From this encounter, Max quickly understood the pattern of the Combat Tower. The enemies ahead would not be random illusions or simple projections. They were fragments of real warriors who had once challenged the tower and left behind part of their existence.
Each fragment carried the battle experience and techniques of its original owner, even if their cultivation was suppressed to match the floor's requirement. That realization did not intimidate him. Instead, it sharpened his focus.
Without pause, Max ascended to the thirty second floor, then the thirty third, and continued upward. On each floor, a new opponent awaited him. Their cultivations began at the fifth level of the Rebirth Realm but gradually rose as he climbed.
