章 46: Valley of the Dead Visit (4)

One nice point with the Dualbloom form was that everything about Max was not splitted into half. In literal sense, shiftig to Dualbloom means he could have a twin brother capable of doing whatever he could also do. That brought him a wonderful idea he was about to execute; but he was having a limited time; and he could soon catch up with the other four Blue Forces who never noticed he left.

How dumb of them.

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[ You have successfully dismissed the weapon 'Void Emotion' ]

Max casually walked out from behind a giant pillar with his palms in the pockets of his dark jean; to meet the eyes of the Heat Gifted looking at his own two eyes, therefore halting his casual steps. The other Blue Forces also stopped, looking at him with varying expressions of murder intentions, suspicions and interrogating hard glares.

In a frightening heavily masculine voice, "You should do anything stupid to us or run away. I swear to you, that armless woman would be instantly killed and you would be hunted by Robert even in your nightmares." The Heat Gifted warned.

"Try to shut down ya needless alertness." Max spoke, his face bored, his voice casual. "Ya have that feeling of am a'Vampire Slave, ya have that memory of how ah went toe to toe with Robert until the all of us went unconscious. Add the fact that ya tortured me yesterday morning. Buh don't worry, we'are now team pals and besides, it's not nice to turn my back on ya team members."

"My warnings were clear and understandable." The Heat Gifted added.

After that intense exchange of words filled with rivarly, reluctantly, the five of them had to keep moving.

They entered the second part of the Valley of the Dead, naturally waving good bye at the green litted first part. Now welcoming them was the gentle light of the starless night's blue moon, and a lonely grave that had a ferocious vertical deep crack across its old tombstone.

Max averted his gaze from the tombstone, now looking at his surroundings. The plants here were some strong, dried small trees. This was an outer part of the grave yard and therefore, only a few tombs could be found. Mostly, the edges where the tombstones connected with the ground had dried grasses that struggled to thrive under their heavy weights during the rainy season.

Back on earth, rain was pouring all around the world but here in Royalty Pack and its borders, it seemed like the sky had no tears to pour on the pathetically motionless ground for some time ago.

It had been ten minutes ago, and the silent tombstones were multiplying in number that it came to a point that everywhere Max turned his head, the old stones looked back at him with lost stares. Maybe it was his imaginations, but their silence felt alive.

Thinking that beneath the ground around him were dead bodies transformed to soil by the power of time, Max wondered if one day he would also be blessed with the ability to die in torturous moments such as burning alive. Or perhaps being hanged, who knows...

The team suddenly stopped walking, it was like they shared a mind-link. Everyone looked at Max when the Heat Gifted said, "Time to use your Gift."

Reluctantly, Max closed his eyes and activated Spider Vision. He could see all what surrounded him from front, and from behind, and from sides. His Gift had nothing to do with him being a Vampire or else another notification would have entered the crowd of [ Pending Notifications ].

"Share with us what you are seeing." said the Disguise Gifted.

'Fine. Just some little more patience and I would make my move. Bear with them.'

"Around me, ah can see you guys and many tombs. Am moving some meters straight ahead of us. Everywhere is filled with tombs... more tombs... now... am seeing some flowing white mists of the shin level... and the number of graves... keeps increasing." said Max, then he turned silent, his eyes closed.

"What else are you seeing?"

"Any sign of the Vampires?"

"Why are you silent?"

"Speak."

'Armless was right. Whatever an Elected rank means in the Gold Gang, it must be a high position! How did she know the...'

"To our east, far away from a small house that had dim light shining through its only tall window, am seeing three hoodeds pushing something like a'portable coffin."

The Heat Gift started speaking as quickly as Max returned his vision to normal: "This is it. That woman was right... It seems like finally, Robert really has his hands on a treasureable trusted puppet of that fat bastard..."

As he was speaking, the Disguise Gifted started changing his appearance based on how Armless described to him the looks of the male Vampire Slaves. Amazingly, even his Blue Force outfit was changing until he looked exactly as one of the hoodeds.

Standing by the side, Max knew what he was doing. He saw four people — Vampire Slaves — but instead, he said there were three people. The last among them was pushing nothing; seems like he was their leader. His black hood covered every inch of his face and his aura was like a calm predator.

Max opened his Vampire System, his emotionless brown eyes on his interest:

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There far away to the team's east, moving with the incredible speed of an average Diurnal Vampire, another Maximus moved through the congested crowd of old tombstones. He ran until slowly, he reduced his speed and he came to a stop. He hid squatting behind one of the stones.

The Vampire Slaves serially perceived a foreign ordour before they incoherently said:

"We are surrounded!"

"Align the teleporter in the right direction!"

"Hurry up! We need to leave asap!"

The hiding Max looked closely. As the mission team was nearing the Vampires with an amazing speed, all of the Werewolves already shifted into different forms of their desires, one of the hooded Vampire Slaves threw out a circle looking metallic device. The moment it contacted the ground, it started modifying its structure.

The circular metal first robotically extended its size from every direction until it was the size of an elevator. Second, seven stream of lights of the knee length were litted by its source of energy. Lastly, another set of circular metal separated its self from the same metal, then it hovered into the air until it was far above the height of someone as tall as Robert while enlarging its size.

Close to the hovering part of the device, a mild blue 3D projection appeared. It started swirling in circles around it with some orange dot beaming and indicating the mini teleporter was ready to do its work.

And Max was also ready. . .