D.E.M.O.N.S: Getting Summoned Weekly isn't so Bad Chapter 2018 Getting Through One Room

--- Kat --- (Early in the evening)

"Alright, so assuming everything goes well you’ll be entering in near the barracks. They aren’t well kept and nobody likes to use them so the entrance should be empty..." explained Ramor.

--- Kat --- (Later in the evening)

Kat and Lily had found themselves at the door to the training area. Not ideal, but it was early in the evening and hopefully nobody had set up shop in there just yet. The door wasn’t enchanted, but sneaking inside was going to be a problem. Kat moved a few parts of her body into the room before shifting to the corner. She didn’t have long, and didn’t want to trip anyone up. So, for a split second Kat formed a singular eyeball to take a snapshot of the whole room before snapping it back into mist.

The pain was immense. She’d had to cut a lot of corners and it turns out creating enough of your eye to see, and somehow have it all register as an image meant leaving some very sensitive nerves out in the air for a few moments. Worse still, Kat’s eye managed to locate three people in the training room. Two of them were sparring and the third was resting in the corner. Nobody seemed to have noticed her but that was a little unclear.

Annoyingly, both sets of doors were just in the middle of the room so sneaking one open could be an issue. *

Kat looked back at her mental image of the room. There were a few different weapon racks around as well as various gymnastics equipment things. *

Kat gave her agreement and Lily got to work. It really was simple. Lily stretched her shadow out and then changed the shape to make it seem like she was casting the shadow from the other end, before doing... something Kat barely understood with her mana. Suddenly, Lily was on the other side. Kat had no idea how she managed to make it underneath the door because it didn’t even seem like she’d sunk into the shadow.

Of course, on Lily’s end of things while they were smoother it was still disorientating and she wobbled a bit after the transition was done. *Lily froze in place at Kat’s command.

Lily carefully edged away from the spear in question using Kat’s... odd view of things. It was hard to really process, but simply taking note of which direction to move so as not to knock over any weapons wasn’t too hard. Lily also made sure to reinforce the shadows hiding her a bit.

The spar in the middle of the room was still ongoing but none of them had obviously noticed the swap. In light of this, Lily decided to keep moving. Stretching her shadow along the edge, using the corner between the wall and the floor as a way to hide her shadow, she stretched it about as far as it could go and then swapped to the next obstacle. This one was a box clearly designed for people to leap up and over. The box itself even had a great hollow.

Lily continued these jumps until she was hiding under an oversized basket filled with balls. They were a bit larger then a baseball, but smaller then anything else in that size range she could think of. They were probably intended as a non-lethal dodging tool. Whatever their actual purpose, her current spot right next to the door was perfect for the next move. Except for just, one tiny problem.

The corridor it connected to was clearly well lit. Slightly more so then the training room. Now that she was right next to it, Lily could see the light spilling into the room through the cracks in the door. It was a miniscule thing, and perhaps not something a mortal could recognise. The problem was of course, that nobody in the room was mortal if what her senses were telling her was correct.

Kat moved most of her mist body into the other room, and checked that it was empty. The place was annoyingly well lit, but it seemed like that was actually because on of the enchantments was on the fritz. Only the area closest to the door was so bright. A good thing for them. Hopefully. Though it also meant they hadn’t thought the plan through all that well. Whatever shadow the person walking through cast, the light from the back would eliminate it for the most part.

Kat spread herself out further down the hallway and didn’t encounter anyone. *