Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game-Chapter 1012 - 468: The Bodies Needed by the Prophets, A Method to Delay the Spread of Chaos_2
[After Rona’s "defection," she was also accused of chasing the Stars and was imprisoned in Imperial City’s prison.]
[She never believed that Rona would betray the True God because no one could have a more devout belief than her. She knew Rona must have her reasons and she firmly believed that Rona would eventually clear her name.]
[She had only been in Imperial City’s prison for three days when she was secretly transferred here by the School, witnessing the dirt and darkness hidden beneath the veneer of the School’s justice.]
[The President of Multivision Headquarters, also known as the ’Council of Polymaths’ President, did not tell her the purpose of this action, only what she could do about it.]
[The president said that this laboratory had been established many years ago, even longer than his tenure...]
[The School searched everywhere, meticulously selecting children who met specific criteria, then removing the organs and limbs that had been diseased from long-term exposure to the "Knowledge Barrier" to create "qualified" bodies.]
[Because "Knowledge Barrier" is omnipresent, even in the young children, organs and flesh within the limbs carry diseased tissues to varying extents.]
[Therefore, it often required several children’s bodies, sometimes even a dozen, to assemble one qualified body.]
[The children’s bodies served as shells, and the integral Abyss Demon organs and Star Spirit eyes were also essential.]
[Because human organs are the most commonly diseased tissues, and the first to become so, even with a large amount of material available, it was not possible to create many qualified bodies.]
[Only those Abyss Demons from the Underworld Abyss and Star Spirits from beyond the Void, not affected by the "Knowledge Barrier," possessed still-healthy, qualified organs and eyeballs.]
[Combining the three was the only way to obtain a qualified body, one completely free of diseased tissue.]
[But combining these three into one body presented a significantly difficult technical problem—the heart.]
[The heart, as a major source of power for higher demons, embedded with a Star Spirit’s eyeball, carried too much force for a human body to handle, not to mention a child’s body; even an adult Polymath couldn’t withstand it.]
[Due to this technical problem, the laboratory could only use children’s hearts as the core of the body, and since human hearts were mostly diseased, finding one without any disease was a needle in a haystack.]
[At that time, the number of children who had to be sacrificed to create one qualified body was unimaginably high.]
[And the School needed a high number of these qualified bodies which were in very short supply. Every time a qualified body was created, countless children’s souls wailed and cried.]
[The President of Multivision Headquarters told her she was just a powerless transplant doctor. Even if she saw these horrifying conditions, she could not contend with the enormous School, nor could she change anything.]
[But she was also the best transplant doctor in Imperial City, and her transplantation skills had surpassed the limits that her predecessors could reach.]
[Rather than stubbornly refuse and die in a dark corner of the prison, it would be better to serve the School. If she could solve the heart problem, allowing the child’s body to perfectly integrate with the demon’s heart, the number of children sacrificed would decrease exponentially.]
[This would reduce the number of sacrifices, and the School would also gain more of the bodies they needed—it was a win-win situation...]
[After saying all this, the president imprisoned her again, allowing her to contemplate quietly.]
[She thought long and hard. Indeed, she was just a weak transplant doctor with nothing but her excellent transplantation skills.]
[She couldn’t even defeat a guard devoid of Scholar abilities, let alone change anything about these horrific conditions.]
[The only thing she could do, the only thing she was capable of doing, was to solve the heart problem, to reduce the number of those sacrificed.]
[She knew this was a deal with the "devil," yet she had no other choice but to follow the president’s demands, take residence in the laboratory, and tackle the experimental challenges...]
[After moving into the laboratory, she worked tirelessly, focusing solely on overcoming the heart problem, hoping to find the final transplantation solution soon because if she could solve the problem even a moment sooner, countless lives could be spared.]
[Perhaps it was the will of the True God, or perhaps it was the arrangement of the True God, but she quickly overcame the technical problem.]
[It felt a surge of excitement yet was profoundly saddened.]
[Because the final transplantation scheme demanded exceptionally high skill, no one but it could perform the last step of the heart transplant perfectly.]
[This also meant that it had to spend the rest of its life in the laboratory, performing these vile and nauseating transplant surgeries for the School perpetually.]
[Realizing this, it made up its mind to conquer all technical challenges, even to synthesize and modify the bodies of Abyss Demons and Star Spirits into suitable bodies, completely replacing the human children initially used for the materials.]
[The chairman soon understood its intentions, looked at it with pity, and said, "The shell of the child is crucial in the transplant surgery, even if you could overcome all the challenges, without the shell of the child, the whole transplant surgery would lose its significance."]
[What the School needs isn’t the bodies of Abyss Demons or Star Spirits; what they need are these powerful children’s bodies, selected through rigorous processes to satisfy the Prophets!]
[After saying this, the chairman turned and left, leaving it dazed in place.]
[At that moment, it felt as though the whole world had collapsed...]
[It turned out that the real instigators, those holding the blade behind the scenes, were the revered and worshipped Prophets, those who preside over all worldly matters, closest to the True God!]
[Was this also the will and arrangement of the True God?]
[Having learned the truth, it felt as if it had lost its soul, mechanically performing the transplant surgeries day after day, month after month, as if there was no end...]
[It didn’t know what made it continue to persevere if even the Prophets closest to the True God had become despicable devils. Did this mean that the Gods it believed in, that greatest existence... was itself the most terrifying devil?]
[Only after completing each surgery, when it remembered that many children had avoided misfortune through these perfect procedures, could it find a bit of its own reason for existence.]
[At this point, Bennett’s eyes were already filled with tears, it removed its beak-like mask and wiped the tears with its sleeve.]
[On its face with many eyes, however, you saw something familiar and terrifying... rotting sores!]
[Shocked, you pointed at Bennett’s face and blurted out, "This is...]
[’Bennett’ sniffled, and after steadying his emotions, said, "Messenger of the True God, there’s no need to be surprised. Long-term contact with these diseased tissues of course leads to infection."]
[This infection cannot be removed with antibiotics, and even Healing Spells fail to work. Perhaps it’s fate that it, with hands stained by much blood, would ultimately die from an infection due to these transplant surgeries.]
[You and Rona exchanged glances, seeing the gravity in each other’s eyes. Bennett is a transplant surgeon, not a Scholar who knows the true nature of things; it doesn’t realize this isn’t just a physical disease, it doesn’t know this is a sign of impending Chaos.]
[The diseased tissues removed from the children’s bodies result from inhaling ’Knowledge Barrier’ for years, including Chaos in the mist being absorbed into their bodies, leading to these ’diseases.’]
[Removing these diseased tissues means preventing the yet unspread Chaos.]
[Of course, merely removing the diseased tissues is absolutely incapable of eradicating Chaos.]
[Having experienced the Polar Star Association branch, you know that combining the organs of Abyss Demons and Star Spirits and implanting them into a human body, if technical challenges are ignored, can result in an extremely powerful body that could even break the Human and God Limit in another way.]
[Thus, the Prophets need weakened, disease-free bodies slowed by a hidden method to halt the spread of their own Chaos.]
[Being unable to eradicate Chaos will ultimately result in these children’s bodies being completely eroded by Chaos.]
[These fully eroded bodies are disposable consumables, hence the Prophets need an ongoing production of consumables in the laboratory to keep up with their own demands.]
[Having been to the headquarters of the Polar Star Association, you also know that Divine Level beings, such as Executors, can exist separately from their bodies in spirit form.]
[Then, the method by which the Prophets use these ’clean and pure’ children’s bodies to slow their own spread of Chaos becomes quite apparent...]
