Dystopian Odyssey

Chapter 9: Aesteria Takeover

Author's Note: Qwerty (I should really make these chapters longer)

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Chris and Leywin were walking through the hallways of the research Facility that she and her squad had investigated. They walk through the fourth floor as Leywin asks her, "So this was the place where you first saw The Corruption?" "Yes, and from the looks of it..." Chris says as we pan out and see that the fourth floor is almost entirely covered in crystals, the walls have obtained a weird fleshy-like exterior and pulsing like a human heart while the pink relatively opaque rock protrudes from the ground like stalagmites, "It's gotten worse since we left" "Well we'll need a way to take it out and neutralise it before it spreads to the rest of this facility and starts to corrupt the land around it" "Roger that" "Careful though, if these things come in contact with your skin you'll be in his position fast" "I know" The two would summon forms of Harvesting tools and cleansers and would get to work them making cautionary steps in order to not suffer the same fate as Gabriel had.

Speaking of the Man in question we cut to the Lab as We see Gabriel in an interrogation room with a person across from him with a notepad in his hand and looking to him waiting for anything else he had to say as two scientists were outside watching the two and inspecting the Man's condition even though they managed to stabilise him his physical body and mental health have taken a toll, His body has become severely skinnier and his skin looks a lot more dead with it almost looking like someone tried gluing back the skin from falling off and his mental health wasn't any better, His behaviour had been from a man whose Trying desperately to seek help and get this energy ripped put of him and someone praising about the corruption and trying to get people to hail Ralliah and Get corrupted but they managed to suppress that side and get Gabriel here to talk and extract information from him but this still was a sad sight to bear witness to

"Alright so Gabriel one more time so I can see if I got everything here, when You first got corrupted what did you experience?"

The man looks up with his lifeless eyes as he answers in a tone that sounds like it's fading by the minute, "A-all I heard was some voice in my head and not long after...I h-had this sudden rush of emotions go through me and I...I felt rage and this urge to hurt everything around me and well before I knew it I was flailing about trying to harm the head investigator and soon I just felt my soul being overwritten by another foreign energy but luckily I was saved from it and Was taken to here, I still feel like something is clawing at the back of my head as we speak"

The scientists talked to one another as they note down, "So Gabriel soul now houses two energies within it no?" "That's true but we've barely had a case where The other energy was forced within the body, this Corruptive energy was soon going to overwrite Gabriel's soul and use him like a mindless puppet while he was a passanger to endless mounts of destruction he could've potentially caused"

"So Why not try fusing the energies?"

The scientist took a pause, energy fusion wasn't impossible but the repercussions you could potentially face weren't worth it they've had cases of it happening and they've barely ended well "..No, Fusing energies as he is now would probably kill him he's going to have to wait until we get a cure for him...if there is any"

"We'll need to inform all of solace and try keeping this Corruption to a minimum who knows what other places were crystalised under our noses?"

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Aesteria was the first building to be a victim of Ralliah's conquest, having corrupted a student who goes to the school she peers through their eyes and witness the havock that was being unleashed as this student was running through the building like some Rabid animal, expressing joy over this she gives one command to the student knowing their will is too weak to fight it off