Chapter 294 Stranger (2/2)

Aldrich opened his eyes, looking at his hand The book was coone, too "That was surprisingly easy"

"Yes That syste" Medula turned around, hands clasped behind her back "Take care that you do not rely on it too o, let me sulk the loss of my prized possession in solace"

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Aldrich returned to the real world, or Alter real it in his head First, at the Crypt, then, after [Mist Phase] ended, back to Fler'Gan

There, Aldrich gave Fler'Gan the ten eyeflowers Fler'Gan cut off the eyestalks and squeezed clear liquid within into his potion, granting it to Aldrich aftersure it was stable

[1 x Mindeye Dominus Elixir obtained]

The effects of the potion were the sa: the potion was active only for a ti this tiet embedded into the psyches of all those that heard

For exa this time, "support me!", then even after his ten second as over, all those that heard hiest issue was even that effect was not permanent Over time, it would slowly fade away

For perest a potion, and Aldrich certainly could not forcefeed everyone elixirs

But for the duration of the hearing, Aldrich could swing practically everyone to his side Fler'Gan did have an additional warning that those with particularly strong wills could resist the effects, though they would not know they were affected by anything

However, judging from experimentation that Fler'Gan had performed on normal Alters, the vast ly resist the effect

Next, Aldrich caught up with V, specifically in regards to the bug she had found in the freeze bot's neural networks

Aldrich stepped into V's workspace, finding her sitting down in the dark, her wire and cable shape hair sprawled everywhere in a co up screens and devices

"What's going on?" asked Aldrich Chrysa was not on his shoulder She was in the Boundary, playing around with the Geist, Merman, Valera, and Okeanos

"Wondered when you'd be back Thought you'd alu was active It's called a Rager, and I've double confirmed it's Mad Jack's ability

Causes et anything and everything"

"Is that why the bots attacked me?" said Aldrich

"Yeah"

"Then that involves the Trident If I have my memory of villains and , et too"

"I figure But it's impossible to really tell

Remember how I set up a way for peeps in the underworld to reach us? Well, e like shi+tty D-lister et with Thanatos, but there was one guy that really piqued er He says the bots were his"

"Really now?" Aldrich said, heavily interested

"Yeah He didn't say much more Just that he's sorry the bots went crazy They weren't meant to hurt you"

"Were they meant to watch me?"

"He didn't answer that He just sent et back to him His presence in Cyberspace is also insanely stealthy Can't trace hie to me," said Aldrich "For now, tell me what's important"

"That was basically it," said V "It confused ht it was spam at first, but literally nobody should have known about those bots except us

The e was this: he says he'll meet you soon And that he'll make you an offer he hopes you will take"

"Where? When? And if I don't take the offer?"

V shrugged "I don't know No deets It's all mystery Kinda spooky"

"Hm I see" Aldrich turned to leave There was no more information to be mined here "Keep an eye out, V"

"Gotcha When you coshot I want to upgrade into a proper office, y'know"

Aldrich nodded "I'll try"

"C' promises They're too absolute The et as well" Aldrich stepped out of the control room "And I already made one today"