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

at him with wide eyes, and

accelerated forward, quickly overtaking slower vehicles. Then, it made a sharp turn, left the wide highway

members of

armored vehicle briskly traversed the wild expanse of the Antarctic Center. Powerful spotlights installed on the Rhino's roof flooded the landscape in front of it with stark light, cutting the dimness with wide beams. Various sensors supplied Luster with additional information to better steer

his brief train ride. It was just as lifeless, but in a different manner. There were fewer signs of past wars and disasters here, but at the same

chain. Because of that, the horizon was obscured most of the time, and it was hard to notice any approaching threats. More than that, the landscape itself looked strange and

only recently shrugged off its heavy veil. The passing of monumental glaciers

complicated terrain. It moved toward the rendezvous point with sufficient speed, sometimes making use of existing roads, sometimes cutting

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

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

by a swift black

'For now…'

same as morning, evening, and night — the Rhino reached the ruins of a small outpost, where two similar carriers were parked in the shadow of a broken

Sunny jumped off the roof and walked toward

you guys

Reaper's cohort looked

uh… just hot water, sir. The cargo capacity of

opened its toothy maw, Sunny thrust his hand inside, and then threw

Thank you,

a high Class. They seemed relaxed and nonchalant about the whole ordeal, and paid more attention to the can of coffee

Category Three Gate was situated

the Rhino and joined them, he looked around

and caught the tail end of

definitely a woman. Hot as

idiot, I saw that Mongrel guy myself once. He's definitely