Chapter 50 Earth Wyrm
Xavier and Sheila, picking up their companions, went to the coordinates that Emilia had given them. It took 15 minutes to reach the place but it was a tough journey. It was a party filled with beasts but the team could make their way to the coordinates with the help of all the members actively participating.
They pushed through and finally reached the place. It was an empty residential building which was located in the eastern area is the City. It was extremely dilapidated and there were many plants growing along the walls.
Xavier was surprised. He didn't think that such a building was still existent. Usually when a building goes unused, is recomstructed as soon as possible. It not kept like this.
When the group reached the entrance, the building shook and the floor on the entrance slowly opened as it went down and formed a ramp leading underground.
Xavier was surprised. He didn't think that there was such a building in this city and when he thought more about it, he was sure that it was Emilia's influence which kept the city lord mansion from renovating the building.
He entered the underground room with the help and was surprised by what he saw. It was a huge room. Almost 5 times the size of the building itself, which was built underground. And the whole room contained only one thing.
It was a huge aircraft. Almost the size of the entire underground room. It was pitch black making it almost invisible in the room lighting of the room and it's futuristic and sharp edges made it seem like it was a predator who was hiding and was waiting for the prey to come in front of it.
"Come on in. Quickly. We do not have much time. It's already getting so late that at are cutting it very close." Emilia's voice sounded from the aircraft.
It seemed that Emilia had already noticed their arrival and was telling them to hurry up. From getting the urgency in her voice, it seemed that the situation is very bad.
And Xavier also knew that. The feeling he was getting was sitting that every second that he spent in this city, the danger was increasing exponentially.
The group entered the aircraft and sat Emilia was sitting in the cockpit and was configuring the aircraft. She looked at the group who had arrived and said," So you brought the Star Elites. I was wondering why you went out in such a hurry. Did you specifically go to get them? Do you know anyone from the group?"
Xavier shook his head and said," No, I was going to bring my friend and we met them on the way. So we brought them here."
Emilia looked at him and then her gaze fell towards Sheila. A few archive later, a peculiar light flashed in her eyes and she continued observing her.
She then turned to the group of Star Elites and said," Grant and Erika, you two come here and stay operating the defenses. You have learnt about this in class haven't you?"
Grant and Erika were the two leaders of the group. They were the ones who had taken the lead when fighting the horde of beasts and they were the ones to lead the group to the hangar as the group didn't trust Sheila and Xavier.
Emilia looked at another bout and said," Emile, you also come with me. Xavier, you to. I need you two do something quickly."
Emilia said looking at Xavier and the boy who Xavier and originally chosen to save. He was the handsome guy who's looks candy was jealous of. Emile was really a genius. He was almost on the level of the letters, Grant and Erika despit being just in his sophomore year and given a little more time, he would catch up to them.
But Xavier was even more of a beast. With just his menial Martial Master cultivation, he was way above Emile in strength. But he didn't show this to anyone and his told that his powers were due to his weapons and not his own combat prowess, bringing less attention to himself but Emilia knew what kind of a beast Xavier was.
Even Sheila was stronger than all the others with just her mid level Martial Master strength after she underwent cultivation condensation.
Emilia led the two to three back of the aircraft. Inspite of looking so big, the aircraft had a surprisingly small amount of space inside it. It was just enough to fit 50 people and this was surprisingly small for an aircraft which, from the outside, looked like it was at able to hold more than 2000 people.
After reaching the end of the craft, Emilia opened a room which had a fair which made it look highly secured. She went on and both Xavier and Emile followed. Inside the room were 2 seats. They were on opposite sides and in getting of each of them, there was a screen which showed what the aircraft was like in the outside.
Emilia looked at the two of them and said," This is the hyperdrive chamber. You two are needed to pilot this. So both of you, work hard. Whether we get out of here or not may depend on this if the situation gets worse."
Xavier looked at the room and was surprised. His eyes went wide as he exclaimed," Is this the Black Falcon G643? The only aircraft to achieve hyper warp speeds inside the planet's atmosphere!"
Emilia looked at Xavier and her eyes shone in surprise. She nodded," Yes, this is the Black Falcon. How did you know of this?"
"Of course i know if this. It's one of the biggest breakthroughs we had in the modern engineering world. Even though it was 10000 years ago that this aircraft was created and it was an absolute failure considering the cost that was needed to create the aircraft just to make it achive such speeds, but still it was one of the best breakthroughs which the world had." Xavier said. He didn't think that he could see this aircraft here.
"How did you get this? I thought that there was only 3 prototypes made and 1 of them crashed while the other two disappeared." Xavier asked.
Emilia smirked and said," That's a secret."
"Now enough of this. I want you to control the warp engine. One of these control the direction and the other control the power. It's an old craft so the wall is say to work for only 3 service which can get us about 15000 kilometres away from the city. While it's not too far, it will be enough."
"But from what I heard, the warp takes a lot of time to load. At least a minute. Won't that be too much time. Many things can happen in that minute." Asked Xavier.
Emilia nodded. " That's why, let's hope that it takes them longer and that someone is there to distract them."
"Them?" Asked Emile and Xavier at the same time.
"You don't need to know about them for now." Emilia shook her head and started showing them how to work the warp engine.
Emile took control of the direction as it was easy to set and cashier took control of the power as it was difficult to control and he had to time it perfectly. As a mechanic, he was sure that he could do it and took it upon himself.
While went out and soon, the whole building started shaking along with the buildings in the satirist area. The ground crumbled and made way to the magnificent Black Falcon aircraft.
There were no people in the vicinity of the aircraft they were either dead or had made way to the City centre to find a way to escape. But all the higher up people knew that this was futile. They would have never thought such an incident occurred so quickly that they were not able to respond.
Xavier saw, through the screen, the blue sky and he could hear the screams of despair and the roars of beasts. He felt aircraft tremble and the thruster activated and pushed the aircraft straight into the sky.
"Now, activate the warp engine. It will take about a minute did it to get ready and make sure that you are careful." Emilia's voice sounded in the ears of both Xavier and Emile. They both nodded and started the warp engine while configuring their own say of tasks.
But soon they heard a zooming noice. Xavier saw that there were another 6 aircrafts taking to the air at the same time as they're.
From one of the aircrafts, the city lords voice came out. "Haha, finally! We could get this rust bucket up and running. We can finally escape!"
The aircraft started working is thristers and was about to go off but soon as earthshaking roar was heard.
Roar!!!!
The roar literally shook the earth and soon a huge rift opened up in the city centre. The crack on the ground was big enough to cover whole of the centre of the city. Inside it, one could see 2 orbs of red brown light looking at the sky with its piercing eyes. A roar sounded again the beats which was inside the rift launched upwards.
It was a wyrm. A huge earth wyrm. It was covered in brown scales which make an impregnable armour. It was more than 200 metres tall and with a single jump, it reached the City lord's aircraft.
The wyrm opened its huge maw and took the he aircraft in our and bit down.
Crunch!
The whole aircraft exploded into pieces while one could faintly hear the screams of the city lord from within the sounds of the explosion.
The wyrm, after finishing is little snack, turned is cold eyes towards all those aircrafts which were flying in the air as it licked it's lips.
Anyone who saw this felt their hairs stand up. Xavier who was looking at this from his screen also felt cold sweat dripping from his forehead.
This was a beast way more powerful than anything he had ever seen. It was a peak Martial Lord level Monster Beast.