Chapter 19: Lucas, The Badass!
The side panel opened. Lucas got out, stretched his back, and started walking towards the entrance of the tower.
"30 minutes and I'm here, not a bad start."
Lucas kicked open the translucent door as he couldn't sense any life force.
BANG!
The door flew inside from the kick and landed down. Lucas was on high alert. Even though there were no living creatures, there may be traps laid by the Alisians. He carefully started sweeping through the first floor. There were unknown devices and structures on the ground floor.
He tried to activate them, but they didn't budge at all.
"The power source must have stopped after the abrupt opening of the barrier. It will take time to study and turn on the power."
Lucas shook his head and focused on the priority one item, The Codex.
"Everything else will be dealt with after I get the codex."
Lucas was quite happy as he knew even if by any chance he didn't get the codex, he would at least be able to harvest the Alis Race's knowledge.
Lucas then started searching for stairs or something that would lead him to the next floor, but the only thing Lucas found suspicious was a pillar-like structure in the middle having many small spaces like rooms in it.
He suspected that this was a lift that could carry people inside the spaces to other floors.
But the sad part was that the lift couldn't be accessed anymore as there was no power supply to it.
"Sigh….guess I have no choice but to climb from outside the building and then break through the translucent windows."
The idea was good as the building was translucent, so the insides of the buildings were visible to some extent from outside, giving a general indication of what was inside.
Lucas had made his preparations beforehand, but how could he not leave without creating some trouble for others?
With a combination of a foolish and wicked smile plastered to his face, he started placing sensory bombs and explosives everywhere.
The bombs he bought this time were known as 'the little sinner.' The name indeed suited it well as the bomb was designed to burst into shrapnel, and these shrapnel themselves had tracking devices in them. Thus, even if one survived the attack, his/her position could be determined locally.
But the range was only about 500 m. Lucas placed 10 sensory bombs and 5 little sinners on the ground floor in a circular way surrounding the cylindrical pillar.
The Central tower was like a high rising cone with deep parabolic arcs instead of straights along the outside surface.
So all floors were basically circular with decreasing radius to the top.
He also planned to plant some bombs on the translucent windows at a greater height so that if anyone came in contact with those, then at least they will die a thrilling death making their last bungee jump without a bungee, though.
Lucas was no messiah. Even if he didn't have any feud with the assassins, he knew that if given the chance, they would kill him, so why not instead make the first move?
"I have had enough of heroism in my previous life. This time I will try to be something different… hmm VILLAIN hahaha, but wait, that's too extreme."
"I might scare chicks away from me. I guess an antihero should do."
"Antihero it is then. Lucas the badass sounds nice, hahaha… (some evil laughter)."
"To commemorate my badassery, I have no choice but to sacrifice these assassins. Well, it's not like I care anyway, hehe."
Lucas, after deploying the bombs on the first floor, started to climb the building from the backside so the others wouldn't be able to see him immediately, which would give him enough time to climb further.
Lucas already had made preparations, so he had ropes and grapplers ready with him. Lucas replaced the grappler end with adhesive rubber balls. The ball was designed to stick to smooth surfaces and was the best for Lucas's current situation. Although its range was short, not more than 300 meters, it was quite handy.
The Central tower's height was around 1 km, and Lucas had 4 adhesive balls, barely enough to make it.
Lucas then started climbing the building with the help of the rope that was attached to the adhesive ball.
Lucas had set his super watch to notify him when the sensors would catch something and also each time he climbed 100 meters more.
100 m...200 m…300 m.
Lucas then shot another adhesive ball and picked up the already attached one. But just then, his watch started to vibrate.
Alert! Breachers Found.
"Well, well, let's wait for a while so that everyone would get the chance to enter the floor, to fight, and to weaken each other."
5 minutes passed. Lucas stopped climbing, looked down one last time, and sighed, "Rest in peace, my friends."
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