You look upon the shambling corpses their bodies making ticking and tocking sounds as they approach you, they must have already been dead when their bodies were infected as rust has already begun to form and replace their skin.
They can't hurt you, even without your powers you still have your magic, and even without magic, you're a Spark, a type 7-? to be specific, your body mostly made of steel or iron and your body temperature is well past 0 Kelvin, you and the rest of your kind actively need to suppress our body temperature to keep from freezing and killing everything outside of our homeland; a Spark's body tends to be pretty extream like that. Even the lower leveled ones
One of the rusted corpses finally made to were you are still seated and starts to bite you before a, rather large, spider tackles it to the ground and begins to claw at its face.
"The loli maid did it!" you almost forgot about her, you scan the room for her finding her at a corner with four more spiders by her side fending off more of the corpses. You really need to pay more attention to your surroundings.
"Axel, can I have my powers back? I can't detect any mana in the air and I'd rather not waste any of my own of such weaklings" it really would be a waste, your spells would cost more mana cells than usual, plus replenishing any lost mana would take longer.
"I'll give them back when I'm finished with them. For the time being, why don't you go find a door with a lock? You can wait in HomeBase while I'm working."
"How am I supposed to do that? Can't really move much, even with the prosthetics I haven't walked in years."
"Just ask maid loli, she'll happily help someone as cute as you~." he's teasing me again.
"Axel, I don't have vocal cords, they haven't regenerated yet" that wouldn't normally be a problem, most of your kind is mute, but you're not from this world or universe so she probably won't understand the sign language you use and you can't manipulate sound anymore.
"I've already made her a Companion in the game for you, I did say that she's part of the harem now, didn't I~?" why are you surprised? He did the same thing with Sayaka, Lainne, and the Queen of Hatred, so why are you sill surprise that he'd do something like this? Is this what everybody at Claret Towers do? Setting up harems so they can get off on their host's inevitable pain? You thought they were researchers like the Laughing Shadows!
"Oh, but we are researchers, we're just a little more...lustful~." you ignore the shivers that run up your spine and set your mind back to reality. More and more corpses start to flood the room slowly overwhelming you and the maid girl.
"[HELP] [PICK UP]" you project into her mind and soul, this is usually how you and the others communicate, though you're using a less advanced version so you don't melt the girl's mind.
Although she seems confused at first she starts to quickly make her way to you and picks you up, the spiders that surround her make quick work of the nearby corpses. How strong are those spider? Maybe you should ask the maid girl about them later.
"[SEARCH] [LOCKED DOOR]" you get a very confused look from the maid girl before she rushes to the hole in the wall the mirror made blowing straight past any of the corpses that weren't taken out by the spiders. The girl makes a right as we make it through the hole running down a long hallway, most of the windows are broken as more corpses crawl through them, you can see a bright red light outside.
"FYI, you still have Cryokinesis, I can't take away native abilities." that is a very blatant lie, you've seen him take away native abilities before multiple time.
"That would have been very good to know a couple of seconds ago, would have saved the giant spiders the effort."
"My kinsmen are here?! Why didn't you tell me sooner?!" you completely ignore Axel's distress and focus at your current task, you quickly begin to freeze every window shut and sending icicles at every walking corpse ahead of you, you made sure to keep the temperature a higher than usual so they don't explode and slow us down.
You start to yawn, how long has it been since you've actually slept? maid girl's chest is pretty soft~ maybe you'll switch to using maid girl as a pillow instead of the Queen of Hatred when you get to HomeBase, sharing dreams with her is starting to get boring.
The maid girl breathes heavily as she continues to runs with you in her arms, how long has she been running? you had Axel speed your perception of time up so for all you know it could have been a couple of minutes to several hours.
Eventually, you make it to a staircase that leads down into a basement, there is a door with a lock on it at the bottom of the stairs, maid girl starts to head down the stairs before you hear several very loud Screams behind you; you instinctively form a wall of ice behind you and not a moment too soon as you hear several thuds and a couple of cracks as the wall of ice blocks the way. it seems like the special mutations have started to appear.
"[HURRY] [DANGER]" you'd rather not deal with special mutations at the moment so you urge maid girl to move faster.
As you make your way to the bottom of the stairs you notice blood has begun to pool at the bottom, about up to your neck and quickly increasing, you quickly freeze it and move it behind you to reinforce the wall of ice before it breaks.
You begin to manifest your as you make your way to the door, by the time it's formed into an appropriate shape you've made it to the door.
The maid girl breathes a sigh of relief as you insert the key into the lock, a light begins to shine behind the door indicating that HomeBase has been connected to the door. you open the door, revealing a blinding light behind the door, and enter your HomeBase, safe at last.
At first, you see nothing but eventually, your vision clears to reveal your bedroom. you yawn again, your eyelid is starting to feel heavy, maid girl yawning too. and so are the spider...you try not to think about that, you can dissect them later when you're tired.
"[SLEEP]" maid girl waste no time in finding you bed and lies down, you yawn again and slowly close your eye, you'll think about what to do with her tomarrow~.
