Another episode, another test. I guess simply qualifying for the Tower is going to be a meaty arc – there’s some promise that we might move on shortly, but all the same it’s been a good deal more than I would have expected from the pitch.
This, in turn, gives a good deal of
artificiality to the Tower. Unlike The Abyss in Made in Abyss or
many other mega-dungeons, even ones that have something like a
man-made structure, there’s clearly an order and formality to the
tower. Someone is clearly in charge, and the challenge is one set
not by uncaring nature or divine providence but by human or
human-like authority… which ties in to Khun’s previously stated
interest to go full malicious compliance on the Tower, passing it
(which means playing to win) but refusing to play the way the Tower
intends.
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