Chapter 55: Chilling Future (Rewritten)
Sunny watched as Dan Heng returned with March in tow... and there wasn’t a Seele in sight. As expected, March had probably gotten lost while searching for her, and was then found by Dan Heng.
And so, the four of them — Sunny, Bronya, Dan Heng, and March — sat in a circle as they waited for Seele to return. With a sigh, Sunny contemplated their next course of action.
Now that they knew the weakness of the automatons — the bulkier variants at least — the amount of trouble they would have fighting against the rest of Svarog’s legions was drastically decreased.
However, there was still the issue with the mysterious Awakened that had the ability to strengthen the automatons in such a matter. With such a lack of information, Sunny wasn’t very comfortable about such an existence.
Sampo had told him that there were only three Awakened within the Underworld: Seele, Natasha, and the sleazy man himself. Assuming that he was telling the truth — which Sunny wasn’t sure he was — then this new threat was an outsider, or a complete unknown.
Did someone from the Overworld sneak into the Underworld? Considering the variety of Aspects, it was certainly possible.
But the suspects Aspect seemed to be related to machines. Could they have gotten down here with a Memory, or was their Aspect what they used to transport themselves while they used a Memory to empower the robots?
If it was the latter, then such a Memory would be extraordinarily valuable.
Even with these possibilities, Sunny did not discredit that the unknown Awakened had allies of their own. If there was multiple of them, then any encounter would be extremely dangerous. Not only that, but Sunny didn’t know what Rank they were. The worst scenario would be a cohort of Masters, since there would be a large difference in strength assuming they all had combat Aspects.
Sunny didn’t think they were a Saint, as such a being was unlikely to be found on Belobog. If there was any, he doubted that they would be able to go unnoticed. After all, Saints exuded a certain presence upon the world.
His thoughts then drifted to the bunny-like girl — Clara. Why was she with Svarog?