Chapter 43. Tower of Heaven. Part 1. Detection.

Almost a month has passed since Eros arrived in Bosco, settling in one of the largest cities and at the moment, engaging in the fact that he applied runes to various objects. And he even managed to acquire a good reputation, and even this month, he earned very good money, and all this for one thing, in order to attract the attention of the head of the city and one of the best artifactors of all Bosco.

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In the city of Eros he rented a small shop where he did his business. He had no end of customers, although the prices were slightly higher than the others, but no one complained about this, because they knew that the runes that Eros put were much better and gave a greater effect.

Due to the fact that he recaptured many clients from other rune masters, they tried to threaten him, but usually they flew out of the store beaten like dogs. There were even those who tried to take revenge, but the next day, their houses suddenly disappeared or they were found beaten and lying in some dark alley. Of course, everyone understood who was doing this, but they were silent, because they knew what could happen, and quarreling with the best rune master is not the best thing to do.

Therefore, the titan's work was calm and quiet, and in this way he improved his abilities quite well, learning to apply runes on a variety of objects.

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One day, as usual, having received an order, he started to work, but in the middle of the day, he had to stop. Eros felt like something in his pocket began to heat up.

"How uncomfortable when distracted during work ..." - the titan thought with annoyance, looking at the blue crystal in his hand, - "Hmm ..." - Eros poured a little magic power into the crystal, it went out and a rough male voice began to come out of it.

- Hello young master! The voice said respectfully.

- Black-bearded, is it you? "Eros hasn't heard this pirate in a long time.

The titan met him when he was in the Sun Village. Then he left her for two weeks and began to walk on the sea, capturing pirate ships, so that with their help he would find the very gang that destroyed Kagura's house. Since he assumed that the base of these bastards was somewhere in the sea, because that was where it would be hardest to find them. And Blackbeard was one of the twenty captains of the ships he captured. And Eros gave all of them one task, to find strange buildings in the sea, some kind of bases or something like that and report immediately. And the first team found a place, became his deputy, that is, managed all twenty teams on his behalf. Therefore, all the teams fervently searched for that very gang, and during this time they captured about thirty more small pirate teams. In general, almost fifty ships plowed the sea day and night in search of the right place.

- Did you recognize me ?!

- How can I not recognize you, - "Only you know how to speak in such a sweet and respectful voice," the titan thought with a slight smile.

- I am so happy ... - For a moment it seemed to Eros that he heard sobs from the crystal, but most likely it seemed, - Young Master, this is about that case.

- Did you find something?

- Yes, we found a strange dark tower in the sea, near the coast of the Kingdom of the Cutter, but we do not know what is there, - the pirate said with annoyance, - We sent two reconnaissance teams there, but they never returned.

- That's how it means I'll be there soon, tell me the exact coordinates of where you are!

- Yes!

After finishing the conversation with Blackbeard, Eros locked the store and using invisibility, a pair of wings appeared on his back and taking off, he flew west.

"If this is really the place, then we must hurry ..."

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It took Eros half a day to reach the Kingdom of the Cutter, which lay between Fiore and the Minstrel. On the shore, five ships with the skeleton of a lion's head on a flag were already waiting for him.

Having landed on the ships and removing their wings with invisibility, several pirates immediately aimed at him, some took out blades, while others were preparing to use magic and magical weapons, like cannons.

- STOP THE FREQUENCIES! ON WHOM ARE YOU LIFTING THE WEAPON, BORED TO LIVE ?! - roared a healthy man of about forty, with long black hair to his shoulders, many scars on his face and a long black beard. He had a black bandana on his head, he was dressed in a simple shirt without buttons, revealing a view of his muscles, and on top of a leather jacket, also without buttons and sleeves. He also wore black simple pants tucked into long boots almost to the knee. On his right belt hung a saber, and on his back a large gun, - I beg your pardon, Young Master, I will punish them later! The pirate said with awe, drooping his head.

The rest experienced cognitive dissonance, they never in their life could have thought that their powerful captain, who had never bowed before anyone, would suddenly be so fawning with some boy. Some pinched their hand to wake up, thinking it was just a bad dream.

- Less talk, more action.

- Yes! - he turned sharply to his team, - Raise anchors! We're sailing off! - roared the black-bearded, waving his hand, the next moment, all the pirates fussed and very quickly prepared to sail, - Something else young gentleman?

- No, the sooner we get there, the better, - Eros said in a calm voice, climbing up and sitting down on the bow of the ship.

- Understood, I'll go and hurry them, - said the pirate respectfully.

Three hours later, they reached a strange fog that completely began to absorb the ship, interfering with the view. Eros only slightly frowned, waved his hand and made a gesture to stop.

- Stay here, first you need to investigate it closer, but for now call the rest of the team and get ready to storm.

- Do you need our help?

- No, here I can handle it myself, just wait for my signal.

- Understood you, - and right into the eyes of Blackbeard, Eros disappeared, but the pirate was not very surprised by this, because once he saw how this boy sank ten ships with just a wave of his hand, this was really scary and frightening. Although the pirate obeyed Eros, this is just a show, because he is ready at any moment to personally stick a dagger in his back. Yet pirates are the kind of people who value "freedom" the most. The Titan understood this and was always on the alert, because it is not known what to expect from these thugs.

The titan made his way with ease through the fog, where he was given a view of the giant tower. She had a rather strange ornate shape, with sometimes protruding parts. The main body consisted of a huge number of intertwining steel pipes, fastened with smaller ones, tapering towards the top of the tower.

"Looks like the citadel of someone demon king, gloomy ..." - the Titan thought with a frown, approaching the tower.

Having touched the pipe, he began to destroy them, creating a passage for himself. It only took him a couple of seconds to get inside and the next moment he froze.

He saw a huge number of people, among them were both children and old people, dressed in simple gray robes, or in dirty torn T-shirts and shorts, without any shoes. He saw how these same children dragged giant boulders and worked with pickaxes, how people dressed in red robes with white masks on their faces whipped them with whips, insulting and laughing out loud ... It was a real hell ...

"Apparently I have arrived at the right place ... - suppressing the outbreak of anger, he began to examine the people who were there, checking their strength levels. And after a while Eros left the place of "work" and headed along the stone tunnels, - "So far, only a few magicians of C-rank and that's it ..." - wandering along the corridors, he found several more magicians, but their ranks also did not exceed C, - "And how did they even survive? There is not one strong enough magician here ... What ?! " - the titan sharply froze and looked to his right, where he felt a large amount of magical power, at least not a weak magician of A-rank, - "Still, there are strong men here, you will have to deal with him right away, but a little later, first you need to understand for why is this construction being carried out? "

Eros continued to move along the tower, counting the number of magicians inside, as well as looking for answers to his questions, until he heard someone's screams and when he approached that place, he froze ... For the first time in his life, Eros felt such a strong desire to torture a person to death, he didn't even hate Karl that much.

In a small room, a girl, slightly older than Cana, was tied to a large column. She had short shoulder-length scarlet hair and a very skinny figure. She looked with hatred at two men in red coats and with white masks on their faces, with a pattern similar to the letter "H", who beat her with a whip. The girl, her teeth clenched tightly, tried not to make a sound while the two beat and insulted her.

- So you want to play "heroes" with us, but a trifle ?! - growled one of them, - Get out of here, I'm going to teach this little one how to scream.

- Uh ... Why do you need, she's completely skinny, and a child, - said the second in bewilderment, - Look at someone else, there are very good slaves with good figures.

- No, until I teach her a lesson, then I will not calm down!

- Eh ... Do what you want, but just keep her alive.

- Yes, I know, - a wild grin appeared on his lips, when he saw fear in the eyes of the girl, - Don't worry, I will be gentle ... - As soon as the second left the cell, he unbuttoned his robe and began to approach her.

- Not! Please don't! Tears flowed from her eyes as she kicked and tried to escape.

- It's late, petty rubbish! - a lascivious smile appeared on his lips as he grabbed the bottom edge of her robe ...