"this is really creepy..."

the other 3 nodded Mars however had seen plenty of ghost towns and even city's in his past life so he was fine with a empty mining town

"look the armor suits are over there"

the group went over to the armor suits that stood next to the mine, the 4 soldiers began inspecting them for damage while Mars walked over to the edge of the mine and looked down into the pit

'that's really deep... about 25 meters down, it looks like the mine have been made with some sort of magic with how cleanly the walls are cut...'

"Mars you see anything?"

"hmm... well the elevator is down so they might have gone into the mine"

the elevator was indeed at the bottom of the mine, after looking around for a bit Mars spotted the controls for the elevator and brought it up to the surface before he turned to the the rest of the group and asked

"what now?"

Vanessa had a frown on her face

"well their armor suits show no signs of battle... let's head into the mine and look for them"

"okay captain"

Mars put down his backpack and the other 4 got out of their armor suits and grabbed their backup weapons, Vanessa carried a sword, while Hans held a staff with a red gem fixed on the end, Gus carried a battleaxe and Nicole held twin swords

"let's go"

the group boarded the elevator and slowly descended into the mine Mars was rather relaxed but the other 4 was rather tense as they looked down into the mine, arriving at the bottom of the mine the group got of the elevator and looked around at the numerous shafts that spread out from the bottom of the mine

"which way?"

Vanessa looked around for a few moments before she looked at Mars

"....Mars pick a way to go, we'll follow your lead"

"I have a better idea... Victoria can you tell if people have been here recently?"

Victoria gave a nod before she walked around sniffing the ground and after a few moments her horns lit up as she looked down a mine shaft

"this... way"

"okay then let's go"

the group walked into the shaft, Mars was able to see fine in the darkness but summoned a flame so the others was better able to see and for a couple of moments the group walked down the shaft until Mars spotted something on the left side of the tunnel

"look at that"

there was a opening about a person size with tool marks around it

"let's check it out"

"okay captain, I'll go in first"

Mars walked up to the hole and stepped trough and soon he found himself in a square room, he put his hand on the wall and found the stone had been polished down so it was smooth, in the middle of the room was a platform made of wood with a couple of mana stones

"how is it Mars?"

"it's safe come on in and see this"

the rest of the group squeezed tough the hole and looked around the room Nicole pointed the other side of the room

"look there's a door"

Mars looked over and saw she was right, there was indeed a door made of the same polished stone as the rest of the room so it was rather hard to spot, Mars quietly walked over to the door and put his ear to it and closed his eyes

'paper being moved..? no someone reading... besides that 5 sets of breathing... but 4 of them sounds... weirdly stained?'

Mars turned to the other 4 and signaled them to be quiet as he put a hand on the hilt of his sword, Vanessa nodded and made some hand signals to the other 3 before they stacked up on the door and counted down with her fingers

'5'

'4'

'3'

'2'

'1'

"go!"

Gus kicked in the door and the other 3 quickly stormed into the room weapons raised, Mars also walked in the room just as he did a clear and relaxed voice rang out

"oh... more mortals..."

Mars walked into the room and looked around, the room was simple but his attention was quickly taken by the woman sitting in the middle of the room in a out of place but comfy looking armchair made of brown leather. The woman sitting in the armchair wore a loose golden robe and held a rather thick book in her slender hand, she had long black hair and a pair of sharp looking golden eyes, Mars was mesmerized for a moment but when he meet her eyes surprise flashed on her face

"a baby brother... no a little brother without his presence... tell me little brother what brings you he---"

"what did you do to them!?"

Vanessa shouted and in interrupted the woman Mars looked over and saw what had enraged her 4 soldiers was crumpled over in the corner of the room, clearly theses were the missing soldiers Vanessa had revived orders to find, the mysterious woman looked rather displeased by being interrupted and narrowed her eyes slightly as she s.h.i.+fted her gaze to Vanessa

"nothing, they annoyed me so I shut them up, then I moved them to the corner of the room so they would not be in the way"

"you! we are soldiers form the empire!"

the mysterious woman tilted her head and asked

"what empire?"

"that's it, combat formation!"

just as the group moved into position to fight the mysterious woman gave a sigh

"this is why mortals are so... never mind then... [SILENCE MORTALS]"

the women's voice seemed to reach into their souls and carried with it huge amount of pressure that made the group freeze up unable to move the slightest this kept up until a few minutes later the pressure disappeared and Vanessa, Gus, Hans and Nicole fell to the floor pa.s.sed out from being unable to handle the divine pressure that had a.s.saulted their bodies, only Mars was left standing with trouble catching his breath he looked over at the woman and said

"you... are.... a.... living... G.o.d?"

the woman looked up from her book and gave Mars a charming smile

"correct little brother"

then she waved her hand and another armchair appeared across from where she was sitting, she gestured to the chair and said

"sit"

Mars didn't dare let his guard down but still walked over and sat down in the armchair, the woman watched his caution and gave a slight smile before she asked

"so, what brings you here little brother?"

Mars pointed at the pa.s.sed out Vanessa

"I came here with them, they are part of a army I was drafted into... we're here to find the source of the golems that have taken over the town above us"

the woman nodded and looked interested as she put down her book and asked

"but why do you follow orders of a mortal? if it was me I would just had destroyed the country that would have dared draft me into a army"

"well... it seemed interesting so I thought why not?"

the woman gave a wide smile and repeated after Mars

"interesting.... yes what else is there to do then all that is interesting! very good little brother, let me ask you; what is your name?"

Mars sensed his value in the eyes of this elder sister of his had just raised significantly and no longer felt danger to his own life so he gave a smile and said

"both in this life and the one before I have been known as Mars"

"Mars I see, Mars.... well then little brother Mars my name is Tatiana and my G.o.dhood is that of mana"

Mars nodded

"I see... mine is that of energy"

"energy.... that's a interesting G.o.dhood... reminds me of another living G.o.d a few centuries ago what was it again..? oh right heat"

Mars was surprised and asked

"heat? but that's just thermal energy?"

Tatiana tilted her head

"thermal? what does that mean?"

"what?"

Mars felt something was wrong, how could a living G.o.d that have lived for so long as Tatiana not know of the word thermal?

"oh right, sorry that's a term from my past life"

"your past life..? that right you said something similar before, could it be you remember your past life?"

"well just bits and pieces"

Tatiana gave a nod and asked with glowing eyes

"so what is thermal? and what does it have to do with energy?"

Mars gave a wry smile and begun to explain science to Tatiana this lasted for more then a few days, Tatiana would wave her hand and food would appear so Mars and Victoria didn't grow hungry during the period, Mars was so engrossed in explaining that he completely forgot about Vanessa and the others.