Enkelai, who had forced down his emotions and fully recognized reality, secretly swore that if he escaped this predicament, he would make these reckless mortals before him beg for death but be unable to die. On the surface, his tone softened as he seductively persuaded the Successors around him.
"Mortals, if you are willing to release me, I will appoint you as my personal priests. Imagine it: countless worlds at your command, inexhaustible wealth to enjoy, and profound divine arts within easy reach..."
The Successors began conversing among themselves. Seeing that his persuasion seemed effective, Enkelai redoubled his efforts to entice them.
However, if he had understood what the Successors were saying, he probably would have wanted to slap his own self-righteous face.
"How's the processing going?"
"Thanks to his cooperation, we've finished deciphering the information in his brain. We can kill him now."
Directly reading information from the brain was rather complicated and required decoding. To decode it, the Successors continued to string the captive along even after deciphering his language.
Now that the brain's information had been decoded, there was no need to continue talking.
"The promise of the great god is..."
A paralytic compound took effect inside the captive's body, and his seductive words came to an abrupt halt. Without damaging its vitality, his brain was directly removed and its internal information read.
Enkelai and his kind came from a race called the "Yoya." They had octopus heads, humanoid bodies, and six pairs of bat wings on their backs. They were amphibious creatures, though they mainly lived in water and only occasionally ventured onto land.
Every race had its own unique model for understanding the world and the universe, and the Yoya were naturally no exception.
They called the entire galaxy the Myriad Heavens and Worlds. Every