275 Post Battle

Before returning to the base, Jake checked the disaster area one last time for any useful scraps, but unfortunately to no avail. When exploding, the Nosk's body had been thoroughly vaporized and its bracelet had disappeared with it.

Cutting off a participant's arm and leaving him alive to absorb his Oracle device was not so easy to accomplish and it was likely that many participants would prefer suicide to the idea of getting their bracelet demoted.

Jake didn't know what the exact consequences of absorbing the bracelet would be, but he imagined at the very least a significant reduction in the efficiency of the available functions, a loss of Aether proportional to the amount of Aether contained in the Aether Storage, and potentially a temporary reduction in Oracle Rank.