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Max shook his head. He could think about all that later. He needed to stay focused on the exam and he knew exactly how to do that.
He raised his hand and walked to the front of the group of students.
“I’ll go up first,” he said, grinning at the examiners. “Gladly.”
The instructor snickered at this boldness, but then gestured with his hands that Max should step forward and put his money where his mouth was.
Max gulped and walked into the center of the light and thought to himself: ascend to the next floor.
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Before Max even opened his eyes, he smelled sand and salt water.
After the strange feeling of going through the teleporter, Max took in the new floor.
He was in a sandy tropical island.
Palm trees stood around him, the sky was a bright blue, and through the shrubbery he could see an ocean.
“Ahhh!”
Max turned around and it was Casey who emerged next from the teleporter.
She blinked and once seeing it was safe, put her hands on her hips.
“I couldn’t let you show me up like that!” she said, sticking out her tongue. “We’re a team, remember?”
Max smiled. “Of course.”
“Where are we anyway?” said Casey, looking around. “Maybe the exam is actually a beach holiday? I read a book once about the importance of taking breaks and it said that a lot of people don’t know how to relax, so maybe the mid-term exam is actually a test about how good we are at relaxing?”
Max narrowed his eyes. That’s the most outrageous thing he’d ever heard.
“Yeah, maybe,” he said, continuing to look around.
Behind the teleporter was a large wooden building with the tower-zone climber seal on it.
There were a few climbers with copper and silver badges pinned to their chests. This must be a Zestiris climber outpost of some kind.
He didn’t have time to ponder it as the area filled up with the rest of the students and then the examiners as well.
“Welcome to the next floor,” said the instructor. “The Archipelagos!”
The instructor and examiners led them through the jungle towards the beach area.
“This floor is similar to the endless forest in that it is a mono-climate zone with a similar temperature and topography throughout its entire known area. As you can see since there is no tower in sight, this is another wild floor.”
“But what about that outpost,” said Max, pointing back through the jungle to where they came.
“Zestiris has climber outposts on most floors. Just because a floor is wild doesn’t mean that a minority of people won’t live there, but I would put emphasis on minority. Not many people choose to live a life of hardship with twenty-four hour monster spawn cycles.”
Max nodded and didn’t ask the instructor any more questions.