V.52 Hands of Cain
Lilly noticed that Arc was looking at her weirdly and not just Lilly everyone around him notice it. But none of them asked him about it despite their curiosity. Even Jem who was super curious about it didn't open her mouth to ask.
"Boss, why are you looking at me like that?" Hmmm, Lilly shakes her small head left and right with one hand on her chin. "Did I say something wrong?"
Arc woke up from his stupor, He notices that everyone is looking at him and realize that only he can hear Nine's voice, not even Eve can hear it. Unless nine wants Eve to hear. "ehem no nothing like that, it's just that this tower I mean Babel is still a child, and you are already an adult?"
"Hehehe, that's right Boss Lilly is already adult surprised? Hehe, Lilly is a big girl now." she continuous to dance around Arc now even faster and more enthusiastic.
And when everyone heard Arc had said all of them understand why Arc is looking at Lilly weirdly. Only Jem is clapping her hands in response to Lilly's proud declaration.
"Arc shakes his head, Lilly do you think you can control Babel? Or maybe have him joins us?"
Lilly stops dancing and answered immediately, "No Boss I can't, not until we killed the one who holds his core or the one controlling him. But don't worry boss Babel is quite hurt and won't be able to do anything to us. Until he heals completely"
Arc just shrugs, he wasn't really expecting it to happen, but there's nothing wrong in asking, and besides Lilly already elevates his worries about the tower.
Arc nodded at everyone, his destination is different from where the droids are fighting, his destination is the Hands of Cain [HOC] treasure vault where they kept all the relics they hoarded. Eve already made some calculations on the possible location of the treasure vault base on the intel the drones have gathered the moment they are taken inside the tower.
And with Eve capabilities it's not hard to calculate the possible location of the vault. In fact, HOC and the Cardinals have already some idea of what their mysterious attackers are after, after all, there are few reasons why someone will attack them. And to them gathering a huge amount of relics is public knowledge. And of course, there are few other secrets they are hiding, and if these relics is what their enemies are after they are happy to give it away because of the current situation they have right now. To be honest, to them those relics are not as important as their other secrets or their lives.
So when the assault started the vault is the last thing they wanted to protect. That is if they are even capable of protecting it.
The Pope and the cardinals can see the movement of their enemies inside the tower, Babel may have been incapacitated, but surveillance is one of the things that can still be used.
They saw the Bulk of the forces heading toward the upper level of Babel where they are located, but another one is heading towards the vault, in fact, they cannot see Arc and his party after all they are still in stealth mode, but that does not apply to the thousand of Droids surrounding them. So the pope can only see a thousand Droids moving towards where the vault is located, indicating that their opponents know the layout of the tower.
The Pope looks at the cardinals and doubt was visible in his eyes. Their enemies knowing the layout of Babel means only one thing there are traitors among them. But he wasn't very sure after all a powerful seal is placed in their mind to prevent this kind of thing from happening.
The cardinals also notice the movement of their enemies and the word traitors were also in their mind. But just like the Pope, they are not sure if that was the case.
"Your eminence what are we going to do about the vault?" asked one of the Cardinals.
There's nothing much we can do about it now, Babel is incapacitated and already entered recovery mode and only basic functions remain.
But blood thirst can be seen in the Pope's eyes, very unbecoming for someone with the title pope. The Cardinals nodded the pope's eyes tells them everything they needed to know. Meaning as soon as they manage to escape this predicament and found out who their enemy is they will make them suffer a thousand times over. And even though many of them think that surviving this catastrophe is very small, none of them voice it.
"Vicar, ready the faithless"
One of the Cardinals nodded, with a bloodthirsty smile on his face. [The Faithless] the abomination created from the members who fail the augmentations of becoming paladins.
This is one of the secret weapons of the HOC. As each one of these Faithless is very powerful but have a very short lifespan, in other words, they are onetime use weapons, and their number is enormous after all since this method was discovered the number of those who failed the augmentations are almost countless, and they have had never used it before since they have no reason to, so their number are increasing year by year.
Suddenly a loud rumbling sounds can be heard from everywhere in the tower, followed by slight shaking. Arc looks around and asks Eve about it, but Eve has no answers either. Arc nodded he knows that whatever that is they will soon find out.
And he was right in just a few minutes the droids are already engaged against a new enemy. And this one looks like something that crawls out of hell. In fact, this one is far more grotesque than the one Graff was using when they fought him. At least the one Graff is using you can still somewhat recognize it. But this one has no fixed form it was like bodyparts being glued together without any plans at all, and worse those body parts look like it was rotten and boiled over some sort of chemical before being put together.
At first, they were looking forward to fighting the enemies but now that he was looking at them, he was glad that the one fighting them are droids and not them he can already imagine the smells just by looking at them. He looks around and everyone has the same look on their face. He laughs he can read what everyone is thinking about. And that is to stay away from those things as far as possible where they can't smell them.
"Boss summons more droids I don't want to fight that," said Jem looking slightly pale. Only Lilly looks excited when she looks at the projection.
Arc looks around and every one of them is looking at him with a pleading look in their eyes. And he can't blame them, despite being inside the warbots their helmets are not visible, so he can see their faces. He laughs for he himself does not want to fight those disgusting creatures either.