The fear of having been summoned into a God's territory only lasted for a few monts.
-The Tower of Trials has accepted challenger Han Sungyeun to be summoned as long as his safety is guaranteed.
According to the ssage I just got, the Tower of Trials had accepted to be summoned as long as I remained safe.
That ant the God of Proof wouldn't be able to harm , probably.
'Let's calm down.'
I turned my head and began looking around.
The sky seed very light, as if I were right under the clouds.
The floor, which was made of a mirror that reflected the sky, created a scenery that looked as if two skies were touching each other.
Should I say that it really felt like a God's territory?
But I wasn't given ti to look around in more detail.
[You look more foreign in person. Are you also a pseudo-divine being created by the Tower?]
The God of Proof, who had been silent, started talking to my head again.
'Pseudo-divine?'
I wasn't sure what he was talking about, so I expressed my doubt.
"I'm not sure what a pseudo-divine being is…"
[Pseudo-divine beings are the ones who are called… let see. Administrators? I'm asking if you're a being who has obtained Divinity after making a contract with the Tower.]
I wasn't sure why he was saying the Administrators were pseudo-divine beings, but...
If he was asking whether I was an Administrator or not, the answer was simple.
"I'm not an Administrator. I'm still a challenger who's climbing up the Tower."
[You're definitely... different from a pseudo-divine being. Your Divinity inside is wholly yours.]
"...?"
[It seems like things have beco quite interesting while I wasn't looking at it. Has it finally learned that it couldn't create a 'real' one with a pseudo-divinity...?]
"..."
[Making soone a disciple of a pseudo-divine being to create a 'real' one... So that's what happened. I understand. So you weren't a normal being, challenger Han Sungyeun.]
"What does that…"
It seed like the God of Proof had misunderstood a few things.
He was saying sothing about Divinity or whatever. But, in short, it seed like the Divinity I had was a problem.
'The Divinity I've obtained after killing Kairan is so impressive...?'
It seed like the power of the Divinity I'd obtained after killing a reserve disciple was quite significant.
But I didn't know how to use that Divinity, and I wasn't sure if it was that important.
After thinking about it for a while, I slowly opened my mouth.
"Can I ask you sothing...?"
[...?]
"What's Divinity, and why are you talking as if it’s so important?"
[I thought you'd ask about your future self you'd seen through the Trials, but you ended up asking sothing strange... You've obtained Divinity on your own, yet you don't know what that is? Didn't you finish the process of eliminating the traces of a God because you know what that is?]
I didn't eliminate it because I knew what I was doing. It was a side-effect of a power. So I obviously didn't know anything.
I silently complained to myself, but I ended up learning that the Divinity I had obtained from Kairan was pretty significant.
I wasn't sure what not having the traces of a God ant, but it might be useful once I learned how to use Divinity...
'The disciples that used Divinity were quite strong.'
I was thinking that when the God of Proof said in disbelief.
[It seems like you don't know what Divinity is…]
"I just ended up acquiring it…"
[You just ended up, huh…? Was it a coincidence that you erased the traces that a fake God created by the Tower had given to its Disciple and absorbed it?]
"..."
[Even if you weren't aware of it, you taking out Kairan's Divinity wasn't a coincidence. I can feel a causality.]
Causality?
'What's he talking about…?'
Divinity and causality. Sothing not being a coincidence...
I was frowning while thinking about those words when I heard the voice again.
[I made a mistake… Seeing the Tower get angry, it seems like this was sothing I shouldn't have revealed to you.]
"Huh? What does that…?"
[This is a goodbye. Challenger Han Sungyeun, I'll be following your doings from the outside.]
"Can't you give more details…?"
After seeing the space around get distorted, I realized the answer to that question.
「The God of Proof has used all of the Divinity selected, so he has temporarily lost his power.」
「You're going to return from the territory of the Gods to your original space.」
The God of Proof couldn't keep here any longer.
I still had things I wanted to ask. But to make return now…
To be honest, I had barely been able to talk with him.
But if I had to return now, rather than getting answers, I would go back with more questions.
I wanted to ask why my future self had beco like that, what Divinity was, and what he ant by causality.
[Yes. It doesn't matter what God is. The Tower is a being we can't easily deal with. So there's nothing I can do about it.]
I was about to open my mouth after my surroundings beca blurry...
Even if I moved my mouth, there wasn't any sound coming out of it.
[If you co to the 'Temple of Proof' that's in Ares, I might be able to answer so of your questions.]
It was as if soone was blocking from asking any questions.
[Ah, let give you one last piece of advice...]
And…
[Don't trust any God that's in Ares. They're going to think of you as their enemy now.]
After hearing those words, I returned to the original place where I was.
I returned to the weird space that was made with a black mirror and had a huge mirror in the middle of it.
「Congratulations. You've completed the Tower of Trial's 11th floor.」
I had returned to the Tower of Trials.
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After returning to the Tower, I felt a complex mixture of emotions.
It was a sense of heaviness because of the curiosity I was feeling.
It wasn't a negative or positive feeling…
I sighed at those emotions.
The 11th floor's trial made achieve progress that couldn't be compared to before.
But what was left after the 11th floor's trial was an endless amount of questions.
「Congratulations, you've cleared the 11th floor's trial.」
「As a reward for clearing it, you've obtained the 'Rusty Mirror of Proof (S-).」
「You've obtained '70.000 points' as a reward.」
「You've obtained '3.000 SP' as a reward.」
「You've obtained '1.500 SP' as a reward.」
「Move to the waiting room.」
Before I could answer those doubts, the trial of the 11th floor reached an end.
「When you return to the waiting room, the Administrator's limited capacity to observe is going to be restored.」
"..."
I stood thinking while ignoring the system ssages.
God.
Soone who seed beyond everything had appeared beside and said to …
That it wasn't a coincidence that I was able to take out the reserve disciple Kairan's Divinity; he also said he'd felt a clear causality.
After thinking about what causality ant, I was able to find an answer.
It was the Tower that had let get a unique attribute. And the power extraction judgnt was also sothing that was a part of the system.
That ant the Tower could manage the system. having extracted the Divinity and obtained a power was sothing that happened because the Tower wished so.
'That's probably why he said he could feel a causality.'
Of course, I still wasn't sure what Divinity was.
I understood that the Tower made extract Divinity from Kairan...
But I wasn't sure why it had made use a power to obtain Divinity.
Not only that, but the God of Proof said that becoming a disciple of an administrator was sothing the Tower had intended.
Let's say that those things happened because the Tower intended so.
'Then, what's the goal of the Tower...?'
But I couldn't think of a reason why the Tower would do such a thing.
After wondering about that for a while, I began thinking of the main keywords of what I had just heard.
Maybe thinking about the keywords could help find an answer.
"Pseudo-divinity... Divinity... Administrator... Making a 'real' one..."
The Tower was an entity not even Gods could tamper with. The administrators had the alias of pseudo-divine beings.
No, maybe they were called pseudo-divine beings, and administrator was an alias created by the Tower.
Then, what did it an that the Tower was trying to create a 'real' one...?
"I'm not sure."
It wasn't that I couldn't think of anything. But I couldn't be sure yet.
But...
'At least I know the Tower isn't trying to harm .'
Of course, I'd been close to dying while doing the trials.
But it wasn't that the Tower had deceived or had done sothing to exploit .
It had just induced to climb up the Tower if I wanted to get answers and beco stronger.
When the God of Proof forcibly summoned , the Tower prioritized my well-being first.
'The Tower probably wants to use to achieve sothing, but...'
Even if that were the case, I didn't think it would be detrintal to .
After finishing ordering my thoughts, I walked toward the portal that had appeared in the middle of the room.
There was nothing free in this world anyway.
Just as I wished to climb the Tower to get stronger, there was sothing the Tower was expecting from too.
The more I climbed the Tower of Trials, the more higher-level answers I got.
I also thought that these were things I could get an answer to from the administrator by using the right to ask a question.
'I guess I could get an answer to these kinds of questions by climbing the Tower.'
But there was still one doubt I couldn't grasp the reason.
'Not to trust the Gods...'
He said that other Gods were going to consider an 'enemy.'
I thought my only enemies were the challengers from other dinsions I'd t while climbing the Tower.
They weren't.
'The God of Proof said I should think of the other Gods as my enemies.'
After clearing the 11th floor's trial, I gained a positive opinion of the God of Proof.
'It probably won't be permanent... but until just now, he had a positive opinion of .'
Through a short conversation, the God of Proof taught many things.
Most of the things about pseudo-divinity sounded legitimate, so what he said about other Gods feeling animosity toward was probably true.
Ah, but that didn't an I completely trusted his words.
'It isn't that I don't trust him at all. But...'
He hasn't told why Gods I've never t before felt animosity toward .
But it was hard to trust what the God of Proof said completely.
Even if I trusted him, and it was true that there were Gods that felt animosity toward , nothing would change for the mont.
'Even if they don't like , as long as I have the protection of the Tower, they won't be able to do anything.'
The God of Proof had to get the permission of the Tower to summon , so I was sure of that.
I knew that I didn't need to tremble while fearing a God.
So that's why I decided to stop thinking about complex things for a while.
「You've entered the waiting room of the 12th floor.」
I must stop thinking about these things.
It was now ti to prepare to face a new trial.
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