The Meaning of Life: A LitRPG Adventure (Edge Cases Book 3) by Silver Linings

Author:Silver Linings [Linings, Silver]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Podium Publishing
Published: 2024-08-06T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 30

Climb

Vex

“Why … is this slope … so steep,” Vex wheezed. He didn’t know how long he’d been climbing. It hadn’t mattered for the first hour or so—it had been tiring, but he was used to being tired! He traveled with three people, one of whom could cure his own exhaustion, another who was a physical monstrosity, and the third of whom was his boyfriend and didn’t even have any muscles to feel tired with.

Talking to himself helped him feel better but changed nothing about the fact that he’d been climbing up a steep slope for three hours, and it had only been getting steeper.

“Where is this even going?” Vex grimaced. He dug his toes into the wall—the slope was soft, at least, and easy enough to make little footholds on. It really was getting steeper; he wasn’t exactly climbing vertically, but he would be soon if this kept up.

There were spells he could use to help himself. He’d tried a couple of them, even. There was a small glyph he could paint on his hands and feet that would make them stickier, and another one with a Gravity aspect to it he could use to make himself lighter. He still didn’t have any combination that would grant him flight, though, and he was starting to wonder if he needed to stop and spend his time trying to find one of those instead.

It turned out he needn’t have worried. A few more steps later and he finally saw something in the distance, barely visible in the dim lighting provided to him—a thin line that implied the floor finally, finally leveled out ahead of him. Vex gathered all his remaining energy and ran up the rest of the slope as fast as he could, using his hands and tail to keep his balance when the steepness threatened to tip him over; he grasped the edge of the floor just as the slope would have turned into a vertical wall, and hauled himself up and over onto it.

Instantly, the lighting around him changed. Vex blinked a few times, startled at how bright it suddenly was.

The ground beneath him was no longer soft, claylike soil; instead, his claws tapped on the familiar feeling of a hardwood floor. Vex grimaced almost instinctively, lifting his feet to clean them before he tracked dirt onto the floor of the near-pristine library he found himself in—except he was suddenly and inexplicably clean.

Sure. He could accept that. That dirt had mostly been dirt-aspect mana anyway and not actually dirt; he could fully believe that it had simply chosen to dissipate.

What drew Vex’s interest were the tall shelves around him, each one of them packed full with books. They were a good three times his height, and he had to squint to even be able to see the tops of the shelves. The library was illuminated by, near as Vex could tell, a ceiling that was made out of literal fire.

So it was a little bit difficult to look at.

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