[Welcome to the eighty-seventh floor of the Tower of Ordeal: Mystical Beast Treatment.]0

[Heal the mystical beast under the alchemist’s protection. Time remaining: 119 hours 59 minutes.]0

Once again, feeling the familiar floating sensation, the tower’s message updated in the darkness. The world I would be teleported to hadn’t appeared yet, but I preferred it that way. 0

Without delay, I scanned the message. The trial was straightforward, almost strikingly so.0

Heal the mystical beast that the alchemist is protecting.0

Of course, there had to be a reason why such a seemingly simple trial appeared on the eighty-seventh floor. It certainly wouldn’t be easy. Perhaps it wouldn’t be as brutal as confronting Endless Furnace, but it wouldn’t be effortless either.0

As the darkness lifted and my surroundings became clearer, I instinctively surveyed the area. I stood partway up a mountain, surrounded by a dense forest. Despite the canopy of trees, the area felt bright, vibrant, and overflowing with life, like standing at the foot of a World Tree.0

However, the vitality seemed confined to this one area. It was as if the entirety of the forest’s vitality had been gathered here. Beyond an invisible boundary, the land was cloaked in fog and shadow.0

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