Monster Integration (Web Novel)

?I have appeared in a large hall. Made of white marble without a single article of furniture or decorations.

The only thing it had was the people. Scared nervous-looking people. There are hundred and eighty-seven of them, with ten some being familiar ones.

They were ahead of me in the line.

The others seemed to be coming from the two other teleportation formations that had been set up here.

The people gathered are Sovereigns and Earth Sovereigns. All of them are watching silently, while the oppressive aura of the Sky Sovereigns covers them.

I couldn't see the Sky Sovereigns, but I could see the twelve Earth Sovereigns. Wearing a cloak and the masks, that are hiding their faces as well as their aura signatures.

'Don't make any noise; the Sky Sovereign didn't like it,' said the familiar voice in my mind as I opened my mouth to talk.

I stopped and walked to the ground.

'What is happening?' I asked.

To which the crystal-skinned woman shook her head. 'No idea. They are just gathering us without informing us of anything,' she replied, and I nodded before asking a few other people, they too don't have any idea of what is happening.

It was not the first time; I had fallen into trouble for the past three months. It is a fourth time already. However, for the first time, the Sky Sovereign is directly involved, which is going to make escaping here difficult.

Though difficult as it may be, I will have to do it to survive.

Like others, I stayed quiet, but I didn't stay without anything. After thinking for a few seconds, I begin to release a very faint soul wave.

It is extremely dangerous, but I need to survive and for it, I need to know where I am.

Hun!

There are heavy enchantments around the hall that even Sky Sovereign would struggle to get their soul sense out, but mine did and what I saw couldn't help, but surprise me.

I thought, they were cultists, but they were no cultists.

If I am wrong, they are the higher-ups of the Varur and they will use for that thing; I am sensing outside. I don't know what it is, but even my soul waves weren't able to breach through it.

A few minutes passed, and I kept trying when one of the teleportation gates buzzed and a horned man got out.

"Where a"

He hadn't even finished the sentence when he stopped and fell hard. The aura of Sky Sovereigns had suppressed him, and it kept suppressed for a few seconds before it disappeared.

It was quite an experience for the Earth Sovereign, that he stayed on the floor for over a minute, before getting up.

I looked at him for a few seconds, before focusing back on what I was looking at earlier.

Something had appeared outside. It was not there before, but now it is. The spatial signs of it are clear. Something had exchanged places with had been there before. Something that had really powerful enchantments that even my soul sense couldn't get through.

Though it is small. It shouldn't be bigger than a city block unless space is expanded inside.

I am betting on it.

An hour passed and nine more people came through the different gates. Also, I was not able to find out about the thing outside.

It is disappointing. I would have loved to see what was inside; it would have helped me prepare for it. Unfortunately, there is nothing, not even the slightest hint.

Seeing, that I would not find anything, I turned the focus inward. On the people that had gathered, the guards and the Sky Sovereign; I am really careful about him.

These people are careful in getting the people.

There are thousands of people who travel through the teleportation gate every hour, but they are taking two are three from each and most of them are like me.

Travelers, we are citizens or members of the organization. In four forms, we had written that didn't belong to any organization. So, there would be less trouble for these people.

I wonder, how many people they are willing to gather.

I didn't have many things about it and sat down before closing my eyes. I kept releasing the soul sense to keep an eye on things, but worked in my core.

Hours passed, and our numbers reached three hundred. That's when they stopped and turned off all the formations.

"Follow me," said one masked Earth Sovereign and moved toward the door of the hall, while the rest of us followed behind him.

Many are scared, but nobody asks questions. The soul sense of Sky Sovereign is still covering us, and nobody wants to face, the punishment that came after opening one's mouth.

Click!

The guard opened the door and walked out, and we all followed behind.

A surprise appeared on the faces of many as they looked ahead. It was just a normal forest around them, till they looked at the left.

There is a huge gate; connected by to black marble column. It is a white swing gate, with iron bars. Some of the bars looked rusty, but others looked new, as if they had been welded yesterday.

The guard stopped in front of the gates and so did we.

A moment later, everyone saw their storage devices moving away. It is not the guards' doing, but of the Sky Sovereign; the bastard is standing beside the Earth Sovereign, invisible.

The storages disappeared before a group of rings appeared. Everyone took them.

"This is a garden of melazin and you have a mission here," said the guard. "Collect as the resources, that are present in the list. Especially this flower; collecting a single one will you in your freedom," the guards added, with a projection appearing in front of him.

My eyes widened and so had the eyes of a couple of people as we recognized what it was.

Saying, I am shocked, would be an understatement. That flower is something that Sky Sovereigns would kill for.

Earlier, I had doubts, but now, I am sure. There is no escape.

They will not anyone of us leave. If the news is so much leaked about it; there will be an attack.

The flower is called Kavan. It is also the heavenly step flower. Consuming before the breakthrough into Prime; increases one's chances of breakthrough by 20%.

They are massive chances; it is why, every Sky Sovereign and their organizations would kill for it. There is no way, they would let us leave after telling us that; some seemed to understand the truth as their legs quivered.

"Do not doubt our intention. We will let you all leave, I promise you that," said the guard and turned.

Click!

A bronze key appeared in his hand, which he inserted into the gate. A moment later, the clicking sound rang out, and the guards pushed open the gate.

Behind the gate is the mist; we can't see what is inside, we will need to step inside to see it.

"Enter," he said, and the aura of Sky Sovereign became powerful. Even those who were hesitating began to walk toward the gate.

I also walked toward it, with a question in my heart.

Why didn't they enter inside themselves?

If there are such precious resources in there, they should have entered inside, unless there is something there that is dangerous to them.