Chapter 154: Sponsor (1/2)

Chapter 154: Sponsor

Valera sighed at Volantis's response "Strength that I observed? What strength? Look at this sorry state I a butinto her pale cheeks "Were I not co of embarrassment

For a Dullahan to lose their heads - that is the greatest disgrace they can suffer as warriors of death I must wait an entire day before I can restore my body, and until then, I cannot even fulfill the basic duty of a Guardian Knight to defendway to think about this," said Aldrich "A warrior's job is to fight and to win their fights You used every tool you had in your arsenal to help race in that?"

"Oh, master, you have such a ords All your praise is never iven when it is deserved I very, very much like that about you," said Valera as she looked at up at Aldrich with glea elevated levels of desire fro froerous in nature Shall I make defensive preparations, Arh and bared her fangs before angrily biting down on a protruding bone spike on Volantis's are Aldrich or really, anywhere that daed Volantis enerated and mostly ornamental She just wanted to vent her frustration

"Registering daone feral for reasons I cannot fathoan Volantis, his voice rising in alarm

Aldrich smiled and shook his head at their antics "Knock it off, you two And Volantis, I thought I was socially stunted Are you that dense that you have zero idea why sheAruided the hands that wrought me from hellscape ore I suffer touch to e, and I must retaliate," said Volantis

"But you do have a soul, right? A soul harvested from some mortal person who must have had their own memories and personality," said Aldrich, so Ared by demons when they harvested the souls of powerful, battle hardened and experienced fighters They used those souls as a 'core' over which they forged an armor around

Of course, like how Necromancers could wipe the memories clean of arisen undead, demon smiths more often than not wiped out thearmor to prevent any potential conflicts

After all, it would not do well to have the unwillingly harvested soul of a warrior killed by deh, like arisen undead, Volantis should still have a core personality unique to his soul that no a could scrub clean

"I do," said Volantis "And there are tiaries of the mortal flesh and blood shell that once housed this soul of mine"

"I assu your personality now," said Aldrich

"Indeed But that is all I carry over, and all I wish to carry over What little this ar but suffering Pain Then, the struggle Endless struggle that drowned out the pain and everything else, leaving nothing but commitment to duty To for this, Valera stopped biting Volantis and cast her eyes doard, likely re her own past

Aldrich understood that as castaways of the dark, hunted and reviled by all, the lives and pasts of undead were le That was one of the reasons why he hiravitated so much towards the Necromancer class and its lore He saw hi rooted in a world of fantasy and his in a world of skyscrapers and telescreens

Because pain was pain: it was universal

Aldrich looked down at the broken streets below as Crow soared across the night sky

Thankfully, though, there were no longer any fishroups across these streets Not that it made the destruction any better to see The cars and bodies of both fish in the flooded streets attested to that

Seis to be just as hard, if not harder, than the fight itself The battle had taken up the span of just one night Rebuilding would take years in an ordinary timescale If Aldrich could secure the help of a construction a-corp or the Panopticon and their fleets of construction drones, that time could be drastically cut

But for that, Aldrich needed influence

"Southside Haven Why are we here?" said Seismic as he too looked down

"To ask for a favor that I'm owed," said Aldrich as he steered Croards the Panopticon bunker where he had left the Duds and Minutelanced towards Seismic's focused face "You aren't confused by our conversations? Mentions of demons and dullahans and the like?"

"Yes," said Seis it Wastes tith"

"Serious and to the point Good," said Aldrich "You'll ith me well That is, if you want to"

"You would let o if I refused?" said Seismic

"No," said Aldrich "This new lease on life you have is still signed under ainst me, I would render you mindless so that you wouldn't have to think about what you were doing