Chapter 75 - Breakthrough (2) (1/2)

Chapter 75 Breakthrough (2)

[The tenth floor’s trial will now begin]

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It was said that the difficulty of the tenth floor’s trial was harder than those of all first nine floors combined

A trial where players who may have been on a roll until now could suddenly meet a wall

Conversely, a trial where players who had barely ht suddenly find it easy

As such, the trial of the tenth floor was very unpredictable What was tested on this floor was one si

‘Willpower’

Consecutively setting new records all the way up till the ninth floor, we—my teammates and I—felt like ere on top of the world

We thought we could clear the tenth floor’s trial just as easily as the other floors

But this Goddamn Tower, it kno to shatter people’s hopes too damn well…

…They took everyone away from me

Without a family, a friend or a teaness

And I was required to escape that place without a single clue of how to

But of all things, the most difficult aspect of the trial was the lack of stimulus

Man is a social ani one ht be, if they were left in this kind of place, I ao mad within a few days

For that reason, even knowing this, players who entered the tenth floor often failed to pass the trial

Mental strength and physical strength are two different things

Solitude can devastate any physically healthy person’s mind The more confident they are in themselves, the most adverse effect it has on them

And that was exactly why his brother and his tea streak

Being forced to play alone in a trial where they couldn’t even tell whether there was progress or not Such feeling of apprehension slowly took over their heads and o out of their minds

His brother mentioned that he also had a hard time because of this

However,

‘It won’t work on me’

Years of experience on the battlefield had ative emotions

Rather, he had trained himself in order to be able to keep his rationality under much harder conditions

‘There must be a door somewhere around here’

But it wasn’t just one door

‘A total of 10 doors, all different in colors and shapes’

Yeon-woo closed his eyes He activated Sense Strengthening and tried to pick up any abnormality

Dozens of eyes slit open from the lines drawn on his armor

Then suddenly, Yeon-woo opened his eyes and swung Magic Bayonet to his side

Puck

The bayonetsound as it stopped mid-air

He pulled the bayonet doard and sliced what seemed to be an empty space

As the space sliced open, it revealed a red door

‘Found it’

The tenth floor’s trial was somewhat like a labyrinth A labyrinth full of doors that connected to other blank spaces

Finding doors in this world full of nothingness was a difficult task, but theone Because each space contained more than just one door

In each space, there was a total of ten doors, each one of them different in color and shape

And when players faced these doors, doubts would sprout in their minds

Why do all doors have different colors?

Did I open the wrong door?

Should I have settled with one color?

Is there any order to it?

Could there by any hidden trick with these doors?

‘This place, it digs deep into the psyche of players’

There is a Chinese term, Heart Devil

It row in one person’saway at theo insane

Most players fell prey to their doubts and ended up dropping out of the trial

He heard thatfrom mental disorders Soure out the answer to the doors and to the trial

But sadly enough, the answer to the trial was very sih any of the doors’

There was no hidden trick nor problem to the color or the shape of the doors The doors were just doors, all leading to the next section of the labyrinth

Whatever door the playersthem, they would eventually s required were th and faith in one’s choices Only the players who could overcome their self-doubt were allowed to pass the trial

And of course, there were players who entered the tenth floor with this infor up with a plan was one thing, and putting it into practice was another Even if they knew the answer to the doors, the players going through the trial couldn’t act as they originally planned

Some spaces had doors at places where they were easy to find, but so around the vast expanse of nothingness while trying to find those doors, players easily forgot about their plans, advice or whatever they got from the outside

But that was a problem for other players Yeon-woo didn’t have to worry about it at all All he had to do was to scan through the area based on his strengthened senses, h the door to enter another area

But at soan to slon

He even started to turn back after finding a door and go for another one

‘Not this one’

‘Not this one either’

‘And this one… no’

Yeon-woo didn’t give a second glance at the doors he found useless

In fact, what Yeon-as after was not the exit of the tenth floor

‘There are hidden pieces lying somewhere beyond these doors’

Her all the other ones in Beginner Zone In fact, it was harder than co all the other keys combined

And that was exactly the reason why only a handful of players succeeded in opening Olympus’ Treasury

To complete Hermes’ Key, he had to collect 100 shattered pieces of the key that were scattered through each trial

And if he opened the door that leads to the exit before he could find all the pieces, it would end the trial,it impossible to coo through the labyrinth while being careful not to finish it by mistake

What a ridiculous task

However, Yeon-as confident in himself He trusted his senses and looked for the unique mana that the hidden pieces possessed

But above all,

‘Find thees’ Eyes with hiraved on his ar for the pieces