Chapter 384: The Nine Keys (2)
“Gather nine keys!”
I tilted my head. “What keys am I supposed to gather?”
“Hmm! I’ll explain.”
The Mirage-Walking Princess snapped her fingers. An image appeared above the falling sand, as if sewn with platinum thread. At first, it looked like a slice of an anthill or a tree with many roots.
“This is...”
“Yes, Scream Sky! It’s a sectional drawing of your Tower. It looks different when you see it like this, right?”
Like she said, it was a sectional map of the Tower displayed floor by floor. Even when I had been a rookie Hunter, maps of the lower floors were unofficially passed around. Recently, the Black Dragon Guild and the Pantheon joined forces to map the Tower, so I recognized what I was seeing quickly.
“You were summoned to the first basement floor, and the zeroth floor is where your homeland lies. So, I’ll skip those.”
The princess smiled and raised her baton, tapping the first floor of the Tower drawn on the sand.
“The first floor of the Tower is a shelter. A base, a stronghold... It can be called many things, but shelter is the most fitting name. It’s a place where people can rest after fleeing from something. The first floor acts as a breakwater, shielding people from whatever they fled.”
Swish.
The baton lightly stroked through the model of the great river that flowed through Babylon, the city of the Tower.