William's voice came while he seemed to be running or something. Despite her desire to ask about why he was panting, she didn't. And for a reason, his words made Lara heave a deep sigh of relief.
She managed to do it, and it seemed she did it just in time.
[Now it's time for the second step] William's voice came a bit rash, [There is a herb, one that's commonly found in the world. It's called the Blue Fiery Angel herb; do you know it?]
"Well…" she paused for a moment, "isn't it the same weed that's commonly found around any fire spring? Is it useful? It's useless!"
[Just send someone to bring a batch for you. You just need to chew, don't swallow or do anything with it. Just chew on it and suck its fluid. Keep doing so for ten hours or so and you'll be fine]
"This…" she hesitated before asking, "is this going to work?"
[It will! I have to go now, bye!]
"Wait!" She wanted to scream at him again, but she heard loud noises of explosions next mixed with deafening roars and heart curdling screams.
"Sh*t! At least I have access to that fun vault in my room," she looked at the door again, before a flash of an idea passed in her mind. She couldn't control her spirit power that much, but at least she had enough control to seal that door for now.
She knew the order she just gave would be heard and received by Richard and Larry. That would tell Richard that his scheme didn't succeed. And who knew what he'd try to do to her next.
So she exerted little effort and activated the grand protective arrays around her room. Even if an army of dark gold masters were at her doorsteps, they wouldn't be able to make it through for long hours!
As she secured her place, she started to crawl again. This time she went towards her bed, where she found a hidden little door there. She simply punched it, leaving behind a print of her blood, and then that small door slid, and she could see lots of items there.
"It's good that I have this here, I never used this silly toy before," she muttered to herself, while moving her hand in the middle of all these materials. This was just a place of connection with the main vault of the family, invented by a leader in the past as some sort of a fun game to spend time with. To get more items, she had to take the ones there out first.
She kept taking out lots of materials without care. Then more materials would randomly appear in a few seconds.
There were lots of rare and precious materials, products that were bought by scary figures of crystals. But right now, all of these were worth nothing in her eyes.
"Found it!" the useless weed she never placed in her eyes before appeared in front of her, looking like the most valuable thing in her eyes right now.
She took them out, placed a few in her mouth and started chewing it. "Damn! It tastes bitter!" She even coughed a few times, but never took the materials out of her mouth.
The moment that liquid appeared, she felt a bit better. It was enough to tell her that William's words were right. And that made her take more materials out, waiting for her luck to be good and have more of these herbs again.
This was called the lucky box, the fun vault in the higher up circle of the family. It was done as a form of a funny play, a toy that looked more fun than useful.
It was like a lottery, and leaders over the long history of the family always enjoyed such play. Even if she never tried it out before, this play turned out to be her life saving straw right now.
eaglesnov?1,сoМ As she was having her own struggle and adventure to survive, William was already having his own struggle as well.
Once he heard what Richard said, what happened to Lara, William knew he got no one coming to save him.
Without even batting an eye, he turned around and walked, headed towards the end of this corridor. It was clear to him what he should do.
If the enemies decided to chase and corner him here, then he'd simply use everything in his power to take them down.
William reached the plateau area and stopped there. The entire city was filled now with forces belonging to the Vancouf family mainly, with other scattered forces sending few of their members here per the last arrangement.
Knowing this, William was sure that the forces of the city would come mainly from the corridor. As for those inside the city, he could create havoc among them using Lara.
So he didn't hurry to move towards the city and kept speaking with Lara and guiding her along the right way to counter this toxin. As he heard her orders towards her family, he finally heaved a sigh of relief.
The next moment he heard lots of noises coming from the direction of the corridor, announcing the arrival of the enemies here.
William didn't hold himself back anymore and started to make a run towards the stairs. Right now, the forces of the Vancouf family were running through the city ruins, drawing closer to him with each passing minute.
William could have activated the formations he filled the city with, but he didn't do it. He wanted Lara's orders to spread first, to hold the higher moral ground in this fight.
The different forces of the city already broke the rules, but that was on the condition that the Vancouf family stood by his side. If the entire city was his enemies, then he'd have no way to do anything but leave.
He wouldn't fall in his enemies' trap like this. And so, he waited, biding his time until Lara finally spread the orders. Then he started to move.
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