Tower of God: Sequence Strength

Huuuuu

Something was breathing.

Thump!

A heartbeat. Faint and low, like an unspoken whisper.

Thump!

The beat was strange.

Thump!

Unnatural, distorted, gigantic was the thing. A consistent drumming at one's ears. Faint whispers piled on and on along the air, filling up the world alongside the heartbeat.

Thump!

And then, Hell Joe opened his eyes.

He caressed his chest, feeling a gigantic power brewing inside his body. It felt as if all the shinsu in the world was at his fingertips, all the power the world had to offer could be utilized.

It was overwhelming.

A crazed look, not the kind that always hung at his face, but something else, appeared in his eyes.

Something more primal. Something more intrinsic.

He watched the shinsu on the entire floor surrender under his command, drawn to him, eager to serve. Then, his eyes travelled towards the intruder. Two women. One all too familiar.

"Garam..." His crazed eyes shook in rage.

At the critical moment, when he and the dark haired woman were in a stand off, Garam had appeared, making the black haired woman calm down with the help of a small boy.

She had become weaker.

Somehow, Hell Joe stood there, watching it happen. He had little idea of what came over him. It felt as if the thought to attack had simply been erased from his mind.

"Damn you!!!!" He screamed. His face began to change.

The heartbeat in his chest intensified. He knew it wasn't his own. It was something else. Something he was more than happy to give space inside his own body.

The shinsu in the area changed. It seemed like sharp blades. Each shinsu droplet began to spin rapidly, converging towards Hell Joe, ripping through all matter, force and natural law it came across!

"Shit!" Yuri cursed under her breath. She held onto Bam's body, intending to shield him from the onslaught.

Bam instantly began to converge his own shinsu, making the disc under them move!

Their figures dashed out from the area, getting away from a scenery that wasn't too far from a natural disaster. No, it would be more accurate to describe it as the end of the world.

...

Inside the castle, after somehow rescuing Grand De Sah and getting the soul stirring laddie, Khun's team was trapped. They had managed to fight through the enemies, but here, they had no idea how to proceed.

Khun breathed heavily. The shinsu in the air was decreasing at a rapid pace. If it kept gpimg like this, they would soon die from asphyxiation.

Endorsi, Amon, Zarhan, and the others weren't doing too well either. As for Hwaryun and Evan, the red witch and the white dwarf held their heads in pain. They could not see any more paths. They could not even function properly. It was, in their words, as if a gigantic fog was blocking all of their senses.

In short, they were fucked.

Damn... what should we do. Khun contemplated. His forehead was laced with sweat and he frantically looked around. As the shinsu had moved, it had blocked off their escape route in a mountain of debris. They were completely and utterly trapped.

They could not use shinsu. Zarhan, who could inexplicably do so, was now being starved for shinsu and couldn't breathe properly. He had tried to blow through the debris, but that proved to be a wrong idea as the hallway collapsed even further, locking them in a giant hall.

Without a guide, getting out seemed like an impossible task.

Just then, he felt his hair stand on edge.

He turned around, looking at a wall.

Everyone else did the same. They felt it. Something strong.

Instantly, as if on cue, a brilliant light erupted from the wall and an illusory door formed on it.

Slowly, the door opened up, and out walked a very familiar face.

Khun and Co.'s faces lit up instantly and smiles erupted on their faces.

Why?

"WINSTON!!!" They all screamed collectively before throwing their bodies at the man. Winston simply smiled and did not care to dodge. They all smashed upon his body, failing to move him. But just to play along, he let himself be carried to the ground, falling down.

Thud!

"Damn... you guys are pretty miserable without me, aren't you?" He clicked his tongue.

He glanced at Khun who was the only one from the original group who had decided against tackling him to the ground.

Khun smiled softly as he met his gaze.

"Where the hell have you been? You bastard?"

Winston shook his head with a smirk.

"I've been a bit busy. Sorry to make you worry." He chuckled.

After a bit if drama, Winston was let go of by his friends. Interestingly enough, Winston noticed a peculiar quality in Zarhan's shinsu.

"New shinsu quality?" He asked, intrigued.

Zarhan puffed out his chest, eager to explain, but Khun's voice stopped them from prattling.

"Let's go! We can catch up after we're out of danger!"

Winston nodded, as did everyone else.

As Winston stepped forward, he could not help but gauge the piercing gaze at the back of his head.

Evan Edrock. He ought to have realized that I'm the reason he can't use his abilities as a guide... wonder how the follow up conversation would be like.

With that thought in mind, Winston opened up another illusory door in front of him, one that opened directly into north city.

"Go here. It leads to north city. You'll be safe there." Winston smiled at his friends.

He turned to look at the air. His eyes glowed with a thousand colours, as if he was seeing beyond the physical plane.

"I'll deal with this little miscreant." He smiled.

...

...

Theolis Clear breathed hard. He had finally been let go of by the gigantic creature that had caught him.

Now, all he had to do was get back to the hell train.

He looked around himself.

It stood to reason that he, someone that had never been on the floor of death and evidently lacked guide abilities, had no idea where he was.

"Fuck..." He cursed.

He didn't say anything more. He only chose to walk further in, in hopes of finding a path to the surface, or maybe to a city.

As he did, he didn't notice the shinsu around him churning.

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A/N: I'm still alive.