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.”

as if she was trying to convince

“Yeah. It’s like when I used to dream

“Who? Do I

shook his head. “You wouldn’t know her. She… She was

“The Witch Curse?”

“Something like that!”

silent for a short while and asked, “What did

a meaningless dream. It’s just like what we’re facing now, except that we are both in

seemed cheerful.

deliberately said that to relieve her heart. He didn’t want her to be hung up

boundary. It wasn’t a difficult process, so he didn’t take any longer

Maximilia was overjoyed and excited as she held onto her

the same thing ever again. They thought that there would be monsters rushing