Chapter 205: Mana Core Degeneration Syndrome [1]
"Two years. That’s all I can tell you. As for why it’s accelerated, I think you already know the reason."
"...."
"Did you know that was going to be the outcome?" Vanitas asked quietly.
"...Yes."
Vanitas’s voice rose. "Aside from criminals, who else did you use as lab rats?"
They had not only replicated a stigmatas, but they had refined it, multiplied it, embedded it into vessels created from chimeras. Constructs made from demons, spirits, beasts, and unwilling humans.
"Is that so?"
To those who followed Araxys, there was no greater authority than the prophet known as Fyodor. To them, his words were the law. Every cultist referred to him as the Chosen Messiah, the one who spoke on behalf of the Black Dragon’s will.
That explained Astrid’s powerful, and unexplainable stigmata unlike any other. Among all those he had encountered, hers was the most destructive. Even more so than Margaret’s or Ezra’s in terms of devastating power.
"...."
"To call it dislike is an understatement," Vanitas replied flatly.
Yves was caught off guard. He hadn’t expected Vanitas to ask so directly, nor did he think the boy knew of the connection. But the surprise disappeared quickly as it appeared.