Legacy of the Dark Sage

The Tower of the Ancients, a colossal structure that reached into the heavens, was a labyrinth of mystery and danger. Its 40 levels, each with its own unique challenges, were a testament to the power and wisdom of the Ancients. The first ten levels, a mere introduction to the tower's complexity, had four floors.

From the eleventh level to the twentieth, each level had three floors, testing the endurance and skill of those who dared to ascend. From the twenty-first level to the thirtieth, the number of floors was reduced to two each level, and finally, levels from the thirtieth-first level to the last only had one floor each, a stark reminder of the tower's unforgiving nature.

Starting from the fifth level to the twenty-seventh level, there were roughly six to eight Ancients in hiding. Some of them were trapped for a long time while trying to complete their own training, while some chose to sleep until the tower opened again and outsiders entered as participants.

The Ancients only had one reason for waking up when outsiders entered the tower, and that was to play with them. While a few harbored some hope of leaving the tower, they already had suspicions of what would happen if they did.

Frankly, they could have asked the Tower to tell them, but in the end, they chose ignorance because they were also afraid.

No one could blame them. Who, in their right mind, would be delighted by the idea of their deaths?

After Kyran talked to Diara and the other four Ancients with them, they more or less knew what he wanted to tell them. Nevertheless, being confronted by the truth scared them.

But they were taken aback when, rather than telling them the hard facts about their future, Kyran presented them with the hope that they could live. Although he had not given them the details of how he would do that, and to be honest, his proposal was too ambiguous, they could not help but feel as if he could truly accomplish it.

For this reason, Diara and the rest of the Ancients agreed to whatever Kyran planned to do.

Thus, when Kyran asked their help to round up every group that entered the tower, they did not hesitate.

To ensure that Kyran could obtain the assistance of every Ancient in the tower, he freed those who got stuck in their training like what happened to Diara. After that, the Ancients worked their way around each level and told Kyran the coordinates of each group they found.

Since Kyran only had superficial knowledge when it came to which clans were allied with the Solis Clan, who were on good terms with the Dragon Clan, or clans that were neutral, he asked Kairos's help to identify them.

Kairos's identity as the Overseer was actually quite helpful in identifying each clan's affiliation. He could monitor and even hear the discussion of all participants in the tower after all.

Kyran was actually amazed that Kairos still managed to hold a sane conversation with him when he was actually listening and even monitoring every participant in every tower created by the Ancients all the time. Then again, Kairos was no longer considered a human after he accepted the role of becoming the Towers' Overseer.

Because there were more than a hundred groups that participated in the Tower of the Ancients this time around, it took Kyran and the others a while to complete the purge.

There were less than five percent of the clans participating in the tower's hunt that were neutral. Kyran decided not to kill these people. Instead, he met with them one after another and forced them into performing a Soul-binding Oath.

He also told them his plan to destroy their portals, and if they ever breathed a word about it, he would activate the oath and kill them and every being near them that heard their confession.

Because of the natural peace-loving nature of beings who remained neutral in the Higher Realm, they agreed to Kyran without putting up a fight. They also agreed to send him updates on their clan movement in a timely manner or if they found any information involving the Solis Clan and all other clans under them.

After gaining the cooperation of these neutral clans, Kyran sent them into a specialized room like the one Kairos had prepared for Ladon and the others earlier. He planned to send them all out of the tower after he dealt with the rest of the clans.

When Kyran was done with the neutral clans, his next target was those on good terms with the Dragon Clan.

Honestly, Kyran could not care less about the Dragon Clan. He might be related to Ames, but that was it. From how Ladon and Thorn treated him and from what Aki told him about how most of the dragons treated his people upon their arrival in the Dragon plane, he did not harbor any positive feelings toward them.

Nevertheless, he did not want to create unnecessary trouble for them by eliminating the clans whom they were on good terms with. Besides, he would still need their protection until he adjusted to the Higher Realms Laws completely.

Kyran's approach to the clans with good standing with the Dragon Clan was a little different. He did not meet with them personally, and let the Ancients deal with them instead. He asked them to defeat them and knock them unconscious before sending them to a different room from where the neutral clans were staying.

As for their clan portals, Kyran would destroy those after throwing the clan members back to their clans.

Fortunately, the portals only worked one way. When the tower opens, the portal can only be entered from the Higher Realm. But when the tower closes, the portal can only be accessed from the special space. Thus, once the unconscious clan members were thrown out of the portal, no one could enter it and see what had happened to them.

Finally, the time to deal with the clans affiliated with the Solis Clan arrived.

If the neutral clans that participated in the tower hunt were less than five percent, and those on good terms with the Dragon Clan made up less than fifteen percent, the remaining were all affiliated with the Solis Clan.

Their numbers were far too great for Kyran to deal with one by one.

Thus, while he was busy dealing with the neutral clans and those who were friendly with the Dragon Clan, he asked a great number of the Ancients to gather the remaining eighty percent of the participants in one location. Continue your journey on m|v-l'e m,p| y- r

Doing that was only possible if all of them managed to get to the same level and floor.

Fortunately, the difficulty of the challenges presented on each level increased as one group moved up. Taking advantage of the Tower's acknowledgment of Kyran as well, these clans were transported to the same location as soon as they successfully received enough points to move up a level.

The official leader representative of the Adama's Clan, Demir, frowned as he witnessed more groups appearing in the area where they had been transported to after completing a challenge.

'Just what is happening?' he wondered, observing the groups near them. As far as he remembered, some of the groups there were transported to a lower level. So, how come they were now on the same level?

Could it be that the speed at which they completed a challenge was far slower than how they were able to do theirs?

As soon as this question flashed through Demir's mind, he pushed them out with a snort.

Impossible.

They were considered among the elites of this generation. Apart from the Dragon Clan representatives, there was no way for these lowly clans to be on the same stage as them.

But if so, then why were they transported in the same area?

"Something is up."

These words flickered in Demir's mind at the same time as someone spoke them aloud.

Demir turned in time to see Quan, the official Blade Dancer Clan leader representative, walking toward him.

"Quan," he greeted.

Quan looked at Demir. The former's eyes reflected the same doubt as the latter's.

"How long have your group got here?" he asked.

"More than half an hour ago."

"And the challenge?"

Demir shook his head, "It hasn't started." He then looked at the rest of the clan and scowled, "Is it possible that the challenge will only start after all of the other clans arrived?"

"You know that is impossible," Quan replied, shaking his head. "Even if some of these clans managed to complete their challenges faster than us, there is no way for them to catch up to us. So all of us gathering here has to be for another reason."

"I feel the same," Demir replied exasperatedly. "But this is a first. As far as the information provided by our predecessors is concerned, this has never happened before."

Quan did not reply. But his furrowed brows were enough to guess he also thought the same.

"I don't see anyone from the Dragon Clan."

Demir and Quan stopped short as someone spoke from behind them. They turned and saw Yule looking at them with a grim expression.

What he said was right.

Before they could reply to Yule's words, an array formation that covered the whole area appeared above their heads.

Every clan there immediately stood at the ready, with a few taking out their magic items or weapons.

"I expected there would be a lot of you... but this number. Seems like it will take a while to clean up."

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