Chapter 13: Tower

"Eugh…."

Yuna huff and puff, her cells started to disintegrate and float around her.

Yuna does not even know what she look like at the moment.

Fear consumes her as she feels her whole being scattering away.

Her plate, the elements inside her body churn intensely to hold on to her body that was breaking apart but it could not keep up with the rate of disintegration and her element energy is way too weak compare to the immense energy of the dimension stone.

Yuna look up the night sky beyond the dense trees.

"It's ….quite lon..ely…"

Yuna mumbles brokenly, but it was good. It was better than to be seen fading away in front of people she knows. It will be too tragic. She hates tragedy.

The novels she read for the most part tend to be light or have a happy ending.

Life is already tragic enough, why must she still let herself suffer in a world where she seek a mental refugee?

"Ugh…. Am I going to fade just like this?...so anti-climatic"

Yuna try to find humour at her plight.

She felt bad for her plate that was working desperately to hold her body together. Her plate started to melt at the attack of the dimension stone and Yuna body convulsed in pain.

Taking a breath even seems so laborious.

'If only I could make it stronger'

Yuna thought.

'I can try…'

She can try to forge her plate.

Although she don't know the method, Yuna still want to give it a try than just let herself scatter into million particles. She is going to die anyway, so, even if the forging method is wrong, its' just about the matter of dying faster or dying slower.

One last time, giving strength to herself amidst the pain and scattering, Yuna attracts the element.

Normally, elements are stored inside the plate, but this time, instead of storing, Yuna used the element to knock on her plate. Not storing the elements inside the plate but directing the element in the plate itself like melding metal with quality ore together to forge out superb one.

Plates are like a cup where we put water. Some people plate can be as big as a water tank while others as small as a glass cup. Some people plate can be as fragile as a paper while others as hard as metal.

The elements are store inside the plate to let it hold the elements.

Right now, Yuna aims at changing the size and strength of her plate.

• Elements are the foundation of the world

The elemental books proclaim that about the elements.

Instead of throwing one elements at a time, Yuna collide earth, fire and wind in the plate.

"Huegh….."

Intense pain sear Yuna body as she touch or more specific nudge and 'hammer' her plate.

"…..I ca…can't"

The pain was so much that Yuna feels like losing her head and even feels that death is a much awaited liberation than the agony she felt at the moment.

'Lets' wait for death instead....I want to cry so badddd'

Yuna numbly though amidst the pains that torture her mind.

The torment not only inflicted pain on her body but to her spirit as well.

'But...'

She was already suffering….

Since she is already suffering

"I'm going…till the end"

Yuna grit her teeth and opens her eyes wide and desperately hung on her consciousness that seeks to plunged her into endless rest.

The universe has conspired to fulfil her wish, to let her be borne in another world, a fantasy world.

She don't want to die so soon….

She has only lived for only a year…

"I don't want to die so soon….I hate anti-climatic!"

Yuna wants to cry but even hear tear glands seems to scatter away.

Again, Yuna absorb an element of earth, fire and air, mix them and collide it with her plate.

"…..Heugh…"

The pain once again seared so much so that Yuna almost blacked out.

Her surrounding became blurred as her mind and thought is filled with one of that agonising pain.

Yuna imitate the theory of creation of world.

Dust particles and gas collision, friction occurs….

Dust attribute of earth, Gas attribute of wind, Friction attribute of fire….

Her plate started to change, spinning in vortex inside her abdomen.

Her original shape of plate could not be discerns anymore as it became something that does not have a form.

Yuna kept providing those three elements but the surrounding elements became thinner and thinner.

The trees around Yuna started to wither as if all the life force had been sucked away.

Yuna who could not even feel her body and her consciousness which was maintained with sheer will does not notice the declining state of her surroundings.

Yuna took a staggering step and instinctively move forward to where she could gather more elements. The more she moves forwards, the faster the tree withers.

Yuna fell down heavily and weakly. She didn't have strength to continue to walk forward. Her blurry gaze and her flickering consciousness make it so that she became increasingly unaware of her current state and her surroundings.

Yuna could not even feel the crisis of the increasingly thinning elements.

When the spinning formless plate settles down, Yuna just collide with water elements follows by plants element… water the building block of life and plants that signifies life and vitality.

As the elements became as sparse and thin as a needle threads, Yuna breathing became fainter and fainter.

Then….

[.....Being 1111!@#$%^&*...… ...….. triggers the condition to connect to towers..... establishing connection to Towers across the planes.....]

Yuna could hear a faint voice ringing inside her head but her muddled head could not wrap up on what the voice was saying..

She could only see flickering light, some light outshining the shine of others.

Yuna have a strong intuitive reason that any of the light will give her a chance of survival. The brighter the light, it seems the bigger her chance of survival.

Still….

Yuna stretch her hand and grab the dim light that fades in and out as if it was a kerosene lamp that is going to run out of fuel.

Why did she choose such a weak light?

...…Maybe because it look so lonely… she feels so lonely at the moment.

[Connecting to Ma*** Tower, establishing connection to sole resident of Ma*** Tower...…. 'The one who defeats ***" player Yeon Ra]

[<Huh….? >]

A voice that sounds so distant echoes inside Yuna head but she could already not make any head or tail of her own self so all the noise seems gibberish and faint to her. Her own self is hold on tightly with only her will that desperately clung to something, something so simple yet profound that even she cannot herself comprehend.

[Player YeonRa lone channel lacks elements, will player YeonRa of Ma*** tower like to provide her lone channel with elements?

Yes/No]

[<Yes >]

A surge of abundance elements started to pour in from a space vortex and Yuna who got influx with elements started absorbing greedily and hammer her plate once again instinctively. She was like a machine that operates mechanically, all her action done only by her sheer will, the pain of forging her elements and her disintegration of her body makes all her being numb and faint.

[Will player YeonRa decides to provide pain alleviation of being 1111!@#$%^&* during her forging of her element plate?

Yes/No]

[<No >]

[Will player YeonRa like to provide mental protection to prevent being 1111!@#$%^&* from her will being scattered?

Yes/No]

[<No >]

[Player YeonRa is looking at her lone channel]

[Player YeonRa is testing to see the will of her lone channel]

[Player YeonRa is …..]

[Beep….]

[Energy is insufficient to further send notification]

[Notification function about to turn off….]

[<Sigh…. >]

[Player YeonRa pose a 'fighting!' ᕦ⁠(⁠ò⁠_⁠ó⁠ˇ⁠)⁠ᕤ posture towards her lone channel]

[Beep….notification function turned off]

Yuna who was laying on the ground and was constantly convulsing remain oblivious to all things.

The forging of plate take place for a long time…so long that time seems meaningless.

After what felt like an eternity Yuna open her eyes.