"There is no time. We have to escape this place. We must head out to the rooftop where Whiz is waiting for us." Dustan stated as Whiz reported to him that several people are on their way to their current room right now.
"We have no time to got to the rooftop. Place the aircraft beside out window. Turn the power off in the hotel so that it would be completely dark. We will jump in the deck." Adrian stated as he knows that Jihan and Esme are already too tired to move.
"If we are going to do that then we better block the entrance to this room." Esme stated as she started to lift every heavy furniture and blocked the door with it.
"We are so not going be welcomed back in this country. I would not even be shocked if we get banned from even getting in a plane that will have a stopover in this country." Jihan stated as he started to also block the entrance of the room.
"What should we do to the body?" Adrian asked as he does not know their protocol when it comes to dealing with dead bodies.
"Unless you have a skill or ability that could make it go away then better leave it here. Everyone to the balcony now." Dustan stated as Whiz told them that the people are already in the floor, they are in.
The lights in the hotel building suddenly turned off or more precisely the power in the hotel is cut off. Since everyone in the hotel is now in panic, the sound of glass breaking is no longer the guests concerns as they all called the service desk for answers about the power interruption.
"Our ride is here. Let us go." Dustan stated as he sensed the aircraft descend to their room location.
The aircraft then disabled the cloaking mechanism for its top part and the hatch opened. Everyone quickly entered as they heard sounds of the door being barged. It seems that whoever wants to go in is desperate and is not an employee of the hotel.
The door is broken down and even the things that they piled got thrown off. The pursuers managed to get inside of the room, but Adrian's group is no longer there. They have already fled the scene and were not identified by their enemies.
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"What did they want so badly that they are willing to kill you?" Dustan asked Jihan since the organization that attacked them seems to be very good or powerful to be able to move easily.
"They wanted the emblem that we got from the souvenir shop that we visited. It came from an old man named Ibis." Jihan stated as he pulled out the emblem given to them.
Adrian saw the emblem and remembered that it is none other than one of the symbols of Thoth. The emblem is basically a moon disk that represented Thoth himself. Adrian does not know how Jihan and Esme got it but that stuck up bird man does not hand it so easily unless Thoth is impressed with someone.
The moon disk is basically a circular emblem with the crescent moon located at the bottom it. The circle part of the moon disk seems to be made of gold while the crescent moon is made of silver. They can feel an unimaginable force just by staring at the emblem.
"How about you two that went to Japan? Did you guys easily got the information that you needed?" Jihan asked as he knows that Dustan is a perfectionist.
"Oh! We did. We also got a token but that guy there spent most of his time sleeping." Adrian stated as he chuckled.
The three did not know how to respond to Adrian's statement as the one in question is actually showing a stiff face. There is still something that they need to ask Adrian about though. They still need to ask him about the sudden death of the supposed Scribe.
"Did you really not kill that man because you have yet to get full control of your powers?" Jihan asked as he was the one that they are staring at to ask the question.
"If I wanted to kill him then I would have not used a roundabout way that even I would be killed. His mind was locked by something even I could not touch. All I saw was a man cloaked in red that turned his brain to mush." Adrian retorted as he is not one kill a person that he just met intentionally at least.
"Can you elaborate for us uneducated people please?" Dustan stated with a neutral tone.
"Let me ask another mind reader then. Have you tried reading the mind of a dying person?" Adrian asked Esme and everyone looked at her.
"I managed to read one who was about to die in a few weeks but not someone in the process of death." Esme replied as she got pressured into answering since all eyes were on her.
"That is fine since that is still the same case. Have you noticed that the person in question seem to be missing some of his memory or you read something like a blank slate?" Adrian asked once again.
"There was a time that I did not get anything like pure silence." Esme answered.
"Yes, that is what is supposed to happen. The mindscape is already deteriorating for about to be dead or dying people. If you are like me that projects his own mindscape to see memories, then I die if I get caught in the deterioration. I would have become a vegetable if I pursued deeper into that man's mind." Adrian stated which made everyone gulp with Esme being suddenly terrified of reading minds.
"Did you get anything from that man anyways?" Dustan asked as he wanted a result so that he knows if they might get pursued.
"I only managed to get that they are ordered to retrieve that emblem so that he will not get killed for his failure. In other words, that man would have died anyways. Do not worry as they will not pursue us overtly as they do not know who we are." Adrian stated as they discussed more thing on their way back to the base.