Adrian suddenly appeared on the lobby and focused his mind on the hooded individuals. He sent a wave of powerful killing intent towards them but only one of the three hooded individuals got affected. The two remaining hooded are phased but did not appear to move.
Dustan has seen that Adrian's ability somehow worked and sent out three sharp needles towards the three hooded individuals. Each of the hooded individuals got hit on a specific nerve on their neck but only one of them fainted.
"Good job." Dustan stated.
"No…something is wrong." Adrian stated as he noticed that the two hooded individuals were not affected by his ability.
The two hooded individual that did not faint suddenly charged towards Adrian and Dustan. Adrian immediately took shelter as he has yet to train his current body for battle. Dustan took out a sold steel one feet stick and pressed a button which made it become a staff.
"Why did these two not get affected by my attack?!" Dustan stated as he proceeded to defend from the attacks of the two hooded individuals.
Adrian also felt something off with the two hooded individuals as they did not radiate emotion. Usually, humans would emit killing intent or bloodlust if they are out to kill an individual. The two hooded individuals are actually not emitting anything as if they are a blank slate.
"Necromancy." Adrian suddenly shouted as he knew that an item should be controlling these dead bodies.
The difference with necromancy in the Egyptian magics is that the dead could determine and somehow think for themselves. This is derived from the resurrection magic that the Goddess of Magic Aset used to resurrect her husband from the dead.
"To think that the magic that my former student would come and haunt me." Adrian thought as he started to search for the thing that keeps the two hooded individuals together.
"Are you saying that these to are dead reanimated bodies?" Dustan stated as he sent the two flying with four steel bars hidden in his coat.
"They more of a type of living dead which is advance necromancy that could not only recreate their abilities when they are living but also strengthen the body of the dead." Adrian answered.
"How do you know this? I am pretty sure zombies are foreign in your country." Dustan asked as he watched how the two hooded reanimated corpses will move.
"They are similar to what we call Lamang Lupa or Possessed Earth. They are basically like dolls and Duwendes use those to perform mischief or scare people from their territories. They should have some sort of medium where the magic is being channeled." Adrian stated as an excuse.
"Any idea on how to deal with them then?" Dustan asked as it seems his attacks are not doing any effect other than keeping them at bay.
"The soil that is reanimated consists of the earth where they died and the ashes of the dead. Water would be effective but none of us could create water from nothing." Adrian stated.
"If water is what we need then I just need to trip the sprinklers. Whiz, activate the sprinkler system in our current floor." Dustan stated as he focused on the incoming reanimated corpses for another round of battle.
"Roger that." Whiz answered as he started to activate the whole building's sprinkler system to slow down the pursuers. The hotel has almost restored the CCTV system and Whiz does not want to turn it off again or else they will know that someone is hacking. Whiz wanted it to look like it was just a system failure after all.
The hooded individual that fainted is starting to twitch. It seems that the effect of the needle in the neck is almost gone. Adrian saw this and headed straight towards the fainted hooded individual. The two reanimated corpses then stopped attacking and headed towards Adrian as if they have an order to always keep the fainted man safe.
"Whiz, any time now." Dustan stated as he impaled the feet of the two reanimated corpses to the ground. Like what Adrian stated, they are really made of soil which meant that they feel no pain.
"And…Done." Whiz stated as he hit enter.
The moment Whiz pressed the enter button, the whole hotel building's sprinkler system activated. The remaining staff and guests immediately evacuated the hallways as they suddenly got drenched. The normal hotel staff panicked as this never happened while those that are not normal started to climb the stairs.
The two reanimated corpses started to slow down upon being drenched in water. Dustan immediately used this chance to scatter the earth that composed their bodies. Adrian reached the twitching person safely and immediately placed his hands on the head of the said individual.
The moment that Adrian touched the head of the twitching person, he immediately activated his ability and peered into the memories of the individual. He could feel the artifact on the fainted individual's body, but he does not know where it is hidden.
The magic is still activating despite the caster no longer mentally present. He could feel that the artifact is feeding on the hooded individual's life force to activate. Dustan is already finished with the two reanimated corpses as they started to melt due to getting wet.
"Any idea where the artifact is?" Dustan asked as time is of the essence.
Whiz just reported to them that about twenty people are climbing the stairs towards their location. Dustan might be trained but even he could not take down that amount of people. He is not some sort of invincible superhero that does not get tired.
"I found it." Adrian stated as he took his hand off the hooded individual and tilted the individual to the side.
He then opened the mouth of the hooded individual and a golden scarab fell off. The golden scarab fell off, but the magic is still taking effect as it is still drawing life force from the fainted person.
"Destroy it." Adrian stated and Dustan slammed his rod to destroy the golden scarab.