HBWnovel Chapter 74 The Mimic
Chapter 74 The Mimic
"Anyways, did you read the sheet?"
"Ummm... yes, but I don't understand how Cyrus could know of this. I didn't even know such a place existed... I just knew of the temple, but it wasn't really that powerful, to begin with."
"No, it's a very powerful place of religious intent with many artifacts of the old world. We will be obtaining one of them... a special instrument of destruction: The violin, which sounded the end of the Empire of Light. That is what we'll be trying to get."
"But this is a mission to retrieve it and give it to somebody... are we seriously going to give a weapon of mass destruction to a random?"
"Don't worry... I have my ways," She eerily smiled, swiveling around in her chair as she kicked both feet off of the ground.
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The next day, I ran into a familiar face who looked at me with a dead smile as his lips were pursed upwards, but his eyes were completely expressionless.
It was so creepy I could barely keep my cool as I passed by him.
"Hey, Leader. So, what's the mission about?" He smirked, grabbing my arm as I attempted to pass by him.
I swiftly swatted his grip away and turned towards him, my eyes gesturing for me to follow, so as he said goodbye to three other kids, he began to follow me to the next classroom over.
"Can you please not speak so openly about our-"
Just as we turned into the empty classroom beside us, I attempted to warn him, only to have my mouth covered as his eyes shifted around.
I was very caught off guard and tore his grip from my mouth, all while scanning the empty and completely vacant classroom.
"What? I don't sense anything," I muttered, and as the very edges of his lips grinned upwards towards his ears, he pushed me out of the classroom.
"You... asshole!" I shouted, turning back and sliding right beneath the insane kid's feet, just narrowly dodging an explosion that would have incinerated the upper half of my body from the lower half.
We watched the slime attempt to regenerate its missing pieces, slowly limping away in its liquified and destroyed form.
"Where is the monster's core?"
"It's only taking the form of a slime. The monster is a Mimic, and it can take the form of anything it absorbs or steals the body of anybody weaker than it. It's something that preys on the weak... and I'm glad I finally managed to catch this thing."
The boy began to hum a strange tune as he walked towards the pitiful monster, slowly sinking into the ground, only to be grabbed by the boy's hand and yanked upwards.
Seemingly, it returned to its original form, a gaseous ghost-like figure which slipped out of his hands.
It wormed and swam its way through the air, attempting to escape, literal drops of sweat pouring off of the poor monster.
VWOOM
And with a single blast of that white substance, the thing dissipated, crying out with a blood-curdling scream as it felts its existence begin to cease from all of life and death itself.
BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG
We both snapped our heads towards the door, hearing a loud banging come from outside. Clearly, the security wanted to check up on what was happening in here.
"Come on, let's get going," Cyrus muttered, opening a window and gazing down at the line of bushes. "Welp, let's just hope I don't break my legs."
The boy hopped from the window and dived down out of my view, so I quickly ran over to the edge and peered down, seeing Cyrus was completely fine.
"Don't order me around!" I shouted, climbing through the window and jumping out of it as well.