Chapter 360 360 – Not as I do

Chapter 360 Chapter 360 – Not as I do

?"Alright," the guard said. "I can't see it. Do you have the Specter with you right now?"

Nick lifted the bottle up, showing it to them.

Under normal circumstances, Nick would never show one of Dark Dream's Specters to an outsider.

Sadly, he had to.

All Specters that were brought into the city had to be announced.

Transporting a Specter through the city was always dangerous, and the city wanted to make sure that the Specter was properly suppressed.

"Want to take a closer look?" Nick asked, holding the Spilling Bottle forward.

Nick wasn't afraid that they would steal it.

The two Experts here were from the city itself.

They were not temporary guards who usually worked for Manufacturers.

Even more, doing shady things here would be stupid since there were several more guards close by and since this area was highly surveilled.

The guard just warily looked at the Specter.

Many Specters had crazy and scary powers, and he wasn't about to touch a Specter that he didn't know.

"No, I'm fine," the guard said. "We need your identification and the level of the Specter."

"Nick Nick, Chief Zephyx Extractor of Dark Dream," Nick said, "and this thing is an Initial Hatchling Possession Specter." The source of this content nov(el)bi((n))

The other guard snorted in suppressed laughter.

"Oh wow, careful," the other guard said with a sarcastic voice. "Valuable cargo."

The serious guard just nodded at Nick. "You can pass."

"Thanks," Nick said before he passed by them and ran across the bridge.

When he saw the guards on the other side of the bridge, he told them that he would be back soon and that he was only there to get something.

These guards were not employed by the city, and Nick wouldn't tell them about the Specter he had brought with him.

The guards just said that they understood, and Nick quickly went to Dark Dream.

After Nick entered Dark Dream, he quickly went to the second floor and approached the only free Containment Unit on it.

Unsurprisingly, Julian was already waiting in front of it with a friendly smile.

He ignored all Newbies, Johns, Veterans, Experts, and even very weak Specialists.

As soon as he could control them, they were no longer in his mind, basically.

All of Julian's attention was on the stronger Specialists and Heroes.

And the second thing that Nick realized was that Julian viewed him as even lower than the people he already ignored.

Due to his conduct, Nick had often appeared quite dumb in the past.

Additionally, Nick even willingly worked under Julian, which was very different from everyone else.

Maybe that made Julian look down on Nick even more.

Lastly, as Nick's teacher, Julian had seen how many basic things he needed to teach Nick.

Just like many other people, Julian was taking Nick's lack of education as a lack of intelligence.

Julian believed that 99% of people were beneath him and that Nick was even beneath these 99% of people.

Because of that, he didn't put a lot of effort into keeping his cards close to his chest in Nick's presence.

He probably wasn't even realizing that he was doing something to Nick that he had never done to anyone else.

He let his mask slip.

Nick was basically the only person Julian could talk to without having to put up a false front.

And maybe that aspect of being able to be whoever he wanted to be made him belittle Nick again and again.

Arrogance, conceit, disgust, deceit, aloofness, pride, boundless confidence, disregard, unending ambition, greed.

This was Julian's true self.

The true self of a Specter.

And when he was with Nick, he didn't need to keep these things secret.

Ironically, the things that Julian taught Nick allowed him to see how Julian was violating the very things that he was preaching.

Nick also knew something else.

He knew that Julian would get rid of him as soon as his power approached Julian's.

Julian and Nick were allies, but only as long as Nick couldn't pose a danger to Julian.

Nick knew that.

He knew that they would become enemies in the future.

And because of that, Nick did not tell Julian about the two things he had noticed.