Chapter 19: Prophecy

The group stumbled upon many enemies as they walked down the cave, goblins, slimes, giant spider monsters, mechanoids...etc. before stumbling upon a large cavern and at the end of it was a giant silver door with large golden handles.

"Yo, these handles are made of gold!" Elliot exclaimed "We can break this door apart and make a lot of money"

"We'll have to report this to the adventurer guild, I doubt we can break these apart without facing consequences" Nova advised "Though we will be able to keep the treasures we find inside"

"Damon, can you open it?" Perseus asked

"Way ahead of you" Damon said as he then pushed the door opened

What was awaiting them through the doors was several giant mechanoids 5 times their size in a giant room lit by blue colored lights guarding another door. The mechanoids got up and took something off their backs, it was giant swords or giant hammers.

"I would go into my dragon form, but I might destroy the cave in the process" Damon commented

"Um, Perseus, you know what tier that is?" Elliot gulped

"Um a mechanoid that size is usually at least a tier 8, and only a party of experienced high tiered adventurers usually tier 7 to tier 9 can get rid of them" Perseus answered as he switched to his guns "We all might need to be involved this time, because once those guys are activated, it will usually lock onto the weakest target and pick us off one by one"

"Can we outrun it?" Nova asked

"Use long range attacks and aim for the single eye in the middle of their heads, our attacks aren't strong enough to kill it, but we can at least stun it for a few seconds" Perseus replied hastily "Emma and Elliot you get on Wilson and fly around their heads as Elliot shoot their eye, the rest of us will split up in small groups and help them distract it as Damon and Diana kill them, shoot their eyes when you get the chance"

"And I thought that I was the commander here" Nova said quite impressed "Well you guys heard him, split!"

"Ace, Siege come with me, we're the weakest here" Perseus and the 2 then split from the group as the mechanoids started to come after them

"Isn't Emma weaker than you?" Ace asked as they ran

"She is, but with Wilson and Elliot with her, they will come after us" Perseus then looked back as 2 were coming after them

He then charge them up to shoot 2 powerful blast into the eyes at the center of their head and stunning them at the spot for a few seconds

"Tch, that was a powerful shot to kill a person as well" Perseus clicked his tongue

Siege tried to freeze their feet in place and Ace tried to shoot wind blades at them, but the mechanoids easily broke the ice and the wind blades barely left a scratch.

Elliot would create an arrow out of lightning and shoot the eyes and stun them in their place, Nova and Dabria would come out of hiding to use their arcana to do some damage as their spells exploded at contact

"Well we did some damage" Dabria commented

"Yeah, but let's stall, Perseus said that one of these guy usually take a group to take one down, but we're facing a couple of em" Nova replied as they then run around

Diana was using intense flames to blast them apart and Damon would break them apart with his fist.

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"That was fun" Damon said as he brushed off dust from his clothes

"I don't think it was fun for them, brother" Diana pointed to the tired adventurers

"They were this close to swatting us of the sky" Emma panted

"Swatted?! I think we were almost sliced in 2, I'm surprised that I'm still alive" Elliot added "Let's rest for a bit before we open those doors, I didn't prepare myself for this"

"Well I'm not arguing with that" Nova said "Let's just do some easy bounty hunting for our next mission, even if we go back now, we will easily get a promotion"

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Damon pushed open the door and what awaited them on the other side was a small room filled with a few pile of gold coins and some treasures lying around. At the opposite end of the room was a jade fragment.

"I found you" a voice whispered into Perseus' ears, it wasn't just a regular voice, it sounded like several of them speaking at the same time

"You guys heard that?" Perseus asked the others

"No" Ace replied as he looked around "And our hearing should be better than yours, maybe you're just tired"

"Yeah...maybe that was it" Perseus tried to ignore it but something about that voice unsettled him

"Look at all these treasures!" Emma exclaimed as she then ran to pick up one of the sword from the ground "We can keep these right?"

"Uh yeah, but please be careful, by the way you're swinging it, we might end us a meat skewers" Dabria warned

"This fragment...the curve edges, the full piece must be a circle" Nova observed the fragment before looking up onto the wall "Anyone know this writing?"

It was an unknown language written on the white wall.

"This looks like the writings that father Jake taught Siege" Ace chimed in

"Yeah, it was the ones he used to write in his journal too" Perseus added

"Where's his journal then?" Elliot asked

"H sent it away somewhere before he died, he didn't tell us where though" Perseus answered

"Siege, can you translate it?" Nova asked

"A dark night will come, a night like no other, where blood shall water the soil. A war will arise, and a new legacy will be written" Siege read it aloud

"It sounds like some sort of prophecy or a warning" Perseus commented "And this fragment has got something to do with it, maybe we should turn this in to the adventurer guild and keep the rest"

"Yes, I would agree, some treasures just aren't meant to be kept" Siege agreed

"Yeah, too much responsibilities for people as young as us" Ace nodded

"Wanna vote on it?" Nova asked

"Nah" Elliot waved him off "I read stories man, these kind of things doesn't end well in stories"

"Yeah, these other treasures will make up for it" Dabria agreed and pointed to the gold coins and shiny weapons "These kind of things are better kept with the adventurer guild"

"We must never be assembled, we must never be together" the voice said again "Lives will be lost"

"Who's we?" Perseus looked around again, panicking a bit.

"But if it was to happen, unite everyone, it will be the only way to win" The voice said before going quiet