He ended the dream there and returned to the real world

  Alista felt his head pulsate and then remembered he face planted into the ground. "Damn that hurt!" He got up and saw that it was still daytime out. "I guess I'll explore the castle and find out what he meant by going to the top." He opened the door and walked out into the halls trying to find a staircase.

  After a couple minutes of walking he found a staircase with a purple carpet, candles and golden handrails. "It's a bit soothing..." he walked up the staircase and reached the end of it as he walked out of the staircase and to a window. He heard the sounds of steam and rotating gears above him and looked up. He saw a long slab of rock rotating to face the arctic mountains in the distance. "what is that?" he looked at the end of the hallway where another staircase was and rushed over.

  "That has to be just another floor above this one" He ran up the staircase and saw the top of the entire castle rotating. He looked down and saw large gears slowly coming to a halt until they stopped moving completely. A door appeared across a gap from him, he jumped across the gap and opened the door. Beyond the door there was the long slab of rock. He looked towards the end and saw the end of the rock tilting up as Uro walked up from behind him

  "Urizen! didn't I say that you should rest?" He looked at Alista with a smile on his face and then back at the rock with railroads aligning themselves on it

  "How does this work? there is no one here except us." He asked this with curiosity tinged in his voice since he knew machinery needed people to use it. This completely defied what he knew

  "For machinery we use souls. These are souls who are dedicated to specifically operating machinery. of course these souls used to be human but they died and still wanted to serve so this is what we use their souls for!" Bang! A steel ship slams down on the railroads causing Alista to jump a bit while Uro simply laughed at him.

  "Don't worry everyone jumps when they hear that, it's not everyday you get to see something like this." He walked forward and opened the steel door of the ship

  "Urizen come here you have to see this" Alista walked over and walked into the ship. He was met with a freezing cold once he fully stepped in he saw four chairs at the front and buttons lining the walls. He looked behind him and saw cabinets of supplies, coats, blankets, and weapons lining the walls. "wow. there is everything one would need here."

  "This is what y'all will be using to get to the mountains, once I give the machine soul the signal you'll be launched into the sky and sent crashing into the snow. Don't worry, this was made to crash so you'll be fine. When you get to the mountains you'll be in a different country and very close to the city of Moloc"

  They stepped out of the ship, and out of the room. Uro shut the door behind him and walked down the stairs behind Alista

  "Now go and rest, you'll be traveling at daybreak." They walked through the hallway in silence and were about to break off from each other when Uro spoke up

  "I'll be there to wake you up." Alista nodded and then walked away going to his room

  He opened the door and laid the sword beside his bed. "Just thinking about flying in that ship is starting to creep me out... But maybe I could use that to launch myself into space. I need that sanctum here.. Wait what is it even called?" He realized that he didn't even know what the sanctum was actually called so it started to weird him out and made it his goal to ask it when he falls asleep

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  He awoke in the sanctum and saw 'Him'

  "Whoever you are or what your name is could you tell me the name of the sanctum" 'He' looked at Alista and blinked slowly as if he was trying to remember it

  "It's called The Anathemian Sanctum"

  Alista's eyes widened at the name and he quickly recovered. "The Anathemian Sanctum?" He looked out at the large floor to ceiling arch windows and at the stars beyond the curvature of the barren desert world. "But why The Anathemian Sanctum? doesn't that mean this is basically a place of hatred?"

  "Why is it called The Anathemian Sanctum?"

  'He' looked at Alista and his face suddenly turned tense

  "Because the evil gods wish to wipe out humanity while I wish to save humanity and eradicate them. We are essentially the devil to the evil gods" 'He' conjured a vision showing a humanoid in black and gold armor fighting dozens of other beings.

  "this is the day I lost my physical body. The gods had ambushed me and killed my physical body. All of my 'Gates' were stolen from me except the ones you currently have; however, since then, someone new has risen to the status of God in those 'Gates' or else you would have instantly taken the position. Defeat the ones in control 'Gates' and you will automatically be promoted to God even if there was another contender." 'He' spoke with clear hatred for the gods

  he looked at the vision and his eyes widened. "Just how many 'Gates' did 'he' have?"

  "The plan right now is for you to get into space and acquire the sanctum. The moment you enter the sanctum is when it will awaken and you can begin searching for the gods" 'He' looked at Alista and then out into space

  "What about the good gods? can we get their help?" 'He' simply nodded

  "Yes. You can get their help but you cannot trust them"

  "Can I recruit others? like an army or something like that?"

  'He' nodded and waved his hand sending Alista out of the dream

  "well that was rude"

  Alista got off his bed and felt overwhelmingly tired

  He climbed back into bed and went to sleep

  ...

  in the Arctic mountains at the city of Moloc

  "Get me another drink" The bartender slid a glass of beer over to him

  "That's your seventh drink tonight Asterion. This is the last one then your leaving"

  Asterion shrugged off the bartenders warning and drank the beer as he put down coins and walked out into the snowy town

  He sat along the wall and rubbed his forehead. "this place is so boring when nothing is going on"

  suddenly, screams echo from deeper in the alleyway. "Probably another basic crime." Asterion got up and walked deeper into the hallway. he saw something unusual on the walls. "claw marks? The only things that can cause claw marks this big are monsters!" He ran down the alleyway until, he saw a monstrous looking humanoid with 12 large red eyes, large bat-like wings and a skeletal exoskeleton. He looked beneath the monster and saw a young woman

  He took out a large bronze spear and threw it into the monster sending it into a wall as he picked the woman up

  "Go home, I'll handle this and don't go out past curfew again!" The woman nodded and ran away as he turned back to the recovering monster

  "I wonder how you got past the border? or are you an Enkidian who lost his will? Either way it doesn't matter"

  The monster ripped the spear out of its chest, threw it to the side and charged at Asterion. He dodged the monsters charge and picked up his spear. "not that fast." he slashed through the exoskeleton like butter, taking an arm off and slashing the shin. It screeched in pain and started to flap its wings attempting to fly away. Asterion jumped up onto its back, impaled it through its head and ripped its wings off.

  It crashed back into the ground and laid there motionless. Groups of people walked out of their homes and saw Asterion standing over the monsters corpse. "I gotta report this." He walked away and dragged the corpse with him.

  After a couple minutes of dragging it he arrived at a tall building covered in snow and ice. He opened the door and walked into a large lit up room with people eating at tables and a young man with black hair and defined facial features cleaning a glass

  He approached the young man and threw the monsters corpse onto a table.

  "Either the guards let a monster pass or one of the Enkidians went mad."

  The man sighed and looked at the corpse

  "It seems to be the latter, monsters like this can't be found in the mountains. I'll make everyone do an evaluation tomorrow. Now get out of here" Asterion walked out of the building and through the streets until he arrived at a medium sized brick house