Wanted Criminal (14)

The underground levels.

After falling into Magitera, it was the place where he had stayed the longest.

In a sense, it was where everything began.

When he first fell into this city, he had no identity, no money, nothing. His magic circuits had dried up, and his body had been crammed into a trash bin and steeped in stench. The sky was hard to see, while corporate buildings towered overhead like cathedral spires.

Kael quickly realized that this world did not welcome him.

And there was a place here where those who were nothing went down.

That place was the underground levels.

Tomorrow in the underground levels was usually a little worse than today. Even knowing that, people pressed their thumbprints onto contracts and accepted their fate. It was better than being exiled to the outskirts.

Kael had done the same. He had to survive first.

He pressed the card terminal tucked inside his clothes to turn it off, so Adrian's messages would stop appearing...