Introduction: Lucian Vitara lives on the thirteenth of the thousand floors inside the tower that hosts the last of humanity. Life isn鈥檛 too bad if you exclude the mandatory unpaid work hours spent stripping and recycling parts from broken machinery, being among the first floors drafted as Pillars or regular soldiers when the rest of the tower needs fresh bodies, and having to eternally bow and scrape to the tower lords. Despite this, Lucian was somewhat content. Until he was conscripted as a Pillar. Now he has to venture both outside and inside the tower to fight the beasts that threaten the people of the tower, as well as those who bring it down from the inside....