Shadow Novelist
Volu 23: The Ga Changes
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"The Fiend of Darkness?" William repeated. "I think we have a Specter like that. I don't know every Specter that we own, but I recall hearing its na a couple of tis before."
'You don't even know all of your Fanatics,' Nick thought with annoyance. 'I'm really not sure if this guy should be made an Agent.'
"You should have such a Specter," Nick said. "If you don't have sufficient information about your Specters, please bring into contact with soone who does."
'That sounded a bit more passive-aggressive than I wanted, but it's already out now,' Nick thought.
Nick was trying his best to change the way he was communicating so that nobody would connect him to his old persona, but sotis, sothing slipped through.
Luckily, no one would connect this extrely powerful special Agent with an Expert.
It's barely been a couple of decades.
At most, Nick would have beco an Initial Specialist by now.
Naturally, Nick didn't even pop into William's mind when he heard the passive-aggressive remark.
"If my expertise is not to your satisfaction, I will refer you to the person that is responsible for our Specters," William said in a subtle passive-aggressive dig of his own.
Nick just nodded.
William didn't let any of his annoyance and rage show on his face while his Barrier activated.
A mont later, he called sobody over, and the person showed up just a couple of seconds later.
"How can I help, Governor?" Vanessa Korint said as she arrived.
Vanessa Korint was the forr CEO of Kugelblitz after the entire war with Anatomy.
She had been the overall leader of Kugelblitz, while Jornis had been the CZE.
'So, she's responsible for all of the city's Specters now,' Nick thought.
"Vanessa, the special Agent wishes to enquire about one of our Specters. Please support him in their endeavors," William said.
Then, William turned to Nick and perford a quick and polite bow. "Excuse . I have business to attend to."
Nick nodded while William walked away.
'Yeah, I don't want this guy to beco an Agent. He really doesn't fit Aegis,' Nick thought.
"How can I assist, sir?" Vanessa asked with a charming smile.
Naturally, Vanessa also wanted to beco an Agent, and making a good impression on sobody like Nick was important to her.
"Crimson City should be in the possession of a Specter called the Fiend of Darkness. Aegis wishes to conduct a couple of experints on it," Nick said. �
"Ah, the Fiend of Darkness," Vanessa said with a nod. "We do have such a Specter. It is currently a Late Fanatic, and it is quite a mysterious one. We do not know a lot about this Specter. Learning more about it might also help us."
"Shall I lead you to it right away?"
Nick nodded. "Please."
Vanessa nodded politely and led Nick to the center of the gastructure.
The headquarters of the city hadn't changed since Nick left.
The two of them entered, and Vanessa led Nick to one of the Containnt Units.
A mont later, she looked at a sheet of paper that was sticking to the wall beside the Containnt Unit's entrance.
"Nobody is currently working with it," she said. "However, that was to be expected. We rarely work with it."
Nick already knew the answer, but he asked anyway not to seem suspicious. "How co?"
"Well, the Fiend of Darkness tends to kill its food," Vanessa said. "We do not have many people that require execution, which is why the Fiend of Darkness rarely produces Zephyx. Do you require so food to study the Specter?"
"That won't be necessary," Nick said.
"Very well," Vanessa answered before she opened the door.
Naturally, thanks to his Barrier, Nick could pass through the employee entrance despite being a Specter.
As soon as they entered, the gigantic piece of cloth attacked them.
SHING!
Nick pulled out one of his blades and pointed it at the cloth.
Vanessa couldn't see the blade due to Nick's disguise.She only saw the big black figure extending its arm to the cloth.
And then, sothing shocking happened.
The Fiend of Darkness stopped!
Even more, it seed to stop voluntarily!
Vanessa had never seen anything quite like it.
The Fiend of Darkness was barely a mass of instincts.
Communicating with it was impossible, and it attacked basically anyone it saw, no matter how powerful the other side was.
Yet, the special Agent seed to have an ability that allowed him to influence the Fiend of Darkness.
Vanessa was fascinated by this.
She hoped that she would one day beco as powerful as the special Agent.
Naturally, Nick had just communicated with the Fiend of Darkness.
Nick knew that the Fiend of Darkness was so dumb that it wouldn't even know how to communicate with any human.
Telling it that Nick was a Specter wasn't dangerous in the slightest.
The only thing Nick had done was to infuse his power into his mind while talking to it.
The Fiend of Darkness could feel that the person in black was extrely powerful and that the person would be willing to kill it if it resisted.
Of course, that second part wasn't true, but the Fiend of Darkness couldn't discern that it was a lie.
The Fiend of Darkness imdiately answered with a feeling of capitulation.
It essentially said, "I give up. What do you want to do? Please don't kill ."
Except that its feelings were so primitive that interpreting them with three entire sentences was already giving them more credit than they deserved.
It was essentially just "no."
"Do not be alard," Nick said to Vanessa. "I know what I am doing. You may leave the Containnt Unit. Please do not use any kind of surveillance to oversee my work here. I will be using highly confidential techniques and technologies."
"Of course," Vanessa said with a smile before opening the employee entrance again. "Excuse ."
Then, she stepped out.
After Vanessa left, Nick turned to the Fiend of Darkness again."Swallow . When I tell you to return , you will return ," Nick transmitted.
The Fiend of Darkness sent a confused feeling back.
Nick's instructions were too complicated.
"Follow my orders," Nick commanded.
The Fiend of Darkness sent a positive feeling back.
"Swallow ."
The Fiend of Darkness approached Nick and enveloped him.
It didn't even know if it could swallow Specters.
It didn't know why it should swallow Nick.
It just did it because Nick said so.
As soon as the Fiend of Darkness surrounded Nick, he deactivated his Barrier and turned into mist.
Just like the last ti he had been here, he found himself in the middle of the air, surrounded by nothing but darkness.
Luckily, the darkness didn't impede Nick's senses in any way, and his perception had beco far more powerful.
As soon as Nick turned into mist, his ability also reactivated, which ant that the Fiend of Darkness had also lost him.
Yet, Nick didn't lose the Fiend of Darkness.
It was camouflaged rather well while flying through the air at quite so impressive speeds.
Its body on this side was not a cloak but just a distortion.
It was like the air in so places here was warping slightly.
That was the only sign of the Fiend of Darkness.
Nick decided to stay hidden and watched it for a while.
The Fiend of Darkness randomly zipped around the space, doing nothing else.
A mont later, Nick sent a voice transmission to the distortion.
"Stop moving!"
The distortion stopped moving.
Nick had been quite certain that he would be able to get out of there again. Even if the Fiend of Darkness wouldn't listen to him.
This place was sowhere on the planet, and Nick could move through almost all matter.
He could get out of here, one way or another.
Yet, seeing that he could still interact with the Fiend of Darkness made things much easier.
It ant that Nick could return to the place from which he had entered.
Otherwise,he would need to explain why he had entered a Containnt Unit just to reappear from outside the city again.
"You may continue," Nick transmitted.
Yet, the Fiend of Darkness didn't resu zipping around.
It probably didn't even realize that it was zipping around, and it didn't know what Nick ant by continuing.
It just stood there.
It was like telling a human that they could relax the tongue in their mouth and put it back in a comfortable position.
So humans would be quite confused and not know what to do with their tongues now.
Nick didn't bother with the Fiend of Darkness and looked around the space.
His perception stretched for several kiloters, and he could see far more than the last ti he had been here.
'Gravity is extrely weak but present,' Nick noted. 'Air basically doesn't exist. The only air this place has is the one displaced by the Fiend of Darkness.'
Nick landed on the ground and touched it.
'Fascinating,' he thought as he touched it. 'This is material treated with Zephyx, but it seems very natural. It's like this material has just naturally absorbed Zephyx.'
'I would assu that's what he is doing,' Nick thought as he looked into the distance.
Naturally, Nick also saw the owner of the place.
The rotting corpse.
The Nightmare.
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