Ascendants Records Mankind Saga (A.R.M.S.)

Chapter 5- Apocalypse Agent

WuYan threw away the decapitated goblin head and found a small crude spear on the floor that belonged to the creature. He picked it up and upon inspecting it on closer look, the spear was poorly made of a thin wooden stick while the tip was tied with just a sharpened stone.

"Well, although small and crude, it's best to make use of anything we find." WuYan told himself as he took the crude weapon for later use.

After collecting the spear and a lit torch from the creature, WuYan then picks up his pace and continues to run deeper into the cave with the voice as guidance. While on route and further deeper into the cave, he also meets few of the same creatures patrolling the area but fortunately for him, all of them are alone. This provides him a perfect opportunity to kill them swiftly and silently to avoid drawing any unwanted attention but the questions inside him also grow as well.

"Why do they work alone? I thought they usually work in a group or at least in pairs?." WuYan questioned.

'May I remind you that I could hear your thoughts and questions?' She warned.

'Hmm, you are still hearing whatever I said in my mind?.' He asked.

'Yes but rest assured once you find and fuse with me, I can switch our telepathy communication to on or off. But for now, please bear with me for a moment as I won't turn it off since tracking you again will consume power for such an unnecessary task. Also, we have ten minutes left.' She reminded him again about the remaining time.

WuYan chose to not reply and continued to focus on his run as he went deeper into the dark cave. As he descended further into the dark filled cavern with only a lit torch and her voice as guidance, he finally arrived at an empty dead end room. With the light from the fire-lit torch on his hand, he began to search the room for any clues or devices.

"A dead end, no visible path sighted nearby." WuYan explained what he found. .

'No, you are standing just right in front of the entrance. The door was hidden with a camouflage technology to avoid any creatures damaging the door and barge into the room. Now, on your left and place your metal hand on the wall, I will use it to disable the tech and unlock it.' She explained and instructed WuYan to follow her steps.

WuYan listened and placed his right hand on the wall. A red light glows beneath his palm then turns green along with a few system beeping sounds. The illusion on the wall suddenly flickered for a short moment and eventually disappeared, revealing a gray metal door with multiple metal pistons on both sides and started to move on its own to unlock the door.

The sound of high pressure gas releasing from the metal pistons echoed throughout the cave systems. Along with rusty and metals hitting noise when the metal door opens by sliding itself to the side had alerted the other creatures in the cave. Not far from him, WuYan began to hear lots of footsteps and is only getting louder as the groups of goblins are coming, running to him.

'Sonar detected multiple units approaching. Get inside so I could close the door and re-initiate the camouflage tech.' She instructed WuYan when her sonar techniques detected the incoming goblins.

WuYan heeds her advice and quickly enters the dark room beyond the door. Hearing the metal pistons on the door acting again, he looked back and saw it had slide back and closed the entrance. Although the metal door was completely sealed off to block the goblins' advance, his only route back to the surface had sealed. Stuck inside a new but foreign area, he had no choice but to proceed carefully to venture into the dark room with only a lit-torch on his hand.

'Powering up lights. Warning, power reserve is low. Estimated time until full shutdown- ten minutes.'

With the door shut after the pistons had stopped moving, lights were suddenly switched in the facilities. Through the loudspeakers on each corner in the room, a robotic voice but with a deep male tone announced that the facilities are in lower power and will soon cease any ongoing operation in ten minutes.