Michel slowly opened his eyes after enduring the headache that resulted as an effect of the dimensional teleportation.
Managing to open his eyes, what has presented in front of him was a grand view of the setting sun amidst the green mountains in the background of an average town.
Ding!
[You have entered the first floor of the Tower]
[The Tower welcomes you to the first floor of the Tower, Cradle*]
The darkness that was slowly looming over the bustling town in front of him as the sun was moving towards the horizon, gave a weird feeling of satisfaction!
The night lights powered by mana stones were starting to lighten up in the hope of driving away the approaching darkness, the effort of the people trying to once again bring over the warmth of the light in the midst of the darkness reminded him of something.
"Poor people, they are trying to drive away from this beautiful darkness, do they not know that, only in the darkness can you see the stars?"
It was a wonder for him! they say children are afraid of darkness, but Michel as a child was never one to run away from darkness, maybe because only in the darkness could he feel the warmth that was without any malice.
"Or is it because my Gramps used to be the ruler of death?" he wondered if that was the case, anyway he didn't linger around the useless thoughts for more as the town that was now full of twinkling lights was waiting for him to explore. It was like the Tower itself had lightened up the place for his arrival.
and just as he was about to move towards the town...
"Isn't the view beautiful from here?"
He heard a voice behind him which caught him by surprise!
'When did he get near me!! I didn't even sense him!'
He jumped away from the place he was standing, taking out the short dagger that he kept with him in case of emergencies.
A person who was capable of approaching him without his notice, when his perception alone crossed the mark of 60 stat, and that too on the first floor! There was no way that such a person would be someone normal!
Michel hurriedly took a defensive position and was about to summon his skeletons when he noticed it!!
Behind him, from where he heard the voice just a second ago, there was no one to be seen!!
"Who was it?"
He shouted noticing that there was no one to be seen near his vicinity.
"Did I hear it wrong", He wondered after failing to notice any soul in his surroundings and was about to take back the dagger when he heard the voice again!
"Don't worry! I have no intention of hurting you!"
This time it was from the right to him, he looked there immediately but still, there was no one present there too! Increasing his guard again he looked all around him in caution but yet failed to notice anyone.
"Please calm down"
he heard the voice once again but he still couldn't find the source of it!
"Calm down? How am I supposed to do that when someone whom I can't even see is talking to me? who the hell are you?"
Michel didn't even know whom he was talking with and the person in question was also talking as if he knew who he was?! He just couldn't guess who it was.
"Please lower your guard! I am just here to have a talk with you"
The voice said once again! Michel turned all around to find where it was coming from but every time he turned in the other direction, the source of the voice also seemed to be moving with him!
"Don't you think you need to come out in front of me if you wish to talk?" said Michel still trying to find where that voice is coming from.
There was a brief silence for a second but shortly afterward something leaped out of his shadow and landed in front of him!
Michel backed out in shock and when he looked at what it was...It was actually a man or...was it a woman...he didn't know what it was as the one who appeared in front of him was wholly covered in a black robe except for his eyes.
"I greet the successor of the Crazy Necromancer"
"Huh?"
Michel was shocked once again! It was already spread? The information that he was the Heir of the Crazy necromancer was already known to others?
With sudden greetings from the figure, Michel was caught off-guard and forgot to respond to him!
There was a brief silence between them, after getting a hold of things that were happening, Michel quickly tried to deny it!
"You...you got the wrong guy...My name is actually Nicole, not Michel...hahaha"
Well, it was so bad that even a child would find out he was lying!
"Michel Maran, son of Jessica and Magnus Viotto, grandson of William Viot...."
The shadowed man was still saying something when he noticed Michel, who was currently in the air leaping at him with a dagger!! he was momentarily shocked by his sudden action and was caught off guard!!
In contrast, Michel was smiling as he managed to catch the unknown figure in front of him by surprise!
Even though the person was not showing any kind of malice towards him at the movement, someone who had known about this much means he had already run a background check on him!
There would be no reason for someone who doesn't mean him any harm to look at his background. and there definitely wasn't any reason for him to lower his guard in front of someone he had never seen so it was better to take care of him first.
The dagger in his hand slowly descended and was just an inch away from the neck of the robed figure...
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*Cradle - Name of the First floor World.