Chapter 208 - Frozen Rift
To the Icy Bastion that Shields me,
Oh boy, has it been a roller coaster. I thought I would go on a cool little adventure to find out what my Profession was so pushy about yet it turned into something more, so much more.
Honestly, I'm just glad that you ignored my advice and kept traveling North because if you listened to me, we would have been drawn into an endless fight with these infernal creatures that only cause suffering. My suffering.
Not infernal in the same sense as what you were dealing with, but infernal in the sense that they will be forever the bane to my existence! I swear, even after burning their gore off of me with both intense light and fire, in addition to a vigorous shower and scrubbing, I still find bits of their shell and goo still covering me!
What I thought would be a fun few days of insect extermination has turned into months of slogging through their numbers with my newfound friends. The City leader down here reminds me a lot of you and your father. Ever the stoic and dutiful! The stuck-up ass.
Oh, if I could only show you the face he makes when I rile him up!
He seems like a good man and a good leader, which is more than some of the others I've met. I won't go into detail but let's just say not everyone I met along my journey got pointed in your direction and got a different point their way.
But enough about that, I have other news! Well, various bits of other news.
Mainly, we're making progress!
With my strength, I am one of the strongest here and that entails fighting at the front and I do not envy what you do. I want my hunk of ice shield back so I can use you to block everything. Fighting this way is so much harder!
But, with my help, Marcus and his army are getting better and better at fighting off the bugs and we are finally making meaningful gains in this war. We are marching toward their center as the days pass.
I've felt the power that radiates from the center of the swarm and I know, without a shadow of a doubt, that it was the reason behind my Profession going haywire.