Jacob and the other candidates were slightly taken aback.
Initially, Anon could not go past a single step. With great difficulty, he reached the second, and struggling for a while, he arrived on the third.
However, as time passed, the rate at which he scaled the stairs slowly began increasing. He stepped onto the fourth, then the fifth, sixth, seventh...
Tenth, twentieth, thirtieth...
The hundredth step!
The rate at which he scaled upwards slowly began matching theirs and then even surpassed them.
Before they realized, Anon was alongside some of them, then surpassed them, reaching Jacob who trailed behind the fourth worlders, and then even passed Jacob.
As Anon scaled upwards, each step saw a bolt of metaphysical lightning pry into his mind realm and strike the manifestation of his willpower.
