Once Larkin was determined to be distinctly not dead, dozens of intrepid souls raced into the tower to try their luck. The quest reward from the Guild wasn't much, but the System side of the prize offered a progressively better bonus for every ten levels completed inside the tower.
To complete even the first ten, you had to be able to fight monsters twenty levels above your own, which was no small thing to most classes. That wasn't going to stop the residents of Long Fang Valley, though, especially the Bear Kin.
When they got the news that they could fight through monsters up to a hundred levels above their own anytime they wanted, their first response was to ask for time off from work. Even among the non-combat classes, the bears were almost all battle maniacs.
