He finished saying that sentence, the book opened and the pages began to flip, and a yellow light left the book and went to my head.
Light touches my head, and visions of people speaking the language run through my head.
In one second I see over 100 visions, it's like I'm the one talking.
"Ah!" They stopped, I don't know why but I feel strange in my body, it's like the body in the visions was mine.
"Good, now can you understand me?"
"Yes! Did you learn my language or?"
"No. That book contained a spell that makes you understand everything we say, and you'll only speak our language, but still have to learn the alphabet."
"How did this happen?"
"The book has replaced all your memories that had anything to do with your original language, now you can't speak your language because your brain doesn't know it anymore.
But if you hear it you'll realize that it's your original language, and you can still read the writing if you see it."
"I don't really understand, but does that mean I can talk to people here?"
"Yes, but you still have to learn our alphabet."
"I understand. But why did you help me?
The book is probably quite expensive, and how did you understand what I said?"
He pulls a chair out from under the table and sits at the opposite end of the table.
"Well, it's quite a long story."
"I don't mind."
"I am Cassius, a former hero."
Cassius extends his right hand to me and I put my hand next to his to shake our hands.
"I'm Teo, nice to meet you.
What do you mean by, you're a former hero?"
"I was blessed with 4 elements and a quite large amount of magic, the chance of a person being born controlling 4 elements is 1%, so at the age of 16 when I reached rank A in the guild the elf king called me to the capital for a very important mission.
When I arrived in the capital, I was asked to team up with the 4 people summoned from other worlds to conquer the towers."
"The towers? What are those?"
"The towers are towers that appeared when the demon lord was alive.
The demon lord managed to kill the God and as punishment for our failure to protect him he created the towers.
At first people thought they were guardian totems because they only appeared in the capitals of countries, and the disaster started 3 months after their appearance, when the monsters started coming out of the tower.
Many people died when they first came out, it was chaos until they killed all the monsters that came out.
A team of several S rank adventurers was formed to kill the boss at the top but they failed, humanity could no longer afford to lose strong adventurers when the demon lord was running around the world on his own."
"Why wasn't it destroyed at the base?"
"The tower is made of a plant and stones that are also brought by the plant, the plant has a very high resistance to magic, if we destroy part of the walls the plant replaces them immediately, if we damage the plant it regenerates instantly."
"That sounds bad."
"And that's not even the worst part, the tower grows every year by one floor, the demon lord was defeated more than 100 years ago, so all the towers are around 110 floors."
"Why did the monsters come out from the tower?"
"It is still unclear why they came out, but it is believed that the boss who is on the top floor creates increasingly powerful monsters, the floors fill with them and the weaker ones are forced to go down one floor at a time because of fear of those who appear.
So every 3 months the monsters go down 1 floor, those on the first floor will attack the city because they have nowhere else to go.
The last time they attacked was 8 days ago, as far as I heard, the monsters reached level 66 and those flying appeared."
"That means it's good when the tower gets bigger."
"Yes and no. The bigger it gets the harder will be to get to the boss, and in 20 years at most the monsters will become so powerful that adventurers won't be able to kill them."
"Why was a team formed to kill the boss if he was known to be so powerful?"
"50 years ago the tower was around 55 stories high and it was not known exactly how strong the monsters were."
"After all, why were 4 people summoned? Aren't here fighters who can handle it?"
"It is said that the person who defeated the demon lord 100 years ago was one summoned.
The summoned people have a very large amount of magic and can control more than 5 elements, but the resources needed for summoning are also quite large, and only the elves know the summoning ritual which was and still is kept secret.
So no one has been summoned here, until now."
"Are you referring to me now?"
"Yes, I'm curious to know how you got here."
I told him everything that happened until I found him.
"I see, it's probably the big tree's fault."
"Big tree?"
"Yes. It's the holy tree where the elves live. It is said to have unimaginable powers."
"I want to know how your team was."
"Sorry, I forgot. There were 2 boys and 2 girls summoned, all from different countries or universes, if I remember the oldest was 17.
I was put as leader by the king, even though I was the weakest of the team.
They all controlled all the elements and had a much higher amount of manna than mine, but they were obedient and I was able to raise their levels pretty quickly.
I had lv 34 and they 0, in just 3 years they made lv 46 and I 44 . I don't know why they grew so fast, probably had some advantages because they were summoned.
In the 3 years we spent as a team we had no fights or problems, I even fell in love with Irina, the person who spoke the same language as you.
The sweetest, most beautiful girl I ever met, her green eyes that wouldn't let me look away, her short hair as black as night, her smiling face with soft lips, it was love at first sight."
Cassius's eyes have turned red from crying and his nose is running endlessly.
By the way he react, I don't think their story ends well.
"Sorry, I couldn't help myself."
"It's all right, you have all the time." Cassius grab his right sleeve and blows his nose into it.
"We bought the house after swearing eternal love in marriage, hoping to make a family, but our happiness came to an end when the elf king called us to the royal capital to kill the boss in the tower.
I completely forgot that the reason they were summoned to our world was to kill the boss.
We arrived in the capital, received supplies and were sent straight to the tower.
At first it was quite easy, the monsters were increasing by 1 level per floor, after 5 days we reached the 25th floor.
From there it became even more harder, monsters had 3 levels more compared to the previous floor, not to mention that we were physically and mentally tired because our sleep was not very deep and at the slightest noise we woke up, even if we knew that 2 people were on watch.
From 25 to 30 we needed 7 days, the monsters were getting smarter and much stronger.
Not to mention that their abilities were evolving greatly, from invisibility to the use of intermediate spells.
It's like I'm living in the moment again."