“It’s not easy to see the great Urd like this.” A snake suddenly popped out of a corner of Urd’s dark holy territory and turned into a human.

『If you only want to talk bullshit, Hermes, just leave.』 Urd shouted at Hermes in annoyance. However, Hermes only tapped his staff, Herald, on the floor with a laugh.  

『You wicked…』

Hermes only continued to laugh, and Urd became even more annoyed. She’d been planning to confuse Yeon-woo since there weren’t a lot of people with a messy past like him. Many players entered the Tower with all kinds of regret about the past. Yeon-woo was the best one out of them all. Most players lived with hope. Some wanted to achieve things in the Tower that they couldn’t elsewhere. Others wanted a new life. Some wanted medicine to heal their loved ones. Whatever the reason, they climbed the Tower with hope. It was the life they lived and their present and future.

But Yeon-woo was different. He didn’t have a particular hope. He just climbed the Tower without escaping from the shackles of the past. In fact, he locked them around himself even tighter. Since Urd was a god that saw the past, it was easy for her to pick out memories to test people with. She...