The First Hero and the First Saintess (6)

Even a moment that seemed like it would never end.

Even a moment I believed would last forever.

Sadly, everything comes to an end someday.

“What did you mean by that?”

“That we reached the bottom of the stairs.”

“Isn’t that a little overdramatic?”

“Would you believe me if I said we’d spent a full thirty minutes just walking down stairs?”

Maintaining the light with holy arts while walking down the stairs gave me a decent workout.

My body was tired, of course, but a more fundamental question had taken root in my mind: what on earth had these stairs been built for?

Whatever the reason, it couldn’t be ordinary...