Conquering the Tower Even Regressors Couldn’t

[Survive. Time remaining: 54 hours 34 minutes.]

My solution wasn’t particularly grand, however—scale the trees.

Although they were scattered sparsely across the forest, their sheer size allowed their canopies to blanket the sky. Even if the crimson blooms ahead towered nearly seven meters high, the trees themselves soared tens of meters into the air.

All I had to do was cross over them.

I conjured a shadow staircase around a trunk using the Master of Shadows and swiftly ascended.

Above, the situation was much the same.

The branches, enormous in proportion to the trees, varied wildly in width and shape. Some twisted in strange directions.

To ease the journey, I forged shadow bridges between the branches and traversed them.

There was no real inconvenience to the path aside from Doppy, who seemed more than a little frightened.

“Hiiik!”

“You okay? Want me to widen the bridge a little?”

“Y-yes, please! That would help!”