Angel Monarch

Chapter 57: The Horrible Reality

Faith talked hours with the girl. She had vast knowledge of the whole place and with the help of Faith's Watch, they made a map with every important place marked on it.

With that done she began exploring the city, marking down every patrol she came across. After a couple hours, she had marked most of them, but dawn was approaching, which meant she had to be more careful.

But with daylight the patrols drastically decreased, so she could focus on another part of The Hold. Faith went into the worst of the places, the prison. This is where they kept all the slaves, at least the ones they weren't using.

Faith had to know the exact amount of guards in the prison. This was one of the most important information, since the whole rescue mission depended on it.

A shadow moved near a building next to the prison. The guards weren't paying attention, so she moved next to the wall of the prison. And waited in the shadow of the prison.

After 10 minutes someone moved towards the entrance. Faith didn't waste time and hid in her shadow, she didn't notice a thing.

As she moved towards the entrance, the guards suddenly went to attention.

"Good morning, Lieutenant Cat!" Said one of them, he was kind of nervous.

'One of the 5 lieutenants, well there is only 4 of them left.'

Cat didn't show any emotion, she just asked.

"Did the dogs barked or tried to bite anyone at night?" She was so emotionless, like a husk of a human.

"No ma'am, but Lieutenant Harold came by for a couple of whores. Probably for one of his experiments." Said the other guard. He was much less nervous and a bit emotionless as well.

'Experiments? Why does he need humans for experiments? I will have to find his lab to learn more! Ahh... so many things to check out. I haven't even been to the fighting pits either.'

The woman named Cat nodded and moved into the facility. The room at the entrance wasn't too bad. But then Faith moved away from Cat's shadow and into another that was near a window.

The building was huge, it was probably a warehouse before the Apocalypse. The window she looked down from was probably 25 meters above the lowest floor of the building. But that didn't matter, what she saw down there was like the hell some fantasy books talked about.

There were cages, hundreds of them, possibly thousands. And in each there were multiple people cramped together. They wore dirty clothes and most of the woman's were left naked. All over the ground there was blood and the waste of the prisoners.

They looked malnourished and just straight up hopeless. In one corner there was a pile of corpses, the slaves that couldn't handle the harsh conditions. The worst was the children, they were mixed in the cages with the adults. The pile of corpses also had a lot of smaller bodies on it.

"Its feeding time!" An emotionless voice resounded next to Faith.

Faith nearly jumped out of her skin. She forgot that Cat was also in the room. She spoke into the intercom next to her. When she said that, the mood changed and the people that could stand stretched out there hands through the gaps in the cages.

After a few seconds, food began falling from the top of the prison. They were leftover food or parts of a monster that they didn't even cook. The slaves didn't care though, even if the food fell onto the shit covered floor, they ate it like it was the most delicious thing in the world.

'Its so much worse than any of us thought... I finally understand when the girl said, there were people suffering worse faiths than her...'

Faith looked at the scene for half an hour before the emotionless voice said.

"Drinking time!"

Suddenly water began falling from the ceiling, washing away the dirt from the floor. The people tried to drink as much as possible. After a couple of minutes it stopped raining. But Faith noticed something else.

'That was straight from the river, if The Hold has connection to the river maybe we can use that as an infiltration point. I will ask the girl about it.'

Faith thought for a moment, then she saw Cat move in a different direction and she got curious. Sticking to her shadow, Faith followed her to a better guarded part of the facility.

Seeing the amount of guards, all of them Evolved and the thick titanium doors, Faith realized where she was.

'I was wondering where they kept the Evolved who disagreed with Nightmare. But why even keep them alive?'

Faith shadowed Cat as she looked into each cell. There was a person in every one of them, they seemed to be resigned. Like they tried to escape multiple times but always failed.

As they walked through the place, silence reined. Cat walked until there was only one door left, but as she reached for the hole on the door to see behind it, something happened that shocked Faith.

The emotionless woman's hand slightly trembled. Faith was shocked because the woman haven't shown even the smallest of emotions. Seeing her hand tremble could only meant one thing.

'Whoever is behind that door scares her.'

Cat opened the hatch, behind it was a man sitting in a fetal position. His face couldn't be seen, but Faith saw his body. It was very muscular and he was tall, probably above 2 meters. He had shoulder length hair, which was the color of fire.

Cat watched him for a few minutes then turned away and left the facility. Faith moved along with her, until she could safely leave her shadow. Then she hid in the abandoned building and wrote down everything she learned.

Faith didn't forgot to count the guards in the prison, she even counted the cells holding Evolved and their guards. After writing everything down she planned out the next place to go.

'There is the fighting pits, the electric station and then there is that lab. The wall is the girls job, she is better at it anyway. I will have to ask her about the river entrance as well.'

Faith thought for other places to go, there was Nightmare's headquarters but she needs the girl for that.

'The electric station and fighting pits it is.'