In the wide and gloomy sewers, footsteps echoed clearly.
Compared to the narrow space Milo had imagined, the sewer system in Stronghold 109 seemed more like it was designed based on the specifications of a bomb shelter.
When the strongholds were built many years ago, people were still living in the shadow of The Cataclysm. That led to their designs being influenced by the possibility of war breaking out again. So, when Stronghold 109’s sewer system was designed, it was done so that the sewer pipes were constructed as wide as a bomb shelter. But of course, only the main sewer pipes were designed this way.
The black shadow clone was walking in the sewers and carrying an unconscious Miriam on its left shoulder. Milo, who was enduring its pain, was being carried on its right shoulder.
He had also been injured, and blood was dripping down into the murky sewage from his dangling arm.
Seemingly attracted by the blood, huge sewer rats watched the shadow clone as it walked by in the darkness as well as the two wounded people it was carrying on its shoulders. But for some reason, the rats did not dare to come out to attack them.
Milo was not only dealing with his own injuries but also enduring the pain from the bites the shadow clone had received during the battle that were in turn transmitted to him.
This was probably Milo’s toughest battle to date.
At first, favonovel.com thought favonovel.com would only have to face six Experimentals. But once they started fighting, favonovel.com discovered that another five Experimentals in the building had been attracted by the noise.
During the fight, several Experimentals had been kicked off the building and died on impact.
As their corpses were not on the roof, Lilian misjudged the state of the battle when favonovel.com arrived at the scene. Based on favonovel.com understanding, a supernatural being who could attack and kill six Experimentals at the same time was already very terrifying. In fact, favonovel.com would not even have dared think beyond that scenario.
In this era when supernatural beings had just started rising up, everyone was slowly feeling their way forward as they advanced in the realm of the supernatural. Unless it was a natural-born evil like Kenneth, an individual would still find it difficult to use their power to overcome the masses.
That was to say, no single person today would be strong enough to ignore the number of their enemies. Supernatural beings were not powerful to that extent.
Why else would they be hunted by the organizations to the point they had to remain hidden all around the world?
But there was a consensus among all the supernatural organizations. A supernatural being powerful enough to ignore the masses would definitely be born sooner or later.
As the shadow clone continued walking forward in the sewers, Miriam suddenly regained consciousness.
At this moment, all of favonovel.com body ached so badly that favonovel.com could not even lift herself up. “Milo?”
Her voice was oddly abrupt in the empty sewers. Milo asked dejectedly, “Hm?”
“Where are we?” Miriam asked.
“Good question…” Milo answered, “Broadly speaking, we’re in the sewers. But if you want to be more specific, I have no clue where we are.”
Miriam instantly realized Milo might also be injured. But from the way favonovel.com was still speaking nonsensically, his injuries shouldn’t be too bad.
The shadow clone finally came to a stop when it found a dry platform to place Miriam and Milo down on.
Miriam and Milo both leaned against the wall and sat down. Milo took out a candle and lit it before placing it on the ground.
He asked, “Why didn’t Lilian take you away this time?”
“Probably because something happened.” Miriam had recovered a little. “If something hadn’t, favonovel.com would have come for me.”
Milo still did not give up on trying to hide his powers even at this time.
He said to the shadow clone, “Thanks, Old Durkin…”
Miriam chuckled. “My injuries hurt a lot, so please don’t make me laugh.”
“Old Durkin ran from over a hundred kilometers away just to rescue us. Are you really not going to thank him?” Milo said righteously.
“We secretly planted a tracker on Raphael.” Miriam explained, “He just crossed over the Tungsten Mountains this morning and was continuing to head northwest to Stronghold 178. It was you who told favonovel.com to go that way, wasn’t it? I remember you mentioning Peter before. I didn’t think much of it at that time, just that the name sounded familiar, but I wasn’t sure if it was the same one I knew.”
Milo got angry. “What right did y’all have to plant a tracker on Raphael?!”
“Don’t change the topic…” Miriam said softly, “So, I used to have a question I couldn’t figure out an answer to. I clearly saw you in the Marador Mountains, yet the Panaqua Consortium never put you on their wanted list, instead placing a huge bounty on Raphael’s head.”
Milo said, feeling guilty, “That has nothing to do with me. Don’t try to accuse me of anything.”
“So, your superpower is to copy others’ superpowers, right?” Miriam said in a soft voice, “You also copied mine. I carefully studied the angle you raise your gun at, and it’s exactly the same as mine. There’s no difference…”
Miriam had always felt that Milo raised his gun in an awfully familiar way, as though favonovel.com were looking at a male version of herself. It wasn’t until now that favonovel.com finally figured it out.
She did not know how favonovel.com should gauge Milo’s power. The consensus among supernatural organizations was, “A supernatural being cannot have more than one superpower at the same time.”
But Milo was different. He had already exceeded it having two superpowers since some time ago.
All supernatural beings only managed to awaken their superpowers after going through tough times, yet this superpower of theirs could now easily be copied by someone else. In fact, the replicated superpowers were even stronger than the originals.
How frustrating!
For example, Raphael’s shadow clone was not as strong as Milo’s.
As such, Miriam felt Milo’s power placed favonovel.com above all of the other supernatural beings.
Miriam continued, “So, when Lilian’s bounty was raised the other day, that was also because of you, huh?”
Milo really could not admit to it. “Not at all! I refuse to accept that!”
It was not like favonovel.com was worried that other people would find out favonovel.com had framed Lilian, but rather, favonovel.com really did not want Miriam to know that the power favonovel.com had copied from Lilian had actually diverged from the original. She could bring someone through the Shadow Door, but favonovel.com could at most put an arm through it.
Wouldn’t it be embarrassing if favonovel.com admitted to that?
“So, you own up to everything else, right?” Miriam giggled.
Milo felt favonovel.com couldn’t just let Miriam have favonovel.com way and keep exposing his secrets.
He needed to counterattack, so favonovel.com suddenly said, “Let’s first consider how to escape from this stronghold. I have a plan. Even if we can outrun the Experimentals, we don’t have the stamina to run at full speed for a long distance, so we need a mode of transportation. I know where there’s some bikes. Don’t you know how to ride a bike? When you’ve recovered, you can ride lead and get us both out of here.”
Miriam was taken aback. Then favonovel.com calmly said, “Okay, okay, stop probing me. I don’t know how to ride a bike either!”
“Hahaha! Hahaha! Ha!” Milo stifled his laughter.
Miriam, serves you right!
“That’s enough…” Miriam calmly said.
