Resonance of the Abyss

Strangely the people here were line by line picking up babies, moving in a straight line towards the door in front.

Is this some kind of ritual? If it was then this would be the first I would see one.

The people didn't notice us either, actually they ignored us. Not caring about what we do, extremely different from how we were treated above.

I wanted to stay still and observe what they were doing but alas, Azrael didn't share the sentiment.

He went ahead, nudged a person, asking for details about what was happening.

That guy just ignored him, he picked up a baby from the cradle and went forward.

I knew he was angry, yet strangely enough he didn't do anything. He just went back to me.

"I think we should do the same, so grab a baby and let's move forward."

I mocked him for his spectacular failure a little, seeing that he was getting angry. I picked a baby and followed the line.

Literally not a single person questioned me or him, they let us enter their line without any struggle.

This would have been highly suspicious if not for the fact that they can't possibly do anything to us.

Entering the door, we encountered a robed fellow. He gave us direction, as to where we should go.

Both of us were given different directions but Azrael didn't care, he just followed me, with the baby in his arms.

Even then nobody questioned us, not even an advice. Come on they should at least try to show any kind of discomfort, this was getting boring.

Following the direction we encountered a spiral staircase going upward, reaching the top. There was a pedestal with scribblings on it, and a cradle too.

I put the baby in my arms in that cradle, afterward the pedestal moved upwards, nearly touching the ceilings.

When the pedestal reached the ceiling, a dense energy engulfed the cradle. The cosmic energy, meaning we were just below a spatial portal.

"So, they are nourishing babies. That's their experiment? I expected something grand but this is…disappointing. Don't you think so too Kaltain?"

"I mean, this is grand and all. Above anything else, this is basically homicide. These kids won't survive the potent cosmic energy. At best they would die or at worst become a creature themselves."

"They would mutate? I didn't know that."

"That's surprising because such instances are recorded in upper levels. Where people mutate because of excess cosmic energy, especially in the early stages when the portal arrived."

Sometimes he acts like a really observant guy, while other times he acts like he was comatosed during the period when the portals arrived.

"What should we do, Azrael? Stop this nonsense or let them do their little party tricks."

"This isn't a party trick, Kaltain. These people are most probably brainwashed, someone else is doing these experiments."

"This much is given, that person should be someone from upper levels. Maybe someone from the association."

"Hmm, let's just stop these people first. After that we will think about finding the real culprit."

"We would save them but Azrael, these kids won't live a good life either way. People here don't have any way to properly raise children, they lack infrastructure heavily. They don't even have food to feed these little dweebs."

"Providing creature carcass, gives you credits right? "

"You want help? I didn't take you as one who cares about such trivial matter."

He gave out a self-deprecating laugh. "I'm not that bad, at least I have a sweet spot for babies."

"That's surprising to hear."

"Enough chit-chat, let's wreak havoc now on these good for nothing adults."

We were floating the whole time we were chatting, the moment that pedestal reached the ceiling. The surface beneath us collapsed.

I was floating using my gravitational control, Azrael was also floating controlling gravity while holding the baby in his arm. The difference was he was using his black holes to do so….

We returned back the direction we came from, the robed guy was still giving directions to various people.

I grabbed his shoulder, whispering in his ear. "Care to stop this nonsense."

This time he made a move and so did the various people encompassing us.

"Hit a sore nerve I guess."

The robed guy removed his robe revealing his scared face. Immediately after he started acting cocky.

"You upper level vermin, we stayed put and ignored you guys, even when you barged in uninvited. Showing you generosity, yet you want to meddle in our affairs. Both of you vermin will now face the wrath of this battle hardened warrior….."

Before he could blabber anything else, with a single swift motion of my fist. I struck his face, resulting in his face caving in with blood spurting around my face and clothes.

The people who were acting cocky and shouting, giving background music. Stopped at once, when their precious fighter couldn't take a single hit.

I looked at their direction, grinning ear to ear. "Who's next!!!"

...

Next it was a bloodbath, even though their superior died they still tried to fight, something that I admired about them.

Even though it was just a futile attempt at taking revenge, soon enough they followed their respective loved ones.