Chapter 54 - Here Comes the Sun
On the 94th floor, Bell and Ais went through one of the vertical holes to the 95th floor even as a lot of light shone through the numerous vertical holes on the floor. When they emerged from the vertical hole, they were shocked. Apparently, the floor was one huge room with a large round cavern that opened onto floors below. Furthermore, about 5 floors below, they could see a small bright white sphere that emitted so much light and energy, making it bright and warm like a mini-sun. Wiene was following behind them in the passage way, and she was equally amazed by the sight and feel. They immediately called Hestia, Finn and Riveria and told them what they saw.
Hestia, Finn and Riveria were equally surprised. Bell, Ais and Wiene then proceeded to explore the 95th floor that was one large room with very high ceilings. It was lit bright by the mini-sun below that kept the room quite warm. The room contained many enormous glass containers filled with greenish fluids, and some of the containers were connected to each other with metallic tubes. When they looked carefully, there were little creatures moving around in the liquid that looked like little virgas! When they got even closer to the containers, they were shocked with an lightning charge that did some damage. They immediately called Hestia, Finn and Riveria again to report the baby virgas inside the glass containers that seemed to be protected by some type of lightning charge. Everyone agreed that Enyo may have been incubating virgas in the strange setup.
After exploring the 95th floor, they proceeded to the 96th floor, there were more glass containers filled with a similar green liquid. Being closer to the mini-sun, the floor was even warmer. When they looked carefully, the baby creatures were different and seemed more plant like. They were guessing these could be tiny viola plants being incubated.
After exploring the 96th floor, they updated everyone and then headed to the 97th floor. The floor was again 1 large room with a cavern in the middle. Being even closer to the mini-sun, it was extremely hot. There were no more glass containers but the floor was filled a lot of large metal tubes, large metal containers and a lot of metallic objects they were not familiar with. After checking through the floor, they updated everyone again and then went down tho the next floor.
The 98 floor was also 1 large room with the cavern in the middle. The room was scorching hot and they could not stay for long. They took a quick look but the room was apparently empty. It was also extremely bright from its proximity to the mini-sun. There seem to be at least 1 more floor below that was the 99th floor which Revis mentioned, but they could not fly near it. From what they could see, it appeared to be empty like the 98th floor. The mini-sun could well be on the 99th floor.
They headed back up to the 97th floor before updating everyone. They all agreed that Enyo was incubating the new monsters and the strange metal objects and containers may have had something to do with the mini-sun. Deciding that the team would not be able to figure out what is what, Hestia suggested that they should return back to the surface ASAP. There was nothing they could do except possibly cause a disaster or hurt themselves. Since the strange metal objects all seemed to be protected by the same type of lightning charge, they could not try to bring some back for others to look at. With the decision made, they started their return trip...