"Who’s there?" Arian questioned as he approached the door, the cup still close to his mouth.
"It’s , Captain."
Arian raised an eyebrow. Leanna? The woman with an elf oracle summon that could see future dungeons, ti of arrival and where it was going to appear. She could also see a little more than that but those were what she mainly saw.
The cohort got missions from her.
But she wasn’t the type to head straight to his house especially at these early hours. "Leanna. What brings you here?"
He opened the door.
"The cohort won’t get through tonight." Leanna’s ominous words said with a grave face greeted Arian.
He was sipping his coffee but had to stop mid-sip. "What did you say?"
"Sothing wants to cause havoc tonight. None from the camp can stop it." Leanna told him.
"Monsters can’t enter paradise, we’re sealed off by the watchman’s innate skill. So explain to clearly, what did you see?" Arian frowned.
"It’s Isaac. He’s about to turn into a monster that will kill us all. I see things related to monsters, and I clearly saw Isaac bring down the cohort. He should be thrown out of paradise or killed. Throwing him out will be rciful since he’s helped the cohort in the past."
Arian held her shoulder. "Calm down, Leanna. Have you ntioned this to anyone?"
Leanna’s eyes glead. ’Does he want to cover this up? I knew Captain Arian wasn’t the sa man he was before.’
"I’ve inford the Elders and the Watchman. You are to subdue the threat. Those were their words."
’Subdue can an a lot of things.’ Arian muttered inwardly. "Let’s get to the camp then, I need to speak with the Elite Class."
***
At the camp, Arian walked on the third zzanine with Leanna behind him. Lots of Regulars on the ground floor and lower zzanines whistled at the sight of him, mischievous smirks on their faces.
"Look boys, the Captain ca early today. No day off, married man?!" One of them chortled while the others laughed.
Few whistled loudly.
"Get out of this ugly place, Captain! We all know you’d prefer the comfort of your wife!"
"Hahaha!!"
"So spicy night wasn’t it?!"
"When are we expecting the little captain!"
Arian shook his head with a light smile. Leanna leaned closer and whispered. "They’ll all die if you do not take this seriously. Be the man you once were, the Ronin or witness the downfall of the cohort. Their blood will be on your hands."
Arian eyed her. ’She still talks in an odd fashion. Well, she’s spent so much ti with her summon that she acts and speaks like it.’
He swung open the tal door, revealing the rectangular eting hall. All the Elites apart from Isaac and Lucy who had their days off sat on either side of the large rectangular table.
Arian walked past them, occupied the seat ant for the captain, then gestured for Leanna to tell them what she told him.
"Isaac will turn this camp into a graveyard tonight. I rarely get visions like this but for the past two decades ever since I was twelve and awakened my summon, none of my visions have been false. I say this knowing you’ll doubt."
"The Isaac we know won’t do such a thing, he doesn’t even have the strength. So we’re talking about possession." Oliver looked at Leanna to see if he was right.
Leanna responded with a nod to the man covered in bandages and a hoodie.
"In such a state, the person becos whatever is controlling them." Thalia added.
"We need to treat this matter cautiously and not treat Isaac like he’s an enemy all of a sudden." Arden spoke softly while adjusting her gold-rimd glasses.
Others agreed.
"I would have loved to not say this but Isaac is one of Cain’s clones. He’s a trigger. I see monsters, not people aning he’s a false human. Technically a monster made by Cain who has planted a creature capable of wiping out the cohort within him and that trigger will be activated tonight. I saw it and so will you."
Leanna summoned a beautiful tall elf with pointy ears and white dieval clothing with an erald gemstone pendant. She held a long staff made of white wood.
The elf stretched forth her hand. Her eyes beca white and so did the eyes of everyone in the eting hall. They saw Isaac with spider legs sprouting from his back releasing hundreds of spiders from his body, they just kept dropping endlessly, and engaged the vagabonds while he perched above watching them with pitch black eyes and shoulder-length black hair.
That wasn’t the Isaac they knew. The spiders piled up the webbed Vagabonds into heaps as Isaac descended slowly, hanging on to a web stuck to the ceiling.
He opened his mouth and white mist ca from the bodies right into his mouth. That was where the vision stopped.
When Leanna saw everyone’s appalled expressions, she continued. "I’ve spoken to the Watchman and he says Isaac is indeed a clone, unfortunately. Cain has accessed him. The boy called Isaac that fought by your side is gone."
If Cain gained control over Isaac, paradise was dood. The rumors of clones had already haunted them enough but now they were about to face it.
Arian’s conflicted expression eventually fell into a resigned one. "Bring him in. Do it gently."
"I believe in your prophecies Leanna but this is horrible. We’re going after one of our own." Arden said with saddened eyes.
"Is he?" Oliver retorted. Oliver’s bandages already told tales of what Cain’s influence could do. In Oliver’s case it was his elder brother who beca a fanatic and murdered his parents, feeding their summons to his own before burning his own younger brother, leaving black scars that hurt like he was being burned once exposed.
Of course there were people that could heal him but he didn’t want to be healed. These scars would remain until he saw his brother again.
Anything that had to do with Cain pissed him off and Leanna had never lied before. Like them, she wanted to defend paradise at all costs.
"I’ll give him the benefit of doubt first." He whispered to himself as he and Arden left the hall.
Isaac would have to be brought in first.
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