Return Flight Granted

A giant heart hangs in the center of the room.

Its main body is grayish-blue, covered with scarlet veins, and surrounded by dark purple energy tendrils. It is pulsating, contracting and expanding, and with each pulsation, a visible ripple Diffusion outwards. Within those ripples, there is an aura of Desolation Plague that is almost solidified.

Su Luo reacted extremely quickly.

He made his move almost the instant he saw what it was.

Black Flames surged forth like a tide, instantly climbing up the surface of the heart.

At the same time, layers upon layers of Spell runes exploded from beneath his feet, Diffusion in all directions and enveloping the entire room.

The two forces erupted simultaneously, engulfing the heart completely.

My heart was trembling violently.

A cloud of blood mist burst open on its surface, and countless scarlet liquids gushed out from the cracks, transforming into tentacles in the air that lashed out wildly at the surrounding space.

Then, his heart jolted violently—

It went through the ceiling.

The layers upon layers of Spell runes were rendered useless before it, and the black flames were torn open by it, creating a crack. It flew straight up along the crack and disappeared into the hole in the ceiling.

Su Luo a step forward, her figure transforming into a streak of light as she chased after it.

Then he stopped in front of the hole in the ceiling.

There was nothing there.

The hole was fake; the patterns on the ceiling remained perfectly still, showing no signs of being damaged. The spot where the heart had just passed through was now just a smooth surface with intricate patterns drawn on it.

It was just a cutscene...

"Why did you design such a cheesy cutscene in the first place? Did you have to let the final boss go?"

Su Luo's gaze fell on the Machine Fortress.

"Uh..." Machine Fortress scratched his mechanical head somewhat awkwardly, "I don't know. It's probably... they want the final boss to make an appearance. To give the climbers an impression, to let them know what they're chasing."

Su Luo remained silent, then stepped forward again, pushing open the door to the Endgame of the Tower...

The world behind the door is beyond words.

Chaos.

Illusion and reality intertwine here, past and Future overlap, the boundary between life and death becomes blurred, space loses its fixed form, time loses its stable flow, and all rules are reversed here.

The hands of the pocket watch in Su Luo's hand suddenly started spinning rapidly, and finally, a spark appeared before it exploded.

"No, I haven't used it yet."

Su Luo looked at the fourth stage— the Endgame —and then at the pocket watch she had taken from the Snailman, feeling somewhat helpless.

He put the pocket watch away and looked around.

The rules of Dreamscape here are clearer than ever before.

He could clearly sense that this space was very small, much smaller than he had imagined. The entire fourth phase was probably only the size of a few rooms. But the "depth" of the space was ridiculously deep.

This is the deepest part of the entire [Eternal Night Court].

It is the essence of the entire Dreamscape.

Su Luo was surprised to find that he couldn't exploit the loopholes in the Dreamscape rules here. If another upgradable Relic were placed in front of him, he couldn't change the Relic as he had in the previous shallow Dreamscape.

The sophistication of the Dreamscape's structure here far exceeds Su Luo's technical capabilities; she can only observe the surface appearances.

"Let's go." As soon as they entered the deepest level, the Machine Fortress's eyes became blank, as if Future here before, but it still walked in the lead.

The first room, just as the Observer described, was a room with a campfire.

The Burn flames, no longer dark, leaped in the pure white space, casting flickering shadows. Around the flames were familiar blood-red Text:

[Rest: Restores 30% of your maximum health]

[Forge: Upgrade one card in your deck]

[Resurrection: Resurrection a fallen teammate]

Su Luo Resurrection the Observer from the Machine Fortress, while she herself Resurrection the Blood Moon.

Brilliance emerges.

A crimson moon slowly rose from the bonfire. It hovered in mid-air, emitting a faint bloody glow, motionless, as if it had not yet recovered from death.

That was Blood Moon.

He was Resurrection.

He sensed the difference.

Dying in the Tower normally results in being kicked out of the Dreamscape, returning to reality, and then continuing to be beaten by the person in reality.

He possesses relative immortality, and at his peak, he once covered an entire planet. Although he is currently underdeveloped, he remains of high Essence and will not be killed by these beings.

But now... the Scholar, relying on the fact that His Essence was Suppression the rules of the Dreamscape, directly killed Him and then Resurrection through the Tower.

He transformed into Dreamscape creature, becoming bound to the [Eternal Night Court]. A portion of his existence is now fixed within this world. From this day forward, there will be many ways to defeat him.

The moon slowly turned, facing Su Luo.

If the moon had an expression, its expression at this moment would surely be complex.

What made you start playing the card game "Tower"?

Framed by an enemy!

I fuck the mothers of all of you in Zone 76!

Ignoring the melancholy of the Blood Moon, Su Luo ripped it off and hung it around her waist as a pendant. Then she went into the next room and saw the familiar Smurf.

The familiar Smurf merchant sat cross-legged on the blue-green carpet, wearing his ever-smiling mask. On the carpet were a few Relics, a few bottles of potions, and a few cards.

Since she wasn't relying on cards to fight anymore, Su Luo didn't return the coins this time, nor did she steal anything. Instead, she walked up to the Smurf and Jingjing looked at him.

Unexpectedly, the Smurf merchant didn't utter any of the usual NPC quotes, but instead looked directly into Su Luo's eyes:

"I was once an adventurer too, until I gave up resistance and chose to trade."

"How did the Tower accommodate you?" Su Luo wasn't surprised that the merchant had once been a tower climber.

"Of course... I also became part of the Tower, became... eternal, existing alongside the Tower."

The merchant smiled and pointed to the Four-Colored Puppets.

"Aren't they also climbers in an eternal cycle of Reincarnation? Their ultimate goal is to survive forever."

"But the Tower shouldn't exist now. Do you want to come with us? To the end, to destroy it all."

The usually quiet Iron Guard extended an invitation to the merchant.

"If the Tower is destroyed, I will die," he said. "All creatures that depend on this Tower will die."

He paused, then smiled.

But the Tower will not be destroyed.

The Smurf merchant finished speaking with a smile and sat back down on his blanket.

"But what's the point of endless Reincarnation? Good luck to you."

The merchant waved goodbye to the group as they left.

In the next room, there were two Elite monsters. Su Luo raised her hand and instantly killed them.

The monsters in the Tower are not powerful; the powerful ones are all Suppression by the rules of the Dreamscape.

But Su Luo skipped the rules.

The final boss's door was unremarkable, no different from the previous ones.

Su Luo a step forward, and scenes similar to those before began to appear.

The surrounding scenery was like a crumpled scroll, peeling away piece by piece, everything turning into flowing light, and the core of the Dreamscape emerged.

Here we go again?

The Tower's branches flew away.

Su Luo began to fall, yet it also seemed as if she was rising.

The surrounding scenery kept changing: Burn villages, twisted cities, Chaos Voids, graveyards of the dead Gods... everything was receding.

Then they all disappeared.

Su Luo's feet touched solid ground.

It's pure white, but this isn't Era Fragment outside the Tower.

This is the final room; it's just a bit fancy with the special effects.

Okay, old Mu the Tower is permitted to return.