Chapter 281: Seventy-Fourth Floor, Waiting Room (1)
[23 hours 57 minutes until the rest period ends. Please take a rest.]
We stood there for a moment, quietly watching one another. Its tiny, bead-like eyes held a trace of fear.
Doping my best to seem unthreatening, I calmly addressed the small flame that hovered before me, “What are you?”
Rather than reply, the flame shrank even further. It curled in on itself, peering up at me with cautious curiosity. I couldn’t tell whether it was unable to speak or simply unwilling.
I narrowed one eye. It contained a faint trace of Endless Furnace’s divine power, but even that was steadily fading.
Besides, the tower had clearly stated that the mechanical fortress was the apostle.
More likely, this flame served as the core, the power source that fueled the massive furnace within the fortress. The fact that it had followed me all the way into the waiting room, while still being alive, supported that idea.
Just like Ryun or Yoonie.
Chances were high that this was a hidden reward for clearing the seventy-third floor.
Now I had to figure out how it worked.
As I studied the flame more closely, trying to figure out whatever I could, a system window shimmered into view.
[San-Kriate]