Eligio the tattooless kid, always spent his time listening to the gigantic trees of the forest making him seem alone.
"Hey, that kid is weird."
"He's a bad kid, not listening to the chief."
Even though he didn't care about the others say about him, he would still cry.
'Hey little one, why are you crying?'
"Huh? who's there?"
Eligio looks around locating the source of the voice.
'Here! Come here!'
The voice guides him and as Eligio followed the lead of the voice, he found himself in a pickle
"But Chief said I'll get lost?"
'Do not worry child! We are trees, we don't bite.'
Somewhere within Eligio's heartfelt something weird as if a familiar peace of warmth.
***
[Time for the second batch!]
Familiar? Family? What is it like to have parents?
All the children in the village are raised equally by Paner himself.
'Eligio'
'Eligio...'
'My son'
'My son'
Eligio floats around the waiting forest in his dream. He sees the spiritual fire in each tree.
[So you can see and hear them.]
The sleeping prince joined Eligio on his trial.
"Them?"
[The adults]
"What's an adult."
[Oh there are heartless people.]
Eligio felt the anger of the prince.
[Let's come closer]
As they got close to the trees, the leaves swayed heavily, the wind started to rise as if they're running away.
"Don't get close, why are they afraid of you"
[Ask them!]
As soon as he asks, the trees turned into light dust, a memory flash inside of Eligio, and voices reached out to him.
'Please hear us!'
The burden of the 2000 years of human history was the that was trap within these trees and beneath it, the anger of the Earth was also heard.
Nature was one of the greatest gifts that the Earth has to offer but what did humans do?
The cries of the trees and the scream of the Earth are fighting inside of Eligio's head.
He couldn't bear the burden of something he didn't know.
As humans always cried about the hope of the future, what happened to nature? They were forgotten. There is one thing that Eligio knew that he can do.
"Trees don't cry, all of you tried everything for the sake of humanity. Earth, you've suffered enough, you can rest now."
The land rambles accepting the deeps roots of the trees. The voice of the Earth was pleased.
'This was the first time a human told us that, it's been so long. Thank you, human child.'
[Interesting... welp, you passed the trial!]
"How did the adults turned to trees?"
[Hehe, about that...]
***
"You passed as expected."
Nato is proud to see his new friend pass the trial.
"Where's Eleta?"
"Well, uh..."
Eleta is getting impatient.
"I wanna take the trial now!"
Nato tried to calm her down but...
"Hey, sleeping prince or whatever."
"How dare you speak..."
"Shut up, lord this and lord that."
[You want to take the trial now?]
With a flick of a switch, her personality from impatient to a heart-melting girl.
"Yes! Pretty please."
[Ok if that's what you want]
***
Eleta the two-faced had also the same life in the village as Eligio but as the children stayed away from Eligio's weirdness, the children would run away whenever they see her.
"Hey, wanna play"
"Nooooo.... run away!"
She looked like she had a friend like herself. Sometimes she talks to herself a lot.
"Let's play"
"Sure, let's play!"
"Yey!!"
[Early third batch start!]
Eleta found herself in a small tree.
"Where am I? Is this the waiting forest?"
As she wanders around the tree she found a boy.
"Hey!!! Is this the waiting fowest?"
Trying to act all cute.
"No, this is the waiting tree."
The boy looks sad.
She looks around looking for other children.
"Why are you here all alone?"
"Well, my dad l-l-left me... uwaaaaaah"
The boy cried but instead of comforting him, Eleta slaps the heck out of him. Obviously, the boy cried even more.
"Well, if you are gonna cry, cry harder!"
The boy stopped crying out of confusion.
"What's your name?"
"My name is John."
"I'm Eleta, hmp. Do you wanna play with me?"
The boy smiles.
"Yes!"
[You passed the test!]
***
"Woah, that was fast!"
Nato and Eligio are amazed at Eleta.
The sleeping prince appeared in front of the three of them and in his child's voice.
"Thank you!"
Eleta was alarmed at how familiar the voice was.
"John?"
Nato was also surprised hearing the name.
The prince replied
"I am not John but I'm the first demi-human who met John."
"..."
"You see, I am a demi-human that was created by the God of Creation Zaner. Even, Nato wouldn't know the name of a God. Heh."
"Tsk."
"We didn't have emotions at first, but we were made to inherit the first human that we meet."
"Why are you explaining to us now?"
Nato asks curiously
"Well, that was the first time I saw John smiled and I thank you from the bottom of my heart."
Eleta was disappointed.
"A smile was enough to pass the trial?"
"I didn't understand at first but I tried everything back then to remove the emotion that I'm not familiar but time was against humans. John waited until to his death without feeling this so-called smile, that unfamiliar emotions filled the broken gaps in my heart"
"So you're the one who made the trees?
"No, I'm the one that made turned them into dust."
"So, the earth is the one who grew them into trees?"
[Spot on! Now go on, the second floor is open for you three.]
Before they go through the portal, Eligio shouts.
"Why do we need to climb the tower?"
[Think about John!]