20.X Interlude: Benched

"Wait!"

Before Shade could even finish his sentence, the group of four in front of him had already vanished, leaving him with their so-called mechanic as he groaned in annoyance.

"Great... Just great..."

Shade was never one for superstitions. Even as he defected from [Vestyge] in favor of living out the rest of his life in the relatively freer lands of Kattleyna, he refused to worship what the natives called the [Eld]. No, there was no need for him to conform to the culture of the land so long as he supplied them with the one thing that any of the Three Nations wanted: a [Manifest].