Chapter 490 – Flying Over the Ocean

Chapter 490 – Flying Over the Ocean

Nick waited in front of the closed door.

Surprisingly, his ability hadn't reactivated yet, which meant that someone was still seeing him at this moment.

'Protectors probably have even stronger powers of perception,' Nick thought.

Sadly, while Nick knew what powers Specialists and Heroes had, he didn't know what kind of powers Protectors had.

For several minutes, Nick had to wait.

Eventually, the door opened, but no one stepped out.

"Nick, come in," Simon said, standing in the middle of the room.

Nick stepped inside without any hesitation and looked at Simon before looking at the person sitting at the desk behind him.

The person sitting at the desk was a small woman who seemed quite young.

She had icy blue hair and icy blue eyes, and she wore the white uniform of Aegis.

Nick couldn't perceive her power, but he knew that she had to be more powerful than Simon since he said that this was his supervisor.

She was probably responsible for keeping Envy contained, which meant that she must have power comparable to it.

The icy woman looked at Nick, and Nick felt a deep pressure surrounding his body.

However, Nick just fearlessly looked into her eyes.

He had gone through hell in his eyes, and his will wasn't that easily broken.

He had survived hours of the Nightmare's torture, and he had killed countless people while fighting people many times stronger than him.

Even more, Nick had worked with over 30 different Specters.

The gaze of someone powerful couldn't break his concentration.

Nick performed a quick and polite bow. "Greetings, my name is Nick, and I come from Crimson City."

The woman kept looking at him with her icy eyes for a couple more seconds.

"You have imperative news for Aegis?" she asked with her icy voice.

Nick nodded. "I do."

"What is this news?" she asked.

"I trust in Simon's judgment," Nick said.

The icy woman narrowed her eyes.

The answer was clear.

If Simon didn't tell her, he wouldn't tell her.

Finally, after a couple of seconds, she nodded.

"Good mindset," she said before putting a stamp on a piece of paper, which she then handed to Simon.

"Thank you, Aurelia," Simon said casually.

Aurelia just nodded. "You may go," she said before focusing on more sheets of paper.

Simon gestured for Nick to leave, and Nick walked out of the room, followed by Simon.

Nick waited for Simon and followed him as he walked through the hallways.

Neither of them said anything for a while.

When the two of them reached the rooftop, they started to fly again.

This time, they flew towards the northeast, the direction of Crimson City.

"We are currently flying over the Great Triangle. That's the continent where Aegis' headquarters are located," Simon said.

"You're just telling me like that?" Nick asked.

"There's no reason to keep Aegis' location a secret. Death and the Trio of Destruction already know where it is," Simon casually explained.

'Makes sense,' Nick thought.

The two of them continued flying for quite a while longer.

This time, Nick was shocked about how much land there was.

Sure enough, the continent was huge!

From time to time, Nick even saw a city.

Surprisingly, most of them didn't have any kind of megastructure like Crimson City.

Most of them were just filled with tall buildings.

Some were on hills, and some were in craters.

"There are not many megastructures in the cities," Nick said as he looked at another city they were passing by.

"Creating such a tall structure requires an abundance of highly valuable materials," Simon said. "Metals that are treated with Zephyx work, but it requires tons upon tons of Zephyx, and almost all the cities are not willing to invest that much money just to have a big building."

"Crimson City has its megastructure because it is built upon a sizable ancient ruin. We are not yet able to reproduce the materials used in those ruins, but we can reshape and move them."

"Crimson City is one of the newer cities, and the abundance of ancient materials in the ruins is the reason why it has a megastructure," Simon explained.

Nick just nodded.

After flying for quite some time, Simon started to slow down.

"We are now entering the eastern part of the Great Triangle. As of this moment, we are already in Death's domain."

Nick's heart shook.

"Can it see us?" Nick asked.

"It can," Simon answered. "We do not know where Death is exactly, but it is always somewhere near Aegis' headquarters."

"If it attacks us, the three Shields in the headquarters will attack and subdue it. Because of that, it can't risk attacking anyone right now."

"However, it alone is keeping three of our Shields bound to this location, which is almost half of our Shields. Death is more than willing to make such a trade."

Nick didn't answer.

Death, the strongest enemy of humanity, was looking at Nick and Simon right now.

Nick couldn't help feeling nervous.

However, just as Simon said, nothing happened.

Death wouldn't risk exposing its location to deal with a Protector and an Expert.

A couple of seconds later, Nick saw an endless field of ruins.

The field of ruins was so massive that it stretched towards the horizon!

Even more, based on the size of the destroyed buildings, there used to be a crazy number of gigantic buildings everywhere.

Eventually, Nick saw some of the ocean, and on the ocean, Nick saw a gigantic island.

It was filled to the absolute brim with ruins.

However, the most noticeable thing was in a small part of the ocean, which was surrounded by land in almost all directions.

It was the lower half of a greenish statue.

"This is one of the biggest cities created by the Ancient Ones. Ancient texts called it..."

"New York."