Chapter 83: Found a Perfect Thing For Something.

The city around them was completely wrecked. Buildings on either side sat in various states of collapse. Walls caved in, facades crumbled away, debris scattered across the pavement in uneven piles.

There was nothing moving. No sounds except their own footsteps.

Stomp

"Keep looking," Noah said, glancing up at the upper floors of a half-collapsed building as they passed it.

They kept moving.

They checked a few side roads. One led to a dead end blocked by a collapsed overpass. Another opened into a wider avenue that looked more promising.

Where there was possibility of having a mall.

By the time roughly thirty minutes had passed, Leonard was starting to look restless.

"There."

There it was a large building sitting maybe three kilometers from where their base was.

But at the same time not far at all for superhumans like them. Which somehow made the fact that they had taken this long to find it mildly embarrassing. Neither of them said that out loud.

Even in its current damaged state it dominated the street around it, sitting at the end of the avenue like a landmark that refused to fully fall apart.

The surrounding area around the building had taken serious damage. The pavement outside the entrance was broken and heaved upward in places, chunks of concrete tossed aside like gravel.

The building itself was covered in cracks that ran up the outer walls in jagged lines, some narrow, others wide enough to fit a hand into. Every single glass window visible from the outside had been shattered.

As they got closer, a faint flickering came from somewhere inside. The remnants of the mall’s lighting system still half alive, buzzing weakly and blinking on and off in an unsteady rhythm.

They stepped over it without slowing down and walked up toward the main entrance.

Leonard looked up at the full height of the building and let out a low sound. "This place might be doing amazing if it was in real world."

They walked in.

The floor was broad and flat, stretching out in every direction, the tiles cracked and coated in a layer of dust and debris.

In the centre of the ground floor the ceiling was open.

The floors above were built in a circular ring shape, each level wrapping around the open centre like a wide balcony, one on top of the other, all the way up to the top of the building.

The upper section was open to the outside, letting in pale light that filtered down through the middle of the entire structure.

The flickering lights overhead buzzed and blinked, casting the interior in an unsteady glow that shifted every few seconds between dim and slightly less dim.

"Now that," he said, "is a good place for a fight."

"Yeah," he said quietly. "It really is."

"Yeah."

Leonard looked at Naoh with knowing smirk. "Don’t want to climb stairs? That’s why sending me there aren’t you?"

"Alright man! Those stairs are nothing to someone like me"

"If you found food in good condition. Inform anyone who is in recon unit."

Leonard walked towards the staircase.

Meanwhile Noah simply goes to different sections in lower floor.

Noah walked inside, the staircase leds downside.

He slowly descended.

Good for him that his smartphone torch was working fine.

Old machines and objects were stored here.

He walked further and saw a big metal door. It was slightly opened. So he pushed it and sliding opened completely.

"This...might be perfect. Something that I wanted to find."

It was massive. A square, monolithic structure of dark metal, nearly the height of a small room.

Thick cables and reinforced pipes extended from its sides, disappearing into the walls and floor, branching out like veins feeding the entire building.

Inside it, a concentrated sphere of blue energy hovered in place, not still, but shifting, swirling gently like a contained storm. Light rippled across its surface, casting faint reflections across the chamber walls.

"This must be the machine that supply power..I mean electricity in case electricity is gone. Like generator or UPS. It might be using mana...or maybe saving power from electricity."

The machine was really big.

He checked the pipes and wires. Everything was intact. Without any crack or cut.

Self-Sustaining Reactor Core.

Runs on a high-density energy mana core. Designed to operate for years without maintenance.

The flickering lights above.it has been barely sustaining the mall all this time. Most of the supply lines were cut from the machine. Only few remained. Thats why somehow it still provide energy.

"If it’s here...that means it could be used by students in one way or another. I already have one." He muttered while looking at machine.