Chapter 34: Sanctum
Bright lights illuminated a steel enforced room on top of a tall building.
Many kids in their mid teens sat in the room on chairs spaced a little apart in the room.
They only had a hospital gown on and their hands bound behind the chair.
On top of that their eyes were shut with a black helmet looking object with several wires ejecting on top of them as well as a large headphone on their ears.
Every now and then the kids shouted at irregular intervals and intensity as if living through a nightmare.
42 similarly went through the somewhat familiar but just as dreadful process.
In his eyes was being played a series of clips, again and again. It was the information about the ’institution’ and its noble goals for the world order.
Despite going through this strange kind lecture plenty of times, to the point that he could transcribe the whole 3 hours worth of content with his memory.
Yet they had to go through this, and with the full attention as the machine somehow knew when he stopped concentrating on the clips and the content, and zapped his brain with a current.
Gritting his teeths, Noctis kept his mind focused as the more he delayed the longer the session would stretch.
[The world is too big, too complex for you to know anything properly. Everything that you see is crafted for you to betray order and feed into chaos.]