[You have entered Section E.]

[This is the outer territory.]

Yeon-woo folded his Fire Wings and quickly left the tunnel. Clearing the Tutorial again brought back a lot of memories.

「Were you too busy walking down memory lane to see the other challengers looking flabbergasted, Master? They were so dispirited. Aw. Poor guys.」 Shanon thought of the challengers struggling among the traps and shook his head. They watched Yeon-woo sliding through the section with his Fire Wings with so much despair that he almost felt sorry for them.

The thought that Yeon-woo was a novice like them probably made most of them retire immediately, thinking that the Tower was full of monsters like him. Shanon thought it was worse to hurt the delicate feelings of the innocent newbies than to crush the stages and make the Bureau suffer.

“That’s why I did it.”

「Why?」

“Most of them will only be filled with despair after entering the Tower anyway.”

Shanon couldn’t think of anything to rebut that statement. He had also felt despair after bumping into a wall after becoming a ranker and dropping out because he couldn’t pass the fiftieth floor.  

“If that’s all they amount to, it’s better to give up and return home.”

「Huh. I guess I don’t have anything to say to...