Rin spent the morning at a public library in Khomasdal, one of the few places that probably didn't have Association monitoring, he needed to think without being watched.
The library was mostly empty, a few students studying, an older woman reading newspapers, the kind of place where anonymity was easy.
He pulled up everything he could find on the Architect Collective using public databases, news archives, anything that wasn't classified.
Not much existed, a few conspiracy theory forums mentioned them, rumors about monster trafficking, illegal experimentation, but nothing concrete, no names, no locations, just whispers.
One article from eight months ago caught his attention, a Hunter in Johannesburg had gone missing after investigating strange dungeon formations, his last known location was an abandoned research facility, authorities found no trace of him, case went cold within weeks.
