A few nervous glances passed through the crowd.
"If you try to use your class abilities, the glyphs will recognize it and fire back. This climb is about raw capability—your body, your will. Nothing else."
He held up a timer.
"Top climbers get credit. Top ten times will be posted publicly but that won't be until the next ten weeks. If you fall, you start over."
He gave a devilish grin.
"Climb."
Students instantly charged forward. The first batch leapt for handholds and some succeeded while others missed completely.
Victor paced himself and approached with calculation. He eyed the sequence of glowing glyphs and disappearing stones then leapt.
His fingers gripped a solid outcrop. Instantly, a glyph near his left foot sparked and a gust of wind blew sideways, trying to knock him off.
Victor gritted his teeth and swung to the next hold.
