Chapter 10: Chapter 10 – Everything Prepared
Inside the house, the two of them returned to talking.
Wyntor and Nick talked about Nick's duties and the plans of development for their Zephyx Manufacturing Company.
Wyntor also told Nick about the two remaining categories of Specters since they had gotten sidetracked earlier.
The first one was a Force Specter, which represented a Specter in the form of something untouchable. The Fog had been used as an example.
The second kind of Specter was a Physical Specter. As the name suggested, a Physical Specter had a physical body. The body could be an animal, a human, a plant, an item, and so on.
For example, the Crimson Fungus was a Physical Specter. It could be touched, and it could be injured by a strong physical force, while something like The Fog couldn't be injured by a physical force, even though The Fog was vastly inferior to the Crimson Fungus.
Lastly, there were Possession Specters. These were Specters that did not have their own bodies. Instead, they took control over a living or non-living entity.
For example, Ghosty's Lab had once essentially won the lottery by finding The Glasses, which was a Possession Specter.
The Glasses was a level two Specter, and it simply looked like a pair of glasses. If anyone put on the glasses, their reality would slightly warp in very inconspicuous ways. Over a long-enough period of time, the wearer would become insane.
But that was it.
As long as one knew what was going on, it wouldn't be a big issue, and to top it all off, The Glasses produced Zephyx as long as someone wore them.
It didn't endanger anyone.
It didn't attempt to escape.
It was easy to get Zephyx from it.
It was the perfect Specter for Zephyx Manufacturers.
Naturally, Wyntor and Nick wanted to get a Possession Specter for their business, but finding one depended on luck and resources.
The two of them wouldn't even be able to do anything against a Force Specter since they didn't have any Zephyx Equipment yet. Without equipment made of Zephyx, it was impossible to interact with Force Specters.
Even worse, Force Specters were notorious for being hard to contain since most of them could just pass through walls.
Containing a Force Specter needed a highly advanced containment unit made of many different materials made of Zephyx.
In the end, they were left with going after a Physical Specter, but that came with its own challenges.
First, even a level one Specter was something that every Zephyx Manufacturer wanted. Even the really big ones.
Specters were very rare, and all the big Zephyx Manufacturers had people dedicated to finding clues about possible Specters.
Then, Nick also had to contain them, and lastly, he could only attempt to get a level one Specter.
A level two Specter was too powerful for a new Zephyx Extractor like Nick.
The rat that had tried to convince Nick to kill himself had once said that Nick had met two Specters.
Yet, Nick hadn't been able to see the Specters.
To Nick, it had been like he had never seen any Specters, which meant that the Specters had been either invisible or mixed among the crowd of people.
Surprisingly, Nick didn't doubt the rat's words. After all, he knew who the rat was.
In fact, everyone knew about the rats.
The rats were the minions of a very powerful Specter called The Parasite.
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