Pov Athena: ．𝙘𝙤𝙢
After 2 weeks of travel we arrived in the city we planned, as we were told this place is full of enemies.
Just by being here and seeing everything I can tell you about the atrocities these people have committed in their quest for power.
The Kimera Soldiers were not being controlled, they were talking to each other and were proud of their undeserved power.
Soldiers weren’t a common type of Kimera, they were Demons who had monster parts implanted in their bodies, apart from some physical deformity they looked normal, but their eyes showed an obsession I’d seen before.
Getting past them was not difficult, with our Aura training we were able to hide our presence and use our superior speed to enter the city unnoticed, after that to avoid attracting attention we spent a few hours looking for an abandoned place, and we were able to find one abandoned store that we’re going to use as a base.
I tell everyone to go investigate and come back at midnight while I set up protection for our temporary base.
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Midnight that day.
Everyone had already returned, the wards of this place were in place, so normal people won’t approach and we’ll be warned if anyone tries to enter.
Angela, Darius, Michael, Flávia, Renato, and Thomas had returned, as you know the way I create the protections of our bases manage to enter without activating the traps I placed.
“What did they find?” (I)
“As it was said, all Soldiers are Kimeras, idiots who accepted being experiments in exchange for power.” (Darius)
“The ones I saw seemed to have monsters below the S rank being used as materials for the process of being turned into Kimeras.” (Darius)
“My magic confirmed that their bodies emit miasma, the amount is small but as there are so many in this town it is accumulating.” (Michael)
“On this continent that’s not a problem, Demons like to live on this continent precisely because there’s miasma everywhere, so it doesn’t matter.” (I)
“I know I said, but we also have the Information about Master Zenos’ Fight from almost 2 months ago, he also fought Kimeras, right?” (Michael)
“I had forgotten about that.” (I)
“Me and Renato remembered this and talked to those responsible for taking care of the bodies of the Kimeras.” (Michael)
“Michael talked to Rakan and I went to talk to Allan, what I found was that the process that these people became Kimeras was mixed with a curse that shortens their lives in half, so their bodies don’t reject monster parts.” (Renato)
“Rakan said that these curses can be stimulated to increase the power of monster parts causing great physical changes.” (Michel)
“But this is temporary as it takes a lot of their power, in the end, they end up unconscious later.” (Michael)
“I’ve also heard about the crystals they use causing some irreversible mutation that can lead to death after use.” (Angela)
The preparations of each one was to research all the information they could, this information will serve to help fight the enemies and not be taken by surprise.
After relaying the enemy information, we see how they positioned themselves in this city, now we know their numbers, but we have to confirm who the leader is.
Fortunately, their numbers and strength pose no danger to us.
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Two days later, night.
We were outside the city waiting in a fortified hut we built with a magic item from the Elves when Angela arrives carrying an unconscious Demon without arms and legs.
“How it was?” (I)
“It was easy to enter the mansion of the former ruler of this city, the defense magic was efficient but too weak to stop me.” (Angela)
“The real problem was wearing the maid outfit for a whole day, but it gave me the opportunity to catch this bastard.” (Angela)
“So the rumors were right, he likes to abuse the maids?” (I)
“No, he uses them as experiments for poisons he produces, he was going to do the same to me in a secret place in the mansion where I found a lot of blood.” (Angela)
“His arms and legs?” (I)
“Easier to carry like that, it also made him more obedient.” (Angela)
“Did you get him to say anything useful?” (I)
“No, he’s a fanatic full of hate, pain and torture won’t work against him.” (Angela)
“I still have some Lyra potions with me, I’ll take him to the next room and see if he becomes more chatty.” (Darius)
“All of him.” (Angela)
Darius picks up the Demon and takes it to the next room, after which a sound barrier has been activated around the room.
“Did you get anything at the mansion?” (I)
“I heard some useful things, besides there was a vault with a curse trap in the secret room where he took me, after purifying the curse with my light magic, it was easy to open a vault like that.” (Angela)
“I found this inside the safe.” (Angela)
I take the papers and maps that Angela gave me, I look at the maps that belong to the Black Empire, they were full of dots marked with some symbols.
Then I look at the papers, most were descriptions of poison preparation, its effects, and possible improvements.
There was also a list of names of important people from the Empire on their side and their positions, we can deliver this to the people on the side of this Queen Melissa, they made better use of that information.
Fortunately among the papers was a letter from Gregory Roux giving orders for this man Angela had brought.
Thanks to this letter we confirmed a place where he would be going, there was also information about some secret project that will be put into practice, but it does not specify what it could be.
“Now we know where he will be, we just have to be there before him.” (I)
“Are we going to ambush him on the way?” (Michael)
“No, he’ll be with a small army, it looks like there’s a secret tunnel that goes through a big mountain and leads straight to the place where Queen Melissa was confirmed to be.” (I)
“Let’s get there before everyone else, because of this map and our information, this capital is less than a week away from this place.” (I)
“Yes, I thought the same thing, which is probably why this letter was sent here, being closer to the capital and being able to join them in this attack.” (Angela)
With that, we already know where to go.