"Sir Rocky, are we really going to deliver a dragon egg just for it to be sacrificed?" Asked Erin, as he did not seem to feel that good about the whole quest knowing that the package that they were delivering was a living breathing egg, on the cusp of being born.


    "Judging by the cracks on the egg, the process of it hatching has already begun, in the next 20-35 hours the egg should hatch fully. Which coincides with the deadline for our quest toplete.


    There is no doubt in my mind that whoever wants this egg, wants it before it is hatched as should the Newborn live to see a day, the sacrificial ritual won''t work as effectively–" Kronos said, as all eyes turned to Rocky at this moment.


    Of-course nobody wanted to deliver a newborn baby to a killer, however, in this instance Rocky had no choice.


    Although Erin did have 4 return tokens to floor zero on him, which would have allowed the team to escape with the egg instantly, doing so would mean giving up on the quest, which would in turn cause Rocky to get no medicine for Riva for the week.


    "No…. We can''t quit the quest… no matter how much I hate doing this, we mustplete it, because failing the quest means that my sister gets no medicine–" Rocky said, as he made his intentions to see this quest to the end abundantly clear.


    "Maybe we can try and save the egg after delivering it to the enemy andpleting the quest, but that''s after.


    First weplete it anyhow" Rocky said, as he looked at his friends with a desperate expression in his eyes, which showed just how helpless he felt in this situation.


    His sister had just started to get better and Rocky feared that without the medicine she could rpse at any given moment.


    If it wasn''t for her, Rocky would have ended this quest here right this moment, however, since it was not his life on the line but Riva''s, Rocky decided to go through with the cruel act of delivering the egg, to whoever wanted it.


    "It''s settled then boys, the team leader has spoken–" Kronos said, as he started to jog ahead of Rocky, with Buhara following closely behind with a big sigh.


    For a moment Erin looked at the egg box in Rocky''s hand and grit his teeth, but in the end even he understood Rocky''s plight and started to run.


    This left Rocky in the rear all by himself, as he too begrudgingly closed the lid on the box, held it close to his chest and began running, hoping to cross the Dragon Valley passage alive through all the chaos that was enfolding in the surroundings.


    ********


    ( Meanwhile on floor 92 )


    "Oh brother, what are you nning…. If that dragon egg is ughtered in the end, it will scar Rocky and his team forever" Ravan said, as he nced over to his brother who was smiling by himself in a corner.


    "Of-course he will be scarred, I have no doubt about it. However, even this is for his own good brother.


    Perhaps in the future he will find his morality to be more gray than it is right now" Shakuni replied, as Ravan shook his head in disappointment.


    It was days like these where Ravan could not understand whether the system they had designed was really working for Rocky''s benefit, or was it working for his brother?


    Was it really the strongest system for the Champion Of Gemini, or was it his brother who was the Viin With The Strongest System?


    "I don''t approve of this brother. I don''t think having morals is bad.


    Rocky''s personality is already very different to the innocent kid that you met over a year ago, and I think he''s growing just fine.


    You don''t have to make him cruel–" Ravan pleaded, however, Shakuni wasn''t one to listen.


    Having already made his mind, Shakuni had already nned a future for Rocky that had a 90% likely probability to unfold.


    Of-course, there was always a chance that things did not go the way he nned them to, however, in the end he could only manipte the odds and could not manipte certainties.


    "It is a cruel world we live in brother and we are already toote.


    I don''t derive pleasure from Rocky''s suffering, however, the only hope that we have to equal Zeus is if Rocky rises through the tower like a rocket and I have created just the perfect environment for it to happen.


    If I could not peer into the future like you, I would probably have the same set of ideals as you, but guess what?


    I can look into the future and I can see exactly what''s best for us and what isn''t.


    A cruel, desperate Rocky outperforms a calm, confident Rocky 9/10 times brother and it''s moments like these that precisely why we need to push him.


    If not for the life of his sister being on the line, Rocky would have quit this quest here without hesitation.


    However, it is because we have a hanging gun over his head that he must push like there''s no tomorrow.


    I''ve seen every future there is to see brother, so just trust me when I say, this is for our best" Shakuni said, as this argument of his concluded the discussion between himself and Ravan.


    Zeus was already on floor 98 and only a couple steps away from reaching floor 101, whereas they were stuck on floor 92 and had a long way to catch-up to him.


    With Zeus''s champion now being on floor 89 and on the cusp of bing a True God soon, the time that Ravan and Shakuni had to catch up was reducing with every passing day.


    This was one of the main reasons behind why Shakuni was acting with such urgency, as he desperately wished to stop Zeus from reaching floor 100 at any cost possible.