Chapter 320: Sponsor Showcase (2)

The presentation continued, moving on to more experimental and grotesque displays of humanity's desperation to transcend its limits and unethically obtain power.

A series of live feeds played across the monitors, showcasing abominations created in the lab's pursuit of forcing humans to awaken an affinity or gift.

The next video after the live demonstration showed a subject strapped to a table, their torso bare. Scientists in sterile white coats operated with methodical precision as they opened up his ribcage to expose the still beating heart.

Next to the metal table that the subject was lying on, was a reptile with all four limbs also chained to a neighbouring table, on its back with its chest also cut open to expose its heart.

"What you are seeing now is the procedure of subject B083. This subject has been grafted with the heart and bone marrow of a rare Holy Flame Gecko," the scientist explained, his tone clinical.