Chapter: 491

“This old guy? He had a note in his pocket.”

“Huh? No? I mean, I used my loot skill on him but… I guess the note didn’t count as loot?” Jay raised a brow, “What’s it say?”

“Here.” she said, handing it to him.

It seemed to be some sort of personal diary entries. Each of them began a little less legible as they went.

[~ I’m glad Heidi volunteered to be here. She really makes this compound a little less dark.

[~ I worry for Heidi, my assistant. Each passing day, I see the light fade from her eyes, replaced by desperation.

[~ Heidi always wanted children, and even after she turned part of her body to the cursed stone, it seems that she didn’t give up. She has already created some different creatures using her own blood – but she assures me that it’s purely for experimentation.

[~ Heidi is changing herself… She says it’s for the revenge pact, but I think the motives are obvious.

[~ Her – no. It. Its drive for offspring has only magnified as we have both aged. Perhaps our life-scaling chemicals are warping our minds. It gave up pieces of itself as time went by. Amputating itself, implanting different parts from other creatures, and conducting small-scale experiments on its own flesh.

[~ It released some specimens from containment and tried to leave in the chaos. I sealed the facility; we can only be opened from the outside now.

[~ Even parts of its own soul were not spared from the mad experiments, and the more pieces of itself it ripped away, the madder it got.

[~ Slowly it began adding parts of its experiments back into itself, eventually becoming the abominable beast that it is today. It’s hard to tell if it’s still alive, and I don’t think Heidi is still with us.

[~ It released more specimens… then killed some soldiers. It’s truly not human anymore. I have locked down the facility. No more experiments – we have failed.

[~ I will sit here on my immortal throne and will keep the pyramid locked down until the end of time, or until the stone guard saves me. If any of these creatures get free, our chance of revenge is lost. Perhaps everything will be lost – not that we had much left anyway.

[~ The pact must live on. Long live Helvetia’s revenge.

[~ Its making me mad, the constant scratching

[~ Chemicals I love chemicals feel good good

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Jay took a big breath in after reading this.

“Fuck, so that’s what it was… also why it was mad enough to give half its soul up.” he thought.

“Pretty damn tragic… I suppose even emptiness can turn some people into monsters. While they don’t start out that way, it doesn’t mean they’re not currently monsters. Pity is not reserved for monsters.” he shrugged, scrunching up the note and tossing it away.

Anya looked at him as if expecting some emotional response – he was the one who dealt with the creature anyway.

“Oh, thanks by the way. That was enlightening.” Jay nodded and turned back to his new level 1 feeble creature.

Anya shook her head as Jay prepared his little minion.

“Hmm… I’ll have to make you some armour at some point… I guess it’d be a waste to make it now while you’re so little though.” he looked at the small skeleton, it was barely up to his waist.