Shadow Slave

The third member of the melee vanguard was, perhaps, the second most important person in the cohort — after Sunny himself, of course.

He had agonized over that choice a lot, but eventually settled on a handsome and chivalrous man named Quentin.

Awakened Quentin preferred wearing full plate armor and wielding a sword and a shield. Unlike Belle and Dorn, he was not going to be serving as an offensive powerhouse. He was going to become the defensive bulwark of the melee vanguard… which was not to say that he wasn't a deadly fighter in his own right, of course.

Quentin's Aspect centered around restoration and corrosion. In battle, he was able to continuously repair his shield and his armor no matter what kind of damage they received. There were limits to this Ability, of course, but as long as his Memories weren't outright destroyed, they would eventually regain their original shape.

He was also able to apply a corrosive property to his weapons. The corrosion was not very potent, but as long as enough of his attacks landed, the enemy was bound to eventually succumb under the weight of accumulating decay. This was a slow, but insidious and impactful Ability.

However, it was the first one that made Awakened Quentin so valuable.

That was because he was not limited to restoring only Memories. Quentin's restoration was near universal and could repair various things… including human flesh.

He was a healer.

Of course, as far as these rare specialists went, he wasn't the most powerful. His Ability was comparatively slow and limited. Quentin could not even hope to compete with someone like Nephis or Elyas in terms of speed and efficiency, and even among other healers whose dossiers were available to Sunny, his restorative power did not stand out.

But after thinking about it for a long time, Sunny still decided to go with Quentin. He did not want to employ a more potent healer if that meant that the healer would not be able to fend for themselves in a furious fight. Even though his final choice was somewhat mediocre in terms of healing wounds, the chivalrous man was a more well-rounded and versatile combatant.

Sunny was inspired to make that choice by his memories of Shim, the Fire Keeper healer who had eventually inherited the leadership over Cassie's personal cohort. Despite his lack of a combat Aspect, Shim always fought on the frontline and supported his companions with his blade, his shield, and his steady presence.

even use his Ability to help repair the Rhino

happy with his

the cohort

from distance and fight against flying abominations, Sunny spent a lot of time searching for a

possessed a very interesting Aspect, though… Samara was capable of infusing material objects with soul essence, as well as converting soul energy into kinetic energy or

sense, Awakened Samara was the opposite of Master Jet — while Soul Reaper

was probably the only Awakened Sunny knew of who actively utilized modern firearms. By infusing her ammunition with charged essence, she effectively made them analogous to

more or less immune to mundane armaments, but susceptible to Memories

'What a fascinating Ability…'

and technician. Since the APC the cohort would be using was chuck-full of advanced spelltech,

member of the cohort Sunny had chosen was

the man's dossier, Sunny could help but

'What a weird name…'

head, and

maybe his mother had a

distinguished fighter — that was comparatively, of course, since all the elite government soldiers were solid combatants.

specialists, he couldn't help but change his stance after reading what young Luster was

rate of soul essence, both his own and that of his

Aspect was going to be in the coming months. Sure, by choosing Luster, he would be sacrificing the opportunity to