“You’ve lost your mind!” the blonde researcher yelled at the top of his lungs as he continued.“The fail-safe option was created to be used in the event of utmost desperation. Using it would kill the subject in the worst-case scenario, and at best, would leave him severely handicapped for life. How could you suggest using such an option?”The blonde researcher was incensed, and frankly, so were the others too. Candor’s suggestion wasn’t just a terrible one—it was an outright deplorable thing to even utter. Which begs the question: what exactly is the fail-safe?The fail-safe was something that Krasin had implemented when he initially took over. It was a method to stop Cale in the event that they could not control him anymore, by completely lobotomizing him.When Krasin took over, the first thing he recognized was the great security risk Cale posed toward himself. So, being the cautious man that he was, Krasin took steps to ensure his own safety by implementing the fail-safe option on

Ahhh!Candor’s scream echoed through the room as Cale lunged at her from the air. She was frozen in place until one of the security guards, not having time for a more gentle approach, suddenly shoved her away from Cale’s path.“Get out of the way!”With a loud thud, Candor was knocked to the ground, narrowly missing Cale’s hand that had grasped at her head. Meanwhile, the other security guards quickly jumped at Cale, trying to tackle him from the air and to the ground.Fortunately, Cale managed to make a last-ditch maneuver and sharply changed direction to evade the guards. Immediately, he flew back up into the air and looked down at those below, lamenting as he saw Candor being guarded.“Damn it! I wasn’t fast enough. If I just had more speed, I could have succeeded.”Cale was in a bad mood. His earlier failure had cost him, and now he had lost the element of surprise. The guards would now be on guard against him, and they might not let him get close enough to Candor anymore.Already

Rillo’s power should’ve been the perfect counter for Cale, and if this were a few minutes ago, that would’ve been the case. Unfortunately, Cale wasn’t the same person as he was before, and now he had nothing to fear about this move.Barring Cale’s inability to escape out of the room through a portal due to the spatial restrictions placed outside the testing room, Cale still had one way to avoid being affected by the spores. That was by creating a thin spatial membrane around himself to isolate his body from the rest of the world.Using the previous analogy of space being an ocean to explain this—in order for Cale to fly, he had to integrate himself into space directly, like he was becoming a part of it, letting him flow freely around in space, thus achieving flight. But this way, because he was integrated into space, other than flying, he could achieve a limited control over the space around him, like creating a small bubble to wrap around him—creating his own personal space.Naturall

The more angry Krasin became, the more control over his power he lost to his rage, but he always managed to maintain a little bit of reason that prevented him from going all out in using his power to intimidate others. But right now, when faced with Selene’s defiance, Krasin lost it and actively used his power on her. But it wasn’t just targeted at Selene; rather, Krasin used his power indiscriminately on everyone in the surroundings. Selene, the blonde researcher, Candor—everyone that was in the room—were subject to Krasin’s power, which completely robbed them of their visual senses and caused them to see hallucinations of Krasin towering above all of them like a mighty being who was ready to crush them. The others, seeing this, felt like ants pressed down under Krasin’s feet, like the colossal weight of the universe was bearing down on them, and Selene was at the heart of this weight, feeling like an enormous black hole, big enough to destroy the universe, was sucking her into it

What seemed like an explosion wasn’t one per se, but rather appeared to be a large crash rumbling throughout the entire fortress, as if a large sheet of glass was shattering over all of reality.And something indeed had shattered, leaving behind a gaping hole in the fabric of space from which another world violently merged into this one.Krasin and Selene were knocked to the ground following the loud crash, as they felt the whole world tremble like an earthquake was rupturing the heavens asunder. They tried to get up, but the continuing shakes hindered them so that they could find no purchase on the ground, leaving them only able to lie helplessly on the floor.This continued for a long, seemingly endless time until finally, everything stopped, and calm returned to the world.Krasin and Selene, the only two people left awake at the epicenter of the quakes, cautiously stood up with tentative movements, as if afraid to set off a secondary rupture with even the tiniest action. They check