" What is happening? " Aldous asked himself as everything around him spun into oblivion. When training to be a protector, Aldous once had spun around 50,000 times and still didn't feel dizzy. What was happening now?
" Ouu, My child. " Aldous didn't bother looking around. He clasped his hands and got on his knees and replied, " Ouu, the gods. "
In the book of Holding, it was mentioned, the ancestors of his race said Ouu as a greeting. Everyone was forbidden to use that unless the ancestor himself, contacted one of them. A guy trying to act haughty said Ouu inside the castle and a rock dropped from the heavens and crushed him. This had happened every time someone said Ouu.
" What is your name child? " The ancient voice reached Aldous' ears and he felt calm. Very calm. " This little one's name is Aldous, sire. "
" Why do you choose to stay when everyone else has gone away? Aldous. " Aldous felt extremely proud. He was being called by his name, by the ancestors.
" I just feel like sire, if I abandon this labyrinth, I might lose my way. " Aldous kept his head down and spoke in the most gentle voice possible. He still sounded menacing.
" Would you like you to pledge yourself to me, Aldous? You may gain things you can never imagine and the door, the door will become a part of you. But, there are things you will lose. " Aldous was overcome with shock. He was being asked by the ancestors to pledge himself to them?
" Absolutely sire. " The last thing Aldous saw in the vast darkness was a white silhouette, of a rock.
" What happened? " Aldous took some moments to catch his breath. After he finally did, he noticed what had changed. He felt full of power. His right hand, there was no right hand anymore, it was a rock. It looked like magma was flowing through the rocks.
He looked around his body and everything of him was turned into rock. After he finished checking himself, he realized, the labyrinth was gone. He immediately stood up and looked around only to realize, there was nothing but rotten soil around him.
He remembered his conversation with the ancestor. The sire had mentioned something about the labyrinth being a part of him. He knew what being a part of him meant, it was inside his heart.
Aldous closed his eyes and when he opened them, he was surrounded by burning lava and in front of him stood a huge gate, he couldn't see the top no matter how far he bent backward.
Besides the door, there was a white paper, on the paper numbers 1,000 were written. Aldous extended his hands and touched the paper only to feel something go inside him.
Aldous didn't know what happened but he was inside the same dark place, and in front of him, there was a floating letter which meant " Soul Stack: Every person you kill, you get a stack. Once you collect 20 big stacks, you can rule everything. "
Aldous came back to reality and saw his right arm was glowing. He looked at the white paper and it said 0 now. Aldous chuckled, the ancestors had given him the power he truly could have never imagined.
He looked around the corpses of the guys he killed a while ago were still there. He walked towards them and extended his right and a red aura surrounded his arm. The body parts of the two guys assembled and started being crushed into small balls.
They eventually became the size of a tennis ball and entered Aldous' hand. Aldous felt the power coursing through his veins. His eyes glowed as he laughed at the sheer feeling of joy from being this powerful. Aldous brought his hand up to see the glowing glory of his hand and saw himself. He was wearing a golden mask and blue cape tied around with a golden thing.
Aldous thought he looked good.
Aldous hadn't realized, he had lost a lot more than his normal body parts.