Chapter 116 Occasus Cult and the Vault 3 (1/2)
”Good!” Asra stood up from her chair and her stiff face cracked, forming a rare happy smile.
The four people in the room, Clark, Mao, Elana and Knax, stared at Asra as they witnessed such rare event.
”I need to see it personally.” Asra walked pass Clark walking directly toward the place Clark came. Elana and Knax swiftly followed her.
”Ah.” Clark was awoken by his stunned situation when he felt someone patting his shoulder.
Turning his head around he come face to face with the ever smiling Mao.
”Why are standing here? Asra is going to be mad at you.” He said with a gentle and warm tone.
Clark instantly shuddered when faced with that friendly and gentle expression.
He respectfully moved his shoulder to leave from Mao's clutch and swiftly ran away from Mao.
Seeing this scene, Mao just chuckled and left the conference room soon after.
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Asra, Mao, Elana, Knax and Clark were standing in a service elevator that was slowly descending deep into the Erchius Mine.
Giant purple crystals could be seen all around them, making the need for an light source unnecessary.
Asra silently watched as the elevator descended deep into the enormous, circular hole. She turned around and suddenly spoke with Clark that was behind her together with Mao, Elana and Knax, ”Tell me again about the Ancient Vaults that were found by Letheia Corporation in the past.”
”Ah! Yes, ma'am.” Clark was surprised for a second as he was trying to diminish his presence as he was beside the three highest officers of Occasus Cult and also behind the Great Leader of the organization. He lowered his head and spoke weakly and somewhat fearfully, ”This information is only know by a selected number of people inside Letheia. Even politics of the Hylotl government doesn't know about this, the Ocean and Reef Faction made sure to keep it secret. All the miners and people overseeing the excavation of the Vaults were silenced. The miners were executed, some overseers mysteriously disappeared, other travelled far away to never return.”
He stopped for moment before continuing, ”I became aware of this Vaults because one day I saw some confidential documents left behind by Ferris Laparte when she came to analyze the Lunar Base 12, I think she went there to be certain, whatever or not, there was a Vault there. From the documents I was only able to take glance at, Letheia Corporation found three other Vaults. Each Vault had something very valuable. One of them it was found many, many years ago and it contained the knowledge to develop the FTL Warp System, the technology that we all know very well. This was the knowledge that led Letheia to rise from a simple mining company to the behemoth that is today in a short span of time. The second Vault apparently also contained some kind of knowledge. It appears to be knowledge about development of weapons using Erchius Crystals. As we know, it has always been a desire for every government, weapon company and militaristic organizations to discover a way to turn such powerful crystals into weapons but they never succeed. It appears that Letheia now can create such weapons... I think, I'm not certain.”
Asra frowned a little than asked, ”What about the third Vault?”
”This...” Clark scratched his head a little before reluctantly saying, ”When I glanced at the documents, Letheia had just found the Vault, they were in the process of opening it.”