Chunghuh turned to Surha at those words.

"It can change."

"What?"

"This world can change."

Surha frowned. But at that moment, a man appeared from the weird building. Surha quickly deactivated her world. It was Jaehwan who had appeared. He walked up to the control panel to manage the time scale. He then glanced for a second at the place where Surha and Chunghuh were and then walked back into the tower.

"Is it him?"

"…"

"Did he change you?"

Chunghuh did not answer. He quietly rose up and said, "Give me that beer."

Surha handed over the bottle and Chunghuh began drinking. They didn't say a word, but Surha could read Chunghuh's expression. She couldn't believe there was something still left in Chunghuh to make him change this much.

"Let me ask you again. Why are you here?"

"To kill you."

Chunghuh looked at Surha. She was a woman with no emotion.

"Then do it."

"No, I changed my mind."

Surha turned towards Carpediem.

"I think it will get interesting."

"…Are you trying to interfere with our plan?"

"Interfere?" Surha scoffed. "You will fail. Just like how you failed 900 years ago in , and 700 years ago in the ."

"No."

It was a firm but definitive answer. Surha, the 2nd Captain of [Rupture], couldn't accept how the old man who had felt despair more than anyone in a thousand years had found new hope.

"[Rupture] will have eyes on you all."

Then she disappeared. Chunghuh was left alone with the bottle of beer left by Surha.

"…This is good beer."

Cayman couldn't guess how much time had pa.s.sed since he started training. But after continuous stabbing and countless duels with Jaehwan, he reached it. After pa.s.sing through the 2nd keyword [Understanding], he had arrived at the 3rd step. His spirit was reborn. He couldn't remember how many times he stabbed, but he had now reached it. He had succeeded in creating his own world.

"Congratulations."

Jaehwan was in front of him as he opened his eyes. He then felt the unfathomable power of Jaehwan that he couldn't feel before.

'I can't even measure how strong he is.'

According to Chunghuh, Jaehwan was also a 3rd step Awakener. However, Cayman knew there was a huge wall between Jaehwan and himself. Cayman was unsure as to how strong he had become.

"Did I really become stronger?"

"Yes."

"But two years is not enough time to…"

"Two years? Do you really think it has only been two years?"

Cayman became confused.

"The 2nd floor has a different time scale than the 1st floor."

"T-then how many years has pa.s.sed?"

Jaehwan did not answer the question but instead tapped on Cayman's shoulder.

"It's time to test out your power."