The sound of many glass shattering on the floor was clearly heard from behind a door into the spiral stairwell, followed by some voices mixed with panic and anger, and Reins paused, raising his hand to stop the people behind them, they decided to listen to what was going on inside. At this moment, a woman's angry roar was heard again.

“…… Speed up control! Put it back to sleep! ”

That sounds like at least a supervisor-level person. Reins thought. Otherwise, she can't give orders to others, unlike Molfi's family, which is neither big nor small, the relationship between Roses and his superiors is very clear.

"No, if it goes back to its deep sleep, it will be difficult to wake up again."

A cold male voice retorted flatly, his voice revealing a natural majesty, but the woman did not give up resisting.

"But if it goes on like this, we'll all be—"

Before she could finish her sentence, there was some kind of explosion inside, and the shouts of people were more sharp and frightened. There was a palpable tremor on the ground, which made Reins frown tightly.

"You can't insist that it act like this!" The woman's voice was raised to the point of almost screaming, "Everyone here is going to die, and it's not even finished!" ”

"So you should now try to get it done in this situation, instead of shouting here, which will only make me question your abilities."

The man's cold response made people shudder, and the woman seemed to be so angry that she didn't know how to refute it, but she still struggled to make an effort.

"The current situation is harmful, my lord, we can't continue this experiment without even guaranteeing our own safety-"

The woman's voice stopped abruptly, followed by the sound of what seemed to be something falling to the ground. The voices died out in an instant, and after a while, a slow, heavy footstep sounded again.

"You shouldn't be as forward-looking and indecisive as she is, right?" The man's silky voice was full of murderous aura, "And...... You wouldn't dare to disobey my decision like she did, would you? ”

No one answered him, but judging by his satisfied tone afterwards, none of the rest raised any further objections.

"Very well, then, you can get on with your work."

The footsteps sounded again, and Reins was keenly aware that the footsteps were getting closer and closer, so she asked everyone to withdraw from the door, and after setting up an offensive formation, she slammed open the door the moment the footsteps stopped.

The spiral stairwell is not suitable for combat, their movements will be subject to too much limit, but if the other party opens the door first, they will fall into passivity and can only fight here. She didn't want to let herself get into a disadvantageous situation when she could do something.

After the door was slammed open, Lillian rushed to the front and pressed the man with her twin axes to the point of taking a few steps back, taking advantage of the fact that the others also rushed into the door to prevent anyone from being left in the spiral stairwell.

"You're finally here, the runaways."

The man swung away Lilian's attack with ease, flapping his hands to look around at the men on Rhine's side.

"Mercenaries and families? Ha, the news that the bunch of waste brought back is also true. The church actually intervened...... It seems that the position has been made clear. ”

The astonishing pressure exuding from his body made sweat even break out from the foreheads of those present, and Reines's heart sank rapidly. The man in front of them was definitely not the kind they could easily contend with, and if they had to say it, the priest of the Iop Church might be able to fight against it.

But what does he want to do? With this person's ability, it is completely possible to drive them out of the factory from the beginning, and even the process of them rushing in just now was only successful when the other party deliberately released water.

"But the church looks down on me too much, right?" The man said as if complaining, "Only send these two little envoys?" ”

Pat and Smoker were unmoved, they were very aware of the difference in strength between each other, and they would not be impulsive and reckless because of the momentary mood. However, the other party didn't seem to expect them to kill themselves, just waved their hands casually, and then walked leisurely to a laboratory table.

He brutally flung one of the researchers away by the collar, and after a quick two taps on the panel, happily spread his arms out to them.

"You're here just in time, little mice, and we're going to need to collect this kind of experimental data, so—please play with it."

The man disappeared from the place after saying that, and the sudden lightening pressure on his body confirmed that he had indeed left the place. But that didn't make them breathe a sigh of relief, and the man's actions before he left made the beast's reaction even more violent, and the floor of the factory began to shake continuously.

"It's ......"

Reins looked at the beast. It couldn't be seen in its entirety, as it was still curled up in a ball, taking up most of the space in the room, which was larger than the two-story factory above, and it seemed to have its eyes closed, but it had raised its head and moved around slowly, as if it were smelling something.

"It's not quite awake yet." She whispered, "It's just that it's going to be fast—that man definitely did something just now." ”

She and Apaya walked to the console, Reins didn't quite understand the data on it, it called too deep content, but Apaya seemed to understand what it meant, and he frowned tightly.

"Maybe I can do something." "It's just going to take a long time, and I'm not sure if it'll wake up in the meantime." ”

"Try though, Apaya, at worst we'll have to fight it when it awakens." "And it may not have completed its final restoration yet, and the situation is not so bad." ”

Pat walked not far from them and looked at the beast thoughtfully.

"I think we're almost certain that it's Arka – or rather, it's a prototype."

On the other side, Tshiro briefly freed himself from his fear, and quietly gathered up a corpse that appeared to be a female researcher, whose head had been separated from her body, accompanied by Smoker.

"She should at least be buried intact." "She had the courage to fight against that man for someone else's life. ”

This sentence seemed to touch one of the researchers who had been cowering in the corner since the beginning, and they realized that they had become outcasts, so they hid together in a marginal position when the man disappeared, not because they didn't want to leave, but the door to leave had been sealed at some point.

“…… Thank you for your appreciation. ”

The researcher who spoke was a young, freckled girl who looked to be only about the same age as Momomo. She looked at the dead woman with a mixture of sadness and admiration in her eyes, and then knelt down gently beside her.

"She's going to be happy, she's been unhappy in Roseos, but she didn't show it for us." The girl lowered her head, "...... restoration of 'Arka' is only half completed, and after injecting the breath of the creator god, there was a mistake, and we can only use the remaining breath to conduct experiments to study what went wrong, but it has not been smooth." Today it seems to have been stimulated by something, and it has become very manic. ”

At this moment, the monster spewed out a cloud of gas from its nose, the color of the gas turned slightly yellow, the girl beckoned to the other researchers, and the two male researchers skillfully picked up a device like a fire extinguisher and sprayed white smoke at the gas, and it disappeared in a short time.

"That thing is poisonous, and we have to keep ourselves safe." The girl said blandly, "I didn't intend to tell you about the mechanism that stimulated its awakening before leaving, and I was going to see you both lose, but since one of you can do something about this test bed, then we can try to delay its awakening and let your people destroy it completely." ”

Reins raised an eyebrow and walked over to the girl, bending down to look at her.

"I'm not surprised that you want to reap the benefits, and I'm not surprised that you will fall to us because of our advantage, after all, if you are safer in this way, and you as outcasts will not be able to return to Roseos, and even if you do, you will be killed—then, without mentioning the question of trust or not, can I assume that the current life body of this monster is still in your equipment, not in its body?"

The freckled girl nodded silently, she stole a glance at Reinse's face, and the mercenary didn't mind letting her hide her unsuccessful behavior.

"We have a way to delay its full recovery, but because this process is not good for it, about ten guards will be activated in the front and back of the factory, and we need cover when we operate."

"What are the guards' abilities?"

"......" The girl thought for a moment, her eyes wandering back and forth over their bodies, and finally pointed at Pat uncertainly, "It should be similar to the aura of power he exudes." ”

After pondering for a while, Reins looked at the lineup on his side and made a decision.

"Elly, Shuka, Imi, Pola, Ella, you are fighting in the vicinity of Apaya, and these researchers will assist him in his actions and prioritize the protection of Apaya. Tsirao went to stand with Eli, and the guards were left to the rest of the men. ”

The people who had arranged the task nodded and checked their equipment. Ten guards of Pat's ability, and because they are mechanical, they don't have fatigue issues, and because they have sophisticated computing machines, they can't use large magic, so they need to be well prepared to fight.

"You have to be careful." Taking advantage of this time, Rhines whispered to Apaya's side, "It's not sure if these people really want to help us, and if they want to attack you, it's too easy at that distance." ”

As she spoke, Reins shoved a defensive stone into Apaya's palm, then clenched his hand into a fist.

"I know, don't worry." Appaya reassured her, "This is a special situation, and I won't allow myself to be immersed in these things. ”

"It's better to be like this, not a worrying guy."

Rhines muttered, eventually pulling out another candy and stuffing it into Appaya's mouth.