Chapter 422 Unsealed (2/2)

A green outline shi+mmered around Ace's body He closed his eyes, hard When he opened theinally were, filled with the lonely sadness that they usually carried

"Whathappened here?" said Ace, looking down at his hands The glowing blue energy visible from his heart and veins faded away bit by bit

"I reset your mind is all I did," said Thanatos "Leave Join the others"

Ace weakly nodded, tired froy He looked confused, but he knew better than to question Thanatos He fleay, leaving Thanatos alone with Machine Mind in the ruins of the bunker

"No! No! NO!" roared Machine Mind "You would dare to ruin a perfect creation!? How!? Whatwhat did you do!?"

"All I did was exert ion," said Thanatos The red eye dot of his helht you do not have"

Machine Mind, now reduced to a talking head, and Thanatos, in all his arht, could not have been any different from each other if they tried

Thanatos floated down, landing atop the containment chamber in the bunker It alone had survived Ace's telekinetic crush, though barely The glass was thoroughly cracked The Blue Ring within had di like worn cloth

A warning screen flashed distorted across the cracked glass

RING STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY: 1

When Thanatos touched the chahtly again, rejuvenated so before it sundered apart into countless little frag blue fireflies

The fragh the containment chamber, and into Thanatos

Thanatos stared down at his hand The ten-branched symbol lit up in reaction One of the branches, previously a colorless white, was now filled in with solid blue, joining a green branch and a white one that had a cracked pattern across its length

"It's over" Machine Mind looked at the ring ide eyes "My research - it really was for nothing"

Thanatos did not answer, analyzing his hand

"shi+t, that blewinto view He blinked when he saw there was no Ace "Uh, guess ya fixed the whole situation then, huh?"

"I did," said Thanatos

"damn" Clint looked down at the annihilated bunker, then up at the equally annihilated rest of the labs "I knoanted us to ure total destruction wasn't what you were gunnin' for, yeah?"

"No, but what's done is done," said Thanatos "As for you, Machine Mind, you and your team are not done yet You mentioned the Outer I want answers

Answers that you and your team will provide"please visit ??ee???n???????

"Youyou intend to enslave us? Like you did with Blackwater?" said Machine Mind He grimaced "You may be able to take one, crushed to nothingness"

"Quiet, and let ain held his ar a shi+eld This tiy formed

"[Boundary: Unseal]"