Beginning

The next morning he woke up early and went straight to the Training facility where he met Gruffyd.

Þunor that day went to the Training facility to do something different, he didn't plan to to train but instead he wanted to learn more about the tower and and artefacts.

Gruffyd started to tell him the legend associated with Yggdrasil.

"A long time ago there was nothing that existed in the universe until a sudden explosion happened and it gave birth to the Yggdrasil tree, this tree started to produce fruits."

"Fruits?" Þunor asked with a confused look in his face.

"The nine worlds are the remaining fruits of Yggdrasil, every 50 to 100 years the tree would produce a new world with the energy it absorbed from the cosmos, but after the disaster that happened with Níðhöggr the tree stopped producing worlds using the energy from the cosmo and instead it started to absorb the remaining of the other worlds that were eaten by the that dragon"

"But what is the origin of the artefacts?" Þunor asked with a intriguing look in his face.

"If the worlds are fruits then the artefacts are seeds that Yggdrasil give to climbers once they face a wall that they cannot overcome, normally the climbers get their artefact around the 50th floor of the tower, but sometimes the tree can give a blessing to a weapon that the climber already possesses."

"Once I reached the 45th floor I received my artefact Benkei, this artefact allows me to summon any non magical weapon that I can imagine, the ability of my artefact made it easier for me to take full advantage of my magnetism control."

"But how come the tree turn into a tower?

Gruffyd looked at Þunor with a serious expression that you would rarely see and answered:

"You need to climb the tree and get the answer yourself…"

After that Þunor started to train under Gruffyd guidance every day until the time he had to go to the academy.

And with that five weeks went by, now Þunor became comparable with a genius when it came to using a Axe he still couldn't fully understand the power of Jarnbjorn but now the boy that was only slightly above average with a sword was able to go head to head with City guard without the need of activating his ability.

Þunor went back to the smithy one last time before departing to say goodbye to his older brother Tyr.

"Þunor I know you are going to be out only for a few years but please don't forget to send me letters because I know that the academy can be really stressful."

After hearing that Þunor started to cry, he didn't want to say goodbye to his older brother but it was his dream to travel across the 9 worlds and to see the tower, he knew that sooner or later he had to go to the academy but he wanted to wait a bit more if possible, and with that Þunor departed with a priest from the church to the academy.