The Specters agreed to explore the cave. They quickly found there were only two ways to go, back or forward, there were no side passages at all. The deeper they went the less like a cave it appeared until eventually there was nothing but metal walls not a single rock, pebble, or dust. Ekloria was beginning to have doubts about their idea to explore the cave that was no longer a cave, she didn't show it at least she didn't think she was showing it.
They Specters eventually arrive to a big open room with absolutely nothing in it save for a giant screen. Suddenly the screen came on revealing an
old man in a red robe. "If you are seeing this then that means it has escaped. It will infect everyone in the Badlands, nowhere is safe. The inefected must be killed twice once in the Badlands & again in the real world. It is a techno-organic virus it infects your avatar and your body. At time of this video's creation there is a cure, if the creator of the infection has not destroyed the cure there maybe hope. The cure is locked behind a door hidden deep within the Badlands. There are five keys. Humanity must work together to find those keys and to save itself. Two keys are in the Badlands. Two are in the real world. The fifth key is in everyone, to use the key one must sacrifice their life. In you encounter an infected kill it or run, if they were your lover, your mother, your father, your sister, your best friend they are nothing more than an extinction level threat now. If you are in the real world destroy their brain, a mere stab to the face won't do, you must obliterate their entire head. If you are in the Badlands you can kill them with any weapon but the quickest and only guarantee you have of ending the threat is an Anti-Viral Artifact. Anti-Viral Artifacts are being distributed everywhere." The video was broadcasted live to every avatar, every news station, every computer in the world. The rest of the video was played only for the Specters. "Ekloria, Artorigus, Kaptaan you three have been chosen as my champions you must unite humanity or see it go extinct."
Three small doors slid up. Revealing three
Anti-Viral Upgrade Icons. The old man spoke again. "These are Anti-Viral Upgrade Icons. They are the only ones in existence. Use them wisely, once every t" The video was cut off.
Suddenly the screen is lit up from a light behind them and whoosh could be heard. They had no way out besides to go through the seemingly sideways puddle behind them. Ekloria grabbed one of the icons. "Shit."