The Warden Is a Real Stand-Up Guy! When Trouble Comes, He Really Shows Up
The Hunting Lord's power armor, worn through Hugson's body, was more streamlined than the Warmaster's, but its angular, aggressively imposing design marked it as a genuine military-grade weapon built for actual combat.
Based on the information Murphy, a "historical explorer from before the Era," had gathered about Eden, he could hardly guess what the Eden District Management Committee had used this blood-red power armor for.
According to Lord Payn's account, when the great explosion struck Eden, the so-called astral colonization program had still been in the planning and discussion stage. It had never been put into practice. The prototype machines built by the Farstrider Company showed as much. At least to the public back then, war was not a familiar word.
But Twilight had undeniably dug up a warehouse full of this military equipment.
Their deliberate gift of weapons to the Hunting Lord showed that although they might not have many of these things, they certainly weren't so scarce that they had to hide them away like priceless treasures.
In other words, there must have been secret projects underway in the Golden Age Eden District that even a powerful councilor like Lord Payn knew nothing about. Just this one incident showed how deep the waters had been a thousand years ago.
Murphy guessed he might be able to learn some inside information from Vidia, King of Ten Thousand Curses. That guy plainly didn't look like a good person, and everyone knew that villains' networks were always far more extensive than they seemed.
Of course, this wasn't the time to spend thinking about that. Not when the first "Power Armor No-Rules Fighting Tournament" of the current era was getting underway in earnest.
Murphy leaped down from the