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Chapter 3 - A Price to Pay

In a messy office where stacks of paper are piled, a man wearing a white coat with a golden fox tattoo on his neck is talking on the phone, from his expression and body language, one can know that he is talking to a superior.

"Mr. BS, the experiment went successfully, A109 is currently resting after going through step two of the experiment. It's been three days since the success of the second step," said the man with a golden fox tattoo.

The person on the phone replied, "Good, currently, lab 47 and lab 13 has successfully broken through the second step, now with lab 33 joining, we currently have three major breaks HAHAHA" the eerie laugh seep to the man with a golden fox tattoo's ear.

The person on the phone continues, "A109 has rest enough, proceed to the next step".

Meanwhile, Rudy is still unconscious in an all-white room. His rest looks peaceful from the outside, but the frown on his face tells otherwise.

In Rudy's subconscious,

Rudy slowly opens his eyes, He's floating in nothingness peacefully.

he looks at his surrounding but can only see darkness as far as his eyes can see.

Suddenly the peaceful feeling vanished, red aura started to fill the darkness suffocating Rudy, the pressure from the red aura is so massive that even his subconscious is hurting just by being around it.

The red aura seems hostile to Rudy.

The red aura seeps into Rudy's body, His body started to burn.

Rudy gritted his teeth in pain, blood started to leak from the corner of Rudy's mouth.

"AARRGGHH!!"

His body feels like it is burning to the point that Rudy can't help to scream in pain.

Rudy snapped back to reality, with heavy breaths.

He opens his eyes with sweat covering his whole body, he tried to move his body to no avail, he cannot move it at all.

He looks at his surroundings only to see the hazard people is holding a pincher and pinch the middle artifact that is placed neatly inside a box.

The artifact looks ordinary compared to other artifacts that take the shape of a golden skull chalice, a blue orb that emits a cloud of blue smoke, and many other eye-catching artifacts.

The artifact that the hazard people brought closer to Rudy is a dark black crystal-shaped artifact with nothing standing out except for its shiny surface.

As the artifacts get closer, Rudy's eyes widened.

The artifact started to emit a red rune on its surface and bring the same hostile pressure as the red aura in his subconscious.

The weird thing is that the hazard people seem to not notice any changes, as if only Rudy can see the runes.

As the artifact gets closer, the pressure increases trying to crush Rudy's body but somehow his body can endure the pressure easily. Either the artifacts are weak or his body is too strong for some reason.

One of the hazard people on his right comes over to Rudy with a syringe on his hand.

The hazard people inject a white substance into Rudy's veins that makes Rudy's mind turn cloudy.

He tried to resist the substance but he eventually goes back to the dream world.

After Rudy falls asleep, the hazard people slice open Rudy's chest revealing his insides.

The scientist nods to the hazard people.

After seeing the confirmation nod, the hazard people bring the dark black crystal-shaped artifacts near Rudy's opened chest.

Just as they put it inside Rudy's chest between his lungs, the artifacts moved and emitted a blinding red light.

The hazard people move back in fright.

The red light envelope Rudy's body then suddenly violent black lightning started to attack the surrounding randomly.

BOOM! BOOM!

The hazard people scatter frantically.

One unlucky hazard people struck by the black lightning, the unlucky hazard people stand there confused, the black lightning didn't hurt him at all.

But suddenly,

A hazy white thing and a light blue thing come out of his body and the unlucky hazard people dropped like a dead puppet.

Looking at the scene, the other hazard people turn pale.

The black lightning absorbs their soul and even the spirit's soul.

A normal person needs to make a contract with a spirit to become a seeker, once they become a seeker, the spirit's soul will enter the person in the contract and merge.

So technically, a seeker has two souls!

A power that can absorb the person and the spirit's soul is practically godlike!

The black lightning wiped all of the hazard people, even the scientist behind a solid glass made of strong material is at the mercy of the black lightning.

Out of all tens of the people inside the lab, only two people survived the muscular man from before and the scientist with the golden fox tattoo that use the other scientist as his shield.

After a brief moment or so, the black lightning and the red light vanished.

The muscular man and the scientist peek from the rubbles towards Rudy, Rudy's opened chest is closing at a visible rate, they didn't dare to move a muscle.

The scientist dialed on his watch to call someone.

Not long after, a hologram of a man appeared.

The man has long black hair that falls to his shoulder, he has sharp eyebrows with two piercing on top of his left eyebrow, his skin looked sickly pale wearing a high tech mask that emitted a green hue, the same color as his eyes.

"What's the problem Prof. Rezvan?" asked the masked man.

"Report Mr.BS, subject A109 successfully pass the final step making the experiment a huge success but... all of our men are killed, only I and one guard survive" replied Prof. Rezvan with a shaky voice.

"How's the subject?" asked the masked man coldly.

"He's currently unmoving, but he's alive" replied Prof.Rezvan hurriedly.

"A109 is a valuable asset, hold him if he tries to escape. We will send a backup to your position" After saying that, the masked man vanished leaving the scientist.

Prof. Rezvan sweats as he looks at Raka nervously.

Raka saw the nervous look on the scientist's face and frown, "Did he tell us to stall the subject A109?"

Prof. Rezvan nods helplessly, while Raka's frown grows deeper.

'How can we hold a monster like that?...' Prof. Rezvan thought as he looks in Rudy's direction.