The elevator rose for a lot longer than usual, which surprised him. He had cleared more floors than he could have expected. He knew the palace was tall, but... he had to have gone through five floors now. He didnt know how much longer he could hold onto his sanity.
...
"Win!"
Aether smiled, looking down at his small rock companion. One of the things he had to face was a little golem, which wasn't anything special, a Reader Fragment, which made him wonder if the monsters in the Trial were chosen based on his power, after all, he had heard stories of terrible monsters inside the Tides, and while he, of course, couldn't ask for their class and rank. He didn't think they were of the Reader rank.
...This was a Titan Book after all.
Really, it was weird, how talking to rocks was his only skill, while abilities were hard to get, skills weren't, I mean, he had gotten his from speaking to a rock after being alone in the Withered, so he would have thought he would get many.
