Nyx's Phantasma Act 3

Castle of Paradise: Fourth Floor

Castle of Paradise: Fourth Floor

[Striker Team Vs Lena Quinn]

As the Striker Team runs past floor three, they enter the fourth floor. It was a long hallway with two doors on each hall.

"Which is Vesh's room?" Eloria eagerly looks around, ready to fight.

August stops Eloria, "Wait, let's check out there first."

Everyone looked to where August was pointing, "Lena?" Alina asks.

"I want to check the other two figure heads first... Let's go."

Lyn slowly opens Lena's door, walking in it empty. The room was filled with book cases, rows across the wall, at the end was a research table with messy papers. On the floor was one mattress presumably where Lena would sleep in. On the left from the door were weird rocks forming a circle, yet nothing was shown...

Jasper's eyes were sparkling, "Holy mother! This... this is a full on treasure trove! So many books, so many banned books!"

August also takes a book, "Banned book indeed, is this on the History of Satrus? This is on the Revolutionary of the Slums, I thought it wasn't recorded... And yet here it is..."

Eloria's eyes widen as she finds a book about bread, "This is the true treasure!"

Alina found books on unknown and rare medicine, Rayth found books about Deus, Hyde and Lucy found books on the twelve children of Nyx, and Lyn found a book about his master, Seigfreid.

August closes the book, "Hard to believe it's all here..."

"And who do you think did that?"

Everyone turned towards the door, someone with a long white lab coat, messy black hair holding a coffee on one hand walked in.

"I am Lena Quinn, the woman cursed with infinite knowledge."

Jasper asks, "You... Wait... I've seen your face..."

Lena smiles as she puts down her coffee, "That's right Professor Jasper, I am the higher ups for the University of Archaeology, you know I am the one funding the institution right?"

"Yes... yeah! We met two years ago! When I moved to the main branch to teach!"

Lena walks past us, "Every human being holds a treasure... That being knowledge. Knowledge is priceless, knowledge is power. Without one, human can't even function. Knowledge can tell us histories, write theories, solve the mysteries of the world. Which is why it's a treasure far more important than anything else..."

August shouts, "Then it was you... The one who ordered BRG to test on human children."

"Well yes, while it was a part of the grand scheme of Project Vanitas... The idea of a perfect mind intrigued me, and so I funded their projects. It's the same as Xenor funding for the Dark Temple Project, he was interested in the perfect body. Vesh dealt with the Divine Exoskeleton and Golden Growth project."

Lyn grips his hands, "Do you know how many people suffered! How many people's lives were taken away, how many..."

Rayth looks down as Lena walks near the weird rocks.

"Why do you care? With only a few sacrifices, we can make the world a much better place... You would rather wait until we can get the right tools and technology to create a perfect human? Of course not! We don't have infinite time!"

Jasper placed down a book, "Earlier you said that knowledge is treasure... Why do you want to create one badly? And not pass down your knowledge to the future generations..."