Chapter 179 Chapter 179 – Six Months Later
Nick stood in front of a door on the third floor of Dark Dream and sighed.
He was not looking forward to this.
Nick's big, muscular hand pushed open the door to the locker room, and he entered.
It had been six months since Dark Dream had moved to this building, and Nick had just recently become 17 years old.
Over the last couple of months, not a lot had happened.
Nick had taught his three new colleagues and focused on day-to-day matters. n.)o(/V))E//l./B.-1-(n
One of the matters had been the establishment of an Investigator team and the search for the next Specter.
The Investigation team had been fully formed about four months ago, and the profits of Dark Dream shrank a lot in consequence.
Dark Dream hired over 20 Investigators, and these 20 Investigators focused mostly on the Dregs.
Paying so many highly skilled people was not cheap.
But it had been worth it.
The Investigators had found the trace of a Specter, and the people of Dark Dream had captured it.
Surprisingly, capturing the Specter had been rather easy due to its nature, but it had still been incredibly painful.
Mainly for Nick.
And now, it was time for Nick to find out how to work with the Specter.
He already had a good idea about how to work with it, but he still needed to confirm it and check how much Zephyx it produced.
The good thing was that the Specter was already a Peak Hatchling since its identity had been a secret for a long time.
Many people knew and had met the Specter, but none had suspected that it actually was one.
The Investigators had only noticed that something might be wrong when they didn't know what to look for and just randomly started to combine information and clues.
One of these clues had been the abundance of feelings of weakness and sickness in the Dregs.
Naturally, due to the Dregs' dirty and unclean environment, getting sick wasn't anything unusual, and the blood tax made sure that nearly no one didn't feel weak.
Because of that, nobody had thought about cross-referencing the sick and weak people.
Nevertheless, the Investigators did that.
After a lot of information gathering, they found something.
While the sickness was evenly spread across the Dregs, the weak people mostly concentrated around one block of houses.
For several days, the Investigators kept a watch over the block of houses and kept interviewing people.
Yet, it was impossible to find the Specter.
And then, the Investigators who were stationed there started to feel weak.
At that point, the Investigators were certain that they were onto a Specter.
That was when Nick also got involved and looked for the Specter as well.
But nobody could find the Specter.
And then, Nick started to feel extremely weak.
But bizarrely enough, the Investigators regained their strength.
On top of that, the normal people also regained their strength.
And finally, they found out what had been going on.
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