Kael knew the tower hid too many secrets and that was who was this Architect and this shelter is named as Architect's shelter, sooo is this tower his home???
Just forget about it, now its giving me the chance to train my talent and skills lets just make use of it and get stronger before the planet eater arrives.
Lets go to the platform once again
[Architects Authority partially detected]
[Begin training of Posture Balancing]
The moment Kael stood at the platform pain and pressure started to be felt around his body
Why is this shelter is giving me training for Posture Balancing which is unrelated to drawing lines.
Kael staggered back clutching his head.
"I can't give up right now damm it" Kael once again went back to the platform and drew a line randomly, thinking that he could balance or negate the pressure, but no this increased the pressure ten fold.
"Ughhh.... no place for loopholes". Then lets just draw the lines with the proper posture I guess. The line shattered like glass.
He exhaled slowly and tried again and this time the shorter line. The pain was still there but manageable. Like muscle is getting trained and also feel like a hammer to the brain with realizations.
Tower responded with his realizations and raised a new platform with a faint markings on the floor began to glow.
It did not show any system text, didn't show any notification and it was just the guidance like lines, path.
Kael blinked "You've gotta be kidding me".
The shelter wasn't teaching him with words, it was teaching him structure.
He followed one of the glowing paths and found the raised platform at the center of the chamber, it was smooth, circular and slightly elevated. Kael stepped onto it and immediately a hologram appeared but it showed the person which was completely white.
But based on the body structure it looked exactly like him but just white and it started to move by drawing the lines with different postures and poses. Is it telling me to learn from it.
Kael started to follow what the hologram was doing, but along with that the pressure increased by twenty fold.
"Oh come on" he groaned "I just got here"
The pressure fluctuated rising when he stood straight and easing when he did the right posture.
"So you're telling me" breathing hard "that I've been drawing lines like an idiot and this place is supposed to teach me how not to die from my own skill".
That actually made sense, for the next hour maybe more, time felt strange here.
Kael experimented short lines, angled lines, diagonal lines, lines with different shapes. Lines was drawn slowly, line was drawn with intent. Evey mistake hurt, every success hurt less and slowly, very slowly his body adapted stronger and smarter by little.
"Recoil isn't just the physical", he realized wiping his sweat from his face "It's conceptual, the more I forced the world.... the harder it pushes back".
He sat down heavily "And if don't respect that...." he didn't finish the sentence because he didn't need to.
After resting, Kael noticed something he hadn't seen before while entering the Architects shelter.
At the far end of the chamber.... A door. It wasn't glowing, it wasn't sealed. It wasn't even obvious. It was a tall slab of stone embedded in the wall, marked with the lines far denser than anywhere else in the shelter.
They overlapped, intersected and erased each other. Kael felt.... uncomfortable looking into it "That's something else".
Every instinct screamed danger, but Kael he walked towards it, because something its calling him in.
"Of course I am what do you expect from the author who writes this story" he muttered.
The closer he got the heavier the air became. Not pressure but the presence.
This door wasn't meant to be opened by just anyone. Kael placed his hand against it and he waited for 10 seconds nothing happened, total silence.
He hesitated, then tapped it. The reaction was immediate. His vision exploded with the information.
[Contains An Unnamed Sword Platform]
[Status: Sealed]
[Designation: Divine Hero Weapon]
[Condition: Class -- Hero( Required )]
[Authorization: Denied]
"A sword, a hero sword , can I get it??" Kael whispered. Suddenly the door slid open silently. Didn't it say the door it was sealed or was it the sword is sealed.
Beyond it was a small chamber and at its center stood a stone platform and embedded into that stone platform... was a sword which is the Divine Hero weapon.
The sword itself wasn't flashy, no flames, no lighting, no glowing aura screaming legendary weapon. It was simple, clean, perfect but yet terrifying.
Kael's heart pounded "This..." he breathed "This is meant for someone else". A Hero.
The kind of person stories were written about. The kind of person the tower expected.
He took one step forward, the air trembled and another message appeared.
[Condition not met]
Kael exhaled shakily "Yeah figured". He stared at the sword for a long time not with greed with awe.
And then because his life was apparently a joke Kael tapped the sword..... The world froze.
[ERROR]
The message came out with red warnings.
[ERROR- CLASS MISMATCH]
Kael said nonchalantly "Sorry bad habit". And then another message appeared one that wasn't red not even gold but it was not even part of the system.
[DELIMITER DETECTED]
[ARCHITECT FRAGMENT: CONFIRMED]
[CONDITION OVERRIDE: ACCEPTED]
Kael's blood ran cold "What???".
The sword began to shake, lines appeared around it but not drawn by Kael, it felt like the lines were removing it and something being erased.
"No wait....!" Kael stepped back "That's not mine! That's for someone else, I just tapped it , don't get the wrong idea!!!".
The sword vanished and it was gone, there were no explosion, no reward fanfare just the Divine Hero sword was gone like it never existed.
And it was complete silence, Kael stared at the empty platform.
"Are you fucking kidding me???!!!"
A screen appeared.
[Talent Acquired]
[Eraser Rank F-]
Kael laughed, a hollow disbelieving sound "Of course" he said weakly "I delete a legendary hero sword... and I get the another trash talent"
Waittt??? why am I getting a another talent, a person can have a single talent from their awakening and make it strong, but why am I having a 2nd talent.... but its still trash.
The shelter didn't respond , the chamber remained silent. Kael sank to his knees. "I didn't even mean to do that".
But deep down, a chill crawled up his spine. Because the sword hadn't fought him, it had accepted the erasure and that scared him more than anything else so far.
He swallowed and slowly stood "Fine" Kael said quietly "Fine if that's how it works..." he looked at his hands "I'll deal with it".
The Architects shelter dimmed, the training space remained, Kael came out of the sword chamber door and the door closed behind him
And Kael still weak, still under leveled but still a nobody had just erased a Hero's destiny. And gained a skill no one in their right mind would want.
But Kael failed to see that along with the other texts there was another screen which showed.
[TITLE ACQUIRED]
[HERO AND EVIL ERASURE]
Where this title will matter most when Planet eater arrives.