Chapter 1016 Captive Unique Skill Users
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It really feels like I was just thrown into a sci-fi movie out of the blue. Clones, a futuristic facility with robots, nanomachines constructing and producing items with ease, and everything in between… Hermes looked at the scene from afar with eyes wide open, he had never seen such a thing before.
"To think these guys are born so unnaturally…" He sighed. "This feels like one of those sci-fi movies man… Shit's scary as fuck."
I can relate to you my guy.
"Just move over! I remember seeing this all the time when I was first thrown into one of his facilities." Alma told him.
"Move, move." The two twins said in unison.
"Okay, okay…" Hermes quickly began walking away, but was quickly noticed by the two elves bringing the clone guy outside.
"Oi, you!"
One called for Hermes, as his body grew slightly stiff, he slowly glanced back at them, pretending to be one of them.
"Yes?" He asked.
"What are you doing here 094? You got duty at guarding with the other troops."
"Yeah, what happened?"
It seemed they were more aware of each other's jobs than they imagined.
"Yeah, about that, I had a really bad indigestion so I had run back to the bathroom…" Hermes said. "It was a thing of life or dead, but I feel perfectly fine now, I am going back now but a companion asked me if I could bring him something from his room, so I am going there. Sorry."
"Ah, so that's it."
"Well, go back to your duty quickly! Master will get angry even if a single one of us is missing."
"Yeah, his treatment is harsh…"
"Not like we got it any better anywhere else…"
"Oi don't talk that in front of others you're going to get caught…"
The two guards walked away while bringing the newly born Clone away, as Hermes sighed in relief, everyone did, even I. It felt like I was already part of their team to me.
"Now… Let's continue."
Hermes quickly looked at a holographic map in front of him which was coming out of a small devise, and then quickly saw an area named "test subject laboratory", it was just a few turns from there.
"Bingo."
He quickly moved as fast as possible, grabbing some boxes filled with robot parts to pretend to be doing something so the other elves wouldn't grow suspicious, and then he finally reached the area, the test subject laboratory.
The entire place was made of large rooms with big windows which allowed to see through them. In there, Hermes saw many people of all races and ages being caught. However, most of them were younger than 17, often times, it seemed that Greenwood captured younger unique skill users, maybe because it was easier when they were young than as old adults.
They were all wearing only the bare minimum white clothes and seemed depressed. There was not a single kid in there smiling. I saw young dwarves, elves, ice giants, beast-kin, there was even a small little rat beast girl that reminded me of Yuki.
There were some "recreation playgrounds" where the children were allowed to play using toys, and another place where they were tested using their powers, fighting against monsters or even robots or facility workers.
The entire place was infested of them walking everywhere, so it was very hard to stay put for a while without getting noticed by everybody else. Hermes gave a few twist and turns, looking and inspecting as much as possible, realizing there were roughly 32 test subjects. A quick Analyze gave me the result of every single one of them having Unique Skills of some sort.
Some had very normal-looking powers, others had unamusing ones, and then there were some that had more surprising things. One of them had a literal [Human Torch] Skill that allowed them to be covered in flames, another had [Tamer] that allowed them to tame most monsters and animals, I even saw one with a [Mystic Eye] which granted a lot of abilities.
However, if these kids were so strong why they were being restrained here so easily? Well, there was a big reason behind this, large collars wrapped around their necks. These collars seemed custom made, and as Hermes looked at them, he suddenly made a face expression as if he were in pain, remembering something.
"Those damn collars… Not only they inhibit Unique Skill usage but drain most of the user's Mana and don't allow them to use spells either unless given the authorization. And the worst part, if you try to run away, it shocks your entire body, each time it does that, the shock becomes stronger. A fourth time will be so deadly it will literally fry your entire body to death…" He whispered to Alma and the twins.
"Thanks to Mana Overload, I can disable all of those things…" Alma responded. "Now that we are here, should we go out and surprise everybody?"
"Hmm… It seems risky, but its not as if we can get out of here with the children without wreaking havoc now." One of the twins said, as the second one agreed. "I agree!"
"First of all, let's disable the entire facility from their little toys." Alma smiled, using her Mana Overload and spreading a sudden shockwave of Mana impacting everyone and everything!
TRUUUUUMMMM…!
The entire facility began to tremble, the workers fell to the floor as many of the items they had suddenly exploded, hurting them in the process. Alma continued pouring more and more Mana, until the powerful spell disabled the collars of all captives, which quickly fell into the floor and deactivated automatically!
"Wh-What was that just now?!"
"You! What did you do?!"
"Who the heck are you?!"
The elves surrounding Hermes panicked, as he smiled, quickly letting go of Alma and the twins, who emerged at his right and left side.
"Elena! Elma! Do it!" Alma said.
"Got it!" The twins said, holding hands and then closing their eyes. As the guards ran towards them to attack them, a shockwave of psychic power surged from the twins, quickly attacking the guard's minds.
"Uuuagggh!"
"My head!!!"
"Gyyaaaaaeeghh…!"
"Uuggh…! UAGGH!"
Those two girls were certainly something…
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