Chapter 117: Don’t even dare
After finding another room filled with sleeping mutants, this time 40 of them, Adyr activated Fade Sense and silently wiped out the entire group. Once they were dead, he harvested their crystals and finished his sweep of the third floor.
The fortress had a total of 4 floors, built with crude, uneven architecture. Adyr assumed the Cannibal was stationed at the top. Having found nothing else of value on the third floor, he descended to the second.
It was clear now that the third floor was reserved for low-ranking members of the gang. That only strengthened his theory: the Cannibal was on the top floor, surrounded by higher-ranked subordinates.
Normally, the lower floors of a fortress would be fortified under the assumption that enemies would attack from the ground. Placing low-ranking, cannon-fodder mutants directly beneath the boss’s chamber could be considered a strategic structure, at least in theory.
Strategic might be too generous a word for a group like this.
As Adyr stepped onto the second floor, he spotted movement in the corridor ahead. One of the guards.
The mutant had the same gray skin and facial mutations as the others. Judging by his slow, bored stride and occasional yawns, he was one of the second-floor sentries.
Adyr didn’t strike immediately. Instead, he pulled back into the shadows and scanned the northern section of the floor. Another guard was wandering there.
Before dealing with either of them, he moved quietly between rooms, wanting to map the area and clear potential threats from the inside first. An ambush in tight quarters wasn’t something he intended to allow.
Room by room, he searched. Aside from the two patrolling mutants, the floor was empty.
Most rooms were used for storage. A few appeared to be designed for intelligence work, with desks and filing shelves, but the thick dust and undisturbed clutter told another story. They had never been used.