Chapter 10：Who? (1/2)

After a few hours of meditation in complete darkness, Mack got bored. Super bored. Bored as hell.

”I will take a break, I can't feel if I improved or not, it's really frustrating.”

Said Mack, standing up and stretching his sore muscles, but, without taking a step forward.

”Why I need to do this here? Could not I do this outside this 'Tower' or 'Hel'?”

[You could. But this was devised by my creator to improve the odds of succeeding, here the Essence concentration is several times more than the world you came from, also, it serves as a measure, if you can succeed before dying of starvation it means you have potential. ]

”Essence. Is it like in the animes or like mana in the games?”

[I'm unfamiliar with those terms. And if I was to tell in details, it could take days to explain all the concepts to you]

”Care to explain why am I here? I mean, what was the goal of your creator? And what was his name?”

[You don't know why are you here? No one in your family explained?]

”No. My father died a few years, while my mother, well, I never knew her, not sure if she is alive or not, my father always avoided talking about her. And I don't have any other relatives”

[I see.... I will open an exception for you, Human. I'm an Arcane Legacy, meaning, for generations, I was responsible for testing all your family members for a suitable person to Inherit the knowledge of your first ancestor, my creator.]

”How do you know that I'm one, like, can't I just have opened the book and do the tattoos and is it?”

[My creator thought about this, he was a very wise man. He did not wish his family to tread the same path as him, that's why he created me with several steps and tests before actually giving any knowledge important knowledge. And for recognizing any of your family. It's simple. Because your family DNA differs from other humans in any other planets in any other dimension.]

”So I'm an alien. tsc. Wish I had at least some wings. tsc tsc”

”What would happen if no more people from my family came? I mean, I don't have a child, the book is hidden, and I doubt there is any other parent of my father alive. I may be the last one.”

[In that case, it would be a lonely eternity for me.]