The trio froze when they heard the message.
Shadow let out a high pitch sound and in the next moment the red light disappeared and before then were countless mutated vessels.
Tristan face was expressionless whilst Sel's was filled with fear but dispite the conflict in emotions they attacked without mercy.
2, 4, 10, 20, 100, the trio fought feircly but the numbers of the mutated vessels didn't decrease in the slightest.
As they fought they retreated to the center of the room again and they stopped.
The trio rested for a while but as if they were taking too long the mutated vessels rushed over as of hungry for more.
The trio was startled and they attacked feircly. After killing a thousand the mutated vessels stopped attacking and they retreated to the center for rest.
This repeated for quite sometime, each time the number of vessesls to be defeated increasing exponentially.
Huff Huff Huff.
"Is their no end to them?" Sel' asked her face pale from exhaustion. Tristan replied sarcasticly "only 2 more and we're done."
Sel' chuckled in frustration, in front the endless horde stood ready to pounce at any minute.
Suddenly a blue light shot from the ground forming a thin blue screen in front.
Halfway marker reached time remaining 5hours current kill count 9,000, please keep in mind that if the entire floor isnt cleared within this tine all candidates will be killed.
"Remaining life forms 100 million"
Tristan, Sel' and shadow looked at each other 'the f#ck are we supposed to complete this.'
Round two comencing in 3 2 1.
The light turned red then disapeared, the horde charged over their might shaking the floor.
5 hours went by.
Blood flowed like a gushing stream and a pungent fishy smell wafted in the air.
On top of a mountain of dead bodies Tristan stood.
His eyes were not cold his chest was not held high his eyes stared forward and disappear washed his features, the horde charged over.
Anger, sorrow, helplessness and regret.
"Was it all for not!?"
Challenge failed, elimination of candidates will commence in 3 2 1.
Boom!
A white light shot from the ground and into the air encompassing the trio.
A high pitch sound echoed out and a barrier formed around the two in the bright a shadow dragged the two sill figures high into the air then they disappeared from sight.
Candidate elimination successful, entering hybrrnation mode.
In the next moment the mutated vessels melted and the blood on the ground disapeared shortly thereafter.
Looking at the ceiling one couldn't help but stare at a massive hole it was dark and without light.
On the lower floors Adeline and a few others moved about cautiously, but they encountered that demon and were thrown in some trap one way or the other.
In a dark room were the sound of fans and the beeping of computers two figures lay still their bodies burned but the one most affected was Sel'.
Her right foot was melted off and her eyes were open but they were melted causing her to not be able to see.
Gasp!
Tristan woke up at this moment his mind a mess he sat up quickly but a sharp pain assaulted his senses.
He grit his teeth and stuck it through, after sometime he recovered and looked to his left only to see Sel's condition.
A wave of shock ran through his body as he stared on blankly, Sel' smiled when she felt that gaze, but even doing this caused a great deal of pain.
She let out a groan then said looks like we survived.
Tristan remained silent and he just stared on sadly. As if sensing his emotions Sel' spoke it's alright some come some go.
"Why?" Tristan's eyes where filled with tears as he asked "why now?" "Why do you have to go like this?"
Sel' smiled but the sadness was evident, wether I was in this state or not I would still die, Sel' then went on to explain what happened between her and the demon.
Tristan was shocked but it was expected their was no great scenario nor a perfect storyline.
An encounter with just a single individual could cause a miriad of changes to oneself and surroundings.
In short affecting their whole lives.
Sel' then made a strange request "will you take my heart!" Tristan was puzzled then he heard a clang beside him.
A deformed knife fell next to him and sell spoke weakly.
"It may be odd but it is my only request, please I beg of you.. " those were her last words as her body went stiff.
Tears flowed down his face his state of mind a mess, after sometime he moved over but with difficulty.
With trembling hands he stabbed down, and he began to cut with monstrous precision.
After opening up her chest he carefully removed her heart but it was strange, her heart was releasing a green light.
Tristan lightly squeezed the area that was brightest and felt something hard, he used that same deformed knife and cut out a small hole.
He pulled out the thing and some string like arteries were pulled along which emitted that faint green light.
While he was looking at it the tendrils abruptly moved and stabbed into his hand, he hissed due to the pain.
After that sudden jolt of pain Tristan looked dazed as he let out a scream.
He grabbed onto his hand tightly and that green light flowed up his arm, due to the darkness the light illuminated the soundings.
Which would attract anything that was curious, the light moved up slowly causing him emence pain.
Soon enough the light reached his head and Tristan felt some changes in his soul room but the pain.
Aghhhhhhh!
The egg in his busom shook but nothing happened, an intense moment of pain ended abruptly which made Tristan both relieved and fearful.
He calmed down and looked at Sel', he bowed his head to show respect, he then began to look for shadow.
He moved for a short distance before the smell of burnt flesh assaulted his senses he looked to the corner of this dark place and a large object was there.
He moved over cautiously and when he saw what it was and the state it was in he couldn't help but sigh.
Shadows body was melted beyond recognition, Tristan sighed and lowered his head, as he did so he saw something.
Inside shadow's deformed corpse was a embrio, it remenided the countless sacks in that cold area.
But what caught his eye was not the embrio but a black object which resembled a tablet next to it.
It has some blue inscription on it Tristan picked it up and the embrio he tore apart his tapered clothes and wrapped them together.
After doing this he moved around this space and realized it was small it was but a bit bigger than a room but it was extremely dark.
And the sound of beeping and fans spinning could be heard, following his intuition Tristan moved over to area where there were no noise.
A bright red light shown from this small spot and with a jerk of his hand he slammed his hand down.
Network is being deactivated, entering sleep mode, all operations will be haulted until system is online and operational.
Hearing this Tristan smiled the looked at the hole in the ground, he walked over them jumped down.
Due to the network meeting hybrrnation mode all the bright white lights turned a deep red making one feel sluggish.
Tristan dug at the ground and in no time a hole was made. He chuckled and thought so without this network this place is vulnerable to attacks.
He thought for a moment then forced his down.
Boom boom boom
As he fell through floor after floor Tristan was excited but cautions as he thought 'I need to atleast floor -900 before I this rapid decent, and what if I encounter any anomalies?'
As he decided Adeline and two others were now freed from their entrapment and they made their escape the rushed down and went through a portal with dancing tendrils.
They had escaped successfully and without a hitch at that, as Tristan forced his way down he encountered a few floors tgat familuar which made him stop
With a sack and torne clothes he walked down the staircase hurriedly he has finally at the lower floors.
The great saying of the decent is faster than the assent wasn't an understatement.
As Tristan moved through the floors he wondered as to why he didn't encounter anything.
On floor 989 Tristan felt that familiar presence, he immediately stomped his feet and the ground collapsed he made a mad dash but he felt that nothing was following him.
But the fear of another encounter made him dive down even faster.
As he felt a bit safer he heard a soft chuckle beside him, frightened he did a round house kick mid air.
"Why so violent trisy?"
Boom!
Tristan wasted no time and dashed quickly, that wasn't hailey that wasnt Hailey what was that he mumbled this in fear
In but a short span of time the portal was in front he ran as if a fire was lit behind him he jumped and as he passed through the portal
He saw a smile and in the next saw complete darkness.