Chapter 550: Stealing from the Cult
Transcendence Zone, Underground Building Base.
“Not just the present, but the future.”
Staring at the revelation forming from the condensation on the mirror, Igor pondered for a moment. After rinsing his mouth, he wiped away the foam, grabbed his waterproof bag, and left the room.
Reaching the bathhouse level on the 51st floor, the Con Artist saw his two companions already soaking in the small pool in their usual spot. Sitting down, he asked, “Where’s Tamashi?”
“He’s not a sorcerer like us, so his routine is different. Why would he get up so early?” Ashe replied, removing the warm towel from his face. “Besides, he hasn’t picked up your bad habit of bathing first thing in the morning. He probably just showers in his room.”
“Can you believe the most advanced hotel rooms here don’t even have bathtubs?” Igor lazily relaxed in the water. “Still, it’s better than the Food Factory Town, where there wasn’t even a communal bath.”
“It’s surprising that there’s even a hotel here at all,” Ashe remarked. “An entire societal structure within a single building.”
“Perfectly normal,” Harvey said, munching on chocolate. “A corpse birthing a civilization of scavengers.”
Among the three of them, Harvey was losing vitality the fastest. During a fight a couple of days prior, a gas station explosion burned away half of his body. Fortunately, he was in a state of ‘Frostfire’ at the time and shared the damage with Alice. He even used part of his body to reconstruct hers – Ashe often wondered if all of Alice’s flesh and bones had been replaced by Harvey’s own.