"But I don't have 'collapse,' do I?"
Norla tilted his head in confusion.
Rejection had been present from the very beginning.
The greatest difficulty Serim had encountered in his experiments was rejection—in other words, the [collapse] of artificial familiars.
Put simply, it meant that life itself rejected what Serim had turned it into.
Life's resistance led to such consequences.
The initial rejection—the consequences of collapse—had not been all that severe. At most, the bodies of the artificial humans nearing completion would disintegrate into a skeleton and a puddle of pus.
But the collapses that came afterward became terrifying.
The first case—and the only recorded case of a severe collapse—had been caused by a test subject before Norla.
Her real name could no longer be verified. All that was known was that, after being modified, her code name had been [Ano Type.0].
After her modifications were completed, Ano Type.0 entered a period of stability. During that time, she showed no abnormalities and could even move and communicate normally.
But shortly after Serim left Ano Type.0, she collapsed.
Because both her body mass and the amount of magical energy accumulated within her had reached terrifying levels, she did not turn into a skeleton and a puddle of pus like her predecessors. Instead, she exploded with unimaginable violence.
Half of Serim Zolgen's research base was blasted into the sky.
The later Norla—Arno No. 1—had not suffered a collapse, but that was only while Norla was alive.
After his death, during the London Singularity, at the final moment when facing the Mage King, Norla had deliberately triggered his own rejection. It caused a great collapse several times more terrifying than Ano Type.0's, expanding the underground hollows beneath all of London severalfold.
But now, this beautiful older sister who carried Lawrence's aura was saying that