The Rise Of Calamity

"Oh... Sorry, your majesty!" The horse aggressively whispered while kneeling. Countless other beasts also followed us into the secret passage and after the final one had entered, the horse tapped its hoof on a nearby wall, causing the wall we had just walked through to slowly become solid instead of a mere illusion.

I could also feel that a few dozen meters away from us, the first wall that I had crashed into began to self-repair, making my eyes widen in surprise.

After looking at the wall being repaired, I looked at the runic patterns and realized that they were similar to some that were on the armor, and I automatically linked it to the mending enchantment.

I could also feel that a few dozen meters away from us, the first wall that I had crashed into began to self-repair, making my eyes widen in surprise.

After looking at the wall being repaired, I looked at the runic patterns and realized that they were similar to some that were on the armor, and I automatically linked it to the mending enchantment.

"We should go, your majesty" The horse kneeled once again before seeing me gesture to her to lead the way.

***

At the entrance of the tunnel that would lead down to the laboratory stood 13 people with their aura erupting out of their bodies like volcanoes

They were all currently looking at each other with malicious glances, yet not one of them dared to move.

While 4 of them were men, only 2 of them were women.

"What are you all doing here?" Asked a voice that I was very familiar with. The person who said this sounded cold and distant, yet in complete contrast to their cold attitude, their body was steaming hot.

The woman had voluptuous curves in all the right places, to the point it would even make married men feel an uncalled-for heat below their wastes while also making most women either jealous or in awe at how beauty and sexiness could exist in someone without clashing.

Out of the six that were standing in thin air, the red-haired woman who had just spoken was by far the youngest among them. Yet even though she was the youngest, she did not lack in power and in fact, could probably win fight them all simultaneously.

"Why are you here, Rosy?" Asked one f the old men completely ignoring Rose's question.

"I asked first" She frowned

"And our answer is the same as yours" Another old man with a silky black robe with a hood to cover most of his head spoke out.

Everyone turned silent while the tension in the air grew so much that it could be cut with a knife.

The silence was almost deafening, yet it all ended with a sigh from the other woman among the six.

"Come on guys! We all felt the power and now we are here to make sure it isn't a threat to our people... Well, to the people of all 5 of us excluding Rosemary. But I am sure she is also here to save the people of the city! What kind of human would you have to be to not care about your fellow human?" She glanced at the rose with her bright orange eyes.

"What are you implying?" Rose narrowed her eyes.

"I'm just saying that you are a nice person." The orange-haired girl smiled.

The girl was no bigger than 5ft 1 making many think that she would be the youngest among the 6, however, her outer self is just a mirage to make people look away from her evil nature. The 'girl' was over 40 years old even though she looked and spoke like a 12-year-old.

Amongst the upper society, she was known for being a ruthless maniac that would kill her husbands after getting tired of them, which is why whenever someone sees that she is being accompanied by a man, flashed of sympathy glint in their eyes while doing all they can do to save him, which was pray that she would give him a swift and painless death.

"How about we team up? We all go down and see what kind of monstrosity had awakened. If it does not try to hurt us we can leave it be, but if it is a danger to the city and our people we have to kill it" A man that was only a little older than Rose spoke out with creased brows and folded arms.

"That sounds like a good idea" one old man spoke before looking at the others. One by one, everyone took their turn to agree before giving their own conditions until finally, it was Rose's turn to agree.

"I decline" She spoke out flatly before shooting off in a random direction.

"Stubborn bitch" One of the old men muttered under their breath yet, due to everyone's power, they could hear him as clear as day.

"Come on old man. No use sulking! Let us go down and check if whatever is down there is a threat. If it is too much for us to handle, we will have to call reinforcement from the other cities nearby, or even worse, we will have to awaken your father from his cultivation" The orange-haired girl spoke the last part while looking at the green-haired youth.

"Yes... That truly would be the worst-case scenario" He frowned.

After finally making sure that they had everything, they all looked down at the pit of darkness before shooting down it with their guards up, just in case.

***

As the 5 of them plunged down the tunnels, I watched them from afar while hiding my mana signature and presence by using the cloak.

After seeing them halfway there, I and all the other beasts began to move up the secret passageway, taking us only 10 minutes to reach the top due to us walking at an extremely slow pace just to make sure that they would not feel our presence as we went up. After all, I was the only one with a stealth cloak among all of us.

On the way up, I realized that I was having problems controlling my strength so I tried to take the armor off. However, it was only then that I realized I was going to suffer from another problem.

'H-H-Hela... How do I take this armor off?' I stuttered

[Oh... About that. Do you really want to know?]

'YES!?' I exclaimed inwardly

[Are you like, 100% sure] She asked again

'Oh no... Don't tell me...' I felt like fainting.

[HAHAHAHA! I'm kidding. The look on your face though when you thought that you would be permanently in this armor of yours hahaha! Anyway, even though there is a camouflage runic pattern that would make it so it doesn't look like you are wearing the armor, you can't technically take it off]

I felt my heart drop again after feeling a brief sense of relief.