Chapter 396: Eighty-Eighth Floor, Quadrant of Decay (2)
[Resist the Forces of Decay.]
What began as a suspicion soon solidified into certainty.
It wasn’t just a gut feeling. Even when I considered all other possibilities, that was the only hidden mission I could think of.
The emergence of the true Apostle of Decay definitely wouldn’t be a hidden mission, considering how explicit the tower was about it. Although perhaps I was misinterpreting things.
I wondered whether aiding the other species allowed me to use divinity to pass the barrier, or whether it was because the tower wanted me to enter the portal.
The similarities to the twenty-first floor supported that theory.
Back then, I hadn’t even known about the portal, and it wasn’t sealed off like this one. Still, the trials were similar—fending off the waves of enemies emerging from the portal.
A factory created those armies.
Moreover, they were typically operated by gods. Given the names of our enemies—the Forces of Decay and the Apostle of Decay—they were clearly associated with a god.
One in particular came to mind.
Glorious Decay.
That god ruled over the world in which I had obtained the Essence of Decay.