Azekiel absorbed the Spiritual Energy from the Lords, gaining whatever small bit of strength he could. Unfortunately, he was at a point where even a Lord's Spiritual Strength was like a drop in the ocean of spiritual strength for him.
After dealing with everything, he glanced at the portal in the distance. Now there was no obstruction to stop him from getting to the 80th floor without creating any other Floors.
Unfortunately, he couldn't pass over to the next floor from that point on until he finished all the lower floors first. He was really intrigued by what he was going to find there. He had an idea as to what that floor was like in the past, but something was surely different this time.
If they were asking people to stop anyone else from coming there, that meant something was certainly very wrong there. That was also what made him even more curious to check out that place, even though it was the last on his plan previously.
Azekiel stepped closer to the portal and entered inside, leaving the 45th floor. There were many kings who went straight to the top floor after realizing that they could do that, but they returned just as fast after realizing how dangerous those floors were for weak people like them.
Unlike them, Azekiel wasn't planning to return that fast. Since he had already started his journey on the Tower ranking, openly declaring his return, he couldn't step back now.
He passed through the barrier, disappearing under the bright light. Only a few bodies were left behind in his wake. Unfortunately, no one was here to even know that these people had been killed.
All the people who were from the higher floors had either left already, or they already knew the rules that no one was allowed to use this Portal. It was unclear if anyone was even going to come here to see what had happened.
Just as Azekiel had expected, the Tower Ranking certainly had changed as a new name appeared on the ranking.
The name had straight jumped from a no rank to the top hundred already.
The people on the lower floors noticed that names appear in the top hundred. They didn't remember ever seeing that name before, at least. All of them wondered just who this person was.
The only people who even knew anything about Azekiel were on the 80th or higher floors. Unfortunately, they were momentarily busy in trying to clear the floor. They didn't even focus on the ranking, let alone trying to keep an eye on the lower half of the top hundred rankings.
The rankings had been settled for a long time, which made them habitual to not even look at them anymore. It was only the people who still hadn't reached anywhere close to finishing the top half of floors that kept an eye on the rankings to know who it was that they didn't need to offend.
Right before Azekiel passed through the portal, a number had appeared above his head, which showed ninety seven.
Azekiel passed through the portal, appearing on the 80th floor.
Just as he had expected, after killing the King, who was in the top 100, he was finally able to see the ranking tower as well.
It was a tower that seemed to be thousands of miles away, yet at the same time right before them, giving them a clear view of all the names.
Azekiel started from the lower rankings, wondering how much his name had climbed to.
"There it is... I certainly expected a higher climb. Not bad though," he commented, noticing his name on the 97th rank.
His vision kept going up as he noticed more and more names, most of which were familiar to him, especially the names in the top twenty.
Osiris, who had entered this Tower with Lia, was on rank 5. Meanwhile, the person who had betrayed Azekiel by telling their King about him eating the fruit was on the seventh ranking.
Even though he had heard about Raphael's name on the top, it was only when he saw it with his own eyes that he believed. That meant Raphael was still alive as a King and not dead?
Since he couldn't see Lia's name anywhere, it was clear that the Tower wasn't counting their spiritual form to keep their legacy alive. Raphael was actually alive on this floor and in his real body?
"How does his Spirit exist if he didn't die then?"
Azekiel knew that the time on the higher floors was more relative. There was no paradox here. It should've been impossible for a person to be alive here and dead on the other floors. On the contrary, it was possible for them to be dead here and alive on other floors since other floors had a mess of time.
This didn't make sense at all. If Raphael was alive, Azekiel was sure that he wasn't going to recognize him either. Only the spiritual Raphael knew him and not the real one. Even if he went before the real Raphael, they were going to be strangers. If anything, Raphael was only going to attack him after realizing just who he was.
"I still want to see him with my own eyes."
He stepped away from the portal, not intending to attract too much attention to him.
There was one route that was connected to the Portal. It seemed to be a concrete road that straight led to the Dark City in the distance.
For a person to enter the city or for them to get to the portal, they could only take this route. There was literally no other way. Even if he could fly, he couldn't get to the city. The closer he got to the city, the farther that city was going to go.
A person had to actually walk on the path to get to the city. That was also what created some problems for him. No one was allowed to get to this floor from the lower floors.
If he entered the city through this route, everyone was going to know that he came from the lower floor. He was like a person who wanted to be low profile for some time, but he couldn't.
"The place looks quite ordinary though. Not how it should be if the floor is about to be cleared..." Unlike the weather on the lower floors, the weather in this city was quite ordinary for how it was supposed to be.
The surrounding was darker, and the sky was covered in clouds, but there was no rain, snowfall, or intense heat. If anything, the weather was only more pleasant now.
After waking for close to thirty minutes on the road that looked as if it was cleaned right before Azekiel's arrival, he managed to reach the dark city, known as the Dominion of Gods.
The World knew gods as the beings of Lights, where heaven was filled with happiness and light. However, this Dominion of Gods was different. There was barely enough light for a person to see, and no more than that. All the findings were made like castles, most of which were more or less identical.
Another strange thing was that this city itself was bigger than the biggest country on Earth, and it showed that.
Against all his expectations, Azekiel didn't find any person at the entrance of the city to keep an eye on the newcomers. There were no personnel at the entrance anywhere on the roads in the city.
The city usually looked lifeless because of how it was made, but due to the lack of people, it looked even more lifeless at the moment.
"Where is everyone?" Azekiel muttered, frowning.
Even though the floor was supposed to be near completion, that didn't mean there shouldn't be any person here?
In his time, the city used to be filled with people from all Species, and not just kings.
"That sound..." As Azekiel was lost in thoughts, he heard a voice coming from the distance.
The voice appeared to be coming from thousands of miles away, as if it was coming from the center of the city while Azekiel stood at the edge of the city.
Now that he was inside the city, he still couldn't fly since the city placed restrictions on flying. He couldn't teleport either. If he wanted to get to that place, he had to run. That seemed to be the only way at the moment.
Since that was the only option, he started running right away without wasting much of his time. The later he got there, the more he was going to miss.
If anything, he also believed that some event was taking place in the center of the city. That could explain why no one was here. That event was most probably connected to the clearing of this floor as well, which made him want to see it even more.
