Cate allowed herself to freely fall down the shaft without doing anything to increase or reduce her speed. She fell for about two minutes before she landed in a large hall. The hall harbored a group of soldiers who were already waiting for her. These were the same as the soldiers who had attacked the outpost. They wore pitch-black armor that stood as the zenith of human technology and power.
Their faces were covered, and they already had their guns pointed at where they expected her to land. Boooom, the force of her landing spread through the hall, sending everything flying through the air. The shockwave slammed into the soldiers, but they stayed standing in place as though their feet were one with the floor. They did not even shake, and their guns remained steady.
These were the greatest soldiers humanity had to offer, and they meant business. They did not wait for the dust to settle before they began shooting. Their guns did not use the normal lead bullets that were so popular with the humans of the era. They fired condensed beams of magic. These beams had a few different colors, but the most common one was red. As these beams moved through the air, they ripped the air apart, creating a spine-chilling sound that would make most people freeze in place.
The place where Cate landed was bombarded with enough magic to level a small hill. These soldiers would have done more, but they had to consider the structural integrity of the building. When they finally stopped firing, there was a large hole in the floor, leading to another level below.
These soldiers did not need to speak to communicate with each other. Their helmets allowed them to stay connected to each other at all times. This connection was at such a level that these soldiers could hear each other's thoughts and see what their fellow soldiers saw, allowing them to see everything around them. This was all made possible by the magic they had somehow managed to harness.
Cate appeared out of nowhere and punched the head of one of the soldiers. She had used a spell to make herself invisible. She did this the moment she landed, and she then used her impressive speed that allowed her to move faster than the human eye and technology could ever track. She stood next to this soldier as they fired at where they thought she was.
The soldier's head exploded like a sun-baked watermelon, splashing all over the place. Cate had seen how lethal these soldiers were, and she was not willing to risk death at the hands of humans when she had ambitions of killing gods. This would make her the laughingstock of the afterlife.
After using the Original Sin spell to change herself into the thing she is today, Cate's speed had been enhanced to a level where she was faster than Albrecht, who was a vampire with the bloodline of a vampire god. She was also faster than the werewolves. As far as she could tell, there were only a handful of creatures that could move faster than she could.
As she moved between the human soldiers, they seemed to be statues frozen in time. They could not react to her movements, and she had what appeared to be an eternity to deal with them as she pleased. For one of the sliders, Cate took her time with her. She took off the soldier's helmet in a less-than-gentle way. Cate looked over the helmet, seeing countless images and words move over the screen.
Cate then proceeded to remove the rest of the armor, one piece at a time. She examined them the best she could in the little time she had. Cate had already gotten familiar with this technology after having examined the bodies of the soldiers who had been killed at the outpost. She made quick work of the army and took out the red sphere that was the core of the entire thing. She did not damage the armor since she wanted to learn more about how the humans had achieved something so phenomenal. She disassembled three armors and killed all the soldiers within.
This all took less than a second. One moment, there were seven soldiers in the hall, and in the next moment, the place was covered in blood and death. The armors were placed to the side, still looking pristine. Cate was not like Tala's team, who had been ruthlessly wiped out. She was something else entirely. Something that even she could not articulate.
Cate looked around the hall... It appeared to be some sort of large laboratory. The place had countless pieces of laboratory equipment that Cate could not name. Cate looked around and found test tubes filled with blood from many different supernatural creatures. Most of the blood was red, but there was blood of all colors.
When Cate smelled blood from a vampire, she could not understand how the humans had gotten their hands on such a thing. Vampires were an apex predator even among the supernatural. For humans to get their hands on vampire blood was truly unbelievable. There was blood from mages, sorcerers, witches, and even blood from rare creatures such as the yeti.
Cate was astonished. She still could not understand how the humans had gotten this blood, but she began accepting that humans had somehow come to learn about the supernaturals living among them, and with this information, they had taken action, and everything she now saw was a result of this action.
Cate looked around the hall for a few minutes before she made a move to go on to the next floor. She suddenly stopped and looked at one of the corners. There was a small hole in the wall. Cate took one step and appeared next to the hole. Bang! With her dainty hand, she punched through the wall and pulled an old man out of the hall.
The old man had his eyes wide open, and his body trembled with fear at what he had just seen. Cate could smell the fear radiating off the man, but she did not seem to care as she threw him to the floor with such force that his left leg snapped, facing the wrong way.