Under Lynn's silver tongue, the intense resentment the Plague Doctor had stirred up in the embryo had subsided. Flesh could still be seen crawling across its sticky surface, but it had clearly been soothed.
Lynn had used Raven's identity and Cthulhu to awaken the hope hidden within their lingering remnants.
Although the monster born from it might still be thoroughly evil, now that he had instilled the belief that he was Raven, it would presumably be loyal to him.
The question now was this:
How could he bring this embryo to term in the shortest possible time?
Lynn knew that although the turmoil of resentment had settled and the conditions for merging into a new self-awareness were now in place, everything was still hazy. Without a suitable means of catalyzing the process, its birth would probably still take a very long time.
Lynn slowly opened his eyes, and the aura around him faded little by little.
He returned to his previous appearance as well.
Apart from possibly still being able to stir up that calamity within the Main Universe, the Pupil-less Magic Array was no longer of much use to him. At most, it could let him draw out the aura deep within his soul that had once belonged to the Violet Great Lord. Beyond that, he could no longer awaken those hidden, formidable powers through the Violet Great Lord's revival.
"While I'm here, their resentment is temporarily suppressed. But once I leave, it's a hundred percent certain to flare up again as time passes."
Lynn adjusted his Monocle and said, his eyes dead and vacant:
"We need to find a way to catalyze the process."
"The sooner the monster inside this embryo is born, the more obedient it'll be."
"Brain, do you have any suggestions?"
He turned toward the