Shadow Slave

Chapter 889

The Awakened warrior was simply gone. The whole facility was swept, both by the soldiers of the garrison and Sunny's shadows, but no trace of him were found. Verne even made the decision to unseal the dome of the old observatory. However, there was nothing but old equipment, darkness, and dust inside.

Sunny then sent his shadows to scour the coastal plain outside the fortress, hoping to discover a clue. He did not.

A sense of unease and foreboding spread through the isolated fortress.

As people were crowding together to alleviate this tension, Sunny, Verne, and Professor Obel gathered in the security center to have an emergency discussion. However, none of them

seemed too eager to speak first.

They simply had nothing to say.

Eventually, Sunny rubbed his face with a sigh.

"Well, there are only three possibilities, right?"

Verne looked at him darkly.

"And they are?"

Sunny hesitated for a moment.

"First... he might have really deserted."

The stern Master simply shook his head. There was no hostility or defensiveness in this gesture, since Verne was not the type of leader to be insecure about his people or himself. He did not have the kind of fragile pride that would make the statement sound offensive.

"That is improbable. I know this Awakened very well. He was... is a stalwart man."

on with

best outcome. The other two possibilities are

frown appeared on

the body and removed the signs of the crime. Considering that it is not easy for a mundane human to kill an Awakened, the most likely

Obel let out a heavy

that one of these brave

him with a

exerts on people... many will inevitably start to break. In any case, we should pay attention to those Awakened that have Aspects

lips, but then silently

the last

for

be a Nightmare Creature that has infiltrated the facility and is now hiding somewhere within these walls. Considering that we failed to find any traces at all... it has to be

silent for a while,

sounds like a plan. However, what happens

at him. His eyes

communication we had with the outside, it will reach us in four days

the persistent noise of the

eyes for

what we

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the third time that day. He had little hope of finding anything, but the thought of an elusive, uncanny

had something

with a new, unknown threat looming somewhere just out of sight,

and how important it was in situations

were prohibited from remaining alone, and a

unexpectedly. Living quarters were fitted with additional sensors and alarm locks, Awakened

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