Adam’s descent felt like an eternity. As he dropped further into the abyss, doubts gnawed at him. He began to wonder if confronting Yarquela Mortlake was really worth it. Without a doubt, he knows for sure that she knows that he is coming.
After all, she can literally see into the future? In Ascension, she was an enigma. She was not only powerful but equally unpredictable, and always ten steps ahead because of this tahuman ability of hers. What made him think he stood a chance? But even then, he must try to save Nyla at the very least, he didn’t need to win, just get the hell out of here.
His feet finally hit solid ground with a muted thud. He looked up; the entrance was now a tiny speck of light, barely visible. He estimated he had fallen over 200 ters. No turning back now for sure.
The air was thick with the tallic scent of blood, so overpowering it made his stomach churn. The sheer intensity suggested a massacre. He fought the urge to gag, forcing himself to focus, given how sensitive his senses were.
"Graaa... This place really stinks of death."
He muttered while closing his eyes. On that note, however, he soon began to tap into his heightened sense of touch, and the mont he did. The world around him faded as he honed in on the vibrations, the subtle shifts in the air. He could feel them...the Antn. Hundreds of them, their movents were all over the places, given this tunnel they digged was massive.
In one chamber, he sensed a grueso scene: villagers, their bodies broken, being devoured, so half dead, others dead. He would save them, but those souls had already departed; there was no use saving them now.
Shifting his focus, he detected another area...a vast cavern. And what he saw were hundreds of Antn busily transported large black crystals, their significance unknown. But it wasn’t the crystals that caught his attention. It was the figure overseeing the operation.
"Ha...and who might this be?"
A cloaked individual, face obscured by a pristine white mask. Not the sa as the one Kiera had described, but there was sothing eerily familiar about the aura emanating from this person.
This person’s aura was cold, predatory even, and just from here alone, Adam felt shivers going down his spine.
Recognition soon dawned the mont Adam realized who... no... rather what this person was.
"It’s a lot like Priscilla."
Adam said as he watched the event played out by the movent of his body.
The realization hit hard, as this was the first ti, seen another person of the sa race as her.
"What, the hell is a vampires doing here...shit..shit...yeah this is way beyond my paygrade."
Adam said in panic as he began to cast a stealth spell. Soon after, the light began bending around his body, as Adam decides to call it quick for now.
As such, he resigned himself in this mont as he began to breathe in and out slowly, and called out ntally saying.
’OIIIIIIII BIG SIS....MINVERVAAAAAA, PLEASE IF YOU ARE THERE PICK UP PLEASEEE....
Adam had no idea if this was going to work. Minerva did say that sothing disconnected her telaphtic link to owroar in this area. So talking via the mind was a no go for all he knew, but all things considered, Minerva also said, Adam shared the Shinso na and conceptual link more than anything else.
So he was hoping on that.
And his prayers did not go unanswered, because monts later, a voice resonated in his mind, it was a familar one.
And the voice of a woman nonetheless.
[Haaa? Don’t tell you’re tappin out already, lil bro. C’mon, we were just gettin to the fun part! What’s the deal, huh]
Said Minerva, to which Adam replied.
’...Big sis... You know I love you. In more ways than one, yeah... but this mission? This is way above my pay grade. I an, sure, I can handle so of the small fry, Type 1s, maybe a few Type 2s if I push it. But this was supposed to be a simple delivery and bounce. That’s it.’
He explained himself, then continued, finishing his complaint by saying.
’But I’ve got this gut feeling... You sent here for sothing else, didn’t you? And look...I’m just gonna say it straight. This place? In case you didn’t know... might be crawling with vampires.’
Said Adam ntally. On that note, however, a short silence was shared between the two, which worried Adam as he ntally shouted.
’BIG SIS!! Don’t leave on ice here. I am literally in the jaws of a beast.’
[Tch... yeah yeah, I hear ya, kiddo... You ain’t wrong, though... I didn’t really send ya there just for so la-ass delivery. That letter I gave yah is indeed for owroar, however, it will activate upon certain conditions, and let’s say if it does, then without a shred of a doubt, we got traitor on out hands...or that what I would say, if their were not other vampires there of course]
’w-What!?... Sigh, I can’t with you sotis, big sis...so, can’t you, I don’t know cos, and fix the problem.’
Asked Adam; however, what Minerva said next took him by suprise.
[Tch, sorry, kid, no can do... not right now, anyway. There’s sothing blocking from makin a move, sothing’s makin em stay just outta reach. How? No damn clue. But trust when I say this...whoever these vampy bastards are workin for?]
Minerva said, her annoyance rising as she continued to speak.
[....Hehe... welp let just say they’re gonna know what it’s like to get the sun shoved right up their asses. For now, I need ya to catch one of em for . Priscilla said they’re mostly so low-level, peasant vamps, so you should be able to handle em just fine. Here’s a lil tip: use fire. Don’t expect it to kill em, but fire sses with their heads. Reminds em of the sun, and that is enough to make em back off...Although, I won’t leave you to wolves, that letter of yors, the mont it picks up vast traces of vampiric miasma, it will summon so friend of mines, and also two of your future teachers]
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