Goodness Home.
At the entrance to the Demon-Slaying Tower.
A Tier Five Professional stationed at the Demon-Slaying Tower led half the Tier Three and Tier Four Professionals.
They maintained order here.
There was no helping it. The newly opened Demon-Slaying Tower was simply too popular.
The lines stretched from the Demon-Slaying Tower's entrance into the city.
For most residents of Goodness Home, the promise of "advancing from Tier One to Tier Two" alone was enough to drive them wild.
Professionals above Tier One, meanwhile, saw that the items redeemable with "demon-slaying points" could actually help them improve too.
How could they possibly resist?!
In the Desert Seven Kingdoms, royalty and nobles held unchecked power, and most methods of advancing at Tier Two and above were monopolized by them.
Few commoners could charge all the way from Tier One to Tier Four.
Even when a commoner reached Tier Four, he would have ties to nobles or other such powers.
Every increase in strength within each tier required not only resources and talent, but, above all, comprehensive knowledge passed down by predecessors.
As commoners or members of ordinary factions, however, all they had was talent...
Resources and their predecessors' knowledge were monopolized by the nobles and royal families.
The Spirit Infusion Tower gave these refugees from the Seven Kingdoms and Desert People hope.
Hope of a path leading straight to Tier Five. All they needed was to give it their utmost and strive toward that goal, though they might lose their lives along the way...
But after living in the Desert for so long, who could fail to understand matters of life and death?
Desert People did not fear death, especially death in pursuit of greater strength.
Whatever An Kai's original intentions in approving the "Spirit Infusion Tower" and "Demon-Slaying Tower," and