Shadow Slave

Chapter 1928: Dawn of a New Era. Chapter 1928: Dawn of a New Era.

The old man possessed a formidable mind —which was not surprising, really. As a member of the First Generation, he had endured the darkest era of humanity, facing countless dreadful ordeals and overcoming them with great tenacity and determination.

The fact that he had lived to his respectable age was proof enough of just how much willpower he possessed.

However, today, the old man encountered an ordeal that he would not be able to overcome…

It was Cassie.

Kneeling near the bloodied prisoner, she pulled off her blindfold and looked him into the eyes — of course, Cassie's had marked him already, so what she actually saw was herself.

The old man smiled darkly, and finally spoke.

«Song of the Fallen. I've heard about you.»

She responded quietly:

«And I you, Master Orum.»

She knew that he might attempt to commit suicide if given enough time — in fact, he would have done so already if the nature of her Aspect had not been a closely guarded secret. So, there was little time to waste, especially considering that there were several other captured spies she would have to interrogate later.

But this one… this one was more valuable to Cassie, because he had lived a long life, and would know many secrets that had nothing to do with the clandestine side of the Domain War.

Looking into the man's eyes, Cassie activated her Transcendent Ability.

Master Orum's formidable mental defences crumbled easily under her tyrannical attack…

memory, who in turn was reliving the memories of the old man. If anything, it was a relief, since

to access. The fear, the pain, the despair of being caught… but below it all, an

memories of the war. The span of time was too great, and Master Orum's memory was not much different from a mundane human, many details of his recent past already erased by the passage of time — Cassie somehow sifted through the vast volume

of Orum's clandestine activity. How long he had been relaying information to Song, what methods he

most precious secrets, and

Instead, she kept looking into Orum's eyes, diving deeper into his memories… deeper, deeper, and

book to read them all, but some were more solid and important than others. They were his core memories, as well as those memories that had

there were too numerous for her to fathom in a short span of time, without revealing her secret actions to the onlookers. So, Cassie focused even more, her mind spinning on all cylinders to find the pieces of precious information she

there, finally…

was transported into an old, old memory. Despite its age, however, it was incredibly sharp

seconds later, Sunny understood

—— —— ——

acrid smoke shrouded the streets. Military vehicles lay on the melting asphalt like corpses of metallic beasts, their armor bent and torn

were echoing in the smoke, drowning in the inhuman cacophony of bestial

«Orie! Orie!»

of adulthood — had been running for his life, overcome by pain and despair. At the

had been dragging along, was sprawled on the ground

cold fear

when her hand

a hurry, he picked her up from the

Come one, with have

figure lunged at them from the smoke, frenzied

was one of the infected…

Orum froze.