Chapter 172 - 4th Floor - The City of Leisure!
4th floor,
The Primordial Tower
Kai came out of the flashes of teleportation, with a rational mind and full of expectations.
Unlike before, now he knew what he would face before entering the city itself. So the moment he looked down and found himself in a white shirt, black pants, and black shoes, he nodded to himself.
"A very good afternoon, sir," a sweet voice entered his ears.
Kai looked to his right and saw a teenage girl dressed in a long, blue soiled frock patterned with small red flowers below the waist. There was a large, thin hat over her head, shading her face from the golden, burning rays of high afternoon. Her eyes were common brown, her hair black, and her face simple.
A resident?! Kai reflected. There was no way to sense if a person was a Contestant or not unless his Perception were to sense some kind of danger, or there was an enormous gap between the two Perceptions. Yet, Kai just knew this girl was no Contestant. He could feel her emotions, a tinge of warmth mixed with her happiness. More often than not, Contestants lacked this warmth for other unknown Contestants.
"Yes?" Kai said, smiling.
The girl blushed, her cheeks becoming rosy. "Are you a newly ascended Contestant?" she asked as if she had become familiar with the question. "If you are, may I have the honor of showing you around and giving you a tour before you depart for the City of Leisure? Of course, all this is for just 100 MC."
Kai looked at her as the girl bit her lips, nervous about hearing a refusal. Meg had already told him about the City of Leisure while they were within the Random Worlds. If the 1st Set represented all that was poor and filthy about the Primordial Tower, then the 4th floor represented only one thing — Leisure.
Meg had given him a clearer picture of how things stood in the Primordial Tower.