Capítulo 7: He stepped in
Around 2 days ago.
Aria opened her eyes in a dark room. The surrounding was too dark for the human eye. But it was no problem for Aria who had the ability of the angle. Even with the sight, she couldn't find Rex.
A loud bang drew her attention. She turned back to find Rex on the ground. She ran but her movement was stopped by an invisible barrier. Rex touched and pounded on it. It was without results.
A wooden stele appeared. Aria looked at it as the stele glowed in purple.
[You are not eligible to ascend the tower.]
'What? When did we enter the tower?'
"Child, you had been possessed."
"I told him that he has to enter the tower to release you."
A woman in white and a boy in black were just standing behind Aria.
"But why is brother going that way?"
"The one possessed you, want you to go that way." The black boy pointed the stairs that were going downwards.
"You go with brother."
"I don't want to. He thinks I am just a wind spirit. And he asks too many..."
"Go, Help him," Aria ordered. The boy was reluctant but he left.
"Where is the spirit?" Aria stepped towards the stairs.
"Child, I will not be able to help you with these…"
"Where is the spirit?" The air around her changed. Even though she was 12 winged angel, she had to lower her head in front of Aria.
"On the third floor."
"Underground?" Aria had reached the end of the steps. The eerie feeling was strong. Deep miasma had corrupted the ground. The walls and the pillars were slimy. The floors were full of roots. Aria didn't even bat an eye. She walked right through the place looking for the stairs that went downward.
The floor was silent. There was no sound other than those roots which were gulping down something. In a moment the whole place was broken into chaos. Other than being very white the ghosts in front of her had no different from a human in Aria's eyes.
Ghosts were extending their skinny fingers towards her. But before it could reach its destination a bright light made everything disappear. When the light vanished the walls and floor were cleaned. No sign of miasma or slime. Even the waist thick roots had turned into a thin stick and leftover ghosts were cowered in the corners.
"Ohhh!" Aria found the stairs to the next floor and walked towards it. The angle that was floating behind her looked at the ghosts with sympathy before going on the second floor.
Nobody knew how long Aria roamed around the field of the second floor but she couldn't find the exit. The floor was endless. The roots that came down from the ceiling was connected to numerous stasis pod that looked like a fluorescent bud. It was sprouting out of the ground.
Hours passed but Aria was unable to find the stairs. All this movement made her hungry. Before long she couldn't hold her temper and erupted. Started breaking the buds like pods that was holding mana beast spirits. After she destroyed the tenth one a weird creature appeared.
It was just three feet tall and had a fire burning on his head. It looked at the angle behind Aria with a curious eye.
"Khesh kheek…" It spoke in an unknown language. Aria was about to erupt on it. "It wants us to follow it." The angel said.
"To where?"
"The Spirit."
Aria looked at the thing with disdain, "Lead."
The thing turned and led.
They walked for a while and reached a dead end. The thing signalled them and passed through the wall. Aria was curious and touched the wall but she failed to touch it. With a smile, she entered.
There were stairs. The little things pointed at the stairs and they followed down.
"What is a tower?" Aria couldn't hold her curiosity any more. She had learned a lot about magic but never found a paper that explained something called the tower.
"Your world now have a huge amount of mana. The concentration of mana is higher than Magic particle in the air. These towers are the thing that absorbs different thing and creates magic particle to balance the world."
"Tower is a living thing?"
"No. But it has a will. The will that is absorbed from the people reside inside the tower before it turned into one."
"Wow! Does magic have such an effect on innate objects? What will happen when the balance is reached?"
She hesitated to answer the last question. But lucky for her, they reached the end of the stairs and was greeted by a door.
"It is behind the door." Aria opened it. The room was small and empty. There was nothing other than a woman.
She was hanged from the wall. Both her palms were nailed on the wall. She lacked one breast, the left-side of her body and stomach were missing. The intestines and other organs were hanging from the right. Below the waist, there was nothing but a small part of the right thigh. It lacked any skin and muscles had dried up. The spot beneath her had bark blood patches. The kind smile on her face was the only thing that didn't match up.
"I have been waiting for you.
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"Aria what are you doing here?" Rex shouted.
Aria looked at him with a frown before turning to the old man.
"What are you going to do, Jakhyo?" Aria asked with a smile.
'Could she be still possessed?' There was no one to answer the question.
"No." That was the old man's answer. He drew the swords. "I think you are going to fight."
Rex didn't answer and was glaring at Aria. "How can I save her?"
"I will do what I can. But till the fight is over handle the wolf."
Rex glared at Old man. He himself wanted to save Aria but he couldn't do that. "If anything happens to her. I will kill you all."
The old man paid no heed to the threat. With his signal, the animal around them charged at the wolves and ghost. The beast with the cat on its back charged at Will.
"I will leave that to you." The old man said without taking his eyes of Aria.
Rex ran towards the beast. His aim was the cat on the back. But he was not the only one who had learned from the last fight.
The beast multiplied. There was five of them surrounding Rex. A giant shard of ice was forming on top on each of them. Rex punched at one shattering the ice clone.
It was surprising but he moved to the next one. By the time he had shattered the third one, the ice shard was complete. The two shards came for him. Rex braced for impact from the front but the one behind him was real. He was sent tumbling.
Cracks appeared on his body but he couldn't care less about it. He steadied himself and attacked the real one. By the time his punch reached the beast four more of them had appeared again. His punch broke just another ice statue.
He didn't stop there and moved onto the next one. This time he broke all of them except the real one. The ice shard sent him flying again. Next five return in a moment notice.
"You have improved. But we are not the same either."
"You are going to fight like a coward?" Rex asked.
"What are you talking about? Why waste energy if we could win easily?" All the five cats spoke at the same time.
This time all the five shards came at him same time. Rex took it head on.
The cats broke into laughter. "Did you thought the four of them will be fake? All the shard were real."
"I didn't need to fight too, "Rex spoke from the middle of the impact zone. The cracks on his body were recovering at a visible speed. "I can just stand here until your magic run out."
The cat gave hysterical laughter, "Do you know we are tower spirit. As long as we are inside the tower we are immortal. We will reborn every time you kill us." The cat pointed at the other direction. "Are you sure that they will able to survive?"
"I will return everything you have done to me for eternity." Rex was having a hard time to believe that this was his sister. Aria was holding the old man in the air by the throat. His whole body was bloodied. Blood was dripping from his legs. The sword was broken in two.
The animals were fighting a losing game from the start and the result was imminent. Will, on the other hand, was shocked. Looking at the dead animals and bloodied old man it was hard for him to control himself. Black smoke started to come out of him. Not just him, the whole floor was giving off black smoke. The trees started to wither at visible speed. The leaves of the giant tree started to fall down like rain.
"What are you doing?" Rex grabbed the hand of Aria who was still holding the old man in the air.
"Wh-what are you doing?"Aria stammered as she spoke back.
"When did he get there?" The cat was confused. A moment ago he was speaking and in the next, he vanished. The cat looked at his leg before speaking, "So he can use the magic after all."
Will noticed it at the same time. The crystal malleoli of his leg were glowing in reddish brown. What surprised him was Rex was devouring mana at a furious rate.
Will, who could see the flow of mana and magion in the tower couldn't believe his eyes. His absorption rate was so high that even being the tower itself, Will wasn't able to control the flow of mana in the floor.
"I think he could do it." The hope that was losing to despair in him, reignited once more. The black smoke stopped coming out, the trees stopped shading leaves. The floor which was losing the lights brightened up once again.
REFLEXIONES DE LOS CREADORES 
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The MAGION or magic particle is a representation of magic and different elements.
One need MANA to ignite the magion, hence creating magic.
A better explanation will come later. Hope this will help.
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