Side story: Tower of Ascension (part 3/3)

Moving closer, the young man approached the elder. Just the aura that this man gave off made it hard on the youth to prevent his knees from caving in. In the end, after what he went through, just a bit of pressure like that was nowhere near enough to make him kneel.

"I finally made it here, huh?" Paraphrasing the words of the elder, the young man took three steps forward before lowering himself on his knees and placing his bottom right beside the man. Letting his legs hang free from the edge of the platform, for some reason, the young man wasn't scared by the notion of sitting above a literal abyss.

"I see…" Not bothering to make any sense, the strange elder said in a low voice, before turning silent again. His eyes directed towards the skydome as if trying to break through the barrier of the light given by a local star, in an attempt to see the rest of the greater world hidden behind it.