Chapter 181: Chapter 144, More Deaths, More Waaagh!

Aéro Lacroix felt that the war had changed its nature.

Or rather, this was what war truly was, and what had passed were just minor skirmishes.

He was born into a wandering Survivor Tribe, where staying meant struggling to survive, so under the lead of a senior, he and a dozen other youths left the tribe and followed a merchant to Rubbish Town, where they joined an adventure group.

To call it an adventure group was actually a stretch—they were armed garbage collectors. After getting a dozen guns on credit from the merchant, they began their scavenging life.

Not daring to venture too far, they scavenged in the safe zones just outside Rubbish Town, looking for metal scraps and picking up radiant stones to make it through the day. They'd then trade their haul for food back in town.

Their daily earnings went to buying food and paying off a bit of their firearm loans, leaving nothing left over.