The first ray of dawn rose over the horizon, gradually rousing Garman City from its slumber.
In the courtyard of Deerflower Manor, Su Xiao sat cross-legged before a pond. Including today, eight days remained before the deadline for the fourth stage of the Main Quest. It seemed like plenty of time, but in truth, it wasn't.
If he found the Zerg and died in battle against it, Su Xiao would have no regrets. He would simply have been outmatched. But dying to the punishment for failing to find the Zerg would be incredibly frustrating.
Su Xiao didn't want such a stifling end to his path of becoming stronger, so yesterday, at tremendous risk, he conspired with Kingsley to use the dangerous object S-001.
S-001 had now been sent back to the containment vault at the agency's Headquarters. That was no longer important. Kingsley had taken S-001 away for several hours, and a lot could be done in that time. For example, he could have several deathsworn use S-001 to alter their own futures.
Kingsley was meticulous. He had summoned thirty deathsworn from monasteries under the Eclipse Organization and had all of them use S-001 to alter their respective futures.
The alteration was simple. Within the next five days, each of the deathsworn would be in the same large region as the Zerg's host—for example, both in Garman City or Yuke City.
Kingsley was increasing the number of deathsworn to raise the odds of finding the Zerg, but this came at a cost. Because the thirty deathsworn from the monastery had altered the future, all sorts of problems had appeared there after only a few hours.
Was the Eclipse Organization more closely connected to the monastery? Not so. If one had to name the organization with the closest ties, it was