The tension in their meeting hall was rather thick. Each of their faces with panicked expressions, except for Kiro. There was only one missing within their ranks, Hiro. They could all guess where he was and that didn't seem to be the main concern of theirs.
"That little brother of yours knows? We're screwed then aren't we?" Nikolai asked, this wasn't something that was within their expectations. Especially because Loki was very young, they were skeptical that he could hold it in.
"Royally." Ishaan agreed.
Felix didn't have much of an opinion on the matter, but concern could be seen on his face nonetheless. He tried to play it cool, but any idiot could see it.
"Calm down, will you? Loki is my brother, I know him better than anyone. If I say he's not going to talk, he's not going to talk." Kiro was slightly annoyed, if they couldn't trust Loki, then they could trust him.
But those words weren't comforting to any of them. This was a matter of life and death, if the sanctum were to learn what they knew before they were ready, they'd no doubt be killed.
"You just have to trust me." He didn't think he was any good with words, he was sorry he couldn't say something that would break them out of the concern and motivate them.
"What's done is done, we don't have a choice." Felix finally said something, shrugging it off.
"How can you be so nonchalant, this could risk everything!" Ishaan's voice shot through the roof, he'd always been erratic when it came to this topic.
"Hey, idiot, discussing this now won't undo what that little brat already knows. Suck it up, life is one big inconsistency, if you can't handle a small hiccup such as this maybe you aren't ready to take something this big." Felix shot back with a mixture of insults and hard truths.
Ishaan was red in the face. He didn't think it was fair that Felix could insult him at a whim. Worse of all, he didn't think that he respected him much, so he was ready to fight it out.
"Oh I dare you to unsheathe your sword little pup." He mockingly provoked him.
Nikolai got up from where he stood and placed his hand on Ishaan's chest who was already charging forwards. Alliance be damned, he was sick of being treated like some second rate warrior.
"We can't fight amongst ourselves." He said looking to Felix and then Ishaan. "They're right, there's nothing that can be done, we just have to prepare like we always had. Nothing's changed." He said that last line more to himself, trying to convince himself that this could still work.
"I was so close." He kept muttering, in a zombie like state.
"I think the potion defeated him once again, Hiro zero, potion hundred." Nikolai chuckled in-between his speech.
"Maybe it needs legendary herbs, but where the hell would I get those." Hiro continued to ignore their taunts.
It wasn't so much as ignoring them, but he was in a zone of his own, he couldn't hear anything they were saying.
'Look at him go, he looks more like a mad scientist. If we don't help him I'm afraid he's going to lose his mind.' Kiro thought to himself.
He wasn't sure why his friend was so focused in successfully brewing the true blood potion, but he could guess, their last fight left them all a kind of scar. The harbingers were clearly much stronger, he didn't want to imagine how strong the ancient ones they worshipped were.
"Hey buddy, I think I know just where to get legendary items, probably even ancient ranked."
That was the only thing that managed to break him out of his unconscious state. Life was even returning to his eyes, though he still looked absurd.
"I'm sorry, did you just say ancient ranked? there's a rank above legendary?" Felix caught that immediately.
'Oh sh*t, I've done it again.'
He tried to smile as to not look guilty, "what do you think this robe is?"
"That shabby looking thing is ranked above legendary?" Ishaan was skeptical.
"I've been in how many fights in this? Ever seen it scratched?"
Now that he mentioned it, the durability of that robe was really suspicious. While they had to give their weapons and armour to Hiro after battles, Kiro didn't do the same.
"Never mind about that! Let's go collect some legendary herbs." Hiro spoke to them for the first time since he entered the room, his voice was loud and commanding.