"Ah... I... you... Waaaaah..."
Piercing screams mixed with helpless cries echoed out of the factory, interspersed with indistinct, stumbling words.
Shifting our attention inward, the entire military factory resembles a large-scale slaughterhouse.
One by one, live humans were hooked onto specialized restraint equipment, surrounded by a complete set of cutting and harvesting machines that performed fully automated, timed cutting.
Machines rotate intermittently, using AI scanning to identify and cut off a certain Soul Matter that has proliferated on the body. After being cut, this substance falls onto a conveyor belt below the machine and is then transported by the conveyor belt to the processing front end.
The sizzling sound of flesh being cut never stopped, and the screams and wails never ceased. Yet, these people all possessed Fifth Stage strength. After their bodies were cut, they not only did not bleed to death, but they would also recover rapidly, waiting for the next round of material production to repeat the previous cutting process.
Humanity has been waging war for a thousand years, and the rapid expansion of the front lines has led to an extreme shortage of logistical supplies, especially materials that can isolate the soul, which are now a scarce resource.
To prevent the front lines from collapsing completely due to resource shortages, the Human Federation initiated cloning technology five hundred years ago, which was once considered to be "extremely destructive to ethics and morality."
By using the genes of arrested prisoners, their individuals are cloned and then rapidly grown using growth-inducing technology.
Often, it only takes a year for a cloned prisoner to grow from an infant into an adult. Then, they are injected with a substance that catalyzes the growth of the Soul Matter needed for human beings. Afterward, they are inserted into this cutting device to become part of this production line.
Because cloned individuals have never been educated or trained, they cannot speak human language. However, no matter how much humans are confined, through daily contact with their fellow humans, they can still understand some syllables. Therefore, they can only utter some mixed words accompanied by pain, attempting to express their suffering.
Unfortunately, it was completely useless.
The cutting production line is a relatively humane production line, as most of the clones used to produce Soul Matter can survive for a long time.
If an individual is fortunate enough to gain inspiration through prolonged contact with staff and learn the general language and operating principles of humanity, they may gain the most precious freedom of their life—being escorted to the front lines to serve as a "line-filling baby" (a person who fills in the gaps in the lines).
Compared to them, the ultrasoldier training bases located deeper within the military factories are even more cruel and inhumane.
As you walk further in, the screams subside, but the scene becomes even more horrifying.
Neat and tidy sterile laboratories are arranged in neat rows like pigeon coops within the factory.
Inside the laboratory, on the hospital beds lay human bodies, where AI-powered androids were performing surgery, removing their limbs, heads, internal organs, and various other human organs.
These organs are not intended for transplantation into patients, but rather for the modification of extreme warriors!
Each of these laboratories has two hospital beds. If you go inside, you'll see that the faces of the people lying on these two beds are extremely similar, almost identical.
The only difference is that organs and limbs are removed from one living body and then sewn onto another.
This is the superhuman surgery performed on extreme warriors—cloning and transplanting organs.
Humans are all powerful, with Fifth Stage powerhouses everywhere. However, the mutation continues the foundation of the mutation that Norton had in the old Boya Empire era—all the mutations involve the growth of mutated organs on the body.
For example, during the Boya Empire, witches who could breathe fire would grow tumor-like ignition organs on their necks. These organs could store marsh gas and heat it to its ignition point when sprayed out through nozzles, thus achieving the purpose of breathing fire.
The same applies to human mutations today. Although there has been some evolution in physical characteristics, and the growth of tumors similar to those commonly found on witches during the Boya Empire period has not occurred, there are still many mutated organs, though most of them are hidden inside the body.
This gives people an opportunity to enhance their strength—by using cloning technology to clone another version of themselves and transplanting its mutated organs onto their own body, thereby enhancing their individual strength.
Such cloned organs do not cause physiological rejection, can fuse rapidly, and can be controlled like an arm, greatly enhancing their self-strength.
Therefore, with increasing setbacks on the front lines and a growing crisis for humanity, humans have no choice but to resort to any means necessary, such as using cloning technology to transplant organs and create warriors even more powerful than ordinary Fifth Stage warriors—Ultimate Warriors.
Extreme warriors created in this way are indeed extremely powerful, and their strength usually increases exponentially with the number of organs transplanted.
For example, if one mutated organ is transplanted, the intensity of one's own flames can more than double; if two mutated organs are transplanted, the intensity of one's own flames can be twice as high...
Most energy-level mutations can result in a significant boost. Even flesh-and-blood evolution can achieve a certain degree of enhancement by transplanting more arms or legs, or even eyes or the entire head.
Although transplanting more and more cannot reach the Sixth Stage by sheer quantity, the exponential increase in strength still makes it one of the most important ways for the Human Federation to enhance its combat power.
The flesh and blood in the canning plant are also made from human bodies produced in this place.
Such an extreme, inhumane approach, abandoning everything to pursue the future of the human race, thoroughly demonstrates the extent to which human society has become spiritually and intellectually distorted after a thousand years of war.
Such a distorted, extreme, and almost solidified belief, after being destroyed, is actually able to truly unleash a completely unified brilliance!
Norton stood atop the tower, thousands of kilometers away, yet his gaze pierced through the vast expanse of space and through the gloomy rain, taking in the mad faith and distorted ideology of humanity in this Garden of Eden.
"After a thousand years of nurturing, the soul of this reality has become so rich that if it is combined with the sincere prayers of all mankind, it may truly be able to gather the Anchor of the gods and unite the divine body of God!"
This fruit, nurtured to its fullest extent, is finally ripening. I just don't know if my choice was right or wrong...
Norton murmured to himself, his gaze seemingly piercing through reality to look directly at that sublime Heaven, or perhaps converging on something, observing the faith that had solidified into reality.
His muttering went unnoticed, but if His Majesty Abraham were to hear it again, he would surely be greatly alarmed and terrified.
It's unimaginable that this so-called cleansing of human thought and spirit, this so-called foundation of Norton's godhood, this so-called genocide showcasing humanity's true goodness and beauty, was actually a grand sacrifice used to summon the gods! (See Chapter 447 for details; Norton said it all was God's nourishment.)