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- Tower Climber
- Jakob Tanner
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“It was initially a temporary measure,” explained the climber president. “One that in the end, those who knew the truth, chose to never reveal. It was all done in the name of protecting everyone. It’s why they built walls, separating the two zones of the city. The founders wanted to separate climbers from the rest of the citizens. They did so to protect the citizens from the monster waves but also to protect the citizens from the climbers themselves. The goal was for the climbers to find a way to reach the top of the tower and revive Earth from its destruction, while keeping those who didn’t need to know more blissfully ignorant. We’d seen how panic and hysteria had helped aid the destruction of Earth once already, the founders didn’t want to let such things run rampant a second time.”
Max gulped once more.
“So we’re on floor-4, you said. How do the monster waves work? Shouldn’t there just be monsters spawning everywhere all over the city?”
The climber president nodded. “This is something that remained a mystery to the founders. Zestiris exists on floor-4 of the tower. It is a tamed floor. We suspect the monster waves happen on all tamed floors where the tower manifests itself. We also believe the floors below us have become dead floors, wrought with destruction. No one travels down there any more.”
“So why do you have guards around the teleporter?”
The man looked at Max very seriously once more. “In case anything decides to come up.”
Max tried to process all the information the climber president was telling him. It was a lot and yet he was slightly disappointed. The information hadn’t brought him any closer to finding his sister.
Yet, he had the president here. Why not ask him now?
Max gulped.
“Do you know anything about my sister?” he asked.
“I do,” said the climber president. “But we cannot discuss such matters now. Nor do I think they’ll aid you currently. You have a lot to think about. The tower climbers of Zestiris don’t just go up the tower searching for adventure and glory, they go in an effort to help save humanity and the planet we lost. You must consider the consequences of your goals and the lofty weight of your desire to become a tower climber. Are you ready to start fighting back on humanity’s behalf?”
Max didn’t know what to say back to the man.
“The final climber exams are going to begin in a few weeks. You must train hard for them. If you pass, we can speak again and I can tell you what I know about your sister. Until then, you must go train.”
The man started to shepherd Max out of his office when Max remembered his whole reason for going out into the outer-rim in the first place.