"'Weeping Scepter,' a large-scale alchemical facility on the same level as the Truth Company's 'Wrath Throne.'
Compared to the Wrath Throne, which helped the Truth Company firmly control the skies and hovered over the City That Never Sleeps year-round to display the company's power, the Weeping Scepter was much harder to see.
It could only appear in the event of a "major accident" or the outbreak of a "Company War."
That was because, unlike the Wrath Throne, it had no function for monitoring the City That Never Sleeps from the air.
The Weeping Scepter had no "standard functions" whatsoever—it was closer to an aerial fortress or stronghold than a platform. While the Wrath Throne was essentially a combat unit, the Weeping Scepter was a pure weapon.
Once activated, it would damage everything in its surroundings.
The Weeping Scepter's true nature was its continuous emission of highly infectious "negative emotions," forcing everyone within its range into a depressed and negative emotional state.
Furthermore... through those negative emotions, the Weeping Scepter could mark every human or animal contaminated and polluted by them, effectively locking onto every living unit within a given area.
At the same time, this Emotion Energy did not target only emotional living beings. Once the concentration of negative emotions increased, it could even cause alchemical objects to run amok, and could even begin corroding ordinary objects.
At that moment, the factory's outer walls were already covered in mottled rust and corrosion. The sheet metal and masonry had even begun to break apart.
Through those breaches, Lin Yu caught a glimpse of the Weeping Scepter's true form—five pitch-black metal pillars mounted on a mobile vehicle base and vibrating in resonance.
Beside the metal pillars stood more than a dozen fully armed employees of the Truth Company's Special Operations Team.
And