The Real Threat

Jake and his group continued to run furiously long after the shrill squeaks of the monsters had subsided. It had to be said that the string of System notifications had not helped them relax at all.

The Oracle had waited for the ship to ditch them before tasking them with all these missions and that could only mean one thing: The previous incidents were at best not serious enough to warrant rewarding their efforts with points, and at worst foreseen from the start. In any case, for them, this did not bode well.

Considering that the first Side Mission they had received had been simply to reach the command room, which had proved to be ludicrously simple, the second option was more likely.

Embarrassingly, it was Will who forced the group to stop. Although his thigh injury had been transferred to Jake, his stamina was simply the worst of the group. Even Tim and Lily weren't sweating as much as he was.