Chapter 30: Seeing A Familiar Face on the Television
Looking at the low ceiling that serves as the only cover of his current residence from the sun and rain, Azrael sighs in satisfaction as he finally gets a place he can stay in during his time in the second floor of the tower, hoping that it wouldn't be too long of a time compared to the time he stayed on the first floor.
Looking at the small screen mounted on one of the walls of his now residence, the young man found the remote lying on a table just a few centimeters away from him, this low table also having a single ashtray and a flower vase right in the middle of it, the stain on both these objects making it clear to him just how much uncared for this place is.
As he presses the remote, the screen of the mounted television springs into color and life, the sound from its clearly low-quality speaker making the young man feel like this thing just barely works.
"And now, for the latest news on the frontier, the Six Great Legia were witnessed meeting once again, this time on the witch's territory right on the northmost part of the frontier's safe zone, as for the things they discussed, there are speculations that they are planning to forfeit challenging the current highest floor for now and start preparing to strengthen their main combat force first, for the details gathered, Reporter Andre Michaels is on-site"
Hearing the words from the young lady reporting on the station, Azrael's interest was piqued when he heard information about the Six Great Legia and their progress on ascending to higher floors, his mind already starting to wonder what is taking them so long to break through the tenth floor when they are rapidly breaking through the floors before that with ease, only taking them less than half a decade to ascend to the floor they are all currently on.
"Just what sort of quest do they need to accomplish that they take more than half a decade and still fail? Is the tenth floor really that hard?" muttering to himself as he waits for the person on-site to start his report, Azrael wonders, the mysteries of the tower something that he is not able to figure out hence why he just dropped this wondering as he knows that eventually, he will find out the tenth floor's difficulty for himself.
'It might take a long time, but I will eventually get there...' he thought to himself with a smile on his face as he saw on the screen, another face familiar to him, someone unforgettable as she is one of the people who had teamed up with him for them to be the first to conquer the first floor of the tower.
"Thank you, Lady Marie, I am currently right on the front gate of the Witch's Palace of Eternity, we are hoping to meet the witch but right now, we have the pleasure of being in the presence of another one of the six, Celestia Von Himmel, who is going to explain the current status of their ascent for the next, the eleventh floor"