Beatitudes

Golden spiral.

Harry was the first to step forward as he said, “Let me go first…”

Adam gave him a faint smile as he said, “it’s nothing to act like you’re going to die for, just go to the origin pillar and place your palm on it.”

“Okay…”

He moved at a constant pace as he approached the already close by tower, the closer he got, the more he could feel the ancient air around it and the more he felt something sprout from deep within him… It was a sense of reverence and warmth, like he heading back to the one thing that really mattered and stood above all. He was about less than half a meter away from it when he stopped walking and raised his hands before moving a palm to the tower slowly, a slight nervousness overtook since he didn’t know what to expect, he actually knew more about the origin pillar than Isaac so also knew more about the concept of classes, he really didn’t know what to expect he would get. As his thoughts wondered all over the place, his palm finally made contact with the dark gold surface of the origin pillar and then he froze in place with not a single change in expression.

Adam looked on as Harry froze in place like a statue, a faint golden sheen of light surrounding him,

‘This shouldn’t take too long…’

Naturally he had a good understanding of how the origin pillar operated,

The way to initiate communication with the tower was by placing a palm on the tower, a connection would be formed once the origin pillar sensed your intention, then a bond between the origin pillar and the person placing a palm would be formed temporarily, it was said that during the time when a person formed such a bond with the origin pillar, that person would be at his closest to an indestructible immortal being, the golden sheen of light on Harry  was evidence of that, there were rumors of someone of immense divine strength raining blows down on someone at the point of bonding, not only was there a single ripple on the golden sheen of light or even the slightest dimming, it was said that the pillar took the person’s action as a challenge and reversed the attacks aiming it back at the attacker, since it was his own attack he was somewhat able to manage and not die but he was severely injured after that, it was as embarrassing as it was humiliating for that person but everyone used that instance to understand that under no circumstance should someone in the process of a bond be attacked…

So after the bond had been formed, the consciousness of the person would be taken to a separate space where he would be given choices. The bond served as protection for the person in a way but it was also a way for the tower to mysteriously scan the person’s body. It’s said that the origin pillar is able to tap into one’s entire body make-up and bring out the suitable and best possible paths to choose from by that person, the paths were chosen based on a culmination of your bloodline, physique, affinity, character disposition and other factors that makes a person his somewhat unique self. So a person’s class was always a reflection of the person’s character and personality, a true show of one’s inner self, although not necessarily the entirety. Most people usually had about three to five path choices, since a living being was always usually filled with so many complexities, only the origin tower could analyze to such near perfection which some claimed to be perfect. While some fairly rare cases had two or even just one, having more than five was also possible but people like that were the eccentric enigmas of life….

The whole process took about ten minutes for Harry to complete, I wasn’t too on what he was doing but I knew that this was an important moment and Harry proved himself to at least have some wisdom during this situation, he took his time while he decided.

We waited and the watched the single scene like it was in a loop until finally Harry ’s palm was redrawn breaking the bond while he was enveloped in a different aura, like he was a half a different person. He was still facing the origin pillar, perhaps in a daze from what all happened as he made not a single move, a few seconds later he came to properly and turned around facing us as he stares at us, the excitement in his eyes were visible while it was mixed with what seemed to be confusion

At this point, the feeling of a changed aura was even more evident on him as he almost ran back to us, he reached us in barely any time and Adam asked him with a thoughtful look,

“What did you choose?”

Hearing the question, he was about to already give answer too, he smiled,

“I was given three options, but what was confusing was that although I could pick all three, they were in different colors as if the tower was advising me on what to pick, I was saw the classes Warlock, Guardian and Berserker but the warlock class was in white, the guardian in green while the berserker was in gold… in the end I choose the one I felt oddly close to, the berserker class, I – I choose correctly right…”

Hearing his words, Adam had a smile on that literally meant ‘as expected’ as he looked at Harry and said,

“In the end what matters is your perseverance, the pillar wouldn’t show you an option if it was a bad choice… but I guess you did good to choose berserker, you might not understand now but you will soon.”

Harry ’s confusion had cleared as he nodded at Adam, “I understand…”

I stared at him with slightly widened eyes, did the whole bonding and stuff grant him a rebirth or something?

You have to understand that Harry  was the literal blockhead between us, I don’t mean in it in an insult but it was true, throughout the weeks we had been embroiled with the beasts of the jade forest, he had always been the one out of us three to come with all energy wasted and more than one bruises, even Hiya who was not very good always managed to end the battle without a single scratch, maybe it was due to being or something, I couldn’t be sure but she was always the cleanest out of all of us… so it was surprising to see him actually say he understood when he never did, and this time he didn’t seem like he was bluffing, a genuine look of understanding was present on his face. Either the origin pillar granted him sublime acting skills or it actually enhanced his intelligence, either way I was looking forward even more to the whole thing now, I was going now after all.

Like Adam was able to see through me as he spoke the next words with an odd tone, he had been talking to me different for a while now ever since we came to Sarang,

“Isaac it’s you turn, it’s time to get your class, it’s been a while…”

He broke his words at that point but I couldn’t really bother as I was already making my way towards the tower with steady steps

Adam looked on at Isaac’s back as he spoke in a voice inly he could hear, “…it’s been a while since I’ve seen you making miracles, its time you take your second first step…”

I was already standing in front of the origin pillar as I stopped to give it a closer look, it was a dark golden color as it gave off a faint majestic aura, and like something in me was reacting to that aura, I felt my sovereign essence starting to churn rapidly, I didn’t give it much thought as I felt it was following my emotions which was bursting full of excitement. My hand subconsciously moved towards the tower and an aura of finally seeing a close one again slowly spread through the air within and around me.

I heard sounds from my mind like Astral was deep thought on something, I was about to ask what when my palm finally landed on the origin pillar, then my mind went blank and white light burst out into my eyes…

All around me, all what I could see was blinding white light, I wasn’t sure if I was still seeing or I’d already been blinded, I couldn’t make out the difference. But after a while I noticed the light wasn’t so piercing anymore, it seemed more gentle and embracive even.

I looked around and realized I was present body and all in a white space, I couldn’t tell how far the space stretched though. I stared at my hands and legs as I wondered what was going on, was this how it all went?

Outside the space at the point where the other three surrounded an origin pillar, it was a moment of shock and confusion for them as they watched Isaac move to place a palm on the pillar, a second later after he did, he vanished.

All three of them standing there had eyes wide open as they stared blankly at what seemed to be an origin pillar with no one around it, they almost couldn’t believe their eyes as they stared longer, after a minute of staring, one of them finally responded as Harry made to run to the pillar, probably in hopes of finding the person who had suddenly disappeared, “Isaac!!”

He had only just taken a step forward when an arm reached out to hold him back, Adam ‘s voice entered his ears as he was forcefully held back,

“Don’t make a rash move, I’m sure he’s fine”

Harry looked at Adam, eyes filled with incredulity as he stared at the guy who had always unconcerned and calm to all things, right now he could only feel a surge of anger and slight disgust as he raised his voice, “Fine! what do you mean fine, did you not see him just disappearing all of a sudden.”

His posture was firm as he kept his arm against Harry to prevent him from moving, he couldn’t help feeling a smidgen of admiration for Harry as he smiled at how he was reacting so violently to Isaac’s sudden disappearance.

Seeing the smirk on Adam only served to heighten his anger as he started to feel like following this guy here was nothing but a bad choice, he was no longer the same, no longer the same Harry a few minutes ago, his anger burned brighter as he an instinct flowed through his blood and he let out a growl, strength filled him as his entire body stretched out slightly to accommodate the new strength.

All these changes didn’t go unnoticed as Adam shook his head slightly, this misunderstanding could not be any funnier and ironic than it already was. He moved his right arm holding Harry  back as he grabbed a shoulder with force sending a jolt coursing through Harry ’s body, the jolt was just a bit aggressive but did no damage as it moved within the new born berserker and forcefully calmed down his raging blood, if this new born that just happened to have completed his bond and class choosing not that many minutes ago thought he could actually take him on with his measly berserking, then he was probably going to have to dream about it before such a scene denied even being dreamt about, not possible by a tremendous shot!.

Harry was knocked back to reality as he felt his raging blood abruptly cooling down against his will like nothing ever happened, he was still feeling shocked when he heard Adam speaking to him,

“Don’t get yourself worked up, the origin pillar is the one thing that could ever cause harm to anyone, it has never taken the initiative to do harm even if it was provoked, there is nothing that can happen to Isaac, a special case like this isn’t unheard of, he’s a special character so there was just something different, I can still feel his presence and life force if you can’t, so just stop misunderstanding.”

There wasn’t anything he lied about and they knew it, because they also knew about the origin pillar and had heard of its uniqueness, it was a revered object in all the lands and none had ever witnessed something going wrong with it. But he knew that even though there had been some odd cases there had never been one like this, but that still didn’t faze him, it was Isaac after all, if there was anyone who could be called a literal miracle, it was Isaac, in the end when he reappeared, everything will be clear then. He was eager to see what he chose, this world was a different one but the energy he felt from and around it was probably no less than their own, the class Isaac chooses would definitely be one befitting of an Order god. The quicker he gets stronger, the faster everything could be resolved and the weights could be thrown off. He wanted nothing more than all this to end.

Meanwhile in a blank space that held nothing more than a single color in common all through, Isaac was still looking as he counted the seconds go by, he didn’t even know how much time had passed as his senses had been distorted. Suddenly something changed as the surroundings began to darken, the lights dimmed out until all that was left with color was Isaac himself. He was looking all around him when he noticed a glow coming from somewhere, he was surprised to find out it was coming from himself, from within himself, at his chest area. A white light was coming out of his chest like there was something trying to announce its presence. He stared at it for a few seconds in surprise when a beam of light suddenly burst through his chest from that same spot, the light on his chest dimmed as the beam of light hovered a few meters away from him. At this point he was beyond confused, he was about to speak up again when the beam of light condensed into a single strand of white light of considerable length, it didn’t stop at that for long as it soon began to rotate starting slowly then moving faster till it formed something like a swirl of white light, motes of white light appeared around the swirl as they integrated into the swirl causing it to shine brighter with increased size, after a while the swirl began to slow down as it grew longer In length, when it finally stopped, the strand was revealed to have grown in length as another strand grew mysteriously from it, looking like two strands of thick threads twisted together. The whole thing was like a surreal vision, he was rooted in place as he watched the oddity ongoing, Following the same pattern continuously, the twisted strands began another rotation as a curved pattern began to form, after a full rotation and absorption for a good while the rotation stopped as another two strands each of the two longer than the last, another cycle again had three new strands of light appearing twisted in a peculiar manner as an odd curve began to form. Several cycles later with increasing twisted strands, a curved spiral had been formed that rotated slowly as it continued to absorb the white motes of light around it. It took the shape of a drill spiral as it rotated enigmatically, Isaac could feel a pulsing power that resonated with him from it. He stared at the spiral that slowly towered to an endless height, this continued for a time, until suddenly the spiral stopped its rotation and then with a single rotation from the bottom up, the now white spiral curve of light turned golden. The moment the entire structure turned golden, the spiral curve made of light disintegrated as it all condensed into a ball of golden light, looking closer you could see the vague outline of the golden spiral as it spun endlessly releasing waves of strange power, the whole process had seemingly ended but Isaac was as confused as he could be. He stretched out a hand to make contact with the condensed light when he heard an ancient voice reverberate all around him and into his ear.