:::[Adam's POV]:::
Reaching the airfield took more ti than I had expected because as I went deeper inside the city, the number of monsters continued to increase.
'This is going to take a while, so for now, I should focus on finding sothing edible…'
Most of the monsters didn't wander inside the buildings so I had ti to search inside, but as expected, there was not much to discover.
'I need to find sothing like a vault or a storage room… There must be one sowhere.'
Scrrreeeh!
'!?'
I imdiately hide behind a wall after hearing a very weird noise. Because I wanted to find a room that might be used as storage, I went to the basent of one of the buildings, in the hope to find sothing, but I didn't expect to see sothing extrely disturbing.
The area was very humid and the water hadn't completely dried up, making it extrely disgusting to look at, because of the moss and the slimy substances that covered the walls.
It was dark inside, but Cristal helped to see so I wasn't disoriented by the foggy shadowy environnt.
At first, I thought that the weird substances on the walls were sothing natural because the place was abandoned, but as a ventured inside...
"What kind of monster is that? I never saw sothing like that before." I said, after seeing a very disgusting creature.
[It looks like its body is made of so sort of viscous substance.]
"Yeah, I know, but it doesn't change the fact that it's utterly disgusting. And more importantly, I can't probably kill it with one hit." I said as I examined the monster from afar.
I thought that it was better to leave it alone and move to another building, but just in case, I needed to make sure that I didn't miss sothing.
"Cristal, activate the x-ray vision."
[Understand.]
"This is…"
I was surprised by what I saw, but then I thought that it made sense for such a thing to exist. 'Still, I didn't expect sothing to exist here… A secret pathway, huh. I wonder where it leads.'
However, there was a problem, and it seed like I couldn't ignore it, because there a disgusting monster was just in front of a door. It was not a normal door, because, behind it, there was a room, and inside of this room, there was a hidden door that led to a secret pathway.
I thought about using the plasma sword to make a hole in the walls and avoid the monster, but they were too thick.
'Should I give up and find another way? But it would take ti, and from what I can see, it seed like monsters didn't manage to find this pathway yet, so there is a high probability that I will find so survivors.'
However, if I went that way, it would take so ti and I didn't want to leave Zax and Liu alone for too long.
'Well, for now, I should look inside the room, because there is a high possibility that it's so kind of storage too.'
But firstly, I needed to get that monster out of the way. 'So it has so kind of cores, huh… X-ray vision is sure convenient. I am glad that I Cristal was equipped with a lot of useful functionalities.'
Still, the thing in front of was very disturbing to look at, since it looked like sothing out of these scary sci-fi movies. Its body consisted of a black viscous substance that spread on the walls like tree roots, and at the center of it all was a transparent oval-shaped object that contained a red liquid. There were a lot of tentacles that moved like snakes around it, and these tentacles has heads with mouths that were extrely frightening to look at.
'Are these bones? It was weird that monsters didn't wander around this kind of place, but it was because they beca the prey of this thing when they did. Hmmm… There are five cores in total… However, as long as I don't co too close, it shouldn't be able to discover . In that case, I should just finish it from here.'
However, to do that, I needed to turn Cristal into a sword, which implied that I would be defenseless. 'Well, I would be able to use my fist, but the way I am now, the thing I could do is limited… This sucks. No matter how I look at it, the best choice was to avoid this thing, but sohow my instinct tells that I should go beyond that door…'
I was also wasting ti as I stayed still, thinking about what I should do, and that wasn't a good thing, because I needed to return before it get dark. 'It should be about 3 PM… I need to hurry. It doesn't look like I will be able to find a spaceship today.'
I looked at the monster again and thought about the things that I needed to take into consideration if I wanted to attack it now.
"That red liquid is bad news… However, the cores are sowhere inside of it. Also, if I turn Cristal into a sword, it would reduce my ability to see, which would be extrely dangerous. No, I should avoid it, for now, it's too dangerous. I should co back later and bring Cristal's other part. Finding food is more important…"
My chance of winning wasn't low, but I wanted to avoid any problems for the day because I was not fully recovered and Liu and Zax needed to eat sothing.
After that, I decided to turn back and search for food inside the other buildings. As expected, I didn't find any secret pathways, at least inside the other buildings that I investigated.
'Still, this is awful… How many people died here. No matter how I looked at it, protecting everyone was impossible for a Lord to do, even with the help of nobles. Well, things like this are not sothing that one could predict… There was nothing they could do about it.'
I looked at the decomposed body of a little girl. 'She deserved better… I don't know her, but I think no one deserves to end up like this… From here I should do everything in my power to prevent sothing like this to happen to the people I care about… Damn, I hope I am not too late."
This was the cold reality, and I couldn't do anything to change the definite outcos, even though I had so much power. 'In the end, if I couldn't use it… Then it's useless.'
But that didn't an that I couldn't do anything at all, and the most important was to do the things that I could do in a way that I wouldn't regret. 'Well, I feel like I am just trying to avoid the main issue … But that's fine, at least for now.'
After searching from one building to another, I finally managed to find a ho where a rich rchant lived, or so I concluded.
"Finally!"
I took the canned foods and put them into a ragged bag. "From the look of it, this room wasn't filled with water even when the whole city was subrged under water."
[Yes, it seems like this room was conceived to be the last hideout for the person who lived inside of this house.]
"Unfortunately, it seems like he didn't get to use it in his final monts…"
The room was tightly shut, but with my plasma sword, I could manage to force my way in. Nevertheless, I needed to make sure that I didn't make too much noise, knowing that I was almost in the middle of a city where monsters road around the streets as if they were its inhabitants.
'I should go back now…'
In the first place, I should have taken a break and recovered my strength before coming here, but the thoughts in my head wouldn't let rest without doing anything, so in the end, I decided to take a closer look at the situation.
During these last few hours, I thought about many things, and it seed like I was now calr than before, but it didn't change the fact that what I saw around this city was sothing that I need to reflect on.
'I hope Zax wakes up when I co back… Her skills are needed to repair the spaceship or the floating vehicles.'
I could do it alone, but it would take ti as I was not a specialist, but with her skill, we should manage to repair one.
[Master, soone suspicious has appeared near the cabin.]
"What? Are you sure that it's a person and not a monster?"
[Yes, but they are quite different from a normal human.]
"A gift holder? Shit, tell Liu to not do anything if they don't attack. They must be wary of us, but it's better to try to talk things out if possible. I am already on my way back." I said.
After all, it would be bad if Liu and this person thought of each other, considering the circumstances.
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