Chapter 97: Uncliche Hideout

The moment Astesia received a 'reading', Shiro glanced at their direction. Even if he's in the underground parking area, he can still see through dozens of floors before his gaze arrived at Surtr's.

Since he didn't know if Astesia can feel his gaze, he indirectly looked at her through Surtr.

The latter simply sent back her gaze at him before resuming what she's doing before. Astesia also chose to act normally, thus nothing interesting happened.

After parking his eye-catching ride, Shiro took off his blindfold after seeing no one here with him. As a result, he saw the entire bird's view of this city.

Starting from the surface buildings up to the hidden ones underground, he saw them all.

He wore it back again as he muttered, "Another Sarkaz-related thing..."

What he saw there is Rhine Lab's interior - to be exact, the set of Royal Sarkaz bloodline being stored inside a cold storage. He also saw bits of its power inside a young girl. What's strange is her original race being over-written by another race, Sarkaz, when her true race is Savra.

(A/N: Savra are the people with lizard-like traits.)

"Tsk tsk. What are they doing by using two incompatible powers..?"

While cursing at their incompetence to not see such a thing, he fell into a dilemma once more. Every time he sees a kid and live experimentation together, something inside urges him to take action. Moreover, it's the result of his Fenrir Bloodline!

"I'll decide after I use the Memory Cards. For now..."

Opening an aurora curtain, Shiro arrived at their room.

There are two bedrooms here, a living room, and two bathrooms. The place looks very luxurious, something incomparable to their stay in Sargon. Still, Shiro knew that it's very peaceful there, unlike here.

Colombia might be advertised as a "free country", but underneath it is pure darkness. One has to know that they only matched Ursus and the rest through their money and economy. Only god knows what they're doing to bolster their military might.

It became even more evident after Shiro saw everything here.

When Surtr left her bedroom, she was quite surprised to see him standing there.

"Ahem. I'll have to settle our funds first. Do you want to come or look around this city first?" He asked.

"...I will look around first."

"Alright." Shiro opened another Aurora Curtain leading to an empty alleyway before he continued, "I hope you see something good."

"Mn."

Stepping into it, he found himself on an empty alleyway. It is dim and dreary due to it being near the "slums". Even with his blindfold, he saw many bad things happening at every moment. People beating up an infected, people giving disgusting looks to an infected, and there's even a group of people that kidnapped a few.

There's also a few Sarkaz Infected here and their treatment is the worse. Even the Infected from other Ancient Races look at them with disdain...

"F*ck. What is it that I'm feeling?!"

At this time, he felt another wave of anger erupt within him. Just by looking at their situation, it seemed as if it instinctively reminded him of bad memories.

In the end, he casted a 6th-layer circle called [Reaper Call]. Just like its name, it allowed him to schedule their deaths by reducing their luck. This skill is dependent on his luck since if it's lower than the target, he'll receive its backlash.

Though, who else has a higher luck than him here..?

After cursing them to their deaths, his mind became peaceful once more. Albeit, he's quite frustrated by this since he can't even control his feelings.

"It's indirectly telling me to settle things already..." He sighed as he left the alleyway with his ruined black robe. Thanks to its huge size, it is able to cover his face with no problems.

Once he saw a mechanic shop with the name "Aaron's Workshop", he entered it. What he saw is the same as Zumama's workshop. Mechanical parts are placed neatly here and there, while there's some weapons and tools inside the display boxes.

Its owner, Aaron, has a child-like face and stature due to his Durin lineage. His red hair and pair of golden pupils isn't unique in this world, but there's something in him that would make someone look at him twice.

Using his [Six Eyes], he discerned that this Aaron is not so simple. Just his power alone is comparable to a Demigod, while his life level is on par with gods.

Though, it made him wonder if these people are tired of using bars as a cover up to their normal life.

Yawning, he spoke, "If you want to buy something, everything's on the boxes. Outside it are things not for sale."

"You spoke as if some people got interested on your private stuff." Shiro said with an outgoing tone.

"Duh, it's the obvious. Some children of influential people here escaped their mansions to wander around this place." He repositioned his head that laid on his right arm before speaking, "Heh. They're still kids. Just some acting and I managed to make them leave obediently."

Looking at him, Shiro chuckled and replied, "You used your child-like looks to do so, right?"

"You're a sharp one."

Shiro looked at the insides of each mechanical items through his [Six Eyes]. By doing so, he indirectly stole all their blueprints. Guiltlessly, he walked in front of Aaron and took out a letter inside his [Dimensional Storage].

The latter seemed interested as he took the letter. Then, his expression turned solemn for a while before returning back to normal.

"You're the person that has lots of pure gold?"

"That's right." Shiro replied as he took out a bar of Pure Gold. Of course, he made it look like he took it under his robe.

"Can I touch it?"

"Sure."

Aaron touched it before its shape turned into a liquid form. It assumed many other forms like spikes and a dagger before returning back to normal.

"Damn, this is the real deal. It's even better than the other Pure Gold that I found!" He exclaimed.

"Is that your art? Gold Arts?"

"That's right. I can manipulate gold through this." He pointed out the fingerless gloves in his left hand with some diamond-shaped originum embedded into it. In total, it has six crystals, one in each finger and the last one in the center.

The originum crystals was coated by a transparent red glass, thus it looked like a dark orange crystal. This red glass is needed to prevent some hazards from happening. The only function of the red glass is to contain the originum, preventing someone from having oripathy.

Of course, Aaron had built it like that, else he'll be announcing "I'm a Feranmut!" when all he wants is a carefree life.

"How many do you have? Even if its tonnes, I'll buy them all."

Hearing this, Shiro could only confirm his thoughts of this guy being a hidden big shot. After all, who can confidently make such claims while all he has is a workshop?

"Do you have a huge space here?"

"Space? Well, I have my underground storage. Why?" Aaron asked.

Smiling, Shiro said, "You'll see soon."

"If that's what you say."

Aaron led him to his underground storage, which mostly consisted of metallic boxes filled with a wide variety of items. Surprisingly, he even possessed more than 7 Relic Guns, something that only Laterano's Saints had used before!

His underground storage is more than an eight of the tomb from before, which made Shiro wonder as to how he managed to build it under Colombia's officials.

Shiro then activated his [Dimensional Storage], spilling out the Pure Gold that he got from the Empress' tomb. He chose to keep the remaining 40% since it felt pleasing to the eye.

Meanwhile, Aaron was startled when he saw tonnes of Pure Gold appear - each bar stacked on top of one another, forming a literal gold mountain.

While he wondered about Shiro's power in space, he noticed something familiar in them.

"Wait... Did you get them from her resting place?!" He asked Shiro.

"If it's the Golden Empress, then I sure did. For the record, Kal'tsit said that it's fine to take them."

"I se-Wait a damn minute. Did you just say, 'Kal'tsit'? As in, that old ha-I mean, Doctor Kal'tsit?!" Aaron exclaimed, shock replacing his previous lazy expression.

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A/N: If anyone's wondering, Aaron is an OC character. There's not much known Feranmuts, so I have to do this. Anyways, he finally met another past wife of his in the advanced chapters. A clue would be... she's someone from F/GO. As to who she is, you might or might not get surprised by it...

Fact #52: Chaldea's summoning system is vastly different from the original. It goes like this:

1. Summon Servants using Mash's shield as a base.

2. Wait for Heroic Spirits to 'respond' to your calls.

3. Once summoned, they will chill on Chaldea for a while.

4. They will be temporarily summoned on a Singularity/Lostbelt during the fights in-game before they go back to Chaldea and chill again.

The main reason why only Mash is together with Ritsuka is due to the Heroic Spirit's safety; if they perform temporary summoning, the Servant's Saint Graphs would still be safe even if they die since they'll only respawn in Chaldea with their memories intact. Also, their Saint Graphs are attached to Chaldea itself which made the respawn thing possible.