"I felt sothing was wrong with Bam... but I didn't guess that he was an irregular." Shibisu spoke, breaking the silence among the regulars that stood around the stage.
Bam's confession ca as a surprise for everyone. No one had suspected him for being an irregular, except for Winston who had all but concluded the fact already.
After Bam's confession, Hansung Yu agreed for him to be able to take the administrator's test and sent him to et the floor administrator.
As for the rest of the regulars, Hansung gave them a choice.
Either take the test with Bam, or take the next test separately. Even if one could pass the administrator's test, that would entail that they had helped an irregular go up the tower. If they didn't, it would probably result in Bam's failure as no one would be able to assist him in the test.
"Excuse ?" A small girl with a backpack raised her hand. "What's an irregular? And why is everyone so surprised?" She asked.
Shibisu replied, "An irregular is soone that isn't chosen to climb the tower. They open the gates by themselves and arrive into the tower. They are considered dangerous as everyti an irregular arrives into the tower, chaos has followed. They are all known to possess strength beyond that of any regular."
The small girl nodded in enlightennt.
Then, she turned her head towards the others and asked.
"Then! What should we do?!"
Paracule who stood quietly spoke up.
"Of course we won't help! We can't ruin our lives to bring so girl up! What has he done for us anyway!?" Paracule yelled, "Think about it! It'll be insane to help him! Don't you agree!" Just when the others were about to speak up, a singular comnt shut everyone up.
"Yeah... I agree." Everyone's eyed turned to Khun to stood with his head lowered. His eyes couldn't be seen, hidden by his hair.
Winston smiled, seeing his calm and collected emotions.
"I feel sorry for Bam, but I can't help an irregular."
Oh Khun. Even now, manipulating people to your liking. Winston shook his head with a smile. Hatz turned to Khun and snarled.
"Khun! You sick piece of crap!" He yelled. "How can you say that!?"
"I don't like it either okay?!" Khun yelled back. "But it can't be helped?! If it gets out that I helped an irregular, I'll be ruined! I might even get expelled from my family!"
Hatz gnashed his teeth in anger.
However, just as he was about to move, a rough sound rang out.
Crash!
Khun fell down onto the ground, his lip bleeding crimson. Everyone looked in surprise towards the small crocodilian creature that had smashed it's head right into Khun's face. "What the hell are you doing, you crocodile?!" Khun yelled.
Rak looked down at him, his eyes filled with unbelievable contempt.
"Look at you turtles. Cowering beneath your shells in fear." He said. "That's why you're nothing but a turtle. You're too afraid to hold your heads up."
Khun propped his upper body up from the ground, taking support with his arms. "You don't know what you're talking-"
"I don't care! The Black turtle is my prey, so I'll follow him!" Rak declared, his voice echoing through the hall.
"You turtles keep cowering inside your own shell! I'm following him! I don't want to lose my prey!" Rak yelled and began to walk out of the hall. As he closed the doors behind him, Winston walked forward.
"I'm going with him as well." He said, making everyone look over to him.
His eyes scanned Khun, who was sitting on the ground with a guilty expression. Winston's eyes were clear as he said with a strange smile, "I don't think anyone would want to be with a cowering traitor that betrays his friends to keep his family na..." He shook his head.
Zarhan held his hands behind his head and turned his head.
"I agree. Let's go."
With that, all of three of them began to walk out.
As they did, many other regulars also followed.
Anaak, Shibisu, Hatz, Endorsi and everyone else that was in the room, even Paracule at the end.
Everyone left, leaving Khun laying on the ground at the end.
"..." Khun looked towards the ceiling, lost in thought.
His eyes were slightly glazed over, appearing a lighter shade of blue than normal.
Then, a voice sounded from the side.
"Hey... turtle."
Khun's eyes turned to the speaker, finding Rak standing with his arms crossed.
"Stand up. All the other turtles are joining the test." He said.
Khun, with a smile stood up and said, "You're pretty intuitive... Rak?"
Rak's maw adorned a strange smile that looked more nacing than happy.
"I'm the only crocodile... that knows what's inside the shell..." He said.
Khun smiled in response as he looked on towards Rak.
He could not help but reminisce about the monts they had spent together.
"You know... you just called yourself a crocodile." He said with a chuckle.
"W-What?! No, I didn't! I'm Rak Wraithraiser!"
Khun laughed, making Rak fu in annoyance.
However, as he watched on for a few seconds, he too began to chuckle. Then, both began to laugh together. A sweet lody of a deep friendship, reverberating through the test floor.
Winston stood alone in a hallway of the mothership.
His eyes were lying in wait, looking around the corner of the path where a door stood.
After so ti, the door opened up and out walked a young man with short brown hair.
The young man didn't notice him and walked forward without issue.
"You should be more aware of your surroundings." Winston chuckled. The young boy jumped
in surprise and looked back.
"Ah! Mr. Winston." He scratched the back of his head.
Winston smiled, "Everyone will be joining in on the test with you. You can rest assured."
Bam's eyes widened a bit in surprise.
"Really?! That's great!"
Winston walked towards him, prompting Bam to walk along. Their footsteps were the only
thing heard in the hallway for a few monts.
"Everyone was pretty shaken up about you being an irregular." He said.
"Is that so?" Bam's face held a rare expression of regret. "What about Mr. Khun and Rak?"
"They were too in so ways. But they were the ones that didn't take any ti to consider
following through with you."
Bam heaved a sigh of relief. Winston quieted down again for so ti, before speaking out again.
"Bam." Bam looked at him. "Are you really sure about this?" Winston's eyes t his, a
strange smile still on his face.
Bam nodded in resolution.
"I am!"
"The tower doesn't take well to irregulars entering it. You could very well be in for a world of
pain."
"It doesn't matter. Because I will take Rachel to see the stars." He nodded. "But is it even worth it?" Winston asked, tilting his head. "Are the stars worth risking your
life over? Is that girl worth risking your existence on? Is she worth all of that importance you
place on her?"
Bam nodded again. "She is."
Winston sighed.
He looked at Bam again.
"...what if the stars aren't as beautiful as they say? What if what's up there doesn't satisfy
you?"
"It doesn't matter. Because Rachel will be there with ."
"You're like a lost puppy. You wouldn't get anywhere with that attitude."
"Maybe. But I will make it work."
"How?"
Bam went quiet for a mont.
"I will. Sohow."
Winston's eyes narrowed at him. He was unsure of what to say next. He wasn't sure why, but
the boy's over dependence on the girl was sure to cause so problems down the line. It didn't matter what, or how, but it was surely going to cause so, that was what Winston felt
from his intuition.
And one thing was for sure, anything Winston's intuition told him, he would follow through
with it.
Eventually, Winston nodded.
"Then I say good luck to you." He said, motioning Bam to keep walking.
Bam nodded and walked away without another word, except for a particular phrase.
"Thank you." He said.
Winston stared at his back for a few more monts, the sa smile on his face still.
The stars... He rembered how Bam rushed towards Rachel in the Hide and Seek test, his face enveloped by confusion and fear. Fear of losing the person most important to him.
I suppose you already have your star. Winston reminisced about the sky. The thousands of colours, pale coloured dots littering the sky, covering the black canvas in an ocean of light through which occasional pieces of black space peeked through.
He rembered himself trotting through lands, barefoot for miles and miles, looking for a place to find food and shelter amid the watchful eyes of the stars.
He looked over again. Bam had already disappeared at the edge of the hallway.
Winston's thoughts were a mystery.
With Bam getting the permission of the floor administrator to take the test, along with the
agreent of every other regular to take the test alongside him, the last test for the test floor
was to be conducted 2 days after.
Within this day, the regulars were to recover and train for the test, getting ready for it.
Within this ti, Winston got better acquainted with his mystical powers and the abilities shinsu provided him with, getting stronger overall.
He had already tried using ritualistic magic to pray to himself, and the results were also sowhat satisfactory. The first thing he noticed was the fact that Macsethian could indeed be used to trigger the power of nature around the user, and could be substituted for Hers and Ancient Hers, or any other mystical language in Lord of Mysteries.
The second thing he noticed, was the fact that ritualistic magic was made stronger through
shinsu around him, allowing for an increase in efficiency and decrease the expenditure of his own spirituality.
And finally, the shinsu around him could be substituted for the spirit world of Lord of
Mysteries.
He had already had so doubts about it from the mont he had first activated Spirit vision,
but now, his doubts had been made clear after the use of ritualistic magic. But there were still obvious differences between the two.
Spirit world and Shinsu in the tower were completely different domains. One was a different
aspect of reality that transcended the very concept of spacial dinsion, while the other transcended reality in so forms.
Spirit world houses creatures of various forms and could be used to travel in the blink of an eye, while the shinsu does all of that and more pretty commonly all over the tower.
There were also a lot of differences to na, but all of them were crossed by the utilization of
shinsu.
There was nothing the spirit world accomplished that the shinsu could not. The resource seed almost omnipotent.
This made Winston conclude one thing.
The shinsu was not, in fact, synonymous with the spirit world; but only acted as such because
he needed it to. It perfectly fulfilled the role of the spirit world in terms of both ritualistic
magic and divination, along with the empowernt of even Mundane language like Macsethian, allowing it to blaze up with power of nature.
Shinsu truly was, a power source that could be described as 'limitless.'
It also made him conclude a very important question he had since arriving in the tower.
The difference between spirituality and Shinsu.
Honestly speaking, there was no conceivable difference, solely because shinsu could simply
act as spirituality and more. In fact, his it had sohow managed to transform his spirituality
to mimic it's own properties, making it stronger.
That was the reason there were no differences to na in case of spirituality and shinsu.
A/N: Throw dem stonez.
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