Aleph’s sudden appearance was soon processed by the trio. Appearing out of nowhere was far more ‘reasohan someone who single-handedly ‘thrashed’ a Herrscher, as evidenced by the damages that exteo aire city.
Just the numerous high-rise buildings that colpsed were enough to cause strohquakes. If it wasn’t for Sundown Alley being in the right distahey might have suffered from it.
Fortunately, they weren’t. It was the reason why most people w in the underworld kept their things there—it wasn’t easily reachable and was just in the right distance.
“It’s our first time meeting. Do remember to check out the package named for you two beloh said calmly. “If there aren’t any more questions, I am leaving. Let’s meet on the rooftop this time.”
“Sure.”
Uheir stunned gazes, Aleph’s body reappeared right outside the window. Akin to being wiped off with an eraser, his entire figure disappeared.
“That’s nothihan magic.”
Despite seeing Kevin fight several times, the y of superpowers did not wane in Kosma’s eyes. He prefers to be quiet, but his tendency pushes his internal thoughts to be more chaotic than the usual retit look he shows on the surface.
“The power you receive depends on the honkai beast. As for Aleph… Well, he’s a special case. You’ll know more about it ter.”
Two new members were added to their ‘small group’.
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Three and a half days.
That was how long it took Kevin to plete the evolution process. The ade of bck particles crumbled down, revealing Kevin whose entire body was covered with bd white exoskeleton. It was different from Aleph’s scales—it corresponded more to the sili shell a honkai beast has.
His transformation wasn’t as drastic as Aleph’s. It didn’t take long before he regained sciousness.
Instantly, a towel was thrown onto him.
“We o get moving.”
Aleph’s voice came from the room’s exit.
“Something bad must have happened.”
“You’re right.” Aleph replied as he yawned. “While you were sleeping, the honkai beasts became very active. DEF 1 was deployed.”
A major honkai eruption enpasses aire city. DEF 2 was deployed in such cases. Its maximum effect for the first six hours was limited to provi best.
Since honkai became a thing, some terms were redefined. Nowadays, DEF 1 is used for world-threatenis—such as the simultaneous outbreak of honkai beasts.
“You don’t have to worry about your jurisdi. I took care of the high-level honkai beasts silently. It’s not the same for other pces, though.”
“...’t you leave after starting this process? You know, these bck particles.” Kevin asked.
“No. it’s a gamble. We are the first orying this out. I am not sure whether an untrolble mutation of sorts could happen. Until then, I o supervise everyone using it.”
Once Aleph left, Kevin found a set of clothes lying on top of a table. He dressed up and headed outside.
He was greeted by a huge regur metal box.
“The previous battlesuit rototype. It’s been… hm, twenty days sihen. Anyways, you check this out yourself. There’s a user manual on the left side of the tainer.”
Aleph was about to leave when he remembered something.
“Oh, and don’t doubt it. You’ll discover a miraedie stored ihe battlesuit’s pockets.”
The Senzu Beans are a miraculous resource. Aleph had nearly sixty of them, to which he gave some to the others. The remaining twenty or so Senzu Beans were left on his possessions.
Until Mobius, Vill-V, and Mei produce results, it remains to be a non-renewable resource.
Kevin was somewhat curiarding the ‘medie’ Aleph spoke about.
Only ter would he realize how ‘ridiculous’ it truly was.
*****
“It’s been a week…”
Aleph sighed as he looked at the familiar battlefield. It was her than the eastern region whom he flew over dozens of times in the span of seven days.
He headed towards one of the pces covered with rubbles. It was situated in a city where he fought one of the emperor-css honkai beasts.
Tap.
Tap.
Tap.
A gray-haired girl shorter than Aleph stood at its ter. Influenced by Himeko’s long-sleeved gsam dress, she was wearing her usual martial arts uniform—a bck-blue qipao.
“Senior.”
“I hope I didn’t make you wait for long.”
“No. The transfer order from above came three ho.”
Aleph’s involvement with the h-level MANTISes were kept fidential. It was their trump card on the off ething ued happens. As such, Mei influenced several cilors to trahem one-by-o specific time intervals. Their return dates were also made different, so as to reduce the days whereas their missions cide.
It made the cilors feel as if they held some sort of power towards the newly-made MAhe illusion of power and hiding their true goals—to use the Evolution Cube—was done in one go.
Such was the masterstroke of Mei.
“Follow me. It should be here.”
Aleph navigated through the destroyed building. He pushed aside several rge rubbles, revealing a wall se of the ground floor.
His hand headed towards a certain portion.
Click.
The moment he clicked a button, a small se of crete wall slid up. A slightly dimmed keypad was revealed. Signs of aging could be seen on it, though no rust was seen on its metallic edge.
Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
Click-!
Swoosh-!
A two-by-two floor se separated. A set of stairways revealed themselves.
“This was an abandoned secret shelter. You must have heard of the cilors’ ret deaths. It was me.”
Aleph’s revetion did not leave much rea to Hua.
Seeing this, he could only think:
‘Hua is Hua… If the day es my teasing affects her…’
“This was one of their secret bases. It was desigo be one of their final shelters.”
Hua heard more about the cilors’ temperaments. Just the ones Aleph killed prepared something like these for the worst case sarios. Vill-V uncovered the location of several dozeers located all around the world.
Never had they expected it would be Aleph instead.
The two traversed through the lit hallway. It did not take long before they arrived at the true shelter.
Click.
The lights were turned on the moment they opehe door. A spacious room preseself to them.
‘Senior Aleph…’
A sudden realization clicked in Hua’s mind.
‘We are aloogether.’
Her stable heartbeats threateo turn unstable at this moment.
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A/N: Bonus Chapter - 2/3
