Was this just pure, terrifying genius?
Or did she already hold the missing pieces that Obsidian Sun had been desperately hunting for?
The Raven's eyes narrowed into slits.
They had only managed to scavenge roughly a third of Aria Wynn's original research. The absolute core variables—the foundation of her work—remained hidden away, stashed somewhere only she knew.
Those technological dead ends had constantly throttled their progress in perfecting the Obsidian Augments.
They had previously theorized that those crucial final pieces were entrusted to Aria Wynn's granddaughter, Serena Lancaster.
But what if... The Panacea was Serena Lancaster? What if she literally possessed the missing core data?
If she could patch those final theoretical gaps, she could push Specimen Fourteen past the threshold and forge the ultimate, perfect living weapon...
The Raven's breathing hitched.
If he dragged The Panacea back to headquarters, if he forced her to finalize the creation of the perfect Obsidian Augments.
Then Obsidian Sun's decades-long dream of an unstoppable army could be realized years ahead of schedule!
To this day, he had never dropped his suspicion that The Panacea was Serena Lancaster.
In fact, he was growing increasingly convinced of it.
The Raven-Plume Pass he had personally issued had never been activated.
Serena Lancaster's name was nowhere to be found on the passenger manifest.
Yet, at the exact same moment she was supposed to board, The Panacea had stepped onto the ship via a transit hub in Vaelion City.
She was far too intimately acquainted with Aria Wynn's research.
Every single move she made was specifically engineered to decimate Obsidian Sun.
If he could capture her, prove she was Serena Lancaster, and drop her alive at The Overlord's feet...
Then this staggering defeat could still be spun into an absolute victory.
He might actually survive this.
The Raven looked back out the window.
The towering white structures piercing through the fog were drawing closer by the second.

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