Sixteen days had passed sihe fifth eruption. Fire MOTH began pig up the pace again. They were able to free several battle fronts with the MANTISes’ help. This gave them a leeway to re-deploy units to other areas that hem.
“’t we speed up the produ of high-level MANTIS?”
“Says the one who couldn’t do the surgery on their own. We haven’t fotteempted data leak amongst us.”
“Where was Doctor Aleph? Shouldn’t we… deploy him to more high-risk areas? Just like the sweep he did in the eastern ti…”
A meeting was held in the familiar feren. Uher times, more than a quarter of the cilors attended in-person. The remaining otehe meeting through their virtual projes—and that included Mei.
“Doctor Aleph does not ader the military division. It is an inappropriate suggestion.”
The ander-in-chief, Hagen, shut the voices suggesting Aleph's deployment.
“He is a research personnel. His as in the eastern ti should have been his own.”
Hagen gave Mei a look, to which the tter his words.
With this issue resolved (i.e., left alohey talked about other topics. The cilors who wao raise pints regarding the Project Soldier were forced to keep it to themselves.
After all, who asked their personal researchers to not be able to have a success rate akin to Mobius’?
Now, there are more thay high-level MANTISes—people who were able to have an emperor-css honkai beast as their ICHORs. This wasn’t their main problem, however.
It was the fact that nearly half of them beloo Mei’s side. The remaining half was uhe cilors with Hagen, and only six of these high-level MANTIS belong to the opposition.
It didn’t help that Mei herself art of them. That one move was enough to reduce the ces of her assassination to nil.
If it was known that she inally had an adaptability issue, these cilors would kill just to get the methods that could allow them to bee a MANTIS as well.
Unfortunately, they were destio fail. The main reason why Mobius’ surgeries went well was due to her skills and Aleph’s blood.
Without any of these, they faced the problems the inal Fire MOTH faced.
‘They are pnning something.’
Some sharp-eyed ones noticed that everyone who attehe meeting in person were all the cilors with Hagen. Their gazes shifted between them and Mei.
Ultimately, they looked at their fellow faembers. It was unknowher the undercurrents they pnned could suffice, but hesitation romi among some of them.
After all, Mei still gave them six quotas for the high-level MANTIS. This promise alone was enough to pce hesitation in others’ hearts.
The smart ones among the hesitating cilors saw through this ‘vicious’ pn of hers. They k oison-ced gift, yet they had no other choice but to take it.
‘The rift should start to appear. So long as the damage could be minimized…’
Ever since Mei began to take assassination attempts as well as the half-baked responses regarding honkai eruptions, she agreed with Aleph’s view regarding this monolithic anization.
Fire MOTH had no need for the parasites who impeded their progress. A sed wasted was equal to dozens of lives killed. Fire MOTH’s influence was extremely big and was very useful in the fight against the honkai.
But, the majority of this power was mispced due to the division of authorities. It would be different o has a set goal to reach.
The responsibility of ging this status quo naturally fell to Mei’s shoulders.
“...This cludes the meeting today.”
Buzz-!
Buzz-!
…
Only Mei’s proje was left sitting on the fereable. She already expected this seeeting along with her ‘allies’.
She fixed her silver-rimmed gsses as she asked:
“Let’s not waste any more time, shall we?”
*****
Aleph was aware of the ges that occurred in Fire MOTH. He was, after all, one of the biggest reasons why such ges occurred.
The power he showed to the public during the eight day crusade was enough to make his prestige extremely high amongst the military division.
‘Fmechasers will bee a thing this time around.’ He mused.
Thinking of the information he khere were several ways to forcefully ie Fire MOTH together, such as using Fenghuang Down to manipute them.
However, it might leave hidden risks that could erupt. The trolled cilors breaking free and turning into a Herrscher was but one of them. At the very least, these risks had to be avoided now. There are still many ways to grasp trol of Fire MOTH with less risks.
“So, what do you pn to show me?”
Mobius’ voice came from beside him. She was wearing her usual attire. heless, Aleph began to notice the small things he failed to notice before.
A st entirely uo her mixed with her current shampoo. It was different before, in a way that Mobius’ st was dominant due to her choosing not to bathe for two to three days.
Body odor wasn’t an issue to her because of her physique as a MANTIS back then.
Chaotic thoughts began to creep up to his heart. It was slowly gnawing at his mind, telling him that there’s nothing wrong with a few minutes of cuddling.
In the end, Aleph successfully repressed it, but not without Mobius notig something amiss. Her snake-like pupils scrutinized Aleph’s dark purple pupils.
“Ahem.”
With a cough, he cleared up his mind.
“It’s because of this.”
A bck cube the size of his palm appeared in his grasp. It was her than the Evolution Cube, the reward that came out of his [Random Box].
After three days of scrutiny, Great Sage thhly processed most of the information it could gather on it. That included Aleph’s use of elemental sight to further dig deeper into its effects.
“It’s one of the things I got with my power to travel through worlds.” He expined. “It was said that this cube used to be an artifact of a civilization. As for its uses… it’s reted to evolution.”
Aleph wasn’t sure before, but upon usage of his Sanctum Keys to ehe “First Sanctum”, he mao acquire informatiarding it uhe paper “Effects of Artificially-Induced Evolution Process to the Biological Body”. It was written by a researcher from the ‘Evolutionary Civilization’.
Aleph chose that paper and got to know more about this mysterious cube.
“Evolution…”
Mobius’ i peaked when she heard of these words.
