Remur and The Trinity Tower

"Aaaaa"

Inside immense darkness and eerie silence, a scream broke the tranquility. This scream was of Steven's who screamed at the top of his lungs the moment the unknown force pulled him inside the darkness of the Tower.

But by the time Steven came to a stop he found that the inside was lightened up. This was done by the uses of torches which automatically caught on fire and lightened the tower. While it would have been good to have the tower lightened, but the procedure of it caused Steven to cower in fear instead.

He felt like some kind of ghost or spirit may be the ruler of this tower and now he will probably die in some evil ritual. Though such kind of thoughts passed by his mind for a long time nobody approached him, this had let him calm down and breathe out his worries.

Well he could not be laid responsible for this, in his planet all kinds of movies, tv series or even books described spooky places in such ways and this was ingrained deeply in his mind. This, in turn, caused him to remember these thoughts at first instant of coming inside and witnessing such spooky torches lighting themselves up.

Now he could see that no one was coming for him and he should be safe for the time being. This also meant now he could observe the room of the Tower he was in. He observed that the room he was standing in was shaped like an octagon. It had eight sides with each side having another opposite side. After checking the place out, he could not find any stairway, this made him confused. Such a tall tower and it does not have a stairway for going up.

The room only had 7 edges of the octagonal room designed like doors carved of stones. Whereas only the opposite edge of him had something more which was a Statue of a man with a big beard and a long stick in one hand while wearing some kind of long tunic like cloth?

As he could not find anything special in the room he decided to go towards his opposite edge which was the only side with something in it which caught his eye. The stone statue of a man was beautifully crafted, the detailing done in the statue was so great that Steven was thinking which Grandmaster of Sculpting has created this masterpiece.

The facial features and body shapes and even the beards flakiness proved that the one who could sculpt this statue was surely the best Sculptor in the world. When Steven was busy in his head with such thoughts a sound came out of nowhere "Crrrrrr" disturbing the silence that was prevalent in the room.

Steven could not guess where this sound was coming from, so he turned around and started checking out the whole room. When he could not find anything, he turned back again. But the same sound disturbed him again this time louder than before "Crrrrrrrrr", he was sure that this was surely done by something so he seriously started checking for the source of the sound.

The sound was intensifying and Steven was still trying to find the source of the sound albeit in fear of something untoward happening to himself. When the sound was audible enough for Steven to catch on to the source, it was already very late. With a "Grrrr-Dhuuuush" sound and lots of dust flying about the stone statue had broken down.

Steven had turned towards it but he only found a very quick shadow moving away from the place of the statue. Steven could feel cold sweat in his back, and there was also a presence of something behind him. He instinctively tried to jump forward but fate again; his collar bone was caught by someone from the back.

Steven's body got limp the second he was caught. It felt like all energy from his body was drained in that instant. The one who had caught Steven slowly turned him around for a face off.

The moment Steven caught sight of the person holding him, he was terrified beyond reason. He was an old guy but with a face full of wrinkles so large that his face felt like someone who should have been dead for more than a decade. He had his full face covered in white mustache and beard.

The eyes were red and the guy gave off a feeling of a hungry savage beast. By this time Steven was very scared and could not control his mouth from screaming out with his full strength. This scream caught the old man off guard and he let his hands loose from his neck, but well Steven was very unlucky, he was so scared that the instant he landed in the floor his mind gave away and he lost consciousness.

When Steven regained his consciousness, the first thing he saw after opening his eyes was an Old man with many wrinkles looking at him as if he had found a new toy for himself. This thought instantly caused Steven to have the creeps and he started screaming again without any thought "Aaaaaaaaaaa" and running around in the room.

"Will you shut up, you are disturbing me now, if you do not shut up I will really tie you up here" an ancient voice sounded out in Stevens' ears. Steven instinctively knew where the voice came from. He calmed down after the warning and started checking the old man out.

To get more information out from the old man, Steven slowly asked the man "Sir, who are you and why are you here in this tower turned into a statue?"

The old man ignored Steven's question and asked one to Steven instead "Hey Brat, where is the locket, show it to me?"

Steven got cautious the instant this question was asked of him. He knew that the locket in his neck was the only proof that he was not from this world and when the old man asked for his locket he subconsciously caught the locket in one hand while backing off a little. His eyes showed the fear of death that he had, and there was an appropriate reason for this too, in his last life he was alone and was a virgin, now that he gained a new life he was still like before he does not even have a girlfriend. How could he die so early without completing even one of his dreams?

The old man could understand the fear in his eyes but the other emotions were something he did not see before. He became curious about the boy but did not show it in his face. He just asked Steven in a more intimidating way "Did you think I do not know about it? Just give it here, otherwise what you are thinking about may come true" using the fear of death in him.

Steven was caught in a dilemma about what should he do if he gave up the locket and the old man found something about his transmigration it would be very bad news for him. Whereas, if he did not give it up and the old man decided to actually kill him then what would he do?

After thinking over it for some time he decided to give the locket and so he took out the locket and threw it towards the old man. The man had caught it and started to scrutinize the locket with a very special expression. The look he gave felt like he was checking out the most priceless thing in the world.

The man checked it and suddenly a bright blue light came out of it and like a laser attacked Steven. Steven got scared the instant he caught sight of the light that was on his way thinking it would surely pulverize him, he closed his eyes and sat down in a position that his hands and feet were with each other while his butt was off the ground.

Though Steven had taken a defensive posture the light still attacked him and disappeared but there was no pulverization of Steven as he had expected. He stood up in quick succession thinking the old man may attack him again. But the scene he saw was completely unlike what he expected.

The old man was standing near him and had the locket pushed in front of him. The voice of the old man again reached his ears saying "Come on take the locket, I was just checking it boy."

"You must be fairly confused about what is going on here, right?" the old man asked Steven and continued "Let me explain to you the main point of it. You, my boy, have been chosen by the Trinity Locket as the potential candidate to become the Lord of Trinity Tower. Yes, the tower you are standing on is the Trinity Tower."

"You may not understand what I am saying right?" asked the man and then without giving any chance for Steven to speak he continued "This, my boy, is the Trinity Tower which is capable of making you the strongest man on the world. The most priceless treasure of this world and me, I am the Guardian or you could say the Keeper of the Tower, I am known by the name of Remur, Keeper of Trinity Tower. Haha Haha Haha"

"And you my boy will be personally trained by me from now on." Spoke Remur with a wicked glint in his eyes.

"Nooooo, I don't want this. Please take this baaack." Steven's unsatisfied voice started to echo outside the tower after Remur's speech.