Chapter 106: Old Ones, Brienne Stormborn, and Life Halt! (II)
For a moment, Kai couldn’t believe what he was hearing.
How can this be? He thought, gaping. Didn’t Marine Roland tell me she... no, She reached the top some 100-years-ago and toppled the empire by herself?
"The Empress was never a noble or a Set-lord," Meg told Kai. "So, it isn’t a surprise that none knows much about her.
"As I have told you, master, the 1st Set is called Baron Set, and the 2nd Set is called Viscount. Then comes Count, Marquess, Duke, King, and Emperor. Brienne Stormborn was already a King-level Contestant on the 18th-floor when, some 100 years ago, madness possessed her. I don’t know how... Nobody knows how... but She just ascended to the 21st floor, and brought about such slaughter and destruction that for the next 10 years blood dripped to the 1st floor of the Order’s Peak."
Kai’s bones shuddered.
In the back of his mind, he could see a towering monster holding a spear and brandishing it like a death whip. Blood running down like gurgling rivers, and flowing off the very world’s boundaries.
This was the Absolute Power that Kai so dearly desired.
What kind of level would he need to just go up and claim the throne for himself?
He wanted it. He wanted it more than he had ever admitted it to himself. This blood... this power... this pure invincibility... Even if he had to wash the entire Tower with blood on this path, so what of it?
Kai licked his lips... and someone gasped.
The sudden noise snapped him out of his severe murderous state. Kai looked up and saw the appalling horror on Meg’s face.