Hellbents
Chapter 144: The Truly Secret Lab

Brak! Brak! Brak!

The knock turns into a break. Ck, who? Now, there are only four people in this place, if the other three are in his office, then only a fool cannot draw the conclusion that he is the one who fills the bathroom.

“Eve? Eve!” Ah, Duke Frost.

Now that man dared to call her without any frills of honor, huh?

Although Eve has been bound by a soul promise that makes her no longer able to see Ava's past memories, she is never forbidden to observe the situation directly. So, armed with a large supply of mana and successfully modified skills, Eve can share her five senses. What Ava sees, hears, gropes, and denounces, can be felt by Eve as well.

And according to him, Ava was being too lenient to the people around her.

“Eve, are you okay?” Including and most importantly, Duke Frost. The engagement that he considers a mere formality and entertainment turns into an unhealthy obsession of the man. Distract. It was fortunate that the Frost bloodline was of no use, the military power of the North, a wealth that rivaled the royal family's possessions, the, as well as unlimited obedience raised Duke Frost's status as a fortress within the chessboard he played. But left for a while, the man had lost control, even now he dared to treat him lightly? He deserves to be slapped.

Unfortunately, Eve had no time to complain.

He opened the door that was shaking violently because of Duke Frost's break, threatened to fall from his hinge if Eve was a little late. “Oh, I smell blood—!“

“Clean it.” Regardless of Ellijah's astonished and panicked expression, Eve stepped out and immediately headed for the corner of her office, in front of a bookcase consisting of various

science.

“Ah, you can't—“

“Small pebbles, don't disturb mama now.” Siwon, who was rubbing his eyes because he was still sleepy, immediately woke up with a familiar call. Only mama called him “small pebble”. “Mama?”

Only after Eve touched the backs of books in a certain order did a panel appear before her. But his head suddenly experienced intense dizziness, throbbing and seemed to want to break.

Argh, Ava remains the most troublesome person as she deals with.

Luckily, he successfully completed the identification procedure of his soul, the only way he opened the second door to head for his secret lab.

It returns to the subconscious.

***

“Hei!”Eve was greeted with a furious scream Ava.

“You must improve your manner of speaking, a royal princess will not shout like that.”

“Fuck! Where have you been?”

“Aw, were you scared when I left? Fear of darkness or fear of being alone? Turns out you have a cute side too.”

Ava can only gape in disbelief at the nonsense Eve spewed out. His mood is good or something, it's weird. “Forget it, the most important thing right now is where the three things are—“

“You'll see for yourself later.”

Huh huh? What's he talking about?

But before he asked any further, his consciousness was pulled back to reality.

***

Not the bathroom tiles he saw when opening his eyes, but the ranks of books and titles written in cursive letters. Next, a mixed face from Siwon

which now is a human toddler. His brows furrowed worriedly, but his lips smiled happily.

Right, he's having another glitch. This time not on the night of the purple moon.

What cause?

But Ava did not have time to think because Siwon yelled right in front of his face. “Mama! Mama! Pinthunya open! Yey!”

What door?

Oh. Not a bathroom, Ava was lying in a corner of the office, and she was faced with a dimly-lit open hallway that had not existed before. A large bookshelf shifted to reveal a hidden entrance like in mystery movies.

So this is what Eve meant? Did Siwon open it?

... But how did Ava end up here?

Something suspicious has happened.

Whatever it was, Ava rushed to the bathroom, ridding herself of the barely dry blood. The priority now is to explore the secret path that has just been seen. Since Siwon and Ellijah had woken up, they urged to follow him. Rose was left behind because she was still sleeping, if later felt the need Ava would

wake the waiter up.

The stairs are quite steep, plus slippery because the air is moist because they are under a lake. Ava can smell the antiseptic even at the entrance.

They went down one by one carefully.

The further down, the more concentrated the hospital smell makes it uncomfortable. He also decreased the sensitivity of his senses by 1 percent.

What he saw next made him chuckle.

Wall mossed with splashes of blood, glass tubes filled with green fluid and human organs, Ava even watched baby fetuses that still have umbilical cords, there were also various bekkers and reaction glasses with colorful potions, next to him an iron box that was about the size of a human body, and on the innermost side there is a large screen with rows of small keyboards and large red keys.

Well, it turns out his imagination with Eve is not much different.

This kind of place can be called a secret lab.

Hah, Ava should have questioned her morals. Because the room is strong evidence of rumors of crazy and illegal experiments conducted by the expert genius

alchemists against humans or other races are in clear violation of international law, state, and societal norms.

But what does that have to do with him now?

The goal here is to find three things.

The dead or justice is not his business.

It didn't take long to find the recipe for the zombie plague antidote, a journal identical to what Ava brought was on a table where various alchemy equipment were laid out. The contents, as he thought were all kinds of herbal and alchemy recipes, were a little more difficult than previous journals, but most importantly the recipe was already in his hands, an article titled “A cure for the plague originating from Uflaria” is written in the middle of the book.

For anti-anarchism artifacts, they need a little time. Because the three of them had to research the blueprints one by one. Ah, three strokes, meaning both. Siwon only looked at one design sheet with a confused look from earlier, completely clueless. Ava expected nothing from the dragon boy.

In total there are three blueprints that seem to be used when viewed from the description of the prototype. Ava just left the work in making these items to Bia, the magic gun and power bank he made had met Ava's high expectations of the ability of the innovator. But of course, just in case, Ava took the draft papers that she could fit into a backpack to the brim. There is no guarantee Ava will not need it at a later date.

Now the last one, the Necklace of Genesis. Where is that thing? He did not see any necklace items everywhere.

“... Who are you?” Ava jumped. His eyes shook intensely watching the figure hovering on the table.

“Who are you?!”