?At this moment, the shock Nick felt after realizing that Julian was a Specter outweighed the rage he felt for what Wyntor had done.
Nick had always looked forward to talking to Julian, and he had definitely enjoyed their talks.
And he was a Specter?
Nick immediately stopped considering Julian as a friend and narrowed his eyes.
"Why are you not just killing me?" he asked.
"I can't," Julian said. "I will lose quite a lot of Zephyx if I kill you. What worth is a bargain if you end up dying either way?"
The mouths all started to smile.
"But just because I'm not killing you right now doesn't mean that it's impossible for me."
"I just don't want to lose that much Zephyx."
"So, be careful about what you do."
"This is my city, and if you try to change that, you will no longer be part of it."
Nick just watched the mouths talk for a while.
At the same time, he thought about what it meant for Julian to be a Specter.
Julian had many friends, and he walked freely through the Inner City.
On top of that, he could even enter Kugelblitz and walk through their building.
Julian was a Specter who could do whatever he wanted.
This might truly be his city.
Of course, that was only true if one ignored the Crimson Sea.
With the Crimson Sea here, things seemed very different.
However, Nick was not about to provoke a powerful Specter.
"Why are you telling me all of this?" Nick asked with furrowed brows. "Why would you unveil your status as a Specter to me? What do you have to gain from this?"
"Nothing," the mouths on Julian's face spoke. "I just don't have the ability to keep my identity a secret from people who won a wager against me."
"As long as you don't try to unveil my identity, nothing will happen to you. I will leave you alone, and you will leave me alone."
There was only one thing that could make Nick this angry.
Another human.
If Julian approached Nick while he was calm, he might ask to work with Julian several times, which would increase his power by quite a lot.
However, Zephyx couldn't just appear out of nowhere, and Julian would need to put a lot of effort into the sessions.
Or what if Nick asked for an Adult Specter?
That would be quite expensive since Julian would either need to find a wild one, which was almost impossible with the city's current state, or spend tens of millions of credits to buy one.
Sure, as a Specter, Julian didn't need credits, but since he lived amongst humans, the credits were still extremely useful.
Of course, if Nick asked for something like an Elder, Julian would just kill him.
That was way too much and also basically impossible for Julian to get.
After all, since Julian was just acting like a Zephyx Extractor, he wasn't really working with Specters, which meant that he wasn't actively producing Zephyx.
That meant he actually had fewer credits than one would think.
Buying an Adult would already strain his pockets quite a lot.
An Elder would be impossible for him to buy.
Luckily, humans were very emotional creatures.
Since Nick was so angry right now, chances were that he only had revenge on his mind.
Killing a random human was way easier than working with Nick or getting him an Adult.
And right now, Nick was evaluating just that.
'I could ask him to kill Wyntor,' Nick thought.
'But what then?'
'With Wyntor dead, Dark Dream will collapse, and I will lose everything that I've built.'
'I want to kill Wyntor, but I also need him.'
'I can't have it both ways.'
Nick was lost in thought for several minutes.
He had such a great opportunity, but he just didn't know how to make use of it.
Eventually, Nick made a choice and looked at Julian.
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