Soul of Ruin

Mark took his time to examine his surroundings carefully,he didn get the opportunity to do so when he woke up was because of the old man John.

The room he was in a dimly lit room with a length and height around 5 meters and 10 meters respectively.

In front of him was light gray metal door that must had weighted around 1 or 2 tons,Mark guessed that John was a low to middle level Divine to move that door with ease.

On the left side of the door was a table filled with laboratory tools,a few tubes were some kinds of strange meat that were submerged in a greenish yellow fluid.

The right side was also the same but there were no unidentified pieces of flesh of any kind.Instead there were some chemicals substances that were mysteriously glowing,along with some laboratory equipments like surgical knives,tweezers,scissors,….that were stained with a bit of dried black blood.

According to his calculations,it should had been roughly half a day now,yet no matter how hard he searched for a way out,he got nothing.

He had visualized every possible method to escape,but everything that could prove to be helpful to him was out of Marks reach.

He silently gritted his teeth and clenched his fist tightly,he wasn willing to die here like this!

He losed his composure for a second but quickly calmed himself down,he took one last glanced around him before gently closed his eyes and silently thought to himself as a plan began to form in his mind:

…Can be hasty,If I can escape here by myself,then I need to use that old man to my advantages.

…Mark convinced himself so,but somewhere deep underneath his heart,he was beginning to lose hope.

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Creak!

Roughly 12 hours later,the metal door creaked open and bright light shone onto Marks face,his eyes narrowed slightly.

A dark skin color old man who was wearing a white lab coat and a small round glasses on his nose bridge walked in,he glanced at Mark and smiled amiably:

”You seem to had quite a good rest,124.I hope you are ready for our first experiment ”

Mark glared fiercely at John with hatred,but he didn say anything and went to the table on the right side.

He picked up something that looked like a syringe and took a tube of chemicals with a blackish golden liquid and sucked some of it into the syringe.

John turned around and gave Mark and eye,then asked him seemingly out of nowhere:

”As you might have guessed,a being can not walk in 2 completely opposite paths…So,how do you think Ill make it happen? ”

”A being can not walk 2 paths at the same time…how about 2 beings in a single body? ”

He whispered in a cold tone,his eyes glittered strangely:

”…DID,or Disasociative Identity Disorder is a defense mechanism that trigger when humans suffer from a heavy trauma that last over a long period of time and cause them to form another persona within themselves. ”

”…Or simply put it,Ill torture you until your mind breaks and your soul split into two. ”He spoke with a carefree smile on his face.

Marks pupils shrunk to the size of a needle at the old mans word,he realized that the situations he was in was even more terrible than he had expected.

NO,NO,NO,NO,NO!!!!

He violently shook his seat trying to get out,but John quickly grabbed his head and injected him with the syringe.

Mark instantly felt his mind turned numb and dull as he listened to Johns words while he was looking at the syringe:

”This thing has the effect of numbing down ones mind within 30 minutes.For the next 12 hours after that,all your senses will be extremely susceptible to every sensations. ”

”…Youll feel more painful than youve ever felt your entire life. ”John revealed a face filled with sadistic and madness.

Mark couldn even move a single muscles as he listened to the old mans words that seemed to mark the beginning of his endless days of torture.

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12 hours later,in a dimly lit room that was filled with scientific equipments.

A young man was being tied into a chair made out of some sort of metals that had a dark blue light.

…His conditions can only be called horrendous.His body was riddled with burns and scars,it made it looked like he had been into flaming pits of hell.

…But he was constantly shivering and having muscles spasm,as if he had been thrown into the ice with only a pair clothes.

His eyes was unsteady and filled with fear and terror.

The young man was naturally Mark,the last 12 hours were the longest torment he had ever felt in his life.The seething pain that spread through his entire being had lasted seemingly for eternity.

In front of him was a dark skin color old man who wore a lab coat with a small round glasses on his face,he looked at Mark before saying in a joyful tone:

”Hehe…Weve made considerable progress today.Out of all the test subjects,your reactions have been the most prominent one til date. ”

He walked to the table on the left side of the door and grabbed a tube filled with a

green before returned near Mark.

He removed the muzzles from Marks mouth and poured the liquid inside his throat,forcing him to swallow it.

Marks surface wound instantly healed up a little and his body stopped shivering,he seemed to be in better conditions than before.

Cracked!

As the wound on the surface healed up,Marks heard a sound of glass slowly cracked a little inside his mind.

The noise was so minuscule that,if not for his current state of body,he would had never been able to notice it.

John silently stared into Marks eyes,the corner of his lips lifted up slightly:

”It looks like your mind have already started to break,the results are better than I have expected. ”

He slowly walked behind Mark and flipped some sort of switch behind his chair.

Mark felt a mild electric current ran through his body nonstop,keeping him wide awake.

”This will make you unable to sleep,pushing your mind furthur to the brink of destruction. ”John said with a casual expression.

After that he slowly walked to the door,pulled it open and slowly closed it while smirking at Mark:

”Ill see you again,124… ”

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In a brightly lit room that has a long wooden table and multiple chairs positioned next to it.

A middle age man wearing a double breasted suit with a big scar across his lips was sitting calmly on the chair at one end of the table.

His back facing a large window which has multiple glowing skycrapers that seeme touch the night sky.

He had a stern look on his face which made it hard to tell what he was thinking.

Suddenly the door to the room opened slightly,a middle age woman with a curvaceous body who was quite a beauty for her age holding a bunch of paperworks came in.

She bowed slightly to the man and said in an emotionless voice:

”Sir,our men have discovered a secret goverment facility located on the northwest of the city that possess a large amount of quality equipments,materials,and soul artifacts. ”

When a Corrupted creature or a Divine died,there was a possibility its essences conbined with the remains of its soul,will,or body to form soul artifacts.

The type and usage of soul artifacts varied depending on the creatures essences,the remaining will and soul of the creature.

These artifacts may be beneficial in battles,supports,or daily life businesses.

The middle age man glanced at the woman,and said in an indifferent tone:

”Hows the security of the facillity? ”

The old woman looked down at the paperworks in her hand for a second,then said:

”The base mostly compose of roughly 200 low to mid level Divine and around 500 armed Abandoned.It should be no problem for our troops to attack and seize control of the facillity. ”

The middle age man was quite for a moment,then said:

”…Prepare 500 armed Abandoned and 300 Divine,continue monitor them and well move out in three days if nothing happens. ”

”Roger. ”The woman said shortly before turning to leave the room.

After he was left alone,a small smile formed on the middle age mans face as his eyes glittered excitedly.