Aparajita found it amusing, because even he himself did not know why Constantine's proposal interested him. He followed with great interest, leisurely stating his demands amid splashing blood and shattered flesh, utterly unconcerned with whether Constantine and the other Praetorian Guard were listening. He had submitted duel requests to Constantine more than once, but every single one had been rejected.
Chemical psychological intervention and implanted cerebral organs had, to some extent, transformed the minds of Gene-modded Warriors to an almost inhuman level. Conventional psychoanalytic theories could not be applied to these superhumans, so the City of Immortals had established an entirely new psychological model to analyze the behavior of Gene-modded Warriors. At the core of this theory was an idea proposed by the Emperor: every Gene-modded Warrior was a violent, savage war machine. Yet, to allow them to focus on their missions and avoid being influenced by other emotional factors, their chemically treated brains lost many of the emotions humans displayed in response to the outside world.
To ordinary humans, these superhumans, as cold as steel, possessed none of the feelings of normal people. They were merely tools the Emperor needed to inflict ultimate violence upon His enemies. They would feel no emotional fluctuation over the violence they committed in war, nor would they show any expression upon witnessing the inhuman acts of certain armed factions—whether those religious militants stuffed people into meat grinders or ate human flesh made no difference to them. The role of Gene-modded Warriors was to eradicate superstition and those who believed in it. When Gene-modded Warriors secretly escorted an exploration team into Iraq, they happened to wipe out a guerrilla band of religious militants that crossed their path. Then, without changing expression, the Gene-modded Warriors stuffed those militants alive into meat grinders, exactly as the