Chapter 337 (2/2)

“Hmph Oh I know you You could burn me up and my ashes would remember your face!” Hostility poured off the man, which only confused Cloudhawk further He leaned back as the big man yelled in his face “This one's a traitor, not one of ours! Grab him!”

The surrounding guards all hesitated, surprised by the exchange He wasn't part of the Dark Atoet inside?

Cloudhaasn't stupid enough to let hi duck, so to that end he made the first move He didn't remember who the baldie was, but he sure as shi+t called the shots with this lot Taking hi him

He moved in a flash There was a lot he learned after three years in hell's Valley

In any number of ways he was better than normal people In a blink he appeared in front of the bald rip with his left hand As his fingers dung into the skin Cloudhawk noticed it felt off Sht, not like human skin at all It felt more like snake scales

The baldwith his eyes They elongated and folded together like a reptiles, while fine green scales sprouted all over his body Fro tail stretched from his lower back

The guy was a damn lizard

Wait! A lizard! That's it!

At last Cloudhawk remembered who this baldie was He met him the first time in the marshes outside of Blackwater – a ht him to the base half dead and turned him into one of Roste's monsters The Acadereat soldier they eventually sold to the Dark Atom

No wonder he remembered!

Baldie wasn't prepared for a burst of strength like this from Cloudhawk, but the Warden was distracted by the revelation and his hold was broken In his reptile form, the baldie was also much faster than normal He slithered backward out of Cloudhawk's reach then drew his hatchet and whipped it at his face

“It's you So you're still alive”

Cloudhawk said the words while halfheartedly slapping the hatchet to the side Thearound, catching the baldie in the chest and sending hi backward He collapsed on the floor of the room he'd come out of and the whole patrol office shook

Laying on his back, the baldie had time to take in the amazement he felt

When did a runt he was once hired to cut down get so mean? After what they did to the er than he'd ever been, and thankfully his improved physique protected hie was clear indication that he was no match for Cloudhawk He scrambled back onto his feet and looked around for a way to escape

By then the rest of the guards gathered enough of their wits to respond Their guns raored as triggers were pulled

Cloudhawk jumped into the air above their line of fire and toward the baldie He reached out to grab the lizardure flashed into view froed a furious series of blows before landing a short distance from one another

“Vulture!”

The newcomer, with his aquiline nose, was immediately familiar to Cloudhawk There was a history between them as well, that also started all the way back at Blackwater Base

“What's the problem, Greenscale?”

Vulture wasn't likely to beat Cloudhawk in a straight fight He packed just as much of a punch and had demonhunter powers to back him up However, this wasn't the best spot for a full-on scrap, so Cloudhawk summoned the power of cloak and vanished as Greenscale explained

Vulture's face darkened “It's him!”

He remembered what happened in Sandbar Outpost the last time they crossed paths He was the reason their cell in the borderlands was destroyed He'd sworn to get revenge for the death of his old friend, but lost track of Cloudhawk afterwards Now, beyond all expectations and in lieu of all his wasted effort, he appeared right in his backyard

“He's an Skycloud demonhunter! Don't let him escape!”

“Quick, raise the alarm! An enemy has infiltrated the base!”

A series of deafening peals hung over Nucleus and echoed off the interior walls of the volcano A demonhunter in their headquarters was a potentially disastrous crisis for the Dark Atom It er safe They were exposed to their enemies

Down in the toomen and children who had lived their whole lives in this mountain cried in fear Thousands of soldiers were mobilized to hunt down Cloudhawk

Having it all fall io But he couldn't just allow hiuys to put a good word in for him, he decided to just find the leadershi+p on his own While everyone was scra to find him, Cloudhawk used his phase stone to penetrate ever deeper into the heart of Nucleus He was getting closer to where the seat of power had to be…

When suddenly he was stopped by a flash of lightning!

The attack came faster than he could prepare for, so without the help of the phase stone the blast hit hi hiht as hard as he could against the bounds, but they weren't budging

“Well fuck”

Cloudhawk had overestimated his abilities Most attempts to track and discover hiotten coht a place without relics and de

The world went black