Zero grabbed the phone he found in the pocket of the old man and held it a bit into the hallway. 'I don't see anyone, but I don't know if any of those guards are still there... And I'm talking to myself, wonderful.' Zero took the shoe off the ability user and threw it into the hallway before watching through the phone. When five minutes passed and he still didn't see any movement from the hall, he decided there must be no-one down there.
Zero unholstered the gun, quickly pulling the chamber back enough to see there was in fact a bullet in the chamber. Zero clicked the safety off before turning the corner, aiming the gun at the hallway that leads to the stairway. Zero quickly moved past the two dead Goblins laying were the two guards had been. Zero had figured they were also Goblins, as they were too consistent. He quickly came to the hallway that led to the stair entrance. Once more he moved the phone to use as a mirror, finding three dead Goblin body's on the floor.
Zero took a quick breath, before rounding the corner. He first pointed the gun at the stairway door, expecting someone to bust through and kill him. When that didn't happen, Zero turned and continued down the hall. As he walked, he realized The gun shots had stopped, which he figured meant they had won. Zero remembered them saying they were looking for medical supplies, so he had to prepare for them to come raid the building.
Zero quickened his steps, making it all the way to the end of the hall were he found another locked door. Zero pulled the skeleton key and tried it on the lock, finding it worked. Zero stepped to the side of the door before turning the handle and throwing the door open. When nothing happened, Zero used the phone to look in. Zero was greeted by multiple human bodies that all had bullet holes in them.
'They killed all the actual officers, and used this place as a honey trap for survivors.' Zero was rather impressed with their idea, however he didn't know why they would simply have the ability user in with the crowd of fakes. Zero stepped into the room, making sure to check each side before actually stepping into the room. 'Window, Is there a way to hide your souls you possess?'
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The Host is able to put there souls into a bank of there choosing.
Zero was confused by that, until he remembered the window saying it was the currency of the universe. 'Seeing as souls are the currency of the universe, can you give souls away?'
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A Host is able to give their collected souls to other Hosts. Please note that a Host is unable to drop or give a soul to or for non Hosts.
Zero didn't like the fact that he couldn't hide his souls with the party being able to see them. Once Zero was done searching the pile of bodies, he looked around the room. The first thing he noticed was a caged cabinet with what looked like spare pistols in it. Zero quickly produced the key and was thankful when it opened it. Zero found a chest holster as well as another thigh holster. Zero found that the Chest holster was able to be attached to the part that covered his abdomen.
After taking 4 minutes to attach it, he grabbed one of the spare pistols, loaded it, and placed it into the holster. As Zero moved to the next cabinet, he was shocked to find two 12-gauge shot gun. Zero grabbed one and moved to the cabinet that was labeled ammo. He unlocked it to find three large shelves filled with different boxes of ammo. Zero found 15 shots of buckshot rounds for the 12-gauge. On the next row, he found over 5 boxes of bean bag bullets for the shotgun. The last shelf had boxes of 9mm ammo, as well as multiple magazines for the pistol itself.
Zero took the multiple magazines before counting them. '10 magazines each filled with 15 bullets, and five boxes of 50 rounds. They they preparing for an army?' Zero left them there for a moment as he looked around the rest of the room. 'BINGO!' Zero found both a duffle bag, as well as a backpack. He quickly split everything in the three cabinets between the two bags, in case he ever had to ditch one. Once everything was packed, he grabbed everything and quickly made his way to the window near the front.
Zero saw a glint, from what he guessed was a sniper rifle. 'Window, should I run or stay?' There was a moment before a window appeared, only it was completely blank. 'Window, what does that ev-,' Just as he was talking, another window appeared.
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<68/125> Host can not activate
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<68> Souls will shorten the broken Mana Channels recovery time from <5> hours to <4.9> hours.
(Yes) (No)
Zero looked at the two windows and had a creeping suspicion it was man in whites fault. 'Very well, then we run.' Zero peaked out from the brick he was hiding behind before waving at the glint before quickly making his way to the stairway. As Zero ran down the stairs, he realized all the gear made it both hard to move quickly, as well as made a bunch of noise. 'A bunch of metal clinking together makes a large amount of noise, who knew.'
Once Zero made it to the first floor, he slowly opened the door. When he didn't find anyone there, he quickly walked out and started making his way towards the back of the building. 'The team is going to most likely come through the front, not to mention there's a large chance there is a sniper aiming at said entrance. All around its a horrible way to go.'
Zero made it to an office which was in the farthest spot he could find from the main entrance. He quickly made it to the window and quickly checked the area outside. He saw there was a drop into an alley way, and on the other side of the alley was a parking garage. 'What's one fall compared to the torture I've already endured.'