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- Tower Climber
- Jakob Tanner
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Casey crossed her arms and shook her head. “Inappropriate behavior! Did no one ever teach you how to treat a lady!?”
Max got up to his feet and stood away from the teleporter. To be fair to him, no one had really ever taught him how to treat a lady, but that was besides the point. She had crashed onto him!
He was about to explain all of that when Casey changed the subject.
“Where are we? This forest is pretty. I wonder if there’s any cute animals here we can play with! C’mon Toto, let’s make animal friends!”
“Uhh,” said Max. “Does that mean you’re not mad at me anymore?”
Casey picked up a stick and started poking around the small clearing they were in.
“Mad about what?” she asked.
I guess she’d gotten over it already, thought Max. Fine by me. I’m NOT going to remind her about it then.
“Uhh,” said Max, scratching the back of his head. “Nothing.”
The two defense climbers on guard duty snickered at the interaction.
After a minute or two, the rest of the class including the instructor were standing in the forest along with them.
“Welcome to the floor above our own,” said the instructor. “Also known as The Endless Forest.”
Everyone looked around the woods in awe.
The Endless Forest, huh?
So this whole floor was just a gigantic forest, thought Max. Nothing else. Interesting.
“Follow me,” said the instructor.
The group of students followed the instructor through the woods.
“The tower consists of two types of floors: wild floors and tamed floors,” said the instructor as they walked deeper into the forest. “I bet by looking around you can guess that floor-2 is a wild floor. Such floors are typically full of monsters and wilderness. The monsters that roam on a wild floor typically respawn every twenty-four hours if slain. Due to the harsh conditions, not many people choose to reside on a wild floor for very long. They have become more or less adventuring sites and training zones.”
Max peered around the forest. There was so much to learn about this world. It was so vast and overwhelming.
“And while we’re on the subject of the different types of floors,” said the instructor, still leading the group further into the forest. “Let me speak briefly about tamed floors. Not that you’ll be seeing one any time soon. Tamed-floors are usually multiple times larger than wild floors, to the point that they are sometimes referred to as world floors. Typically, the tower takes shape within a tamed-floor, which is the easiest way to differentiate the two floors. Civilizations and worlds have been built on this type of floor. There are less monster inhabitants, and a much slower respawn time if any at all. Only the most dedicated and well-vetted tower climbers visit such floors, acting as ambassadors for our city and world.”