SSS Ranked Shadow Monarch: Summoning Infinite Shadows-Chapter 191: Underground

BANG BANG

The door of the room was knocked hard, almost as if the person outside was trying to knock it down. The man acted calmly, he got up and opened the door for another man.

The lad was dressed in black priestly robes, with red accents, his waist tied by a blood red rope, and a strange chain with a star with an eye in the center hung from his neck.

"Have you completed that which you were assigned?" he asked.

"Yes indeed, now only the construction phase remains, and when it is all done everything will fall into place. When everyone that takes the false soul weapon is controlled, they’ll all throw their lives away and offer their hearts to the master, and he’ll awaken.

When he rises, the more he eats, the stronger he gets, and then we can commence the final phase of the plan, and bring destruction on the level of the first Geisha wars."

The priest smiled after hearing this, he patted the man on the shoulder, "Good, you have done great work, I believe we can take it from here."

The man was stunned when the priest said that, he had spent his entire life working on this, ever since he discovered that he would be capable of bringing back Geisha, that was all he focused on.

"But this has been my life’s work, I want to see it through to the end," he said.

"Your path has come to an end, you’ll watch the destruction of Geisha from the bosom of the gods," the priest said.

The man was about to say something else, but the hands of the priest began glowing, a deep red glow that instantly started doing something.

"Arghhhhhhhhh!" the man screamed, he tried to get away, but the grip of the priest was far too tight. Right there, the man melted into a wet puddle of blood and body parts, it seeped slowly under the feet of the priest who just stood there without emotion.

Then he moved forward and grabbed the blueprint along with the jar on the table. He walked out of the room, shut the door and left the place.

After that, Aren’s mind was pushed back to his body, his eyes shot open, he saw everyone standing there and looking at him.

"You’re back," Luka said.

"Yeah, and I have bad news. They want to raise Geisha, and that bracelet is the key, it’s controlling all of them, forcing them to give up their souls to the dragon," Aren said.

"This is bad," Aiden said.

"I have a question," Athena spoke up, everyone turned to look at her. "Why does it need to turn them into monsters? All it needs is their soul after all."

"Mind control on a massive level is extremely difficult," Zero spoke, "my father’s colleague had some data on mind control, and when it was needed to be done on lots of people, force was needed.

I’m guessing that turning them into monsters stopped their minds from fighting back, and ensures they are easier to control," she said, making up her theory about it.

"That could be it, but we don’t have the time for that, we have to stop this before it gets bad," Aren said.

"Or we could find a way to report this to someone that can handle this?" Kira said.

"I don’t think we have the time for that," Aiden said, pointing at the statue which was already being broken down, they were about to enter underground and find the body.

"That’s fine, the rest of us can go in to stop it, Kira, if you feel like it would be better, you can call someone, just use your crystal," Aren suggested, but she frowned and shook her head.

"I’ll not leave if you aren’t," she said.

"Alright then," Aren said and then leaped off the roof before summoning the millipede.

"Let’s go under," he said mid fall, landing on its back.

Everyone rushed down as well, getting on the back of the millipede as it dug into the ground very quickly, Aren spread out his shadow sense, it was harder to see things under the ground, but he could make out most things, and he also made out the extremely massive space that was underground, the tomb of the Dragon.

The millipede burst through the ground and landed right into the space which was the tomb of the dragon.

The air was extremely cold here, immediately causing shivers, as if something was pulling all the heat. It was pitch black, so dark that they could barely see anything.

But then, there was a loud sound, like a gear turning, and then lights came on, torches came to life, their flames illuminating the entire place.

The tomb was massive, it led down straight through a massive hall, the walls and floors built of marble. Depictions of the battle against Geisha were drawn into the walls.

"Where is the dragon?" Aiden asked.

"Ahead," Aren replied.

At the end of this extremely massive hallway that they stood in was a giant metal door closed shut with engravings.

"If the door is shut, then do we need to worry? How would those mutated awakened make it in?" Luka said.

"Guys, I have a bad feeling about this," Athena said.

Before anyone could respond to her, they heard footsteps.

Clack clack, clack.

Aren looked up, he had not sensed anyone at all, there was no way someone slipped through his shadow sense. But then he saw the figure and fear gripped him.

The priest that he had seen in the memory, he was the one that stood there in his robes, hands behind his back.

He looked at the group, "I was wondering how long it would take for someone to understand what was being done and come here to stop it," he said, his voice like a calm stream.

"Who the hell are you?" Elena asked.

"Me? I’m no one of importance, only the aid that will help the master, AWAKEN."