POWER: A Tale of Greatness

CHAPTER 14

Bulls immediately ran back to the mines and entered the caves to look for the last remaining captive slaves. However, on his way down the second sublevel, a group of spectators blocked the way.

"Everyone! The intruder is here!" The First Spectator pointed at Bulls before they ran towards him.

"Kill him so that we will be promoted as a Spectator officer!" The Second one outpaced the first.

A Third Spectator appears, "I will be the one who will kill him!" blocking the first two.

Rubbing his ear while the enemies are arguing, Bulls sighed in puty on them, "Are you just going to talk because I gotta go?"

"I must finish him!"

"How greedy you are!" The Second Spectator yelled at the First. "What if we give an equal share to each one of us? Then take it to the Doctor?"

"Not bad." The first one thought, rubbing his chin.

"Good suggestion." The third Spectator agrees.

"Then it's decided, I will hit him first then you two will follow me, okay?"

"Okay!" The first and the third lowered down.

The Spectators dashed towards him transforming into the beast birds.

"I'm glad you've finally talked it out." Bulls placed his hands on the floor, knees bent in a starting position. "Hakyushu: Engine Crash!"

Bulls pierced through the wall of beak and talons, and tackled spectators down. Three of his opponents opened a hole in the brick behind them, crumbling down like a cookie dipped into a glass of warm milk.

"I am done with you guys. Sleep well." After dealing with the Spectators, he finally reached the room where the slaves had been held captive earlier. With great caution, Bulls carefully entered the room through the hole the Spectators made. He looked around and scanned the whole room. "Oh! Now I remember."

Bulls went towards the dark corner of the room and behind the cabinets, he found another door. "That cowardly guard went this way. I am sure of it."
He entered the door from where the armed guard ran earlier, crouching down silently as he sneaked in. It is a staircase leading to the much deeper sublevels. Steaming pungent fumes rise from the depths, and heat comes along with it, making him sweat more than before. It is getting hotter and hotter but Bulls ignored it. After three more steps, he cupped his left hand with his mouth, covering it from the thick fumes.

"If my calculations are right..." After he reached halfway down, Bulls heard loud deafening barks coming from the end of the stairs. "... then they must be right below me."

"Owen, Uncle, and Buster..."

A tube from the ceiling spews out air.

"... we're all doing this for you... for the ones maltreated by this place... this group."

The barks indicated no aggression but the tone of the creature that barks is low and weak, as if it were suffering from pain. Those are the barks the human slaves cannot shout, cry, or exclaim.

"No innocent being deserves to be treated as these monsters treated them!"

He hastened his descent, ignoring the loud footsteps his boots made as they made contact with the steel stairs. He crashed through the door, slamming the sole of his foot on it, and landed kneeling, the palms of his hands felt the heat and grease from the floor. After he raised his head, the guards welcomed him with their guns pointing at the entrance, at him.

"Now, whatever my outrageous actions will bring to me, I will accept it."

As he rose, he looked around, his eyes explored the vicinity, began to look for the source of the echoing barks. The room is unbearably hot, with many huge carts and barrels, machines that lift and pull ores, and behind the guards, he found them. He sees a pack of large towering dogs, chained and forced to lift and pull heavy loads, mouths gagged with large, steel muzzles that make their movements more difficult.