Chapter 438: The Chariot
Kiryu had a hard time suppressing his anger at the "scientists" he found beneath the prison levels.
Of course, he did stop at the prison levels to vaporize the jailors and open all the cells, but it looked like his hosts weren’t as into keeping prisoners as he assumed; which meant the Executioners were probably more of a "disappear the problem" type. He did spot the guy whose hookah bar got trashed, so, after verifying he didn’t have any family to bring with him, he did a quick teleport to drop the guy off at Norneau with a tiny sack of gold before popping back in.
But when he got to the "scientists..."
"God you fucks are so full of shit down here," Kiryu said as he pushed their leader, a bald angel with brown wings, towards a console. From everything he saw and learned, they were more like glorified maintenance staff. No experiments, just running and maintaining the systems. "Not one of you thought that a dungeon turning inside out was worth going into?"
"We’ve been more worried about keeping the crystallization effect from breaching Araqlun," the pale egghead sputtered.
Kiryu wasn’t having it. He’d tried going to the designated entrance for the old dungeon, only to find it sealed in crystal. He’d tried many means of boring into it, both physical and magical. And he’d even, in the dead of night, tried flying up to see if there was a crack or other form of entrance. He’d checked and rechecked every part of the crystal tower’s visible surface, and the only conclusion he could reach was that there was no entrance because the tower was incomplete.
"So turn it off. I’ve got a date."
"I can’t turn it off, they’ll have me killed!" the "scientist" protested.
"I could always kill you right now; quick and easy. But you’ve led me to believe you’re the only one with the codes. So use them." Kiryu placed a hand on the man’s wing, right at the join where it met his back. "Worry about your bosses later. After all, they couldn’t keep me out," he chuckled.
That was when one of the "scientists", perhaps emboldened by the way Kiryu kept his back to them, pulled a knife and tried to stab him in the back, only to watch in horror as the cheap low-carbon steel of his blade blunted before shattering against Kiryu’s magitech armor.
Kiryu turned just enough to punt the man backward into a wall with a burst of magical force - snapping both of the man’s wings - before returning his attention to the lead "scientist."