Rocky felt quite reassured that both Erin and Buhara had decided to join his party for the future.
For him recruiting them now was important, because, in a few weeks from now, various adventurer groups, guilds and climber parties were sure to approach the to-be graduates of the University For Nourishment Of Young Talents, to recruit them under their fold.
Under such circumstances, if Rocky would have waited for too long, he might have ended up losing either one, or both of his friends to other employment opportunities, and hence, he was happy with recruiting them now, although he had no idea as to who the other two members of his party might be.
The tower of Ascension was designed in a way that one could challenge for each floor in odd group multiples.
A party challenging a floor could be anywhere from a group of 3 to 17 people, however, always in odd multiples.
