Shadow Slave

The First Evacuation Army was accompanied by three Saints. One was loyal to the government, while the other two… the other two had been sent by the great clans.

Unofficially, Valor and Song had refused to participate in the Southern Quadrant campaign. Officially, however, they still had to keep up appearances. For that reason, each had provided a token force to support the evacuation effort, and the two Saints in question were in charge of these forces.

Sunny did not know who these Transcendent were. All he knew was that the government had wisely chosen to separate them, sending one to East Antarctica, while the other ended up in the Antarctic Center.

And now, apparently, that latter was coming to aid the Irregulars in vanquishing a powerful Corrupted abomination. He was not sure how to feel about that.

On one hand, the help of a Saint was more than welcomed. On the other hand… one of the reasons he had decided to participate in the Antarctica campaign was to get away from the great clans and their machinations.

Now, it seemed that he just couldn't escape coming in contact with the Sovereigns and their forces.

'Curse it all…'

With a sigh, Sunny sent Luster the coordinates of the rendezvous point and walked over to the pilot's cabin.

"We have new orders. Get to this location as fast as possible."

The young man yawned, studied the coordinates for a bit, and then nodded.

"Aye, sir."

He lingered for a moment.

"Uh… by the way, what's there?"

Sunny shrugged with a nonchalant expression.

Corrupted Tyrant? Something

at him with wide eyes, and suddenly grew very

accelerated forward, quickly overtaking slower vehicles. Then, it made a sharp turn, left the wide highway entirely, and entered uneven terrain. Its massive

the high-tech suspension system, the members of the cohort barely felt

spotlights installed on the Rhino's roof flooded the landscape in front of it with stark light,

lifeless, but in a different manner. There were fewer signs of past wars and disasters

Basically, most of the landmass was covered by a vast mountain chain. Because of that, the horizon was obscured most of the time, and it

been covered by ice for millions of years, and only

speed, sometimes making use of existing roads, sometimes cutting through untouched wilderness. It

the Southern Quadrant was not as lifeless as it had used to be. The life that was spreading through its reaches, however, was not

Sunny was the only member of the cohort with decent means of ranged attack. Using the open lid of the hatch to shield himself from the

bow three times. Several stray abominations wandered into the Rhino's path, only to be slain by a swift black arrow

'For now…'

reached the ruins of a small outpost, where two similar carriers were parked

stopped the vehicle, Sunny jumped off the roof and walked toward the fire. Orange light gleamed, reflecting from the bleak metal

you guys

Queen's and Soul Reaper's cohort looked at him with

water, sir. The cargo capacity of

manifested itself into reality and opened its toothy maw, Sunny thrust his hand inside, and then threw a can of instant coffee and an expensive chocolate bar to the startled

sir! Thank you,

not look like people who were about to fight a Corrupted abomination of a high Class. They seemed relaxed and nonchalant about the whole ordeal, and

was situated on its

Rhino and joined them, he looked around and noticed Master Jet and Winter. The two were standing some distance away, discussing something

toward them and caught the tail end of their

definitely a woman. Hot

you, idiot, I saw that Mongrel guy myself