Alter Dimension: Lucky Dungeon Master

"Is there anyone sitting here with you?"

Alex looked at the cold woman staring down at him while asking a question.

Without doubt, Alex heard what she said when she was still standing at the entrance.

Not wanting other customers to be shooed, she decided to just look for a seat and share a table with a stranger.

For that, Alex can't help but have a good impression of this genius girl.

Unexpectedly, the target that she found was actually his table.

Thinking of it, a genius girl sitting with him, it's quite… normal.

Alex didn't take this so-called genius at heart.

For him, genius or not, they are all just the same.

What he should focus on is making him stronger and stronger.

Anyway, feeling Elisa staring at him, Alex shook his head and said, "No, there's no one there."

"Then, can I sit with you?"

"Sure, go ahead."

With Alex's approval, Elisa finally sat down on the chair opposite of him and said, "Thanks."

After that, Elisa called a server and ordered some food.

When the server left, Elisa had nothing else to do and was planning to close her eyes while waiting.

However, when she remembered that there's a stranger with her, she thought for a second before introducing herself.

"Thank you for letting me sit here. My name is Elisa Flores, pleased to meet you."

She said, stretching out her hand to Alex.

Alex smiled and responded, "I'm Zero."

He grabbed her hand and shook it before immediately letting go.

That action caused Elisa to raise an eyebrow.

Normally, when she's shaking hands with other people whether they are a man or a woman, they always like holding her hand for an extended period of time.

Because of that, she actually doesn't like shaking hands with other people.

Unexpectedly, here in a restaurant that she took a fancy in.

She met a man who doesn't seem to care about her at all.

But she didn't care much about it and just honestly waited for her food to arrive.

Less than five minutes later, the food they ordered arrived at the same time.

When they saw the food they each ordered, Elisa and Alex looked at each other.

Surprisingly, they ordered exactly the same thing.

Stir fried vegetables, Pancit canton, Beef Stew, etc.

Alex was the first one to speak.

With a smile, he said, "Looks like we share the same taste with food, huh."

Hearing his words, a slight smile also appeared on Elisa's face as she said, "It seems like that's the case, Mr. Zero."

After a small conversation, the two started eating their food.

Elisa ate her food while maintaining proper etiquette. Her elegance didn't diminish one bit while eating.

As for Alex, he didn't really care about such things but you can still see that he is very clean.

10 minutes later, Alex finished eating.

Taking a gold coin from his inventory, Alex placed it on the table and stood up.

Seeing his movements, Elisa looked at him and asked, "Are you leaving now, Mr. Zero?"

To that, Alex nodded, "Yes, I still have something to do so I have to leave now."

"Understood, please take care on your way."

"Yes, thank you." Alex said, "Please continue enjoying your meal."

After saying that, Alex headed out of the restaurant without looking back.

Once outside, Alex smiled and said, "Now then, time to head to the Trial Tower!"

After picking up Ferri from the stables, the two of them directly headed towards the Trial Tower.

When they arrived at the periphery of the tower, Alex noticed that a lot of guards wearing heavy armor were standing around it.

"Hmm, so the Trial Tower is really heavily guarded, huh."

"Well, that makes sense. After all, it is necessary for players to breakthrough and advance their Tier."

Soon, Alex and Ferri approached one of the guards.

When those guards saw them going near them, they loudly said, "Halt!"

Immediately, their movements came to a pause.

Seeing that, those guards relaxed and asked, "State your purpose!"

Without saying anything, Alex took out his guild card and showed it to them.

The guards looked at it carefully.

When they saw that he was a level 25, they finally let down their guard and said,

"Okay, enter the tower and make sure to not forget about writing your name on the stone list at the entrance."

After saying that, they once again turned silent and just focused on guarding the tower.

Alex turned his eyes to Ferri and said, "Ferri, wait for me to finish the trial here. It won't take long."

Ferri whimpered after hearing that and rubbed his head on Alex's.

After rubbing Ferri's head for a while, Alex finally turned around and entered the Trial Tower.

Just as Alex entered, he saw a huge stone monument that had countless names written on it.

"This should be the stone the guard was talking about."

"But, how am I going to write down my name there?"

After thinking about it, Alex shrugged and approached the stone.

Instinctively, Alex thought of touching the tone and so, he did.

That's when a system notification appeared.

[Ding!]

[It was detected that you're challenging the Trial Tower, would you like to write down your name on the stone monument?]

[Yes / No]

Seeing that, Alex paused for a second before pressing the 'Yes' button.

For a moment, Alex saw the stone monument glowed lightly.

It died down not even a second later and Alex didn't see any changes on the stone.

"Hmm, I wonder what's the purpose of this stone."

Curiously, Alex started looking carefully at the stone and noticed that beside the names, there was something else written on it.

The floors!

After seeing that, Alex finally got a preliminary guess as to what the stone monument's purpose is.

Rubbing his chin, Alex said, "From this, it seems like this stone monument records the final floor that challengers achieve in the Trial Tower."

A smiled suddenly crept up his lips and he said, "I wonder if it's connected to all the other Trial Tower."