- Oh, civilians. - she said, at the same time that she raised her hand, attracting the silver liquid that upon reaching it turned into a metal sphere. Then she said, after seeing the red arrows stuck in our protagonists, somewhat disappointed. - And to think THAT guy is one rank higher than me... Agh.
"And it's already the third time he's done something similar? How does he keep getting promoted? No, what matters now is... Searching for the source of that spiritual energy. It must be on this floor."
The group was stunned... Although I couldn't tell if Victor was.
- Come with me, young people. - said the girl. - You're already saf-
Without even finishing, that girl quickly attacked Victor, turning her sphere into several blades that were aimed at them and, on top of that, she covered Mat's PSI barrier sphere. Mat and Victor reacted quickly to this. Victor protected themselves with their tentacles, while Mat covered him with a double light blue PSI barrier, as well as all the metal coming out of the sphere (up to the girl's hand). Nothing happened to the barrier sphere that was enclosing the other monster.
- Ah - the girl was surprised after seeing Mat using his PSI Creations and shielding the artificial/mutant monster.
- Weren't you supposed to get us out of here? - Mat demanded. - Why are you attacking us?
- B-but... - said the girl.
"So... He was the one emanating that?"
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- Oh, here they are and... Wow, Agent Shield, you made it this far already? I'm impressed. - Said a man dressed in black coming the way the group had come. His hand was glued to the wall and, from his fingers, red arrows were sticking out. - Ah, sorry, sorry.
He said that to the group, and pulled out the red arrows. When they came out, his wounds healed.
- Where the hell were you, Hunter? - complained the girl and easily got away from Mat's PSI Creation.
- Huh? - Mat.
- You disappeared out of nowhere and...
- Ah, I started investigating this whole place looking for civilians and...
While they were talking. James remarked to Mat in a low voice.
- He said Agent, didn't he? What's that about agent... Or something?
- I don't know, but it's... - Mat replied.
- Are they government agents?
- I-I guess, and so... Huh?
- Mat, Mat. - Nicole said, tugging at his clothes. She was scared, confused, surprised and calmer than before, for some reason. All that at the same time.
- Huh? Yeah?
- ...They seem to have powers just like you. - she told him.
- ...Right.
When Mat said that, three men who seemed to be soldiers shouted from above, from the hole caused by Agent Shield . How weird to name them like that... Well, the thing is that they asked them what the situation was and brought everyone up, after explaining Victor's situation and handing them the other creature.
At that moment, while everyone was coming back to the surface with... Those people, Nicole said to herself:
- I'm lost already, I don't know what's going on. It seems like a fever dream now...
"Me neither." - Victor thought to themselves.
Everyone shuddered when they spoke.
- So... This one speaks directly to the mind... - Hunter said, in a half-mocking tone. - That's scary.
- If you're going to say that, you'd better shut up. - Shield replied.
Already on the surface there were more subjects that seemed to be soldiers or something like that. They had come out of a church, it was dusk and it seemed that the area had been quarantined. Outside there were trucks and cars... It looked like they were putting containment on other monsters or mutants that the group didn't encounter (and the ones they did encounter. The zombies those were in a metal cage that was surrounded by aura) and some people in the process of transformation, plus the members of that church, of course (and that some had those flames). The artificial monsters they were containing were those who seemed to have little reasoning. Victor was treated like a normal human despite his condition.
"Uh... Wait, today is my anniversary with Sam! No, it was... It can't be... It's already late too... What am I going to tell her now? Wait, what are we going to tell our families?"
Besides that, Agent Shield tried to calm the group down, after seeing Mat's worried face, and briefly explained the situation to them. She also mentioned to them that it was a weird cult that was behind this:
Near the area of that church there were disappearances of people happening, and not just there, all over the state (although... This wasn't just happening there, it was happening all over the world). In addition to suspicious activity in that area, there was also a kind of strange energy, so "they" had to act to prevent it from escalating. Something like that was explained to them. Oh, and the group told that the monsters they found were talking and that they wanted to be killed (Nicole told what the others didn't hear, about the "the one with no name" or "the nameless one"), this worried Shield... Well, not much, but it did make her think.
"...Why are you telling us all that" Mat thought at the time.
Besides that, when she left, Mathias heard some gunshots in the distance, and when he asked about it to his friends, they said they didn't hear anything. This worried Mathias a lot.
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- In the end I didn't find the people running this place. - Hunter said to Shield and other soldiers, who only listened. - Wow, but ... How is it that they leave such an important place just like that?
- And of the eight we found, there are already three that are like this? - Shield said. Although... Only two were from the United States. - And the people we captured don't tell us anything either, don't you think this is...?
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- Nah, what I think is that it's more a lousy organization on the part of that strange sect, since this place seemed almost abandoned. - he replied. - If we ignore those creatures...
- And the worst thing is that we can't do anything against them, since they are a well-known cult in the world. - Shield said.
- Although... Maybe what you said is true. - added Hunter. - Maybe this is all a facade
- Hmm... Let's go over everything we have so far. - she said.
That religious group, at first glance, appeared to be a normal Christian religious cult, a Protestant one, but... In its teachings put a lot of emphasis on the appearance of the antichrist, which they called the Devil's Spawn.
It had been founded about 60 years ago (and currently had many members, more than 400,000), but evidence of their activities had been found for three years.
Their experiments were done on humans (mostly), and their test subjects ranged from followers of the group to outsiders. Most of these experiments were for medicinal purposes (using humans as test subjects). They performed vivisections, rare surgeries, etc.), but... They also had experiments to increase spiritual power, to test the potential of these abilities and the creation of artificial monsters (in these, the test subjects could die. In most cases, the body was unrecognizable).
Although... In itself, the Organization (and the Committee... Although, well, the Organization was part of it, but... I think I said too much already) did almost the same thing (the experimenting with humans, not the other), only with people who had been condemned to death and not with any person (supposedly), but... Other than that, having another entity that wasn't part of them was... Dangerous.
Also, the first conclusion they came to was the one already mentioned: to make the cult disappear. But if it disappeared, it was going to generate confusion and panic with the general population.
In addition, their current leader was only seen on a few occasions, assuming that this individual, of whom there is no information, was their leader. His current whereabouts are unknown.
Due to the lack of information, a group of C-Rank agents of the Organization infiltrated the cult. At the beginning everything was normal, so they decided to move up ranks in the church (except one, who decided to gather information differently), but... It didn't turn out as they expected. They were caught. Of them, only one returned. That agent came back traumatized and with a VHS tape. When he gave it to his superiors, he automatically perished.
After an autopsy, they discovered that his brain and heart had melted, due to an aura-based ability that was activated once the conditions he had been given were met. In the video he brought back, it showed how they tortured those agents. They experimented on one apparently.
This is pretty much a summary of all the information they had and this is what they discussed, in part, although some of the things shown there were for you to have context.
- This is horrible... - Shield said.
- Yes, it is. - said one of the soldiers. - If this gets out worldwide, it's going to be a problem, but... If it just leaks out that the cult was a front for human experimentation, there's not going to be much of a problem, in a sense.
- But if the other thing leaks out... - said another of the soldiers. He was talking about Spirit Power and those monsters. They didn't know about the cult's other plans.
- That would be a very serious problem. - Hunter replied to the soldiers. - Although... It wouldn't be the first time something like this could happen either.
- What? - Shield replied.
- Come on, don't take it so seriously. - Hunter replied. - These things happen, and we work them out in the end, so don't worry so much.
- ...Okay.
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In a nearby place... That is, in the distance (?), in the forest. They were observing what was happening in and around the church.
- Another one they found... - said someone with a familiar voice... Too much, I think... Wait, I think I'm ruining this already... Never mind.
- Yeah, but... It's not like we need them anymore either. We have enough... Besides, this one was kind of outdated. - said another, in a more nasal voice.
- Yeah, but... We couldn't hold the "Hero"? - he said, and thought: "Besides... With the information I provided you, it was for you to do something else, it wasn't for you to kidnap him..." - Well, in your religion they call him the "Devil's Spawn", right?
- Yes, yes... - said the other in a nasal voice. - But... It doesn't really matter, I was expecting something like that to happen.
- Yes, but... Agh. Even though this place was "obsolete" as you say, we didn't have to abandon it like this... - said a third one, with a voice a bit more... Thin or high-pitched... Younger than the other two.
- Complain all you want to me, but I'm not the one giving the orders.
- All right, well... Well, I'm going to leave. - said the younger one. - I have things to do.
- That's all right. - said the one with the nasal voice - We'll stay and watch for a while longer.
- Yes, although YGGDRASYL will take care of this. - said the one with the familiar voice. - I want to see if they do their job well.
- Ah, did they send you to supervise them too?
- No, I do it because I want to.
- I see. Well, I'll see you.
- Bye. - the one with the nasal voice.
He left.
The other one, after watching for a while, said to the one with the nasal voice:
- Well, that's enough, they took them all away. Now we have somewhere to go. Let's go.
- All right.
"Besides, I have to test it."
And so they did, they left the place.
Ah, yes. They reduced their spiritual power or aura so as not to be detected.