Joey discovered that they had returned to the Tower!
But the Tower no longer contained nothing but stairs as it had before. Slabs of floating stone, or rather platforms, had appeared throughout it.
There were things on all these platforms: the Monster Birds atop Dead Trees they had seen outside, the Insects from the Tower, the strange figures who had brought them into the Tower, and the frenzied Monster Birds that had attacked them at its top.
There were also things Joey and the others had never seen before, such as floating bubbles, hideous centipedes, horned fish, snakes with two extra hind legs, and Monsters with pigs' heads above and wooden stumps below...
There were many platforms, though some of their occupants were duplicates.
Among these beings, Joey spotted a familiar one: a strange figure lying shattered on the ground.
That figure was identical to the ones who had brought them into the Tower, down to every detail of its body.
"Are these... souls?" List hesitated before offering the word.
He said this because he had already jumped onto a platform, but when he tried to touch the Monster Flower there, his hand had passed straight through it instead.
In that instant, List felt a chill spread up the arm he had passed through the Monster and into his body. He quickly withdrew his arm, only to discover that its temperature was extremely low and it was even showing slight signs of distortion.
"Touching them drains heat." List's expression shifted slightly. This was his first encounter with anything so strange.
It drained heat far too quickly. In just an instant, his skin had begun to go numb.
"What a remarkable place." Ging also jumped onto a platform, and a Nen Beast appeared before him.
The Nen Beast reached toward the