Tower Climber by Jakob Tanner

Author:Jakob Tanner [Tanner, Jakob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-10-25T22:00:00+00:00

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Max sprinted through the endless forest.

He held up his compass in one hand and held a knife in the other.

He was heading north in a direction he’d never gone before.

He passed by a tree with a “Z” mark on it. The instructor at the academy had explained to them that this specific type of mark meant there were no more signs beyond that point. In other words, Max was entering unexplored territory.

What Max had learned during his research in the library was that in the history of the endless forest, once climbers had found the departure teleporter, they pretty much stopped caring about the floor. The earliest tower climbers were more preoccupied with the pursuit of going higher and higher into the tower. The endless forest did not promise riches or adventure so it was quickly left behind, unexplored.

Max was about to exploit that fact.

As he rushed past the “Z” mark, he held out his knife, chipping away at the trees as he rushed by, leaving himself a trail on how to get back from where he was going.

He kept an eye on his compass and sprinted forward.

He was running fast, but after all of his training over the last two and a half months, he could keep the pace easily.

The forest began to blur together.

Words from his library research came back to him.

“People mistake the endless forest for being monotonous, but it’s precisely those small breaks in the monotony that are the floor’s own natural signs of the changing landscape and unknown opportunities...”

So far it all looked the same, but Max knew what he was looking for.

He still had a while to go.

He picked up his running pace.

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