Vitae Memorandum

75-Inevitable Reversal

Lwyn left the library, her thoughts preoccupied with her new agenda, the new task she had to accomplish. The challenge she was suddenly faced with was immense, but she would not turn from it, instead she would keep moving onward, walking as if in a hypnotic trance.

"Yhse, daughter, do be careful. You might know more about your enemy than I do, but I know they are dangerous. They will not be easy to deal with." Khaexyn wasn't wrong, she knew just how powerful the three girls she hunted were. The three of them were friends to this Lwyn, someone she was no longer. Her father had cleared her mind of their manipulation, had set her free from their lies. Yhse owed him for it, and would return that debt with the death of his enemies.

Yhse waved at her father as he went back to his work. He was hard at work at erasing the chains of hate shackling the world, trapping it under the guise of a gift. He would still need more time to keep going, and she would need to ensure she could buy him that time. While outnumbered, she knew she had an advantage. All three of them were separated, letting her deal with them individually. Additionally, they all seemed to find value in her, still thinking she was so completely manipulated by them. She could turn that against them, catching them completely unaware.

Still, that wasn't enough of a plan. Being also separated from them, she had no idea where they even were. Worse, she knew what they were capable of, a surprise attack might not be enough by itself, so she needed a way to invite further advantages for herself. To do that, she needed more information. A map would have helped, but she knew the book from the library which would typically handle such was still left at the facility, along with the veil core. Her father was not impressed to hear such news, but was more alarmed by her dizzy spell, flaring up as she recalled such details. He had warned her that she needed to be careful for that reason as well, the tampering of her mind left by the other three girls could have harsh repercussions if she let herself get too distracted by thoughts. She needed to remain focused on her objective at hand.

The basement levels of each Spire had their own secure rooms, with a lot of extra supplies. The bottom of the nearby fifth spire contained a very detailed map, like a spoiler for the entire Fortress layout. She took the news provided to her and set off for that location, following her father's guidance. Such guidance was only betrayed when she found the path had caved in, leaving her in a bit of a predicament. She considered the layout, and found she wasn't certain of any alternate path. Instead, she summoned a sphere, passing it the instructions to find her a way forward. The orb however simply fell from her hand and shattered. That did not help, she got the feeling that such implied all the passages were equally blocked, or that this was the only path.

She contemplated for a moment destroying the rubble before her, but recalled that this could bring the roof down above her. With consideration of a roof falling, she got an even further idea, maybe she could cause the roof below her to fall instead. She was aiming for a basement, going down was just part of the plan. She backed off a long distance and threw forth a sphere, which coursed towards the center of the hall and crashed into the ground at high velocity. The impact caused the ground to give way, forming as a ramp downwards. She then tried her guidance sphere again, which this time proceeded down the makeshift ramp. Yhse chased after it, still considering the rest of the details of her plan.

Mhyl paused in alarm as the path before her suddenly caved in violently. Well, that direction wasn't an option any longer, she would have to find another path. As she turned around, she thought she saw a faint flicker of something moving from her headset, but it was gone quickly. She suspected it might have just been things sliding in the collapse. Mhyl backtracked along the path, plotting out a new course. She had found that suddenly she had run out of enemies to fight, instead she was passing wreckage of shredded enemies. She was pretty certain she was travelling in circles, but couldn't see another way forward. She had tried to back-track, but that had only led to a caved in portion of the path. Realizing she might be trapped, Mhyl tried to erase a bit of the rubble blocking her path. As she could only expect, disturbing the fallen rubble simply shifted the ceiling, causing more rubble to fall nearby dangerously. However, this time it had cleared enough of the area above her that she could go up.