180 Ruins Part 1 (2/2)
”What's with the skeleton?” He asked after a moment of investigation.
”Not really sure.”
”Can I buy it?”
”Well, let's talk about that after the main mission...”
”Fair enough...” Wallace nodded after hearing Drake's resolute answer.
One by one, they entered the underground passage. During this time, Wallace's Divine Sense didn't stopped in observing every movement of the squad and scouting the place they were at. It was for his own safety. Anyway, in case things get too dangerous, he can use his Void Phase to either escape or use it for a much more beneficial cause.
After entering the passage, the place below was quite wide, enough to be an underground railways.
The tunnel wasn't just supported by a well-engineered pillars but it seems that the ground itself were quite sturdy.
As they walked in a straight line, Wallace saw many destroyed or disarmed traps along the way. He had also noticed that there were several other paths they passed by. They didn't even glanced to either left or right path showing but continuously walked straight and enter the center path whenever three tunnels would appear. Of course, he sent his Divine Sense to the other paths and noticed that some were actually rooms that was emptied. Only empty boxes, empty shelves and empty weapon racks can be seen. The squad had obviously looted those places already.
Wallace kept silent as he sensed that some of them became tense after walking for about 6 minutes.
”From this point on, the path we will be entering would look a lot more different.” Drake said and as they entered, Wallace was surprised to see that the final location doesn't look like an abandoned underground facility.
The place was a circular room. The walls and ceiling were covered by metal plates. There's computers, seats, and other mechanical things like the place was just recently made.
Wallace was curious at his mission. There's also hidden traps that was interconnected to self destruction.
”We have checked all useful information from the computers in here but we didn't find any clues about the owner of this place.”
”Is that so? Mhm... I understand. So, what should I do?”
”We only found records that at the center of this room was an 8 cubic meter space for a treasure.
”Here's the video we retrieved from a hard drive of one computer here.”
The video content was only a black and white animation showing something like a blueprint of the room. Beneath the center was indeed a space where the treasures were located.
Unfortunately, once it has been opened up, self destruction of this underground facility would happen within 120 seconds making the treasures destroyed and buried underground. Not only that, some defense structures were also going to activate during that time.
Wallace also noticed that at the center of the room was a weird empty space like there was a thing taken out from there.
”That is where we got the fragment... Are you ready?”
”Mhm...”
As soon as Wallace answered, everyone focused their Mana at the center of the room as it started to shake a bit. The floor opened up as expected.
”Wallace, its up to you now....”
The 8 cubic meter space below was filled with variety of things like the Mana Beast cores, precious gems and metals and many high-powered guns. Yes, not the usual Mana Artifacts.
[ 119... 118... 117... ] The countdown of self destruction started.
Since he only had 5 cubic meter in his ”Spatial Bag,” he was asked to ignore some of the Mana Beast Cores. Its such a shame wasting them like that.
Click!
Bang!
Bang!
Sounds of mechanical gears can be heard as the treasures were being looted.
Soon, 12 black humanoid automatons came to stop them from leaving the place.
Ordessa and Marsha immediately took action.