Chapters (122)
- Tower Climber
- Jakob Tanner
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Max scanned the titles of these more general books. He started pulling out books that had memoir in the title.
He returned to his desk with a new stack of thirteen books. He pushed the six he’d brought out before to the side and got back down to work.
He started skimming through them, looking for that one piece of information, that one nugget, that one clue that was going to help him further his goals.
He put the first three books down fairly quickly. He was reading through the memoirs of famous or semi-famous tower climbers. It was pretty obvious within the first few pages how much time they spent discussing the endless forest, which usually either amounted to one sentence or nothing at all.
He continued reading.
Halfway through his stack, he picked up a book that was most likely the oldest one in his pile. The pages were brown and crumbling. It was full of dust and it smelt old.
He cracked it open.
The Travels of Rem the Merchant translated by Esther Hupple, T.C.
Max checked the publication date and it was 2063. The book was over two decades old.
He looked at the author. Esther Hupple. Never heard of her before. He guessed the T.C. at the end of her name stood for tower climber.
Max started the book and it was much more fascinating than the others. Rem was a merchant from a much higher floor, who’d made his business collecting abundant goods and commodities on one floor and then trading those commodities to other floors where such commodities were rare. That was his main business, but he also was fascinated by hunting for treasure throughout the tower.
“After many years of travelling and exploring the different floors of the tower, I’ve come to the conclusion that the rarest most unique treasures and finds are not only hidden extremely well. They’re hidden in clever places. In places you’d pass by, not even considering it might be a place to look...”
Max kept reading eagerly. His eyes bulged with excitement as he read more details from Rem.
He reopened the map book from earlier and started cross-referencing the two books.
He smiled.
He found exactly what he was hoping to find.
He’d found his nugget of gold.
45
Max had a plan now. A way to get more powerful and quickly too. But even still, he wasn’t ready just yet.
He needed to prepare. He also needed supplies. And for supplies, he needed money.
The day after his trip to the library, he headed up the tower to floor-2 to train and collect as much money as possible.