V.55 Zombies
As the cardinals are discussing the remaining options they have. The battle inside Babel intensifies as more and more faithless comes pouring out from everywhere and soon enough the droids are having a hard time keeping up with the number and the increasing strength of the faithless.
Despite how powerful the droids are each droid is fending hundreds of faithless who like them are not afraid of anything. And in these moments Arc was able to gauge just how powerful a 1-star droid really is. "It's just too bad these things can't fight in space like space mechs, but maybe if we modify them they may be able to." Arc began to think as he watches the droids fends and fights the almost endless number of faithless.
And every time he looks at the faithless he was being reminded of some old movies his dad has collected from before the war, the creatures called Zombies only more deformed and several times more disgusting. Nevertheless, their actions and movements are very much like them fearless and only driven by instinct and that is to eat. And he was not talking about those slow-moving zombies but those zombies who are the evolved version of it, that are very fast and strong and very deformed and rotten.
"Eve did you find out where they are coming from?" asks Arc
No, Boss, they seem to come from everywhere, and without surveillance capability and with the vastness of Babel it is almost impossible to find it, despite Arc releasing a huge number of spy drones that only the size of a fingernail, that only serve as a spy without any another function.
It's just that Babel is very vast, bigger than what it looks outside and that is already big. There are mountains and river inside babel, like a true pocket dimension that only exist in legends. And no, storage rings are not counted as it still requires external energy to function, unlike the pocket dimension he read about in many novels and movies.
Before he received the Factory system one of Arc's hobbies is reading novels and watching old movies, he especially likes fantasy and the magical genre.
And now he was living the very novel and movies he was watching and reading before. He couldn't ask for more.
"I will keep looking Boss," said Eve
Arc nodded if they can figure out where these things are coming out from they can simply plug it or just simply camp outside it and kill it as soon as they come out unless the door is as big as the entrance to babel, which he doubts otherwise they would have found it immediately.
It has been several minutes since they started assaulting the inside of babel and Arc already summons 70,000 droids to compensate for the increasing number of faithless, and he lost more than a hundred droids with the battle with the faithless. And they couldn't even count how many they have killed, but it must have been close to a million already, and yet the number wasn't lessening a bit, in fact, it is even increasing nonstop. And what's worse it is even getting stronger. In fact, even the HOC have no idea how many faithless they have so far. And the increasing strength of faithless are giving the Cardinals some ray of hope,
They look at Vicar, looking for some answer.
But vicar just shrugs. "I don't know exactly how many we have since these things have been stacking since before I was born, and the reason they are getting stronger is that the older they are, meaning the longer they are submerged in the medical formations the stronger they become but no one was able to find out if that is true since in order to use the older faithless we must first use the new ones. And since its foundation, the faithless remains unused until now."
"To be honest, I was looking forward to seeing those thousands of years old faithless in battle myself. I have heard that a long time ago the procedures in making faithless are very different from what we are using now. Meaning the outcome is also different from a typical faithless we are seeing. But those things are at least ten thousand years old or even older." Vicar started with a creepy smile on his face.
"Prepare the army!!"
Everyone looks at a pope who interrupted their conversations.
Your eminence? They were surprised to see a grim look on his face especially now that the faithless are doing good.
The Pope looks at them and said. "Believe me none of you want to see those old monsters waking up."
They look at the pope waiting for some explanation.
Sigh, he looks at the Cardinals especially the younger generation.
"Let me ask you? How do you think our organization was founded?"
"By the divine!" Said one of the younger cardinals
"And who is the divine?" asked the pope.
No one answered, after all, they were trained not to question the existence of the divine. And now they are being asked who the divine is, in all honesty, except knowing the divine is godly existence they know nothing about it.
The pope is not surprised that no one answers him. It would be weird if someone answers him as it goes against the very teaching they have.
"This information is actually only available to me the pope or the next pope. But since it was not exactly forbidden knowledge I will share it with you. But it must never leave this room or every one of you will be purged without exceptions." he once again looks at all the cardinals especially the younger generations.
"Do you still want to hear it?" the pope said with a teasing smile on his face.
But to his surprise, all of them nodded. Making him smile even more.
"Very well the answer is actually very simple if you think about it carefully." he pauses and once again looks at everyone like an old man telling a story to children who pause once in a while to looks at their expressions full of anticipations for what he was going to tell them next.
"So what creatures can be considered as divine in this world no, this prison?" and when this question was asked all of them have a sudden realization and gasp in surprise. Because only one word comes to everyone's mind. [FORGOTTEN] in other words Dragons.