Chapter 449: Ninety-Fourth Floor, Waiting Room
Natalie smiled faintly. “Mmm, the rewards are straightforward. Nothing complicated, simply self-explanatory.”
She didn’t outright declare whether they were tied to future trials or not, but the implication leaned toward the latter.
I had assumed Gehenna and Hyang were here because she couldn’t talk about the rewards, but perhaps that wasn’t the case. It seemed neither the ninety-third floor’s intended solution nor its reward had any deep connection to the tower itself.
Well, that made sense.
Saving a barren world wasn’t exactly grounds for a dramatic event that would dictate future trials. Unlike some of the earlier trials, this one hadn’t been linked to another being, nor had it revealed some monumental secret. Even after completing the trial, I hadn’t noticed a meaningful shift in divinity.
Knowing the tower as I did, it wouldn’t have left individuals to die on that planet.
Natalie continued, “Put plainly, the tower rewarded you for an unexpected outcome. From its perspective, the world was doomed if you hadn’t intervened, so there was no harm in giving it to you.”
“I see.” I nodded.
It felt almost anticlimactic, less significant than I had imagined before coming here. My earlier concern felt unnecessary. In truth, most of this overthinking came from my experiences while climbing the tower. The vast majority of my rewards had found their use sooner or later. Hidden missions had reshaped future floors more than once.
Looking at it that way, it wasn’t strange why things had shifted. There were only seven more floors. From here on, rewards would undoubtedly correlate less to the trials themselves and more to my future after conquering the tower.
Thinking back, I had noticed this pattern emerge as early as the floors in the eighties.
“So in the end, it isn’t immediately important.”