After all that struggle, Amber had raised her palms, which were still bleeding at that moment, towards the sky and had fallen to her knees.Her pupils had vanished; her eyes had turned into a glowing substance, and her gaze had vanished from view.She looked as though she were praying.No one could hear her voice; they could only hear the sound of her breathing.Her mouth was moving at an incredible speed.Despite all this, there was one thing everyone noticed.The mana in the air was practically driving everyone mad.As the mana itself trembled, the dark sky began to glow.As the grey clouds turned pure white, a few small flowers had formed around Amber.A few... Amber Flowers.As the seconds ticked by, a single word finally emerged from Amber’s mouth.“Banish.” That word was the very thing that drastically altered the course of the battle.The clouds in the sky were suddenly pierced.One after another, a total of fourteen massive beams, each perhaps thirty metres in diameter, pierc

"BOOOOOOOOOOM!!!"A massive explosion had occurred right in the middle of the castle grounds, whilst Lyonel continued to observe the situation from a distance.His plan was for the Bone Mage, his boss monster, to enter the castle grounds and begin expending his magical power.That way, he could try to summon one or more bolts of lightning from the sky, or even kill this mage in close combat.At the moment, it didn’t seem likely that he’d be able to break through this mage’s defences.“Please let everything go smoothly, Great Goddess Nyx, I pray to you,” Lyonel had said, or rather, muttered.At this moment, his only hope, besides praying, was that all the group members would survive unscathed, or rather, that this floor would be cleared before anyone else met the same fate as Amber.Nyx herself had perhaps turned her gaze away from the young man for the first time since Altair entered the tower, and had begun watching Lyonel, ever since he’d entered that floor.The Goddess truly found

"She is alive."As Lyonel practically collapsed against the corridor wall, Cardinal Karina’s eyes were fixed on him."Thank you, Cardinal Karina. I can never repay you for this; thank you so much," said Lyonel, looking tired as hell, almost like he 'walked' through hell.Cardinal Karina smiled innocently, then replied, "It was the Great Goddess herself who wished for this; there is no need to thank me."At these words, Lyonel opened his eyes and looked closely at Karina.He didn’t know what to say.Cardinal Karina, however, asked curiously, “Still, I cannot understand how this young woman came to be in this state. What happened, young prince?”Lyonel, in response to this question, recounted everything that had happened on the forty-eighth floor; the gazes of those around him first filled with sorrow, then with admiration.“Did you kill a Bone Mage? And on the forty-eighth floor, when you were still so weak…” muttered one of the guards.Cardinal Karina glared angrily at the guard for h

"Well, why are you even here? I thought you were training, I mean, with our master."When Eliana spoke these words in an attempt to lighten the mood, Altair shook his head and replied, "Master Leonard sent me here to find my next master. He told me I needed to meet the leader of the Emperor’s Guard and deliver a letter to him.”At this, Eliana and the other pair’s expressions changed instantly.“Your next master?” Eliana asked with great curiosity.Altair shook his head and replied, “I’ve attained Intermediate Spear Mastery; now I must master the bow, earn my promotion, and continue climbing the tower.”Eliana truly didn’t know what to say.Leonard couldn't accept a student, yet he had done so. Altair had managed to become the fourth student, yet despite that, was he looking for another master? And in another martial art, no less?“Disrespectful…” the young woman thought.Well, of course, that would normally be the case, but Leonard himself was aware that he couldn’t simply keep the y

Even without the mantle, he had a vague inkling that he had chosen Aether and that he was spiritually protected by all the Chaos-Born.Perhaps he didn’t like to use the ranks and names of these Chaos-Born, but to be honest, it wasn’t as though his pride wasn’t flattered either.“Thank you,” said Altair.After saying these words, Lisa looked at him and said, “Rest for today. Tomorrow morning at seven, you’ll come to the chapel with the servant waiting outside your room; I’ll be there at half past seven. I’ll train you from nine to eleven; the Emperor will be awake by then, and I’ll go about my business. You’ll be trained for a minimum of two and a maximum of four hours every day. You may go.”Altair, however, simply nodded and followed the servant.He now had another master.He had been given a chance to learn the way of the Bow.The young man had spent the entire day in the beautiful room that had been given to him. Although the servants had invited him to dinner on Eliana’s orders, t