Chapter 377: Keith's Confinement (8)

*5 hours ago*

Leilah POV

With Keith in tow, and Lilith with me, we headed to the new secret base of Cain's. Their defenses should lessen now since their forces are now going to be concentrated elsewhere in their attempt to quickly invade heaven in their more rushed plan.

Lilith easily broke through the base, she didn't even pull out her bow, meaning that she was not going to take this too seriously. We sensed no god nearby, so that's fine. I used my powers and spread out the black pollens, no one stood a chance, just a whiff of it was enough for them to fall over, and then we proceeded smoothly.

I made use of my magic to protect Keith since his death shouldn't be at my hands.

Lilith was pulling Keith along, and I took the job of eliminating every camera since we didn't want them to learn anything, we went into the elevator and headed down, it opened up to the upper parts of the secret floors.

We were hit with a barrage of bullets and those superpowers, they would have hurt if they hit, but Lilith quickly deflected it and they all fell after breathing in my pollen, some got gas masks on, but even then, my powers manifested sharp black petals that can easily penetrate through their armor.

We made sure to not damage the gas masks and pick them up as they dropped dead, We brought some along, but we also rather not waste our own resources. We entered each of the project's rooms and killed every leftover researcher. We left the gas masks outside their rooms, unlocked their door, and walked out, I made sure to remove the pollen, just in case they breathed some in before they put on the masks.

After a long while, we are now heading down to the floors where they contain the black classes and above. Apocalypse classes are now going to appear and at the few lowest floors, the dozen of extinction classes as the other dozen are working for Cain.

They aren't necessarily bad as most of them worked in order to escape these living conditions, but...the things they did to ensure their lives are no worse than these scientists since they actually follow direct orders from Cain.

"That was thousands, and yet none of them had this guy worked on it, unbelievable!" Lilith complained

"Just wait till the lower floors, there are going to be lots. They would love to dish out some punishments, and in no way would this idiot live, no one is crazy enough to spare him, they'll escape once they get the satisfaction of killing him and some of the others are gonna stay back and watch it happen."

"Man, this world was fun too, but we're now criminals." she sighs

"We can always come back later, we're all guaranteed to live over a hundred anyway, and people of this world can't live that long."

"Obviously not, who in their right mind would deep fry butter? Some of them even coated it in cinnamon sugar, I'm surprised that no one died at those stupid state fairs."

"They have actually, I've met a soul who did. His wife cheated on him with their adopted son, so he  died doing what he loved, overfeeding himself, and it was with his wife's credit card as well, I think he singlehandedly made her go into debt as he also took out loans in her name before their divorce."

Our actions have become a routine 

"This world never failed to surprise me."  she commented, "Like I thought about how ridiculous the tale of the other Perseus helping in castrating Zeus is, but now that I've heard about Zeus, I think that the case should present him with a medal of honor or something."

"Oh, they should, luckily, he no longer is alive."

It took a while, but we found a floor where many of them recognized him and we dropped him off. They ran back into their rooms, took the equipment in there, and came out with them. We gathered some of the surviving scientists and let them have their fun.

"May your screams compose a haunting melody in the greatest symphony made by the monsters you created...Yeah, Perseus really sucks at these one-liners."

*****

3rd Person POV

Cain got up and out of the rubble, and some of the debris got stuck in his flesh as his healing ability healed himself and left those debris inside him, usually, they're going to be pushed out, though he won't die, it still hurts.

'I'm not gonna kill ya, but I'm gonna make sure that it's going to hurt.' 

Loki said that and stabbed him through the heart before embedding a dagger right into his genitalia. It was painful, and the building fell on him afterward, it was an unforgettable and painful experience.

Some of his subordinates found him and retrieved him from the rubble, he was the sole survivor, but none of it was made public as he was brought to his army, he already knew that most of his projects, whether it was the ones with no use to him or the non-cooperative useful ones, have escaped.

After the initial shock, the narratives started to change, instead of demonizing Perseus, The world became even more divided, each faction seeking a scapegoat for the horrors that had unfolded.

Amidst the accusations and finger-pointing, some were quick to lay blame on those who had surrounded Perseus, arguing that they had failed to treat him like a human being. They pointed fingers at the enablers and collaborators like the investors and bidders who had turned a blind eye to the inhumanity of the experiments and tried to benefit from it.

Others directed their blame at the government, holding it responsible for allowing the project to continue for so long unchecked. And then, there were those who simply blamed the inhumane pharmaceutical giant that had funded and continued to profit from the experiments.

"You were right, this world really did start to blame each other." Ruka commented as she sat in a hotpot restaurant while in disguise, "They really should start putting all that energy into finding the solution instead."

"It is how it is, but the world will have to suffer if they want to learn anything, history has repeated itself over and over, and hopefully, it'll work this time." Perseus replied while feeding Buddy some of the cooked meat, "Eat fast, we only got like 2 more hours of free time."