To Utopia, Hell...

[Dracos]

"Ah, at least one of you isn't blind, I suppose.  This place.  It sits atop the grave of the one the hero fought long ago."  It said matter of factly.

Dracos

[Carthrat]

"A tomb?" asks Mei-Ling, curiously. "Or a mere grave? How large is it?

I will ascertain the truth of this."

[Dracos]

Yomi laughed.  "You misunderstand.  How big?  This entire land sits upon it.  Everything.  It surrounds the void left behind when the dark one was slain."

Dracos

[Olvelsper]

"Well, the demon is gone, so there's no real big deal. It probably explains why everything got drawn here when worlds are destroyed, though."

[Dracos]

"The demon...should be gone."  Yomi agreed. "But...this is strange.  I sense the towers... they too, should be gone."

Dracos

[Carthrat]

"The towers? You know what they are?" asks Mei-Ling. "What.. why are they so full of darkness? Who built them?

What.. are they?"

She folds her hands, looking rather pained at the memory.

[Olvelsper]

"So that Tower is connected to the demon? A pathway to it, maybe?" Jan added on. "A explorer I know went in there once, was driven mad by the sights of it. Claims that demons were inside..."

[Dracos]

Yomi looked agitated a bit, its wings fluttering as it looked at them.  

"Mmm...to understand them...one must understand a bit of the dark one, for in a way, they are manifestations of its will.  Long ago, there was a world, barren save for two beings which strived over it.  One of light and one of darkness.  Both of them, in passing, used the same weapons in their battle...change and souls.  The hero of legend was a soul that could not be directly influenced.  He could be manipulated, tricked, but he could not simply be willed into something by either spirit.  When the hero came into existence, they fought over it, the dark one eventually grabbing part of it and yanking it down into its realm.  The spirit of light, worried over the world, willed it into hibernation, seeking that even if the dark one was to corrupt the hero, that the world would be safe.  So, the dark one created a mirror of the world and...the towers.  The towers were tools of change created by it for use by the hero, so that the hibernation of the world could be undone as it wished without the spirit of light being able to block it.  In other words, they were tools of change that shouldn't exist with the dark one gone."

Dracos

[Carthrat]

"Light, huh," murmurs Mei-Ling.

"Darkness is a static state. Whereas Darkness is the absence of Light, Light is not the absence of Darkness. It is just something that.. covers it up. Pushes it back for a time. You need to create light, but without work, it fades...

And if these towers are manifestations of darkness.. and your story is true.. then it stands to reason that both entites are still active. In some form."

[Shukuen]

"Hold on a minute," Leets interupted Mei-ling's ponderings.

"You keep talking about the Towers in plural, but there's only been one found so far. Now if what you say is true and these things are important, then where would the other Towers be?"

[Olvelsper]

"Probably past the veil of mists near the mountains." Jan chimed in, sighing a moment after.

"Ugh, I can't believe I'm actually letting myself be dragged in this. Bad enough I made an enemy out of those spectral wolves." He looked around with a sigh.

"At any rate, we need to get out of here. I think the engineers might freak out if they found out Mr. Demon Alien Thingy here was hanging around their utopia."

[Dracos]

"I don't know." Yomi answered.

Jan was quite correct as they could hear alarms ringing behind them, a few investigators in protective suits heading in.

Dracos

[Olvelsper]

"Is Pandora's Box important for anything, now? I'll have to rush in and grab it for you if it is." Jan began hustling everyone out of the room even as he quickly spoke to Yomi.

[Dracos]

"Well, it is kind of my home." Yomi responded indignantly.

Dracos

[Olvelsper]

"Fine, stay out of sight while I try and get it back."