The forest was covered huge amounts of ground, almost the size of an island. However, this forest was unique, it was home to goblins.

These creatures are not native to earth, but Eve slowly came to the conclusion that the old standards of earth would no longer be applicable in this tower.

Before Eve could even look around at her surroundings, she heard a similar sound to that of an arrow, whizzing past her head. She looked towards where the arrow landed, and was filled with horror.

A young girl, with bright orange hair that had freckles covering her entire body who usually had bright blue eyes. Anyone in the class would recognise this girl as Louise. She was a girl who didn't speak much if often, but you would always hear her snickering away.

Instead of snickering, you could hear a body fall down. If one looked at Louise. Her face was unrecognisable. Covering her freckles was now a pool of blood, and the light in her eyes dimmed completely.

Now all they saw was a dead body of a young girl.

Eve didn't have time to register what she just saw, instead she shouted at everyone.

"Run!". With that said, everyone ran behind Eve as fast as they could. Sure, they have newfound power, but they were still young and did not want to fight.

Eve slowly looked behind her, and saw another body fall. Alex.

It was a bullseye shot and Alex fell straight down, his belly facing downwards.

Another death, and they have been in this forest for not even a minute. As Eve turned though, she saw two little green things in the trees.

These things that had shark like teeth which was a disgusting yellow. Their ears protrude outwards being that of an alien. The strange thing about these creatures is that the only piece of clothing they had on covered their genitalia. They almost resemble cavemen in how primitive they were.

They prepared another arrow with their short bows. Only one of the goblins held a bow, the other simply handed the arrows.

Eve knew this couldn't keep up, she hadn't even consciously taken in the fact that two children are dead. Murder simply wasn't something she had to worry about in her daily life, and now suddenly it seemed like it would become an occurrence she couldn't avoid.

She turned towards the goblins, and stopped in her tracks.

"Everyone move forward, Evan you need to keep moving with them".

Eve hadn't even turned to look at her class, and before the goblins could fire another arrow, she conjured a piece of mana along that resembled a spear.

Before Eve conjured her mana bolt, she knew it was something she could do, simply because of the existence of her mana core. Her mana core pulsated, creating a heartbeat as she willed her mana into the real world.

Eve kept supplying the mana towards these conjurations, and two deep hued spears appeared before her. She could almost feel the intentions of these two spears, they wanted to shoot forward and inflict harm.

Eve willed it. She let both of them loose and aimed for the goblins. The goblin readied its bow, and before it could even fire it, it was met with a single mana spear.

Both goblins fell to their death out of the tree. Eve sighed heavily, she felt exhausted. As she was about to start running she heard a ding sound.

[New ability required!

Mana Bolt: F

The basics of all mages. It's a simple conjuration skill that wills mana from your mana core into existence. It flies towards the designated target.]

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Eve read it as she ran behind the class.

'Simple.' Eve was glad that she stayed behind, they were now not being chased, and had room to breath.

"There's a cave!". Evan jumped straight into the cave without thinking, and everyone followed including Eve.

As soon as everyone got inside the cave, the floodgates came out.

Every single individual in the cave was crying and screaming, including Eve.

Two children, Alex and Louise are dead. Everyone saw their dead bodies. Sure, it could be seen as a painless death, but it was just too gruesome.

The tears just couldn't stop. Eve felt it was too much. All of this was just too much. This was supposed to be the Tower of Nurture, what is nurturing about this? This just confirmed that death was waiting at every corner, and that they would constantly be fighting creatures.

No words were spoken, yet the cave was filled of loud noises for hours on end. Everyone completely forgetting where they were.

Grace, the youngest of the group held something in her hand. It wasn't the short wand, it was quite round and made weird noises which could only be heard by Grace. It was a purple small thing, that almost resembled a cloud if it wasn't for it's weird mouth.

'I'm scared, I'm really scared'. Grace was able to communicate with the purple cloud through her thoughts. She kept sniffling and sniffling. The weird sounds of the cloud comforted her somewhat. Whilst being comforted, she looked at her status page once again.

Name: Grace

Level: 0

Race: Human (F)

Class: Mage

Innate Talent: Spirit Extension (A)

Recognised Title:

Skills: Spirit Magic (E), Mana Manipulation (F)

She zoned in on her Innate Talent once again.

[Spirit Extension: A

Your spirit has extended itself outside of your body. It has its own consciousness, and able to level up individually to yourself. Despite that, you are in complete control of it, since it is your spirit. As it grows, it will be able to learn its own form of magic and it's body will change based on your will. If you die, the spirit dies. If the spirit dies, you die. As you grow, you can obtain more spirits.]

Grace once again just didn't understand it. She didn't even know what Spirit Magic was, and yet she has the skill. Tears just kept streaming down her pale face. Her eyes quickly became irritated as she constantly rubbed them.

Everyone was effected to their core. This was simply something that they wouldn't forget.

Especially Lee and Jackson. The two twins were very close with Alex, and spent a lot of time with him, both outside of school and inside. They comforted each other and hugged each other hard whilst crying into their shoulders. They also looked at each other strangely from time to time.

Ever since they gained their innate talents, their eye colour changed. Lee's eye colour turned to a rose quartz colour. It was actually quite pretty, whilst Jackson's eye colour turned to a jet black in which was downright creepy.

Lee finally said something. "Jackson, why has your eye colour changed?". Lee's voice sounded croaky because of all the tears that were shed.

"I think it's my innate talent, I have a Dark Attunement, whatever that means". Jackson's voice didn't really reflect that he had been crying. He was definitely crying, but it was more out of the reaction of seeing his brother so upset.

Lee tried to chuckle, but nothing happened. "That's quite funny, I have a Light Attunement, what is my eye colour?". Lee answered inquisitively.

"Rose quartz. It was almost white, but with a hint of pink". Jackson answered as he wiped his brothers tears. Respectfully, they both looked at their own status page.

Name: Lee

Level: 0

Race: Human (F)

Class: Support

Innate Talent: Light Attunement (E)

Recognised Title:

Skills: Light Manipulation (F), Radiant Recovery (E)

[Light Attunement: E

Your mana core is entirely made up of the affinity Light. Your entire being is attuned to light. This is inherently different to an affinity, as you no longer have access to any other forms of mana].

Lee had no reaction to any of this, as he simply didn't really understand the implications of this.

Whereas Jackson was a tad different.

Name: Jackson

Level: 0

Race: Human (F)

Class: Warrior

Innate Talent: Dark Attunement (E)

Recognised Title:

Skills: Dark Manipulation (F), Shadow Movement (F)

[Dark Attunement: E

Your mana core is entirely made up of the affinity Dark. Your entire being is attuned to Darkness. This is inherently different to an affinity, as you no longer have access to any other forms of mana].

Although the mood was somber, Jackson couldn't help feel excited. Life to him was boring and too mundane. He always wanted to experience a change, and well this was the perfect opportunity. But for now, he wanted to comfort his brother. Jackson will always prioritise Lee over anyone else.

The somber mood stayed this way throughout the cave for hours. Conversations weren't common and most sat there in silence, staring.

Overtime, everyone realised this is it. This will be there life for the foreseeable future.

And with that realisation, Eve sat there and wondered what to do. She wondered how could she ensure that these children can be safe.

There was only conclusion she came up with.

And that was teaching.

[Floor 1:

Defeat 20 goblins to progress.

2/20 defeated].