Mantle of the Gods [LitRPG / Slow Burn / FTB Harem]

Trent was starting.

"This is going to be delicate." The old man glared at me, but I was barely paying attention. "HEY!" He snapped in my face. "If you use Siphon to put yourself in there, then it could kill her and me. Do NOT follow me in there. Do you understand?"

I nodded. There was only one place I wanted to go and one person I wanted to follow and they were in the other room.

"Hey." Gesai got up and walked over to me. "It's going to be okay. I mean I knew you were special, but I didn't know you were THAT special."

I shook my head. "I just want to fix this."

"It's not something that you can just tell anyone. She'll see that you told her as much as you could and you weren't trying to hurt her." Gesai wrapped her arm around me. "Everything is going to work out."

"MHUHUMHUMUH." Whisper decided to add in his two All.

"You…" Gesai kicked him. "Be quiet."

Whisper just shook his head and leaned against the wall.

"Um, I don't think this is good…" Rix pointed at the seal on Astrid's chest. It was starting to smoke. Both she and Trent were covered in sweat and the contortion of Astrid's face told me that she was in a LOT of pain.

Fray got up and came around the booth to look. "What's wrong with them?"

"I don't know…"

Trent fell over, cutting off what I was going to say as Gesai grabbed him.

"I need to…"

"Start that word and I'll put you to sleep until he wakes up." Gesai glared at me.

"Is he dead?" Fray looked like she was about to have a panic attack.

"No, he's not dead…" Gesai felt for a pulse. "I don't think."

Trent's ivory skin looked almost gray and Astrid didn't look much better.

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"What do we do?" Fray was breathing fast as she sat down on the floor.

I closed my eyes. I had no clue what was happening or what to do. It was almost midnight and I knew that the Six were up to something. Usually, I would think to go to the Temple, but the whole reason we were staying where we were was because the Temple had been paid off.

Which meant that I had no one here that I knew I could trust, and I had the number three most wanted man alive restrained, gagged, and blindfolded in our vehicle. Not to mention, Trent had just really upset a LOT of Authority Officers to send a message to Mive.

There was only one person I could think of right now who might be able to help. I looked back at the bathroom.

"Hey!" Rix hit my leg. "Do you have a plan or not?"

Whisper was straining against his bonds, but even if I wanted to, there was nothing I could do to free him.

"Yeah, but I don't know how smart it is." I moved to the driver's seat. "But first I think we need to get out of here."

"Didn't Trent cast a barrier around this place?"Gesai looked around.

"And what happens when it breaks?" I started up the engine. "Trent is a well known person. They might not know who we are for a while, but I wouldn't be surprised…" I hit the call button.

"Did you find them?" Justia appeared on my screen.

"Get out of there." I glanced at Astrid. "Trent beat up a lot of Authority Officers to send a message to Mive, but now he's unconscious and I don't know when he's going to wake up, but I can bet that someone is on their way to you for a confrontation."

"AELIN! GET EVERYONE IN THE RV!" Justia looked at me. "Zel?"

"Her too." Astrid had been willing to die so that we'd take her. I didn't know what that mark had to do with anything, but that didn't mean that I was just going to leave her behind.

"Where do you want to meet?" Justia was moving through the house.

I looked at Gesai. "Where is safe?"

Whisper started straining against his bonds. He was making a motion like he was trying to write.

"Gesai give him a pad." I looked at Justia, "One second. Whisper is trying to tell us something."

"Whisper is with you?!?" Her voice was full of concern.

"He's kind of restrained." I looked at him. "Okay, mostly restrained."

"Ulalu?" Gesai looked at him. "What is that?"

The scowl on his face was evident even with so little of it visible. He started over.

"V?"

Whisper nodded.

"L?"

The bandit scribbled it out and tried again.

"I?"

"Violu?" Rix looked at me. "Does he mean ask Jen?"

Whisper was violently shaking his head no.

"There was a Violu that worked at Bright weapons… her name was…" I was trying to remember her name, but I just remembered that she was Jen's aunt and it wasn't Bright.

"Sydney Faeru." Justia finished for me. I'd forgotten she had been there.

Whisper was nodding yes.

"Tell Jen to meet…"

"ATLAS RUN!"