Supreme Magus

d mode on her amulet and forcing it onto all the amulets belonging to someone of inferior rank.

The data would be stored but remain inaccessible even to the amulet ’s owner, to prevent dangerous knowledge from falling into the wrong hands.

Lith wasn ’t new to pain and torture, but such a cruel exhibition was unthinkable even for him. The Odi had clearly perfectioned their life force manipulation techniques to an extreme level to dismember different races like this and keep them alive for so long.

They had achieved their purpose and yet the Odi had kept their victims on display, like an animal ’s head hung on a wall. That wasn ’t science anymore, just an empty abuse of power, like a kid plucking a butterfly ’s wings.

”Captain Ernas, forgive me, but I think we shouldn ’t destroy this place. ” Yondra said with a pained voice.

”What do you mean? What good could possibly come out of this? ” Phloria was tempted to threaten the old Professor with a charge of insubordination, but Phloria could feel her emotions clouding her own judgment.

”These pods can preserve life. If we had something like them, maybe Calil and the others would still be alive, just in suspended animation. ” Those words reminded Phloria of Yurial ’s death, cracking her self-righteousness.

”Lith? What do you think? ” Asking him to be her moral compass sounded crazy even to Phloria ’s ears, but she had no other options.

”Normally I would agree with Professor Yondra. These creatures… ” Lith refused to refer to them as people. What was left of them could be barely described as meat puppets.

”-don ’t seem to age nor bleed despite their terrible condition, which is good. Yet if it was up to me, I would destroy everything. First, this is not suspended animation. Their eyes still move and if you listen carefully you can hear their screams, which makes the pods just a torture device. ”

Yondra put an ear against the glass-like material, flinching back in horror less than a second later.

”Second, I doubt the Odi ’s motives. Whatever they have done to them, is likely to be some kind of weaponization system. This is a military compound, after all. Just like for the arrays on the door, I don ’t trust my back to the unknown. ”

Lith couldn ’t share with them the fact that Solus had seen with mana sense something embedded inside the prisoners ’ brains. Something with an energy signature similar to the corrupted spores.

’No sense in using slave items on meat puppets unless they are meat soldiers. ’ Lith thought while placing his hand on a tank and activating Scanner. Somehow the liquid was able to transmit his mana, allowing him to study the condition of the trapped human.

’Just as I feared. These things had their life force maimed in a way that allows them to live at a terrible cost. This is no immortality. Their life force has simply been compressed to the point of stopping its flow entirely, leaving them neither dead nor alive.

’Such a condition eternally keeps them on the brink of death, like a twisted version of Schrodinger ’s cat. ’ Lith thought.

’It ’s worse than that. ’ Solus said. ’All of these people have lost their mana core. The mana flow you perceive comes from their flesh. I think you are right about the weaponization. I believe this is the Odi ’s failed attempt to transform the other races into Balors. ’

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