Chapter 288 - The Ark Of New Heading

Wasn't he human as well? Soon, deep down, he felt something stir within. Anger? Something like that, but not quite.

"I don't know who you are, or what you are. But whoever did this sick joke to a dead child should rot in hell! yelled Ysabeau, in sheer anger.

"So, you are telling me, I used to be alive? And that I've got a family? Are my siblings all a lie, or were they my previous siblings as well?" asked the boy, as he teared up.

The thought of him having a family seemed so alien to him, yet it was what his heart yearned for. He felt calm when working with his siblings, though they couldn't communicate with each other. It was just the bond between the four, it was enough to keep him calm. Even if it might be fabricated.

That's why he thought he was alive.

Ysabeau looked at him with pitiful eyes, but the mission was still in progress. That was her priority now. She buried her emotions, as such to be professional during work. Gil's spell starting to wear off, so she's got a few more questions before he breaks out of the trance.

"You mentioned coming out of a pod. Where is that pod located at?" asked Ysabeau, trying her best not to sound too desperate.

"It's in an underground lab. The buŧŧerfly girl guards the main entrance to the labs. We send the girls via there. I don't know the main way of getting there. After I pass through some sort of doorway, there's nothing left when I turn back to look."

"Any landmarks? Like what did the buildings look like around the area you stood on?"

"Buildings? It's a blank landscape with nothing but grasslands. There were some white flowers around but no buildings."

Darn, perhaps he isn't part of this, after all, thought Ysabeau.

Don't rule him out yet, he mentioned the buŧŧerfly girl. And he said that his mission is to collect the girls, so he must be part of the problem. Besides, his sister directed her attack onto me instead of grabbing the girls from upstairs. We are a threat to their mission.

Mavislin must be getting close to her location if the Valkyrie could use her sense of sound again. Ysabeau took a deep breath before switching up her communication skill to the Valkyrie.

Yes, but he might be related to another threat, not the one that we are dealing with. His base of operations is nowhere near here, replied Ysabeau to Mavislin's reasoning.

Not really, it is possible that they are being controlled by a hive mind. A central intelligence that controls other physical bodies to make them do their bidding. The siblings might be a victim of this since they lack their five senses.

Or it could be that the 'doorway' could be a Time Portal, but this prediction is highly unlikely. Enquire as much as you can on this kid, I've got what needed from the Velvet Pearl after I've killed the sister.

Yea, we felt that from a distance away. What else can I ask? He claims that the man wipes their memories out on a daily basis.

Man? What man?

"Kid, you mentioned someone regularly wipes your memory out, right? What does he look like?" asked Ysabeau, suddenly turning to the boy.

"Yes. He's quite tall, but not as tall as some other guys. He has got brown skin with short black hair. I couldn't see his eyes quite well but he was finely dressed. He is a human. He has no Elemental Aura or Energy."

"Do you know about the Desired Roses?" asked Ysabeau, changing the question.

"It is one of the brothels we were told to investigate. I am sure that my siblings have reached that area to get the girls. And it was quite near to our spawn site if you can call a few sprints 'near'."

"Why are you taking girls? Are they for experimentation?" asked Ysabeau.

"Yes. But I don't know for what reason or how."

Gab clenched his fists as he knew what this meant. The rumors are now confirmed true. If he lets the rest of the Kings know, they would be able to handle their Domains with ease. But this means that they might be too late since this has been going on for a long time.

Gab cursed inwardly for putting this on hold. Ysabeau wanted to know more about how they got to Desired Roses from their spawn area but time was running out. The boy was starting to tense up.

There was a graveyard near to the Desired Roses, he might have been from there. It is quite big but they destroyed the graves there. There's nothing but grassland there. This time, it was Bryan who answered Ysabeau.