'This still is not enough suffering for now,' Nick thought. 'But I just have to wait.'
Nick told Aria his new status and then found a hiding spot in the wilderness.
The Champion wasn't suffering as much, but the Tinkerer was suffering quite a bit.
Slowly, he accumulated suffering.
Five years passed.
Nick was at the threshold.
Just one more push.
He looked at the timer of his Seed.
The timer reached zero just when the date rolled over.
Nothing happened.
Seconds passed.
After a minute, the suffering Nick experienced increased.
Then, it increased even more.
Meanwhile, in Aegis' headquarters, the Tinkerer was once again rushing towards the database.
Their database was only putting errors out!
She immediately loaded a backup.
It worked for just a tiny moment before that one also crashed.
She went to a secondary backup.
Also crashed.
What the fuck was going on?!
