Poison God's Heritage

The pathway we were on was enough for about five people to walk side by side without any of them feeling discomfort, which was in fact a good enough length for me to move and fight with space to spare and just about enough for the two more agile units to maneuver without being too affected by the terrain.

The Darkness of the tunnel made it difficult to see, but thanks to several visual aiding mechanisms like infra-red sight, and echolocation that is installed as inscriptions in the puppet's mind, I was able to see and even hear everything around me.

Including the slow breath of a white rakshasa far back in the tunnel.

Due to the inability to use Divine Sense, I could only use radio communication between the puppets, but that would undoubtedly alert the White Rakshasa sleeping in the tunnel.

I held my hand up, closed my fist, then pointed two fingers forward.

The two behind me didn't understand what I meant but knew that since I didn't use words, that there was a reason not to.

They scanned the area up ahead using infrared and noticed the sleeping rakshasa.

Tao Yang dropped to one knee and carried her sniper rifle in the shooting position, but I stopped her by shaking my hand lightly.

I then placed my palm on the ground, and a small metallic sphere fell down from a hole in the puppet's wrist.

The small sphere opened up into a spider that resembled Z. I then pulled a small poison pellet and placed it on the back of the spider. The spider's back opened up and took in the pellet, it then began skirting around and moving rapidly until it reached the sleeping Rakshasa.

Soon, a growl of annoyance echoed in the distance and we could see through the puppet sight how the white rakshasa smacked the spider into bits and pieces.

But not a second later, the Rakshasa began shivering and shuddering, then without a sound it simply froze over and turned to brittle ice.

"let's keep moving," I said.

The tunnel felt long and dreary, especially after we reached the area where the Rakshasa was sleeping in. The entire area was covered in slime and secretions. It was probably defecating and relieving itself right next to where it slept. Nasty.

I shook my head and moved up ahead, there was more to this tunnel to uncover than this.

Soon we were asked to stop, "Here," Tao Yang said, in a quite low and barely audible voice.

Next to us was… well, a wall, a very inconspicuous wall. And all she did was point at the wall and the administrator that followed after us used its tentacle to penetrate through a hidden keyhole.

A doorway opened up to a massive library that held and hosted massive amounts of square blocks of different colors and engravings on them.

"These are memory cards. They host our knowledge, understanding of the world, heritage, and our cultivation methods," Tao Yang said as she pointed at the stacked blocks of slabs.

They are like books I guess, or hard drives.

"This is the knowledge of your world?" I asked.

"Yes, in its entirety. It is all here. Even what the Blue Sun is looking for is here," Tao Yang said as she pointed at one small dais that held a red memory card that was larger than most.

The Blue sun approached the slab and was about to grab it when Tao Yang held her hand, "Please," Tao Yang said.

"What is it?" the Blue Sun asked.

"Promise me, that you'll not use this as we did…"

"You mean… the souls?" the Blue Sun asked.

"Yes, it needs the soul of a willing person to create Soulsteel or the soul of a thousand unwilling. And finding someone willing to die is far harder than killing a thousand innocent soul." Tao Yang said.

"We already discussed how we'll be using the souls of beasts," the Blue Sun said.

Reluctantly, Tao Yang released her hand.

The Blue Sun pulled up the slab and tried to understand its content, but without viable use of Divine Sense, it was impossible to even analyze and scan the slab.

"We'll have to take this with us… oh wait, I'm too foolish, how the hell are we going to leave?" the Blue Sun asked.

"Em, remember what I said, we don't need to leave," I replied.

"How come?" the Blue Sun asked.

"Automaton, can you hear me," I said.

It took a few seconds before I received a reply.

"Yes my lord,"

"Can you open a teleportation gate?" I asked.

It took another second or two before the reply came.

"I cannot, you are in a heavily distorted area since your real body isn't present in the bastion. I need you to stabilize or at least neutralize the effect of spatial tampering for me to open a gate," he said.

Hmm, I guess he used my original body as a beacon to stabilize the gate when I was here before.

"Damn, I thought we could just use a gate to place the knowledge from here…" I sighed.

"We still can," Tao Yang said.

"How so?" I asked.

"We'll need to head to a more dangerous place, but we can actually get space stable enough for extraction there," Tao Yang said.

"And where is that?" I asked.

"Right next to where the Noble Rakshasa was sealed. There are several engines that are deeply buried under the entire area that are affecting the flight and displacement of the Bastion. Due to the critical failure of several of them, we crashed into the beyond, but some of them are still functional and they are affecting space law.

They're the reason why no one can fly inside the bastion and why the Bastion is still… alive."

Oh, a new type of engine… if I could recreate an engine powerful enough to operate the Bastion… and use it to generate energy for my own production and creation… the things I could make would be amazing, to say the least.

"Good, then we can go there," I said.

"But there is one problem," she said.

"What is it?" I asked.

"If you hamper spatial interference, it will also allow the Raksahsas to use Qi, they will obliterate us in an instant. Not to mention they might even be able to leave the Bastion," she said.

It's basically turning off the firewall when you have a bunch of viruses waiting to enter. Risky… but worth the shot.

"Automaton, can you notify The Dusking Sun of what just occurred," I said.

A second or so later, "Roger. He has been notified and is saying that he will be ready in case of any emergency."

"Good, the Dusking Sun will be helping us," I said.

"How long will it take me to leave the puppet's consciousness and be back in my real body?" the Blue Sun asked.

"About half a breath's worth of time," I replied.

"Good, I'll also extract first, and wait with the Dusking Sun in case of any emergency. So, this sounds like a good plan, do we move to the engine area?" she asked.

"We'll do so in a second, but I'll have to grab these things now," I said as I opened the Puppet's own storage bag and began absorbing every single slab in the area.

There were about two to three million pieces of these things, and they were quite weighty, thankfully they managed to fit inside the storage bag of the puppet.

After checking and double-checking if anything was missing we decided to head out of the library room.

"Do we have to go back from where we came from?" I asked.

"No need, there is a nearby breach in this tunnel that will lead us all the way to the fifth level," The Administrator said.

I nodded and we followed the small administrator as he navigated the tunnel.

There was thankfully no more rakshasa in the area we were going through, but that wouldn't be the case once we reached the breach.

The path ahead began brightening up a bit and there was a massive crack on the side of the tunnel. Sludge and old crusted slime were plastered all over the area. I'm sure if I was in my real body this area would have smelled worse than sewers.

We approached the breech and I peeked from the side, scanning the new room. There was nothing out of order, and the place looked empty without any rakshasa or creatures moving about.

"Looks clear," I said as I moved forward into a large open area with nothing but pillars and a high roof.

There were several hatches for waste disposal on the other side of the room. They were similar to the hatch we used to drop to the fifth area the last time. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

"You can use these waste disposal hatches to leave the third floor and enter the fifth floor directly. It will put you near the engine floor," the Administrator said.

"How is the area down there?" I asked.

"You mean in terms of Raksahsa?" the Administrator asked.

"Yes," I said.

"Well, it is at least far better than here," he said.

"How come?"

"What I mean is, there is about a fifth of the number of Rakshasa on the fifth-floor engine room than there is in this room," it explained.

I frowned, was he bugging out? There was not a single rakshasa in sight. Maybe there were a couple Silver ones hidden, but my infrared and heat vision didn't show anything.

I heard a metallic tap on my shoulder and turned to see Tao Yang's puppet looking up.

I followed her direction and saw something that was enough to make one's body shiver.

Tens of thousands of rakshasas were comfortably hanging upside down above us. They were like bats sleeping and resting…

And we had to cross the entire room using metallic puppets that creaked and clanked every step of the way.

What a nice way to start the day…