Tunneler

"Phew, we're almost there. I'm exhausted."

After walking with Mo Bai for quite a while, Aemeath tossed her long hair and spoke with playful weariness.

To anyone else, she would have looked full of youthful energy.

Of course, that assumed anyone besides Mo Bai could see her.

To Mo Bai, she was just being dramatic again.

She was a Digital Ghost who kept herself in power-saving mode all the time. How could she be tired?

"Just a little farther and you'll see the Tunneler. Don't be so stunned by that towering giant that you forget how to speak~"

As Aemeath spoke, her steps grew lighter and her voice more lively.

She was clearly happy to be nearing their destination.

Trading barbs with Mo Bai along the way had been fun, but reaching the "finish line" was exciting no matter what.

"Do you know anything about the Tunneler that other people don't? Your synchronization rate with it was high, and you spent so long at the Academy."

Mo Bai sounded curious.

At the Academy, he had heard a rumor.

The Tunneler was supposedly much like the Age Lords.

As for what the Age Lords were, he was a visitor from another world beyond Solaris and had never seen what they looked like or what they could do firsthand.

But as a student of Star Torch Academy, he had occasionally picked up stories about these "guides of civilization."

They freely shared information with people across different regions and even went out to fight Threnodians themselves, like enormous guardians.

That was why, to the local people in many places, the Age Lords were practically gods.

Whenever people needed them, the Age Lords took action.

Though put that way, they sounded a little like overworked employees.

"Let me think. Whether you go by the