The Pinnacle of Life

There wasn’t any light in the cave. The two couldn’t identify the time within this odd illusionary realm. They even thought that time passed abnormally here. More importantly, they needed to finish the challenge and get out of here.

Alex couldn’t help but think about that ax inside his consciousness. He didn’t understand why it would react so vigorously, rushing up the Heavenly Stairs and disappearing.

‘It wouldn’t have disappeared just like that, right?’

Alex didn’t know that the ax had returned. He also didn’t realize that Xienna’s soul had come here to look for her lover in the past. It was precisely because she interfered with the ax that it failed in its task, and it gave up.

In reality, that ax did, in fact, want to leave Alex’s mind. If it were to obtain that thing within the Heavenly Stairs, it wouldn’t be able to stay within Alex’s mind after that. However, Xienna’s interference helped him out instead, preventing him from losing the mysterious ax.

At the time, Maximilia had woken up from her healing state, randomly saying, “Alex, what do you think would happen to us when we fail our missions?”

Alex had thought about this issue long ago. “We’d probably be fine. Lorelei and the others had tried going up the stairs before. Even if they didn’t fail on the first step, it’s kind of the same since this flight of stairs has almost ten thousand steps. Nothing happened to them, so we should be alright.”

Maximilia nodded. “I thought so too. Everything here is illusionary, not reality. So basically, we’re in some sort of dream, pretending to be someone else. The entire process is fake.”

if she

when I used to dream about one of my female schoolmates

rather interested. “Who? Do I know

her. She… She was cursed,

“The Witch Curse?”

“Something like that!”

fell silent for a short while and asked, “What did you do when you

It’s just like what

cheerful. “Mhm. That’s

that to relieve her heart. He didn’t

that, Alex started breaking through the boundary. It wasn’t a difficult process, so he didn’t take any longer than five minutes. The stone gates grumbled as

was overjoyed and excited

the pitch-black environment, especially with her extreme fear of the dark. She really didn’t want to experience the same thing ever again. They thought that there would be monsters rushing out after the gates opened. However, it didn’t happen, but the scenery in front of them still managed to freeze