Chapter 209: Opinions
"What do you mean the Grimoires will cease to be of use?"
Geth looked at the older man curiously. He didn't understand.
"The Redo Formation was designed to teach Humans to use the Mana and give them a fighting chance.
The power of the Formation will run out on the day that the Apocalypse was supposed to occur. It already took everything that we had to force the weaker planets to merge safely beforehand."
Geth was speechless. He closed his eyes and thought for a few moments.
"Then what happens to you?"
Albus shrugged.
"I'm nothing but a memory fragment of someone who's already passed on. You should be concerned with humanity as a whole."
Albus looked toward the top of the sphere.
"The others are waiting for you, by the way."
Geth glared at the man for a moment.
"We aren't done with this conversation."
His figure disappeared and took over his body once again. Albus stayed back and monitored the Geth's that were left staring at the floating Grimoires.
"To be this powerful this early. It's better than we could have dreamed."
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Geth's eyes fluttered open. He found the others staring at him, with Swole waving his hands in front of his face.
"Earth to Geth!"
Jack interjected, "Can it still be called Earth?"
"Really-Weird-Super-Planet-With-Monsters-And-Magic-That-Resembles-Earth to Ge-! Oh, it worked!"
Geth just shook his head while the others laughed at the man's antics. Blaze spoke up, interrupting the moment.
"Is there any information you need from us outside of this?"
Geth shook his head.
"This is plenty. I already have an idea of everyone's battle style. Now we need to test it out."
Geth waved away the Grimoires, and the tomes quickly floated back to their owners.
"Swole."
The glowing walls of the cave filled the area with Mana, making it difficult to spread out his senses.
It was similar to trying to hear a voice underwater. Everything he sensed came back muffled or distorted.
"How are your physical senses? I won't be much use at this stage. There's too much interference."
Filthy closed his eyes while the two of them ran. Geth could see his ears twitching slightly.
"Everything sounds fine to me. I can see clearly as well, but the passage is still spiraling, so sight is next to useless."
"What do you think about taking a long break once we've finished this Dungeon?" Geth asked.
*Sigh*
"Even though it sounds nice, I don't feel like we should."
"You're worried about the beast waves too?"
"Mhm," Filthy responded. "It isn't that I'm concerned about the waves as much as I'm concerned about other people.
Just look at the group surrounding us. We'll likely step on someone's toes by killing them all.
That will probably be used as an excuse to attack the city. It's evident that greed has already gotten the better of them."
Geth shook his head.
"I'm not worried about the people at all. Humans are predictable.
I'm more apprehensive about the worlds merging. Just the first one will expand the size of the current planet by another 50%.
Those five worlds will drop more Tier 4 creatures here. Aside from us, who in Valhalla can handle even a few Direwolves?
Hulk and his group, maybe? There's just too much to be done and only a few months left to do so."
Filthy seemed to think about it for a minute.
"I see what you mean. The best we can do is take care of issues as they show up...
Haha! It's not li-"
Geth noticed the man's ears twitch lightly. Filthy closed his eyes and concentrated as the two came to a stop.
Geth tried to reach out with his senses again, but it was no good.
"We're close. I can hear low growls echoing from three different directions up ahead."
The two jogged a little further, slowing their pace and silencing their steps. Just as he'd guessed, three tunnels were heading in different directions.
"I guess we'll start with the left."