Chapter 44
Roy left the place where he had met the man, their conversation short and heavy. His face still wore that warm smile, the one everyone knew him for. But anyone who truly knew Roy would see it immediately.
He was not okay.
Not even close.
He sighed softly. Could his day not be normal for once, just once, he thought.
Then his mind drifted. Unwanted. Unforgiving.
The crawler's vessel.
Roy was not weak. Never had been. He was one of the strongest agents of the Shadow Legion, a man who had completed missions that would have buried others six feet under.
He had faced demons, Shurals, things that crawled out of nightmares and refused to die. He had even killed two crawler vessels before, cleanly, without taking much damage.
But the last one was different.
That fight was on another level.
The truth was as clear as daylight. The crawler vessels were evolving. Rapidly. Alarmingly. If this continued, destruction was not a possibility. It was a certainty.
