After the ethereal older man stopped talking, he vanished, and a blue portal appeared in front of everyone present. It looked similar to the portals one would use to traverse the dungeon floors.
"Should we go?" Alanna asked.
She wanted to know Damian's opinion. For her, Damian turned from a stranger into someone she could trust, someone that saved her life more than once.
"Why not? This Skyfall Tower is a new mystery we can explore inside the dungeon, and I think we are the first humans from Earth to get here," Damian said.
That was the question he still had inside his mind: why now? The tower could have appeared at any time, especially considering humans have been exploring the dungeon since long ago, yet it only appeared now!
Lucy and Luna were also down to explore it, "let's go see what's up with this place."
After reaching a mutual agreement, the four moved toward the massive portal while the other humans also moved toward it; some wanted to monopolize it!
"Don't come closer, or we will attack you!" a man yelled, standing right in front of the portal.
It scared some humans because no one wanted to risk being hurt before exploring a new place. That would be daunting.
"Damian, what should we do?" Lucy said.
"Wait and see."
The girls did not understand what that meant, but it soon became clear. After a few seconds, the ethereal older man appeared again, saying, "Don't make a fuss here, or you will die."
"Haha, what? You are just a fucking spirit left by that stupid guy," the man said.
That was too much, and the moment those words left that guy's mouth, the ethereal man attacked, freezing their bodies instantly, then shattering right after.
Everyone watched it and soon understood that messing up there was not the right call, and something like that could happen to any of them. So, all the humans in front of the portal walked toward it like obedient puppies, trying nothing to displease the ethereal spirit.
"You knew about that?" Lucy said.
It was not that Damian knew; it was more like 'the greatest superhuman who completed the dungeon wouldn't create a place with no protections for those he wished to help.'
"I only guessed. Let's move," Damian said.
They went toward the portal again, just like everyone else, and the moment they passed through it, the scenario changed completely. It was plain, and the only building they could see was a high tower that vanished through the clouds.
There was a cobblestone path leading to the tower and nothing more. Anyone could see that it was the Skyfall Tower the spirit talked about, and that was their primary goal.
They kept moving until finally entering the tower, which was all made of obsidian stone on the outside, yet different when inside.
When looking from the outside, the tower was massive, yet when Damian went in, he knew there was some sort of magic acting because the inside was even bigger, as if they had moved to a different dimension when going inside!
A grand room with many tables, chairs, a place to get drinks, bathrooms, bedrooms, anything you could imagine. The tower's base was a home for people to stay.
A staircase led to the first floor, but it was closed with a blue barrier, and no one could pass through it.
"So what do we do now?"
People started talking inside the tower's base, and even with that many people inside simultaneously, it still had a lot of room. Damian was not the only one clueless; he stood there, paying attention to everyone, and noticed something peculiar.
There were people there who were not with them inside the cave! Damian quickly guessed they came through another portal because the ethereal spirit told them there were portals on all dungeon floors.
'That's why there were so many of us there. It is the first floor of the dungeon, the easiest, meaning it has the highest concentration of people.'
Those strange people were from Earth, and some were natives of the dungeon too, and Damian knew they would surely be a lot stronger than him because they had explored the deeper levels of the dungeon, and that was only meant for the strong.
But that was a good thing. It meant the Skyfall Tower had opened simultaneously for everyone, and after the first week passed, the information about it would spread, and soon it would become normal to go there.
After a while, the spirit appeared once again. Everyone became apprehensive, remembering what happened a few moments ago with the other humans who tried to make a fuss.
The spirit waved his hand, and everyone got a plain ring that looked like a cheap one.
"This is the most valuable thing you can have here; taking it off is impossible. It will regrow even if you try to cut the ring finger off,"
"You see that the ring has no color? It will change to a different color after you pass the first ten levels, and after ten more, it will change again until the end of the tower,"
"But what does this ring do? It is like the identity that you cleared more of the tower than the others, a show-off, and every floor you clear grants you points you can see by touching the ring. You can exchange points for treasures,"
"If you look up there, you can see the grade of colors based on the tower floors, and there's also a list of names of people who climbed the tower, the highest level, and the speed counts too,"
"You can add your name by touching the ring. The tower remains open for seven days, closes for seven more, and then opens again. You can enter by being on any floor of the dungeon, and the ring will automatically open a portal right before you,"
"One more thing. There are floors like this one on the higher levels, so don't worry about this one being overcrowded. The powerful will climb and perhaps even be alone at the higher levels. Also, there's an exchange room for each resting floor, and the higher, the better rewards you can trade-off,"
"If you have any more questions, there's a guide on the library inside this floor. I will only appear again for important events in the tower and if someone causes trouble and wants to die,"
"Trouble is prohibited inside the resting floors, outside the tower, and near the portals. You can do whatever you want inside the tower floors."
The spirit vanished after that, leaving everyone dumbfounded.
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