Braverte in his search for Bilicus walks into a big room. The room is empty except for a desk in the middle of it. Braverte walks up to the desk and places his hand on it. He scans the desk using H.R. to see if there are any abnormalities. He senses that there is a button on the side of the desk and pushes it. The button triggers several engines to start and the room is filled with the noise of wheels turning and creaking.

Then there is a loud click but nothing happens. Braverte stays alert, traps might have been triggered or monsters might have been set free. And then the sound of metal doors slamming down can be heard all over the building. Pulmo who is outside sees the metal doors coming down on every opening of the building. She takes another sip of tea and slowly blinks her eyes as she knows that this isn’t a threat to Braverte.

Bilicus has arrived where he wanted to be. The metal doors came down on this doorway as well. Bilicus takes a small card from his pocket and holds it against the metal door, upon touching the metal door a blue glow emanates from the card all over its surface. Once the blue light dissipates the metal door swings back up. BIlicus goes into the room.

Braverte has been tracking Bilicus’ movements and locates his location once more. Braverte starts walking towards the way out which is blocked by the metal door. He goes to touch it so that he can transmute it into something else, but the moment his finger touches it several spikes spring forth from the door attacking him.

Braverte jumps back to avoid the attacks. He thinks to himself that a door that attacks upon impact is a decent defense mechanism. This place isn’t a quick hideout but seems to be the main headquarters of this whole thing. Braverte walks back to the desk, grabs it, and throws it at the door. The door senses a projectile coming at it at high speed and calculates the possible damage that could occur. The door gathers energy and sends out a blast to meet the desk, and the blast is strong enough to turn the desk into dust.

Braverte looks at the wall. He grabs a piece of rubble from the floor and throws it at the wall. The same thing happens. Braverte now knows that the button triggered the defense system of the whole building. This means that any effort to destroy the building to create shortcuts will be met with heavy resistance. This feels like a method to slow Braverte down. Braverte then stomps on the floor to send out a wave of Higher Reasoning with which he intends to just transform the door and wall without touching them. The sensors in the wall and door can sense the wave of H.R. energy and that triggers an algorithm that runs through the door and walls. This algorithm offsets the energy that Braverte sent out.

Braverte has never seen or experienced this kind of technology before so he is surprised at what just happened. He stomps again to verify his suspicions and it happens again. He thinks to himself that this is rather impressive but he knows that letting Bilicus be alone for too long could be dangerous.

Braverte cracks his neck and starts walking towards the metal door. He winds up his shoulder and raises his arm to get the muscles ready for action. When he is close enough without breaking his stride he cocks back his fist and with full force punches the door. The door reacts but Braverte uses his fast reflexes to dodge each spike. The punch was strong enough to break the door completely and send it flying thus opening up his path forward.

Braverte starts walking in the direction of where he sensed Bilicus. The metal door was destroyed, but before it got shut down, it sent the information and footage of what just happened to the mainframe. Which then updates all the doors and walls to be better at dealing with Braverte. The next door was able to sense Braverte approaching and readies the spikes in advance to reduce his reaction time.

Didn’t help. The door was destroyed, this process of destruction and improvement went through several cycles as Braverte rushed to get to where Bilicus was. When he arrived at the last metal door, he was covered in bruises and blood. The doors didn’t stop him, but they were effective in hurting him and slowing him down. But Braverte also learned a few things. He was dragging a huge metal door with him when he arrived at the last door.

He saw the last metal door, stopped, and strengthened his grip on the door. He lowered his core and gathered his energy in his arm. And then with all his might, he flung the broken metal door at the last door trying to stop him. The metal door that was trying to stop him, recognized that there was an object flying towards it, but also registered that it was another metal door. This slight delay in computing was all that was needed for the doors to crash without the still functioning metal door being able to stop it. The last metal door between Braverte and Bilicus was now flying through the air with the other broken door. They both hit the wall and get embedded into it. Braverte walks through the dust into the room where Bilicus went. Bilicus was on the second floor when he heard the commotion and had to check to see what was happening and that’s when he saw Braverte step through the dust into the room.

“Why are you doing this?”

Braverte looks up to see Bilicus standing on the railing. He slowly keeps walking forward to close the distance between the two.

“To save my students.”

“Save them from what?”

“You.”

This comment infuriates Bilicus.

“ME!? I make sure they get the cleanest MYOS there is. Before I came here, they were literally putting poison into their body.”

“Giving them cleaner poison doesn’t make you a hero. It just makes you villain telling himself he is one.”

“So, what you’re going to kill me for giving the people what they want?”

“I’m not going to kill you; I’ll just make sure you get held accountable for what you’ve done.”

“And you think by removing me you stop anything? If I leave, there will be hundreds of people willing to take my place. All you will do is create a war to fill the vacuum.”

“I’ll make an example out of you, no one will want to follow your steps.”

“In what world does that work? Supply is and will never be the problem, as long as demand exists there will be someone to fill that role. Even if you manage to stop MYOS, these people will just find something new to feed their addictions.”

“That isn’t my concern. I can only do what is in my control, and stopping you is what I can do.”

“You as the headmaster of this school cannot be this shortsighted. I am just a small part of this cycle, I will be replaced by the end of tomorrow.”

“And I’ll take down your replacement as well.”

“Do you not see how stupid you sound right now? You literally just said that you will just keep doing the same thing and expect a different result. I am the best option you have, trust me.”

“Trust you. TRUST YOU. Thanks to you, thousands of zombies are stored in warehouses. And I know that there is a reason for that, that only you know.”

“Braverte, trust me and just walk out of here.”

Braverte is now close enough to the railing on the second to jump up. He lands right on the railing a few meters away from Bilicus. Braverte’s eyes have turned cold as if the killer inside of him got woken up.

“Either face justice or death. Your choice.”

Chapter 59 fin