Ethereal Ascendance: A Journey of Transformation(Vol 5)

Voll 5/ Chapter 38: Strike out

"Why don't we just fight our way out? Those normal humans outside are weak. We can just walk out the main door and they can't stop us!"

The walls of the room, and probably the whole base, were made of some very strong material. It looked a bit like the old building materials from Lantine Oasis Sky City. Cyra saw this too and didn't think we could break through the outer walls quickly with our strength.

"What's the point of saying that now? Don't forget there are Gundam in this base! And there's a big boss System. You think it'll be so easy?"

I couldn't help complaining. Cyra ran away the fastest earlier, but now she suddenly wants to be brave? It's not that I think we can't win. It's just that facing an enemy with a tricky System makes me nervous. Being careful is always better.

"I'm just saying. Do you have any other ideas? Are we really going to look for some other exit? The problem is we can't find one!"

Of course Cyra understood. She just shrugged and threw the problem back to me. But I couldn't answer her right away either.

We wandered around the empty area for a long time and saw many integrated building facilities. This area was probably meant to be a living area when it was first built. But because there weren't enough people, areas near the edge like this one hadn't been used yet. Besides that, we still didn't know anything about how the rest of the base was laid out. It wouldn't be as easy as we thought to find a hidden exit and leave this place.

Now we were stuck again. The worst part was that even though the enemy didn't seem strong, we still had to be careful of many things. It was very frustrating to think about.

"Be quiet, I think someone's coming!" Adrian suddenly warned us softly. He quietly closed the door. Then the lights in the room went out and it became pitch black.

"Do we need to turn invisible again?" I asked carefully. I could clearly hear footsteps coming from the direction we came from.

"No need. It sounds like there aren't many people coming..."

Adrian rejected my suggestion. Was he thinking of killing them to keep them quiet? But as the footsteps got closer, we could start to hear the people talking.

"Are those intruders really that weak?"

It was a girl's voice. This seemed different from what we expected. We thought we'd run into a search team from outside, but from the footsteps it sounded like no more than 6 or 7 people.

"Of course! Think about it. If they were strong magicians or angels, we would have found them by now! Even if they were invisible it wouldn't help. The fact that they've been hiding in the base for so long means their level can't be very high. We still can't sense them clearly!"

Another woman answered very confidently. Her voice sounded a bit familiar.

"But what if they're Battle Qi awakener? We can't sense any elemental energy from Battle Qi awakener either. If we run into them, won't we be dead for sure?"

Suddenly a man's voice chimed in, asking more questions.

"Haha, how is that possible! You think Battle Qi awakener are so common they just show up anywhere?"

The woman from before answered again. But her tone seemed clearly meant to persuade.

"This kind of chance to catch spies ourselves and get credit doesn't come often! If I hadn't seen the blueprints before and known there was an unused area in the base, most people wouldn't have thought they might be hiding in a place like this! Anyway, those search teams outside are so dumb, they definitely won't search here for a while. If you're scared now, you can leave early!"