Chapter-22: Lost Tower, Floors, and Entering Inner World.

“Oh yeah, now that you mention it, I was about to ask you something, can we go to the Lost Tower right now?”

When Anna asked what Agun will do now, he replied that to her.

“Well as long as you have the token, it’s not a that hard thing to do. You see, Lost Tower is in the Doppelganger Reality so all you have to do scan the token with your ID card.”

Anne explained.

“Oh, that easy. But how do I do that?”

Agun Asked.

“You have to invoke ‘Scan’ you will see a scanning display will have appeared on your card, when it confirms your serial, it will transfer you to Lost Tower.”

Anne replied.

“Is that so. Okay, I will test it now.”

Agun took out his ID card and was about to invoke ‘scan’, but Anne stop her,

“Wait, you have to first understand what Lost Tower is.”

“O-Okay, then please explain.”

Agun dropped his shoulder after hearing this, he was too excited to hear that he can be broke through the next league which he was waiting for in there. And that’s why he was about to blindly visit an unknown place he has never was before.

“Lost Tower is a mysterious place what was created by the God of war. This place supposed to recover one’s health years ago. God of War made it for soldiers who had come from the battlefield, yet they have to go next day. That is why for healing both physically and mentally soldier take refuge there. But it is later revealed that it is also increased one’s spiritual power. But it has a too much spiritual power that if someone commits a mistake while absorbing spiritual power they lose the control of absorbing and the spiritual power enter their body like the violent flood, and the end result is, their body will explode.”

Hearing that, Agun got cold sweat on his forehead. He asked her,

“Then what should I do?”

“Of course there is a solution of this. When soldiers prayed to God of War if he can do something about that, God of War responded their pray and he divided lost tower 0 to 99 floors, while zero is lowest and ninety-nine floor is highest. The floor you can enter is now zero floors.”

“What will happen if I go to the 1st floor or up?” (Agun)

“In the first floor, if you absorb spiritual power in there you will not able to take breath anymore, on the 2nd floor first you will not able to take breath anymore and will vomit blood, on the 3rd floor first you will not able to take breath anymore, second you will vomit blood and then you will explode, and on 4th floor…”

“Wait, wait I understand, regardless which floor I go up to other than zero I will die tragically.”

Agun stopped Anne’s conclusion by screaming. For some reason, she was excited while giving a smirk. Agun thought, is she an S or an M? But no matter what she is one of them for sure.

“Indeed.”

Anne nodded.

“Here is a question, if this tower was built by God of War for soldier how is it ended up here?”

Agun asked her. Shrugging her shoulder Anne replied,

“There is no definite explanation. Some said it was abandoned by God of War because he made more advance tower; some said God of War had died with his soldier or in better word his follower while leaving the tower itself. The last one is more plausible because God of War had vanished almost tens of thousands of years ago.”

But if Agun could see her thought he come to know that she obviously knew what actually happened to this tower.

“Okay, is that all or I have to know more?”

Agun asked her.

“No, you can go now. As you can see I have no token so I cannot accompany you.”

Agun nodded and said while taking ID card,

“Okay, see you after I return to the real world. [Scan]”

A scanning screen had opened and when he scanned the token,

Scan Successful

Lost Tower

Valid

After that, a light wrapped him like when he was transferred to Doppelganger Reality.

After the light faded Agun saw he was in a different place.

Space of this place huge and he cannot see any wall around him. But when he look above he could see the ceiling, but still, it is at least 50 meter high. And it was only zero floor there is still 99 floors more, thinking that Agun shivered.

He can saw a stairway,

“It must be stairway for going up.”

But he didn’t dare to try to go there as he had heard a somewhat scary thing from Anne.

“By the way, how she knows all about that? She is also a first year like me, is that because she is a maid? Nah, I am not that airhead to believe it. There must be a past connection to this academy with her that’s how she knows too many things. Well, whatever, she may not tell me even if I ask her, so let’s stop here, everyone has privacy in their life.”

He then sits on the ground while loosening up his muscles and look forward.

No sooner had he looked forward he got goosebumps and almost screamed like a female. Because he saw a silhouette was sitting there.

‘Where she come from all on a sudden? Wait, isn’t she somewhat familiar?’ Agun thought inwardly after seeing the female in front of him.

‘Oh, wasn’t she another winner of the competition, isn’t her name Iris? To think like that, we will come at the same time, what a coincident! No, it’s not coincident; it’s just the importance of this tower this much,’ Agun thought.

She was sitting at meditating state while closing her eyes. She was a beautiful woman, who has ink like black hair, thin artistic eyebrows, and oval shape face. She was like a doll, but for some reason, she looked more mature for her age.

Agun stopped staring at her as it is rude to do and also started to meditate like her.

His outer thoughts all faded and enter his inner world. It was a blue-white space, There is a wall in front of him. His target is breaking that wall and goes beyond it.

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When Agun shut his eyes, Iris Paris opened her eyes and looked at him with strange light.