Story Reader / Main Story / 13 Fake Ascension / Story
With Alpha stuck with Roland, you carry Huaxu's key and swiftly leave the Core Area platform lift.
The Punishing Virus is highly concentrated up ahead. Let me treat your wounds here now.
(Nods) I got this.
Liv gently lifts your torn protective suit, disinfecting the cuts and applying medications on the wounds before bandaging your arm.
We'll need to fix your suit as well. We have more than enough supplies, so you can just replace the damaged parts.
Thanks to Bridget's generous offerings before you departed, you can save so much time swapping gears instead of repairing them.
Now, to put on the enhanced protective gears...
The virus concentration ahead is lethal to you, after all.
Liv speedily attaches the required parts to the corresponding spots of your suit.
Alright, let's go.
Walking along the narrow passage, you enter a hollow cavern a few times larger than the structure above ground. Standing inside is an inconceivably gargantuan monster.
What's that?!
ROARRRR!
Underneath this behemoth is a lake composed of the Red Tide, shimmering in its fearsome scarlet glow.
It must be the actual source of the Red Tide!
They do have a trump card with them!
Based on our previous estimation, if this thing reaches the surface, Earth... no, even Babylonia won't survive its wrath!
We can't fight it alone. Let's ask for backup.
Indeed. With how large its mass is, and with the Ascendants guarding along the path, I don't think any reinforcement can make it here in time.
Maybe we can destroy it with a WMD before it leaves, but given how our signals are blocked here and how long the trip back to the surface is, it might be too late when it's ready.
Best we approach first, scouting a safe path of entry.
How do we get near that thing?
Between the opening and the monster is a gap that completely cuts off any entry points, making the creature unapproachable.
It can easily attack us when we move if we use our short-range jet engines.
Understood. Let's move.
