Chapter 429: Reminisce (1) (1/2)
Taking a short breath of the investigation room's slightly stale air, Aiden slowly closed his eyes, focusing on the memories he wanted to transfer to the device.
Assisting him from his soul space, the floating bright ball of a spirit guide, Enya, and the childlike girl of Rygintarth were doing their best to assist their master from behind the scenes.
Soon, the small mirror lit up, its reflective surface began to change. As if a cover was placed over it, the mirror vanished, covered by what seemed to be a thin layer of pale yellow, butter-colored substance.
Seeing the device's state, Sir Arthur gently smiled, picking up a larger mirror that looked identical to the smaller one, only larger, and with the addition of a hollow, large crystal embedded at its back.
As he placed it in front of his hands, Sir Arthur pressed on the back of the device, placing his fingers over the empty-looking crystal. His hands lit up briefly, as he injected a bit of his own energy into the crystal, causing the tool to suddenly activate.
Slowly, the crystal began to fill up with the same colored energy that covered the smaller mirror, which in turn began to clear out at the same rate.
A weird, mysterious connection was made between the two devices, and as Aiden continued filling the smaller one with his memories and recount of the day's events, an image from the larger one appeared, telling the story from his perspective.
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After the group made a unanimous decision to continue their venture to explore a bit more of the unknown that awaited them, Aiden and his group soon found themselves at a junction.
The route split into two, one leading towards the south whilst the other roughly towards the north and east. Unsure what to pick, they looked in each direction, trying to make out a bit more of what could perhaps lay waiting for them.
Traps, may perhaps some sort of sewage dwelling monstrosity?
Leading at the front, Drake and Aiden looked in both directions, focusing, honing their senses trying to make out more of the ever-present eerie darkness that dominated this world.
”Hmm… I can't feel any danger from this side…” Aiden commented after a brief silence focusing on the southern path. ”After a bit, it curves back and leads more to the west. Beyond that, I can't tell, we would need to get closer, but I do feel smaller… routes? I guess… Not sure.”
”Well… I don't have your hyper-sensitive hearing and sight Aiden, just my honed [Battle Sense], but even with that measly ability, I can say that this path seems to end with a dead-end not too much further in. Beyond that, I couldn't tell…” Following up his friend, Drake added his findings at the other side.
With that, although the group was hopeful of finding something interesting in the dead-end Drake found, they sadly had to be disappointed. Only a wider section of the sewage system awaited them, a large circular-shaped room covered with brick walls and a couple of braziers providing the dim lighting. Not much, just enough to not walk in complete blindness.
Due to the structure and design of the room, the flowing river of nasty sewage gathered to a small pond at the center of the room, where a small grated hole at its bottom drained it to somewhere further below.
The disgusting, putrid smell, didn't really favor the girls, so after a brief scan of the layout, the group quickly made their way out and towards the other, southern path instead. They didn't even wait for Aiden to give the go-ahead, the girls and even Sammy and Biggs almost dashed away as soon as they got in.