The Commander smiled, "I would be surprised if you did, but it is a good thing you have not began cultivating any Art in secret, else I would have been helpless on a way to help you without having to strip your foundations from your bones." she paused, "That would be very painful, and despite how much pain you can bear, most would never survive it."
She walked up to Elias and placed a hand on his shoulder, "We would get to what you need to do next on your road to be an Ascendant, but before that… I want to show you something."
Suddenly, Elias's legs were off the floor as the Commander raised her hands up a bit, and carried him as if he weighed nothing. Before he could even ask why she was treating him like a wet piece of cloth, space seemed to shift around them, and Elias gasped as he found himself in the air, nowhere near the city of Stormfall, as below him was a vast forest.
