BXBX NOVEL B2 | Intermission 4
"Your Excellency, we have finally found The Reaper," the man says without any hesitation, making silence fill the chamber for several seconds.
Then a smile covers the Hound of the Apocalypse\'s face, and he slowly stands up from his throne, his wings spreading out on either side behind him.
All of the council members – the leaders of various nations within the first Dimensional Block with the highest Authority Level – focus solely on Lucas to see what his reaction is. And all of them are shocked by the smile on his face.
"As you ordered, myself and all of my fellow fallen angels have been searching every last Dimensional Block for news of The Reaper. And after months of this, we have finally managed to pin down her location," the leader of the fallen angels declares with his head lowered in a bow.
"Then raise your head, Valcas," Lucas states, his voice echoing through the chambers with more than a little hidden excitement in it. "Tell me where she is."
The leader of the fallen angels raises his head and answers without hesitation, "The Reaper is in Dimensional Block #108. She is there with two other Class S species, with there being news of a third that had just left the Dimensional Block before we arrived."
"So many in one Block…" "That many?!" "What\'s with that Block?" "That far away?"
Lucas raises a single hand to stop them all from speaking before he asks, "Names." Without saying anything else.
Valcas quickly understands what he means and answers, "Ethan Silva, the son of the Ancestral Monarch. Vargas d\'Argol, Ethan Silva\'s cousin. And the Knight of the Crimson Score, Lysandre Knight."
The Hound\'s eyes widen in pure shock at the last name before he rushes forwards and grabs the fallen angel by the shoulder and raises him into the air, to the fallen angel leader\'s great pain and discomfort. And when he speaks, his voice grows loud enough that the gathered council members wince, "Did you say Lysandre?! Lysandre Knight?! What was he doing there? Why? Was he there for The Reaper? Are they fighting? Do you know if he\'s staying there?"
Valcas\'s eyes widen in shock at the sudden barrage of questions, but he attempts to answer them despite the pain he\'s feeling in his shoulder. "From what we could gather from the city The Reaper is defending while she was out, The Reaper and her identical twin sister were adopted by the Knight of the Crimson Score. So it looks like he will be staying there."
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The moment the man finishes speaking, the Hound of the Apocalypse drops him and begins to pace back and forth.
An identical twin? No, more than that, The Reaper looks just like her. She has the name she wanted to give our daughter. And she\'s being raised by Lysandre. Does that mean she had a child with Lysandre? Or that the twins are my and her kid, and she was pregnant when she left?
He pauses at that thought before shaking his head.
No. Not possible. They couldn\'t have been Lysandre\'s kids. He\'s a hydra after all, and Crystal had committed to her human form.
Lucas continues pacing back and forth for several minutes as he tries to wrap his mind around the news. All while ignoring the tension building up within the council chamber.
Eventually he stops and focuses on Valcas again with a frown, only to stop himself from asking what he was about to ask.
No, most people still believe The Devourer to be a myth. If he found her he would\'ve told me, so there\'s no need to ask.
He continues pacing, making the heads of everyone in attendance bounce back and forth as they watch him. All of whom are extremely confused, none of them ever having seen the Hound of the Apocalypse flustered before.
After while longer of pacing, he stops again and asks Valcas, "What were they doing last you saw?"
Valcas snaps himself out of his surprise-filled stupor as he answers, "My men were unable to get close enough on account of them finding them, so my men couldn\'t clearly see. However, they did feel a powerful wave of magma energy coming from the island they\'re on. And they weren\'t leaving the island no matter how long my subordinates waited."
Lucas\'s eyes narrow at that.
He couldn\'t be… could he?
If there\'s one person other than his ex-wife that the Hound knows best in the universe, it\'s Lysandre Knight. And he knows just how much of his life that man spent studying Class S species and how to turn someone into one.
Especially since Lucas was one of the reasons for that. Although Lucas doesn\'t know what happened after Lysandre left him.
The Hound raises his head again to look at Valcas, having lowered it in thought at some point, before he asks, "What is the Dimensional Block like? And what was the biome they were in?"
"Dimensional Block #108 consists of millions of islands floating all across the air with no ground beneath them, each with their own biomes," Valcas quickly answers. "And the island they were on was one filled with magma and volcanoes, with some fire and magma magical ore on it."
"He really is doing it…" Lucas mutters, understanding exactly what\'s happening there. Then he narrows his eyes and locks his gaze on Valcas as he asks, "Is the teleportation link set up and ready for use?"
Valcas immediately nods his head and answers, "It is, Your Excellency."
"Then I will be heading to Dimensional Block #108 immediately," he says before activating the teleportation ring on his finger, making him teleport to the corresponding magic holder of the ring on the other side of the Dimensional Block. Then he simply walks through the Dimensional Wall, ignores the System Message he gets, and teleports to the other end of that Dimensional Block, where another fallen angel with a ring is waiting.
He doesn\'t know why, but for some reason the idea that one of his possible daughters might be in danger should his old friend\'s experiment fail makes him anxious. To the point that he can\'t stop himself from moving as fast as possible towards the Dimensional Block as he can.
I\'m coming.