Maroon brought Alice to what looked like a run-down science lab. It had anti-religious symbols against every main religion on earth on it. It had a cemetery outside of it. Not to mention, it was overwhelmingly creepy and gave off a lingering scent of death.
"There are two things I want you to do by the end of this battle. Master emoburst and gain control over your death aura. Emoburst is impossible to master. They come from random bursts of emotions that charge the user's powers tenfold. They're actually restricted by your muscles, so if you gain control over your emotions and can perfectly manipulate your muscles, you could theoretically use an emoburst on command. You saw one firsthand, didn't you?"
"Y-Yeah..."
"Normally, it's impossible to master, but there is a way to master it using null. You flow the null through your body and destroy all your limiters, even the ones on your brain. You'll be much stronger, much faster, and much tougher. Though, if you pull the technique off wrong, you could lose a limb or Eben just blow yourself up, so be careful."
"..."
"Your death aura is being suppressed. Stop that. You're running away from your full potential. If you don't restrain yourself, You're afraid you'll kill all your loved ones as an effect of your ability. Instead of just closing it off, let it out and control it. Running away from it will do you no good."
"..."
"Are you still thinking about what I said about Raja?"
"Don't... speak his name..."
"You still feel guilty for your father's death don't you?"
"H-How... did you know he died?"
"You're not getting an answer unless you clear this mission and master the two things I told you to do. Until then, you'll live in the dark. The faster you do what I say, the faster you'll get the information you want. Also, don't let this distract you on the mission."
"Ok..."
Alice ran up to the mansion. In the front of it, there were two human men standing guard. Once they noticed her, they tried to sound the alarm to alert the other members that there was a keeper there. But before they could, she expanded her death mist, killing them both instantly. She walked past them and walked inside.
She took out her scepter as the Derozeus members noticed her. She noticed the place looked like a prison, and inside each cage was a low-level anomaly. Most were seraphic class, and the rest didn't go above echo class. Moreover, she wonders how the Derozeus members could even see the anomalies since normal humans shouldn't be able to see them.
The Derozeus members pointed crystos made guns at Alice and many surrounded her with crystos melee weapons. However, in a single death burst, she killed over 90% of them.
"Where is your leader?"
All the members of Derozues, accept the leader, we're normal humans. She walked through the mansion. As she did, she was charged by many Derozues members. But they fell as quickly as they came. Alice effortlessly cut them all up with her scepter buzzsaws and her claws, making body parts and blood fly in every area she went into.
"This has been... really easy... A little too easy."
A member tried to sneak up behind her. She stretched her hand behind her back and created a null ball. She fired it at the guy's head, erasing his head from his shoulders.
She started to pick up on the scent of keepers deeper inside the building. She ran to a room. It was a dining with only 3 people inside. One was a girl and two were guys.
The girl was from an aether class with green hair and green eyes. One of the guys was an aether class with orange hair and orange eyes. Meanwhile, the last dude was a paradox class. He had on a theater mask and wore a long red robe. He had on gloves and a top hat. He also was slim and tall. He had a cane with a deck of cards on his belt.
Alice could just tell the masked man was the leader. It was like a primal gut instinct. The 3 notices Alice and the girl spoke up. "Hey, what the hell is a keeper doing inside here? Didn't the guards take care of you?"
"Are you guys the leaders of Derozeus?"
"So what if we are?! You got 5 seconds too-"
In the next second, Alice appeared right in front of the girl's face. She moved faster than any of them could see. The girl fell back and the masked man jumped away. Alive picked up the girl on the ground and tore off her arms. Then, Alice slammed her into a table, breaking her skull and throat. She started to flail her legs around as she begged for jell and mercy, but Alice just walked past her, leaving her to bleed out.
The aether class guy was horrified, but before he could even blink, Alice flash stepped behind him and slashed off one of his legs. The guy fell to the ground, screaming in pain. Alice then took his dismembered let and started beating him to death with it. Her eyes look so natural, as if she had killed people hundreds of times already, but also as if didn't care about them. But the leader knew that wasn't the case. Her attacks were too personal to be anything but vengeful.
"Who are you?" the leader asked.
"A pissed off girlfriend and a pissed off friend. About a year ago, you're people were one of the reasons my best friend and boyfriend got kidnapped and tortured by Star. Not to mention, one of your anomalies nearly killed us during Halloween. You made the fatal mistake of pissing me off. Your death will not be a painless one."
The woman swallowed a phoenix vital in pill form. Bot her legs grew back instantly. She pulled out her pistol and white at Alice. "You bitch!"
Alice turned around and started walking towards her. She simply moved her head out of the way of each bullet as it came. The girl fired the last bullet towards Alice's chest, but Alice managed to catch it between two of her fingers. The girl looked at Alice, horrified.
"Go on. What are you waiting for? Reload your gun. Do it, I'll wait." the girl began trembling and she reloaded her gun. But when she did, she pointed to her own head, trying to take her own life. She was, so scared of Alice that she wanted to take the easy way out.
But before she could pull the trigger, Alice once again cut off both her arms. But this time, she slashed up, making both limbs fly up. She grabbed the limb with the gun in it as it was falling and hand and pulled the trigger, shooting her in the head with her own arm and gun.
She looked back at the masked man with a gaze filled with fury, her eyes flashing red for a split second. "You're next."