Chapter 259 - Abrahams Awake (1/2)
After everyone was settled back into their jobs as though nothing had just happened, a strange, almost invisible wave swept through the room, causing the entire area around the cryptic door to suddenly stop. Everyone within the room quite moving, camera's were frozen in time and even the small, last bits of blood coming out from the sacrifices froze in mid air. It resembled a moment in time, captured by a picture. The only thing that was still active was the door itself, as bits of blood continued to circulate into and out of it, albeit at a slower pace since everything was frozen.
Just as this took place, nine people appeared in the room at the same time. Of the nine, six of them were dressed in an ancient, multicolored armor that seemed to shimmer in the light. The armor appeared like a rainbow had taken physical form, completely engulfing the six figures who stood a respectful distance away from the other three members of the party.
As for these three members of the party, two of them were females, dressed in what looked to be a brown, almost black, form fitted dressed that amazingly appeared both hard and soft at the same time. They both had hair of sparking light blue with pale white skin. The taller of the two woman seemed rather arrogant as she looked around the room at the various people at work, disdain written on her face. The shorter of the two women had already walked over to study the door with the young man who looked like he was taking notes on a large, scroll sized leaf. Compared to the taller woman, the shorter one was far more curvy in the right places, a stark contrast the to seemingly flat and thin taller one.
Had Laz been here, he would have recognized the shorter woman as his patron, jailer, and occasional torturer, A'ruya.
She was leaning over while touching the door as though trying to get a feel for it for herself. The young man, seeing her actions, couldn't help but take a few interested looks at her as she bent over and moved in different ways, causing himself to forget to take his own notes.
”What are you doing?” The taller woman asked, noticing his distraction.
”Oh. I am... uh, just trying to figure out which gateway this is,” the man said, clearly distracted. Much like the two girls, the man had short, blue hair, pale white skin and was wearing a two piece outfit of pants made from the same material as the girls dressed while his shirt seemed to be made from a green fabric that seemed much lighter than his pants. On top of that, he wore a sliver band around his wrist that seemed to be the source of the pen and leaf that he was using to write with.
”UH... whatever. Get it over with. Sister, why did you decide to come to do this? Even if you discover something, you can't tell your champions anything about it... or should I say champion. And why do you have only one? You decided to fight for the role of Grand Seer and yet every other candidate has at least five champions they are raising, if not more.”
”I told you before big sister, I'm doing this alone and not with the help of the family. They didn't want me to participate in this to begin with, leaving the families resources available for my cousin. So everything that I am doing, I am doing on my own.”
”Then... did you need some money? As a branch member, I might not have much but...”
”It's fine. Honestly speaking, none of us really know what we are doing with these creatures to begin with. What's the point in supporting them when everyone is just running around in the dark.”
”But your child...?”
”It's up to him to grow stronger. The best I can do is to support him where I am able to as opposed to trying to direct his growth.”
”The strongest members of some of the other candidates are already at what they call the spirit palace realm. What about yours?”
”He's at what they call the mid foundation realm.”
”That seems very weak, isn't it?” The taller girl asked, full of concern. Maybe when it came to these creatures called humans, she would have negative feelings for them. But to this younger sister of hers, she felt the closeness of family and gratitude of her younger sister being her benefactor.
”He's... more than what he seems on the surface. It's not something we should get into right now.”
”So why did you want to come see this door? There have already been others discovered in various places and not only that, but realms without doors have popped up as well. Obviously the ones without doors were ones our ancestors allowed to come and go as they pleased, but after the great wars, it seems like even they closed themselves off. Still, it's only a matter of time before they start coming into this world again. It's not like we are going to be at a loss for visitors soon.” The taller girl asked, voicing the questions in her mind.
”We have a duty to figure out what happened after we took off. Since our family discovered this door, we have to be the ones to investigate it since it's in our area. And as you know, the sealed doors are a much greater threat than open realms. But what's more than that, this one might end up being one of the first medium level doors that open thanks to the gods efforts.”
”I still don't get why we don't just eliminate these human gods and take over this planet once and for all. We have the strength to do it since most of the planets gods are still sleeping or in a half awakened state.”
”Because, the amount of energy we would expend to do that would be a loss we couldn't afford. And the gods of this planet served their purpose back then so there is no reason to believe they will be any different now.”
”Whatever you say little sister. These things are far to complex for me.”