He continues to stare at for a few monts longer before finally speaking. "A new arrival, how lucky we are." He says with a bit of a muffled voice.
"Yes. We both plan to climb the tower." Veria responds before I can say sothing.
It might be best to let her speak for us anyway since she seems to be the most familiar with this place. That’s what I’ve gathered about her so far.
I don’t know what to expect in here so I have to rely on her for the ti being. I’m still feeling bad about leaving Ghost and Lilly back outside the tower.
I’m sure that they can take care of themselves but I wasn’t planning on leaving them behind any ti soon. This was sudden for .... I just couldn’t miss an opportunity like this no matter what.
"The gate forward is open for you both, best of luck on your climb." He says with a strange tone to his voice.
I couldn’t tell with the mask but sothing was off with how he spoke there.
"Ti to see what awaits us." Veria says while dragging forward.
She dragged through the gate ahead of us and I watched as everything changed around once more. It wasn’t anything like the room before, we were in a completely different environnt.
A strange forest with blue leaves, white grass, and so path leading deeper into the woods.
[1] The Forest of Madness.
"Best not to waste any ti. This floor isn’t that bad, it just can be taxing on your mind." Veria warns while continuing to walk.
"Why is it taxing on the mind?" I ask curiously.
"Hallucinations and thoughts you never expected to have will happen here." Veria answers.
Sounds a lot like how the whisperspawns work with the small twist of it being a whole damn place instead of so monster. This tower is definitely going to take quite the toll on .
I can feel it now with the way the floor feels already, barren but full of malicious energy. I don’t understand how I can tell but it just radiates in here.
Regardless I didn’t say much else and followed behind Veria as we traveled throughout the forest. It felt like we were getting deeper along the path but yet everything felt the sa.
The trees remain the sa, the grass hasn’t changed, and I haven’t seen a single change in scenery.
Veria doesn’t seem to be reacting to anything around us so should I assu that this is all normal? It doesn’t make any sense to , not that it should anyway.
"Feeling okay?" She asks with a bit of caution in her voice.
"I’m feeling fine, just not sure if we are getting anywhere." I respond while continuing to observe everything.
She stops in front of out of nowhere and turns to face . "You have to ignore that mindset. We’ll never get anywhere if you keep thinking like that." Veria says while crossing her arms.
I hear footsteps in the distance after she speaks, it definitely wasn’t so animal. It was getting closer and closer with each passing second.
Without thinking I turned to my right to see that there was nothing there, just trees.
"Rokuro co here." Ghosts voice echoes in the distance.
Shortly after I notice a silhouette similar to ghost in the distance, but there was no way that she ca in here. I stepped towards it without thinking but Veria’s arm stopped .
"I told you, things in here aren’t real. Ignore it and follow ." Veria says while standing before .
I stood there staring at the distant silhouette for another minute or so before looking back towards the path. Veria didn’t want to stray from the path so she grabbed my hand to pull along.
The warmth from holding soone’s hand is quite a comforting feeling, sothing that really takes your mind off of the world around you. I didn’t understand why she did it at first but it was starting to make sense to after we walked for a bit.
It was a distraction from the scenery so that I wouldn’t focus on the repetitive nature of the floor.
"I had a hard ti at first too. This place gets more intense if you are by yourself, which is why it’s good that I ca with you." Veria says while we continue to walk.
This girl who’s shorter than is pulling along and even seems to know a lot about how to make it through this. Her fighting skills back outside the tower were also pretty remarkable to see.
There’s sothing special about her, sothing that I can’t seem to understand no matter how much I think about it. Is she really from our world?
It wouldn’t be crazy to rule her out as soone from another world with the way the collapse changed everything we knew. Magic, powers, talents, monsters, and dungeons.
The trees start to fade away as we begin to approach another door in the distance. "Anyway we made it through quite easily, you’re welco." Veria says as we reach the door.
"Thank you." I reply genuinely.
Upon opening the door to the next floor I could already see all the different changes in front of us. This ti it was an open field with nothing in sight but beautiful grass fields.
"A lot like the rankings the guilds established, the tower has them too. We aren’t even on a rank D floor yet." Veria says as we start walking once again.
I have a feeling that this is going to be a lot of boring floors for quite so ti until we reach the higher ranking floors.
[2] The Fields.
I would assu that depending on how many floors exist within the tower that every ten would be a rank increase. That would be the most logical answer I could co up with.
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