(Ceruno)
The modification process was simpler than expected. Thanks to the Professor's long-standing research and deconstruction of Witches, along with SpiCa reclaiming her brainwashing power, Living Dark Collectors were born one after another.
"These guys barely had any brains to begin with. Turning them into this is making the best use of them."
After completing the modification of the last Witch, the Professor withdrew her tentacles and continued:
"They haven't absorbed anything at all—not personalities, not consciousness. Nothing from their original personalities was absorbed. If they had digested even a little, they wouldn't act like violent beasts."
"Then where did their original personalities go?"
"Who knows? Maybe they were thrown out like garbage."
The Professor did not dwell on it, since she had more important matters to handle. But having heard this through the Thought Network, I made a mental note of it...
If their personalities had not been absorbed, then perhaps those who had undergone Witchification could still be saved?
The modified Witches lost their aggression and were sealed inside the upright containers Metal had prepared... or rather, vertical coffins.
Those metal coffins not only restricted their movements, but also transported darkness.
Then, those Witches were sent to the Association branches that had not yet been destroyed. Those branches were often located in densely populated cities, where they absorbed the surrounding darkness to ease the pressure while feeding Mi Xue.
Everything in the virtual world was false data, except for people's consciousnesses, which were real. The Radiance and darkness born from those consciousnesses were real as well.
Therefore, darkness from the virtual world could pass through the Earth Crystal and be delivered to the Second Room in reality...
Of course, transmitting darkness through the Earth Crystal was risky. I had to use my magic to isolate it throughout the