Chapter 695: The honor board
Kevin smiled at him and he said: "Because your human side and Wolf side have different desires.
Remember, even though we already share the Mark of the Union, your Wolf side has always wanted to mark me, so together there was no way that this illusion could continue to trick you."
Axel finally understood and he asked him, hugging Willow tightly in his arms: "Why did you ask us to prepare ourselves for the next room?"
Kevin then told them: "This attack was a soft one, this illusion was taking advantage of our desire to slowly get rid of us, so the next trial should use our fears against us instead.
The damage this kind of attack can cause is terrible, so don't forget that no matter what you end up seeing, it is not real and that you have to break this illusion as soon as possible."
He then turned to Willow and he said to her: "If your shield is still enough to protect yourself against this kind of mental attack, you can help us get rid of them. I want to see what we will find in the next floors and I don't want to waste too much time here."
Willow smiled and her wings suddenly appeared, this time she could finally protect her Daddies and she wouldn't miss this opportunity to help them out.
The golden runic symbols on them started to shine and she said: "I'm ready, and I'm sure that I will be able to repel the next mental attacks. Last time they couldn't even break through my psychic shield and I didn't use all my strength to protect myself so I should be fine."
While the 3 of them where entering the 7th floor, Sora and Solomon who had been expelled from the tower as they were trying to resist the pressure of the 5th floor, were watching their progress, like a lot of Black Elves, through the honor board where their names had already appeared.
Willow was at the 18th place, Kevin at the 19th and Axel at the 20th, and everyone could see that they had entered the 7th floor.
As for Atlas and Lena, they were 24th and 25th and they had just finished the 6th floor and still hadn't started the 7th floor.
Sora finally asked her mother, who was watching their progress too, since she found it weird that Axel wasn't before Kevin and Willow: "Why does Willow's name appear first?"
Maya then answered her: "Because Willow was quicker than them to break the illusion that's all."
Sora then asked her: "So the 6th floor is to train your mind?"
Maya nodded and she told her: "The 7th floor too, but it is way harder to break a nightmares than a dream, they won't be able to continue to advance at this speed.
Let's see how good they are, nobody has ever succeded in passing the 6th and 7th floor in one go, even I was thrown out of the tower a lot of times before finally being able to pass to the 8th floor."
Solomon then told them: "With Willow with them it won't be a problem to keep moving forwards for them. Her psychic power is very strong and Axel and Kevin wanted just to test this tower to decide if it was worth it to try to reproduce them in our world or not.
So I'm sure they don't want to waste time and they will probably use Willow's psychic power to help them get through the 7th floor quickly."
Maya was about to tell him that this level was really a tough one when she suddenly saw that Willow's name had disappeared and reappeared at the 8th place.
All the Black Elves then started to talk at the same time and Sora smiled telling her mother: "We told you that Willow has a really powerful psychic power, now I'm sure that Kevin and Axel's names will join her's soon."
Maya couldn't beleive her own eyes, this little girl who was a Divine Phoenix had just passed the 6th level in 2 minutes and the 7th level in 5 minutes, this was the best results for a first time ever…
And as Sora just told her, Kevin and Axel's name appeared just a couple of minutes after Willow's and they were 9th and 10th on the honor board.
At the same time Lena and Atlas' names moved to the 19th and 20th place and they both entered the 7th level.
Sora then said to Solomon: "It seems that we have to train harder if we want to keep up with them."
But Solomon told her putting his arm around her waist: "Atlas is way stronger than us so he was able to protect Lena in the gravity room, and as for Lena, her light can probably block these mental attacks so together they make a good pair.
As for us, I do not dare to compare ourselves with them, we are no match for them, so we can only try to do our best to support them."
Sora sighed and she said: "You're right, let's see if Atlas and Lena are strong enough to follow Kevin, Axel and Willow… Mom, what kind of trial is the 8th level?"
Maya then told them: "Starting from the 8th level they will have to face opponents to test their limits.
Their opponents will be decided according to their levels and the difficulty between the 8th and the 9th level double."
Maya then told them: "I have no idea what is in the 10th level but whenever I was in the 9th, I had to face 5 creatures of God level between 4 to 6 at the same time… I never succeded to pass this test."
Sora then looked at the honor board and she said to her mother: "I don't know if Atlas and Lena will be able to pass the 9th level but I have no doubt concerning Axel, Kevin and Willow, I just hope that their powers won't destroy the tower."