Kill the Sun - Chapter 703

Nick left the research and development area, wearing his mask again.

One had to remember that Nick only showed himself without his mask to Ghosty and the Shields.

Everyone else only saw him with the mask and sometimes with the black Barrier.

Although, it wasn't always easy to notice that this was actually a black Barrier.

The issue wasn't the color but the shape.

Only cheap Barriers had the shape of spheres. Expensive Barriers had adjustable shapes.

In Nick's case, it looked like a black film appeared over his skin and clothing whenever his Barrier activated, and while he could see displays hovering in the air in front of him, nobody else saw anything.

Usually, while Aegis' Barriers were considered white in color, they only gave off white outlines. Everything else was transparent.

When Nick's Barrier activated, it wasn't transparent.

Of course, it was supposed to be this way to indicate that he was not a human, but this new change had not yet been made public.

The black color coding of the Barriers would only become public if more Specters decided to work for Aegis.

Nick walked through the hallways and left through Aegis' main entrance halfway up the building.

"We wish you a good journey!" the two guards spoke politely and with respect.

Nick paused and looked at them for a moment through his mask.

The next moment, the two guards received a notification that their sentence had been increased by a year.

It was so difficult not to explode in anger.

Nick felt his Zephyx production increase by a bit, but that was actually not really the reason why he increased their sentences.

He just really, really, really hated corrupt people.

All of these guards had once been corrupt Governors, and Nick would never allow them to recover from that.

How many lives had these "poor guards" ended without giving the slightest shit?

Then, Nick turned away and walked to the end of the terrace.

A moment later, Nick jumped and flew into the sky.

Although technically speaking, Nick wasn't flying.

Sadly, despite his power, Nick couldn't use the same method Heroes used to fly.

The natural ability to fly as a Hero was related to the density of Zephyx of one's being in relation to their conversion of Zephyx into physical force, and despite being that powerful, the density of Nick's Zephyx was not different from any other Peak Fanatic.

But there were ways around this.

Nick was fast and strong enough to kick off the air to keep jumping through the sky.

It was not technically flying, but it was practically flying.

As Nick flew through the sky, his ability still hadn't reactivated.

The cause of that was obvious.

Death still looked at Aegis' headquarters and its surroundings.

Luckily, after a couple hundred kilometers, Nick's ability reactivated.

Death wouldn't just continue following some random guy.

Then, a display popped up in front of him that told him that an Agent was nearby.

Whenever two Agents were close, their Barriers told each other that there was another Agent nearby unless that function was deliberately deactivated.

The point of this function was to prevent fighting due to misunderstandings.

Nick's Barrier told him the rough location of the other Agent and vice versa.

"Hey," a voice transmission arrived and spoke through the Barrier.

"Hey," Nick returned.

And then, he just continued flying, and the display indicating the presence of another Agent vanished again.

They just exchanged some greetings.

After all, they were working for the same organization and had similar jobs.

Nick soon entered the gigantic ocean west of the Great Triangle and flew towards the southwest.

By now, Nick had traveled so much through the world that he essentially knew exactly where he was at all times unless he randomly got teleported somewhere.

Just a bit later, Nick saw land.

However, before he saw the land, he noticed that his ability deactivated, but he had expected that already.

The island Crimson City was on belonged to the Shark Mother's territory.

The Shark Mother was one of the Adversaries, and it created thousands of powerful sharks that ate humans.

While there was a certain danger that Nick might get attacked by the sharks, that danger was not very high.

The Shark Mother's most powerful attribute was its patience.

It didn't want to sacrifice any of its sharks,and randomly attacking an Agent might result in the death of many sharks.

Additionally, there might be a Shield nearby that just used that Agent as bait to track the Shark Mother.

Because of that, the Shark Mother struck supremely rarely.

It struck so rarely that sacrificing the random Agent or Protector cost less than always assuring that there were powerful escorts around.

On average, the Shark Mother killed one Agent every 30 years, while it killed a Protector every 300 years.

Of course, that number only counted for humans who didn't enter the ocean.

Humans who, for some stupid reason, entered the ocean generally didn't survive for long.

Although, the Shark Mother needed to fight the Salt Trident for the prey.

Nick left the airspace of the ocean and flew over Crimson City's island.

Quickly, Nick's ability activated again, and just a few seconds later, he could see it.

The megastructure in the middle of the city.

The Outer City, which had become even bigger by now.

And the messy and dilapidated buildings filled with starving and dirty humans around the city...

Nick narrowed his eyes.

That last one was new.

'Seems like some things have changed.'