Chapter 14: A Crucial Hint (2/2)

Vitality: 10

Magic: 11 ] 21

Attunement: 5

Perception: 8

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Mana: 3/33 ] 3/63

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Now, at 66 total mana, Aldrich finally had a e With that settled, he checked his wristwatch It was 10 PM and the date was now October 31, 2117

A day had passed since he and his friends had died under Seth Solar's fists He sat on a large rock beside the Sign while Adam and Elaine sat beside him

His three Strikers curled down by his feet like sleeping dogs, though they were always vigilant for threats

"Al," said Aldrich as he looked up As an Undead, he had perfect night vision, and when he looked up, he saw stars speckling the sky, painting up the bright and vast ether When we all beca the stars like this without city s

Glad you guys can enjoy it too"

Aldrich looked to his side to see Ada up but with dull eyes and open mouths Their skin was pale, cracked, and rotted in patches There was no sign of recognition there, just adherence to Aldrich's uess it's not the sahed Aldrich He balled a fist and looked down "I swear to both of you, with this new undeath I have, I a to make sure Seth Solar, Ghost, and all those useless wastes of oxygen that roup will suffer"

That hen Aldrich noticed solint of glass under the leaves

Aldrich cocked his head and iated it He uncovered a pile of leaves to see a pile of ee and narrowed his eyes

Its contents were nearly eht blue liquid

This was X, a heavily addictive narcotic popular aer, wealthier folk He remembered the technician at Blackwater he had tried to blacks to

Looks like so

However, it did not see X had pretty serious side effects including weight loss, causing skin to pale, and constant jitteriness when off of it

Seth Solar had not exhibited any of those symptoms Nor did the rest of his crew

No, wait

Then, Aldrich reaunt face Pale skin Lean, bony hands

Ghost

Ghost was the one that did these drugs, and it seeht

Aldrich snapped his fingers "Here boy," he said, beckoning a Striker to coe to the zombie wolf-beast, and it curiously sniffed the object

"Find me as many of these as you can," said Aldrich

Within es buried in a shallow pit Not to s and the shattered re by how ured that Ghost ca out in Haven

Aldrich shook his head Seeal things for Seth Solar's gang That included Aldrich and his friends' corpses too That was all they were reduced to

Illegal trash to be buried with used up syringes

What a sick fucking joke

But this was a massive hint This meant that at the very least, Ghost came here routinely to du it was only 9 PM on a Sunday night, it was highly likely that Ghost ht

Alone, too

Seth Solar ht have been a sociopathic monster, but he had his own pride to consider He and the others in his gang went out to party on Fridays and Saturdays, but not Sundays as they had training awaiting them on Monday

All of them except Ghost as likely too addicted to X to back out of a Sunday trip for a free hit

Aldrich in He had little tiot here between n enveloped hiht of the , long years, Aldrich had faced nothing but abuse He had been beaten, spat on, called worthless, and told to die for the sake of humanity's evolution

The world had torn his parents away fro theood left in this dark world

The world had torn his friends fro fist

All because Aldrich was powerless

But now, he had power

He re before he died

He swore he would be their judgeement