Bab 171: 1357

The group finally managed to speed up in hopes of adhering to their schedule. 

With the decision to let Tom soak all the mana from the stones in hopes of pushing him to the breakthrough point of a hundredth level, they no longer needed to take short breaks between each of the floors.

Breaks that, although short on their own, quickly started to amount to yet another portion of their lateness. 

"Okay, I'm off for the boss," Tom announced as soon as the group reached the end of the corridor. 

Right now, they were at the endpoint of the fiftieth floor. A single step further, and Tom would have to face the rank-up boss, one that belonged to the class of monsters of the floors above rather than the floors below.