[65 hours 11 minutes until the rest period ends. Please take a rest.]0

I spent about five minutes scrolling through the shop menu, debating what equipment to buy. Before long, I realized it didn’t really matter. At my current level, nothing sold in the shop would make any meaningful difference. Their cost-effectiveness was poor, and besides, nothing there could possibly compare to the cloak I had just obtained.0

It was a shame to have lost the armor and the Mana-Accumulating Gauntlet of the Underworld, though.0

As I had realized on the ninety-fifth floor, my equipment wasn’t truly essential. In fact, I couldn’t help but wonder if that was what the tower had intended—to give me a kind of enlightenment, a lesson about letting go of reliance on equipment. Although the trial hadn’t been about me abandoning my gear, it felt connected. 1

I had intentionally entered trials without equipment before, all to push my growth further. That was that, though. I had no reason to hoard points when there was no need.0

From the ninety-sixth floor to the one-hundredth. This is where the final battles begin.0

Not once, in my battles against the Feast, Kalain, or the Furnace, had I found myself wishing for a single extra point of strength. That only made me less interested in spending forever getting new gear. That time would be better spent gaining new understandings...0