Chapter 541: The situation... (2/2)
Raven had been plagued by this rule since he learned of it. It also didn't help that he learned about it after he accepted the role. This was an ironclad rule as well so he had to follow it by hook or by crook.
'Luna's going to kill me.' Raven thought. However, now's not the time to think about this matters since there are more pressing matters that he needed to attend to.
”We'll talk about this in the future, I don't even know if I'll be able to ascend as Zeus. For now, let's focus on the 'Broken Floor'. Chief Commander, can you inform me about the general situation?”
”Yes.” Anastasia replied. Raven sighed in relief when he saw that she's no longer on her playful mood. She's now on her professional mood.
”Grand Elder had given us the task to guard the Broken Floor for more than a month now. Originally, it was only supposed to last for two weeks at most but a surprising development caused that to be extended.”
”Does Young Lord have heard about the Centurion Lancer?” Anastasia asked, to which Raven nodded. ”Then that makes things simple. We were sent here in order to guard and alert the sect if any of the Sin's Children descends.”
”Tartarus and Asphodel are different. In a way, we could still do a roundabout way to inform the sect about of their presence by sending back someone to Greece to alert them. We can't do that in Tartarus since all of the personnel is inside.”
”This is why we are stationed here.” Anastasia revealed. ”We have been relatively fine at first but all of a sudden, there was a large spike of devils descending here. None of the Sin's Children went down at all but if I will venture a guess, then they're probably the ones who's causing this whole mess.”
”Since then, we faced wave after wave of devils. We haven't had much opportunity to rest at all. We also can't leave right away in consideration to the Inner Disciples. They were already forbidden from entering the Pagoda due to this but they still had to hunt devils in order to reach their quota.”
”We are purposefully letting some devils to escape just so that they can have something to hunt. Needless to say, our situations were dire as well.” Anastasia explained.
Raven was locked in deep thought after hearing that. He was feeling a little bit guilty since he's more or less the reason as to why they were suffering like this.
Although he still can't prove it, he still thought that he was this so-called 'Elven Abomination'. In order to prevent the Sin's Children from descending, the sect had to implore some drastic measure in order to make sure that the casualties won't be as high.
It wasn't entirely his fault, after all who could've expected that something like this would happen. Additionally, there's still no confirmation if he truly was the Elven Abomination. Nevertheless, he still felt rather guilty.
”How's the seals holding up?” Raven asked.
”Damaged.” Anastasia sighed, ”When we arrived, it's already cracked. It's probably the Centurion Lancer's doing. We already invited some experts to deal with it but unfortunately, they said that it'll take them a long time before they could fix it.”
The seals that they were referring to were the seals that were keeping this Broken Floor from truly collapsing. There are two seals in here, one above sealing the entrance to the 12th floor and one below sealing the portal that leads to the 9th floor.
Seals they might be but it's more accurate to call them filters since low leveled devils could still by pass the seal. This was intentional since what they truly wanted to seal, was the Sin's Children and their path to descend.
”If that's the case, then it might be as you said.” Raven muttered, ”There might be at least one or two Sin's Children responsible for this. Only them, the Sins and the Devil Emperor itself could issue a command to these low-levelled abominations.”
”Indeed.” Anastasia said, ”I've lost a portion of my men under their relentless waves of attacks. Needless to say, we can't afford to retreat or else they'll truly be able to chip at the seals until they were broken. Asphodel would become a legitimate hell once that happens.”
”As if it wasn't already in the first place.” Raven snorted as he immersed himself in deep thought.
He was thinking of ways to improve this situation and return Asphodel back to it's original state. If he could do more then he will but for now, he's focused on searching some ways to prevent the seals from breaking
Raven then looked at Anastasia and asked: ”Can you show me the seals?”
”Sure.” Anastasia then walked and stood up in front of him. She then grabbed her hand and placed it on her private part
Purring she said: ”Here you go. The seal. It hasn't been breached yet, can you do me? Like, right now?”
*Woosh!*