Chapter 148: The Voice (1/2)

Chapter 148: The Voice

When Aldrich moved towards Shrimp to raise the Locus, those that watched him did so with bated breath

The crowds in Haven that had cheered and cried out in relief and joy when they saw Shri ould happen Would the terrifying Locus that once threatened their entire city come back to life as the many fishmen and variants had done?

Would the creature even be under their savior's control?

In Neo-York, Solomon Solar's twisted frown solden eyes glued to the large screen in front of hie citizen in Haven did

Would this no name upstart in black armor actually tame a Locus under his control? nobody had ever been able to achieve anything remotely close to that

Much like the i that al about Loci that safeguarded theood number of powers

Their htiest of psychics, and even a

Locus corpses also could not be controlled fully intact This was a fact that Solomon Solar was privy to as a S rank hero who had insider information about the association and its ency had captured strong Loci and kept their bodies in storage to perfor Alters who could control or animate corpses as this black armored upstart could, but all of them ended in failure

At best, the AA kne to harvest the geneticalso invariably failed or produced reatest success that the AA produced was to fashi+onthe corpses, but these fell short of the original's strength and required the specific eenius was plagued with bouts ofthe best Psionic type Alters

If this upstart could fully raise a Locus and eth, then there was no doubt about it

Whoever thisto rise to be a superpower in the AA

Solomon Solar set his jaw in irritation If that happened, that meant he had even ht could not get any worse

First, there had been the attack on Neo-York from an arth That had taken ht to settle

Then, when Solomon heard that Haven had been attacked, he had tried to contact Blackwater to make sure his asset Seth Solar had not been coht, then Solomon had lost an asset worth an invaluable number of credits

But that and the competition that this upstart posed was actually the least of his worries

It was the fact that this upstart controlled Blackwater students under him that deeply unsettled Solomon That could only mean that Blackwater had been infiltrated and co this man or killed and turned into puppets for him

And if Blackwater was compromised, Solomon Solar's connection to it, to Selene, the headmaster and mother to Seth, was at risk If that happened, it would take a massive ae to his ie

Granted, Soloest crianizations in the world, and they could likely bury a reveal even of this scale to the public with their power and influence

But it would cost Solomon Pile atop his already near bottomless debt to them

Solos were fine He was too public a figure to do that That hy Selene, the headmaster and Seth's handler, was there in the first place That was her Goddamn job; to handle all the nasty criminal elements tied to Solomon so that there was no risk to hi any of his calls?

Why were things going so wrong, so very quickly?

Fro room, Emrys stared at the unknown man raise his hand towards the corpse of the Locus All other holographic screens that previously had shoorld leaders or S and A class heroes fighting across the globe had been turned off, leaving just the screen showing the stream in Haven open

This was how important this streaency More important than any other conflict in the world Than any world leader Than any h their rank was

What would happen, thought Emrys, if two Black Spots collided with each other?

Whose poould triumph over the other?