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.

medic who possessed deep knowledge of modern medicine. He could even use his

was happy with his

members of the cohort already chosen,

abominations, Sunny spent a lot of time searching for a suitable ranged specialist. In the end, his attention was drawn to the dossier of a woman named

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

opposite of Master Jet — while Soul Reaper was able to deal soul damage with physical weapons,

very inventive in the applications of her Aspect. Samara was probably the only Awakened Sunny knew of who actively

susceptible to Memories and even unarmed attacks of Awakened. In Samara's hands, however, any

'What a fascinating Ability…'

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

member of the cohort Sunny had chosen

man's dossier, Sunny could help but narrow his

'What a weird name…'

head, and then

mother had a

young man was not a very distinguished fighter — that was comparatively, of course, since all the elite government soldiers were solid combatants. His talent and usefulness

to recruit more utility specialists, he couldn't help but change his stance after reading what young Luster was capable of. This guy was

Ability allowed him to enhance the regeneration rate of soul essence, both his own and that of his allies. His

coming months. Sure, by choosing Luster, he would be sacrificing the opportunity to recruit another battle powerhouse… but the trade-off was worth it,