The ninety-nine stairs will trials were a very famous thing in the outside world. They were controlled by a single faction out there, one that called on themselves The Holy Guardians.
It was as the ancestors of the academy here guessed; this trial was all about testing one's will. And William didn't need Lorance to speak further as he knew the ins and outs of such a trial.
"Each step taken will bring much fiercer lightning down," but Lorance didn't notice any of the reactions on William's face, and kept speaking about the trial, "and for others, each step will do the same. The highest record was done almost five hundred years ago, and it's at the seventy-three step."
"Only this?" William couldn't help but mutter in doubt. This was considered a pretty low result in such trials.
"Don't belittle this thing here, even dark spirit masters won't be able to get past the fifty steps easily."