Chapter 124

A Dream Come True 4

-:-

2 days later

Hellhole District

Ecclesiarchy Cathedral

Theodore Lorne was proud to say that he was very self conscious, especially at his faults

He was a hypocrite that tries to make the world a better place by increasing his kill count.

His pride has caused him to do things the hard way despite advocating for efficiency

However, if there was one flaw that defined him the most, it was his greed.

While he was generous in matters that he cared little of, the ones that does hold great value to him was where he becomes overly protective.

Money, knowledge and power were things that he had a decent level of desire for. While he would like to have more of these 3, there were lines that he refused to cross in order to get them.

The one thing that he did value highly were trustworthy individuals.

Upon achieving a certain degree of power, there have been many annoyances that tried to bargain with him. Holywood scum, politician scum and many other types of scum that he could not just put a bullet into their skulls have been pestering him ever since the Valkyrie incident to form some sort of partnership or business transaction with them.

Naturally, Theo didn't give them a millisecond of his time.

On the other hand, the handful of people that he did value greatly were spared no expense to ensure their happiness.

2 days ago, he boned Nichola so hard that she spent the next day sleeping.

Yesterday, he spent the vast majority of the day ‘inside’ Pani. At the moment, Pani was still fast asleep due to intense pleasure and exhaustion.

Juno was not here, thus he couldn't do anything for her.

Miss Samantha was doing some power plays behind the scenes. He wasn't sure what shenanigans she was up to, but he provided her with some muscle… and guns.

The frog faced doctor needed no protection with Diego by his side, but Theo did allocate a number of drones to maintain surveillance.

However among his acquaintances, he provided a large amount of resources to secretly monitor and protect his friends in HAA. Specifically Vivi Cornielo, Phoebe Tharja and Dorothy Boreal.

He hasn't seen them personally for quite some time now, and he does miss the senseless banter that he shared with them.

He was especially concerned for Dorothy who has obviously realized that Theo was able to escape their latest run in without any problems. Her feelings for him was a combination of happiness for the fact that he was alive, sadness that they were in opposite sides of the field and intense rage when she realized the manipulation that Theo used on her during the Elf incident.

Theo was both excited and terrified of seeing her again.

At the moment, the fully armed and armored Theo stood just outside the main Ecclesiarchy Cathedral where he was receiving video feeds from drones and troops that were secretly monitoring Vivi, Phoebe and Dorothy.

Vivi was currently doing his harem novel protagonist thing where he was trying to help (aka unintentionally seduce) a certain prostitute recover what it feels like to actually feel anything. Phoebe and Dorothy went with him as bodyguards in this oh so noble quest.

Now that he thought about it, he couldn't help but feel that he knew of this prostitute who could not feel anything. He wasn't sure where he heard of her, but he was certain he knew of her existence.

After a few moments of thinking, Theo decided that the prostitute was of no importance and concluded that his HAA friends did not require his help.

With that out of the way, Theo cut all the video feeds and proceeded into the cathedral. Waiting for him in the middle of the large hall was Mother Superior Leticia in her usual nun attire that stretched to the breaking point by her massive muscular frame.

Beside her was an unfamiliar old man who sported a fancy full plate armor. Funnily enough, he looked quite small compared to the wrestler-like frame of Mother Leticia.

“Are you done with your business, young one?” asked Mother Leticia

“Yeah. No problems at my front.” replied Theo. “Now then, care to tell me why I am called here and why am I supposed to be fully armed?”

By fully armed, he meant he had the following armaments: 1 Super Shotgun, 1 FN P90 submachine gun, 4 Beretta 92 pistols, 1 HF Blade and 1 frag grenade. And this was on top of his power armored and its built in multi-grappling gun backpack and omni directional flamethrower system

This set up meant that he was about to kill a lot of people.

“In the past, you asked permission to explore the labyrinth beneath the cathedral. We denied this request due to our lack of numbers to secure the tunnels. Fortunately, this is no longer the case at this point in time. As promised, you are now free to explore it to your leasure.” said Mother Leticia

“Very nice…. And is it safe to assume that the scary old man in the cool armor will be joining me?”

“As flattered as I am with your praise of my armor, I take offense to the ‘scary old man’. I happen to be labelled as a kind and dotting grandfather by everyone I know” inserted the Old Man

“Forgive him Theo. He has this deluded self image of his.” teased Mother Leticia

“Said the muscular nun that called herself ‘perfect example of saintly kindness and motherly love‘ while beating a mutant into a bloody pulp with her bare hands” thought Theo, but decided to keep it to himself.

Those who were incapable of self reflection were the hardest to convince.

“Anyways, allow me to introduce to you Pastor Biajo. He’s the one incharge of figuring out your taste in women and send you an innocent little lamb for you to devour. In layman’s terms, he’s the pimp daddy in charge of honey trapping horny bastards.” said Mother Leticia

Pastor Biajo facepalmed in response to her statement.

“What’s the point of telling him that?!”

“Because he’s not an idiot. He already knows that we plant to honey trap him. Remember who his master is.” replied Mother Leticia

“You were the one that told me about the honey trapping!” thought Theo, but once again kept his silence for obvious reasons.

“*sigh*... Whatever. What’s done is done. As Leticia has stated, I am indeed in charge of forming connections with our ‘allies’. While it is technically honey trapping, do not think for a second that we have forced our flock to seduce you. My job is to match people that are prone to naturally become attracted to each other. Love is the greatest of shackles after all.” said Pastor Biajo in defeat.

“Well, at least you’re honest” replied Theo

“Hmph. What choice to I have?”

-:-

A few minutes later, Theo and Pastor Biajo went about walking around the complex tunnels that the Ecclesiarchy Warrior Nuns have not ventured to.

And given the magnitude of the tunnels, there was quite a lot of it.

There were a large variety of rooms ranging from simple libraries to complex laboratories used for questionable practices.

Surprising enough, none of them had any defenses.

It has been a while since Theo’s forces shelled the 9th district into oblivion. Those who once occupied these caverns has probably evacuated long ago.

All in all, it was quite boring for Theo.

Pastor Biajo, on the other hand, was livid on how much heresy there was beneath the cathedral.

They strolled the tunnels for at least 3 hours in relative peace. At this time, Pastor Biajo and Theo bantered with topics that would normally be considered blasphemous to a man of the cloth.

Since Pastor Biajo’s purpose was no longer a secret, he held nothing back and asked Theo about his deepest darkest fetishes.

Quite simply, it was a conversation between perverts and it was surprisingly refreshing.

However, just like every good thing, it eventually came to an end.

For the last 10 minutes, the 2 have noticed that they were climbing.

At first it was a slight incline, then they began encountering ladders. And finally, they came upon a small cavern with stairs that spiralled upwards

“Interesting… Any idea where we are?” asked Pastor Biajo

“I’d say we’re probably at the mountains just beyond Hellhole district. We’ve travelled quite the distance.” replied Theo

As the 2 climbed the spiralling stairs, the lighthearted atmosphere they had going on was replaced by a silent caution and the readiness to wage war.

This change was caused by the drastic change of their environment. From the decently made stone spiral staircase to a bloody chaos and the stench of rotting flesh.

Human entrails and vast amounts of dried blood littered the floor. Rotting bodies were hung on the ceiling similar to a slaughterhouse. Unholy glyphs were drawn on the walls with, you guessed it, human blood.

“Heresy! Such Heresy!” fumed Biajo, though he kept his voice to a whisper.

Perverted as he might be, Pastor Biajo was of the Ecclesiarchy flock. Such unholy rituals would obviously piss him off.

On the other hand, Theo felt an uncomfortable sense of familiarity with the scene. Fear, panic, rage, hesitation or even disgust seemingly disappeared from his psyche.

He lowered his stance and moved from cover to cover as he swiftly through the halls of this unholy site.

“Y-young Lorne?” said the confused Biajo as he desperately tried to keep pace with Theo

“Shh. No talking. They are here.” replied Theo with a very clear hint of excitement in his voice.

They silently went through one hellish scene after another until they reached what seemed to be a highway tunnel that went through a mountain.

Just outside of their little crack in the wall was a group of 60 people who sported red hoods. They formed a circle around a small pile of flesh that pulsed at regular intervals. The suspicious individuals sung blasphemous hymns in unison as the temperature began to rise.

“The Black Bible Cult. And to think I promised to myself that I’ll start actively looking for them after our little incursion. Who am I to refuse such a scrumptious dish delivered straight to my doorstep!” said Theo

Before Biajo could ask what the hell was Theo talking about, the young man threw a frag grenade into the cultists.

The subsequent explosion turned 10 cultist into heaps of severed limbs.

As the cultists snapped from their trance and panic began to spread, Theo stepped out from his cover and unleashed a hail of bullets.

Though confused, Pastor Biajo unsheathed a mace that burned with golden flame and brutally bashed the heretics that were foolish enough to not run away.

“Non-believers! There are non-believers in our midsts! Praise be the Priestess of Cain for the blood dragon has fresh-” said what seemed to be the cult leader before Theo’s P90 punched multiple holes into his skull.

The tunnel descended into chaos as the cultists lunged at the 2 with mad frenzy

Though outnumbered, it became perfectly clear that Theo and Biajo were vastly superior fighters.

Biajo held the frontline all on his own. Those who tried to flank him had their brains blown out by Theo.

Those who tried to go for Theo were burned to death by his Hellfire Flamethrower.

In but a few moments, the cultists number went from 60 to 23.

“Young Lorne! We need some of them alive!” roared Biajo as half of a cultist was turned into paste with his blow.

“Roger that!” replied Theo while he ripped a cultist’s jaw and shoved it into the poor slob’s eye socket.

As much as Theo wanted to unleash all the nightmare he has experienced nightly unto the cultists, he understood that these were mere pawns. The source was still beyond his reach.

The battle raged for a few moments before an ear splitting roar shook the tunnel.

The pile of flesh turned into a swirling pool of magical blood. From the maelstrom rose a gigantic figure that instantly cooled Theo’s blazing rage and struck fear into his heart.

“BLOOD DRAGON! RUN!” roared Biajo

He and Theo bolted to the crack in the tunnel wall. They immediately realized that this was the right decision

While the cultist cheered in glee as the 2 ran from their new champion, the Blood Dragon saw the 2 as high level threats.

It took a deep breath before unleashing a breath attack that indiscriminately turned everything into ash.

None of the cultists were spared from the blaze that engulfed the entire tunnel.

On the other hand, Theo and Biajo was able to dive for cover before the firestorm consumed everything.

Satisfied with the carnage it has unleashed, the Blood Dragon turned towards the exit.

“Young Lorne, we must hunt the Blood Dragon! That thing has something that we need to track down the other Black Bible Cult sects!” said Pastor Biajo as he ran after the Blood Dragon

“You have got to be shitting me!”

Though scared to death of the Blood Dragon, Theo rushed after Biajo