"So you are saying a primordial rule book chose me... Why?"

["I don't know what its criteria are, but in the last few hundred years, you are the first to clear all nine levels and provoke that big a reaction from the stele"]

"Why did it engrave this fighting technique in my mind?"

[” Okay, we have established that I don't know a lot about the stele. I just know what it is"]

Aiden fell silent. He could see the engravings in his mind. They looked very ordinary except that they were carved into his mind, and he could feel it.

The fighting technique was anything but simple. His initial impressions showed that it was a complex matrix he did not have the tools to figure out.

Even worse he couldn't read it well enough to show Zarek.

Zarek was in his mind, hitching a ride just as Darwyn had but the engravings were off-limits to him. He couldn't even get close.

["Don't overthink it. You will be able to make sense of it when you are ready, or so I believe"]

Aiden rolled his eyes. This was telli