Kensei felt a shift as she stepped over the unofficial boundary from her home neighborhood of Karlsburg and into the Hollows. The first was an old familiar feeling, the other had a darker hint to it. The buildings had become increasingly run down and abandoned the closer she had gotten to this place. Old rotting warehouses and brick office buildings stood like gravestones around her.

This was the dark heart of Cobalt City. She had friends of the non-super hero variety who lived there like it was any other neighborhood, but it had a much stronger reputation as being a bolt hole for the worst villains of the city.

And according to Karl, this was where the cultists had come from. If she was going to get any information, this was the most obvious way she had to do it. She had her onenju, h...

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