[Eliminate or survive against the incoming enemies. Time remaining: 165 hours 57 minutes.]0

I mulled over killing the third-class god, but didn’t come to an immediate conclusion. For a while, I traded blows and thought through my next move. There was plenty of time. I could absorb power from the corpses of apostles and gods, so energy wasn’t a problem. Besides, my stamina wasn’t so low that I was exhausted. If a seven-day trial could wear me down, I wouldn’t have made it this far up the tower.0

Hmm.0

The most recent tedious exchange had already dragged on for more than an hour. My opponents continued to probe cautiously, trying to glean all they could from my attacks. Meanwhile, I waited for gaps and struck back, decreasing their numbers little by little. However, more continued to emerge from the depths of the Abyss than I managed to kill. Their numbers simply refused to dwindle.0

That was partly why I couldn’t make up my mind right away.0

Even if I take down the strongest one now.0

There was no assurance that their morale would falter just because one of them fell. They had been trapped in this place for who knew how long, without promise or hope of freedom. Sure, being alive was technically better than being dead, but these weren’t mortals clinging to survival. They were gods of entire worlds, or the apostles...0