Third floor, fourth floor, and now we are in the fifth one.
Every floor is the same; expanded till the rifts were everywhere, broken formation and ground filled with rubble.
The more, I see it, the more suspicious I would become.
Still, despite that, I am following the people. Collecting the forbidden power because of getting out isn't easy.
Just as they are not letting one go up without everybody. They wouldn't let anybody go down without the rest. It is why; it becomes important that I voice my suspicion at the right time.
Though, I fear, I might not be able to find enough information to do that.
I controlled that feeling and moved into the hall I had just stepped in and picked up the first forbidden power crystal.
The system is the same.
I did not change it, and it kept me out of the conflict. I may have displeased a person. He will likely see the revenge on me later, but he is still better than most.
I picked up one crystal after another, unlike Carter. Who is rapidly picking any crystal, he had come across.
He has one of the best tools from what I had noticed and squeezing it for everything it has.
The greed had taken over the mind of the old man. He is failing to notice how many people are looking at him including a few fossils.
He will have problems later, and I hope he has something that will help him.
Because there is no way I would. It would be a suicide.
I picked up another stone and then another when I sensed something.
I walked toward it. I wanted to use all my speed to flash beside it, but I controlled the urge and walked with the speed, I had been using here.
I don't want to make anyone suspicious. Especially the powerful.
Because if they asked me for it. I will have no choice but to hand it over and from what I am sensing. I don't want to give what I sense.
Soon, I reached it and picked up a glassy blue shard, which is a tenth of my smallest nail.
It might give me the answers to the suspicions I was having. I took it in my hand, and it disappeared into my core.
It took a few seconds for my clone to do the initial analysis for it and what I found out, made my expressions turn bad.
Everything leaves a signature.
So, this common-looking sharp has layers that aren't present on other things. Like every geo incident, leave the proof on the soul. The same thing happens with the energy.
Strangely, many layers that should be present on the things aren't present there.
I don't want to say it, but it seemed like they had been intentionally wiped off.
Right now, the only thing I am seeing is that it has more marks of layers than it should be.
I need to understand these layers and I have little time. Minutes at most. Not even an hour.
So, as my clones did their job, I picked up the crystals. I need them, but it is also the last thing, I want to do. I rather focus on the shard, but that would be suspicious.
Seconds passed, and the forbidden crystals disappeared by the seconds.
Picked by people who had become quite good at it after doing it on floor after floor. Some are even able to make their tools attuned to it.
I am secretly looking at those tools. Understand how they work. As these are the tools that pose the greatest threat to me.
It might not seem like it, but I am scared shitless right now, not only because of the suspicions I am having but also because of the tools.
These tools are specialized to find the forbidden power, and there is forbidden power in every cell of me.
I fear every moment. Some tool might react to me and that would be the end of me. ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ novelFɪre.net
These people will forget the crystals on the ground and come at me. These crystals are finite, but I am a running tap that will provide them with the forbidden power as long as I live.
It is a landmine, but not without its own benefits.
Here, they are using the most powerful tools, and I am seeing how they work. My clones have already made many changes seeing them working.
Now, that even if some of the scanned very blood of mine. They won't be triggered.
Soon, I stopped and walked into the corner, as I always do. Some are copying me; most of these people are those who had been looted by the powerful.
Seconds passed, and finally, the last of the person stopped searching and moved toward the door.
As always, there were some forbidden power crystals that remained, but I didn't touch them.
We reached the door to the sixth floor and the mid-Prime walked toward it.
My heartbeat is beating wildly, and I want to open my mouth to tell what I have found, but I have not found enough. It needs to be concrete, and right now, there are only assumptions.
The door opened and the semi-transparent screen appeared. Giving the same view we had seen in the past five floors.
It is why people didn't hesitate and began to enter inside.
I wanted to run away when the last of the people left, but felt it would be futile.
So, I took a deep breath and entered inside and saw people doing the same thing they did on the last five floors.
This is the second last floor. Means, that anything suspicious could be found on the floor above.
This time, I am very sure. It is why; I am using all but one clone to study the shard. I need the concrete data, and I need it as soon as possible.
I need it, or this time, I won't hesitate to run away. It will have consequences, but I will deal with them when they come.