Mel woke up in her bed like she just had a nightmare and suddenly remembered the Tower and Kantokol.
But she found no wounds on her body or anywhere else for that matter.
"Was it all just a dream?"
"No it wasn't princess. You were just reborn again after we lost."
Mel looked to her left and saw Tuan at her desk and Jakmol by the door.
"Honestly it's infuriating that he had to revive us as well in a manner of speaking."
Mel looked on her nightstand and saw her dagger and noticed that her mark had begun to flicker.
This caught Jakmol and Tuan's attention quickly as they had never seen anything like it but they could already tell who created it.
"Theories?"
"Maybe a Limit breaker? Or something like it? I dunno but one thing is certain. She jumped up in power."
Mel closed her hand to make Tuan and Jakmol stop talking before holding her repaired dagger in her hand.
"What are you two blabbering about? Do you know what this mark is? And what do you mean by reborn or getting a power boost?"
Despite having their mouths forcefully shut Tuan and Jakmol remained unfazed until Mel let them speak again.
"She really getting on my nerves. It sucks that I can't kill her though. Jakmol you explain I'm too bored to do so."
Jakmol clapped his hands together and then expanded them to reveal a miniature monster and a human being.
"Fine I'll explain. You humans grow with every battle you have while these monsters grow by simply breathing air. But everything had its limits and yours were truly pitiful."
Mel ignored Jakmol's hit to try and wound her pride and continued listening.
"The human Soul can only take on so much before it starts to crumble. But it seems that the mark on your hand can help overcome your limits on your soul. By human standards you were a Rank 3 hunter before you died but now I estimate you are on par with a Rank 6 Hunter."
Mel was shocked but also hesitant to immediately believe Jakmol's words. But if they were true then it would mean the Mel had become a High Ranker.
High Rankers were Hunters who were past the halfway mark at Rank 5. But although being on the low side of a High Ranker wasn't perfect it was still quite good as it meant most guilds and private organizations would surely invite you to their side.
"Hmmm…. If your telling the truth then I am now a High Ranker. The only problem is that no one will believe me unless I show them but I can't just retake the Hunter Test since they'll think I cheat with some experimental drug."
Mel knew the true face of the Hunter Bureau as a bunch of power hungry thugs who keep powerful hunters on a tight leash.
So Mel would have a lot of watchful eyes on her before she heard Tuan turn on the tv and change the channel to see a broadcast of a tower.
"That's the tower… wait… it looks different… how is that possible?"
"It's not the same tower It's a different tower. The marking is different then yours. So it is logical to say that your not the only one that has a mark."
Mel placed her hand on the tv and saw that her mark wasn't the same as the one on the tower on the tv.
"Can either of you figure out who has this other mark? I need to know more about these towers."
Mel stepped away from the tv as as Tuan clapped his hands together like Jakmol did but nothing happened. Tuan tried several more times before grabbing the nearest thing in proximity which was Mel's desk chair.
"God dam son of a bitch! He's sealed my sight!"
Mel stopped Tuan from breaking her chair and had a look of confusion on her face before Jakmol explained why Tuan was in a fit of rage.
"We both have the power to look into the past and into the future. But we also have the ability to search someone's Soul to see everything about them. However this particular ability has been sealed so we can't find anything on the one who has this other mark."
Mel didn't take Jakmol's words seriously until she saw neither one had a funny look on their face.
"You can see the future?! Why didn't you say that earlier!? What other abilities do you two have?!"
Tuan and Jakmol rolled their eyes while Mel's were nearly out of her head like a cartoon character.
"We can't use it anymore because our link has been severed. At most we can do is fight with Mana and use it to heal ourselves or others."
Mel's eyes started twitching before she got Tuan and Jakmol punch himself in the face over and over again which was quite funny for Jacob to watch.
"So basically your both just wastes of space? What else do you have to offer?"
"We can help you master your abilities! We can open a gateway to the Void!"
Mel stopped them from punching themselves before she took out a frying pan from her kitchen and used it to hit them both.
Normally an undead wouldn't be fazed by things like pain or discomfort but Mel knew that the both of them could feel it.
"Ow! What was that for?! We can help you control your power. Even a pig could tell you can't control it!"
"Do you think I'm a natural born idiot? It's impossible to even glimpse into the Void. Years ago a team of Hunter Mages and Scientists created a gateway to the Void but none of them survived."
Jakmol clapped his hand before Mel saw what really happened to the Mage Hunters and the Scientists who created the gate.
"It wasn't the Void that killed them but it was Demonic Spirits. The Void is no simple thing since it can serve as a bridge between realms but also a storage space if need be and many other things so long as you know how."
Mel watched as the Demonic Spirits savagely kill and loot the group before throwing their valuables into another portal and letting their bodies crumble to dust.
"I've never seen anything like this before. Wait… you said it can be a bridge between worlds right? Can it take me to the Realm of Fairies? I think it's called Álfheimr right?"
Both Tuan and Jakmol were surprised to hear that Mel knew about Álfheimr as they had believed no one knew of its existence.
"Yes it could give passage to Álfheimr…"
"But? You better not tell me you can't do it otherwise I'll use this frying pan to cook you after I peel your skin off to make undead bacon."
"…"
"…"
Mel was about to get her knife to start carving before she heard a loud thud on her floor and turned to see dozens bars of gold and Magical artifacts.
"See? Told you that were helpful. Now let's talk about how we'll help you master your powers."