Chapter 1054 - The mark activates (1/2)

After using the inspect skill, a lot of the information seemed to be still hidden. Still, Quinn had learnt a lot by looking at the marking.

”Do all the people that returned have the same marking?” Quinn asked.

”Yes,” Hayley replied. She could tell that maybe he didn't know what it was initially, but something had struck him now. His whole demeanour had changed, and he had to have an idea of what it was.

Now knowing that the marking belonged to a Demon tier beast, Quinn was a lot more interested in these missing people and where they had exactly gone. The question was, why had they returned, and what exactly did the marking do?

'If I find out where the missing people are going, then it will probably lead us to the Demon tier beast as well. This might be a bit too dangerous to just leave up to Fex to do.' Quinn thought.

”If I had to guess, it looks like you know a little bit about this marking now?” Hayley asked.

Quinn stayed silent for a while, this alone had already answered her question, but he still didn't know whether to say anything or not. This information he had was powerful for more reasons than one. If they learnt the marking was from a demon tier beast, perhaps they would execute all of those with the marking or do something else.

It was important that this information wasn't shared with others.

”I don't actually know what this marking is, but there is someone I brought with me who might. I was just wondering if they would help me or not.” Quinn lied.

”Someone who can help?” Hayley, though surprised. Other than healers, was there really someone who could get rid of this thing. Whoever it was, she wanted them to act quickly. It was breaking her heart seeing this young girl in constant pain, and it was getting harder for her to speak by the second. The older gentlemen as well, his marking had spread to the point where his pupils were becoming larger, and he was about to turn into the same state as the Traveller next to him.

Walking out of the room, Quinn went to fetch the said person.

'What do you think Vincent, do you have any idea?' Quinn asked, wanting to bounce off someone else for ideas.

'My research was more focused on vampires, so I never learnt much about the beasts, especially the Demon tier ones. Although I have to admit, everything so far has been strange from what I do know. People going missing and now returning. The beasts attacking this Shelter and the forces are getting stronger by the second. If I was to guess, it would all have to be related.' Vincent replied, and Quinn couldn't agree more.

When returning to Hayley, he had brought along with him a man who had a long ponytail. She looked at the gentleman for a few seconds but didn't have a clue who he was.

The gentleman looked at all three with the markings and placed his hands on them before turning to Quinn.

”My question to you would be, do you wish to save one, or do you want to save them all?” Eno asked.

”Save them all, of course!” Hayley shouted, even though the question wasn't directed at her. If this man had a healing ability or knew how to heal one of them, why couldn't he heal all of them? She thought it was a stupid question to ask.

”If you want to save them all as well, then there is only one way. The marking is linked to the thing that caused all of this.” And that was all Eno had said.

Quinn thought he understood since he was starting to understand how Eno worked a bit more now. Using his abilities, he most likely could get rid of the marking, but he would only be able to get rid of one or two due to the cost of his powers.

It was probably something that Quinn and the others were unable to pay for him to use his ability, which was why he had asked the question. As for the second part, in order to not reveal that it was a Demon tier beast's doing, Eno was saying that the Demon tier beast needed to be killed to get rid of all the markings.

Walking out of the room, the two of them knew what needed to be done. Quinn was getting ready to head over to Fex to see if he had found anything yet.

”Quinn, wait!” Hayley called out. ”So, can you help them?”

”If you keep them alive long enough, then yes, I can help them,” Quinn replied as he closed the door.

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As time went on, Quinn had talked to Fex about what he had found, but he had come up with nothing. More people seemingly were appearing in the Shelter with the marking, and now there were a total of fifty that had returned.

While others were on edge, wondering just why the Orbus and Graylash faction weren't allowing them to see their loved ones.

The main problem was, no one new in the Shelter was missing. According to Ko, it happened each time a beast attack occurred. So, Fex and Quinn would have to try and keep an eye on everyone during the next attack, which would be a challenging task for anyone.