Yesterday's fourth update: Chapter 2558! 4/4!
After issuing the volunteer recruitment order, Xu Kun did not pay much further attention to it. In his view, the Hextech Project was not something that could be fully completed overnight.
But he had underestimated the passion of the Dark Elves who had returned from darkness to freedom, and he had also underestimated how many among humanity yearned for strength.
The goal of the project was bright, but the process remained cruel.
Thor had not told Xu Kun that beneath the feet of the hundred Hextech Source Project Warriors he had brought stood... hundreds of thousands of biological samples.
Mechanical ascension had only two outcomes: success or death. There was no such thing as failure.
Neither Thor nor Viktor had wanted Xu Kun to bear this sin. The hundreds of thousands of nameless people who had given their lives for it had done so willingly as well.
Before participating in the project's experiments, everyone signed a life-and-death waiver.
This waiver was not an exemption agreement. Rather, it stipulated what the project's executors had to do for them should they lose their lives.
Those with family could request a sum of wealth for them. Those without family could make a wish, even ask for vengeance on their behalf.
Of course, even more people had entered the project ready to die for righteousness.
If I succeed, I can vent the hatred in my heart with my own hands.
If I die, then may humanity rise and shelter all the poor beneath heaven, so that they may smile!
Piles upon piles of corpses forged the Great Wall...
I came seeking the Dao, but had nothing to say: clouds floated in the blue sky, water rested in the bottle!
The dead were water that had sunk into