Minka looks at the woman who is in her mid thirties: "But... Emilia isn't even out of middle school."

Emilia's hair is disheveled and messy, she has blood stains all over her clothes. She looked like she'd been beaten up badly: "...." Emilia tries to look up but is unable to lift her head.

"You are right, she is Emilia. But she is the sister of the ravager. So this is Emilia from another dimension." Knight explains.

"What's the meaning of this? Why is she here?" Minka asks while sounding worried.

"Because she is needed for the person that is coming." Knight said.

"Who is coming?"

"She is here." Knight pointed her fingers upwards, the ceiling opened a small hole. And the ravager flew through it then landed in front of them: "What took you so long?"

"Those hybrids are putting up a fight, but they are nothing I can't handle." The ravager said while carrying Fran on her shoulder and throwing Fran in front of them. Fran's body is filled with cuts and bruises, it looked like she put up a good fight but got beaten to the end: "Oh hey guys." Ravager greets Minka and Leanna with a big grin: "It's nice to see you guys here."

"Ravager..." Leanna looked at the ravager with fear.

"Why is Fran here?" Minka asked in a low tone, while still looking at the weak and unconscious Fran: "What did you do to her?"

"She was being... uncooperative." Ravager said: "She was trying to run away and call for backup, so I had to put her down a little." She then looked at Knight and asked: "Is Emilia still refusing to work with us?"

"Yeah." Knight sighed: "I don't want to say this... but I don't think she is ever getting through her thick skull." Knight said in an exaggerated sad tone.

"Oh well." The ravager shrugs and said: "Guess we'll just have to make do with this. Come here Minka, and Leanna."

Minka and Leanna walk towards Ravager and stand in front of her, the two are still worried about Fran: "Ravager... what are you trying to do?" Minka asks while looking at Fran.

"Don't worry about Fran." Ravager said while patting on Fran's head: "I am just... letting her rest for a while. She will wake up. After a long sleep." Ravager then gets rid of the handcuffs from Leanna and Minka.

"Well, let's meet officially for once. Hi, I am Minka. Or I go by Ravager these days." The ravager reached out her hand with a smile. Minka and Leanna stared at the hand in front of them, but neither of them moved.

"Guys come on... just a handshake." Ravager then slowly put her hand down: "Whatever, I just wanted to see you guys face to face. I mean, I have met some of the others, but I have never seen a Minka that gets along with Leanna so well. Like I know some Minka will go as far as to sacrifice a leg for Leanna... but they won't ever have a kiss or anything like that." Ravager then looks at them curiously.

Minka is a bit shy while looking down and Leanna's face is also red: "So what do you want from us?" Leanna asks while looking at the ravager.

"I need your help, but before that. I need your powers." Ravager then looked at Emilia and said: "Emilia over here is not willing to work with us. I have a solution, but I don't want to be rude... I will need your help for this." She then puts her hands on their shoulders."

"We will not work for you, you psycho!" Minka yelled.

"Guys... I am trying to be nice to you." Ravager smiles: "I know what is in your mind, you don't trust me. But just hear me out..." Ravager then moves her face towards Leanna and said: "Lea... if I were to... hurt you or kill you, what would Minka do? Would she attack me? Or would she beg?" Ravager then puts her finger on Leanna's face while Leanna's body is shaking.

"Get away from her." Minka is shaking from the anger, she is holding on to her temper but can only grit her teeth.

"Leanna, let me ask you again." Ravager ignores Minka and puts her face close to Leanna, and smiles: "If you have a choice of dying... or making sure your friends, family and people around you live. Would you make a deal with the devil?" Ravager then asks.

"I..."

Minka suddenly blasted a wave of psychic energy and repelled the Ravager away. She then steps forward to protect Leanna and said: "Lea will not be your toy! So leave her alone! Whatever your plan is, we will never work with you!" Minka is full of rage, while also full of worries about what might happen next. But she holds on to her position.

Ravager landed steadily and remained unaffected: "Now we are talking, show me your strength, Minka. Show me you will do anything for your people." The Ravager suddenly disappears from her spot and appears beside Minka and kicks her with great speed, sending her flying through the room. Leanna reacted quickly by drawing her weapon, but the Ravager already held Leanna's hand with a vice grip and threw Leanna onto Minka, then threw them out of the room.

The two fell and rolled a few times on the ground and then hit a wall. Minka is coughing while trying to get up, she can taste the blood in her mouth and her back is aching, when she looks at Leanna. Leanna has already passed out. The door is open, and she knows this is her only chance. She took Leanna with her and tried to escape. But as soon as she entered the hallway, the Ravager was waiting there for her.

"All I am asking is for you to work with me. Why can't you just listen." The Ravager asked with her head tilted to one side: "Look at Fran and Emilia. You think this will end well if you run?"

Minka holds her bleeding arm and tries to stand up, but she can only manage to stay on her knees: "I will never work with you!"

"Really?" Ravager suddenly grabs Leanna with one hand and pulls Leanna's neck, while Leanna's feet are hanging on the ground. And the Ravager pulls her weapon with another hand and places it on Leanna's neck, then she said with a cold smile: "Even seeing this? Is this not enough to change your mind?"

Minka's face turned pale, she tried to get up but the pain on her arm stopped her. She is trying to say something, but can't get the words out.

The Ravager sighed and threw Leanna away and put her hand behind her back. Minka can see the look in Ravager's eye. There is not a hint of emotion in there, just like how her mom, Monika Terra looked when she's on duty: "I have ended hundreds of worlds until I got here. Just so I could live the rest of my life without worrying my father, the archivist. Just when I thought I finally had peace after my death, you guys pulled me back here. I can't leave this place until this place is fixed. And I will make sure to do what I am supposed to do, so I can live my life peacefully. So... can't you see? This is just a matter of perspective."

"How... Can you live with yourself after hurting your own family and friends? How can you do it?" Minka is shaking on her knees.

"You have not lived the life that I had to go through. The fact is I am still living the same life I had." Ravager sighs: "And you think it's easy? Having to go through everything... killing thousands... if not millions. Do you think it's easy for me? You don't get to know me! You have no idea how much I lost in this world! But that's okay... it doesn't matter what I feel, only the things that need to get done." She then kneels in front of Minka: "Now... Do you understand why I am doing this? Because I have to. Do you think this is a joke?"

Minka looked into the eye of the Ravager, and she could only see a cold gaze, she then answered with her head down: "No..."

The ravager smiles and says: "That's good." The ravager stood up and helped Minka stand up, then she said: "We are just here to end things... once and for all. And you guys will be the one who will make this world better." The Ravager then points at Minka and Leanna: "Now... I need you and Leanna to go into Emilia's mind and find me something called: The key of the infinite. And in return, I will let you guys go back to your family. Deal?"

"I..."

"Oh sorry, you are not in a position to choose." The Ravager interrupts: "I know I am doing this in an underhand way. But this is for a good cause. Now go get in." She snapped her finger, and Leanna suddenly woke up while her wounds were healing by themselves, she looked around for a bit and asked.

"Where are we?" Leanna is still a bit confused.

Minka then filled in the details for Leanna and the two went inside of Emilia's mind. When they entered Emilia's mind, they saw the world was covered with darkness. Everything is destroyed and crumbled.

"We need to find this key... thing that the Ravager needs..." Leanna is looking around with worry.

Minka nodded, but she felt uneasy about this. She suddenly felt that she was being watched and her sixth sense suddenly triggered. She looks behind and sees a shadow running into the distance: "Wait..." Before she could react, a dagger pierced her shoulder, then she fell down with pain on her shoulder. She looked up and saw a woman standing in front of her, that woman has her eyes filled with hate, it is Emilia, but from her face she could tell that it is one that is filled with torment and hatred.

"I will never let you get the key! You will never take it!" The woman then yells with hatred in her eyes. Her eyes are bloodshot and tears are coming out.

"What... are you doing?" Leanna said while sounding a bit afraid, she held the wounded Minka: "Why are you trying to hurt us?"

“You are sent by her right? You are her pawn! I know! You are here to take the key from me, and you will use the key to hurt more people!" She yells while pointing the knife towards them.

"Wait... we are not with her! We are here to help!" Minka tries to reason.

"You... are a liar!" Emilia dashes towards Minka with a knife, Leanna tries to use her weapon to defend them but Emilia's attack is too fast and too strong. The two got repelled backwards and are now on the floor again.

Minka tries to stand up but she feels the pain in her shoulder is making it difficult. Leanna stood up and tried to reason with her.

"Please stop... we are not going to hurt you! Just hear us out! Please stop! We are just trying to save you and our family!" Leanna pleads, she begins channeling her wind power and slowly emits an aura around her.

Suddenly, Emilia disappeared from the spot, she appeared behind Leanna and tried to stab her with a knife. Leanna turned around quickly and created a strong gust of wind that sent Emilia flying. However, Emilia did not slow down and dashed towards Leanna again with great speed. It is even fast enough that she got close to Leanna before she even landed. Leanna is a bit scared, she tries to focus and gather the energy to repel the enemy away.

However, Emilia suddenly stops moving, the knife that she's holding fell on the ground. She threw some steel balls at Leanna, but they accelerated into the speed of bullets and flew straight towards Leanna.

Minka reacted and jumped towards Leanna while using her psychic energy to redirect the steel ball away from Leanna and herself. However, the speed of the steel balls are still enough to cut Minka's hands and injure Leanna's arms. Minka fell to the ground, and her wound started bleeding again. She looks at Leanna and asks: "Leanna, are you alright?"

Leanna nods while looking at Emilia, who is looking at the two with hatred: "Minka, we can't reason with her... she is not... normal anymore... her mind is shattered and her mind is not even stable anymore..." Leanna sighs and looks at her hands: "It seems that this Emilia has a high speed power as well..."

Minka stands up: "I will fight her." Minka then takes out the dagger in her shoulder: "Lea... when I restrain her... I need you to hit her with your wind, better yet, disable her somehow." She said with a painful expression.

Leanna nods and starts gathering power around her again, and then slowly charges up a powerful strike. Emilia is moving around them like a shadow and tries to stab the two whenever she finds a chance. Minka's eyes glow in faint golden light, she pulls the debris around her with her power and launches them at Emilia, however, Emilia dodges it with ease. But Minka's aim was not at Emilia. When she launches the debris at Emilia, she actually pulls Emilia towards herself with the debris and creates a powerful wave of energy that immobilizes Emilia.

"NOW!" Minka yells at Leanna and pulls Emilia into her embrace. Minka can see a look of horror on Emilia's face.

Leanna launched her wind strike at Emilia, she struck the target and created a big gust of wind that pushed everything away from the spot. When Minka opens her eyes, she can see that Emilia is struggling on the ground. Leanna walked to Minka and helped Minka walk to Emilia: "This should calm her down."

The two walk towards Emilia and see a broken soul on the ground, Emilia has been crying, and her eyes are filled with hatred and fear. Leanna is now looking at Minka with sympathy and worry: "Minka... how are you feeling?"

"I will be fine... we need to get the key for the ravager, i have a plan..." Minka then sat down beside Emilia: "Hey, look. We don't mean to hurt you at all... we just want to find this... thing and help our family out... but... I understand your feelings. This is... horrible and terrible... I would not like to see this as well..."

"Please... I am... just doing what is right..." Emilia is still looking away.

"We are not trying to stop you at all, just trying to get the thing that we need. Just tell me where it is... please." Minka tried to make a smile.

Emilia looks at the two with doubt and disdain: "You two will never be trusted."

Minka sighed and looked at Leanna with a frown on her face, Minka then tried to force her way into Emilia's mind. But she is repelled by a magic spell, it seems that someone has cast a barrier on her mind to keep out others: "No... the mind is protected by something..."

Emilia chuckles: "Now what? Will you kill me?" Emilia said with a face of sadness: "Go ahead and do it, just like she killed my father... I bet that bitch sent you to kill me too..." She then laughs manically: "Do it! I dare you!"

"Emilia... we are in your mind... The ravager can't hear us here, please let us help you." Leanna tried to reason: "Please... you need to calm down... and help us, you are the only one that has the knowledge of where the key is!" Leanna's voice is sounding a bit desperate: "Emilia... look... I don't want to be like your sister... or what she does, please, i want you to help me and Minka. Please..." She then holds Emilia's hand with both of hers: "We can work together... you and i, we can work together and we will fix this. Please Emilia... tell us what you need, so we can help you!" Leanna pleads while she is now looking like she is about to cry.

Emilia remained silent and just shook her head with a face full of sadness: "It is too late, there's no going back... Minka she... she is too far gone now... there's no way to stop her. She didn't just come back... there's more things that had happened to her... the ravager is too dangerous. Please don't let me wake up... just kill me... kill me in here! So that I will never see my sister ever again!" Emilia's voice is breaking and tears are rolling out of her eyes: "She... she will kill everyone..."

"Please Emilia..." Leanna holds on to Emilia's hand: "Tell me how we can stop this, tell me where the key is. Then we will bring you to safety. You will be able to see your friends and family." Leanna tried to smile at Emilia.

"None of them are alive now... Minka is the last family member I have... she is all I have... there is nothing left..." Emilia sighs and says with a sad voice: "I can't kill her... because she's my sister... and i just can't hand over the key, because it contains the secret weapons of our father... so... just leave me alone."

"We will destroy the weapon before the ravager can get her hands on it, just please, let us help you. Let us help everyone. You can't do it by yourself..." Minka then kneels beside Emilia as well: "I know the feeling... I understand..."

Emilia let out a long sigh, probably due to how annoying these two are. Emilia nods and gives a handful of 'energy' to Leanna: "This contains the code to the vault... When you get near it, it will scan you and automatically open... once you are inside the vault. Destroy everything." Then from the horizon a bright light of white appears, Emilia looks at the light and lets out a sigh of relief: "Now... we are back into the real world..."

When the two woke up, they saw that there were some guards that came in. The Ravager and Knight were not with them. Minka looks around and sees Emilia and Leanna are waking up from their 'sleep'. Suddenly, Sannet's voice came from behind: "You are awake." She comes forward and looks at them coldly: "Did she give you the key?"

Minka looks at Sannet, she nods at Leanna: "No... we didn't find anything. She didn't say a single thing." Minka lied.

Sannet frowns, she is a bit doubtful of the two's statements and just walks out without saying a word. The two let out a sigh of relief, Minka looked at Leanna and asked: "How is she? Emilia? Is she okay?"

"I think so." Leanna nodded as she checked out Emilia who is currently passed out on the seat. She checks Emilia's heartbeat and other life signs, Leanna said: "It seems she's just resting, her pulse is stable and everything else is normal." Leanna said with relief in her voice.

"What do we do next?" Leanna asks Minka: "I don't know what you have in your mind, but I don't think we are getting out of here anytime soon. It will be bad news if Sannet comes back and finds out what we did..." Leanna frowns as she thinks.

Minka said while sounding a bit guilty: "Lea, I am sorry to drag you into this. I never thought..."

"You have nothing to apologize for." Leanna interrupts: "It is my choice to join you here, so you can stop beating yourself up. This is just an unfortunate circumstance." Leanna holds on to Minka's shoulder.

"Lea... thank you..." Minka puts her hand on Leanna's and looks into Leanna's eyes: "Thank you... for everything..."

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"You... you are welcome..." Leanna said while feeling a bit shy.

Suddenly they heard clapping noise coming from outside, it was the Knight that came inside and looked at the two with a smug face. She then smiled at the two: "Wow... you two are so sweet." Knight said in a sarcastic tone: "You know... if you guys want to be in your own little world... I can let you be..."

"Enough." Sannet stopped Knight from continuing: "Get on with the business. Do not play around." She then turned her cold gaze to these two.

Knight shrugged her shoulders and asked: "Okay, now. Which one of you got the key from Emilia?" She asked with a smile on her face.

Leanna and Minka looked at each other: "We don't know... she did not say..." Minka answered.

"No problem." The Knight shrugged: "I guess we'll just have to get the answer from her..." She then looks at Emilia and said: "Come on, wakey wakey." She snapped her fingers and suddenly, Emilia's eyes opened but just barely. Then she's staring at the Knight, without speaking.

"Emilia Terra... hello there...again." The Knight said with a big grin.

"Knight." Emilia said with hatred in her voice.

"Oh how i have missed our conversation." The Knight smiles: "Now... I am looking for your daddy's secret stash that is hidden somewhere in your house." The Knight walks to Emilia and holds her by the chin: "And you are going to tell me where it is... and don't be stubborn and all, we both know how it will end."

"It doesn't matter..." Emilia said while shaking her head slowly: "Because you can't go to it." She then laughed while coughing blood at the Knight's face: "You don't know what it is do you?"

"Well, I indeed know very little about it... But I do know that if you don't get me there... these two will die." She pointed at Leanna and Minka: "And it won't be a pretty death either. It will be really painful..."

"..." Emilia's eyes widened, she remained quiet and did not move a bit. She just stares at the Knight in horror.

"Well, looks like she's not talking anytime soon..." Knight looks at Sannet: "Hey you! Help me out a bit!"

Sannet just shrugs her shoulders: "Do what you want..." Sannet then pushed Leanna towards Knight.

"LEA!" Minka attacks Sannet but her attacks are stopped . Minka then suddenly felt a shock that came from the collar she was wearing and then fell to the ground with her head aching from pain.

Leanna struggles and tries to break free, but her struggle does not work, Knight grabs Leanna's hands and holds her arms behind Leanna's back and puts her other hand on Leanna's head: "Now... where do we start?"

Minka crawls towards Leanna but she is restrained by Sannet, Minka can only look at the scene helplessly and shout angrily: "YOU MONSTERS!"

Knight just ignored the two and looked at Emilia, then smiled: "Okay... i want to say this, because you know... you have seen me torture someone before." She said then suddenly dislocated Leanna's arm and pulled her arms behind Leanna's back again.

Leanna yelped from the pain, then suddenly, Minka yelled: "Stop it... STOP IT! We have it! We have the code towards the vault! I got the code, so let her go! I have it! you got the wrong person, Lea knows nothing! It is me!" Minka tries to struggle free, but Sannet's grip is strong: "LET ME GO! PLEASE LET ME GO!"

Knight suddenly stopped moving, she let go of Leanna and Leanna just fell down and curled herself in a fetal position while still having a dislocated arm: "So... where is the code?" Knight looks at Minka with a smug face: "Aren't you a knight in shining armor? Saving the day! Are you?"

Minka looked at the Knight in hatred and with disgust: "Let... go of... of Leanna..." Minka grits her teeth as she asks.

Knight looks at the passed out Leanna then back to Minka and sighs: "Sure... why not..." she then removed the collar on Leanna's neck and reattached the dislocated arm. But Leanna is still passed out on the ground.

"So..." Knight looks at Minka: "You have the code?" She asked.

Minka is not saying a thing.

"Why aren't you answering me? Don't tell me you lied... you lied? I can always have my fun with Emilia or Leanna or you again..." She said as she walked to Emilia.

"NO!" Minka yells at her: "It's in me! The door will open if you just bring me there!" Minka said in anger.

Knight stopped moving and walked back towards Minka, she kneeled beside Minka: "Is that so? Then... Do you want to lead the way? We are all going for a visit to your house. Won't it be nice to show your guests the place you live? Isn't that fun?" She said in a playful tone.

"Minka... don't listen to her..." Emilia tries to yell but then she's being stopped by Sannet. Sannet grabbed Emilia and silenced her mouth.

"I will, as long as you don't do anything to anyone else. If you are just going to hurt more people. You can forget about it." Minka said while glaring at the knight.

Knight shrugs and looks at Minka: "Don't worry about them, I promise you. I will not hurt anyone." She smiled while putting her finger on Minka's face: "Not... at all." Suddenly a twisted grin appeared on her face: "Call me mom, will you? It wouldn't be hard since we look alike... right?" She asked while still smiling.

Minka pulled her head back: "Never." Minka said with hatred in her eyes.

"Oh well, can't win them all." She said as she stood up and let out a deep sigh. Then she looked at Sannet and said: "Let's get ready to move. We are heading towards Terra household. Mommy and daddy never told you right? The vault was right in your house the entire time."

Sannet just nods. And they all move to prepare for departure. Sannet locked Leanna and Fran into the same cell while Knight let Emilia and Minka walk in front of them to the Valkyrie, however, Minka's hands are restrained. They entered the ship and Minka looked back to see Sannet and the Knight were bringing in some devices into the Valkyrie.

They then took off and began heading towards the location of the vault, however, they didn't go to the Terra household, but to the other location that Minka does not recognise. When they got down from the Valkyrie, Knight removed Minka's restraints and smiled: "Go on... let me see your code..." She said,

Minka frowns at Knight, then she begins walking to the area. However, she is still having doubts. She looked behind to see Sannet, Knight and Emilia, all of them following her in a direction. She walked towards a gate in a field, then a machine came out from the ground and said in an emotionless robotic voice.

"You have returned, young miss Terra."

Minka is stunned by the sudden appearance of the machine and takes a step back. But she soon regained her calm and nodded: "Yeah..." Then, the machine began scanning Minka's eye, it stopped for a while, then suddenly after some earth shake, five turrets came out and pointed at Knight and the others, Knight, Sannet and Emilia stopped moving immediately, the machine then said in a monotone voice.

"Warning, this property has detected unauthorized people. They will be eradicated, if the host is willing to grant permissions to them." The machine said with a flat tone.

"NO! Wait... these people... these people are not bad, they are my... guests... my guests. Please do not attack." Minka said in a panicked tone, she tried to explain.

"Acknowledged. Young Miss Terra's statement will be processed." The machine then turns it head to face Minka and then back to face Emilia, Knight and Sannet: "Warning, these guests are armed. They will be disarmed and stripped of any lethal devices on their person, if the young miss is willing to accept it." The machine said.

A wicked smile appeared on Knight's face and suddenly Minka saw her pistol begin moving towards the back of the head of Emilia: "No! it won't be necessary! Please let them keep their weapon, they... will not... will not hurt anyone... or anything..." Minka is looking at the Knight with worry.

"Acknowledged." The machine said: "These people are allowed to keep their weaponry for the time being, any violation of this agreement will result in elimination. Now... young miss Terra. You may enter the vault. Welcome back."

Knight chuckles as the turrets all disappear into the ground again: "Amazing..." Knight said while smiling.

Minka stops Knight and glares at her: "Is this why you brought Emilia?... To threaten her with a gun to make me agree to do everything you wanted me to do? Is it because of your sick amusement?" Minka said in a hateful tone.

Knight smiled at Minka: "Maybe? Or maybe it is the only thing that will get you to comply..." She said in a mocking tone: "Now, are you done questioning me? I would love to go see the vault that belongs to the Archivist..." She then pushed Minka and the four of them began walking to a building behind the gates, as they went past the gate, a beam scanned them. The four continued to walk towards a door. Minka put her hand on a scanner on the side of the wall, and the door opened up to reveal an elevator, the four of them got into the elevator.

The elevator went downwards to a floor with a giant door: "The key to the vault will be the hand of the host, please scan the host's hand to continue."

Minka looked at Emilia for a moment, and then scanned her hand on the device in the door, and it suddenly opened with a giant hiss, and then, it revealed a huge warehouse of all kinds of collections. Weapons, war machines, ancient art pieces, sculptures and other kinds of strange devices, it would take years for a single person to catalog all of them. The knight let out a gasp when she saw this sight, she walked around the place while touching the artifacts with great enthusiasm and interest. Sannet stood at the doorway with Emilia beside her, and they both stood quietly and calmly.

"What are you going to get?" Minka asks while looking at Knight who is touching all of the strange machines and artifacts around the place.

"You'll see soon..." The knight answered while still touching the machine in her hand: "So much technology... so much information. If the Archivist knows that this is here, he will go crazy." She said as she touched the artifact in her hand with care: "Too bad that your father teleported the entire thing away before he could get his hand on it."

"So what are you planning to do? Are you trying to revive him or something? To let the Archivist revive his dead wife? He will kill millions to revive his wife..." Minka asks, but the Knight does not answer. She just continued to observe the objects inside.

Then after some time, she stopped moving. The Knight sighed and put down the things she was holding and looked at Minka with a smile: "So... Do you know how the Archivist came into his name?"

Minka did not answer but remained quiet.

"You see... he has the tendency of collecting all kinds of objects and information from different races. He has the technology from the necrons, eldars, humans and more. He even has the weapon from the demons themselves..." Knight walks closer to Minka, then suddenly grabbed Minka's hand, and put a strange looking device on her hand: "But... it was all because of this... this thing... this is a dimensional gate. A portal to another realm...that he gave up saving his world. Instead, he put the entire population inside that gate." She then activated the artifact in Minka's palm, suddenly a projection of a entire planet appeared, it has people on the surface, there are people in the air. Everyone is doing something: "Don't you see? He collects information, everything he encounters will be turned into digital form... all the people and places... everything that is going on in here. Is turned into a database." The knight suddenly drops the artifact and stomps it to dust.

"You... How can you do this? There's people living here... there's life!" Minka said with shock and horror: "This is..."

"This is how he will live... he has his copies in digital form. Anything that is even remotely connected with technology will have his trace of 'consciousness', no matter how weak they are... but the weak part will not be a problem for the Archivist..." She turned back to the rest of the room and sighed: "It's too bad that I have to kill them...All of these machines... all of these precious technologies that can be beneficial for the imperium... All gone, because of you and your family's incomprehensible attachment towards a world that was never meant to be..." She pushes Minka on the nearby wall: "Say the words: Activate self detonation. This is the right thing to do." The Knight said with a serious expression, her face is void of all emotion and her eyes are just empty.

Minka looks at Knight: "Are you crazy?" Minka struggled but it was of no use: "Those are treasures for humanity, how can you do this?"

Knight just smiles and pushes Minka's face against the wall, on the glance Minka could see, Sannet kneeled down Emilia and pulled out her sword: "Say the words! Activate self-destruct sequence!" She yells while looking at Emilia with anger.

Emilia just closed her eyes and lowered her head in resignation. She did not even flinch or say a word, she just took all the abuse as it is.

Minka closed her eyes in frustration: "Okay! I will say it... please, don't hurt anyone..." Minka looked at Sannet and said in a helpless tone.

Knight smiled and released Minka and walked back to Sannet with a smile: "That's my good little girl!"

"I hate you..." Minka looked at Knight in anger, and then took a deep breath and said in a low and quiet voice: "Activate... self detonation..." Suddenly the entire vault began glowing in red light and beep sounds began sounding all over the place: "Warning... Self destruct sequence is now activating, self destruct sequence in 5 minutes." A monotone female robotic voice rang through the entire vault.

"Great. We should go... we don't want to stay here." Knight then turned to the direction of the entrance while smiling: "And remember, you are still not done..." The Knight looked back to Minka.

Minka stared at the Knight for a bit before going back to the elevator and getting back up. Then suddenly, when she was outside, the earth started to shake. Knight smiled and started the valkyrie to get away from the area. Then suddenly, a big explosion happened, Minka and Emilia both looked back, and a bright white light emerged from the ground. They saw a white dome like light forming from the surface. The ground began to crumble and everything within the area is now being covered by the white dome of energy.

Emilia remained silent the entire time, and did not move an inch, she just remained at her spot with her eyes looking at the dome in silence. When the entire vault is covered, the dome suddenly shrunk into a singularity and disappeared, the ground returned to the way it was. Then Knight turned on her communication device and said in a cheerful voice: "Hey Ravager... it's done... The vault is no more, now we need to get to the next thing." She then closed the communicator and let Sannet take over. She then walks over to Minka and Emila and sits on a nearby seat.

Minka remained silent but she can feel her hand is still trembling a bit, she looks at the knight who is smiling at her with an amused expression: "So... how are you feeling?" Knight asked: "Are you going to be the hero and try to take the pain?" She asked with an evil grin.

Minka looks away. She feels really uncomfortable looking at Knight in the eyes. She is still shaking with rage. She does not bode well when being threatened to do things. Minka grits her teeth and lets out a long and deep sigh: "What do you want? Just tell me... so you can get on with it." She said in a resentful tone.

"So eager to find out?" The knight smiles while she's looking at Minka: "Why don't I tell you about the past history between me and your parents. Then you will see... how your parents really are... and how you will eventually meet the same fate." Knight smiled with a grin on her face, she said while holding Minka by the face.

"..." Minka didn't answer and remained silent.

Knight laughed for a bit, then suddenly the grin disappeared from her face and is now rather... emotionless: "I was a prisoner held by the Archivist, I was one of the Monika in his travels that could not be contained and thus imprisoned in a cage to study... that was until, your mother came. She found a way out then opened the door. She... then took me to this world." She sighed as she let go of Minka's face, but still looked at Minka's eyes: "After we killed the Archivist, I traveled through many worlds, too many to count. But all I see are... ruins, death and destruction. I realized that the chances of this world's survival is infinitely small and is getting smaller as each day passes..." The Knight then stood up from the chair and looked at Sannet who is now flying the Valkyrie: "When Minka came back, i sensed her thought, it was only for the person she connected with, that was the same for Sannet as well... We decided to help the ravager to fulfill her mission to save the world. Just because without this one... we are doomed."

Minka frowned while she was looking at the Knight in front of her. She feels that the Knight's words are... rather honest, and she is now starting to feel a bit confused, she does not understand the motive behind the Knight and Sannet: "But you can't just take over our world... the people of this world, the lives they have, it can't just be erased, you are killing innocent lives for something that may not happen!" Minka tries to explain.

"A small sacrifice for a larger cause... it is what's necessary..." She shrugged her shoulders: "The lives of a million people, is nothing to me or anyone... the only person that we want to protect... is the person that we care for and ourselves. That's the truth, we have to do this before it's too late."

"What a load of bullcrap..." Emilia, who has remained quiet, finally said something while looking at Knight with a look of scorn and resentment: "When you say that it means you do not care about saving the world... the world never needed you to save, it's the people that need saving from you and that monster..." She spat with hatred: "My sister she... was always like this, even when she was in the heroes of the imperium. All she does is...kill... to get what she wants." Emilia sighed in resignation, then looked up and glared at Knight with anger: "You are supporting a person that is exactly like my father, he... he only wants the world that he likes and does not care what happens to everyone else!" Emilia clenched her fists in rage: "Eventually she will kill anyone that stands in her way." She said in a cold tone.

Minka looks at Emilia, she is not saying anything. But Minka has heard her loud and clear.

Knight looked at Emilia with a face of surprise, she then let out a chuckle: "Now aren't you an insightful one... but what can you do?" Knight shrugged again: "All I am doing is helping my friends." She then looks at Minka again, who is looking at Emilia with sympathy, Knight lets out another sigh: "Once you gain perspective on life... you will eventually see the bigger picture."

"Bigger picture is just an excuse for you people to murder. No one else's death is as meaningless as you make them out to be! Not when you can live and grow! You don't have the right to destroy someone's future based on your own 'perspective'!" Emilia stands up and yells at the Knight in fury and hate: "You can never have the right!"

Knight shrugged again, then looked Emilia in the eyes: "So what?" She said calmly.

The Valkyrie continued flying to their destination. When they arrived in the area, they were greeted with the Ravager and Leanna standing in front of the Terra household. Minka walks over to Leanna and hugs her: "Are you alright? Did the ravager hurt you?" Minka looks at Leanna with a look of concern and worry, Minka asks while touching Leanna's face, checking if Leanna is injured.

Leanna let out a small laugh while touching Minka's face in a shy way: "I am fine, the ravager... didn't do anything." She then smiles: "I am glad to see that you are fine as well. How is Emilia?" Leanna looks at Emilia and waves to her, Emilia nods to her, but the bruises on Emilia's face are clearly visible. Leanna then looked at Sannet with a bit of fear, she looked away after making eye contact with her.

Minka suddenly hugs Leanna tighter, Leanna blushes a bit.

Sannet didn't say a word to Leanna and looked at Knight: "You can go and rest now, I will take these two in myself." Sannet turned to Leanna and Minka then pulled their shoulders apart: "Stop doing this nonsense... I have something to show you both, come with me." She said while looking at the Knight who nodded at her, she then looked at Minka and Leanna and brought them to the basement.

They came to the door where there is a security panel on it, Sannet then put in the password on the padlock, suddenly it opened the door. Inside it, it reveals a rather nice furnished room.

"Why is this room so fancy..." Minka looked at Sannet in suspicion and doubt, then entered the room while holding Leanna's hand.

"Minka?" Suddenly Emilia's voice came from the room: "Big sis! Minka!" She then hugged Minka.

"Emilia..." Minka hugged Emilia: "How come... you are here? How is this possible?" She then looks at Sannet.

"..." Sannet remained quiet and did not explain: "Take a rest, I will come back later to talk to you four." She then walked out and closed the door.

"Four?" Minka looked around and her father walked out from the room: "Dad? Did the Ravager capture you as well?"

Trazyn let out a sigh and looked at Minka: "No, it is just some unfortunate circumstances that I was kept here and forced to do things..." He lets out a long and deep sigh: "Minka, I am sorry, I can't do anything but this. Please understand... and don't resist..." Trazyn said in a sad tone.

"...." Minka looked at Trazyn and just remained quiet. She suddenly looks into her father's eyes, and sees the same sadness she saw before, it's like... her father is trying to tell her something. Minka did not know what he wanted to say, but she could tell it was something important.

Leanna suddenly pulled Minka towards her: "Minka... I think... you should rest for a bit. You look like you haven't had any sleep..." Leanna said in a worried tone.

"Yeah... yeah... you are right..." Minka looks at Leanna with a smile.

Minka then lies on the couch while Emilia also sits on the couch. Then Leanna came with a pillow and blanket and gave them to Minka.

"Thank you, Lea." Minka puts the pillow down and lays on the couch. She looks at Leanna and smiles: "I... I will just rest a bit, you should get some rest too..." Minka said, and then she closed her eyes.

Emilia sat beside her sister, she didn't speak a word but just looked at Minka and gently caressed Minka's hair. Leanna then looks at her uncle, who is now also looking at her. She can tell that he is trying to tell her something, but what was it? Leanna was confused, she was not sure. Suddenly her vision turned gray, everything in the room became black and white. She looks around, none of them are moving.

Leanna then hears the voice of her uncle: "Leanna... can you hear me?" He asks in a serious tone.

"Yes, I can hear you, Uncle Trazyn. What's going on?" Leanna asks, while still looking around, she sees that everyone is still, and time seems to have stopped.

"I have no time, so I will make this brief. Look at Minka." Minka is currently glowing in lime green light above her head. Her face is not moving and her eyes are closed.

"Is that... the deathmark? How is it possible?" Leanna asks while still looking at the glow of the deathmark: "Why is there a deathmark on Minka's head." Leanna asked in a concerned tone.

"I have no clue, there's no other necrons on this world as I know of... but whoever put this will soon act on Minka." Trazyn answered.

"What can I do? There must be something..." Leanna looks around: "I read in the stories that no one can escape from the deathmark, they only have hours in their life. So what can we do?"

"Leanna... I know you can do this... the only way to get rid of the deathmark is to kill the person who issued the contract. I don't know who, but I will teleport you out of this place in an instant, and send you to the place where you can find the answers." Trazyn said in a resolute tone.

"But..." Leanna was hesitant, she doesn't know if she can do it, the person who is behind the deathmark will not be a small fish. Leanna is not even confident that she can escape the grasp of the people that are around them.

"Please... save my daughter... time works differently here than outside... you will have enough time, believe me." Trazyn said.

"Okay... I will try..." Leanna nods.

"Good."