The summoning

A warm hand touched him. He quickly jerked around to behold a lady in a short shirt and leggings inside and a white t-shirt. Her hair was made into a pigtail - red smooth hairs that looked dazzling.

"We're summoned at the training hall for a word with guider", she said in her light voice. "Sorry to have spooked you".

"No problem", knagslot managed to say, still shocked by her touch.

"I'm tess by the way", she said. " What's your own name?".

" Is it my real name or my recarnation name?", he asked.

"Your real name I guess, my real name is tess while my recarnation name is mitten avar", she said.

Knagslot grimaced. "Yours is even fancy, mine's dot Korreto, but my real name is knagslot".

She smiled. " I see you went exploring, thank goddess you weren't caught. Could we be friends?".

Knagslot was surprised by this request. "Sure, I don't have one I guess".

"Me neither".

Tess stood up and knagslot followed.

"Nice progress so far, you are currently the best fighter here", tess said.

Knagslot scoffed. "I doubt that, it's by luck I guess. Cos' my victories are always narrow it scares me".

She chuckled. "Well, you have a really good luck on your side".

"Yeah. But wait, why do you think I was summoned?".

"Well, it's not only you but everyone. I guess they want to take some people out of here and put them outside, in the streets, you know to live a normal life in a house of something. While competing in the game", tess explained.

"What if the selected people tries to escape?", knagslot asked.

Tess shrugged. "The chances are very slim. I mean no one knows the tunnel to the real world".

Knagslot looked at tess straight in the face in shock. "Oh, so there's a tunnel to the real world?".

"Yeah I guess, anyways I'm a newbie just like you, so the more we keep moving, the more things we know", tess said.

"Thank goddess, I'm really sick and tired of this place. It's like we're in some solitary confinement", said knagslot as they turned a corner.

A wooden door was up ahead. In the middle was stylized the symbol of a clown and knagslot thought it looked similar to the one he wore to defeat mudool. They walked towards the door and knagslot's mind again flashed to the woman in overalls and the room where beasts and human were kept.

The door creaked as tess pushed it open. They entered inside and the first thing their eyes beheld was yilong standing in the middle of the hall, two goat - beast beside her.

She frowned slightly you would have thought it was a smile as knagslot approached her.

"Where were you?", she asked sternly.

Knagslot was uneasy as he felt all eyes in the hall staring at him. He slowly thought of a pragmatic answer to tell yilong, more like a lie to tell her.

"Huh, I", he began, speaking slowly so that he could think of something e to say. "I was finding the toilet, I wanted to pie so badly but I saw no toilet in my room".

Yilong's frown deepened. "There is a toilet in your room. You ought to have asked someone", she said.

"My bad", knagslot said cooly. "I promise to take to your suggestions next time".

"Good", yilong said bad turned to the tess. " Where did you see him?".

Knagslot's heart skipped a beat, it skipped another and then - it was skipping many beats.

'I hope you don't implicate me', he thought and prayed while trying to put on an expressionless face.

"Around a corner from the door of his room, he told me he was finding the toilet and I told him to go to his room that there was a toilet in there. He did and I waited for him outside, then we ran off here briskly, running not to waste further time", tess explained, keeping a normal face knagslot immediately thought she would do a great actress.

Yilong nodded at her and faced the effervescent crowd, knagslot and tess exchanging eye contact only but for a split second.

"The reason for this announcement is to inform you guys that some of you will be taken out of here to the grim raven's street to reside. You people will now be official citizens of minion's domain. I had told some people here earlier and tess is one of them", yilong explained in a high and commanding voice.

"You guys should also know", she continued. " That this world - the minion's domain is a very large world, it's like a continent on it's own and with time, you guys will experience and ransack it. I'll be calling only five names, you'll meet some people already there, who have progressed to that level", she paused now and clapped her hands. A goat-beast came forward quickly to where she stood and handed her a book. She told gingerly from it's hand and opened it, her eyes rounding slowly, going through the contents of the page she had opened.

"Mitten avar", she began. "Roll Simmons, kall sunn, yulo phen and dot korreto!".

"Step forward in front of me", urged yilong to the the crowd. The people she had called scurried to the position she mentioned. Their was three boys and two girls, knagslot and tess included.

"Put your hands on your chest", yilong urged them.

The assigned people did as they had been told and yilong and the goat beasts stepped backwards. Suddenly yilong's hand was in the air and with a loud out cry, something like a contralto or soprano - perhaps a mix of the two.

"I summon the swarming bellows!", she cried out.

Dark dusts swirled around them, rolling very briskly, like an outrage, it spinned and spinned, turning and turning. Knagslot felt the wind move him around easily, like he was some piece of paper.

The last thing knagslot heard, with the loud jerking of the wind was:

" Everium!".