Barlin kept marching south through the frigid Antarctic night.

Even if the cold didn't bother him, it was rapidly draining his Reiki and stamina.

He could dig a hole when he arrived dozens of miles away to rest, but the American military had left him completely traumatized and he really didn't want to die.

So instead he found himself running some 120 miles, reaching a place where no penguin would nest, and projected a Reiki sword, blowing a hole three feet wide and some ninety feet deep.

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