Days passed since that fateful meeting with Radagast.
While the mysterious broker left the planet in order to deliver his other batches of Auto Heretics to other groups, Barrow and Idni returned straight to the NMRI with their new Carmine mechs.
They not only brought along their personal Carmine mechs, but also transported an additional 8 Auto Heretics that were ready to bond with any willing norm.
Suffice to say, each and every executive that received an exclusive offer from Barrow and Idni agreed to form a lifelong pact with a mech that they would have looked down upon in normal cases.
Just like everyone else who formed a Blood Pact with an Auto Heretic, they did not care about its lackluster performance or the many limitations of the Carmine System.
They already got sold from the moment they heard that they could control the mech through an experience that resembled the use of a neural interface, but conveniently omitted the excessively high wear and tear on the brain!
