Burning hall
CHAPTER 27
I and anna ducked down under our table as we looked on at the display of Dr Enoch being unscathed by the intense flames, the girl kept blasting him at an even faster rate unrelenting, despite how cold the Air conditioners were her flames were much hotter, the temperature was so high it started scorching those who weren't even in the front row, unexpectedly the people at the far end of the hall weren't oblivious it either.
The security don't seem to mind the heat, they stood stationary like NPCs.
But... something was off, at this temperature why aren't we dying from the heat?
Isn't our outfits supposed to catch fire?
"Now everyone I do apologize for her behaviour, I believe everyone is alright?" Dr Enoch said.
After a few more attempts the girl seized her barrage of flames and decided to charge straight at him with her fist covered in fire, she aimed for his face and other regions of his body but he dodged every one of her assaults with ease. He held her down and put his knee on the back of her neck.
"He's going too far!"I said.
I stood up but Anna dragged me down and pinned my wrist on the table
"And what were you going to do? Blow our cover? Save her? then what?!"Anna.
"I can't believe you'd say that, I guess my opinion of you was wrong, you're no Saint"
"I-i think you have the wrong idea here, we can't blow our cover, if we do we might miss out on valuable information"
"What value would that information have if we can't even save one girl, I joined this so we could help people."
"Don't give yourself the title of "Saviour" just because you learnt a few tricks, if we want to help, we need to learn more about what his new art is to take away gra-, er I mean abilities, so quit your complaining and just watch."
"Fine, I get it."
I looked around and saw everyone was partly alright,(If you don't count emotional trauma), was I just imagining her heat was that high? No, I couldn't have been, the tables are smoking, I can't be exaggerating it.
"Are the people in the front alright?" He said.
They were alright despite them being the closest to the inferno.
"The outfits I gave you all were made of flame retardant materials, I gave them out as a form of extra security measures to make sure something like this doesn't muddle the mood, plus, I put up a cold force field to tamper with the temperature of her flames, but it looks like she's stronger than expected."
The guests looked both confused and scared.
"What the hell was that?!!" Guest #1 yelled
"Yeah, are you trying to kill us?!" Yelled a female guest #22
"Is she some kind of devil?!" Male guest #19
Oh, the cards that we gave them down at reception when we came in had numbers on them, real names weren't allowed to be used here to avoid conflict.
"Take it, easy everyone, I apologize for her whole ordeal but she isn't a devil or anything like that, she's a normal human like us... I would appreciate it if you can allow me to explain"
"We're not going to stay here waiting to be killed by some devil child!"Guest #1 yelled.
A few other attendees agreed to this and walked in the direction of the door.
"If you want to leave, leave, I'm not stopping you, but when the ones who choose to stay find out the path of the next level of humanity and get powers that far surpass your understanding of the world, don't come crawling back."
His words stopped them in their tracks.
"Now if you want me to explain more on this kindly take your sits, "he said with a grin on his face.
We were about 40 people in the hall, the ones who were about to leave were 18 in number and the ones that stayed after he said that were 10.
"I've mentioned what gave her her ability, grace, but do you know how it's attained?"
He waved his hand across the room, the scorch marks and the embers left by her flames vanished like it was never there.
"Grace is a chance gotten when an Individual has gone through hardship, not just any hardship mind you, Soul crushing, heartbreaking, bitter, emotionally traumatic hardship that breaks you mentally and spiritually.
"The human soul is what connects us to a place outside of the world we know, a greater world, a heavenly world."
"The human soul is a symbol of hope, and once that hope gets corrupted with despair beyond belief It slowly breakdown, thus grace is granted to us as a means of repair, It mends the bitterness within, it comforts our broken mind, and heals our fear-filled hearts, so if by chance you've been given grace your soul was on the brink of self-destruction and you were saved."
"My...soul was on the brink of destruction?" Victor was shocked by this new revelation.
Dr Enoch continued.
"Grace even gives even an additional present to help cope with whatever they're going through, It gives one 'Otherworldly abilities."
"These powers are gotten at random, the recipient is given one wish that's absolute, well absolute wouldn't be accurate, more accurately nigh-absolute, the wish can't be too large scale, like wishing to end the world, at best you can take down a continent, but you can't end the world, Now enough Excessive talking let's get back to the demonstration with Drongmar here."
He stood up from her and she tried to run away but security blocked her path, she fired at them a huge ball of flame, and managed to create a large hole in the right side of the ceiling, the cold wind filled the room, by the look of it storm clouds were approaching.
"Rain, huh? Why my favourite weather at a time like this? "Victor.
The guards were unscathed by her attack she tried to jump to the ceiling and fly off all of a sudden the room attendant caught her by her leg and rammed her into the ground so hard that she broke through the stage platform.
"Arrghhh!" she screamed.
"Aww, don't give me that face, fight!"The attendant said
He pulled her out of the platform just to ram her through it again and again and again...
Victor was being held back by Anna who didn't want to blow their cover.
Victor closed his eyes
Anna holding him back
The room attendant beat up the girl.
What were they to do?
What's supposed to happen?
What was even the point of this?