[Would you like to Awaken the Sub-Class of |Deadbeat Dad|!? It could bring about so unexpected benefits—]
"No," Cassius said while observing the area overlooking the mountain he was on. "Just shut up for now. If I am to continue doing as you wish, then I'm gonna need so peace and quiet."
[Psshh… We both know you're just thinking about all those lasses! What? Are you debating how exactly you'll go about reconnecting with the side chicks you haven't seen for the better part of a century?? Thinking of getting so action in~?]
[You've been a virgin for how long now~? 80 years?? This just proves that even with a face card like yours, you still can't get any action! Haha!]
[What a failure! (˵¬ᴗ¬˵)]
"Shut up," Cassius said, his face shrouded in angered shadows. "Turn on the mute option for your voice."
[Lol, what do you think this is? A COD lobby?? You can't mute ! You're stuck with forever, baby!]
[But fine, only because I want to get things on the road, I'll be quiet until I deem it necessary to speak once more. Be grateful, loser virgin! I'm feeling like a Saint today!]
[Have fun with your dumb floozies, hihi~]
Cassius finally obtained so peace and quiet, but with his new power level, he could sense everything on Earth and even the entire Isolated Solar System. This ant he could vividly trace out the voluptuous figures of all the won he hadn't seen in what felt like forever. He could also see the skull-shaped island and the extraterrestrials within.
All the once terrifyingly powerful aliens now seed so pitifully weak in his eyes—except for one. Selena—the Overwatcher sent down by the Dissonant Mothership. She concealed her strength well, but Cassius could discern the truth. She was above the SSS-Rank but not quite at the EX-Rank, and with a quick System scan, he confird her to be at the Half-Step EX-Rank. Moreover, she had a Peak Red-Ranked Danger Rating, which surprised him greatly.
"With my latest stat improvents, I should be able to handle most Half-Step EX-Rank entities with minimal effort," Cassius said, confusion flashing past his sharp gaze. "Not to ntion—how has soone above the SS-Rank been able to remain on Humanity's 0th Floor for so long? How is she this strong?"
Sothing was off about her. That much he knew for sure.
Weirder yet, when he inspected her description more deeply, nearly everything was locked behind question marks. This only happened when soone was substantially stronger than he was. But… soone at the Half-Step EX-Rank shouldn't be anywhere near strong enough to cause that…
'I thought I knew everything there was to know about the descended Dissonants after assimilating the mories of so many of their grunts, but I guess not,' Cassius thought. 'In reality, there's still so much I don't know about them…'
However, in spite of his unsolved queries, the world had less than 24 hours until the comncent of the World's End Gate Raid. And with so many Dissonants on the move all over the world, he felt that he should prepare himself as well.
"I'm going to go see the girls," he said, though he turned his head in the opposite direction of Hoshito. "But before that, I have to go and see a couple of familiar old faces."
FWIP!
Cassius vanished from atop a high-reaching mountain in East Asia.
Around the sa ti, a group of Dissonants appeared where he had just been. They wore apathetic expressions, and in the hand of the leading Dissonant was a phone.
"His existence briefly left our reality again," the leading Dissonant emotionlessly said into the phone. "Also, Ma'am, the scouts of the other Ascension Tower Dinsions are making their moves. They're obviously planning to take advantage of the upcoming Nexus Event."
The other side of the phone call was silent.
Then, with the cutting off of the call's connection, Selena's voice ca through.
"I put you in charge; you know what must be done if sothing unexpected occurs in the Gate Raid. Let fire rain from the skies. Buy as much ti as possible until a breach can be made in the Tower that will allow the temporary invasion of the Mothership's main forces. If nothing else, hold back 'Its' son until I'm able to hand over the breach-breaking task to our mbers on the outside. I'll personally handle the problem—possibly even speed up the descent of our Primary Target."
"Understood, Ma'am," the leading Dissonant respectfully said to the now vacant call line. He then turned to his subordinates, so of whom wore the faces of S-Rank Hunters from all over the world.
"Scatter."
FWIP! FWIP! FWIP!
— anwhile, outside a certain research facility in the Antarctic —
"Corra, an envelope ca in with your na on it," said an older woman with short black hair. "Must've cost quite a fortune for the sender to get it out here. Hoho~ you have a boyfriend or sothing that we don't know about~?"
"What?"
A younger woman with long, auburn-colored hair walked up to the older woman; both of them had on white lab coats. "This envelope—the na on the front…"
mories of an overly handso, suave man washed over her psyche, causing her to jolt back in surprise.
"How could it be him!?" she exclaid as she hurriedly ripped open the envelope.
Upon getting her hands on the letter inside, her eyes widened.
She spent the next period of ti reading over the letter's contents, each passing second making her surprise ter exponentially multiply. The way her expression kept changing startled the short black-haired woman. Although they had only known each other for a short amount of ti, she had never seen her friend make such a face before.
After taking a long, heavy inhale, Corra exhaled.
"We have to leave," she said. "Soone…from my hotown has inford of news that could put us in danger. Even in the far-off Antarctic, we are not safe. We must head for the bunker designated for this region."
"???"
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