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[Defeat your future self from fifty years later. Time remaining: 24 years 364 days.]
I read the floor’s description, doing my best to understand it clearly. For a while, though, my mind refused to process anything, as if it had simply stopped functioning. My thoughts were frozen in place, locked in a haze of disbelief and shock.
“Mmm. Uh, so this is—”
It took some time for me to collect myself. Gradually, my thoughts began to flow again, grinding forward like they were rusted gears forced back into motion. Once I fully grasped just what the tower expected me to do, a loud and exuberant curse slipped from my lips.
I had to fight a version of me from fifty years in the future, and not only that, but the tower had allotted half that amount of time to clear the floor.
Fucking hell. How is that even supposed to make sense?
It wasn’t as though I had been told to cram two days’ worth of work into one, but rather to compress fifty years into twenty-five.
Hmm. That analogy isn’t quite right. Well, doing two days’ worth in one is practically the same, though it somehow feels a little different.
Anyway, that wasn’t the point. I had to grow at least twice as fast as this future version of me had to reach their level. Letting out a slow breath, I forced myself to calm down.
“Huuuuuuu.”
As always, no amount of frustration would change the situation. I hadn’t climbed all the way to the ninety-ninth floor by luck or carelessness. Trials weren’t things that could be bent by will alone; they had to be faced,...
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