With the insects gone, Joey also lifted Weather Report's restriction on oxygen.
The Searchlights on the Mercenary Robot lit up again, pointing straight overhead.
They pierced the vast darkness but revealed nothing useful, only an insect or two occasionally flashing past above.
These creatures were extremely tenacious, becoming active again once they received oxygen.
Joey was in no hurry to remove the nitrogen layer below. Who knew whether those things might come back to life?
Maintaining the current state barely drained Joey anyway.
The patter of footsteps echoed through the enormous Tower, then quickly vanished into the darkness.
The places that looked like windows from outside the Tower had long since been sealed shut with an unknown substance, preventing even a sliver of outside light from entering.
Joey tried to break through that mysterious substance and failed.
He did not recklessly use First Bomb to force his way through. There were simply too many such places in the Tower, covering too much area.
Destroying them would be a huge undertaking, and Joey was unsure whether breaking just a small section would trigger anything, so he simply left them alone for now.
When they reached an altitude of two thousand meters on foot, statues began appearing around them.
They resembled some of the statues Joey and the others had seen outside the Ancient City.
The nerves they had relaxed slightly tightened again.
At the same time, markings began appearing on the stone steps beneath them. A close examination revealed that these markings formed God Script when connected!
As they continued piecing them together, they discovered that the God Script here consisted of only one character: seal!
A thought gradually surfaced in everyone's minds. Could this Tower also be suppressing and sealing something?
But there were only stairs here, without any other