Collateral

Dawn was standing in front of five men and women dressed in white lab coats along with others.

He couldn't help but raise his eyebrow at this situation.

Inspection! What was the need for inspection and weren't they already under their radar for 3 months?

Dawn's thoughts moved like lightning; he couldn't come up with any reasoning that could explain this situation.

He decided to adopt a wait-and-see approach, if things went south he didn't mind summoning his monsters to blow this laboratory to pieces.

However, others weren't as patient as Dawn.

"Why am I being treated as a prisoner? I am here to learn not to waste my time on these walls."

"You! Don't you know. Who my father is,"

Voices filled with dissatisfaction and threat were directed at the group in white lab coats.

Dawn also wanted to see how the group would racy, and as expected there wasn't a single change in expression on their face.

A man in a white coat who seemed to be the leader of the group raised his hands to attract their attention.

"Calm down everyone, this is just the procedure that everyone has to go through."

His voice sounded a little artificial as it reverberated through the room.

Instantly everyone in the room calmed down as if they had been put under some sort of spell.

The scene sent a chill down Dawn's spine.

"What power was this?"

Dawn didn't feel any magic power fluctuation in the air but the men definitely used some sort of spell.

The man looked at the lady in a white coat beside him and signaled her with his eyes.

The lady understood the man's intentions without needing him to speak.

Suddenly! out of nowhere a stone glowing with golden light appeared in her hand.

Dawn looked at the stone with a puzzled expression on his face.

His puzzlement wasn't because he didn't know about the stone in the lady's hand but because he already knew what it was.

It was the speciality of Planet Goldfire, the Goldfire stone.

Dawn couldn't understand her intentions.

Why did she bring out such a common thing in front of them?

"Take one stone from the lady beside me, and cultivate with it here,"

The man in the white coat commanded, his voice contained no room for refusal.

Dawn didn't think anyone would refuse after his earlier display of magic. One by one all of them had a single goldfire stone in their hand.

The stone was like a fluorescent bulb that spread its light around.

Dawn could even feel the concentrated mana contained in the stone.

He was able to find many similarities between gold fire stones and mana stones from the world of Dradevows.

Maybe goldfire stones were just mana stones with different names.

However, every Cultivator in the room except Dawn had confused expressions on their faces.

They just had to cultivate like they normally do.

In just one minute everyone was sitting in a meditative position on the ground.

The man in a white coat looked at everyone without blinking his eyes.

After countless trials, cultivators had finally found a way to force the creatures of the Abyss out of hiding.

Just force them to cultivate with a goldfire stone, the mana contained in the stone was toxic for the creatures.

Time continued to pass slowly 4 more days passed.

Dawn couldn't believe he had cultivated for four days in a single sitting.

He was forced to open his eyes as something weird happened on the sixth day.

To his left Dawn could hear the shouts of a girl crying in shock.

"What is happening to me?"

Arghh!

Dawn turned his face, In the direction of the sound to take a good look at the person shouting.

Surprisingly, it was the girl from Fatty Nick's group.

Her body was reacting strangely and almost in a weird way.

Her hair color and the tone of her skin were constantly changing.

Sometimes fair, sometimes black and sometimes brown.

"Relax! Relax girl. Nothing is gonna happen to you," the people in white coats instantly surrounded her.

The words of the group didn't match their actions, out of nowhere swords appeared in their hands.

"Arghh! Please leave me alone!"

The girl's cries turned even more frenzied; her voice was almost cracking.

"Don't kill her, try to capture her alive," the leader of white coats announced in a plain voice.

The man and woman beside him nodded and rushed forward.

A Ring of Continuity appeared behind each of them spreading black color light in the surrounding.

Compared to the blurry ring of Dawn's, their ring was more solid and stable.

Before Dawn could even blink his eyes the four of them were upon her.

"Where is she?" Dawn muttered as the girl they had after had disappeared right in front of his eyes.

"Please don't kill me,"

"Someone save me,"

Dawn heard the pleading sound of the voice of a boy.

Some meters away from where the girl was, a demon was holding the throat of a boy in one hand while looking at the group of cultivators in white coats.

"Move even an inch and this weakling will die."

A demonic voice resounded in the hall for everyone to hear.

The voice made everyone's hair stand on its end and Dawn was no exception.

"White demon," Dawn muttered in his head.

The creature looked the same as the white demon that he had encountered while patrolling in the Goldfire mines.

"What a stupid creature," the leader of white coats mocked the demon for its stupidity.

Did the demon think he would be able to escape by holding a kid hostage?

"How naive!"

"Activate the formation," The leader muttered in a low voice.

If the demon thought they wouldn't do anything just because of one child, he was too naive.

The demon seemed to have felt something and it roared.

"Didn't I warn you," the demon's voice was filled with fear. He crushed the neck of the boy that he was holding in his hands and jumped toward the nearest cultivator.

Instantly dozens of chains of lighting shot out from the ground and coiled around the demon's body like a snake.