Replacement and Reason (1)

A spacious white hall was revealed before the opened door.

At the center of the hall was a large pool built with white stones and was surrounded by many strange blue sculptures.

The sculptures had been crafted from the image of attractive ladies with long scorpion tails on their backs. This tail they possessed was about one meter long and was the size of a human leg.

The ladies crouched beside the pool and raised their tails in the air as if they were ready to strike any time.

There was a vortex in the center of the pool spinning slowly. Its radius was about four meters.

Angele was not sure how deep the pool was due to the seemingly endless dark hole in the middle of the vortex.

He exhaled once and slowly stepped into the hall.

Angele glared at the sculptures and checked the scorpion tails quickly, then focused on the large vortex in the water.

Blue light dots flashed in front of his eyes and he looked a bit confused.