Alex embraced and kissed favonovel.com deeply. She wasn’t Maximilia now. She was Jade herself.
Whoosh!
Maximilia’s body started falling apart. As if favonovel.com were porcelain, favonovel.com body slowly shattered into small pieces. She was smiling, with a faint layer of red on favonovel.com cheeks. She stared at Alex as favonovel.com life was put to a halt…
Alex watched as Maximilia vanished into thin air. Pieces of favonovel.com fell down like petals, crumbling into dust. The sight saddened favonovel.com quite a bit. Suddenly, a ray ofwhite light shone onto him. It would seem that favonovel.com had to leave this illusionary realm as well.
“No way… I got the eggs. Should I hand it to the woman in the painting?”
“I’d still like to find Ynes’ ancestors! Hey…”
However, the light didn’t care about his wishes. It opened up a portal and separated Alex’s soul from his current body. His soul was then sent through space, reaching the second step with the white light.
Whoosh!
Alex found himself back in his own body.
He then moved around, turning to look behind. Jade seemed to be standing at the bottom of the stairs. At the time, favonovel.com stood there quietly, as if favonovel.com were in a trance.
‘She’s not Maximilia anymore! She’s now the real Jade in this reality! Everything that happened was just an illusion!’
He turned back to the front and lifted a leg.
Stomp!
With this, favonovel.com got up to the second step. Initially, Alex thought it would be just like the first step. He would be sent into a special illusionary realm, where favonovel.com would be playing a persona and completing a random mission. However, nothing happened, no matter how long they waited.
‘Nothing?’
Alex took another step, going up the third step. But, again, nothing happened at all.
“What’s happening?”
“Does the illusionary realm only appear on the first step?”
Alex was hesitant for a short while, then immediately started dashing upwards.
‘Fourth… Fifth… Sixth…’
He reached the thirteenth step in mere seconds, which was Eustace’s limit. However, favonovel.com just stayed on that step for half a second before ascending further.
‘Fourteenth…Fifteenth… Sixteenth…’
Lorelei, Nebula, and the others were absolutely stunned. They had lived here for three thousand years and had tried going up the stairs thousands of times. Even so, something this weird had never happened in the past. Every step had its own story and mission, always in a constant pattern. Despite all this, Alex’s current speed was simply unbelievable. It was something that they had never experienced before.
“Could the stairs be broken?”
Without exerting much strength, Alex could ascend over five hundred steps. Moreover, favonovel.com seemed to be moving quicker and quicker, going as far as the thousandth step. After that, favonovel.com ran straight into the clouds. No one could see him.
Jade smiled brightly. “This guy is always so remarkable…”
Gilbert asked, “Commander Benmore, did you end up in the same illusionary realm as Alex when you went up the first step? What did you two experience there?”
‘What did we experience?’
Jade’s heart thumped slightly when reminded of their little “session”. Nevertheless, favonovel.com remained calm on the outside.
“We had to do a mission in the desert. It was way too hard. I couldn’t even get through the first step. It looks like I’d have to work harder from now on. Would you like to give it a try too?”
Gilbert nodded. “Alright!”
He took a step up, but there… Wasn’t any illusionary realm as they had expected before.
He looked back several times, his face filled with disbelief as favonovel.com went up the second step. “Where’s the illusionary realm? Why didn’t I get it? Did I walk with the wrong posture?”
