Gamma Protocol [LitRPG, Cyberpunk] - Chapter 077 (special)

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Shadow waved her goodbyes to her student as soon as she was certain they weren’t being followed. As much as she wished to stick around and insist more heavily upon the matter of his training, she had a rather important task to attend to.Elder Summer had called for her.It had not been an urgent request for her presence, but she did not know the elder well enough to risk being any later than absolutely necessary.Using the ever-present darkness in the lower-levels of the second district, Shadow pushed herself with bursts of energy, jumping from one spot to the next and moving towards the upper areas. She received a confirmation ping from the elder’s AV that was waiting for her at the top of the second wall, and Shadow pushed harder.She barely paid any mind to the drone swarms patrolling through every vent, street, and alleyway in search of a monster that they would never find. The meguca hastily sent a priority notification to the city’s CYPHER nodes that she’d confirmed the threat had been “dealt with”.The response was immediate. A quick bounty payment, and a notification that if she didn’t produce video-evidence of the kill within the next hour, then her profile’s confidence-score would receive a demerit. Shadow grimaced- not only would it take her months of proactive monster hunting to be able to regain the loss… but elder Fulton would no doubt receive the notification and know she was somehow tied to today’s events.She made a mental note to prepare a full report after the meeting.Hopefully the trust she’d earned from her student would be worth the price.Something looked at her, and all too suddenly her speed was halved. Shadow recognized that an elder’s attention was upon her. Nothing else in the city could see through her so thoroughly that it could remove her speed in such a violent fashion.Now forced to move at a slower pace, and all too aware she was being watched from somewhere (...)