As Donna stood there watching her two friends leave her sight the battle outside kept raging on however the guards had now been able to get a handle on the number of the beasts and have already been able to close off the breach. Now all that's left is to take care of those that have already entered and were split amongst the Eastern wing of the sanctuary.
"Get those damn beasts and fucking murder them already!!" Screamed a scruffy middle-aged man.
'Damn I didn't think the council was being serious when they said they would close the connector, I swear they get more brazen by the year and I can't even call them out on it otherwise I'd lose my post and these people would be left with even less protection than they already do' Thought the man.
Amidst his erratic thoughts, a rogue gremlin managed to get up behind him but with just the click of his fingers, the creature turned into a ball of ashes in a matter of seconds.
"A mere stage 1 Gremlin thinks it has the right to prey on me, I guess it's time to clean up this mess" While saying this, the man proceeded to pick up a Warhammer that seemed to weigh a couple of hundred kilograms with just one arm and flung it around his shoulder. A slaughter occurred.
Going back to Donna, she is now running through the other side of the connector meaning she is within the boundaries of the 'gifted' and has finally made it out of the 'bridge'. Upon getting out of the bridge she sees a man dressed in a fancy suit with a child no more than 1-year-old in his arms and heads to him in a flurry.
"Adam, thank god you're here, did anyone see you?"
"No but Donna are you sure you want to do this, you know that if we get caught harboring their kid then we wouldn't just get off with a slap on the wrist," Asked worriedly.
"Of course I'm sure of this, you know how much Andrew and Lena helped me in the past, the least I could do was make sure he survives and makes it to the orphanage"
"'sigh' I know I know it's just that even leaving him at that wretched place feels horrible"
A slight tremor went down Donnas spine "You think I don't know that, if it was up to me I'd keep him with us somewhere but the blasted council makes regular checks to the 'gifted' households to keep count of all of us but in the 'slums' they don't keep count so we'll be able to easily place him there besides Lena said she had a favor due there so the owner of the orphanage will be able to spin a story about his appearance so they don't connect Leo to them".
As Donna and Adam made their way through the alleys of the 'gifted' it is made more abundantly clear of the split between the classes as even the alleys are kept clean and devoid of even the trace of trash and the buildings are all kept in a beautiful pristine condition that highlights the victorian craftsmanship. As they approach the end of the route they see what can only be described as a void in the perfectly built wall.
"Donna, what the hell is that?" Questioned Adam.
"It's a feature of the wall that can only be activated from our side, it uses spatial magic to open up a rift to the other side, one step through here and your on the other side of the slums' bridge"
"What, I thought this sanctuary no longer had anyone capable of using spatial magic"
"As far as I know we don't, I believe this was added when the walls were first built, but it only has one charge so we just have to put him through and the owner will be there on the other side to pick him up and take him"
"How do you know he'll be there?"
"I don't" Answered Donna with a grim face.
'Let's just hope Lena's so-called favor is enough to get the owner to pick him up' Lena thought in her head as she had the baby in her arms and bent down to put her knees down and as she was about to put the baby through she realized that he had been oddly quiet for a while and as she looked down to look at him she could see that he had his eyes wide open darting from side to side taking in all the views he could.
"'giggle' he's just like you guys" She mumbled under her breath. 'Good luck kid, lord knows you're going to need it'.
Donna took the baby and gently placed her arms with him in it in the void and yet the baby instead of being terrified he was attracted to the darkness within and then he was gone, Donna took back her arms and they were empty, and then she and her husband and their baby went back to their home.
* The other side of the void*
5 minutes prior to Donna placing the baby in the void a short hunched over man can be seen running within the shadows to the other end of the void, he was huffing and panting the whole way with a ghastly pale face as he looked visibly ill.
'Shit, shit, shit where is it! Where is the void!? I can't believe I have to be running about in the middle of a breach to pick up the kid of two people on the King's blacklist, if the beasts don't kill me then the guards definitely will.' Thought the terrified man.
Despite the man's conflicting thoughts he kept on running and stopping, successfully evading the majority of the beasts that came near him and slowly but surely made it to the location of the void. However, that's where a problem emerged a stage 1 Helldog could be seen sitting directly in front of the void.
It may only be a stage 1 but to the common people within the slums, only a handful of them have the power required to take out a stage 1 creature and even less have the power to take out a stage 2 creature which is why the people were so glad when Andrew and Lena took out that stage 4 Griffon. Either way, now a stage 1 Helldog has barred the man's passage to the void and he had to do something.
'No, no, no, no this can't be happening to me!!! maybe, maybe I can just leave, yeah I can just leave and pretend I never got him besides those two aren't even here they won't know if I just don't pick him up' As he kept thinking about just leaving he was even more sure of his plan but right before he was about to a certain flashback went through his head in which a man used his blade that was coated in flames to decimate a group of stage 2 Sandworms without suffering a single injury and then that devilish smirk and the words he said began to replay in his mind "hey, this means you owe me now."
"Damn it!!! Fuck it I can do it" The man shouted and jumped from his hideout and pulled out a dagger and used his mana to make it much sharper than it was, with the shout the Helldog was alerted, and when it saw the man it launched a fireball from its mouth so the short man swung his dagger and a wind slice was released and the two attacks clashed with the man losing out, the fireball kept going but with it being slowed the man was able to dodge.
"Ha take that you shitty mutt no one can outsmart the great Albert"
However, the beast hadn't finished its attack and once the man named Albert had dodged the fireball it pounced.
'Shit' Albert not expecting this used some mana to encase his feet, this is one of the basic wind spells called 'wind walk' to make its user faster and jumped out of the way again this time though instead of berating the beast he had decided to use the terrain to his advantage and jumped up to a balcony.
Once on top of the balcony, he kept throwing wind slashes down to the beast however for every three slashes the beast only needed to use one fireball.
Despite knowing this Albert kept up this routine however midway through once the beast launched another fireball Albert threw his dagger at the beast which was encased in a small twister of sorts speeding it up and making it even sharper. The beast sensing this danger leaped to the side however Albert had already moved to intercept it and used another spell called 'wind bullet' to blast a dose of concentrated air straight at the face of the beast.
"Boom!"
"Plop"
The beast's head exploded and Andrew went down to his knees as he ran out of mana. At that moment the void started acting up and Albert recognizing that as the sign to go get the baby limped over and place his arms inside, once he pulled out he saw a baby looking directly at him.
"Fuck you looking at kid, I nearly got eaten cuz of you" Albert grumbled.
Leo just kept looking at him, so Albert just looked back and noticed a piece of paper stating his name, age, and that if he were to even think about touching the cross then he'd get skewered. Albert unconsciously gulped.
"Who the hell is he to say that shit to me, I just fought against a damn Helldog for this brat, I should just fucking leave him... Ahhh forget it let's just go home" Albert said and so he took Leo in his arms and made his way back.