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2053 Thirteen towers manifested, leaving destruction in its shadow and flattening the area in its wake. Taking the towers as a threat, the governing powers on earth rebelled in their way by nuking them as a final result. The governments tried everything. In the end, they decided that the nuke was the final result. Only two of the towers were nuked, but they stood still. Soon, people adapted and accepted the incident. It gained many names across the world. Where I was, we called the 13th tragedy. Within the first year of the Tower's existence, two billion people died due to the disaster. But then, the towers that were a mystery and a misery in their existence over the three years the towers became a symbol. Then, when adaptation and advancement continued, a change happened. The towers opened.
The AI art of the monsters will be posted on @GoLiL_2025 on Instagram, along with the AI art of the characters.

Firefly Ember

Anna grunted exhaustedly while they traveled through the woods. Anna couldn't help but gasp for air. She can admit she is not in shape but its hard to be in shape when you spent over five years crippled and unable to do a lot of things like others till now.

"Where are we headed again?" (Anna)

"Tell me again why we are not taking the roads?" (Anna)

Gasping for air, Anna stopped climbing up the slope to catch her breath. Greyson was also breathing heavily but seemed still filled with energy that Anna had run out of a while ago.

"You said we needed Allys to survive, right?" (Greyson)

Greyson held his hand out to help pull Anna further up their makeshift path.

"That doesn't answer my question." (Anna)

"Well, we want to get to Portville sooner rather than later, so we are taking a shortcut." (Greyson)

"How is crossing a mountain in the woods a shortcut? We hardly know where we are going." (Anna)

"Nonsense, you still have the Compas right?" (Greyson)

Anna pulled the compass up and saw the needle still pointing in the general direction they were heading.

"Yes, I still don't see how this is faster?" (Anna)

"Well, we cut two days' travel into possibly one day as long as we keep moving." (Greyson)

"We both know that you agreed when I told you it would cut our travel time in half." (Greyson)

"I know part of me wants to go back in time and tell myself to say no." (Anna)

Greyson chuckled as he pulled water from nowhere, chugging half the bottle in a few gulps. Anna moved, leaning against A tree for a second before a sound of sandpaper grinding together came above her head. In a swift motion, Greyson pulled out his rifle, pointing it up into the branches as Anna moved beside him.

The branches moved. Shifting and altering their positions to reveal a shape made Anna want to run away. She might not be afraid of spiders, but this was larger than herself; its limbs were the diameter of her arms, and their length reached past her height. She never feared spiders, but this is too much for her to handle.

Lifting his rifle, he aimed at the center mass of the giant spider. A crackling hiss filled the trees around them, and it rubbed two of its limbs together, making the sound it had made when it was above Anna.

Greyson started shooting the spider as it hissed and lunged for both. Anna couldn't hold back and shrieked in fear as they backed away, the spider's limbs tangling around themselves as it stood up on all its gangly legs. As another hissing noise like sandpaper emanated from its rubbing limbs.

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