NOVEL NEXT Chapter 221: Floor Quest Finished
James had been training for nearly sixty days. Or, more precisely, he was one day away from the end of his floor assignment. Between the 28th and 35th floors, James and Ariel had only one day left between the 28th and 35th floors before all the floors belonged to James and Ariel.
That was quite an achievement.
Not many people completed their floor duties so smoothly and quite peacefully.
Eris, Nyx's daughter, had slaughtered everyone she saw as 'evil' in the floor mission she was in.
So the fact that James and Ariel ended this floor mission peacefully in this way, considering the beautiful hopes and the lives they saved, was something to be respected.
James was already back in the village. However, it would be impossible to call it a village anymore because the second wall of the 'village' was now finished. Officially, there was no other protection than huge dark walls of more than ten metres high.
The village and its buildings were demolished and a large area of the innermost wall was opened for construction. So the old village site was now to be saved for the 'main palace' and the 'church'. The church that had begun to be built in the centre of the inner wall was finished. Instead of calling this place a church, it would be more accurate to call it a huge palace.
The dwarves and others had made a big change without asking James. The reason he thought this was that the church had now grown to a 'huge' level. It seemed that a system such as the Sun Palace and the Church of the Night were intertwined, that is, the main church was united with the palace, and was being used here.
Of course, it was obvious that all this work had been carried out, or rather ploughed in first, by Ariel.
James could have settled in this place, which was almost finished, after all, as the original owner of the church of the whole night, he certainly had such a rank, the rank of leader of the whole church.
Nevertheless, for the sake of the village, or rather for the sake of all its inhabitants, a conversation took place between James and Ariel about the fact that only the priests of the Church of the Night should be allowed to enter this place.
After a long conversation, it was concluded that only the priests of the Church of the Night and the children who could be educated on behalf of the church would be allowed to enter this floor, which would have won the floor exam.
James and Ariel had thought about it in detail. This would be a special place where children could not be harmed. They could be educated by priests or nuns, and they could stay on this floor, where they could be acclimatised to the different weather conditions.
Then they could approach a few races other than their own and have a chance to grow up with a good upbringing.
In the midst of all this talking and thinking, an agreement was presented that none of the greenhouses on the inner wall, where the palace was almost completed, would be demolished and would be completely protected like the greenhouses to be built in the settlements inside the first outer wall, and the three leaders who would be in constant change accepted this agreement.
It was good news that this village, which only a few months earlier had been threatened by yetis, was now in such good shape.
James and Ariel had changed everything.
Thanks to James' cleaning of the dungeon, the monsters, if not a core, were gone, leaving only the ever-present ice goblins.
This was huge news.
After all, so little danger not only meant that the walls could be built at a slower pace but also that the safety of those who would be allowed to come here would be greatly enhanced.
"We did it," Ariel said with a smiling face as she looked at the huge palace, the main part of which was now complete.
The highest point of the palace was almost a hundred metres high and its size only extended to three hundred or four hundred metres from the ends of the walls.
Yet this was the unfinished construction of the whole palace. Only the main part was finished.
"Yes. It happened much faster than I expected. I wonder how long it would take to build such a palace in our world?" James replied.
"I don't know, I think it would have taken a couple of decades to build the whole thing." Ariel complained, and hearing this, James smiled and replied, "We weren't living in the Middle Ages, I think it would have taken a maximum of ten years." then he smiled and opened his inventory.
After a few seconds of scrolling through his inventory, he pulled out two wine glasses and a wine bottle, opened the bottle and poured alcohol into the glasses, handed one glass to Ariel and then spoke briefly:
"This is a red wine to drink to our success. Normally I would save this wine to drink with Nemesis, but I can find better quality, and since this is the best I have, this is what we should drink to our success."
With those words, a whole bottle of red wine was drunk and the next day came.
The floor mission was over.
[Survive!
Your mission to survive between floors 28-35 begins now! You will only have the right to use the food part of your inventory, you will have as much equipment as you can live on and you will be able to use your weapons, but do not take this ice-covered world lightly. Once every 20 days you will be counted as travelling up one floor for one time only, and it will stop when you reach the 35th floor.
This is a SPECIAL mission created by the tower for Umbra of Chaos and Ariel of Chaos.
Upon completion of the mission, you will have each of the floors 28-35 subjectively. This will be made possible by the tower creating a subspace and only a limited number of people will be able to enter these areas. Guild honour points must be spent to unlock the area].
[Mission accomplished!]
James and Ariel looked up and saw that the air in the sky had opened up for a few seconds. The numbers 28-34 were written in the sky, indicating that each floor from the 28th to the 35th floor had been combined with this floor mission and finally given to James and Ariel.
As the sky closed again and the snow began to fall in thin flakes, a large white passageway opened in front of the duo.
"Are you leaving, sir?"
Suddenly the pair turned at the sound of Elanor's voice coming from behind them and then James spoke:
"Someone will arrive a little while after we leave. People dressed in black with the crest of the church. People who can teach the village children and many others about war, development, history and other things. We will come to visit you after a while, don't worry."
At James' words, Elanor bowed to the two and then said, "Thanks to you, the food shortage has been solved, the security shortage has been solved, and we have been able to receive training to help us grow. We can't thank you enough, thank you very much."
James and Ariel didn't know what to say. After all, the only reason they had come here was the floor mission itself. Of course, these two could have camped out somewhere without a care in the world and lived like that for a long time, but they were not such people.
That's why they wanted to turn this floor, which would later become theirs, into as good a 'defence' zone as they could.
This floor was huge. Both James and Ariel were sure that dozens of unknown races lived on this snow-covered floor.
That's why, when the time came when the authority of the Church of Night would envelop the entire tower and set it on fire, this floor would have a very important task when James led them:
[To protect the unprotected].
This was the wish of James and his subordinate Ariel.
"Say hello to the others for us, Elanor, we'll miss you all," Ariel said and then passed through the portal. James took one last look at the palace around him and then smiled and said, "That was fun." with that, he disappeared into the portal.
Immediately after they passed through the portal, the two opened their eyes on the 35th floor. Both James and Ariel had heard about the beauty of this floor, but they were surprised.
They seemed to be in a city, a floor where there were flowers and trees around the houses and buildings.
A floor where you live in touch with nature.
The 35th floor of the tower is the 'White Altar'.