Before Linda and Quinn had met Alex, Linda was busy taking in the information she had been given. She was starting to think about the Crows and their place in all of this. The Graylash family didn’t care about their faction.
They simply saw them as a tool to be used upon, the deaths of their members were just a number. That’s when she noticed it. People dressed in strange white robes around the shelter. In an instant, she knew who they were.
They were members of the Graylash family.
’I wonder what they are doing here. They have only been to the Crow’s base once when we were first set up.’
She was interested, but she was here for Quinn for now.
Alex, when seeing someone approach his vendor got excited, he sat straight up and cleared his throat since it hadn’t been used for the whole day.
"Welcome sir, here I only offer you the best of the best. If you’re not interested in any of this standard stuff, I can even personally craft you something." Clicking his fingers. "You won’t be disappointed."
Quinn paused for a bit, he seemed to remember Alex being quite the problematic person, grumpy in a way, but his personality had done a complete 180-degree change.
"Hello," Quinn said.
"Hello?" Alex replied back.
Quinn paused, he was waiting for Alex to recognise him, but there was only silence between the two of them as they locked eyes.
"Hey, are you going to purchase anything or are you just going to waste my time!" Alex yelled. "Scram, get out of here!"
This was more like the Alex he remembered. Hoping to jog his memory, Quinn held out his hands and shadow equipped the two gauntlets quickly. Alex’s eyes widened as he saw them.
Of course, he wouldn’t forget about working on these. It was his best work he had ever done. He looked up at the person and then realised, he did look similar to him, but at the same time different.
"Ah, it is you!" He said with a smile.
The two of them went behind the vendor, While Linda stood in front pretending to be a customer. She was interested and listened in on what they had to talk about. She was wondering why this person, in particular, was so important that he had to come and see him.
"I was going to ask for my share of the profits." Quinn said, "But it looks like business isn’t exactly going well."
"It’s this damn civil war," Alex replied. "The gear you gave me was perfect, and I was able to come up with a few great designs, but they were all at the intermediate level. That wasn’t a problem, and I was starting to get a few orders of them online from the other military bases.
"But now with the war, everyone is looking for advanced tier and higher, I just can’t compete with that. It’s the same problem as before, since I’m less experienced and was a student, no one will give me a chance."
But Quinn knew it was only a matter of time. Forgers were highly sought after. Especially one of Alex’s calibre, maybe not now, but many people would be after him. Thinking about it, Quinn now also had some advanced tier equipment that he had made from the system.
He had done so thanks to Edward bringing the materials, but Quinn didn’t want to give them to Alex, not yet. With the way things were, it was better that no one had noticed him. If they had, the families would never let him go.
"Do you remember what I said before? You still want to do it?" Quinn asked.
Alex hesitated for a moment. He remembered, it was the only thing he looked forward to ever since Quinn had proposed the idea, but with the way things were, how could he make his own forging empire?
"I do, and I wish we could still do it," Alex complained.
’We can." Quinn replied.
Quinn proceeded to tell Alex of his plan, how he wanted to create his own faction. Quinn was unsure whether or not it would be the right thing to do, but based on his personality from last time, it was the only thing he could think of.
"Create a faction, in a time like this? That’s crazy, you’re crazy." Alex said. "But I do like it. This place, I don’t understand it, Quinn. They make me go out on a hunt every week, but I’m no fighter. I’m a forger. Every week I think it might be my last."
His body was shaking slightly while thinking of the times he barely escaped fate.
"Look, it’s impossible to leave now, but if you make your faction and find some way to get me out of this place, then it’s a deal, I don’t want to die just having been a vendor my whole life."
Quinn was pleased with the result, with a forger as good as Alex, he had no doubts that his team would be able to grow in strength. Next, from the palm of his hands, two crystals appeared.
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