Strongest Nova: Path of Vengeance

Chapter 319: The Door

Stanley touched onto one of the men to see what lay beyond here, but he couldn’t see anything. He only saw a corridor and a room at the end of it. The man wasn’t allowed to go in there.

He touched a few more corpses, and it was all the same. They had the authority to be here, but they couldn’t go past this place.

"We should keep on moving," Sheila said and the rest agreed.

They made it past the many corpses in the room, the blood pooling all around.

Stella gagged the entire way through. She had handled herself well this entire time, but seeing so many dead people in one room horrified her. If not for her stomach being mostly empty, she would’ve likely vomited already.

Stanley looked back at the bare flicker of a shadow in the air that was Sheila. He wondered what she thought seeing this room. The memory he had seen from her— he wondered if this reminded him of that to her.

Sheila didn’t seem phased at all and made her way through the room with no issue.

"That room was guarding something important behind here," Stanley said as he saw a room deep down the corridor. "That should be where something valuable is held."

"Wasn’t the server room supposed to be this way?" one of the two men asked.

"Maybe that’s it," Stanley said. "Stay far behind me. I need time to react if something is going to happen."

The rest nodded and let Stanley walk up front on his own.

Stanley arrived before the large metal door and reached for the handle. As he did, he got a feeling that he was doing something wrong. His danger sense told him there was something bad going to happen if he opened that.

He slowly pulled back, confused as to what he should do.

"What’s wrong?" Sheila asked in a voice that was barely more than a whisper.

"I can’t open it. There is something dangerous going on inside," Stanley said.

"What’s going on?" she asked.

"No idea."

"You can see the future, can’t you? Just see what happens," she said.

"I can’t see it anymore," Stanley said. "At least, not for another 2 hours or so."

Before Sheila could ask why, he told her that it was a side effect of someone else’s power. She didn’t ask anything after that.

"Then what do we do now?" Sheila asked. "I can’t access my communications just yet. I can’t ask Gray to come by here."

Stanley thought for a bit, trying to come up with a solution.

"Umm..." Stella spoke. "I don’t entirely understand what is going on here, but we’re trying to get through the door, right?"

"Yes," Stanley answered. "There might be a bomb inside or firearm, or even people that are ready to attack us should we get too close."

"Hmm," Stella thought. "Wouldn’t they have killed you if they could when you were that close?"

Stanley thought for a bit and nodded. "The danger must be after I open it," he said.

"Then I can touch the door. That makes it easy," she said. "Do you have a guess on how thick the door is?"

Stanley looked around. "No more than this much," he said before realizing he couldn’t gesture as he didn’t have the other arm. "Uhh... this much."

He made a cut along the side of the wall to show the length.

"That should work then," Stella said and turned around. "Everyone else please move out of the hallway. I will need you to clear this place for a bit. Leave the room too."

Stanley wondered what she was trying to do, but he nodded toward the others to do as they were told to.

Once Sheila and the two men left, Stanley looked back at Stella. "What are you trying to do exactly?" he asked.

"You will need to grab me and run as soon as I tell you to, okay?" she said.

Stanley slowly nodded, wondering just what was about to happen.

Stella reached for the door and pressed her hand onto it. Her first thought had been to create some sort of knockout gas to knock everyone out on the other side of the room.

However, for some reason, she knew she couldn’t use that power for some time. She didn’t understand why, so she had to resort to some other problem.

If the danger happened when one opened the door on this side, then she simply needed to make it so that there was no door at all. But doing so was not possible either.

In case there was a bomb that triggered when the door was pulled or ripped off, it would kill her. Instead, she needed to make it so that everything remained the same, for the time being.

She needed to get rid of the door but with a delay. The answer to her was simple.

Ice.

She turned the entire door into see-through ice.

Stanley immediately saw the clear ice and the empty room behind it with some people hiding in the corner.

"Let’s go," Stella shouted and Stanley acted instantly.

He grabbed her by the waist and ran out of there before the people on the other side could see what had happened. When they arrived on the other side of the bloody room, they finally stopped.

"What? What happened?" Sheila asked quickly, checking inside.

"People are on the other side," Stanley said. "I don’t know if they have weapons. I got her to safety for now."

"You saw the people?" Sheila asked.

"She turned the door into clear ice," Stanley said.

"Why ice? Plasma guns don’t work as well through ice as they do against glass. Glass would’ve been the better choice," Sheila said.

"I didn’t know if the place was rigged to blow or not," Stella quickly said. "I made ice because I thought we could wait for it to melt."

"No, that’s great either way," Sheila quickly said. "Good job."