Chapter 135: Sudden Attack (2/2)

"…What?" Aldrich narrowed his eyes under his helressor

It was Shrimp

Shrimp stood before Valera with his fist thrust out in front of hihtly h its overall appearance reest difference was in its ared, covered over with thicker iridescent, rainbow-colored shell plating

Across the plating of its forearreen respectively shone down to its knuckles Its elbow joint had changed into a sort of piston structure, and when Shrimp withdrew his arm to his side, his forear into its upper arm

It reminded Aldrich of Frame suits that had piston powered punches

'Volantis, I thought you were keeping a track of him What happened?' said Aldrich His ement to it, for he knew better than to let ee that happened, anything that slipped by hi that he needed to react to out of the blue - he would deal with using calive ht has been upon that beast, and I have not allowed myself to let it escape from my perception,' said Volantis

Aldrich checked the corner of his vision The white spot where Shri

"…" Aldrich observed Shrimp for another second, and based off of context clues, could rapidly piece together what had happened

"I see" Aldrich could see that there were dull white chunks of shell falling fronature deep within the earth

Shri process, had eer On top of that, theShriy beneath it

"That creature now possesses an energy aura far separated from that which it bore before Al," said Volantis "Yet, it is unfathoht

Its energy aura is still colossal - easily enough for me to track had it moved at any pace of speed, no matter how fast

The only option I could conceive of is that it le instant

In other words, teleportation"

"That's the conclusion I came to as well," said Aldrich He took in a breath He had not expected Shrimp to just spontaneously evolve neers like that in thean extra power, Aldrich would have understood

There were cases of variants attacking with a set of powers, escaping, and then years later attacking again with an extra or changed power

There were even soh either genetic luck or a rarer process called Metamorphosis

What was even e scope that he could not have foreseen it, was that Shrimp had developed a teleportation-based power

Flux powers that ht to be entirely in the realm of Alters

There had never once been a case of variants that could affect the fabric of space-time

It was one of the reasons why Flux Alters were so valued: they were not only highly valuable for their utility, but they also represented power that belonged solely to the realm of humanity

They were considered like the stars ofpowers of the cosmos far beyond, where only huht were creatures that never left the boundaries of the earth

The only possible exception were Chrysalis that could create their personal spaces, but these were considered less living variants and more mobile environments

Yet, it looked like hue

On top of this, Aldrich's understanding of variants was liet on the the AA's proper variant database

All this would change soon, however He would

Every tool and privilege he could use to further his power and position, all that had been denied to hi but a lowly Dud - he would take now

All he had to do was turn Shrimp into a corpse

Specifically, his corpse