Snap!
Everyone was back in the room with a faint wooden scent. Gone were the blue skies and ocean.
El was seated in front of them all, calmly gazing at each person.
"You've selected your cards. Now let tell you about the Tower." El once again began with a lecture.
"First things first. The Tower is a graveyard."
The line had multiple anings, but no one in the room was stupid enough to comprehend the common aning.
The most common aning would be thinking of the Tower as a graveyard because of players dying everyday from hard challenges.
Though, such shouldn't be the case, as people died in the normal world for multiple reasons but the world wasn't called as such.
El continued.
"Worlds on the brink of death. Worlds suffering from an apocalypse. Worlds with extre instability. Worlds with absolute peculiarity. They're all taken into the Tower. The Tower preserves them, puts them as a floor, and gives them one last chance to survive. However, a condition is attached to it."
Julien understood things from here onwards.
He crossed his legs and replied, "The condition being that the world will beco a quest for the Players. It is upto the Players to decide the outco and the people of that world cannot oppose this."
"Correct." El nodded. "If the Player wants destruction, then destruction it will be. The quests are given in a manner that the world is saved, but mishaps happen, and even after clearing the quest conditions, the world may not survive. It'll beco a floor of the Tower, but it will be desolate and barren."
Julien rubbed his chin and asked, "The people of that world must be feeling like puppets at the rcy of its master."
"That's the price they have to pay. Now…"
El explained more about the Tower and its happenings.
The constellations prioritized Tower floors too as the people were potential devotees. More devotees ant more strength for them.
"When you're clearing the Tower, you can strategize as such with this information…"
For the next few days, important strategies were discussed and the Lichtensteins barely had any ti to do anything else.
During this ti, Lorene's underground forces found out an important secret of the Royal Family.
The Crown Prince was actually colluding with demons and planning to kill the rest of the Princes.
The King wasn't aware of it.
If the Crown Prince usurped the throne, the Silverose Kingdom was bound to fall into absolute chaos.
Lorene had to discuss this matter with Eleanor.
Julien was there when they talked. He stated he could resolve this issue within a week if they gave him the opportunity.
Duchess Eleanor wasn't afraid of the royals and the entire kingdom was her playground. She felt it wouldn't be a problem if Julien looked into this matter. She gave her green light.
Julien left the next day with Jackie and Alia to the capital.
Jackie's path was that of a spiritualist assassin, and the cards given by El were sothing she was itching to use.
When they reached the capital, Jackie wasted no ti and acted on her Master's orders, capturing the Crown Prince right from the guarded castle.
He was kidnapped at night and his absence was noticed the next morning.
However, it was a tad bit too late.
There was rumor spread in the capital that the Crown Prince was colluding with demons.
This was spread by no one else but Duke Barthes.
Julien had visited this man. He knew that he was a showman who liked to be the center of attention. He didn't mind putting a clown such as him in the center of all problems.
After the rumors spread, and before the royals could act, the Crown Prince's body was hung in the central square of the capital.
His body was not like a normal human's. There were horns on his head, a tail, and lots of demonic markings on his entire body.
Even after his death, he was growling like a zombie, hung to an altar in the middle of the square.
It was the utmost humiliation the royal family had faced.
Duke Barthes stepped in and officially told the people that the Crown Prince was colluding with the demons.
The royals could not do anything to Duke Barthes at this point.
A new political strife took place in the kingdom.
Julien's work wasn't done yet.
After kidnapping the Prince and before killing him, he used Alia's help and located other demonic beings in the kingdom.
Through them, a vast network of individuals gone to the evil side were discovered.
Julien went back to Duke Barthes. He gave him an opportunity to get even stronger than the royal family and beco one like the Lichtensteins.
Duke Barthes was interested.
Julien gave him the evil network and asked him to do whatever he saw fit with it.
Duke Barthes wasn't a stupid man.
He began working on this matter and for a mont, the kingdom and its neighboring countries found themselves enveloped in a silent storm.
Julien went back ho in just five days, even before the deadline.
He was ready to take on the Tower challenges now.
A family eting was held again, this ti without El.
It was discussed here that they would conquer the Tower with the best of their abilities and focus on defeating the evil side.
The evil side had too many devotees and the divine side was lacking. Species other than humans were a lot in number, and it was bound to be the case.
Thankfully, the Tower was not simply present in this world.
The Tower was central to most of the world.
Up until Floor 100, the Tower was different everywhere else.
100 floors was a lot too many.
Julien couldn't access 100 floors of other worlds, but after clearing Floor 100, this wouldn't be the case.
For a few days, Julien waited. It was then that his, Jackie's, and Alia's na was called for the tournant.
The matches were too one-sided. There was nothing to be fascinated about.
Jackie one-shotted her opponent, clearing the floor's main quest.
Julien was the sa.
As the opponent found Alia in the sa team as Julien and Jackie, he surrendered right away.
Alia won the round even faster than the two.
They ascended to Floor 28, clearing a new quest.
anwhile, Floor 37, which was thought of being unclearable for at least two years, was cleared in two days of the Guildmaster of the Crimson Night Guild's arrival!
The whole world was in shock.
The fa of the Crimson Night Guild's Guildmaster soared.
Leona's na was known in every corner of the world, which was a massive boost to the reputation of the Lichtenstein family as well.
She used to hide her identity, but she didn't do so anymore.
She displayed herself as a proud Lichtenstein, and continued to work hard to clear the Tower quests.
Eleanor was working alongside her, albeit in secret, and guiding her.
Clearing Floor 37 boosted her strength by quite a lot.
They went on to the next floor.
Julien was ten floors below them.
He was hasty and tried to clear the quests as fast as he could.
As he wasn't alone, he and his small team worked diligently to clear the quests to the best of their abilities.
Julien's cards were overpowered, but he had to put on a show for the constellations. He needed them in the future.
His channel wasn't gaining viewers yet. It was the Valkyrie Falin's channel that was growing.
The reason for the stunted growth of the channel had to do with the restriction he had placed on it. He only allowed won in his channel and only showed them erotic, slice of life things, unlike Falin who showed the livestream of the everyday lives of the Players.
In Julien, the Rebel Sage of Heaven was quite interested.
Julien did not follow the norms and cleared the Tower like how a hero would.
He was not bent on saving everyone, and he did not care about the people around him. He only cared about his teammates and the quest.
If he felt the people of that floor were useful, he worked to gain their attention or diverted it to Alia's constellation.
From Tower Floor 28 to 32, Uriel had suddenly seen a massive rise in followers. She was so happy that she sponsored Julien's party with a lot of coins.
Julien was close to reaching Floor 38, but the notification of Floor 38 getting cleared rang in the Tower.
Leona had done it again.
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