Chapter 47: Battles throughout the floor
There were countless battles happening all throughout the 1st floor of the tower. And each of these battles were fought with a different strategy, a different mindset, by people with different goals and preparations... with one ultimate goal.
They were fighting against enemies to survive.
Survival was the one and only original reason for their battles. They were fighting so that they could survive both on this floor as well as within this ruined world.
Coming to the tower was a choice. While the primary goal might have been resources, wealth, fame, or something else, right now, everyone was trying to survive on this floor.
"So, is that how it is...?" KiRA was asking questions to the two elders while serving them food, something that might sound harmless, however even he was in a mental battle right now.
There were a lot of things that the dwarves could not tell him. It wasn't out of will, the tower restricted the sharing of information about the higher floors equally to the Natives as well.
The dwarves were residents of the tower's higher floor, and they were living on a lower floor right now. There were restrictions on him, however, KiRA knew how to get the information that he needed.
He was asking them twisted questions, questions that the dwarves found strange at first but then realised were aimed to obtain information on something else.
He would ask them whether there were certain kinds of flowers growing in certain areas of the tower, whether a mine that was in the game was in this tower as well, facts from history that used to be common knowledge.
By utilising a complex combination of the questions, KiRA was piecing together the answers that he wanted from these dwarves.
It was like a game of chess where both the parties wanted the other to win. They were helping the other party while staying within the rules, making the overall process unnecessarily complicated.