Meeting Thrud had been a blessing in disguise. It had given Vastor the opportunity to study a modern version of Arthan's Madness while Manohar's studies on her meat puppets had provided Vastor with the means to perfect his procedure for mixing different life forces.
The Master had never meant to use the Madness on himself. He planned to leave it as a gift for the future generations, like Lith who he had warned about the horrors of war or Quylla to whom he had shown the limits of fake magic.
Vastor had hoped that at least one of them would follow in his footsteps and complete his work. Yet after seeing what Lith had managed to achieve as a hybrid, after failing to protect Zinya, the Master had changed his mind.
'Unlike me, Lith never lacked conviction. He must have become a hybrid by experimenting on himself to fix the cracks in his life force. I've treated him as a student and I'm certain that he was just a human back then.
