V.57 Fate VIII
Arc, and everyone inside Babel heard the mighty and loud roar followed by a rumbling mild at first, but it was increasing as time went by, but Arc wasn't worried about the rumbling or the loud roaring sound, but by the massive burst of energy it was releasing. It's so powerful it's making all his hair stand up.
Even Lilly who was enjoying herself fighting and killing the faithless suddenly stops fighting and looks at where the energy is coming from.
Back in the top of Babel where the Pope and the rest of the Cardinal are waiting and watching. They can see on the monitor a massive magic formation and in that formation slowly something is coming out. Just the claw is about 3 to 4 meters long, so one can only imagine the full size of the monster.
"That's big," mumbled one of the cardinals.
But the pope just shakes his head, "no it's not, looks like it's just a small one waking up first."
And when the rest of the cardinals heard it they all at the pope, but the pope no longer say anything.
And he doesn't have to that sentence alone is enough to give everyone the real sense of the size of the forgotten, despite everyone in Eden know the name of Forgotten, but the truth is almost no one has ever seen one before, at least no one alive now has actually seen a forgotten. But the legend is being passed down since everyone can remember.
"We need to hurry!" Arc stated looking a bit worried.
Everyone nodded. "Lilly?"
Everyone noticed that the smallest and yet powerful Lilly is not paying attention to Arc which is surprising since Lilly always paying attention to Arc. Something all of them can understand.
"Eh, hehe Boss that's big Lizard. I really, really want to fight it. Can I?" Lilly looks at Arc with pleading and cute eyes.
Arc gulp. ~this little thing and here I thought it was something serious.~ Arc said in his mind.
"Don't worry you will have the opportunity soon, for now, we need to grab those relics first."
Lilly nodded and smile, "yey, finally I'll be able to fight those big lizards hehe" Lilly jumps around Arc while laughing and cheering nonstop.
"Were here Boss," said Eve.
Arc looks at the building in front of him, it looks like a regular building except for two huge statues that look like some kind of beast. The front of the building looks like any other building inside Babel.
There was no vault door or something in fact inside it looks more like a museum than a vault.
Inside they can see countless display cabinets and scrolls that are being displayed.
"Let's separate here, grab them all! Arc ordered. Everyone nodded.
But in fact, Arc was a little disappointed. After all, if a sovereign tool is nearby he will be able to feel it as soon as he gets close to it. The same goes for what his mission calling Adam's legacy.
But here he felt nothing, so he knows the one he is looking for is not here. And that makes him a little disappointed. ~ I just hope there's something in here we can use~ Arc sighs.
"Eve, how's the situation outside?"
"Nothing we can't handle yet Boss, but the energy signatures are getting stronger we located the source in the eastern part of the first floor. Unfortunately, every drone that we sent is getting destroyed unless we send some droids to investigate we won't be able to know more."
"I see that's too bad. Hopefully, we can grab everything here before that thing comes out." Arc looks around and knows that grabbing all the relics will take some time. Like everything inside babel, this building is huge. And just on the first floor, he can see close to a thousand or maybe more relics being displayed.
Time passes, it has been close to 30 minutes since Arc and his party reaches the vault, and they are nowhere close to grabbing half of all the relics inside the vault it has to be said that the speed of Arc and his party grabbing the relics is very fast, in fact, they can grab 10 or so relic every second meaning so far they were able to grab close to 20k relics and yet each time they go up, they see more relics being displayed. Clearly, the number of relics the HOC has accumulated throughout the years is enormous, of course, many of those relics are simply old vases and the likes, but Arc wasn't taking any chances, so he wanted to grab everything.
In fact, many of the relics they found have some kind of runes embedded in its body, and as they go up the quality of relics is also getting better.
"Boss, we have a situation." Arc heard Eve's voice
"Hmmm, what is it?"
"Reinforcement has come from the outside it looks like they are the mercenary guild Blades."
Blades huh, Arc was familiar with that group, he clashed with them when they are in endless swamps, these mercenary groups are very arrogant and have a bad temper. In fact, Arc party have killed several Blades mercenary group in the endless swamps before of course in order not to attract too much attention they make sure the kill is clean and no witnesses and survivors.
"Looks like Hands of Cain [HOC] was still able to call for reinforcement. They must have some kind of method we are not aware of," said Arc without any worry in his voice.
"That's right Boss. But Gideon and the Celeste is doing a great job fending them off."
"Ok, that's good, but that's another reason we need to speed up things here," said Arc and despite talking with Eve he never stops grabbing the relics.
Hmmm, Every cardinal notices something with Vicar. He seems to be sweating a lot and breathing hard.
"Vicar.? What's going on?" asked the Pope.
Vicar didn't immediately answer he continues to sweat and breath hard. But no one disturbs him.
Minutes passed and Vicar is looking very pale and blood can be seen in his mouth. Then suddenly he pukes some blood, and he opens his eyes.
"Your eminence, I… I lost control of the faithless. " Vicar said with difficulty blood can still be seen in his mouth.
"The pope sighs, I was afraid this will happen. Those Forgotten Faithless have a higher rank than us so of course, you can't control it and that's not all the control of faithless was now been given to it. That also means it's close to coming out."
And sure enough, the energy being released immediately spikes up several times. Eve and Specter immediately noticed it and began to take countermeasures. Eve and Specter immediately move all the surviving droids close to where Arc and his party are.
Specter also started to build defensive formations and that's not all the ship main canon has started to gather energy just in case it was needed, of course, Arc would not allow it to be fired if there are other choices. That is his final and last option. After all, firing the ship's main cannon directly into a planet can cause several unexpected things to happen and none of them are good.
But specter is readying it just in case. Moving the droids closer to Arc is not that difficult since the faithless have all stop moving. They all stop moving and just standing there like statues.