Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26616484-20150803170319/@comment-6166034-20151208010002

"the story of Tower of God actually revolves around the 10 Families and Zahard’s past ^^; Why FUG is trying to kill Zahard,  how Zahard became the King of the Tower,  why Mirchea Luslec wanted to make Baam a Slayer,  all of these will be revealed one by one (as well as stuff about Zahard’s Princesses)."[afterwords]

So it seems the whole point of "the journey"/story is to make us understand why FUG dislike Zahard, and how Baam is going to be prompted to fight against him (and I guess having Rachel as bait for all those fishing stories isn't too hard to imagine).

1. is being taking care of by "the Thorn" and "revolution" now, maybe some other "training/power ups" will be required, but idc why Baam wouldn't be more powerful than Zahard, when he already didn't "give in" to his power "like Zahard".

2-3. There're other ways to pitt Baam against Zahard than "might", there's blackmail and hostages, there's making Zahard threatening Baam's friends. And there's also informations that may convince Baam that fighting Zahard is the good fight (what he did to Yuri-uni, it seems the "making of princesses" is quite a disturbing thing that traumatized Androssi).