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

Gesai broke through the wall next to the side door.

I'd been right. The door was made out of Tier Four materials and the walls were only Tier Two. For the Tier Four teacher, it was almost like they were made out of paper.

"I guess they know we're here now." Oz didn't have her weapons out.

In fact, Gesai was the only one with a weapon. If we ran into someone that we couldn't knock out with our fists, then we needed to let Gesai handle them. Not that we'd seen anyone yet. But our destination was in the basement, which meant we were heading towards the fighting.

"Which way?" Gesai looked at Ether, who had the map on her CB.

"Down this hall, then to the right. There's a set of stairs." Ether pointed the way.

"This has been easy…" Oz's voice trailed off as we turned the corner and ran into four guards.

"You had to jinx it." Gesai charged the guards, but even if they had been able to get their weapons out in time, they wouldn't have been a match for her. These human guards were only Tier Two at best and it looked like they had been trained to handle Mundane threats. The observation that the Six used the Authority for Adventurer problems and kept cheap security for most of the positions seemed to pan out.

The redhead planted her sword in the ground so that she could focus on knocking the guards out, because with their level, fighting them with a sword might cost them a limb. Their weapons were clubs and shockers, but all they could do with those was make her mad.

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Once they were all unconscious, we each picked one to steal the restraints from. Once they were restrained, we dragged them into an empty office and shut the door. We were going to have to come back out this way and we didn't need to fight them a second time or trip over them.

"Any word from Rix?" Gesai pulled her sword out of the ground. There was a blocker for the Hex, so she didn't want to put it into her CB in case she couldn't take it out again.

"Nothing." Ether zoomed in on the map. "If I could get to the security station, I could see better, but it's on the other side of the building." She looked at Gesai.

I shook my head. Oz and Fray would have to go with her for cover and I wasn't sure that they could have taken out one of the guards that Gesai had just knocked around.

"We'll just have to hurry." Gesai turned and started jogging towards the stairs.

We all had to run to keep up with her, especially Ether, who had the lowest Speed of anyone on the team and Fray was barely faster.

I could hear the fighting when we hit the bottom of the stairs, but couldn't see anything as I followed Gesai into the hallway. We made two turns, then we were in front of the doors to the largest room in the basement.

"Ready?" Gesai grabbed the doorknob.

I looked towards the noise and nodded. I really wanted to go help, but I knew that if Whisper needed help, there was nothing I could do.

The redhead jiggled the handle, but she couldn't turn it. "It's locked." She tapped on it. "Tier Four though."

We moved back as she started hacking at it. It took her less than a minute to chop enough of the lock away that she could kick in the door.

The room wasn't empty.

The Six, Sandez Jinsu, Vanya Wesh, Remy Harlax, Sigun Gara, Chrice Faeru, and Joi Inon, and three others were all standing there smiling at us.

"We've been waiting for you." Sandez Jinsu spread his arms wide. "Welcome to the greatest event of your short lives!"