3rd POV
"It's all the same corridor, I don't even know if we're getting closer to the control room." Vil sighed out, seeing that they might be lost.
"There are marks at every corridor...." Jamil mumbled out. "We are going forward without returning to the same place..... I think."
"I mean, there are too many oaths that we can't walk through without an ID Card." Leona mumbled out. "If the s weren't made with Magic Proof material, I would have turned all the doors to sand..."
"I thought so. But Idia-Senpai said..." Riddle muttered out, recalling what Idia said to them yesterday. "'Each room will become a shelter during an emergency'. It won't be easy to break it."
"I can use my Unique Magic like how I escaped from the room." Vil mumbled out. "But it would take some time and there's a limit to my magic power."
"If at least one staff member shows up, we could strangle- no, we could explain the situation and ask them to give us directions." Azul suggested. (A/n: Azul NO-)
As they were discussing different strategies they could go for, something was there and it caused an explosion of some sort, making the Dorm Leaders jump.
"What!?" Vil snapped his head towards the source of the sound.
"AAAAAA!! Help me!!" A Staff Member appeared from one of the halls that were not blocked off. He was running for his life. And then the source of why he was running came into view.
"Magic Beam recharging completed. Target lock-on." It was one of the Charons.
"Look! The Staff is being attacked by Charon!" Azul pointed over in the hall.
"Perfect timing. Let's save him and have him show us the way in return." Leona said with a smirk, ready to fight the Charon.
"Really.... Please stop making statements that are not very 'prince like'." Vil sighed out. "But, I agree. Let's go!"
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"Hmph, they are easy to defeat after we get used to it." Riddle said as he looks back at the destroyed remains of the Charon.
"You're right. The movements of the Charons seem more regular and simple than before." Vil nodded in agreement.
"Y-You guys are the experiment Subjects....!" The Staff Member stuttered out.
"Subject? You're mistaking us as your lifesaver. Would you please take us to the Deputy Head in return?" Leona said to the Staff Member, but the Staff Member just stepped back and away from them in fear.
"!! Go away! Monsters!" The Staff Member stuttered out.
"A monster... You said?" Riddle muttered out. He did not like what the Staff Member described them, even after saving his life.
"Even though we saved you with a merciful heart.... That's such a terrible thing to say." Azul mumbled out, feeling offended by the Staff Member's choice words.
"Indeed. We don't even know which way is left or right." Leona muttered out. He slowly walks up to the Staff Member with a scowl. "Just take us to the Control Room already."
"I've never seen such a fierce and arrogant lost person before." Vil sighed out.
"No, I don't want to! To the Central Area... I don't want to get near 'Tartaros'!" The Staff Member whimpered out. He was about to cry at any minute now. "The 'Cerberus System' has been taken over. If the Phantom overflows, this island is over!"
"What? What do you mean by that?" Vil asked. This was more serious than he thought.
"Shut up! I don't have time to explain that!" The Staff Member shouted. "Get out of the way! Let me go to the escape terminal!"
"Haa.... It can't be helped." Jamil sighed. Desperate times calls for desperate measures. "Please calm down. You will feel uneasy even if you escape by yourself, right? Please allow us to escort you to your destination."
"Eh....?" The Staff Member turned to Jamil. This was his chance.
"Hmph. You look into my eyes!" Jamil said with a smirk. "What you see in your eyes is your master. Answer me when I ask. Bow when I order."
["Snake Whisper"]
".... Ah...." The Staff Member was now under Jamil's control.
"Do you have an ID Card? Here, open the door with it." Jamil commanded the Staff Member.
"Yes.... Master...." The Staff Member obeyed Jamil's orders and opens the door using his ID Card.
"As expected from Jamil-San, that's very effective." Azul chuckled out.
"This staff just said that the 'Cerberus System' has been taken over. Can you ask him to explain what it means?" Vil said to Jamil.
"My Unique Magic can only take over the consciousness of the target and manipulate them. Unlike Jade's Unique Magic, it's difficult for me to aim 'only' at the information of the target." Jamil explained. "Depending on how I do it, it might be possible for me to get a similar result..."
"Oh? I didn't know the Vice Dorm Leader of Octavinelle could use such a Unique Magic, how scary." Leona said with a cocky smirk.
"Oop, excuse me... I accidentally said it. It seems like the person himself doesn't want anyone to know about this, so please keep it a secret." Jamil said to the others.
"Don't worry, Leona-San. Jade's Unique Magic won't become a threat for a talented Wizard like you." Azul said to Leona. "Tch... I've been hiding it all the time for the time we need it!" Azul mumbled under his breath. "You did it in purpose, didn't you? Jamil-San."
"Who knows. I have no idea what you are talking about." Jamil said with a smirk.
"I'm starting to wish Y/n was here right now." Riddle muttered out. "Her Unique Magic would've been very useful at this time."
"We are not a Kindergarten Bus, stop chatting." Vil huffed out. "Anyway, we could reach the Control Room with the ID Card and the guidance of the staff."
"Yes, and we could also understand the situation now once we arrive at that place." Riddle added.
"Let's move on."
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In the Control Room, the rest of the S.T.Y.X Staff were in a panic as they try to take control of the situation, but they were unsuccessful with each attempt.
"All the power armour for the Charon Team is operating in autopilot mode. The management authority is... Ortho! They are reportedly attacking and arresting the Staff! Many were injured!"
"Technology Development Department, what is the status of the weapons in the hanger?"
"Everything with 'S.T.Y.X' magic circuit can't be activated!"
"Which means it's not all of it! Try operating it even if you dismantle it!"
"There is still no response to our rescue signal from the outside! We have lost contact with the staff that are heading to the power station and emergency escape terminal."
"The composition data and stored energy of 'Lethe River' is starting to decompose!"
"We are running the program of brute force attack to restart 'Cerberus'.... But the startup code is being rewritten at a processing speed that is faster than we could!"
"Freezing system has been cancelled in 'Tartaros'. Remaining 6 hours and 16 minutes until it's completely melted! The upper layer is melting rapidly. It's expected that the 4th layer will start to melt in about three hours."
"The twelfth prison in the first tower is starting to melt!"
"The twelfth layer!? Which means the first Phantoms is... It's only a matter of time before 'Titans' wake up....!" Red alarms sounded off.
"The Blot density in the Main Office is increasing! Pollution warning issued!"
"ORTHO.... His computing power has far surpassed our team.... Is there nothing more we can do?"
"I will be troubled if you give up so easily." Vil and the others have finally arrived in the Control Room.
To Be Continued~