Chapter 147

Ludger feels extreme pain and stinging in his whole body. Like something twisted and tears his organs. He could also feel the taste of blood in his mouth. His sword whip had already retracted and returned to its sword form. He wipes up the blood with his hand.

"Ludger!" Kismet panic as Ludger was hurt.

"Just heal yourself and run away! You being here only becomes my burden." Ludger shouted.

"Hmm...why did you block my attack whenever it was not being aimed at you? You are a strange person. Why do you help such lowly beings? You are one of us. That's why you need to trample the lowly beings that try to fight us. Did you become like this because you still don't know about yourself?" The Tower Master asked with a clueless and curious gaze at Ludger. 

"Why did you do this? Who are you?" 

Ludger glares at the Tower Master. 

Ludger realized something weird about him. Even when the Tower Master getting closer to his direction, the Tower Master's face looks blurry as if something is hiding his face.

"You already know that I am the current Tower Master of the Magic Tower." The Tower Master happily answered. 

"No, what is your real identity? Even if you are using magic, you can't hide your appearance like that...No, it was more similar to a curse, wasn't it?" Ludger pointed out the Tower Master's strange thing he could find out. 

As Ludger try to keep the Tower Master's attention to himself, he prepares his plan to attack the Tower Master. Although he still surrounds himself with the spatial barrier, Ludger finds a way to break through that barrier and attack him. But to do it, he needs to divert his attention first. That's why he began to start a conversation with him. 

"Ho, you are interested in me?! You're half right about my current condition being caused by a curse. Hmm, they say we need to know about each other to be able to get closer, right? I will answer your question as long as you also answer my question. For your first question about my identity, I will answer you that I'm a 'nameless'. Now you also have to answer my question about your identity." The Tower Master happily said with a glint of madness in his eyes. 

"What do you mean by 'nameless'? Besides, what do you want to know when you already know that I am just an ordinary twelve-year-old human boy." Ludger asked with a confused expression. 

Of course, he did it because Ludger was confused by the Tower Master's words. The Tower Master seems to know something that even Ludger never knew, even when he tried to remember Shia's memories and knowledge. But there's nothing about 'nameless'. 

'Is this something that the God of Chaos or his apostle created?... Name! That's right! All of them have one similarity.'

Ludger opened his mouth and asked. "All of you had lost your name, right. Is it the price that all of you get when you make a pact with the God of Chaos?" 

Whistle. 

"It was quite a surprise. Why did you think that I would believe I've you said that you are an ordinary little human boy? An ordinary boy or people won't be able to know about our existence or feel our presence like how you did it. So, tell the truth, are you even a human race?" The Tower Master's gaze became sharper as his smile became more twisted than before. 

"I always thought that I was human. If others do not believe me, what can I do? I always thought that I was a normal boy from the time I was born. So who are you to dare to say that I'm lying! And why are you trying to capture me?" Ludger sharply replied. 

"As I told you before, your soul is partially leaving your body. Usually, a normal person won't be able to live normally because they will live with a strange incurable disease. A weak body that will slowly wither their health and grating their life. Before making them lose their life. I just want to help you because you are one of us." The Tower Master smirked as he got closer to Ludger. 

"I'm different from you! I have my name and I won't do something like making a pact with the God of Chaos like you!" Ludger denies his words. 

"No. You are the same as us. You might have some misunderstanding about the 'name' for the 'nameless'. Even I have a name that I made when I registered myself in the Magic Tower, you know. You know that people could make a lot of different names for themselves, but there's only one name that is engraved on our soul. But more importantly, how could you know about the pact with the God of Chaos? It was something that only a few people in this world were able to know about." The Tower Master slowly walks and gets closer to Ludger's direction. 

Ludger realized what he was saying to him. Every single person in this world should receive a name when they are born. The first name that they receive will be engraved in their soul and decide their fate. While people are able to create a fake name for themselves, but they won't be able to change their real name, and it could be checked in the Temple if they want to prove their identity. 

 "You don't need to know because you won't understand even if I explain it to you," Ludger answered while taking a step back and looking at Kismet, who was able to heal himself. 

"Hmm..., let me guess your reason...You must have experienced death before, right? Hmm, I think I guessed it correctly!" The Tower Master smirked becoming more twisted than before he realized Ludger briefly had slightly reacted to his words.

Ludger felt goosebumps as he saw the madness from the Tower Master's blurry face. He could feel that the Tower Master was able to feel his brief reaction when he talked about experiencing death. Those words seem to remind him of the accident that took her life in the past life. 

The terror that he felt in his past life was overlapping with the Tower Master's hand that tried to reach him. A terrible feeling of death that he can not forget. 

'No...I don't want to die again. No, I need to snap out of it.' Ludger thought as his body trembled. 

Ludger tries to put more distance from the Tower Master. But the Tower Master's hand moved as if he was grabbing something in the air near Ludger's direction. 

In an instant, Ludger stops moving and lets the Tower Master get closer in his direction. 

"Ah, don't make such an expression. I already said that I would teach you and make you understand about yourself. So, why don't you come and follow me to our Lord's place?" The Tower Master gently said as his hand got closer to Ludger's body. 

Ludger, who seemed to be petrified and stopped moving, had a terrified expression. His eyes seem to look at something with an unfocused gaze, and The Tower Master seems to grab something, getting closer to Ludger's body. 

"Now, let's go to meet with my Lord. And let me see what are you trying to hide." The Tower Master smirked as he touched Ludger's body. 

"...No...!" Ludger said with a terrified tone, but he acted differently from usual. 

"It will be better if you just close your eyes and sleep." The Tower Master said as if he whispered to Ludger's ear.

Kismet, who regains his strength after healing, feels a foreboding feeling because Ludger acted differently from usual, and he can't understand why Ludger suddenly stopped fighting even when he is able to attack him right now.

"Don't you dare to lay your dirty hand on him! The holy light that destroys all evil. Disintegration." Kismet, who is being ignored by them, attack the Tower Master with his magic. 

"It was such a dumb struggle. Why don't you be grateful and run away when the kind heart Ludger took my attention to let you run away and made me spare your worthless life. You miss your chance to run away so...! What!?" At first, the Tower Master was acting high and mighty, but he was suddenly surprised. 

Bang!

The magic that Kismet used passed through the void barrier that surrounded the Tower Master's body. He can't react to that attack, causing him to lose his left arm. Black blood flowed from his wound. His left arm was destroyed by the magic attack and disintegrated as if vanished in the air.

"This...This can't be happening! You...! What did you do?! How can you pass through my absolute barrier??!" The Tower Master hysterically screamed while glaring at Kismet.

Looking at how the Tower Master is losing his composure for the first time since they met him today. They could feel how the Tower Master felt angry because they were able to pass through his barrier and hurt him. 

"Do you think I will be afraid of you just because you have that barrier? It was not an absolute barrier because it has a flaw like another barrier, too. And I have proofing that it was possible to pass through the barrier and make that wound." Darius taunts the angry Tower Master. 

He didn't think about the dangers he would face. The only thing that is in his mind is to make the Tower Master move away from Ludger. Especially because Ludger's current condition seems to be strange as he trembling as if looking at something extremely horrible.