Over an entire year passed.
During this year, at Cube City did not change.
Everything was as it always was.
Today, Nick looked at the city with a determined expression.
'Finally. Took long enough,' he thought.
Nick looked at his right hand and clenched it for a mont.
He felt powerful.
'I think I should be sothing like 59 or 60 years old by now,' Nick thought. 'Becoming a Mid Specialist at such an age should be considered very young.'
Nick wanted to release a breath.
'Or a Mid Fanatic, I guess. The fact that I'm a Specter is also the very reason why I am advancing so fast.'
'If I still were a human, even with consuming a Late Elder, I would need around five to ten years to advance a level.'
'anwhile, I advanced two levels in five years.'
'My speed of advancent is even faster than the speed I had when I beca an Expert.'
'Usually, advancent slows down with power growth, but that wasn't the case for .'
Nick furrowed his brows.
'Although, it is slowing down. The first level took two years, and the second level took three.'
Naturally, the way Nick advanced seed amazing. After all, he only needed to cause so suffering sowhere, and he would keep advancing without doing anything else.
However, this didn't work forever.
While Nick was still receiving suffering from Markus Julius, the rich people and leaders of Crimson City were no longer suffering.
They had all gotten used to their new lives, and the grieving families had mostly overco their grief by now.
Nick was barely gaining any suffering from Crimson City anymore.
The suffering he was collecting from Black Mine City was also starting to shrink.
Water Pillar City was still in the middle of a transformation, and it gave the most suffering to Nick.
Nick knew that the suffering from Black Mine City would almost completely vanish within the next ten years, and Water Pillar City would also significantly reduce.
Nick was advancing quickly right now, but he also caused a lot of suffering.
'The Zephyx I require will only grow as I beco more powerful, and I need to keep at it.'
'However, I still have to keep in mind that I live to help humanity, not benefit from its suffering.'
'If I prioritize my own power, I won't be better than all the rich people I hate.'
'I have to be careful.'
Eventually, Nick focused on the city again.
'As a Mid Fanatic, I should be powerful enough.'
The next mont, Nick seemingly vanished.
In truth, Nick had partially transford into mist.
All the years of focusing on manipulating Zephyx weren't for nothing.
Nick had enough control over his power to change the color of his mist and to partially transform his body.
This gave him a thod to travel through the air without needing to beco a Demon or having his primary ability active.
By partially transforming the tip of his extremities into mist, he could expand the "area of his palms and feet".
His misty hands could take up a much bigger area in the air, and Nick could use the power of his physical body to push himself off the air.
In short, Nick was traveling across the air, similar to how a lizard or a spider ran across the water.
The comparison was not perfectly accurate, but it was accurate enough.
Nick could now technically use any part of the atmosphere, like a road.
Nick partially transford into mist and entered at Cube City.
He rapidly moved through the streets until he arrived in front of a huge skyscraper.
This was the most powerful Manufacturer in the city.
Geotry.
Nick easily passed the guards and entered the building without any issues.
Barely anyone paid attention while walking through the building.
After all, why would they?
They were the undisputed most powerful Manufacturer in the entire city.
No human would dare to attack them, and Specters tended to avoid big congregations of powerful Extractors.
Nick entered the Extractor shaft and left at one of the higher floors.
Nobody was on this floor, and the only thing of note was a big door at the end of a long hallway.
This was the floor with the at Cube.
Over the past couple of weeks, Nick had kept watch over this floor.
The at deliveries happened once per day, during the evening hours.
Right now, it was afternoon.
Nick waited in the hallway for a couple of hours, and eventually, soone ca out of the Extractor shaft.
It was one of the two Heroes of Geotry.
Every day, a different Hero would transport the at to the at Cube. Naturally, they were splitting the Zephyx from the at Cube relatively equally.
Per week, the two Heroes from Geotry got two days of at delivery each, while the Governor got three.
Nick watched the Hero opening the Containnt Unit.
Nick's perception entered the Containnt Unit, and he saw the at Cube.
The at Cube was about two-by-two-by-two ters in dinsion, and it looked surprisingly solid.
One would think that a literal cube of at would be bloody, but that wasn't the case.
The at was not bloody at all, and it almost seed like it had a crust.
When the door opened, the at Cube didn't move at all.
In fact, none of the two Heroes of Geotry even knew that it was a Physical Specter.
They were under the impression that the at Cube was an Early Demon Possession Specter.
The Governor was the only one who knew about the at Cube's true identity.
The at Cube was actually a Mid Physical Demon.
Luckily for the Governor, the two Heroes would never find out the truth.
At so point, they would beco Mid Heroes, after which they would co into contact with Aegis. Aegis would then assign them to be Governors of a different city.
Nick quietly entered the Containnt Unit after the Hero.
The Containnt Unit was quite dirty. Blood and individual pieces of at were everywhere.
If the Hero paid attention, he might have noticed Nick.
Sadly, he didn't.
After all, he went to this place twice a week and had been doing so for decades.
Being vigilant here was akin to being highly vigilant while going toward the toilet.
As for the at Cube, it got the orders to act like a Possession Specter.
So, it did just that.
Specters didn't grow bored or infuriated, usually. The only tis these emotions appeared were when the Specter was insane.
Because of that, the at Cube essentially existed in a dormant state, barely thinking.
Doing that was the smartest choice. After all, it had been doing that for decades, and it was receiving plenty of at while doing exactly that.
So, it was just there, waiting for further orders.
The Hero took out his next delivery of at and dumped it into the at Cube.
A mont later, the at started to get absorbed by the at Cube, and a ton of Zephyx was released.
For the next hour, the Hero focused on absorbing the Zephyx produced by the at Cube.
Then, he left.
anwhile, Nick just waited.
He was waiting for sothing specific.
Nick waited in this Containnt Unit for over two weeks.
Every day, soone would arrive to deliver the at.
And then, two weeks after arriving here, the thing Nick was waiting for happened.
This ti, two people entered.
One was a middle-aged man with a casual expression, while the other was a young woman, who was barely wearing anything.
The middle-aged man looked well-grood and wore the spotless uniform of a Governor.
Naturally, he was the Governor.
The young woman had impressive breasts, which were covered by a thin strip of fabric, and she wore red heels that seed almost impossible to walk in.
This was a very unusual outfit for a woman in these parts.
However, she wasn't really a woman.
She was a Specter.
In fact, she was Lust's emissary.
She was the one who could order the at Cube around.
When Nick saw them, he knew that the ti had co.
This was what he had been waiting for.
About once a month, the Governor secretly took Lust's emissary with him to the at Cube.
This was the order of Lust's emissary.
She was only an Early Fanatic, and she knew that she wouldn't be able to win in a fight against the Governor.
The Governor was human, and the emissary knew that humans tended to act illogically sotis.
Because of that, she had given a failsafe order to the at Cube.
If the at Cube didn't get to et the emissary once every two months at least, it was supposed to kill the Governor and the city.
Therefore, the Governor brought the Specter to the at Cube once every month.
This eting was supposed to remind the Governor about who was truly in charge.
As the Specter entered, the at Cube's consciousness stirred, and it communicated with the Specter.
"Show your Specter Core," the emissary ordered.
Naturally, this order was Nick's doing.
The at Cube was trained to follow orders without questioning them.
So, it complied.
Its Specter Core was slowly pushed out of its shell.
The emissary and the Governor looked at the Specter Core with confusion.
Why was it showing its Specter Core?
BANG!
Suddenly, a spear hit the Specter Core, and an instant later, the Specter Core broke into pieces.
The at Cube was dead.
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