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.

Tyrant? Something like

paled, stared at him with wide eyes, and suddenly grew very

it made a sharp turn, left the wide highway

members of the cohort barely

Antarctic Center. Powerful spotlights installed on the Rhino's roof flooded the landscape in front of it with stark light, cutting

ride. It was just as lifeless, but

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

millions of years, and only recently shrugged off its heavy veil. The passing of monumental glaciers

job of navigating the complicated terrain. It moved toward the rendezvous point with sufficient speed, sometimes making use of existing roads, sometimes cutting through untouched wilderness. It climbed or descended tall hills and mountain outcroppings, traversed stretches of frozen marshlands, and waded

rarely had an opportunity to see far ahead. These days, the Southern Quadrant was not as lifeless as it had used to be. The life

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 cold winds, Sunny summoned Morgan's Warbow and

by a swift black arrow before

'For now…'

outpost, where two similar carriers

the roof and walked toward

you guys

Reaper's cohort looked at him with

The cargo capacity of our carriers is limited, so we couldn't

toothy maw, Sunny thrust his hand inside, and then threw a can of

sir! Thank you,

who were about to fight a Corrupted abomination of a high Class. They seemed relaxed and nonchalant about the whole ordeal, and paid more attention to

Category Three Gate was

from the Rhino and joined them, he looked around and noticed Master Jet and Winter.

and caught the tail end of

a woman. Hot as

saw that Mongrel guy myself once. He's