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Meeting interlude - Tower of God
🕑 Added 2022-11-21 12:00:07 +0000 UTCSeth’s eyes snapped open, and he stood up from his bed.
“What happened?”
An image appeared in Seth’s vision, showing Katy in a somewhat reclusive alleyway, surrounded by what looked like a group of thugs. She held tightly onto a small knife in front of her chest while moving in a circle, trying to intimidate the men into leaving her alone.
“How did she get into something like this?” muttered Seth, space twisting around him.
The next moment, Seth appeared on the roof of a nearby building, over-watching the alleyway Katy was in.
“Little girl, what do you think that knife can do to us?”
“Put it down before you hurt yourself. We promise not to hurt you.”
“Yes, you’ll be in a world of pleasure once we’re done.”
The thugs kept laughing and taunting Katy from all sides, but she stalwartly held on to her knife. Her hands were shaking slightly, and she kept turning in the direction of each thug that took one step toward her, but she seemed ready to fight them off until the end.
“I’m not scared of you. The first to come close, I’ll make sure regrets it.”
Her voice was quite shaky, but the conviction in her focused eyes made Seth not act yet and carefully observe the situation.
The thugs were too busy leering over her womanly parts while continuing to laugh boastfully to notice the look in Katy’s eyes. One of the thugs, an obviously younger one of the lot, at about 25 years of age, couldn’t take it anymore and said: “Boss, I’m taking the first slice.”, before lunging from Katy’s back, intending to quickly immobilize her.
Seth filled the entire area with destruction energy, making a cold breeze pass through everyone’s backs, but he still didn’t move.
Katy felt her entire body grow cold with the approaching noises from her back, and she swiftly turned around, her knife cutting in a straight line toward the man’s neck.
The man froze for a brief moment due to Seth’s destruction energy, and he could not react to Katy’s movement, his eyes widening as he was forced to watch the small kitchen knife heading straight for his neck.
Sphhhlt!
A clear sound resounded through the alleyway, and the other thugs’ eyes finally lifted from Katy’s body, only to see their mate bleeding from the neck, the handle of the knife that was earlier in Katy’s hands not poking out of it.
The young thug that was just served his fatal lesson grabbed onto Katy’s bloodied hands, a blaming look in his eyes as he tried to force the knife out of his neck. Ultimately, his eyes lost their shine, and he naturally slid off the blade, dropping onto the cold ground with a thud.
The sound of his body hitting the ground woke the other three thugs from their stupor, and an angry look appeared in their eyes. The oldest of the thugs moved to grab Katy’s shoulder as he yelled: “You bitch. You’ll pay for that.”
Seth could see that Katy’s eyes looked blank like she was still trying to deal with the fact she had just killed someone for the first time. Sighing, he was about to activate his energy to wipe off the thugs when he was once more forced to inactivity by a profound black aura surrounding Katy’s body.
The aura was not visible due to his lust source, but his perception, so he stopped again, wondering if he would get any more surprises.
The thug successfully grabbed Katy’s shoulder, turning her body towards him, and looked at her blood-covered body before raising his eyes to her face. Seeing her blank look, he knew she was an easy target and moved the hand on her shoulder to grab the knife she was still tightly grasping.
Schloook!
Katy’s hands once more slice upwards, barely missing the man’s neck but still cutting a large portion of his cheek.
Arrgghhh!
The thug backed away with a pained grunt, his hand tightly holding onto his cheek while his bloodshot eyes were fixed on Katy. Even Seth on the rooftop above only had pure disbelief written on his face.
The blank look in Katy’s eyes was gone, replaced by a clear, resolute one. Even the shaking of her hands and body was gone entirely, as all the emotions she showed before were lies.
“Grab her!” roared the injured thug, breaking his two men out of their daze. The two thugs were still reeling from one of their mates being killed and their boss injured by a previously kind-looking girl, but they still moved simultaneously to grab her.
Katy surprised everyone once more, trying to stab herself with the knife in her hands, but both thugs grabbed her hands before she could do it, restricting her movement. Still, even in that situation, her cheeks were slightly raised, a small smile hanging at the corner of her lips.
She didn’t struggle anymore after being caught but looked into the pained boss’s eyes as she said: “I told you so.”
The boss of the thugs seemed even more enraged by her words and moved his hands to his belt, starting to undo it as he said: “Do you think you’ll get to die so easily after what you did to me? The boys and I will take our sweet time fucking you until you beg us to kill you.”
Katy looked towards the man’s hands that were done undoing his belt and chuckled. “It seems that in the end, I’ll still die under some bastard.”. Closing her eyes, a small mutter escaped her lips alongside a sad breath. “Seth…”
A small smile appeared on Seth’s face, and he muttered, “I’m here.” In the next moment, his energy activated, wiping away all the thugs, both dead and alive, inside the alley, leaving Katy’s unsupported body to fall to the ground.
The sudden disappearance of the rough hands holding her startled Katy, and she opened her eyes to look around, only to notice there was no one around anymore. Even the body of the dead thug had disappeared completely.
“Where did they go?” she muttered, confused, as she slowly lifted herself off the ground, when she realized, in her stupor, that even the blood covering her body and clothes was also gone.
“Have I gone mad?” she asked herself while looking around the alleyway one more time, but no matter how hard she searched, there was indeed no trace of the fight that had happened there.
Eventually, finding no clue about everything, she started heading back to the inn, a confused expression on her face as she replayed everything in her mind.
Seth watched her slender back disappear from the rooftop and sighed as he asked the system: ‘Thugs attacking someone in broad daylight inside New Hope is not normal. Where did those guys come from?’
<…..>
<…..>
<…..>
‘System?’ asked Seth, the blank lines in his vision catching him off guard.
<Inconclusive results from the World Records. Performing diagnosis.>
<Please wait for the diagnosis results.>
<Fractured data recovered from the records. Signs of record alteration detected.>
<Diagnosis complete.>
<Conclusion: Tower is interfering with the World Records.>
Seth’s face turned grave once the word ‘Tower’ appeared in his vision, and he asked: ‘What do you mean Tower alteration? Why would the Tower interfere with me? No one else should have been able to climb it.’
<Negative. The alteration….>
<System interference detected.>
That was the last line Seth could see before his vision turned completely white, and he appeared once more inside the Tower’s final room, where he had first made his wishes. The crystal sphere he had seen the last time he had reached the Tower was still there, hovering peacefully in the center of the room.
“What is the meaning of this?” asked Seth with a frown.
The voice of the Tower replied almost instantly.
“Welcome back, God of Destruction. You have been summoned inside the Tower as a response to directive 2 being activated.”
“Directive 2?” asked Seth. “What is that?”
“Failsafe added by the World Sovereign to the World Records. In case of a potential successful potential candidate for Permodium’s main directive, the World Records are being sent to the outside universe. This will render any read of past World Records unavailable for the duration of the transfer.”
Seth frowned and asked: “Are you saying I am suddenly blind? How long will that transfer take?”
“Negative. Current records are still available, and only past ones are inaccessible. Estimated duration until complete… 2 years on your world.”
“Due to Directive 2 interfering with a Tower Challenger’s wish, the candidate is entitled to a consolation question or wish; therefore, your summoning to the Tower.”
Seth sighed and asked: “That potential successful candidate… is it me?”
“Affirmative. Subject 468263156728563149, alias Seth, God of Destruction, has shown incredible potential.”
Smiling wryly, Seth shook his head and said: “I would have preferred to be able to keep my access to the records than to be praised by you. Well, no matter. This is just as good. Is there any limit to my wish or question due to the special circumstances?”
“There is no limit, but in case of a continuous wish choice, like your ability to freely change the records of your body, the wish will be canceled once the data transfer is complete.”
‘Hmm, this is indeed not bad.’ Thought Seth as he pondered for a moment for the best way he could use his wish.
‘There’s no way I can waste this wish on a temporary gain. Also, using it for a question is still a waste. What do I need the most right now?….’
After a few minutes, Seth raised his head with an excited expression and said: “I want springs. Energy springs.’
Energy springs were the primary source for mixed energy vials. They were pretty scarce, with only a few present in every kingdom, but due to the blood race infecting the underground, the Kingdom of Endora had none, limiting his vial supply.
Energy springs were the end of the pathways where energy traveled from the outside universe into the universe of Permodium, so all the energy inside them was mixed.
Specialized vials were created by ascended, relinquishing energy under their control and storing it into vials, but mixed vials could only be obtained from nature.
The crystal sphere trembled slightly as the Tower’s voice resounded once more.
“Wish accepted. Any location preferred for the creation of the springs?”
“All over my kingdom, most of them focused on the capital.”
After continuing to tremble for a few more minutes, the sphere calmed, and the Tower’s voice resounded again.
“Wish granted. Returning candidate to the simulated world of origin.”
The next moment, Seth disappeared from the room, and The Tower regained its usual silence.
Comments
AZ
Damn, missed that, thanks.
Sneak
In the chapter "Seth, we're alone" Seth tells Katy his real name.
AZ
Katy looked towards the man’s hands that were done undoing his belt and chuckled. “It seems that in the end, I’ll still die under some bastard.”. Closing her eyes, a small mutter escaped her lips alongside a sad breath. “Seth…” This doesn't make much sense? Doesn't she know him as Otis (the spy?) or did seth reveal himself to her at some point?
