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 like

with wide eyes, and suddenly

left the marching formation of the division and accelerated forward, quickly overtaking slower vehicles. Then, it made a sharp turn, left the wide highway entirely, and entered uneven terrain. Its massive wheels easily rolled

system, the members of the cohort

next several hours, the 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

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

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

surprise. After all, Antarctica had been covered by ice for millions of years, and only recently shrugged off its

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

Quadrant was not as lifeless as

Rhino's roof through one of the upper hatches. Since Samara was yet to return from the Dream Realm, Sunny was the only member of the cohort with decent

hours, he had to use his bow three times. Several stray abominations wandered into the Rhino's path, only to be slain by a swift

'For now…'

outpost, where two similar carriers were parked in the shadow of a broken wall. A handful of people could be seen

walked toward the fire. Orange light gleamed, reflecting from the bleak

you

members of Queen's and Soul Reaper's cohort looked at

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

Coffer. As the large chest manifested itself into reality and opened its toothy maw, Sunny thrust his hand inside, and then threw a can

Thank

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

Category Three Gate was situated

grateful Awakened brewed coffee for themselves and Sunny's soldiers, who emerged from the Rhino and joined them, he looked around and noticed Master Jet and Winter. The two were standing some distance away, discussing something between themselves in

caught the

woman.

I saw that