On the huge pillar, Geoffrey was climbing the steep staircase step by step.
In actuality, climbing up the huge pillar was a very complicated thing.
Every one thousand steps, there would be a statue blocking his way.
When it came to the rotten and scrapped statues, he dealt with them with ease. He only needed to carefully pass them without making any contact.
However, the intact and mobile ones were great trouble.
Every time Geoffrey encountered a statue that could move, he would forcefully pull the rope that connected him and Ziya.
Then, at the foot of the pillar, Ziya would pull Geoffrey down from the pillar.
Ziya wasn't able to clearly see what was happening on the pillar, so he was there as a support for Geoffrey.
Fortunately, he could still control his physical strength very well.
So whenever Geoffrey would be in danger, Ziya would immediately drag him down. And before he hit the ground, Ziya would firmly catch him.
When the statues started chasing after them, they would run towards the nearest cave.
However, the mobile statues were tenacious. Once they locked on their targets, they wouldn't give up easily until they were destroyed.
They circled down the stairs and chased after Geoffrey into the nearest world.
After several attempts of repeating the same process, Ziya realized that they were up for a long-term battle. Thus, he decided to put up a big array at the entrance of the world.
Geoffrey and Ziya entered the array first.
When the statues chased after them and entered the array, the array was instantly activated.
Streaks of golden lightning burst out from all directions and pierced into the weak parts of the statues.
Crack! Crack!
The statues were charred by the bolts of lightning, but they still weren't completely destroyed. With that, Ziya took out his God Lashing Whip.
He let out tens of thousands of golden whip shadows, lashing out the solid statues until they finally disintegrated.
"Fortunately, the statues have been corroded over time, so they were quite easy to destroy," Ziya said after crushing the statues to pieces.
The powers possessed by the statues in the past were absolutely greater compared to what they were experiencing now. Even Ziya couldn't fully resist them.
After destroying the most recent statue, Ziya noticed a frown on Geoffrey's face. "What's wrong?" he asked.
"I'm just tired," Geoffrey answered as he let out a sigh.
Personally, Geoffrey didn't have a persistent attitude.
Back then, he just came to explore the four pillars because he found them really interesting.
At first, he was fascinated by what he found out about it.
He could control other people's Other Shore Tokens at will, and he could climb up the stairs. He wondered what he would encounter if he was able to climb up to the top of the pillar.
He also thought that if he could find his father's Other Shore Tokens there, he would have the opportunity to change them to more powerful ones. He was excited to know how his father would react when he found out that his Other Shore Tokens were upgraded.
But all of that was just his wishful thinking. The reality that he found out was so much different from what he imagined.
The pillar was too high that he couldn't say for sure if he would be able to reach its top.
In the beginning, Geoffrey was still counting the steps that he had climbed.
Whenever he had climbed about one thousand steps, he would encounter the statues that would attack the intruders.
Since he had no means to defeat the statues, he would pull the rope and descend to the bottom, and then he would let Ziya deal with the statues.
After the statues were successfully destroyed, he would continue climbing up.
The higher he climbed, the longer it took him to get back when a statue started attacking.
There were even times when he had mistaken a stationary statue for a mobile one. Because of that, he accidentally pulled the rope, so Ziya immediately dragged him down. In those cases, he really regretted wasting so much energy and effort.
The process was getting so boring.
Geoffrey, who was the one climbing the pillar, was already running out of patience and wanted to give up.
Surely, Ziya also knew about that.
He knew how tiresome and dangerous it was.
However, the fact remained that the pillar could control the Other Shore Tokens in the chaos.
Its importance was very evident.
"We've been here for a long time, huh?" Ziya sighed. "I know it's tough for you, but—"
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