Chapter 275 Simmering (1/2)

Chapter 275 Sinal tower erected on the Magellan, the name that Casimir bestowed upon their mini town on wheels Most people would have expected a name like that to be christened on a massive battleshi+p or aircraft, but it honestly fit rather well here too

The Magellan was quite spectacular It was coh to house fifty people, transfored along the desert on twenty four wheels and twelve high poweredines

Like the desert version of the polar express, it traveled the endless wastes with a heavyset deter like the utterances of a living beast Turrets and sellan like spines

"Is it going to be okay?" Chrysa, in Aldrich's arhts that looked like the eyes of so hard!"

"It'll be fine," said Aldrich

Though, he did have to confess, he still had no idea how so Scientists called Ether the real God particle, capable of anything and everything, and Aldrich had to agree

The Magellan was like a literal transforh purity etherite made that possible It was a shaet their hands on it

Only noeostor, could harvest ether energy in such a pure state

That was not to take away fro to Casiendary no in vehicle construction who had taken a fortune of twenty five million credits to shape it all up

Arksman's work looked shoddy, alether, but in pure functionality, his rides matched the best technos in the AA or the corporate world

Aldrich looked away froh where he could see way into the deep dark stretches of night, taking in the oddly haunting beauty of the barren wasteland landscape painted silver under theabout the sheer scale and solitude of it all that coine someone more skittish, someone more people oriented like Adam or Eileen would think it was all so empty and lonely

"It's pretty," said Chrysa She twirled her fingers in her hair "The shi+ny, it looks like ht," said Aldrich "And it does"

Chrysa shi+fted around in Aldrich's grasp with iy

"What is it?" said Aldrich

"Why'd we co tiht!"

"I know I just needed to s out here first," said Aldrich He had checked up on ation on the bug she found in the ice bots yielded that it was Trident sourced Specifically fro of the Trident called Mad Jack

Mad Jack was an utterpenchant for creating bugs that could take over practically any tech and rendering the , spreading his viruses even auy that Aldrich hated the less ht the Trident into the mix for the ice bot mystery And yet, that did not answer any questions Sure, Mad Jack could have infected the bots, but where did they come from in the first place?

A rival of the Tridents? Perhaps frohting?

That, Aldrich left V and Fisk to figure out

Clint and the Spearhorns had uncovered a good amount of details in the Trident civil war The Italian and japanese prongs stood against the Russians

The Russians wanted to move forith their plans for revolution, to topple the world order set by governments and the Panop-AA cos wantedthe taste of profit and balance, especially knowing that the ot

The rift was big enough that in a diploher ups fro's representative detonated a suicide bo a full on civil war

That incident was also the reason why the hunt on Casimir and anyone related to him had been called off so abruptly Coitive, a rich fugitive, granted, but a fugitive no less, was not a priority

That was good news for Aldrich It meant the Trident, half of the entire Dark Six, eakened, and would get weaker by the passing day If Aldrichtheurative straw to break the camel's back

The AA was not blind, either They had caught wind of the conflict too In response, they were probably readying heroes in case the Trident conflict grew hot and reached civilians

Where it mattered to Aldrich was that the AA pushed up Aldrich's hearing date, probably not wanting to spend as ive Aldrich, or rather, Thanatos,problems, Aldrich doubted the AA wanted to add Thanatos to that list as well

Aldrich's new hearing date was thus pushed to just a day and a half from now Not much time left at all

"Father, are you worried?" asked Chrysa

"You can tell?" Aldrich never shoorry, or much of any emotion, on his face well

"Mhm" Chrysa nodded

Made sense Chrysa and Aldrich were soul linked Not just that, but she probably understood him better than anyone because she had been born of his own soul