Vol. 3 Chap. 138 Alone In The Home

There actually needs to be a phrase for when you realize you’ve got by no means been someplace earlier than, however whenever you go there, all of it feels eerily acquainted.

Fact walked silently down the lengthy corridors. Brightly lit, clear, with enchanted home windows displaying views from numerous Starbrite resorts from world wide. Look out one, and it was a tropical seaside. Look out the subsequent, and also you had been watching laughing children discover ways to ski. It felt like half the workplaces he had visited on the job. Even a number of the non-public properties appeared like this.

It was fairly good. Which felt horrible. He couldnt hear the violence occurring above. There was a literal mountain in between him and the pounding explosions. To say nothing of all of the magical wards. It was heat however not sizzling, the air tasted contemporary, it was clear, effectively lit and cheery from all of the home windows. It didnt have that Doomed Bunker really feel that he had been anticipating.

He felt cheated. Fact walked a bit of additional down the corridor, making manner for employees making their approach to the lavatory. They didnt see him. At Stage Two, they’d have a greater likelihood of leaping to the moon. He examined the cheated feeling a bit extra. It wasnt a lot cheated as feeling wronged. He wished them scared. Hurting. They deserved to be scared!

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Oh God. Look, proper now, there isn’t a Me and Tommy, okay?

Uhuh. You gave him a have a look at breakfast.

I didn’t.

You probably did. I needed to fake to look away for, like, ten seconds. It was an intense look.

Oh god. Critically. There isn’t any us. We’re simply

Figuring issues out? Associates with advantages? In a situationship?

I dont even know. Hes coming off that factor with Ling, and I dont need to be the rebound chick, however on the similar time-

You’ve wished him for a yr now, and are 100% able to be there for him in his emotionally susceptible, exploitable, second of want.

I hate you. And its not like that!

Uhuh. He a cuddler?

Fact sped up. Why was he the one struggling right here? Why? They’d a secret volcano lair the place they had been protecting a lady prisoner for medi-magic experimentation and who is aware of what else! Look burdened, you bastards!

May or not it’s the System protecting them calm? It wouldnt be out of the query, proper? Fact flat out refused to consider there was anybody on this Volcano who didnt have the System, with the potential exception of the Shattervoid lady.

He actually didnt know. The System had been coaching him like a canine. Possibly it did the identical to those individuals. Hold them content material, hold them productive.

Incisive gave him a bit of warning. He launched himself as much as the ceiling and pressed himself into the nook, attempting to be as invisible as potential. A pair of PMC troopers walked down the corridor, Safety armband on show. They stored their eyes shifting round, ensuring the whole lot was correctly. They didnt spot him.

The identical factor occurred when a handler with a pack of spell hounds went previous, however Incisive was much more insistent the third time. He adopted some staffers right into a retailer room. Simply because it was closing behind him, he thought he caught a whiff of a troll.

This was going to be exhausting. And sluggish. He had no thought what the bottom even appeared like, and he was mortally sure that there wasnt going to be a helpful wall map wherever.

Any thought what the alarm was about earlier?

Nah. I imply, I assume somebody broke in.

Nicely, yeah, clearly, however how?

I dunno. Traditional manner?

Which is?

You understand, espresso simply runs proper by way of you. Scrumptious, nevertheless it looks as if its solely minutes till you’re dying for a piss. Yeah, you each raced to the underside of your drinks, however now? Now you actually, really want the bathroom. Have a look at you squirm. You have to be seconds from pissing yourselves.

Had been there different methods to get out of the room? Sure. He selected this one. A bit of whispered poison, a whole lot of non-public enjoyment, and his exploration continued.

He virtually missed it. The look by way of the door confirmed a scene so prosaic, his thoughts virtually deleted it with out comprehending it. His handcrafted a hissing noise because it caught the door simply earlier than it closed. Generally it was enjoyable to remind himself simply how briskly he might transfer.

He discovered the steps.

What do you want in an period of unreliable magic? Stairs. Broad, effectively lit, with glow at midnight rubberized grips for toes and, Fact was completely satisfied to see, glow at midnight flooring numbers, all in case the lights went out. Which, in fact, they’d if the magic went out.

No thought how the glow at midnight stuff labored with out magic, however hell, the Anti-Thiests had figured one thing out, and so they had been working out of a present store. This was an genuine volcano lair. A better normal might be anticipated. He was apparently on flooring quantity two. And the steps went each up and down from right here.

Determined to set some form of scope on his search, he raced upwards. As advertised- there was just one flooring above him. Delighted, he raced in the wrong way. Three extra under. A complete of 5 flooring. Sizable flooring too, if the second flooring was something to go by. He was a great distance from having searched the entire thing. However at the very least he had some sense of scope, now. Had some sense of the dimensions of the issue in entrance of him.

5 flooring. He didnt know if the highest or backside flooring was the almost certainly one to carry the Shattervoid lady. Arguably instantly within the center was probably the most safe, however, equally arguably, so was the underside flooring. Something able to tunneling by way of that a lot rock and magma wasnt going to be child pleasant.

She have to be what Eleven by now? Twelve? Fact vaguely remembered somebody yelling that she was a six yr outdated lady.

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Fact nodded. Nonetheless. 5, virtually six, years. Thats bought to be an enormous chunk of life for her. It could be an enormous chunk of life for me, and I dont even need to guess what my pure lifespan can be at this level. Definitely greater than 100 and fifty. Possibly even closing in on 200. For a Stage 5? Not loopy with the physique cultivation.

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Fact bought to the underside door and waited. And waited. Somebody have to be coming by way of sooner or later, proper?

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Fact laughed a bit of at that. I’ve on a regular basis on the planet. Months, even.

The little gentle above the door began flashing crimson. There was no alarm, only a crimson flash.

You understand, it all of a sudden happens to me that there’s completely nowhere to cover on this stairwell.

Fact did the one factor he might consider and flattened himself in opposition to the wall. The door swung into the stairwell, so hopefully-

The door smashed open. Fact grabbed the deal with simply earlier than it might smack into his intestine. The noise should have glad whoever was on the opposite facet, as a result of boots got here pounding by way of with none additional investigation.

Go! Go go go!

Sargeants, verify appeal loadouts! Everybody verify their potion kits! THERE WILL BE NO FATALITIES ON THIS OP, AM I CLEAR?!

SIR, YES SIR!

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Fingers crossed.

Fact waited till they had been a pair flights up earlier than peering across the door. Extra nameless wanting hallways. Unbelievable. He squinted, then crouched down.

There have been rubber marks on the ground. Fairly just a few of them. One may virtually guess. A spot the place lots of people carrying boots went operating previous. Fact grinned and adopted the path. The place there have been troopers, there was gear. The place there have been guards, there have been issues that wanted defending from villains like him.