Ch#07 the Lab
The SUVs front door opened and a pair of slender legs could be seen poking out of the car followed by a woman in a professional cut blue suit. Unperturbed by the rain drenching her body she crudely swept back her snow white hair.
“Finally here”
The woman was obviously possessed by Brian. He proceeded towards the front metal gate but he found it chained up and locked shut. The lock itself had rusted through the passage of time. Brian shifted his eyes to a carving done on the side wall
‘Home to Professor Brian Nicolas’
Brian sighed “time truly is unforgiving”
By applying a bit of force the lock gave a shrill crunching noise and fell off, “they could have used a better quality lock”
Using a considerable amount of force, Brian with much difficulty opened the metal gate
What greeted him was a wide clearing and a cemented pavement with lush bushes at the side leading to the buildings entrance. The bushes had overgrown, the building looked old it had cracked dusted windows and the paint was falling apart.
It had been almost 3 years since he stepped into the building. According to his memory the entrance to the lab should be an elevator in the basement. Making his way to the entrance he saw the glass door with just its outer frame. The inside of the building was in shambles.
“It seems that in the past year, my home has already been ransacked. Hopefully my private lab has remained intact”
The elevator to his lab had a code input. Anyone without the knowledge would think of it as a store room instead of an entrance leading to a place filled with high tech machinery.
Making his way down the emergency stairs Brian stood in front of a wooden door with a metallic store sign. Grasping the nob and twisting it the door opened. Taking a deep breath he walked inside.
The interior of the room was dark and empty. Brian walked to a corner and randomly pressed on the wall.
BEEP
With a robotic noise a panel came out of the wall. The display had a numeric keypad and a blank space with the word “enter pin” on the top.
“Got to appreciate solar energy, thankfully the lab still has power”
Brian entered the pin, the panel slid back into the wall and with a buzzing noise the whole room began to light up
The floor tremored and the whole room started to move downwards. When the elevator stopped a sliding door opened in front of him. Passed the door Brian could see white tiles with white ceiling and various machines and panels beeping with robotic sounds
“Back home” Brian caressed the pendant, “hopefully I’ll get some answers”
Walking on the white tiles Brian stood in front of a meter tall circular machine, pushing a button on the side panel Brian heard a monotonous robotic voice.
“Welcome professor, please confirm instructions”
Facing the circular machine he shouted, “Perform a full body CAT scan”
“Affirmative” rays of blue light shot out of the circular machine enveloping every part of brains body. After a few seconds the moving lights went back into the machine. A series of statistical data appeared on the panel screen
Looking at the data his brows creased into a frown “Nothing, not a single abnormality”
Having predicted the outcome Brian couldn’t help but being regretful
“Like I thought magic is completely obscured. Energy from a different dimension”
Having achieved nothing he went to the prototype section, throughout his life Brian had been researching energy. He tried to find new more efficient forms of energy and one of his life’s works was lying in front of him
“I never thought that I’ll be touching this ever again”
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A silver colored .44 semi auto magnum desert eagle is what it looked like but its interior was completely different. Its body was made of a special alloy called Termatium with a tensile strength twice that of titanium and a weight lighter than steel. In its interior Brian had constructed a mini energy reactor, its purpose was to use the formed energy in place of the conventional bullets and gun powder creating a prototype for a laser gun.
Failing to produce enough energy the project was termed a failure, opening his third eye Brian looked at the two crystals hovering in the vortex
“Let’s see what happens if magic is used in the reactor” grasping the pistol in his hands Brian slowly with extreme concentration welled a crystal out of the vortex. The crystal made its way through his hands to slowly fall into the reactor.
When touching the reactor, the crystal as if influenced by brains thought burst into treads of black energy which started to seep into each corner of the gun, starting through the reactor the whole body of the pistol went through a dramatic change. Various black lines started to appear on its exterior giving its already elegant body a devilish charm. After changing the whole body the remaining mana settled into the now mutated reactor
“How in the…” Brian could feel a connection formed between him and the gun. He felt that as long as he welled it, the energy stored in the reactor would immediately burst out leaving through the barrel.
Brian body started to shiver, his hand grasping the pistol tightened, “finally, I knew it”
It had been ages since he felt this much excited. He had finally completed one of his unfinished works. Also now he had found a way to use his magic offensively
“Would this be considered as magic?” shaking his head Brian went to the center of the room, the whole wall was fitted with a giant computer screen. Typing on the keyboard he tried to look for former sightings of Espers
“Hopefully I might get a lead to what I am supposed to do by these so called Espers”
After an hour of search, he managed to hack into the local police network. Form the database he found that the police had found traces of a supernatural phenomenon in Yoyogi Park
“Hmm, the locals seemed to have reported repetitive sightings of an Esper every Sunday” looking at the clock, today was also Sunday. Clenching the pistol in his hands a confident smile appeared on his pale face
***
Standing in the alley the rain had stopped pouring. Robin was inspecting the bodies of two hoodlums
“You said it was reported by a woman”
An annoyed voice replied through his ear piece “yes, how many times you have to ask”
“But i-”
“Shut it. Let me finish, according to the lady she was being assaulted by the two men when they started to freak out and then, boom they died”
“Hmm, so our previous speculation was right” robin scratched his head filled with red hair, “ahh… fuck it, so did you get any results from the sample”
“No the labs are still processing it. I’ll send you the location when they are done searching for his mana signature”
“Hey roxy why are you so useless”
“haaa… what did ya say dickhead, you want to die” robin had said it as a joke but having his ears tortured by the strings of unending curses he sighed
“Shit, alright I am sorry. I’ll never do it again”
“…”
Seeing her unresponsive behavior robin started to sweat fuck she’s going to skin me when I’ll go back to the headquarters
“Hey dickhead, we tracked that son of a bitch” came Roxys sweet voice in complete contrast with her choice of words
“Huh… send me the location” jumping on his bike robin started the engine causing the exhaust to blow up smoke
“The target is mobile and seems to be moving towards Yoyogi Park, you better get this job done cuz you owe me dinner”
“haa?… got it” turning the bikes throttle Robin sped out of the alley leaving only the sound of the engine reverberating.
Driving the brown SUV Brian he reached the Park, the sun had just risen and the trees were still wet with rain creating a humid atmosphere. The surrounding was quiet and peaceful. The birds were sitting on top of the trees bathing in the morning light.
Shoving the gun behind his back, Brian activated the pendant
Name: Brian Nicolas.
Age: 24(possessed)
Gender: Female (possessed)
Class: (level 01) Magician. Special Class: (level 01) Soul warrior.
Blessings/curses:
Curse of the abyss: increases your affinity with dark elements by 10%
Blessing of virtue: increases your affinity with light elements by 10%
SP(soul points): 100/100
MP(magic power/Mana) light magic: 5/5
Dark magic: 2/5
HP(health points): 50/50
Strength: 1
Perception: 5
Endurance: 2
Agility: 1.2
Abilities
Dark magic (user should be at level 2 to unlock an ability)
MACRON swallower (lv 1): allows you to swallow 3 MACRON’s per day.
Light magic (user should be at level 2 to unlock an ability)
Special class abilities
Soul possession (lv 1): allows the user to possess a single soul
Possession: 1/1