fynovel Chapter 893: Lucius Romano (4)
Chapter 893: Lucius Romano (4)
Chapter 893: Lucius Romano (4)
"Some buildings?"
"Yes. They all looked like research centers, and more than that, they all had the remnants of some symbols on them."
Erik realized something. It couldn't be a coincidence. No, it couldn't.
The young man traveled through the vast cave and tunnel systems that the village had relocated to before arriving at Liberty Watch.
There he found thaids and a harrowing monster. A humanoid beast, looking like a thaid, but with no brain crystal power.
Thinking about it, that was weird. Why did a monster like that, as powerful as it was, have no brain-crystal power?
But that wasn't everything. Back in the city's main building, where Liberty Watch has now established its town hall, he found some documents.
The problem was that these documents showed a date that predated the appearance of thaids, and yet, the documents talked about these vile beasts as if they were spotted daily. It was weird back then; it was strange now.
But Erik never found an answer to his questions, at least not until now.
"Was that symbol depicting a mortar and a pestle, intertwined by a silver-colored line?"
Lucius was shocked. "How do you know that?"
"AH! Those damned fuckers chose the mountains! Many people died, and food ran out after months of sitting on the mountain's hills. Those guys had resorted to... Well, I prefer not saying it. At that point, I had enough and decided to leave. I knew where to go, and so I did. In the end, I reached a base. No one had been there in a long time, so most documents were there. What I found out, well, you know what it was."
"The Biological Supercomputer."
"Indeed. They used a human brain to make it, according to the papers. They put a person inside that thing."
"Ah..."
That explained a lot. It explained why the AI was so advanced and why it could respond to Erik as if it were a person. Erik often asked himself and the system those questions, but an answer never came. Though something weird became clear after he asked the biological supercomputer to talk like a person. The AI... it was not a sort of robot...
"So, you found it, but this thing allows me to get more brain crystal powers. We all know that to have a Brain Crystal Power, one needs a brain crystal. There were none back then. You said these guys were studying mana, but the biological supercomputer looked like the result of another research project."
Lucius paused. "It is not the result of another research project; it is something they made after they completed their initial research. Studying mana-these aren't the right words to describe what they were doing. No, they were trying to control it. The problem was that they couldn't... unless..."
"Are you serious?" Erik was shocked. It all made sense. That was why his father said he found out the source of the Sinister Cold, the dreaded disease, or blessing, that brought brain crystal powers to humanity.
"I am. The Silverline Corporation is responsible for the appearance of the Sinister Cold, or at least for its appearance among humans. They were responsible for the creation of brain crystals powers and the ability to wield mana through brain crystals. That was all to control mana, to turn men into gods."
Erik's expression transformed into one of utter astonishment, his eyes widening to the point where they seemed to take up his entire face.
His jaw dropped open, slack with the weight of the bombshell his father had just dropped, and his skin paled as if the blood had been drained from it.
For a moment, he was a statue, frozen in the moment's gravity, the gears in his mind grinding to a halt as he tried to wrap his head around the staggering implication of his father's words. "But that wasn't what the Blackguards were searching for. Maybe they knew it already. What they were searching for was the biological supercomputer itself."