The Epsilon Mark
"Was it really necessary to do that?" Isabela asked with a complicated expression on her face.
"You did not see her memory, Isabela, believe me, she deserves what I have done to her and much more", Adriel had a cold expression on her face, the memories of that woman were really disgusting.
She has committed any crime one can imagine, including murder, ****, pedophilia, slavery, kidnapping .... the list goes on and on, even Adriel didn't want to see her memories completely.
Alice was incredibly powerful before the apocalypse, so she never had to bear the consequences of her actions.
"But did you have to do it ... like this?" Isabela asked with a wry smile, while Alice and Selena cleaned the bedroom, every time Alice came across Isabela's belongings, her face would turn red and she treated him as if she were some kind of sacred object.
The same thing happened to Selena, Adriel also inspected her mind and also disgusted her, this girl had committed as many atrocities as Alice, so Adriel imposed the same punishment on her.
"Besides, you needed a couple of assistants to manage the works, didn't you?", Adriel smiled mischievously, "Besides, you can't fool me, I know you like to be treated like that"
Currently, Isabela is the one who manages most of the Arcadia constructions, in addition to some other official affairs, her experience makes her the best suited for the task.
Isabela growled, "She's incredibly upset."
"Whatever you say"
"You know, for a moment I thought you manipulated them into falling in love with you," Isabela said with a smile, a rather sinister smile ...
Adriel felt her hair stand on end in a sign of extreme danger!
"... Haha, nonsense, I only have eyes for you", that was the only thing that Adriel came up with in that short period of time.
Isabela looked at them for a moment before waving her hand, "I'll buy it for you."
Adriel breathed a sigh of relief, said goodbye to Isabela, and quickly left her room.
When he came out, he breathed a sigh of relief, at this moment, he swear he could see that Isabela's usually brown aura turned black for a second.
"Really scary," Adriel sighed.
He hurried out of the mansion and made his way to the building that was right next to it, which was guarded by some soldiers.
As soon as the soldiers saw him, they straightened their backs and exclaimed, "Sir!"
Adriel nodded, stepped through the guards and went straight inside.
As he entered, it is as if he had arrived in a new world, the silence was replaced by the deafening noise of many machines and researchers working on different things.
All investigators, without exception, ignored Adriel, completely focused on his own work.
Adriel approached a group and looked, these people were all surrounding a large square iron block while shooting sporadic beams of light.
One of the investigators saw Adriel and exclaimed, "Sir, what brings you here?"
The rest turned to look at Adriel for a second and then went back to their work without interest.
"What are you doing?" Adriel asked.
"We tried adding the 'Repulsion' and 'Hardening' enchantment to this piece of metal at the same time, but we are having some problems," replied the depressed researcher.
"Oh ... double incantation, I see, I hope you guys are successful," Adriel encouraged them, the investigators just absentmindedly nodded, they obviously weren't listening.
Adriel didn't bother with this, he headed to the top floor while he pondered.
The arts that have been discovered thus far are but a drop in the bucket, that's for sure, but even the arts discovered are bringing wonderful benefits.
Enchantments provide unthinkable improvements to things, potions produce wonderful effects on the body, matrices can manipulate the essence and elements of the atmosphere to achieve their goals ...
Soon, Adriel reached the third floor, where Fiona and Mateo were waiting for him.
"They told me you have something interesting to show me," Adriel said with a smile.
"Naturally, I hope you are not disappointed," Fiona said with false humility, this girl was extremely self-confident, there is no doubt about that.
The three of them made their way to a table, where a small machine was connected to what looked like a ... light bulb.
Yes, a light bulb!
Adriel looked at Mateo, he just shrugged and pressed a button on the top of the machine and turned it on.
Immediately, Adriel could see how the surrounding essence was absorbed by the machine, compressed and transported through the cables to finally end up in the bulb.
Then the light bulb ... came on.
Yes ... it just lit up.
Adriel looked at Fiona, who just shrugged.
"What, were you expecting a kind of spaceship? Keep in mind that this is a completely new energy, to be able to start using it in such a short time is already an exaggeration"
Adriel thought about it for a moment and it seemed that Fiona was right, maybe she had too high expectations.
Science is a gradual process, after all, at least they have already gone from 0 to 1, from here everything will become faster and easier.
Thinking about this, Adriel reached out and touched the light bulb with the tip of his finger.
But then, the lightbulb emitted a small discharge that touched Adriel's finger!
In an instant, Adriel's world was filled with darkness.
A child was looking at a man with non-existent facial features with teary eyes.
"Father, why are those people chasing us ?!", the boy yelled with all his might as tears came from his eyes.
The man was silent for a long time, until he finally spoke, "Don't worry, son, your mother and I will take care of it."
The image changed, this time, he was in an empty space, where millions and millions of corpses of all shapes and sizes piled up like mountains.
In the center of this battlefield, two bloody figures were bound and unconscious, while another group of figures surrounded a sleeping child.
"... what do we do with them? We can't kill them, they are ..."
"... the boy either, he is ..."
The figures continued to argue, but Adriel could barely make out anything they were saying, as if there was a layer of mist in his ears.
"... then we can't allow his true power to awaken."
"BOOM!"
The entire space was fragmented, transforming the space into absolute black.
The only thing visible was a luminous figure looking directly at Adriel.
This figure was an exact copy of Adriel, except for a black circular mark on his chest that runs all over his body.
The brand was made up of intricate patterns and lines that overlapped one on top of the other in what appeared to be an endless cycle.
This mark ...
The mark that represents the most extreme humiliation, the greatest shame, the greatest conceivable disgrace.
A brand that represents too much, a brand that the world itself rejects.
The mark of the damned ...
Epsilon