[Congratulations on passing the first trial of the Tower! The portal is now ready]
Before they jump in the portal, the three of them had a quick meeting. Well, two of them had a meeting, Eleta, and Nato.
"Explain yourself!"
"Explain what?"
"What do you mean you have 5 lives?"
"It's my power!"
Nato revealed the tattoo that he had on his heart. Eleta turned her face away, Chief Paner wouldn't allow the children to show their skin to each other.
"Kyah! A fox? If you have 5 lives then how old are you?"
"Well it had one tail before, now it's five. Lemme count... maybe a 100 years old?"
"What!"
Meanwhile, Eligio steps into a state that he felt in the trial.
'You're back again human child.'
The voice of the Earth welcomes him with a gentle tap.
"Can I see my parents?"
The earth rumbles as the trees make way for him. He walks with a little fear but at the end, he saw the visage of his parents.
"Why am I not born with tattoos?"
The voice of the Earth answered him.
'Tattoos? Ho ho, little one, your tattoo is on your back.'
As soon as he heard the great news he quickly steps out into his deep state and asks his friends.
"Hey, look at my back!"
"Kyah!"
"Oh, you do have a tattoo."
Eligio cried but he didn't cry because he had tattoos, he cried because he was the same as others, chosen by the Gods, and passed the trial. His parents? Well, they had a lot of chats when they were in the village.
***
"Isn't my lord so cute!?"
Paner on the other hand facilitates the other trial takers.
A random chosen kid asks the chief.
"How did you meet the sleeping prince."
"Ohohohohoho, you wanna know? you wanna know?"
"Nevermind."
"My lord saved me from the cruel adults, oh how wonderful!"
The random kid walks away from the creepy Paner.
"Excuse me, my lord, all the trials have been done."
[Good, what are the results?]
"Unfortunately, half of them turned into dust. On the bright side, half of them survived!"
[Truly unfortunate, but it seems they're lucky enough to meet their parents soon.]
Newly grown saplings grew beside the trees of the Waiting Forest and as leave fall like rain from the adult trees. The sleeping prince finally smiled.
[So this is a smile?]
"Oh, I won't leave you, my lord!"
[Thank you, Paner]
***
"I think it's time for us to move."
Everyone agreed to Nato.
"Listen here, as we jump into the portal..."
"Yea?"
"If they didn't fix that portal for 50 years. I will personally train you two."
Eligio and Eleta nod and the three of them finally entered the portal.
"Great! Those shitty Gods can't even fix this?!"
"..."
"..."
Eligio and Eleta didn't understand a single thing that Nato said, and it made them think that he is a weirdo.
"Oh right, you guys didn't have 4 other lives."
The 50 years of knowledge that the humans attained was, humanity was put in a tower and 3 Gods are the ones behind it. The sleeping prince revealed a piece of important information. Zaner, the God of Creation. Humans at first were amazed by the abilities that they received but as humans learned that they were a trap. They couldn't accept it and for 50 years humans were struck at the second floor.
"So you're saying there are adults on the second floor?"
Eligio ask
"Well, I don't know now, but they are sturdy b*starts. Now should we start the training? It will be good since we're going to be together for 5 years more or less."
The two were glad that they had someone that knows how the world works and made new friends but...
After a few weeks
"Hey, that's mine. Nato!! Eleta took my food. uwaaaahh!!"
"No, I didn't!"
The two were still children.
'Ugh, how did these two passed the trial so quickly'
Nato shared his food with Eligio.
"Eleta, I told you to create your own food!"
"I can't, you told me to focus on my tattoo to create one but it instantly disappears!"
Eleta's tattoo was on her stomach, two coins side by side.
"I don't know much about that tattoo."
'Maybe that greedy old man from the second floor would know?'
Nato taught them how to use their powers.
"Focus, if you can feel the divine energy, make it your own and like this."
A small flame popped out on Nato's heart.
"Why didn't you do it as Chief Paner did?"
Nato was embarrassed.
"The thing is Paner was raised by the sleeping prince."
As months passed by, he showed them how to control it.
"You can thread your own strings."
The small flame moved within Nato's body.
"This is all I can do for now."
As years passed the two matured a little.
"Why the two of you can't understand a single thing?"
"It's because you're a bad teacher!"
"It's because you're a bad teacher!"
And then 5 years have passed.
"Welcome to the second floor!"
Nato invited them to come with him.
As they step out of the portal. They were greeted by a grand view of a city.
"Welcome to the Rebuilt City of the Humans! We called it, the Rebirth."