Novel Full Chapter 320: Alarm
Chapter 320: Alarm
Nyx stood, unmoved and unfazed at the position she’d been before, the surviving members still behind her. There was not a single harm on her body.
Nesroth swallowed hard.
’I’m trapped here with a monster,’ he realized, clenching his fists.
Just as he was about to order another attack on her, the darkness pillars piercing the heavens collapsed and an aura of death drenched the dome.
“Life…” A voice slithered through the suffocating silence. “It reeks. Disgusting. Disgusting.”
Another followed, deeper and crueler.
“How delightful… fresh prey, and so much of them.”
The dome fell silent. Not a being dared to breathe.
The grade fours were here.
…
Luna watched with a serious expression as her people entered the small hole one by one, leaving the base.
Though Lina had just left with Malakai and the others to rescue the rest of their people, she couldn’t help the worry raging through her.
This base was dangerous, filled with dangerous people.
She had no idea what they would meet when they returned to the coven. Chaos had descended even before they’d been captured.
Would her mother still be alive? Could the coven hold back the encroaching city? The thought threatened to overwhelm Luna.
For all she knew, they could be returning to a wiped out coven. Luna hoped not.
Regardless, what choice did they have? They had no other place to go. Luna glanced at the door.
’Please survive, Lina,’ she prayed. She knew there was no stopping Lina from going.
Even from a young age she had always carried a strange sense of duty, as though it was her burden to look after the clan after their father went missing years ago.
’Is this where you ended up, papa?’ Luna wondered. It had been years already, and she doubted if he was still alive.
Worry almost engulfed her. It didn’t help that Grunde was also in danger.
Luna breathed heavily, focusing on the task at hand. Due to the small space, they had been forced to go one by one. But they were almost all through.
’Just a few more.’
Her ears caught the words of the men across the room. While some warriors had gone ahead to scout out their path, three had stayed behind to ensure all went well. Luna had also stubbornly joined them.
Though they were close to the door, a few words were all she needed to know that they were speaking of Malakai, the child that had shocked them all today.
Luna still couldn’t understand how someone could improve in such a short timeframe, but she chose to call it a blessing. Without him, they never would have escaped.
Signs of movement snapped Luna out of her thoughts. Her gaze shifted to the limbless man lying still on the floor.
’Was it a mistake?’ she thought with narrowed eyes. She was sure she’d seen him move. But he was still.
Luna wasn’t one to ignore her feelings. She began limping over, cautious. The other warriors who saw her stopped their chatter and narrowed their eyes on the man.
“Luna?” one of them said, but Luna silenced him, placing a finger on her lip. She stopped a few meters away, observing him silently. His breath was even, no signs of movement.
’Maybe it’s a mistake,’ Luna convinced herself. She sighed, turning to wave the warriors off, when the man moved.
It was sudden and abrupt.
Blood gushed from the severed stump, his limbless form snapping upright.
’No!’
Before Luna could act, the blood coiled and then erupted toward her like a cannonball. She barely crossed her arms before the attack landed.
The force hurled her backward, pain radiating through her body.
Gasps echoed from the Gor’Mekhai.
As Luna stopped, her one leg trembling, her eyes snapped back to the man. She readied herself to retaliate, but the other warriors struck first.
They evaded his desperate blood attacks, fists crashing down on his head.
As Luna saw the force of those blows, her eyes widened in horror. She screamed.
“Don’t kill them!”
But it was too late. Their hands dropped, each blow landing like meteors. The third crushed the man’s skull.
Silence followed. The warriors, not realizing what they had done, smiled and nodded at each other. But Luna had already acted.
“Go! Now!”
She shoved the remaining Gor’Mekhai into the exit hole.
A chill spread through the room the next moment, and the warriors froze. They turned towards the corpse, finally realizing what they’d done.
An alarm blared through the base, the intense white light flashing into blinding red.
Luna’s eyes was filled with panic as a pillar of darkness rose from the dead man, slamming into the ceiling.
The warriors backed away, trembling eyes locked on the pillar as it began to collapse.
As the alarm rang, red lights blinking rapidly and the darkness creature formed, Luna gritted her teeth and threw herself into the exit hole, moving away from the room as fast as she could.
“Huh? An alarm?”
Seraza glanced away from the ongoing procedure and raised her eyebrow at the blaring alarm and blinding red lights that had just sprung up.
“What does it mean, Konim?” she asked, glancing toward the tall, slender man. He bore the traits of the Sanguine, red eyes and hair. His heavy aura was undoubtedly a bloom’s. He was the guard the Fourth Pulse had left to watch the Fifth Vein.
Konim narrowed his eyes at the alarm. “It means someone has died, Fifth Vein. A darkness creature is spawning,” he responded respectfully.
“That sounds like bad news. Go check it out.”
“I’m afraid I can’t leave you now, Fifth Vein. There’s something going on.”
“Someone has to check it out, and I have no plans of leaving this fun,” Seraza replied dismissively. “Go check it out. That’s an order.”
Konim hesitated, but eventually nodded. The Fourth Pulse had left her in charge after all.
As Konim left the room, Seraza’s lips curved into a wicked smile as another scream tore from the boy currently being operated on in the other chamber.