Chapter 258 - Ramping Up Efforts (1/2)

Laz didn't have much hope for the council in the first place. He just needed henchmen to do some information running for him. He wasn't about to treat them like his own personal army since he already experienced their lack of ability.

But now, he couldn't even use them for that since who ever leaked the ones who got arrested were sure to be paying attention to what they did in the mean time.

Although Laz was disappointed with what went down, he also had questions.

'Why did the foundation realm people get ignored?'

'Were they ignored or did the person who leaked the information not know who they were?'

'Was the who's who's not really known?'

Laz didn't have answers, but he knew that these questions were probably running through Julia's head as well and she might be able to provide some answers.

Of course they wouldn't talk about it on the job.

Unknown to Laz, his council wasn't the only ones impacted by the arrests. Many low level figures in all three organizations were rounded up, with the fewest being Freya's Vampyres. The reason for this was that they were a rather tight group of girls overall and none of them would betray their sisters. That didn't mean that there wasn't one or two who could be convinced, especially the newer members who hadn't really become sisters yet. The people they met were limited, but that didn't mean they didn't know anyone.

...

In the bas.e.m.e.nt of the nameless office building, Tommy was standing there with his arm crossed while dozens of heavily armed guards dragged in sedated infected in cages. Behind him were two young and healthy looking men with silver hair who both stood at respectful attention. Although they were the ones that normally ran the children of god church within the city, the man in front of them was one of the higher ups of their backer. It was only thanks to the funding of the Global Sciences Group that they were able to not only be the main enlightened branch within the city, but also able to take in and support however many enlightened arrived on their doorstep, which wasn't few.

In front of Tommy was a what looked to be a door. It looked like on the side were three hinges while on the other side was a large handle, hence why everyone called it a door.

Interestingly, that's the only way in which it was similar to a door.

The door stood by itself in a large, empty cavern that had originally been discovered when the church was looked to make a bunker underneath the office building. Once they discovered it, they reported it right away to Global Sciences who sent down researchers and others to study the door.

The reason why the door was so interesting was because it looked like a series of clods, sprockets, and gears, all interwoven together into it's current shape. On top of that, the 'door' looked more like it was a free standing arch.

The only problem was with how they were suppose to do that. As far as anyone could tell, the door's handle was jammed and wouldn't open. Then, after months of research and a whole lot of luck, they discovered that they could directly fuse energy with the door which would fill up some barely noticeable power banks. Although no one could guarantee that once the door was loaded up on energy, it would open. But it was normal to assume as much.

Global Sciences had found various different treasures that contained large amounts of energy, but they didn't want to waste them on some unknown door.

”This door... are we sure this is working?” Tommy said as he looked around, noticing the teams at work. One group was bringing over captives and strapping them into the chairs that were placed around the door. The next group was monitoring the captives that sat in the chairs while a needle and tube were placed in their arms, allowing the blood to be slowly drained from their bodies. Then the blood was fueled by pump into certain crevices in the door where it quickly vanished. Once the second group decided the individual no longer had any blood to give, they would call in the third group that would remove the almost bloodless corpses and take them away.

The entire operation was methodical and frightening in it's simplicity and effectiveness.

The two silver haired twins both nodded.

”We find that the door takes the blood, breaks it down and uses all of the energy inside of it.”

”It then discards the remnants underneath it, hence why we had to have a drainage systems installed.”

”Is that where the smell comes from?” Tommy asked while using a cloth to block his nose.

”Yes. Sadly, no matter how much we irrigate it, the particle remains of the blood is basically...”

”like a clog that can't be flushed...”

”Whatever. As long as we figure out what's behind this door, that's all that matters. With the new shipment of tranquillizers and gas canisters, begin taking more of those dirty infected. No one will notice them gone anyway. Besides, we can just cover up their disappearances with arrests. Their blood will help get us the rest of the way quicker. Did they do the calculations?” Tommy asked as he made his way around the door.

”Yes young master. According to the current level of energy in the air, the door would open in around a hundred years from now.”

”Of course, that's just according to the current calculations. From what your researchers have gathered...”

”The energy is getting thicker, I'm aware.” Tommy didn't need to be told this. Unlike the infected which drew in the energy and changed their bodies with it, the chosen, like himself, were able to manipulate it directly, causing a much more volatile effect.

This was the true difference between the two of them and also the reason for how the chosen stayed 'pure.'

”As you say,” Both twins replied at once.

”Still though young master. We must warn you that although quite a few of the dirty infected are lone wolves so to speak,”

”Quite a few of them have connections with groups and organizations in the area. We might alert them if we grab to many of their members, even the lower level ones.”

”And you think they might cause a problem?” Tommy asked, aware of the situation.

”The group calling themselves 'the council' won't be an issue. They are a loose nit group in the first place, playing house amongst themselves. And their combat power is truly lacking. But the ones called the Vodun are much more organized although they are still rather separate. The ones we least wish to provoke are the vampyres. They have a very strict hierarchy and will attack back if pushed.