My Wife and I Became Sages in Another World-Chapter 447: Overwhelming Darkness

After Agares disappeared from our sight, I sent a voice message to the other teams to warn them of his presence in the tower.

The demon didn’t seem interested in anyone else other than Melina and me, but I still thought I should warn them—just in case.

At first, we arrived on the 70th floor full of energy, but that encounter made us hesitate about continuing since we didn’t want to be exhausted when fighting the Primordial demon.

For that reason, we decided to spend the night on the 70th floor, which was a bit dangerous on our part, as the room didn’t have any sort of protection against demons. Still, our companions were keeping watch, and based on what Agares said, I didn’t think he was the type of demon who would try to assassinate us in our sleep.

I slept sitting down on the ground with my back against the wall, facing the large window panel at the back of the room, which gave us a nice view of the crescent moon and the extensive obsidian land far below us.

The following morning, I woke up as soon as the sun started to rise, reflecting the sunlight onto the window and warming my face.

Not even five minutes later, I got messages from the other teams telling me they were resuming their advance, which made me hurry up as we were supposed to be way ahead of them to clear the way.

Ovi seemed to want to sleep for longer, so he stayed put on my shoulder as the rest of us got ready to continue.

When we went up the staircase and arrived at the 71st floor, we were slightly taken aback by the pitch-black darkness that shrouded the room.

It was as if the darkness was somehow "denser" than normal. I couldn’t even see my body from how dark it was, so I tried casting a light mote that would give us a little brightness.

Nonetheless, the darkness was so intense that the light orb barely produced any illumination.

"This sucks..." Melina commented as we all tried making our way through the impossibly dark room.

Honestly, the darkness was so overwhelming that I felt like my other senses were being messed with. Almost as if it was covering my ears.

It didn’t matter if I tried adding more MP to my light mote—there was a point where the brightness simply wouldn’t increase, and I was sure it was an effect of the overwhelming darkness.

The best solution we came up with was hugging the wall from the entrance of the staircase and simply moving around until we could find the exit with our touch. Of course, we tried our best to find it as quickly as possible since we didn’t want to waste our time there.

Unfortunately for us, when we finally found the staircase leading to the next floor, it was exactly the same—a large, pitch-black room.

As my companions and I walked along the edges of the room with our hands grazing the wall, I felt like our misfortune wouldn’t end on that floor.

I had noticed that many areas in the tower were divided by sets of five or ten floors, so there was a possibility that we would have to explore a maximum of ten pitch-black rooms.

Thankfully, after we completed the 75th level, we found ourselves in another hall with elevators. However, when we checked the signs to see where they would take us, we noticed that only one of them went up.

The rest of the lifts could only take us to the lower floors, which gave me an idea.

Obviously, we wouldn’t be taking the elevators to any of the previous floors, but we could send them down for the other teams to use, which would allow them to skip a large chunk of the tower.

My idea had one big problem, though, and it was the fact that these elevator exits were most likely hidden on the previous floors, so we weren’t sure if the lift was only a one-way trip.

Moreover, one person had to be inside the lift chamber for it to work, so we would have to send one of us down there and pray that they could return to the 75th floor in the same elevator.

I sent a voice message to the other teams to gather their opinions about the plan and also to see how far away from us they were.

Yuki’s group had arrived on the 60th floor, which was the area with the endless fields, and coincidentally, one of the elevators had that level as its destination.

However, I also received a message from Harvey telling me that he and his knights had reached floor 58, which made me a little proud since it showed that the Sephyr Knight Orders were strong enough to hold themselves in a battle against the demons.

Unfortunately, none of the elevators had floor 58 as its destination, so they still had to go up a few more floors if they wanted to use it.

Karla offered to take the lift down to the 60th level, explaining that she was the weakest in the group, so if she couldn’t return to us with the same lift, it wouldn’t be a significant loss.

To be fair, Karla was incredibly strong and experienced in battle, but she had a point. In a team with two sages, two ex-demon generals, and a handful of Legendary Beasts, anyone would’ve felt weak.

"You guys keep moving... If I can, I will bring all of the teams that reach level 60," Karla commented, fully determined with an unwavering resolve.

"Karla...!" Jackson exclaimed, stopping himself from finishing the sentence.

"I’ll see you later... When this is all over," She replied softly, activating the elevator and prompting the door to close.

When I glanced at Jackson, he looked a bit disappointed that he couldn’t say what he wanted to say, and even though I may be a little dense, it was crystal clear that Jackson was in love with the ex-knight.

"You heard her, Jack..." I muttered, patting his shoulder as comfort.

A few seconds later, we were all boarding the platform with the sign that said 80th floor, which was the highest we could go from there.

We were only skipping five levels, but they were all pitch-black rooms that would’ve taken us hours to explore, so the lift was quite helpful either way.

’That’s 80% of the tower...’ I thought, clenching my fists and mentally preparing myself for any of the remaining challenges we had.