Book 5: Chapter 21: The Red Plague

Book 5: Chapter 21: The Red Plague

Within the Building Scarlet is Inside

Amelia worriedly paces back and forth in the hallway, wondering how her daughters mutation is going. Because mutation skills are extremely rare. Something that generally only happens with some passive Title-Bearing Mythic skills. And only rarely even then.

Even though she knows that they never kill the user, she cant help but worry about the pain her daughter is in.

She pauses for a second to glance at her brother who is looking at the room with a stern look on his face. Then she looks at Red who is simply looking at it with curiosity. Which she understands a little bit, simply because only one human has ever gotten a mutation-based Title-Bearing skill.

Her gaze turns back to that one single human.

Her brother.

Shell be fine, but we may want to- Alexanders words cut off as all three Knights eyes immediately lock onto the door and widen at the sight of the glowing red blood beginning to flow beneath it into the hallway. Set up a barrier! Now! And even as he shouts it, Amelia sees him raising his hands, making a barrier of water cut straight through the walls around the room. But he fails to seal it in time, letting some of the glowing red blood leak out.

Amelia frowns at the sight of the blood somehow replicating even with the source cut off by the barrier, making it spread further through the base that is now blaring an alarm. But she works to nullify the blood either way.

Then she hears a loud splatter sound, drawing both her and Reds attention away from the blood back to the office that is now missing any walls thanks to the blood and Alexanders barrier. And what she sees has her eyes widening in both shock and terror.

Her daughter exploded into a paste that spread across the room with the glowing crimson blood eating away at the remaining parts.

A terrifying look stretches across Amelias face, but before she can get any angrier, the paste that was her daughter slowly begins to reform into her daughters unconscious form. And now she looks slightly different from what she looked like beforehand.

Amelia frowns in confusion, only to turn her head at the sounds of screaming coming from the base.

Scarlet slumps down towards the ground again and immediately falls unconscious, but Amelia manages to move over and catch her before her head hits the ground. Then she cradles her in her arms while turning to look at Alexander with a confused look on her face.

Alexander dispels the barrier as the officers in the base quickly attempt to restore order.

Looks like none of them realize Scarlet was the source of that commotion thats probably for the best.

Without hesitating, Amelia snaps her fingers, following which she nullifies everyones sight and hearing of herself, Scarlet, and the other two Knights. Then she focuses on Alexander.

A mutation skill can be dangerous for those around the one getting the skill, he says while frowning down at Scarlet. But I didnt expect this much damage

Scarlets familiar appears in the air again, bringing everyones attention to him. But the tanuki just floats down to Scarlet with a worried look on his face.

So Amelia looks down at her daughter as well and hugs her unconscious form.

Despite the worry shes feeling though, she cant help but notice something strange as she holds her daughter.

She feels hot. And its almost as if the blood running through her body is moving without actually moving.

Amelia frowns, only for her frown to grow deeper at the occasional sight of Scarlets veins turning red and then returning to normal.

Then she sighs and stands up, carrying her daughter.

We cant stay here.