He called for his teammates to regroup with him...Then, he sat on top of Webor's head and requested him to walk towards the the staircases.
"Landlord's team is finally making their move?"
"They sure took their sweet ti with finding the clues."
"So dumb, no matter how many clues they find, it won't be as beneficial as having an hour or two as a head start."
The players started murmuring after spotting Felix's movent.
Although they called him nas, they still wanted to see which segnt of the floor his key was going to unlock.
After all, they had been working pretty hard in the past hours, and they had collected a sizable number of clues.
So of them had managed to get more clues of a single segnt than the others, making it more desirable than the other segnts.
While they were wishing for their ideal segnt not to be picked, Felix and his teammates had stopped before the staircases and turned around.
"It looks like I already have everyone attention." Felix smiled comfortably as he eyed the confused players.
"I will get straight to the point since ti is precious at the mont." Felix eyed them coldly and snapped his finger, displaying nine holographic colored keys.
Before the players could react, Felix continued on, "I already found all the remaining keys in the floor. If you want to get yours, simply accept my three conditions."
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For the first ti in a while, the hall had returned to its peaceful silence...No one was speaking, running around, or trying to break things apart.
They rely kept eying the brilliant revolving keys while having Felix's announcent echo over and over again in their minds.
Shock, disbelief, distrust, confusion, and lastly anger!...Their emotions were thrown into disarray at the thought that Felix might actually be speaking the truth.
If so, then all their efforts for the past hours were for naught!
Worst of all, they were making a fool of themselves before their own ancestral as they were searching for sothing that didn't exist!
They didn't want to believe that...They couldn't.
"Stop spewing bullshit, we don't have ti for your crap."
"Motherf*cker just had to rub it in before climbing the tower to ss with our ntality."
"Humans are trul...."
Before the players could finish throwing their curses, Felix proclaid indifferently, "I swear on my masters' dignified nas that I am speaking the truth."
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The players' hearts sunk to the bottom of their stomach after hearing him swear on his masters.
They instantly believed in him, knowing that swearing on ancestors was taken even more seriously than a contract with the Queen's supervision!
After all, the ancestors' nas were sacred and treated as gods by their descendants.
Who would dare to swear on his own god under his direct eyes and break it?
In turn, distrusting Felix even though he swore on his masters' na was the most disrespectful thing they could do...Especially, when they were watching them live.
"If you don't trust my words, trust that my masters will give you justice if I fooled you." Felix said composedly.
Felix wasn't bullshiting them...He knew that If he used his masters' nas in vain, he would not be treated kindly by his masters.
? ?? ??-??? ??, ??? "What are your conditions?" The Tiwatcher asked.
There were so many questions roaming the players' minds...Such as, how did Felix find the keys so fast and why did he decide to hide them for so long?
But since ti was tight, they kept them to themselves.
"First, you will hand over all the collected clues in your possession. You will swear on your ancestors that you have given everything." Felix inford with a devious glint.
Before the players' hearts settled at such a damning condition, Felix carried on, "Secondly, you will support my team wholeheartedly if we t at one of the ancestral floors. Last but not least, you are nor allowed to trade keys or clues between each other."
"Naturally, you will need to swear upon it too."
"You have ten minutes to make a decision before I begin my climb."
Most of the players' expression turned ugly at the sound of those vicious conditions.
The fact that they required to swear upon their ancestors made it impossible for them to cheat Felix or pull a fast one!
'This kid's intelligence is truly on another level.' Lady Yggdrasil chortled, 'No wonder my daughter has fallen for him.'
She understood that the rules had banned using Queen Ai's contracts in this ga to force out infighting and betrayals.
Felix went around it by using the ancestors as his backers to keep the players in check!
It wasn't like the other players couldn't think of the sa, it was simply too risky to use their ancestors' nas.
"What a cheeky cutie." Kumiho giggled.
"Cheeky? He is just a disrespectful little shit that needs to be taught a lesson." Saurous scoffed in irritation.
How could he not get annoyed when his team's fate was under Felix's hands?
"I won't even retort." Thor rolled his eyes at him and refocused on the newest developnt.
"Mr. Landlord, I believe you have made a grave mistake." The Magnifier said calmly...He was the captain of Dune's team.
"Enlighten ." Felix smiled kindly.
"We don't need to accept your proposal." The Magnifier disclosed, "You will be forced to leave the keys behind when you comnce your tower climb."
The mont they heard so, the players' eyes brightened up in delight.
"He is right. That f*cker can't take the keys with him!"
"We just need to wait until he loses his patience."
"Haha! Even if he didn't enter the tower, we will all be teleported automatically after a few hours."
Although Siren's team and Kumiho's team would have placed a significant distance. Still, it was much better than accepting Felix's conditions since they would be giving him too much of an advantage.
Unfortunately, their joy didn't last for long...
"Are you guys taking for an idiot?" Felix's eyelids twitched in vexation, "You think I will make such a rookie mistake?"
"What do you an?" The Magnifier frowned.
"I have hidden the keys around the floor again in the past hour when you guys were mindlessly searching anything you see." Felix smirked widely, "Trust , you won't find those keys for at least an hour or two...You want to swear on it?"
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The players felt their mind shatter at the thought of going out again to search for the keys after already combing the entire floor twice!
They knew that it was impossible for them to have another ago when they were ntally exhausted.
Felix didn't wait three whole hours before comncing his plan just to ensure that the highest number of clues get collected.
He did so to exhaust them ntally while also waiting for Siren's team to leave the ground floor.
As long as they were watching, he couldn't hide the keys again since they would easily find them.
With all variables being dealt?
The players were going to be left with no other option but to accept his conditions...Unless, they wanted to waste their ti with another searching attempt while knowing that the other teams were climbing the tower.
"Landlord is really the devil. How can soone be so manipulative?" Micheal gave the players a sympathetic look.
"He is so bad." Selphie giggled while covering her mouth.
Her kind personality would have found it hard to tolerate such behavior...But, when it ca to Felix? She felt that everything he did was right.
"6 minutes left." Felix stressed casually.
"I accept your conditions." Tiwatcher proclaid instantly, not bothering to even discuss it with his teammates.
This didn't sit well with them.
'F*cking hell captain, we could have waited to see other teams' decisions.'
'Be quiet if you know nothing.' Tiwatcher eyed them coldly, 'We can't be wasting more ti and effort in the ground floor. We need to be at our peak forms to deal with the next floors...Especially, the ancestral floor.'
'But...'
Before they could retort, he added, 'His deal isn't that bad if you think about it. Our clues aren't that precious to guard at all cost. As for the second condition? We just have to hope that we don't end up eting him in one of the ancestral floors.'
'We have already wasted too much ti to bother trading clues or keys.'
Although they weren't entirely convinced, his teammates understood where he was coming from.
"Smart fella." Felix praised as he gestured with his finger for Tiwatcher to hand him the clues through Queen Ai.
Without hesitation, Tiwatcher copied all the clues and sent them to Felix.
'Good, good, good.' Felix grin grew wider the more clues he read about the floors.
Although the clues might be vague and sowhat like riddles, each one was specified for a segnt of the tower.
'The lowest number of clues he has is for segnt number seven.' Felix smiled creepily, 'Good luck dealing with it.'
'Where is the key?' Tiwatcher frowned, having a bad feeling about Felix's creepy smile.
'Underneath the pile of books in front of the fifth bookshelf on the third row.'
'Sneaky motherf*cker.' Tiwatcher cursed Felix and sprinted towards the location with his teammates.
Only after they heard the location did they understand that Felix truly ant it when he said that it would take them an hour at least to find the keys!
He hid them in a place that was already scourged through countless tis by most teams!
So teams chased after them in hopes of finding the key before them...Alas, the shadowborns weren't that retarded to let others take advantage of their tradeoff.
After confusing the players with a few fake spots, they managed to find the key in that location.
'It's for segnt number seven...Motherf*cker!' Tiwatcher cursed hatefully after realizing that the worst scenario had happened.
He already knew that Felix wouldn't miss such an opportunity to make their climb a hellish experience...He would have done the sa too.
Still, it didn't feel good to be dancing on soone's palms like this.
'Let's go!' Irritated, Tiwatcher went to the staircase with his teammates while glaring at Felix.
"Safe journey." Felix wished them with a sincere smile.
"F*ck you!" Tiwatcher and his teammates flipped him the middle finger angrily as they disappeared through the corridor.
"Who's next?"
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