[Please wait for the others to complete the second stage.]
Sam hovered in the vortex of light that carried him forward, the same strange limbo he had experienced during the first trial.
The weightless pull around him felt timeless, a pocket between worlds where nothing existed but silence and the faint hum of power.
He expected this delay.
It was obvious that once again, he had cleared his stage long before anyone else.
After all, he had cut down the boss in a single strike.
No one else could possibly manage that.
Only those strong enough to face the [Seventh Layer] alone could even dream of fighting a level seventy-five boss monster by themselves and winning.
This was the nature of the [Tower of Fate].
The difficulty was relentless, and what made it worse was the reminder that this was not even the end.
Another stage still waited.
Sam floated patiently, his gaze fixed on the endless current of the vortex.
