[10 hours 31 minutes until the rest period ends. Please take a rest.]0

[Challenger Kwon Su-Hyeok’s sponsor, Omniscient Thunder Axe, wishes to sponsor a feast.] 0

The message caught me completely off guard. Although, to be fair, I couldn’t be faulted for that. It wasn’t solely because I had been mulling over the upcoming party. It was because I hadn’t received a sponsorship in what felt like ages.0

Suddenly? Here, on the ninetieth floor?0

By this stage, sponsors had become almost irrelevant to most climbers.0

Early on, their help had been commonplace, but past the middle stages of the tower, such offers had all but vanished.1

After all, sponsorship exists to increase a god’s ownership of a climber and their world.0

With someone like me—an overwhelmingly dominant presence—in play, sponsorships would inevitably diminish. Only the highest-ranking climbers, or those backed by particularly influential gods, received them at this point. Even then, it only occurred on rare occasions.0

I had only received help three times through my sponsor thus far.0

This would be the fourth.0

The first was on the seventh floor, when I received the antidote for Seo Ho-Su in the Eerie Forest. The next time—on the sixteenth floor—they didn’t sponsor me an item, but instead...0