Luminary

Episode 53 - The Guardian of Will Pt 1

Emily: Jade, I don't think it's a good idea yet.... I got a bad feeling about all this...

Jade: The IBI agents that joined us in our rebellion said they were being held captive under the castle for the Excellar experiments. We have to go down there.

Harper: I'll try to at least turn on the lights again, can't you wait until then?

Jade grabbed a flashlight and proceeded to go down to the underground with Flora while Emily guarded the door. Harper was right, there was some sort of secret laboratory thing under the castle.

Jade: What were they doing...?

She looks around... But her eyes fixate on one spot.

Flora: Project Excellar...

Jade walked to the empty holdings.

Jade: Why did they need these?

Flora: When they don't kill IBI agents captured in combat, they try to experiment on them. Using their powers to try to get close to the abilities of the dead gods, specifically space and time. Sages don't break that easily, but a normal or super human on the other hand...

Jade: This is horrible.... All those people... Saisem is truly evil..

Flora didn't say anything and just watched Jade's horror. The lights in that dark place suddenly turned on, Harper probably fixed the power grid.

Flora: Hey, this PC is working, there's no internet, but there's some video files.

Jade: Should we watch?

Jade sat down and tried to not throw up. Each video had the name of a test subject and she started to cry seeing Saisem's experiments. Torture, forced breeding, accelerated fetal growth, failed forced fusion attempts, dissection. All those people were surviving a living hell, not just on that castle, but on other Saisem's bases all over the world.

While Jade watched in horror everything, Flora walked around. All other desktops were fried, but she managed to find one more working with different files. Yet she freezes when she reads the files.

"Sweden Saisem's Labs:

Krystallus(Moved to Russia)

Júpiter

Saturn

Flora"

Flora looked behind her, checking that Jade was still watching the other PC, so she quickly permanently deleted three files, the one with her nickname and the other two, leaving only Jade's brother.

Flora: Hey, I found your brother.

Jade: Really?

The video shows the log of Dr Weissmann aka Karma.

They see the same video that Silver watched on Sweden, explaining Krystallus' existence and their objective with Jade, but it has one extra bonus section that Silver didn't get.

Karma: The experiment failed again, what a bother... According to the empress, the Zero project was a success, proving that fusion is indeed possible, yet, it has to be willing and consensual, else rejection happens.

Jade takes a closer look on Karma's desk and sees the picture of three young kids, with one of them looking a bit like Flora, but with shorter hair and pink hair instead of blue. Yet, the camera's focus changes so fast that she can't really be sure if that was Flora or not.

Karma: If we want Jade and Krystallus to fuse, we're going to need to convince her, somehow. But I'll find a way to make forced fusion possible. I'm gonna make Excellar happen, not the Empress.