Murphy came to himself from the resonance of ancient memories.
His first reaction upon opening his eyes was to pull out the blood crystal and tell Lord Paine what he had seen.
He didn't know whether the Lord had learned about Grand Duke Constance's unsavory role in that affair after awakening his ancient memories. But he was sure the main reason the vampires' perfect-life experiment had gone wrong was the "primary gene module" Constance had provided at the end. That thing had turned the seven test subjects directly into vessels for the shadows of the Subspace in the material world.
And from Constance's final farewell to Edward in this particular memory, Murphy could tell that the "original sin" she spoke of was probably the current object of the Dusk's worship—the Chaos thug who longed to bring about an apocalypse in the material world.
There were, however, many details in the last stretch of memories.
Murphy still couldn't figure out what Constance's "Department of Mysteries" had been researching a thousand years ago. From what she'd said, they seemed to have crossed into some forbidden domain that the Creator had strictly prohibited. Before that, the department's research had focused on deities.
Goodness, it sounded like the work of mad scientists.
And in the first steamy memory, Constance had also confessed to Edward that their research into divine power had failed. Senator Widia had been involved in that experiment, too. But considering that Widia had since become a captive Old God, whatever happened after that was downright terrifying to think about.
Murphy stared at the blood crystal in his hand. For once, he hesitated over an issue concerning the Dusk and the threat of the Subspace—something he usually acted on decisively.
He knew that if he told Paine about this, the Lord's first