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Chapter 6 - The Challenges of a Hybrid Class
While the other three slept, completely passed out, the others chatted in hushed conversation.Jul remained quiet, staring from one end of the corridor to the other. Non-stop.Nar, while still paying attention, thought it was a good time to get familiar with his UI and the other stuff the induction hadn’t covered.He had been warned to do it before combat after all. It would be idiotic of him not to.First, he considered his weapon.There had been mention of a basic proficiency being given to him.Strangely, and surprisingly, the sword didn’t loo...
Chapter 5 - System Induction
Nar came too with a gasp.With his pulse beating in his temples, he looked around him.Where was he?Who were these people, laying on the floor in front of him?Slowly, his sense of self pieced itself back together.Crystal.Goodbye.Party.Yellow.B-Nex.Climber…He sat against the wall. Next to him, a red, glistening dark splatter slowly dripped down its length.What in the pile was that?He swallowed, still breathing hard, pushing down the all too familiar metallic taste on his tongue.Was that the Pressure?If it was, Crystal Almighty have mercy on them...
Chapter 4 - The Climb Begins
They were one of the last ones called.That was fine by Nar. Now that he was actually about to leave everything that he had ever known, and he had his class, weapon and party ready, he found that he wasn’t in that much of a hurry to leave.He had also started remembering every single scary story he had heard as a child and had himself told younger kids as a teenager.Workers liked to make up the weirdest, most horrible things they could think of for what lay beyond their safe confines. It was probably one of their ways of telling themselves they...
Chapter 3 - We are the Party
The six of them crossed the warm, heavy darkness in hushed conversation.Around them, other crystalights shone in the dark, marking the other Climbers.Some very few traveled in groups. Even less walked with family.The majority made the journey alone.Few were those who understood a Climber’s decision. Fewer still those who accepted it.Once you voiced your decision to Climb, no one could stop you. And no one could hurt you either, though many wanted to.Those who disobeyed the Law of the Crystal soon found themselves in deadly accidents or sickne...
Chapter 2 - Plans Made, Hope For the Best
Stairs and houses and cracked, leaning walls blurred past him.Nar clutched the sword to his chest, like a precious newborn, and walked so fast he almost ran, risking falling and breaking his neck.It was like walking in a dream.He couldn’t believe that it was actually happening.He couldn’t believe that he was actually leaving.Workers stared at him as he went by with his little crystalight and sword.They stared. They sneered. They spat at his feet.Nar never stopped. He was used to it.They had hated him all his life for being an Unclean, and n...
Chapter 1 - All Climbers Go Before the Crystal
A Sinner AscendsBook I of the Path of the Last Champion.Part 1 - The Upper Depths“Why, Crystal? Why?” - Unknown ex-Climber, IntoxicatedExcerpt from “A Life in the Depths – A Study of the Life Conditions in the Between-Nexus”Status: Unpublished. Censored under the authority of Truth Legate Alastor GhabnNotation: Level 4 Breach of The Tenets for Scholarly Conduct, Education and EnlightenmentScholar Kuon Feeir, KUO274021097334283LDX – 2nd strike>> <<The dead, warm air weighed him down on his way up to the Chapel of the Holy Crystal. Ho...
