There wasn’t any light in the cave. The two couldn’t identify the time within this odd illusionary realm. They even thought that time passed abnormally here.

More importantly, they needed to finish the challenge and get out of here.

Alex couldn’t help but think about that ax inside his consciousness. He didn’t understand why it would react so vigorously, rushing up the Heavenly Stairs and disappearing.

‘It wouldn’t have disappeared just like that, right?’

Alex didn’t know that the ax had returned. He also didn’t realize that Xienna’s soul had come here to look for her lover in the past. It was precisely because she interfered with the ax that it failed in its task, and it gave up.

In reality, that ax did, in fact, want to leave Alex’s mind.

If it were to obtain that thing within the Heavenly Stairs, it wouldn’t be able to stay within Alex’s mind after that. However, Xienna’s interference helped him out instead, preventing him from losing the mysterious ax.

At the time, Maximilia