Five, Saul Sterling, Nolan Jennings, and the rest of Lex Cross's old subordinates exchanged a look. "If it really is the one who can absorb other people's superpowers, then you can't go!"
With a grim expression, Five continued, "That's one of the ancestors from the Rook family. He broke through to the War God Level a hundred years ago and is incredibly powerful. For you to go would be a suicide mission!"
"The Rook family? It's the Rook family again! It was Rona Rook who hired an assassin from that mysterious organization to kill Flora back then. Are they coming after us now?" Shelly asked, her face pale as she cradled her stomach.
After everything she had been through with the others at Villa Three over the past few years, she was no longer the timid, weak-willed nurse she once was.
