Pocket and History of the Little Lotus

Suddenly Headon stopped his words for a few seconds. A mysterious gleam flashed in his eyes and he continued, "However... The journey to the top is difficult and fraught with danger! Your life will be at constant risk, and at any moment you could lose it. So, children, do you wish to risk yourselves to the top?"

As he finished speaking, Headon's eyes looked carefully at Urek and Uriel's reactions, waiting for their answers.

"I see… So as long as I climb to the top of this Tower, I'll find Phantaminum?" Urek crossed his arms muttering softly to himself.

The next moment, his lips arched and his white teeth came into view, and with a laugh, he declared excitedly, "Hehe! That's really very interesting! Well done! I'm going to climb to the top of that Tower!"

Headon smiled again showing his scary smile. With his persistent smile, he squinted his eyes at Uriel and waited for his response.

'Risk, heh...' Uriel gave a small inward laugh, and gave a simple and direct answer looking at Headon, "I will also be climbing the Tower."

Risk? Risk of life? Hehe, what place did he stay in for a period of 10 years? The Abyss, a place where he experienced life-threatening risks countless times. One more wouldn't hurt.

Urek raised one of his eyebrows at him and gave a satisfied smile as he nodded.

Headon's smile widened even more. He clapped encouragingly, "Well done! Since you two have already made up your minds..."

His arm moved and, swinging his staff, a light shone in front of Uriel and Urek. From the light, two black Orbs began to materialize and began to float in front of Urek and Uriel.

Uriel's eyes glowed silently as he recognized this orb.

Urek tilted his head curiously looking at the orb. He turned to Headon and asked, "Hey, rabbit, what's that for?"

Headon twisted his lips at being called rabbit once again and waved his hand.

"Take this, it's called a Pocket. It is something very necessary if you wish to climb the Tower. In this Tower, there are many different tribes, races, and customs, and of course many different languages, these Pockets will help you in this regard. They also have other functions. For now, just touch it and...".

Flash!

Before Headon had finished speaking, Urek had already reached forward and touched the orb, when a light radiated from it and began to envelop his hand.

Urek quickly retracted his hand in surprise. He hadn't expected that his nonchalant movement would cause something.

"Hey, what was that, rabbit?!" He raised his voice looking at Headon.

"Rabbit..." If Headon had eyebrows, they would be frowning heavily at that moment. Being compared to such a lowly creature... three times...

Taking a deep breath to calm himself, Headon patiently explained.

"Pocket has simply connected with you, no need to be so frightened. Don't you see him? He's quite calm."

With his staff, he pointed at Uriel who was looking calm and cool with his Pocket floating around him.

Urek gave a small fake cough and, masking his face with a smile, he spoke without an ounce of shame, "Haha, who said I was scared? I had long ago realized that this Pocket had just connected with me."

Headon and Uriel's eyes narrowed, but both decided to just stay silent about it.

"Okay, okay, when you wish the Pocket to disappear, just say, 'Invisible Mode' and if you wish it to appear again, 'Visible Mode'."

Headon instructed them.

Uriel who already knew about it from the webtoon softly said "Invisible Mode" and the Pocket floating in front of him suddenly disappeared. Urek blinked a little surprised at this, but quickly followed suit and made his Pocket disappear.

Headon nodded and, revealing his row of teeth in a smile again, spoke, "Now that you two already know the bare minimum of how to control your Pockets, let's begin the Floor Test."

"Test?" Urek asked.

"Fufu, yes, Floor Test. To continue climbing the Tower, on each Floor you must take a test to move to the next Floor. Naturally the higher the Floor, the greater the difficulty of the Test."

Saying this, Headon turned his face back and muttered as he swung his staff, "So, the 1st Floor Test is..."

His staff vibrated slightly and he added with a smile.

"The ball."

From the tip of his staff, a small light radiated, and towards the wall, he swung his staff at, bars began to appear and formed a sort of cage in the wall of the Floor. Inside the cage was a water-like substance. With huge eel-like monsters swimming freely. Just behind the eels, a small pillar was rising with a black ball on top.

"White Steel Eels..."

Uriel easily recognized the eels, but his gaze lingered on the water-like substance. He recognized that substance as well.

"Shinsu."

Shinsu, a substance that exists everywhere and everything in the Tower Of God. If one knows how to manipulate this substance correctly, that person can use miraculous powers and abilities. It is said that with Shinsu, one can even attain eternal life.

As Uriel remembered certain information from the Tower of God, Urek stepped forward and asked Headon a question.

"What do I need to do in this test? Destroy that black ball?"

"Exactly. All you need to do to pass that test is to destroy the black ball. No matter what means you use to destroy it, as long as you can destroy it, you have passed the Test of the Floor."

Turning to Uriel, Headon looked carefully into the abyss-like black eyes and asked him smiling, "So, child, do you wish to begin your test?"

Uriel turned and faced Headon as well and, with the corners of his eyes, assessed the test cage. Without answering Headon immediately, he began to ponder his situation.

"It is unlikely that I will pass this test relying on my physical strength alone. I am too weak at this point. My only alternative now is to try to manipulate Shinsu, but even using Shinsu, it is still very unlikely to pass this test. First, even if I succeed, my control of Shinsu would be mediocre at best. Second, Baam used one of the 13 Month Series, one of the Tower's most powerful weapons, to kill a White Steel Eel, and I'll be facing 8 at once. Maybe, if I can control the Flame Lotus and the Spiritual Chaos Fragment and use them with Shinsu, however, since I got here, I can't feel my Spiritual Sea."

"I also don't have any weapons or armor with me. It's hard to say if I can use my Spiritual Techniques using Shinsu when I just entered the Tower..."

His mind moved quickly considering the various possibilities.

"Um... That's a bit of a dangerous situation..."

Despite thinking this, on his lips, a big smile had formed. He felt no fear in risky situations, quite the contrary, the more difficult the situation, the more fun and rewarding it would be to overcome it.

Headon saw Uriel's smile and, interpreting that he had agreed, laughed as he said, "Fufu, very well, child, destroy the ball and you can move on to the next Floor."

At Headon's voice, Uriel awoke from his thoughts and nodding, began to walk toward the Test cage.

Watching Uriel slowly entering inside the cage, Urek crossed his arms and turning to Headon, asked.

"Hey, Rabbit, do you think he will pass this test? He looks pretty weak to be able to beat those 8 ugly eels."

The instant he heard this, Headon turned to a certain mural on the wall. In the picture depicted on the mural, a large, majestic, and beautiful lotus flower was floating above the clouds. Just above the lotus flower, a man was sitting looking down as if he were above everything and everyone.

L lingering on the mural, Headon soon turned again to Urek and asked him.

"Have you ever heard the story of the 'Little Lotus?'"

Urek frowned and shook his head. He had never heard such a story.

Headon laughed quietly and looking at the cage began his story to Urek.

"Once upon a time, son of a God, a beautiful little lotus. Poor little lotus, one day its father abandoned it leaving it alone and desolate.

"Great suffering hit him, his peers taunted him that his father had abandoned him, he was alone in the world. Well, he endured this mockery and loneliness for a great time, when one day...

"A door opened for him, the door to the so-called 'Tower of Wishes' told in a story by his father long ago. Very excited, the little lotus opened the door and entered inside the Tower.

"Arriving at the Tower, the little lotus met a noble and divine guardian. The noble and divine guardian guided his to a test so that he could climb the Tower and reach the top of it, hoping to find his father again.

"However, the test was more difficult than he had originally thought. Eight huge, terrible monsters. What could he do? He was badly wounded and almost killed, but how could his loving father leave him with nothing?

"Before abandoning him, his loving father had put something to help him in his body. And when he was in a state of near-death, that something awakened. A beautiful and gentle fairy guided him, and after much effort, the little lotus managed to destroy the terrible monsters and complete the tes- "

Boom!

"Hahaha!"

Suddenly, Headon's eyes almost popped out.

"What... what the hell is that?! It's not right! This shouldn't happen!"

He couldn't believe the scene in front of him.

"Oh? Not bad, hahaha."

Urek beside him whistled excitedly looking at the cage as well.

Headon felt his mind spinning looking at the demon covered in fire and lightning laughing wildly inside the test cage.