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Chapter 21: Progression We waited beside the elevator doors as it opened at the R&D Department's floor and swept out. A dozen small lasers positioned at various points on the wall immediately hit me and I ducked back in with a tingling chest. "Nice defenses." Roy remarked and threw an Ilbi into the corridor. It was instantly vaporized. "I don't see any way past them." Alexis peered into the corridor and ducked to avoid a laser beam. "Roy, stay behind us." I suddenly thought of a way. Alexis stared at me, then nodded. We charged into the corridor with Roy following us. The turrets started firing again, but they seemed to focus on the person that was closer to the end. I ran for the door, my armour absorbing laser bursts as I ran. I kicked open the door and I shoved Roy and Alexis in before going in myself. This room felt really hot. The reason, twelve walls of fire blocking the corridor, fuelled by vicious flamethrowers on either side. I realized that we would have to shield Roy again. He threw an Ilbi into a flamethrower, but it rebounded off and stuck itself in the ceiling. "Armoured." he breathed. Alexis took one look at the flamethrowers, closed her eyes and held her palm up. A rushing wave of water shot from her palm and flowed through the corridor, disappearing right at the end. "Too easy." she grinned at us. The flamethrowers had short-circuited and couldn't be used anymore. We continued on through the next door. We never expected what was waiting for us at the next door. As we ran through, my foot sank into something like a sponge and the next thing I knew, a laser cage dropped from the ceiling. Alexis and Roy had gotten through safely though. "Artemis!" Alexis yelled, taking a step towards me. Her foot hovered over an abnormal pad. "Stop! Just go on! I'll find a way out!" I shouted. She hesitated for a second and then turned around. She flapped her wings gently and took to a low hover. Roy hopped from floor to wall and ran there using Haste, occasionally hopping to the ceiling. "Use your mental powers." the Phoenix suggested. "How?" I asked. "Just concentrate on the spot in front of that door." it turned my head towards a door at the end of the corridor. Roy and Alexis were halfway there. I closed my eyes and focused on that spot. "Now, try to imagine your body is in that space and turn on the spot." the Phoenix urged. I did it and a blue light bathed me. "Congratulations, you've just Teleported." Jakito grinned. Roy and Alexis sure were surprised when I appeared in front of them. Alexis tried to Teleport the way I did, and she did it. She spent the next few seconds teleporting around the next room, which was filled with laser trip beams. Roy had no trouble navigating through either. His Haste did the work for him. I simply Teleported across the room, but I narrowly missed a beam that seared my buttocks. The next room was total craziness. Spikes popped up through the floor at random intervals. Each spike was as tall as the ceiling! When I tried to Teleport, I ended up back where I started. "Something's interfering with the spell." the Phoenix mused. Flying wouldn't work either, the spikes reached the ceiling. Alexis's Tsunami wave didn't do anything and a burst of fire from my mouth rebounded off the nearest spike and dissipated into the walls. Roy dodged, rolled and jinked to avoid the spikes. Once, a spike nicked an Ilbi on his belt and another came very close to his foot. Alexis tripped over a spike that just came up from the ground and the next spike hit her back. The spike was absorbed, leaving only a blunt base that could do nothing. She eased up and just simply walked through them, letting her armour absorb the spikes. "They're gonna get a surprise when they see this room." I chuckled as I just stepped over the blunt bases. The next room was another laser web. This time, there were no blank areas large enough for any of us to move through. There also seemed to be another teleport jammer in this room too. "The difficulty of these rooms seem like the guy's daring anyone to try it out!" Roy remarked. Alexis launched another Tsunami at the room, but the water just evaporated when it touched the lasers. I tried sticking my horn into a beam. Part of the beam bounced off, but my chest grew again. Right now, my Dark Lineros could barely cover my chest. Alexis's armour was also stretched to breaking point. |
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