"Seems like someone got here before us" remarked Milleral, seeing a square shaped hole in the middle of a grassy field.
"And they seemed to know about it too, I doubt we could have gotten in without breaking everything" added Ilmna as peeked inside the dark hole in the ground.
"This place is narrow as hell, I doubt more than two people could walk next to each other inside" seeing the lack of space made this whole underground base feel like one huge trap.
"Let's not all go in, the more people the less we'll be able to move around anyways" said Molarine, the trio spoke uninterrupted by the three newly arrived as they failed to find a good moment to fit in.
"The two of you can go, we'll just watch over the exit and try to see if there are any other ways to get inside" she added as she basically pushed Milleral and Ilmna inside.
"I highly doubt this place doesn't have at least a way to get out other than the main entrance, Aliara, you said that you could use trap detection right? Try using that to find it" spoke the pugilist.
"The three of us will keep an eye on this place, in case our target tries running away" she said to the other two.
Meanwhile, Milleral and Ilmna moved through the cramped corridors of the underground bunker, the similarity to this place and your typical dungeon was pretty staggering until you entered any of the rooms.
They were all quite similar to one another, pure white walls, ceiling and floor and utterly filled with a bunch of boxes, which were themselves filled with lots of materials and tools, most of which none of the two heroes recognised.
In all of the rooms, none seemed to contain what would be necessary for one to live, nowhere to sleep and no food either.
Everything was deathly silent, save for the sounds of their own footsteps on the ground, at the end of the long hallway, a door different to the others stood, already opened but not enough for them to see what was inside.
The moment they got closer however, a fetid stench assaulted their nostrils, prompting them to take a few step back before actually opening the door wide.
Turning the snake into a spear, Milleral pushed the door open from a distance as a gruesome scene was revealed to the two heroes.
Who or what they used to be was impossible to tell, the only clue left of their identity was the flatened and crumbled up pieces of armor, the bodies of these people had been seemingly crushed in the palm of a giant before having what was left of them violently thrown against the pristine white walls of the room.
Most of the crystals illuminating the room had been covered up in gore or damaged beyond salvation, it seemed like no sign of the perpetrator had been left behind.
But Milleral noticed that an area stained red, unlike the others, had no guts or organs plastered around, only a fairly large puddle of blood, although he would guess that losing this amount of blood could be survivable.
Looking around this particular puddle, he saw a broken syringue, lying not so far from it and some pieces of grey frabric laying in the blood.
Although it was a massive conjecture and lacking in evidence, Milleral guessed that the one they were looking for had been cornered by these armored people and had injected themselves with their own mutating solution.
As to when this all had gone down, he could only guess that it was fairly recent since the piles of gore weren't rotting just yet but it might have just been because of the environment of this place.
"Hey Milleral! Look at that" exclaimed Ilmna as she pulled her arms out of a bunch of intestines, happily making her toward the disgusted hero as she showed him what she found.
It was an insigna, one for soldiers of Laparadis, this was one mystery solved at least, it was the country that had figured out who was responsible for it first.
They hadn't succeeded though and the culprit seemed to have escaped, although if they had really done what Milleral suspected, he doubted that they would go very far.
Keeping the bloodied Ilmna at a distance with all of his might, he looked around but failed to see or sense anything else, they had explored the whole place and it seemed like there was no secret exit but it wasn't like his senses were the most developped.
"Why don't you try to hit the walls a bit to see if there is any other passages?" he suggested to the heroine both to get her off of him and because that was her area of expertise.
"You got it!" he quickly regretted this decision however as she started by smashing one of the few places on the walls were a bunch of guts were stuck to hit, sending bits of it flying everywhere, including the hero's face.
After a short but intense session of breaking down walls, a passage was found after all, the one that made it had been highly skilled but hadn't thought of making it violence-proof.
It was a long and somehow, even narrower hallway, one had to move sideways to fit in, the whole of it lit up once it was opened, allowing the two of them to see the end of it from where they stood, it ended with a ladder going up and without any sign of anyone.
"Well, well... Wouldn't you look at that, someone once again escap-"
"Do not finish this sentence" interrupted the hero as he physically shut her mouth.
"The fact that the military found this place before us, when we have the assistance of a powerful seer can only mean that the person responsible for this is someone they knew of already, perhaps someone somewhat close to the governement or a criminal they had already arrested in the past, something like that" spoke Milleral as he held Ilmna silent.
"That is plenty information, this is definitely not a loss on our part" he added as he finally gave back the heroine her freedom of speech.
"We still missed the target though" she rapidly said as she put her still disgusting hand on Milleral's shoulder.
No more words were spoken for Milleral's feelings couldn't be expressed through such a limited language.