Chapter 157: Chapter 157 - What is it?
"ITS A FUC*ING MONSTER"
William waited for a while for Delmar to calm down before he asked, "You okay, Bald Man?"
Delmar took a few deep breaths as he looked at the ground before he said, "Y- Yeah. Just give me a moment."
Delmar then straightened himself and looked at the large Centipede in front of him.
"What the h*ck is that really?"
William walked closer to the centipede as he said, "I thought that you would be able to tell me that but it seems, This is a deadend too."
"Too?" Delmar asked as he heard the question mark.
"Yeah this isn\'t the only thing that I found out about this place."
"You mean there is even more to this place!" Delmar asked, slightly shocked at the revelation.
"Yeah there is. Why don\'t I tell them in the order that I found it."
Delmar, hearing that, waited very patiently for his words.
"First of all let me clear this out, that I found this place completely by accident."
"Accident?"
"Yeah, I was trying out my new spells before punching at the ground with one. But I didn\'t think that the ground would break to reveal this place." William said as he patted the mouth of the ancient beast\'s.
Delmar nodded as William continued "Secondly, this place is very old right?"
Delmar looked at the walls before nodding again.
"How many years old is this place you think?"
"Somewhere around a few thousand or less."
"Even with that number this place is still very sturdy and even more I didn\'t see any kind of cracks in this place."
"Next you already saw that the place above is completely empty and the path we walked to until here is also empty."
Delmar nodded to that as William said, "Until that is here. This beauty or… monster right over here." He patted again as he indicated Delmar to the big centipede.
"Well then, anything else to add to the thoughts?"
"Only three more."
"The centipede over here is dead, I think."
"Yeah, this is either a blessing in disguise or a ticking time bomb."
William was in agreement to those words as he said, "But its scale and teeth and anything sharp that I found were still very very sharp. My skin couldn\'t even resist its blades before it got pierced."
"And finally with this place…"
"I still haven\'t explored more than this place but still Clawdia has found some things that are quite disturbing."
Delmar listened in close to the next words.
"She found some ashes of corpses."
"What kind?"
"All of them, Humans, beasts and other stuff that she couldn\'t identify."
"So is there anything else?"
"Nope, What do you think about this place now."
Delmar deeply before he answered him, "To be simple this place was either the lair of this ancient beast or a breeding ground?"
"A breeding ground?"
"Specifically a place where they put species like this and experiment with it and create as many as they could and control them for their advantages."
"So they could use its amazing might against… everyone they want."
"Correct. And with such a size I reckon anyone would be strong enough to stop it… except for the cultivators of very high level."
William nodded for a while before he suddenly remembered something as he said, "Oh yeah I forgot to say one thing."
Delmar stopped as he looked at William, "This place also has some kind of Anti Sensory powers or something."
"Can you tell me how strong it could be?"
"Well I have to say very because the AI system in my villa couldn\'t detect it at all." Delmar nodded again as he took out a small piece of glass and clicked on it.
Suddenly, A huge hologram that towered over both of us could be seen with some words in it that William could read but didn\'t understand.
"Open the sensory module of this place and view it for me."
[ Alright sir, please give me a moment to open it and play it for you ]
Both William and Delmar waited for a while but the holographic system didn\'t answer them. Delmar couldn\'t wait any longer and screamed at the holographic machine.
"WORK YOU PIECE OF FUTURISTIC JUNK AND SHOW ME THE DAMN THING."
Immediately in contrast to him screaming at the hologram, the hologram answered.
[ I\'m sorry sir. But I can\'t detect anything from this place ]
"Anything at all?"
[ No, Sir. All I could detect was that your heat signature was immediately gone from my senses as you let me loose ]
"Hmm." Delver thought for a long time before he said with a huge smile on his face.
"Well boss, this is very very good for you. One can say that your fortune has finally answered you."
"Why?" William was genuinely confused as he heard that.
"Why? Because first of all you found an underground place at the heart of the city that couldn\'t be perceived by anyone. Not even the Great Houses nor the Royal Forces."
"So a good hiding spot then."
"A very good hiding spot." Delmar immediately corrected him.
"Next even though I don\'t know what the creature in front of me was. It was still very rare."
"And what does that have to do with me?"
"Well by your definition this thing has valuable body parts that would sell for a great price.
"Then you can sell it to someone who really wants it or one of the Great Houses or the Royal familie-"
Delmar was about to continue but he stopped as he looked at the deadpan face that William was giving him. He thought for a moment of why that was but realized a moment later.
Delmar gave an awkward smile as he said "Sorry boss but I forgot that you are very rich too."
But William shook that thought away as he said,
"So we can make good quality armor with it."
Delmar said while walking towards the long centipede "Amazing quality boss. Not only we can do that but we can also razor sharp sword with it\'s teet-"
Delmar stopped as the holographic machine finally said something.
[ Sir, Life Signature has been found ]
William suddenly became defensive as he thought of the dark creatures they might have to fight.
Delmar looked at the holographic machine before looking at William as he reassured him.
"Don\'t worry about it, it\'s just showing us our heat signature or life signatures."
William wasn\'t still assured as he asked Delmar.
"You sure about it?"
"Yeah, I am very sure. You did see that there was a lot of disturbance in this place and maybe that\'s why the machine couldn\'t sense as goood as it should do."
William listened to his explanation but he didn\'t want to measure his life on \'Maybes\'. So he told Delmar.
"Why don\'t you try again and see what it says."
Delmar nodded, "Whatever you say, Boss."
Delmar then picked up the small machine before going towards the face.
He used his machine and after a long time he still didn\'t do anything so he asked.
"So what did you find?"
Delmar was quiet for a while before he said to his young boss.
"Well I think we have a problem over here."