[Due to the climbers’ choices and actions on the seventy-seventh floor of the Tower of Ordeal, the world’s destiny has shifted.]0

[As of this moment, welcome to the seventy-eighth floor of the Tower of Ordeal: Tribal War.]0

[Tensions between the tribes surrounding Euros’s Flower Forest have been escalating.]0

[There are those who seek to burn it and those who strive to protect it. Regardless of which side a climber takes, every action will be tallied as achievement points.]0

[Navigate the conflict between both factions and survive. Time remaining: 239 hours 59 minutes.]0

The notification window updated without warning, catching me completely off guard.0

Concentrating fully on it, I set down my spoon and analyzed its contents. Though the message carried a certain weight, nothing about it seemed particularly alarming. All that had changed was when it started.0

Or has more changed than it seems?0

Despite our knowledge of what was to come, our extra time to prepare had now vanished—this changed the situation significantly.0

I could only sigh quietly.0

I should have anticipated this.0

In many ways, it was a fairly natural outcome. Without the information from Ha Hee-Jeong’s previous life, we wouldn’t have recovered so much Ancient Fire this quickly. 0

Even relying on Aoshi’s help wouldn’t have made as much of an impact. We could...0