Chapter 429: Ninety-First Floor, The Maze of Saboden (5)
[Exterminate all enemies. Time remaining: 1 hour 3 minutes.]
“Ugh.”
I was exhausted, a sensation I hadn’t felt in a long time.
Not because the enemies themselves had been unbearably difficult, though. Even if killing them hadn’t been easy, the stress from the time pressure had weighed far more on me.
After heading right at the first fork, it had taken me roughly five hours to reach Saboden's Chamber.
Seven hours to return and head to the other side.
Accounting for my return trip—and any extra analysis I wanted to do—I had been left with a dangerously narrow margin for error. Worse still, the left-hand path had proved slightly longer than the right. That alone had consumed more of my limited time than expected.
I even found myself wondering if killing every monster before entering the boss room was the true hidden mission. Most climbers would have directly entered Saboden's Chamber after running low on time and reaching it for the first time.
Hmm, maybe not.
On second thought, most climbers wouldn’t even qualify to challenge this floor. Only Kalain and I had ever made it this far as a challenger.
Whether he had chosen to solo the tower or whether he had given up midway, I still didn’t know. Moreover, if he had given up, who knew at what point that had happened?
Either way, time was brutally tight.