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“D-Doctor! There’s… there’s a body!”
Dr. Veydal and his crew had ventured into these dark waters driven by a singular, reckless obsession: to see the nightmare with their own eyes.
Earlier, a blinding flash had torn through the sky. From a distance, they had watched as the gargantuan silhouette of the beast lost its strength and buckled into the waves.
“I’ve never seen a devil like that, sir,” one sailor muttered, his voice trembling. “We should turn back. Now.”
“No,” Veydal replied, his eyes fixed on the horizon. “I must see its true nature. Move us closer.”
The sailor let out a heavy sigh. He knew there was no extinguishing the fire of curiosity once it had claimed the doctor’s mind.
As their vessel pulled alongside the massive, floating carcass, a thick, ethereal steam began to rise from its countless lacerations.
“Is it… regenerating?” Veydal whispered, leaning over the railing.
The Beast-Devil was undoubtedly dead. The light had left its eyes, yet its very cells seemed to possess a horrific, lingering will to survive, knitting themselves together in a futile, rhythmic pulse.
Veydal was mid-stride, preparing to harvest a cellular sample, when a sharp cry from a crewman pierced the air.
Lying amidst the wreckage was a girl, drenched in crimson.
She was a ruin of a human being. Scattered around her were her own severed limbs and four blades that shimmered with an unnatural, golden radiance—The Relic Blades.
“She’s still breathing,” Veydal noted, his voice devoid of panic, replaced instead by a cold, clinical fascination. “Quickly, set course for the nearest village.”
It was clear to him: this girl had traded her very flesh to bring the titan down.
How did she wield four blades at once? What slumbering power resides within that broken frame?
The questions were endless. A dark thrill coursed through him.
After performing a crude triage and gathering the golden steel, Veydal ordered the ship forward. Behind them, the moonlight danced upon the blackened sea, trembling like a dying nerve upon the waves.
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