Vitae Memorandum

74-Security Network

The four girls made their way into the fortress, determined to press the advantage they had worked so hard for. Somehow, they needed to bring this conflict to an end, and that would involve finding Khaexyn.

The four girls were otherwise alone, everyone else remaining outside. There was still a large number of enemies to deal with, leaving everything undefended would not have been a smart choice. Sending all four of them in was still a very aggressive move, but that might draw in some of the fighting from outside. Qheria could see the benefit of acting as an aggressive bait for everyone, to keep people safe. That just meant that, unlike their first trip, they wouldn't be using her mother's approach. This time, it was far more like Ehryinae's method.

Lwyn fired off a volley, clearing a path forward through the dim hallway. Thanrie was finding the wrecked halls looking even scarier than they had while whole, but she wasn't going to let that bother her. She passed a hall intersection and slashed apart an enemy waiting around the corner with her scythe. The gentle light Mhyl had watching over them made the halls bright enough she didn't have to worry. Qheria meanwhile crushed an enemy chasing them from behind, realizing that so far they had everything under control.

Suddenly, within the intersection, a cross formation of shields lit up, from corner to opposite corner of the intersection. Thanrie ran into the force-field as she turned back around after her strike. Qheria paused before it, as did Mhyl, wondering how to advance. Lwyn turned around quickly after noticing no one was following her, curious what had just transpired. Qheria tried to strike the field, but the entire blow was repelled. Instead, the intersection responded with a buildup of electrical current. The four of them ran from the ensuing bolts, sparks flying all over the place. As the four of them took cover a distance away, a massive explosion resulted, taking a giant portion of the roof of the hall itself down. Getting through that wasn't going to exactly be an option.

Qheria was fortunate though that her position gave her visibility to the level above, so used her gift to warp up to that level, and looked around the large room she ended up in. She couldn't see any way back down, not even with her warp ability. They really were separated, then. With nothing left to do, Qheria chose to keep going. She knew everyone else would, she would just have to meet up with them in the process. Qheria set off along the winding halls on her own. Left without someone to tend to her back, Qheria picked up the pace. In long and straight halls, she would slam the ground and warp to the other side, keeping the shield up in case she was attacked. If there was an enemy in the halls, she would warp into it, destroying it in the process. Smaller halls however asked for something more casual, as she wasn't going to waste her stamina in those situations. Having dual shields helped for covering both her front and back in the process. Overall, it wasn't the enemies she faced that denied her, but that she had quickly became lost.

Thanrie had quickly realized that forgetting the book that mapped out the entire fortress back at the facility might not have been the smartest of choices. The thing was however about as much of a mess as the halls, so it might not have helped much. The fact some of the halls were ruined didn't help either. Thanrie had been sorely tempted to break her way through the walls, but she knew the shielding would make that much harder than going by foot, let alone how much would be needed to break through the wall without having more roof fall on her dangerously. She just wasn't in the best of moods, being caught now in the darkness without Mhyl's light. Any bystander who did not know her would have however found her the scariest part of the scene, holding her scythe in a reaper stance with one hand, as she had manifested a vicous looking liquid metal demon claw over her other. When faced with any enemy, it could find itself divided by either weapon. Thanrie wasn't also exactly interested in a robotic mercy for her foes, she just wanted to get through this mess.