I didn't sleep at all. I only returned to my room briefly before the sunrise, and then waited for Ki'rai to wake up.

- We are not going to hunt today - I informed her as soon as she opened her eyes.

This made her abruptly get on her feet.

- Why? - she asked, wiping her eyes with her hands.

- I need to take care of something.

- I'll go with you then.

- No. I need to go alone.

- Why? - she twisted her head to the side.

- It's... Personal. I need to go alone. I want to go alone.

- Ok.

- How about you spend your day with Aisha?

She opened her eyes widely, just like her mouth, and then quickly nodded.

- Just don't eat too much. Your stomach will hurt again.

- I'm an adult. I know what to do and what to not do - she pouted.

- I'm just saying.

- I'll leave you some cookies.

- Thanks. Come, let's wash up, and eat something that is not sweet.

She jumped out of the bed, and we went together to the bathhouse, and after to the cafeteria. Then she went to Velvet Lotus, and I returned for my weapon.

- I'm ready - I thought.

- Good. I'll drop you in the middle of their base, so be ready.

- Nobody alive except the embryos?

- Yes.

This didn't lie very well with me, but I also didn't have much choice considering the current situation.

- Why don't you do it yourself? Why do I have to help you?

- Because I helped you before. Whatever you might think of me, I actually don't like killing, so if I didn't have to do it myself, I would rather not.

- I don't like it either.

- Well, we are in this situation because of you. So how about trying to face the consequences of your choices?

- Fuck you.

- Grow up, Peter. Are you ready? Can we proceed?

- Yes.

There was a change in the air around me, and the lights went off. I found myself in an unknown place. With help of my skill - 'Eyes of the Void' - I realized it's a storage room of some kind. There were several containers around me. All filled with objects, some with unknown substances.historical

- After you exit this room go to the left and start clearing the laboratories on both sides. Be quick, because they will raise the alarm very fast - the voice of The Great One appeared in my head again.

I did what he said and shadow walked past the door to find myself in a corridor. There were lamps above me, but I had no idea if those were on, since my skill was making me blind.

I turned in the pointed-out direction and started running. There were multiple doors ahead of me in the span of several meters. I shadow walked past the first one and ended up in a chemical laboratory with three researchers inside. All in different shapes, but the height and leanness remained.

There were three big tables in the middle of the room, filled with equipment. A lot of glass and different liquids. In the corners, there was some different equipment. Complicated machinery.

I ignored all of that and started swinging before the Xuvi could react. I cut them all in half with three quick moves using shadow walk, and got out, to aim a the next room on the opposite side.

It was the exact copy of the one I cleared before. I quickly killed the researchers and moved forward. The chemicals spilled during the slaughter were digging into my clothes but surprisingly couldn't do anything to my skin.

The next six rooms were all the same, but the ones further were different. When I got inside the first one of the next set, I found myself in some kind of breeding chambers with giant tubes filled with liquid and some creatures floating inside. There were several tables with butchered representatives of different races.

- Be careful here. You cant destroy the test tubes at the end of the room. Kill everything else.

I greeted my teeth and proceeded to kill the four Xuvi shocked with my appearance. Three died almost instantly, but the fourth one managed to push something and raise the alarm. I couldn't hear it, but my skill was picking up on the vibrations moving the air. I cut the head of the last one, smashed the tubes, and quickly got back outside, to get into the next laboratory.

I was welcomed there with several guns pointed at me, which went off immediately. I actually got hit, but it just didn't do any damage to me. My clothes though...

- You left something there...

- I'll set everything on fire later.

- *Sigh*

I shadow walked further, to close the distance, and cut them all down, then destroyed everything except the tubes with embryos.

When I got back on the corridor, there was panic all around me. Xuvi were running away from the labs. Few energy beams went my way, but those missed pretty heavily. I chased after them and killed them one by one while running further, to meet with the lizard troops. Few lines blocked the entire space. They started shooting immediately when I showed up.

I did some evasive maneuvers, parkouring over the walls with shadow walk, and ended up behind them. The rest was just a formality. When I looked ahead, turning the 'Eyes of the Void' off for a moment, I saw a massacre right in front of me. Bodies cut into pieces, and blood splattered everywhere. Smeared on the walls by those who tried to still flee with the last few seconds of their fading life.

My head was empty. On purpose. I didn't want to share my thoughts with The Great One. I slowly walked back, to finish those who hid in the corners thinking I won't find them, but I had the voice in my head telling me exactly where those little mouses were.

When I was finished, the whole base was already mobilized.. The real battle just started.