177 Pale White

When Aarav left, before the exit to Aldrich's Null Box closed completely, Colonel Davos's face peeked in again. He held open the sturdily reinforced door with his own bare hand, indicating that the colonel's base AC count was high enough for his strength to be decidedly superhuman.

Considering the fact that the Null Box door was pure metal and almost half a meter thick, Aldrich determined that Colonel Davos was likely an Augmenter class Alter whose muscles and bones tended to benefit the most from Alter cells.

Colonel Davos stared at Aldrich with red eyes that glowed in the dark. They were unexceptional, though, compared to Aarav's. They did not possess the same feeling of odd chill that Aarav's unique eye gave off.

"I don't know what that corporate slink offered you-," began Colonel Davos.

"Far more than you did," retaliated Aldrich.