[Following your request, you will be immediately teleported to the seventieth floor.]1

Without wasting a second, a sandstorm swallowed me.0

[You have entered the seventieth floor.]0

The smell of sand became more intense under the sunlight. When I used to play outside in the yard as a child, I would sometimes look at my palm and catch a faint, soft scent of sand. My body and mind, which had grown heated from the hard fight a moment before, were washed away by a wave of tranquility. 0

[The Mirage-Walking Princess blesses your climb.]0

That was a message I hadn’t heard in a long time. Had she been watching me fight from afar? For some reason, I could imagine the princess on a couch, eating potato chips as she watched the battles, so I smiled. 0

In front of me stood another Pillar—the Primordial Staff. 0

“You look calm. Your attitude alone is already different from others. It’s been a while since a challenger has come to the lobby I run. When your Guardian, the Sword Emperor, first came here, he was calm, just like you…” The Primordial Staff knitted her brows. “Actually, he looked far more relaxed than you. Perhaps only people like you and...0