Chapter 1987: Build Up (Part 1)

"How? I mean, the tower has always been a powerful artifact. Sure, I knew about the missing floors but I never suspected that even those I have already recovered were crippled." Solus asked. 

"Think about it. What was the first floor that the tower recovered?" Salaark said.

"The Forge." Lith replied.

It had also recovered the living quarters, but aside as a place to rest in-between experiments, they had never mattered much.

"What then?" Salaark gestured for him to continue.

"Then it recovered the Mirror Hall, the Heart, the Mine, the Crucible, the Library, and the Greenhouse. Only recently-"

"That's enough." The Guardian cut him off. "Now, stop seeing them as separate floors and consider them as a whole. The Forge is the foundation of Menadion's work because she was a Forgemaster and the whole tower is a Forgemastering tool.