They made their way through the first floor and up to the second with practiced ease. As expected, the greeters at the stairs did not stop them when they saw who they were, merely stepping aside to let them pass.
When the two crossed the second floor's lavish hall of "costly pleasures and tender embraces" and stepped onto the stairs to the third, the greeters stationed at the turn merely glanced up as a formality before lowering their heads again, as though they were two inconsequential shadows.
It seemed the Moonlit Tower had some unknown means of recording information about every guest who visited and using it to determine which floors they were permitted to enter.
What greeted their eyes was a style of furnishing much like that of the first and second floors.
An enormous screen stood directly before them, completely concealing everything within the third floor.
Yet unlike the "Elysium on Earth" depicted on the first floor's screen and the "costly pleasures and tender embraces" presented on the second, this screen bore four shocking characters in bold, sweeping calligraphy-"Unbridled luxury and desire"!
The ink of those four characters was dark and heavy, as though it contained endless desire and sin. A single glance was enough to feel a suffocating wave of extravagance and madness rush toward them.
Moreover, the third floor's layout was entirely different from the second's.
Rather than being divided into private rooms, the entire floor had been fashioned into one enormous domed space, open and expansive yet carrying an invisible sense of oppression.
At the very center of the hall stood a gigantic gambling table painstakingly fashioned from a single enormous block of white marble. Fist-sized Luminous Pearls were densely embedded along its edges and at its four corners.
Even in the dim interior, they