Chapter 352: Entering The Twenty First Floor

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A few minutes ago, Azmond asked everyone if they wanted to take a nap before they moved onto the Twenty First Step, and for some odd reason, everyone immediately said yes.

Following such a group confirmation, he set out dozens of jumbo-sized beds in the black dome, enough that every person, including Spiritflame and Ayalah, would get their own, but other than Spiritflame and Ayalah, not a single other person slept in their own bed.

Azmond at the time thought nothing of it and just assumed that they changed their minds about sleeping, but he was quickly proven wrong in his speculations when they all followed him into bed.

And that wasn't even the worst part of it, as they all had on the most alluring and scandalous nightwear they could possibly find in their storage rings!

In fact, a few of them might as well have been wearing no nightgowns or lingerie, considering how little fabric they actually had on them.

Nonetheless, after everyone got on the same bed, Azmond assumed that things would escalate and they would attempt to take him right then and there, but surprisingly, not a single one of them tried anything on him.

They simply snuggled up to his body before falling asleep on top of him.

But it seemed like they were the only ones behaving, as Boundless and even Calista made a few moves on Azmond.

He had, of course, slapped their sneaky hands away, albeit for two different reasons.

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'I really need to have a talk with Calista about her new attitude towards me.' Azmond thought with an aged look on his face.

He truly lamented his fate for being so handsome that even underage girls were attempting to do things to him regardless of the consequences.

He had no experience dealing with such 'situations', and he couldn't reprimand that adorable face of Calista's, so like most matters in life, he simply left the matter for later

It was unknown how his relationship with Calista would turn out, but he hoped he could help her calm down a little in her 'outgoing' actions against him.

A part of him believed that she was taking after the Monster Queen's seductress-like demeanors, but he also believed that part of her brazen behavior was due to suddenly having feelings she didn't even know she had before.

"!?" Clawdia escaped her thoughts as she looked up, only to see a warm smile on Azmond's face.

Following such a radiant smile, he whispered, "You shouldn't blame yourself for the entire matter that happened with your family and the Overseers. I think you did the best you could given the extremely limited options you had."

Clawdia's pretty eyes never left Azmond's profound blues as she muttered, "You really are a kind man."

Following such a muted proclamation, her tail started to twitch a little as her fluffy cat ears bent down a tiny bit, before she turned her head down from Azmond's face and went back to sleep.

'...' Azmond thought over the familiar phrase that everyone kept on telling him, and he couldn't help but think that they were wrong in their deductions.

'I'm not nice. I simply do things for other people, so as to benefit myself,' he thought with a solemn expression.

Azmond wouldn't allow himself to become soft-hearted in the world of cultivation, or at least, he wouldn't allow himself to realize it.

That was just the type of mentality you had to have if you wished to live in a world that was against you from the very beginning.

A full day passed by, as Azmond, Calista, Boundless, Clawdia, the Monster Queens, Ayalah, Spirtflame, the women in Azmond's storage ring, and the unconscious Marina made their way to the door that would lead them to the Twenty First Floor.

Marina and the women in Azmond's storage ring had not awoken yet, but when they did, he already had varying ideas on how he should handle both matters.

But that was for another time, as he would worry about that after he had fully entered the Twenty First Floor of the Luminous Grounds.

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*Step Step*

Soft footsteps echoed out, as Azmond and the gang approached the door to the Twenty-First Floor.

Everyone had varying expressions after understanding where they were going; however, the most excited of them all had to be Azmond and Emu.

After all, they had heard from Clawdia that it wasn't just the Monster Emperor's that lived on the Twenty First Floo