Miken, a basement somewhere in Eagle Fort.
"Ha ha, ha ha, is this the joy of throwing everything away?"
"Come on, embrace chaos, embrace ultimate freedom!"
"Throw yourselves into my arms, children! Only I can make you great again!"
Inside a silver-white titanium alloy cage was Lieutenant General Lola, his hair disheveled.
He looked utterly deranged. Flames burned in his eyes, and horrifying noises that only a Demon could make poured endlessly from his mouth.
Outside, a group of researchers in lab coats discussed something under the watch of fully armed soldiers.
"Judging by the surveillance footage, the Lieutenant General took the Blood-colored Flame given to him by a Demon," the elderly lead researcher mused.
"The Lieutenant General is also an Otherworldly User. Why didn't the Strange Seed resist it?" the young assistant asked.
"Strange Seeds are the natural world's immune response to mysterious invasions. Under what circumstances does an immune system accept foreign matter?" the elderly researcher countered.
"When anti-rejection drugs are administered?" the assistant answered tentatively.
"Wrong. It happens when the immune system is absent," the elderly researcher reminded him.
"Right, the brain is where the immune system doesn't function. It can escape the immune system's control," the assistant suddenly realized.
"That's right. The only explanation is that the Strange Seed, this immune system itself, vanished. That's why it didn't resist this Blood-colored Flame," the elderly researcher said gravely.
"So this Blood-colored Flame can make a Strange Seed's defense mechanism disappear? Isn't that like the HIV Virus? It specifically attacks the immune system itself." The young researcher turned pale in shock.
After all, Strange Seeds had an extremely powerful resistance to all kinds of negative effects, and that was the source of an Otherworldly User's sense of superiority.
But now, even Strange Seeds could not resist what the