novelraw Chapter 107: Into The Unknown
Chapter 107: Into The Unknown
Jamie moved quietly behind the five-floored building, keeping low while chaos spread across the base like wildfire.
I knew my plan would work, I just didn’t know it would work this good.
Nearly eighty percent of the people inside looked completely lost, running around with no real structure or coordination.
Humans on Earth had drills for this kind of thing—constant preparation for panic before panic ever came.
But here in Midworld, the absence of that kind of preparation was painfully obvious.
People were shouting. Running. Looking for orders that weren’t coming fast enough. It was messy, and for Jamie, that mess was perfect.
After circling the back area for a while, his eyes finally landed on what looked like a large metal door built directly into the ground, almost like the entrance to some underground garage.
There was no doubt about it. This had to be the entrance the engineer had told him about—the very one he had been looking for.
The door’s completely unguarded. I thought I would’ve to beat some peoples asses.
He moved toward it quickly and grabbed the handle.
After a few rough pulls and a violent twist, the doorknob finally snapped in half.
CRACK.!!
The door gave way.
Jamie didn’t waste a second. He pulled it open and immediately slipped inside, descending down a set of cement stairs that led into a dim, unsettling abyss below.
Jamie soon found himself inside a massive underground warehouse.
It was a huge enclosed hall with very little natural light. There were a few weak bulbs hanging here and there, but not enough to properly brighten the room. Most of the space still sat in a heavy gray darkness that made everything feel stale and abandoned.
Even the fresh air felt artificial.
Five air-conditioning units had been built high into the walls, humming softly as they pumped cold air into the room. It wasn’t exactly comfortable, but it was enough to preserve whatever was being kept down here.
The warehouse was crowded with plain brown boxes stacked in rows, most of them stamped with the word CONFIDENTIAL in bold black letters.
The rest of the room was cluttered with broken chairs, damaged tables, and random golden objects that looked expensive enough to make someone retire before thirty.
But as tempting as any of that was, Jamie didn’t care.
That wasn’t why he came.
What interested him was what might be hidden beneath the warehouse.
He slowly walked deeper into the room, scanning his surroundings carefully.
There is a high chance I won’t find a direct passage to the power source in this warehouse. It’s supposed to be a secret. Putting the entrance somewhere this accessible would be stupid. No captain would allow that.
His eyes moved with sharp precision as he searched, observing the room the same way a foreman might inspect a building after construction had just been completed.
Just silence and instinct.
That means there’s only one way forward. I’ll have to force an entrance through the ground.
The decision settled quickly in his mind, but there was still a problem.
He couldn’t just blast open any random section of the floor and risk creating a shock loud enough to alert everyone above. If he was going to break through, he needed to find a weak point first—somewhere already compromised enough that destroying it wouldn’t create more noise or resistance than necessary.
So he started searching.
For eight straight minutes, Jamie moved through the warehouse, scanning the floor for imperfections like someone desperately looking for lost keys.
Then finally—
He found it.
A crack hidden beneath one of the stacks of confidential boxes.
Jamie immediately moved the boxes out of the way, piling them onto the others until the cracked section of floor was fully exposed. He stared at it for a second, then drew back his fist. He gathered as much strength as he could into the punch, muscles tightening, shoulders locking, his entire frame coiling like a spring.
Then—
BOOM!!
His fist smashed into the cracked floor.
The concrete gave way instantly. Chunks of broken ground collapsed downward, crashing into something metallic beneath. Jamie stepped forward and looked through the opening.
A metal bridge.
And beyond it—
A hidden chamber.
Without hesitation, he jumped feet first. His body dropped through the hole along with the falling debris before landing hard on the metal bridge below.
DING!
The sound rang sharply through the chamber the moment his feet struck the metal.
Jamie bent slightly from the impact, then tried to stand, a sharp sting shot through his spine like someone had driven a nail into it.
His body locked up for half a second.
Pain.
The jump had reawakened an injury he thought he’d already pushed past. A reminder.Maybe even a punishment for starting to feel too comfortable. Too confident.
And Jamie understood that kind of lesson well. He had seen it happen to too many people before—those who drowned in overconfidence only to get their faces smashed into reality later.
That was exactly the kind of mistake he refused to make.
So with a few strained breaths and repeated effort, he forced himself upright.
And when he finally looked around—
He froze.
Because what stood before him looked like something straight out of a villain’s lair.
The underground chamber was massive, far larger than he had expected.
And even though it was flooded with bright white light, there was something deeply wrong about the place.
The walls weren’t made of concrete like the rest of the building.
No.
They were just raw sand, bare and unfinished, as if someone had dug an enormous pit into the earth and built infrastructure inside it without ever bothering to clean up the wound.
And the depth of the chamber was even worse.
The hole looked endless. Dark. Bottomless. Like a giant open throat waiting to swallow anything that slipped into it forever. It was almost ridiculous how deep someone had dug this place.
Jamie quickly understood why the chamber had been fitted with four metal bridge-like pathways crossing over the abyss.
Each one had been built to let people move safely through the room without falling to whatever hell waited below. And all four pathways eventually intercepted at one central point, leading toward a large metal door with the word EXIT marked above it.
But none of that was what truly captured Jamie’s attention.
Because hovering in the center of the chamber was something else entirely.
Something massive.
A giant white sphere of energy floated in midair, illuminating nearly half the chamber by itself. It was huge. Far too huge. A raw glowing mass of contained power suspended in the air like some kind of artificial sun.
A giant metallic ring surrounded it, locking it in place while thick wires extended outward from the ring and disappeared into the ceiling above.
Jamie’s eyes narrowed. So those are the wires carrying the electricity... looks like they really put thought into this. But if that’s how the energy is transferred, then how do the spirits get inside it?
No one was there to answer him, so all he could do was build theories in his own head and see how close he could get to the truth.
He floated off the bridge slowly, levitating just enough to move closer to the giant sphere. Not too close, of course. The light was too intense, too blinding.
Close enough to say what he needed to say.
He stopped in midair and stared at the glowing mass in front of him.
Then his expression changed.
The sharpness in his face softened.
"Heather... Fiona... Emily..."
He said their names like he was standing at a funeral they had never been given. A proper goodbye.
Their heads had been cut off.
That wasn’t a fitting end.
Not for girls like them.
Jamie swallowed, then kept going.
"I know you can’t hear me in there. I know the Goddess turned you into something you were never supposed to be... but today, I’ll speak to whatever tiny particle of your souls is still left inside. I know I didn’t save you. I know I watched you die while we kept moving forward. And I know there’s no point beating myself up over it now because it won’t change anything..."
He paused, lowering his head slightly.
"But I just want to tell you this..."
His eyes hardened.
"From now on, I’ll do everything I can to save the people I still have the power to save."
Silence answered him.
But somehow, it didn’t feel empty.
Jamie slowly raised his right hand, then stretched out his forefinger.
[Kinetic Bomb]
A small sphere of unstable energy ignited at the tip of his finger, spinning rapidly as it condensed into a violent glowing core. This one was more unstable than usual.
He had made sure of that.
Then slowly, very slowly, Jamie aimed it at the giant energy sphere in front of him and under his breath, he whispered,
"I hope you finally rest in peace."
Then he fired.
The Kinetic Bomb shot forward and slammed directly into the giant sphere’s core.
For one split second, nothing happened.
Then everything did.
The unstable energy of Jamie’s attack collided with the already unstable nature of the power source, and the result was immediate. The giant sphere violently destabilized. Its energy burst outward in a wide circular surge like a collapsing star.
The massive ring holding it in place shattered into pieces.
Metal fragments flew in all directions before crashing to the ground below.
The blast wave exploded outward.
And Jamie’s body was thrown violently backward, slamming hard into one of the raw sand walls behind him.
BAM!!
Pain erupted through his back.
But strangely, that wasn’t what stayed with him.
Because this explosion felt different.
Completely different.
It wasn’t wild. It wasn’t hateful. It wasn’t one of those blasts that felt like pure destruction trying to tear flesh from bone.
No.
This one felt...
peaceful.
Like release.
Like something trapped had finally been allowed to breathe.
For a brief moment, Jamie felt strangely connected to the girls more than ever before. It was faint, maybe even imaginary, but it felt like they were there. Like some lingering presence had wrapped itself around the air one final time before disappearing for good.
And because of that, Jamie closed his eyes.
He just stood there and let himself feel it. Every second. Every breath. With only one thought running quietly through his mind.
It’s finally over.
So for a few minutes, he remained there with his eyes closed, breathing slowly like some kind of monk in meditation. Like the air around him was morning air.
He ignored the fact that he was underground.
And for one rare moment—
everything felt still.
Until a familiar voice suddenly cut through the chamber.
"You don’t know how long I’ve wanted to do that."