Novel & Cerita Labyrinthus 2014

Where she could see and speak with trapped souls, my world was utterly mute, full of life, and utterly pointless. Lillith wanted to experiment, to find out if there was more to it but I couldn’t stomach the thought. I didn’t want to know any more than I already did. I didn’t want to be able to do more either. All it did was push us further and further away from being normal.

Lucas turned to face the pair, not liking their frowns. "We have teams with the women we found at the ranch as well as the ones being kept in the barn on the edge of the territory." Bobby spoke first, their grey-blue eyes shadowed by their creased brow. "But the girls from the club are not in the basement." "What do you mean they aren't in the basement?" Lucas frowned, the sudden and urgent need to seek out his mate bubbling inside of me. "The door was locked from the outside with a complex locking system." Alex explained. "The techs were able to override it but there was no one inside."

James pursed his lips together before saying, “There’s indeed a labyrinth marked out on the floor plan, but it doesn’t show the passages within it.” James folded open the floor plan and pored over it. The labyrinth was huge and was composed of a multitude of stone chambers. Inside the labyrinth, there were intricate passages that passed through these stone chambers. Unfortunately, the floor plan merely marks the labyrinth’s location on the map and did not specify the way to get through it. James looked at Tapio and asked, “Do you remember how long we’ve been walking in the mausoleum?” Tapio gently shook his head and said, “No, I only realized we entered the labyrinth after passing by a few s

“Don’t speak here. I will try reading memories attached with this place as we proceed. So, just stay close to me and watch for dark magic and traps.” “Yes, ma’am!” Lily said with a salute loudly. Lola elbowed her, and she repeated her words, but in a low tone. Everything was black. No memory came from those corridors as I walked ahead. I created my butterflies and sent them around all the branches those corridors had. The corridors were in aesthetics of grey, navy blue and black, with white light emitting from the torches. The floor looked like a chessboard. “How long are these corridors? Do they have an end?” Lola said.

I touch all over the walls, try removing the floorboard piece, everything, but can't find one ounce of a secret compartment. The elevator dings and when I look at the down and up arrows, I see the down arrow lit up. Someone is getting on the elevator from downstairs. I look frantically and hope I can locate what I need soon. I'm not sure how much longer I can last in here. Lower and lower the elevator falls and that's when it hits me. I look up and see mirrors upon mirrors. My reflection looks that of fear. "Look at yourself when you feel like you can't go on anymore Belle. Find the bravery within."

Her lips trembled as she tried to hold herself together. “We should go.” Lysander spoke up behind me. This seemed to break Lilith from her own thoughts as her head whipped over to us once more. “Yes,” she said, hastily wiping her wet cheeks, “but first we should locate where the portal to the hunters realm is. To do that I need to scry.” With that, she turned and walked back towards her cottage, with a wave of a arm and a gesture to follow her, she found ourselves able to pass over her wards easily and walk towards my childhood home.

Those who enter the labyrinth still have a chance to escape, only if they can withstand the lightning monsters summoned by the god of the heavens. I shivered hearing Cassian's explanation. In short, the Thunder Labyrinth is a sacred place summoned by Cassian's magic to surface on Earth. Then, with the element of light he possesses, the labyrinth would be filled with creatures from the thunder god that would kill anyone inside it. 'But what if the five alpha twins can defeat the lightning monsters in your labyrinth?' I asked Cassian. 'The chances are almost impossible for any creature to win against my lightning monster. Even if I were to enter it, my life could be at risk.'

Overhead, stalactites dripped not water, but flame—droplets of fire hissing as they splashed against the obsidian floor, leaving behind glowing scars. The Labyrinth was no simple maze of corridors. It was an ecosystem. A realm. A prison and a crucible built by gods who did not believe in mercy. Ellie wiped sweat from her brow, her eyes stinging. “This place…” Her voice cracked. “It’s alive.” Cerebus padded forward, paws finding paths between rivers of lava. His three heads moved constantly—Alpha scanning high, Beta low, Gamma snapping at falling embers as though daring them to touch Ellie.

Leo shouted over the rising roar of the geothermal vents. ​"I’ve done more than that!" Ren yelled back, his fingers flying across the holographic interface of the ancient Miller terminal. "I’ve rerouted the 'Wild Code' to act as a magnetic tether. We aren't just breaking out of the crust, Leo. We’re using the city’s own gravity-grid to 'Slingshot' the entire Labyrinth into the upper atmosphere. But once we leave the ground, we only have ten minutes of oxygen before the biosphere fails!"

Elite security just meant finding more creative exploits. "The consortium won't protect you if this goes wrong," Luna warned. "Then it won't go wrong." The Abyss buzzed with speculation when PhantomByte announced her intention. Attempted vault penetrations had destroyed careers, triggered international incidents, even resulted in mysterious disappearances. But Elena had something previous attempts lacked, supernatural advantages and underground alliances. "I need three things," she posted to her private network. "A vampire who can mesmerize over video calls, a shapeshifter with banking experience, and someone who can physically access Geneva without triggering their biometric sweeps."