BANG.
Salivar fell to a knee, his forehead dripping with blood. His expression was entirely unreadable, and oddly enough, he didn't even glance toward Sylas. It was like he had forgotten the latter was there.
About four or so hours into the maze, he had realized something was wrong. He hadn't progressed forward as far as he should have, and he was taking more and more detours.
However, he had no way of confirming how things had gone so wrong... even though he had his guesses.
They had known from the beginning that the Weaver Guild wouldn't send someone incompetent to do something like this. The likes of a Legend certainly wouldn't take on just anyone as a Legacy Disciple.
Everyone knew the kind of weight that came with the title of Legend.
But even so... Salivar didn't expect this.
He breathed out another heavy breath as the world began to warp around them. When the world stabilized once more, he had already stood back to his full height, his eyes expressionless, and his lips pressed into a gentle but clear line.
It seemed that Sylas had used his actions rather than his words to reply to his previous goading.
Challenge received.
Salivar's breathing slowed to a calm rhythm, every breath coming with large plumes of Aether zipping into his body. Seemingly feeling as though his lips and nose weren't enough, they even began to saturate his pores.
The river of blood that formed his hair rippled and flashed with tendrils of gold for a moment before it faded. The flushed state of Salivar's face retreated and his body returned to a quiet baseline.
By this point, Sylas had slowly stood to his feet, his understanding of certain things having deepened. It, quite frankly, didn't matter which of the tests they joined. He had a way to defeat them all but one.
Unfortunately, that one was the very one that appeared every single time.
But it didn't matter in the slightest to him. No matter what, he would come out on top.
The world came to a stop and Sylas found himself standing on a sea of blue. It wasn't blue in the sense of a usual ocean or river, but blue to the point of almost being fluorescent, yet not quite so grating on the eyes.
The surface began to churn and a bubble formed from the surface, floating up and toward Sylas.

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