Chapter 332: The Glass Palace (2)
I knew it.
“It’s a shame.”
I had known this for a very long time.
“Think about it. Although we don’t know who built the Tower, they must have put in a tremendous amount of work for us, and that includes this message. But no one cares. It was supposed to be something people admired for a little longer. Actually, the Tower’s existence and the fact that we have our Skills are miracles in their own right... but we’ve already gotten too used to them on the tenth floor.”
Always clad in armor, she almost always maintained a blank expression and wore a helmet to hide her face.
“I was quite confident in my poker face. Mr. Kim, do you happen to have a mind-reading Skill?”
Perhaps she had even stronger walls around her heart.
“Fine. I guess there’s no other choice.”
My comrade. Patricia. Our noble and virtuous Paladin.
“As you can see, I have the ability to tell if a person is lying. I’m not exaggerating when I say this is the Skill that made me the assistant leader of the Watchmen League.”
“Doubt is an insidious poison, and truth is its strongest antidote. It isn’t going to be enough to recover all the trust we’ve lost, but we’ll be able to cooperate on the twelfth floor.”
Just before the battle with the Demon King of Autumn Rain, the Hunters, who had cleared the tenth floor after years of trying, were so excited that they easily played into their opponent’s hand. They did not consider that the quest itself could be a trap laid by the Demon King. When it was revealed that someone had betrayed them and sided with the Demon King, the leaders of the major guilds immediately began to suspect one another.