Huge chunks of debris then began to fall, and Matt quickly held Alice as he jumped through the debris.
"Bingo," he said as he saw the cave he was looking for in front of him.
It wasn't just one cave; it connected to two other caves. This made him smile, and soon, the rubble fell, carrying a spiral staircase down which they descended.
*BOOOOOOOOM*
The debris kicked up a massive dust cloud, clouding everything around them.
Matt and Alice landed in style on top of the cave, where there were some shocking things.
Matt was already expecting it to be like this. 'It's just like that research lab I destroyed. Are there people from Earth here, or were there people from this world on Earth?' He looked a bit thoughtful about this when he saw it.
The sight before them was an immense amount of containers filled with blood, which had a few tubes connected to them. Inside the containers were corpses, and there were tubes connected to various parts of their bodies, putting the blood into the tubes, into the bodies.
"All this is to prevent the dead body from running out of blood and remaining in the best possible shape. They are all dead but are supplied with blood to keep the body in a comatose state and thus allow it to be 'compatible, once again, with the soul.' I originally thought these guys were just necromancers trying to study necromancy to its limit, but now I realize they were not."
"Their plan was always to get bodies compatible with the members of their organization so that when one of them dies, they can come back to life.
And thanks to the soul being the source of everything, they'll have a good share of the power, so it's very difficult to weaken or exterminate them." Matt walked all over the place and looked at some research papers while Alice recovered from the shock of seeing this.
She could see the bodies of vampires, humans, and other races inside those glass containers, so she had to find a way to process this much information.
But Matt was calm, and after reading a little, he realized that these guys were much more advanced than the Earth in the investigation of this. On Earth, there was barely a case of reincarnation on four occasions. Here, they were already doing it in masse.
'How troublesome.' Matt thought. But he suddenly looked up after sensing movement near him and frowned.
'Are some of them going to incarnate?' Immediately, a vast inscription activated above them.
But suddenly, Matt saw Alice pass by like an arrow. She summoned her sword and moved cleanly towards all those containers, splitting them into two parts, with everything and people.
The heads of those who were to be incarnated at that moment flew around the room.
And suddenly, the explosion, accompanied by a terrifying magical power, approached them like a mighty dragon that wanted to swallow them.
Matt and Alice immediately struck out below them, slamming firmly against that explosion. Continue reading stories on m|v-l'-novelhall.net
But the explosion underneath was still happening, which caused them both to be sent flying by the norming power created by the explosion.
Matt quickly recovered and activated that ability in the air again, hitting the power approaching them dozens of times in a second while Alice bled and flew backward.
Even Matt felt his organs stirred out of place and blood pooled in his throat, though he swallowed it hard.
But all the blows he gave that power didn't make it subside. 'It was a chain explosion of many inscriptions. What a problem.' he thought. Just when he thought of jumping back, the katana he had just made a few days ago flew into pieces, unable to withstand that explosion anymore.
'Shit!' He immediately used his dimensional move to dodge that powerful attack, but they were facing a dead end.
Behind them, there was still a huge mountain wall, which their backs and this power would soon blow away. 'If it keeps going like this, it will be dangerous.' Even though he knew he was in a dangerous situation, he kept calm, grabbed Alice, who was already a bit injured, and carried her.
'What to do?' he thought.
'Because of the speed at which that power is coming and our distance from the door... We won't be able to avoid it, even if I use dimensional movement. The extra fast movement only works on straight lines, not uphill...' When he thought like that, his eyes glittered with curiosity.
Despite the danger he faced, where he could possibly be seriously injured if it hit him squarely, he felt the need to use an ability he had not used.
Because of this, he turned around and looked at the massive power coming at him at great speed.
"Mei!" he shouted, raising his free hand towards that power/explosion.
In his mind, Mei giggled back at him. 'Hehe, it's all yours, Matt.'
Matt then grinned and activated an ability...
"Absorption!"
Just as those words left his mouth, the power that wanted to swallow him up and send him to his death struck his hand...