Chapter 190: Targets (1/2)

”Scary huh? I guess you're right. We might've died Huh. Hehe Wasn't that exciting though?~”

”No, it wasn't. I'll rather not almost die every 5 seconds. You're too much of an excitement junky.”

”—Umm me? Why would you say such a mean thing to your lovely elder sis~” Saying that Citrus lightly pounced on Izabel's almost non-existent chest as she tried to snuggle up to her.

”Eww get off me you're sweaty.”

The two men behind the girls dragged the white-haired demon as they trailed steadily behind the two girls who were busy arguing or maybe amid a fight between siblings. Well, whatever it was they were doing, they knew it would go on until they got to the special holding chambers they were currently headed.

As they exited the white room they had appeared in, the room that had a large magic circle engraved on the floor that seemed like it was a room designated for teleportation purposes. They saw a unit of about 10 Mechanical golems wielding magic spears, shields, and swords patrolling the hallways march past them.

They also sparingly saw demons and demoness clad in white lab coats who would bow to them as they casually walked by until they arrived at their destination. The moment they entered the room, a seemingly middle-aged demon, clad in the same lab coat to had seen the others in and guarded by a specialized mechanical golem with an oddly ominous aura came to greet them.

”Hello, welcome to our humble facility lady Citrus and Lady Izabel. I have already been informed of your arrival by Lord Malik and have made the necessary preparations. Please follow me.”

The ordinary-looking middle age demon that wore a pair of spectacles, bowed slightly as he lead them deeper into the large room where several advanced pieces of equipment were kept alongside several other demons that worked in stations as they either read information of a holographic screen or worked on the empty pods in the room.

The middle-aged demon then proceeded to ask the men that dragged Snow along to place her inside a metal pod where restraints were then placed on her as a colorless liquid thicker than water immediately began to flow inside the pod. With that, Citrus could now dispel the Kinetic ability she had used on the restrained Snow as it constantly drained her mana and she did.

The moment her ability was canceled, the eyes of the white-haired lady that had completely been submerged inside the glass pod moved, and her cold gaze rested on them.

Being aware of what had been happening so far, she immediately tried to freeze the pod but something must've been neutralizing her abilities as it didn't work and as she was submerged in that strange liquid for a while, her eyes became heavier as it seemed the pod was forcing her into a state similar to sleep even though her senses were now boasted to the max as she was meant to feel everything so they could get accurate results to their tests.

One of the lab assistants then moved behind the pod and a metal tube was inserted into the back. Several large needles then pierced into her skin from almost all directions disabling most of her resistances which sent immerse pain directly to her brain in order to observe how her body would react while slowly gathering data on her until her mind became weak enough for easy memory extraction, among other things.

The middle-aged demon, Leriol Grover Brimstone, smiled weirdly as he adjusted his glasses and walked over to the other side of the room as he tinkered with the series of machines there and a series of holographic images appeared in front of him. He did not require the glasses for medical purposes but they seemed to be magic items.

He observed the information displayed there for more than 30 minutes before he finally spoke:

”Impressive, very impressive...”

He proceeded to go through the information once more and after being satisfied he spoke to the girls who had been moving around the lab out of boredom as non of the lab assistants had the guts to refute them.

”Her abilities are off the charts, also there appears to be a split in her Neural network for some reason. This must be what Lord Malik had mentioned to me earlier. Interesting... There seem to be two personalities within her. While that is not in itself unusual, the personalities seem to have certain access to parts of her core, giving them or limiting the access to certain abilities. How truly fascinating.”

He continued talking as he walked over to the pod to observe.

”However, it's truly strange.”

”What is?”

”We're currently bombarding her with intense pain and various other stimuli to get the other part of her brain to react but it would seem this one is doing its best to hang on tight. Almost as though it doesn't want the other party to come out. Might be a protective mechanism.”

”Wooow... so you're saying this white-haired one doesn't want to blonde one to feel pain. Now I really want one of those.~”

”What is wrong with you sis?”

”Hehe~”

”You're correct though... Still, the will of this one is too strong. It seems to be the one with access to the innate ability but we need the main one to come out else we might not get anywhere.”

”Oh, can you force the other one out then?”

”Not sure... We might have to increase the pain receptors to the maximum in order to exhaust her hold but that may damage the specimen.”

”Will that affect her memories?”