>>5935900Corrine, Kate, Ingrid, Clay, Diana, Leopold, Uriel. These were the seven warriors you chose to accompany you, Ashe and Anemone inside the tower. Fearsome fighters all, you could rest easy knowing that they were the ones watching your back. Each should be able to hold their own against whatever terrors Anacharsis had in store for you. The group gathers at your side, and you prepare to enter the tower.
“Don’t worry about us, Blair.” Milly says. Next to her, Damian works at channeling a long-range meteor spell, aiming for the flock of Demonic Beasts in the sky. “We’ll try to save as many of these fools as we can! Just make sure you give that Sage a good thrashing!”
Several wolf-like Demonic Beasts charge again towards the tower entrance but are stopped in their tracks by the combined might of Sebastian, Rocks and Scratch. The Aegis Shield does not glow in her hands as it did for Felix, but it serves as an effective bulwark, nonetheless. The bandit holds the shield with both hands to absorb a blow, and then uses it as a makeshift bludgeon, bashing the beast in its neck and snapping the base of its spine.
You and your chosen party rush into the tower, leaving the rest of the company to handle the horde of monsters. As you step foot inside the tower, a curious thing happens.
“Huh?” A puzzled Corrine exclaims, looking back through the door in which you just walked through. “Can anyone else not hear anything outside anymore?”
Corrine was right. The second you walked through the entrance of the tower; it was as if the whole world had been suddenly silenced. You could still see the raging battle outside occurring, but the clash was entirely deafened to you. It was as if you were staring through a window to another, far-off world. Save for detritus, the interior of the tower itself was almost entirely vacant. Scattered throughout the architecture were large gashes and craters across the walls and floors. Examining them closely, you didn’t believe that these were caused by just the passage of time. They were made deliberately. Several murals had also been painted across the walls of the cavernous room you were occupying, but as to what they were originally meant to depict, it was impossible to tell. Someone had defaced every single painting, scrawling across them in an inky deep black.
“…Is this place giving anyone else the creeps?” A nervous Diana asks, staring up towards where the tower extended. A large spiral staircase led to the tower’s upper floors. So high did they climb though, that you were unable to make out what awaited you at the very top. You could only guess by the throbbing, pulsating sensation that this was where Anacharsis was waiting for you.
“…Tread carefully.” Clay warns. “This used to be the home of a people far older than our own. Powerful magics run deep here.”
