At World's End

Entry 141

Pursing my lips, I tried to piece together the rest of the information that remained unsaid. “So what you are saying is, there’s a chance that while trying to gain a variance… the Otherworldly might attack?”

Leila nodded. “Not just attack but try to take over and when that happens. Unless you are lucky, special or both… chances of dying are pretty high and not just dying, you’d be letting a monster into the tower. Several have died to such incidents.”

“Which is why rooms like these were created?” I inquired.

“More or less. Anyway, did you acquire a variance?”

Sighing heavily, I could only curse the cause of the Fog for what it had done to humanity.

The life of an Explorer is just too terrible with danger at every turn.

Whatever power they acquire comes with a price that can end their life at any time.

But if they don’t do it, who would protect the tower?

So without fail, we had to go on and do what the majority could not.

I glanced at Leila and without mincing words explained everythi