Map of the Iron Province

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...To no effect. She simply laughed and then lowered the pillars back down to ground level. Figures, she was toying with me the entire time. Nothing I could've done would've done shit to her.

She pointed at my hands, they were crackling with that same black and green energy from back at Paradise. With an eager look in her eye, she told me that the paralyzer ability I just used isn't possible for C3's to use. Naturally at least. Only way around it is from an outside source.

I pondered what or how, but then the realization hit me. This power emanating from my hands, was coming out of the marks on my hands. The marks left behind by the strange and powerful object from the Foundry.

The object that was known for absorbing energy...

Seeing that I finally clicked-in to what was happening. X0-C3 circled around me, walking. Talking.

It seemed that even though most of the object was destroyed, I didn't toss it away fast enough to not leave an imprint on me.

I asked what this means. For me, for STEEL and the Cult as surely they know now too, and even 'her'.

She told me that what that object was, was something known as a primordial shard. Far more potent than the green ones I've been accustomed to. They have no known limit of power, so theoretically, they are limitless.

But what my body is capable of on the other hand, not so much.

To think that all this only ever came to pass because a certain 'someone' sent me on the trail for #40, way back when...

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