The three-eyed demoness was named Epita.She was the last surviving member of her race.More than six thousand years ago, when she reached the rank of a Floor 89 Monarch, the Tower had chosen her to enter the Origin Realm. Instead of receiving an immediate chance to challenge Floor 90, she had been assigned a duty.She was to serve as one of the Origin Realm’s guides for 6,666 years.Only after completing that task would she earn the right to attempt the promotion to True Godhood.By the time she accepted the quest, she had believed she would eventually return home.She never did.Without its strongest protector, her kingdom quickly fell apart.Barely two hundred years after she entered the Origin Realm, the already dwindling population of the Three-Eyed Demons was wiped out completely.By the time the news reached her, everyone she had ever known was gone.She had become the final survivor of her race.For a while, she still asked visiting Champions about the outside world.Whenever a

“Gasp!”Rhys shot upright, dragging in a desperate breath as icy water filled his vision.For a brief moment, he had no idea where he was.Then the freezing cold surrounding him brought everything back.He was still inside the Soul Pool.Without wasting another second, Rhys began swimming towards the shore.Every stroke felt heavy, but he forced his exhausted body forward until his feet finally touched solid ground.He stumbled out of the lake and collapsed onto the bank.“Cough!”“Cough!”He doubled over, coughing violently as water poured from his mouth.After several painful moments, his breathing finally steadied, and the dizziness slowly began to fade.The experience inside the Soul Realm had been unlike anything he had ever endured.It had been terrifying.Yet the reward he received was beyond anything he could have imagined.As Rhys sat there catching his breath, an overwhelming vitality surged through every part of his body.His muscles hummed with strength.His heart beat with

Rhys found himself in an awkward position when Maeve asked about his promotion test.From everything he knew, every Champion of a True God was sent to the Origin Realm instead of taking the ordinary promotion exam. That meant pretending he had gone through the standard university test would only make him look suspicious.At the same time, he had no intention of revealing just how much stronger he had become.After thinking it over for a moment, Rhys decided to tell her only the things she would eventually discover anyway while keeping the truly important details to himself.“My promotion test was… strange,” he said, scratching the back of his head as though he was still trying to make sense of it himself.“It wasn’t anything like the tests the university described.”“I wasn’t tested on my individual attributes at all.”“Instead, I ended up in this desolate place that honestly felt like it could kill me at any moment.”Maeve listened carefully, giving him her full attention.“I think Ch

Kael felt noticeably stronger after completing his Floor 10 promotion.The first thing he noticed was something he had never expected.His dizziness was gone.For as long as he could remember, Kael had lived with a mild case of vertigo. Any sudden movement would leave his head spinning, which was why he had always needed to get out of bed slowly after sleeping. If he stood up too quickly, the room would sway around him for several seconds.Training after joining the university had helped a little.His condition gradually improved until it became more of an inconvenience than a real problem, but it never disappeared completely.Now, after becoming a Tier One Climber, it was simply gone.He could move as quickly as he wanted without feeling the slightest trace of dizziness.Even the mana flowing through his body felt smoother and far more stable than before.The rewards from his promotion weren’t nearly as dramatic as the ones Rhys had received, but Kael couldn’t have been happier.At th

I’d rewrite it like this:Rhys felt a great sense of relief after Kael and Varyn agreed to join his future party.Recruiting them now was important.In just a few weeks, once the students of the University for Nourishment of Young Talents graduated, countless adventurer parties, guilds and powerful organisations would begin competing to recruit the most promising graduates.If he waited until then, there was a real chance that Kael or Varyn, or even both of them, would receive offers too attractive to refuse.Securing their commitment now removed that uncertainty from his mind.The only thing left was finding the final two members of his party.The Tower of Ascension allowed Climbers to challenge floors in odd-numbered groups.A party could consist of three, five, seven, all the way up to seventeen members, but the total always had to be an odd number.That rule remained in place from Floor 21 to Floor 59.From Floor 61 onward, however, every floor became a mandatory solo challenge.Al