Monster Integration

I am going down fast and thank God there is energy because it is getting really hot.

So much, that it had started to burn the energy covering me.

The heat isn't a problem for me. The problem is being found out.

I could summon my armor or bring out my energy and that would protect me, but it would also makediscover.

So, I didn't do anything. I let the energy coveringburn so that soon, only 10% of it remained, and that is too burning rapidly.

It had reached 5%, and I had readied myself. The moment before energy burns, my energy will cover me.

I wouldn't have done that. If it burnedor caused sserious injuries. No, it would kill me, and it would take less than five seconds.

That is how hot it is.

Hun!

The energy reached 1%, when I sensed something and couldn't help but smile.

These people are good. I mean, really good. No wonder they were able to remain hidden for so long.

We are not the first who have chere. The organization that has this town in its domain had sent people, but they found nothing.

So, they requested Tor for help.

Just when the surrounding energy is about to disappear. The rope cand enveloped me, creating a much more powerful cocoon of energy.

If I had been an enemy. I would have panicked and summoned the armor to protect myself. Any sane person would have done it.

Even the daredevils would have done that, at least 1%, but I didn't. I acted like a truly sick person, who does not have control over their body.

A second after enveloping me. The rope started to pull me.

I didn't resist, I acted as I had been acting.

Though, in my heart. I am smiling with joy. Finally, I have found them and am quite excited to see what they have in store for me.

Soon, I reached the wall of the spring, where there was a tunnel. It is well hidden.

Since one couldn't use the soul sense. They couldn't see behind the façade. I didn't have such a problem; I could see everything, even the person.

The tunnel door opened and the person behindpulledto him, before closing it.

The crab beastman took back his rope and pickedup with his energy before moving through the tunnel.

The tunnel isn't deep; the sky Sovereign soul sense could go quite deeper, but here it is useless because of the hot springs influence.

It is an extremely dangerous place to live; a slight cracking or leaking could kill anyone below the Sky Sovereigns.

However, this is the risk they are willing to take for the safety it gives.

He walked straight for a few seconds before we cacross a hole. He jumped down, and we started descending.

He didn't use his energy and let gravity do its job.

At first, I thought they had created a hideout beside the spring, but it seemed like they were more daring than I had thought, seeing how deep we were going.

I didn't do anything or even release the soul waves. I just watched it.

Thud!

Finally, I could see the ground and he slowed down the fall a little, before landing on the stony ground.

"That makes thirty-one; we need one more to start the ritual," said the old man, as the Beastman stepped into the cavern.

The cavern is big, with two people.

One is an old human man who had just talked, while the other is a scaled woman, who is sitting in the middle of the formation on the left side of the cavern.

In it is a massive pillar. From it a small stream of steaming water coming out and filling the surrounding pool.

It tooka few seconds to realize what the pillar was.

It is the thing, through which the water is going to spring above. This cavern is just in the middle part of it, while the source is much below.

The whole cavern is covered in the formations.

There are three formations in there. One is ritual, the second is security and the third one is foundation. Reinforcing, to be exact; it is making the cavern stronger, with the pillar at its center.

I have to say, it is quite ingenious.

They are using the water as a source of energy for the formation to protect against the water itself.

It had made the whole cavern very strong. Even powerful Sky Sovereign would have a hard tbreaking through it.

"I know," said Beastman curtly, before takingtoward the wall, where there are big holes.

Sovereign would have a hard tbreaking through it.

"I know," said Beastman curtly, before takingtoward the Thirty-two holes, to be exact.

Thirty holes are filled with bodies, and he put mine into the last one in the bottom row.

"Is he fit?" the old man asked. "A little scruff, but more than fine for ritual," replied the Beastman.

When he sentdown; the old man had also pushed the energies of the spring inside me, in far larger amounts.

His control was enough that these energies wiped away all the curse, while I went down the spring.

All of these people are like me.

When I scanned their faces, I saw I had recognized over 80% of them. They are the list of dead people, the organization had provided.

They all died in the past six months.

These cultists are smart; they are not greedy like many others. They do their work slowly and safely.

Thousands of people cand among them, they take a small number of them. Not enough to arouse any suspicion.

I had looked at the numbers of death. It was normal.

If the organization controlling this place didn't have the intelligence of cultists being here. We wouldn't have chere looking for them.

They need thirty-two people for their ritual. I am thirty-first, which means, one more is needed.

Now, the question is whether to finish them off or wait for them to gather, the last person needed for their ritual.

Which I think will make all the cultists in the town gather. We would be able to finish them in one clean swoop.