed.

The guard-cum-instructor at the entrance checked Teddy Bear’s simulation data and nodded with satisfaction.

He was unaware of the Artifact Spirit’s existence and didn’t realize that the mecha in front of him harbored two consciousnesses.

After reviewing Teddy Bear’s check-up, he continued, “Very good record, you can go in now. Based on your performance in the simulator, you can start directly from the 2000th floor, okay?”

“No need,” Monkey rejected the offer, “We will start from the 1000th floor.”

“Then, do you need me to arrange a match for tomorrow?”

“No, today is fine. And we’ll activate Asura Mode.”

At Monkey’s words, the instructor’s face registered shock, before he spoke with a tone of admiration, “Alright, I’ll arrange it for you.”

This news spread quickly, and soon, not only the instructor but also the surrounding audience understood that this apparently motley mecha contestant was actually about to activate Asura Mode.

Some looked at him as if seeing a dead man, while others admired the mecha, scrutinizing it back and forth, making Teddy Bear feel uneasy.

Finding itself suddenly the center of attention, Teddy Bear could only use the intercom to contact Monkey, who was also in the cockpit, “What’s Asura Mode?”

“It’s one of the settings in the storyline mode. If it followed the normal story, when players arrive here, the only Artifact Spirit would directly request Asura Mode to be activated, helping the player grow quickly.”

“So now it turned out to be you who activated it personally?”

“Yes. This change in the storyline is indeed interesting. Although we end up on the same path, it’s like coming full circle. I was supposed to be the one guided, but now I start to guide you. It feels like I’m pretending to be the only Artifact Spirit, and you’re starting to play my role. This mirror reversal is so amusing; the hidden Easter egg our boss created is brilliant.”

Feeling Monkey’s admiration, Teddy Bear hesitated, then asked, “Do you think it’s possible, just maybe, that your admiration for the boss has a strong filter? Maybe our boss hadn’t thought about any of this?”

“Ah…” Monkey sighed and then said earnestly, “How could that be? You haven’t seen our boss, he’s really amazing. And this Easter egg was created by our boss, so how could he not be incredible?”

“That does make sense,” Teddy Bear conceded.

Thinking about it from this angle, Teddy Bear also felt that Monkey’s boss indeed seemed pretty formidable.

But it also felt like the ‘formidable’ Teddy Bear had thought of was a bit different from what Monkey described as ‘formidable’.

However, that question remained unresolved for the moment, so Teddy Bear continued to ask, “So what exactly is Asura Mode?”

“It’s just one of the tower climbing methods in the story. Normally, you can only fight a maximum of five matches per day when climbing the tower, but in Asura Mode you have to fight at least ten matches per day, with no upper limit. Moreover, you can challenge any pilots who are within five ranks of your own.”

“Doesn’t that mean you’d have to fight at least 200 matches to reach the top?”

“You don’t need to fight all 200 floors, because there are a series of random events that can happen in between. These events include the attention of high-ranking pilots. Occasionally, they may issue challenges to you, and if you accept the challenge and defeat them, you can jump directly to their floor level. Of course, when high ranks challenge lower ones, the lower ranks don’t have to accept. This is also a way to protect the lower-ranking contestants.”

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