Chapter 312: The Massacre Of Ignorance
Mirabella moved her gaze on the group, the lingering sting on her cheek a stark reminder of their absolute, irrational loyalty. She sighed, her calculating mind forcefully suppressing her shock, and spread her energy outward towards the unconscious three, waking them up with a gentle pulse of restorative energy.
’It kind of feel nice having such teammates, but.’ She turned her gaze to the blaring red system screen hovering in her peripheral vision.
’The system have never warned me this much... Even now, it’s still advising me to escape. But why would I escape without even knowing the monster who attacked me.’ She thought, as Hitachi, Carl and Grace slowly shake the dizziness off, their minds struggling to process the lingering terror of the abyss.
"Okay, just know one thing... Whatever is coming out there is a lot stronger than anything you have encountered or faced. So be careful." She said, her voice dropping an octave as Sunder appeared in her grasp, the sentient blade humming with a nervous, suppressed frequency.
"Hehehehe... Even in this small planet, Galaxy Fall descended."
The voice was melodic, yet it grated against the very fabric of reality. A beautiful woman, in her early forties with flowing blonde hair and piercing red eyes, rose slowly from the dark hole. She levitated without displacing the air, moving her red, predatory gaze on the group before her.
"Mom?" Grace called out in disbelief, the weapon in her hand drooping.
"Mom?!!"
".....?!!"
Everyone turned to her in shock, their minds fracturing as they looked at Grace, then at the elegant woman hovering before them.
"That is no longer your mother." Hitachi said, drawing his sword, his celestial eyes flaring to life despite the blood tracking down his cheeks.
"I saw the body of this monster, this body before us is only a host." He added. Through his vision, he could see the horrifying biological truth: the woman was merely a polymorphic extension of the true terror below, a specialized drone caste puppeteered by the hive-mind to interact with the surface.