Devouring a soul... that wasn't it. It wasn't some horrible ultimatum I set them, you know? It was their research, their great work. They cracked immortality. They built the path to ascension.
[ He looks steadily at Viktor. Remina watches impassively. ]
To help me face everything out there which was against us, they became my fists, my avenging angels. Two souls joined in apotheosis... the dead safely entombed in the heart... There was beauty in it. It was a willing sacrifice. It was the bravest thing I've ever seen.
[ Remina watches, and watches, and watches. ]
If I wanted to churn out super-soldiers, I wouldn't have buried the trick of it all these years. In ten millennia, there have only been nine saints.
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Devouring a soul... that wasn't it. It wasn't some horrible ultimatum I set them, you know? It was their research, their great work. They cracked immortality. They built the path to ascension.
[ He looks steadily at Viktor. Remina watches impassively. ]
To help me face everything out there which was against us, they became my fists, my avenging angels. Two souls joined in apotheosis... the dead safely entombed in the heart... There was beauty in it. It was a willing sacrifice. It was the bravest thing I've ever seen.
[ Remina watches, and watches, and watches. ]
If I wanted to churn out super-soldiers, I wouldn't have buried the trick of it all these years. In ten millennia, there have only been nine saints.