Alden watched the fading figure of Cipher disappear down the corridor.
What had it been, a few minutes since he was complaining about not getting any sleep? Of course the world took that personally and threw him another problem.
Jeremy Voidforge.
According to Cipher, Jeremy wasn't going to act until the very last day of the tournament… and she wanted him to help stop that.
She was practically dragging him, someone who was supposedly weak, unimportant and absolutely not meant for this level of bullshit, straight into a mess of power he had no business touching.
How laughable…
Not that he minded.
He didn't doubt his chances, whether it was surviving Jeremy's attempt to take over his body… or even accidentally killing Jeremy in the process.
But that kind of "victory" would come at a cost.
A heavy one.
Too many lives would be thrown into the fire before it was over.
And that… that was where Cipher's request came in.
