Chapter 346: Eighty-Second Floor, Waiting Room (2)
[35 hours 48 minutes until the rest period ends. Please take a rest.]
A strange feeling settled over me; I was on the verge of entering the eighty-second floor. In the beginning, I would wonder how I could possibly reach the hundredth floor.
However, before I knew it, time had passed, and here I stood. I had ascended further than I could have ever imagined, and with that climb came so many experiences. There had been moments of fear, joy, frustration, and warmth.
In the midst of those trials, I came to a realization, one that had grown increasingly clear as time went by.
The Tower of Ordeal exists to give rise to a god.
Of course, that by itself sounded obvious. Ha Hee-Jeong had already told me that reaching the top would grant godhood.
That wasn’t the point I was trying to make, though. What I meant was that the tower’s trials weren’t just random obstacles it had placed along the way—they were crafted with intent, designed to shape the challenger into a god.
My own experience was proof enough. Looking back, the ordeals I faced while climbing the tower worked toward accumulating divinity. They pushed me toward saving those in need, toward acts of compassion and intervention.
There were multiple examples.
The seraphim. The lingering will within the soulsteel. Azure Dawn Breeze. Euros’s Flower Forest and its inhabitants.
Not every trial followed that pattern, of course. When taken as a whole, however, the overwhelming majority centered around saving others.
Especially the all-climber floors.