The sun rose on the city they were assigned and the voice of the universe returned to normal. Whatever had happened was linked to the day-night cycle. The others were trying to convince the Null that they needed to complete the mission. They had no way to explain to the council that they couldn't complete the mission because of "feeling".
It is not that they doubted Null but they had no evidence to present that the planet was dangerous. All of the sensor reading and video couldn't shed any light on what was going on.
"We are going to have to investigate the source. It is the only lead we have and maybe we will be able to stop whatever is happening" Chris had called an early morning strategy meeting. To him, the problem was clear they should all enter the building identified by Null and investigate.
Null had a different idea, He hadn't found the right words to convince the group of the dread he was filled with. "You all need to listen, we need to get out of here. Only death awaits us here. Whatever they have done should not have been done." Null didn't want to go to some building to find out what abomination the previous inhabitant had made. Null's system had already the problem.
**Mission Granted: Escape or Kill the Eldritch Abomination**
Null had no idea what an Eldritch Abomination was and he didn't want to find out given what he had sensed last night.
They entered the building and it was just like all the others. To Chris and Lisa, it was no different at all. To Jania and the Null who could see a wider range of frequencies, it was different. The Walls were covered in Alien text, it seemed random at first but Null suspected there was some pattern.
Each letter had a different sound to Null, which meant that each letter was linked to the fields. They hadn't found any evidence of any Zallium or other known substitutes.
Jania explained to the rest of the group what they had discovered. To Null, this seemed like a mix between imbuing and technomagic. He didn't know how they had been channelling the energy.
Null had been analysing the writing to see if he could gain any more insight into what they had stumbled upon. He worked out there were 5 separate rings of text around the room and each of them linked to a different field. The most complex ring related to the life field, the simpler ones related to the Time, Space and Soul fields.
Hours passed by and Null wasn't making much headway into what was the purpose of the spell. The others had done a detailed scan and search of the room and had not found anything different to the other building.
They had lost track of time and hadn't been watching the sun, as the sun started to set. The atmosphere in the building changed the writing on the wall became visible to everyone and started to glow with energy.
The whole Party had become incapacitated by the violent screams of millions of souls over being directed mentally into their minds.
As soon as Null detected the forced mental link, he had concentrate and closed the link. The second he had been linked had finally given him the breakthrough he needed.
In the middle of the room, a black portal was starting to form. Null knew was an ominous sign but didn't know what else to do. Chris was the least compatible with the mind field so it was easier for Null to break the connection.
It took Chris a moment to come back to reality, but he had been affected by hearing so much torment and anguish.
"Chris grab the other others, knock them out with your stun stick if you have to. Take them to the sleeping berths, I have something I need to prepare"
Chris went into action, he was able to move his mum with no problems but had to stun both Jania to get her to calm down enough to move. He had just got them both into sleeping berth when the black portal had finished forming. Chris hadn't noticed anything it just seemed to be a stable portal but it gave him the creeps.
Chris still got his laser out and connected it to his suit so he could guard against anything.
"Chris, Fire!" Chris didn't know why Null had asked him to fire but he did as requested and to his surprise the shot connected with something only a metre away.
"Keep firing don't stop" Null was already in their fusion form. He had been preparing two new spells. One used the energy field to create a shield that made radio waves visible to humans and the second was a mind shield. He hadn't been able to test them or make them very efficient he just hope they would work.
The first spell allowed for Chris to see thousands of tentacles coming out of the portal, while the second gave the rest of the party a reprived from the voices. Just because they couldn't hear the screams anymore didn't mean they would recover anytime soon. They were in shock, the experience had shaken them mentally. They had been subjected to the anguish of millions of sentient souls.
The shielding given to them by Littleman was able to block tentacles but it also drained a lot of power. Chris started to recover and take stock of the situation. "Null, do you know what that thing is?" Chris didn't expect him to know but hoped that Null could provide him with some information.
"It was their last-ditch effort of survival. It was supposed to be an Ark. Once it connected with me I was able to gather the missing pieces. They had tried to create a pocket dimension that would hold their population in suspended animation."
"I'm guessing that is not what happen?" asked Chris
"The spell they were trying to cast took too much energy and required knowledge they didn't possess and that abomination is the result. It is made up of the life forces and souls of millions of indigenous life-forms and they are locked in a time loop unable to die. Every night it exits the pocket dimension to feed. It uses the life field to create a siren call. All the animals on this planet are drawn to this location by the call. The abomination will then absorb the animals to keep the spell active."
Chris was shocked, how could he get so much information so quickly. Null didn't tell him he had forced a link with abomination just to see if he could communicate and that was how he got the information.