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Chapter 164

Secrets in the tower

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Malenia was patient, but after feeling her way around twice, she still found nothing on the walls that could serve as an entrance. All she could feel was that the decorations on the walls had been damaged, which made her exploration extremely troublesome.

As she explored, she also realized that this Divine Tower must have been carved directly out of a small mountain. The mountain had been sculpted into the shape of a tower, then hollowed out and fitted with stairs, lifting platforms, and other interior structures leading straight to the summit where the Two Fingers resided.

Divine Towers had very simple structures to begin with. Malenia could not understand why Radahn's was so strange. Surely whoever had used the Divine Tower before Radahn could not fly too?

"Starstep."

Sighing softly, she used the patterns on the walls to climb upward, though rather than climbing, she was really leaping up along the wall. She could not be bothered to spend more time searching for an entrance and chose instead to look for the open-air corridor she remembered.

There would be a corridor in the upper-middle section of a Divine Tower, with stairs leading straight to the summit where the Two Fingers resided. It would usually connect to the lift chamber inside the Divine Tower. The lift chamber was directly beneath the Two Fingers.

Malenia thought Divine Towers probably all shared this structure. No matter how their interiors were decorated, this part should remain the same.

Her gamble proved correct. After leaping upward three times, she finally felt the edge of the open-air corridor.

She hauled herself up with one arm, planted her feet on solid ground, brushed the dust off herself, and headed toward the lift beneath the Two Fingers.

She did not want the Two Fingers to know she

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