"Stupid. Freaking. Bricks." Marek muttered as he and Shiek straightened out their clothes after narrowly escaping a giant mob of rebelling people in Ludibrium. The situation in the Toy City was worse than the boys expected. Around a third of the buildings were demolished, and even though there were no dead people, there were bodies on the ground due to being hit at a high velocity with bricks, brown teddies, ratz, retz, and unconscious people.
A mob was formed for no apparent reason, and said mob started attacking the first person or group of people it saw. Unluckily, the mob formed just as some mysterious force fixed the scroll system, and so the people who stuck in the middle of nowhere probably between the 99th and 100th floor were also just let out. Why did they aim for Marek and Shiek? Because they were the only ones on their feet after three seconds of bombardment by random objects. More people would've survived, but the chaos that happened in the middle of nowhere left everyone who fought in it exhausted. And almost everyone blasted mana and slashed at each other.
It turned out that the mysterious force was the mayor, who had only fixed the scroll system malfunction so that the people who were stuck in the middle of nowhere would become a distraction. And the mayor of Ludibrium had only fixed the system because the Eos Tower didn't have a bathroom.
So both of the boys were used to the unluckiness when they found out the Helios Tower elevator was stuck. Why? They couldn't care less.
Shiek was fiddling with some random needle, trying to unlock the elevator door with it. The needle was added to Shiek's inventory after an old lady threw it at his hair, and it actually stood up pretty nicely while imbedded in the mage's head. Marek had a pink bowling ball thrown at him, and he was tending that wound with half of a potion.
Finally the door clicked, and with a shove Shiek shoved the door aside to reveal… a very long drop. The ocean dominated most of what he saw below, and a long strip of brown and green was directly below them. Apparently, the boys had gotten stuck in the elevator very early into the ride. They couldn't tell when mostly because of the fact that a new technology was recently installed to make the elevator ride so comforting that no one would feel a thing at all.
The archer and mage stared at what was below them for a long time.
"So… who wants to jump first?