36th Floor (2)

It sent the light the flag had absorbed back to me. Like an antenna.

I could feel an alien force gathering inside me.

It wasn’t much.

About the amount of a fingernail, really.

I could tell instinctively what it was.

‘Is this the power of faith Sand Worm was talking about last time?’

Gathering faith to raise one’s rank.

The path to godhood.

Of course, I had never once thought I wanted to become a god.

Without even realizing it, I seemed to have stepped onto the opening stretch of a similar path...