Chapter 146: Truth about the past (1) (2/2)
”Yes, your highness.”
The two women geared in black armor nodded before pouring their mana on two stone keys.
Then the gate drawn on the wall began to glow as a blue swirl formed at the center.
'Haha, I feel like I am in Stargate.'
His smile slipped when he thought about why he was here and what he would find behind this gate.
”Milia, stay here.”
Milia, who had been somewhat tense as they approached, nodded stiffly and nearly let out a sigh of relief.
”Understood.”
Giving her an encouraging smile, Sol stepped past in the blue swirl and vanished.
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Sol's destination was the special jail created by Neptune, Mars' father, to detain powerful prisoners that were too hard to kill.
Generally, they were people of other races who had a far longer lifespan than humans or simply powerful humans who committed too many grave crimes.
To avoid danger in case of escape, the jail itself was in another part of Lustburg that did not appear on the map but was connected to the capital through the gate.
One might ask, why then did the Wings not use the occasion to free those prisoners? Surely it could have caused even more chaos.
The answer to this question was pretty simple.
There were no prisoners to free anymore.
After all, Lilith had killed all of them after she took power as the Queen. No matter how powerful they are, in front of Lilith, they had been extremely weak.
After all, her sword was specially geared toward cutting everything.
The reason for this,
”Why keep prisoners alive when they were nothing more than a waste of food, space, and were a hidden cancer ready to erupt at any moment?”
Because of this reason, many people saw her as a bloodthirsty maniac.
But now, after searching through old documents during his six days as a ruler, Sol knew another version of this truth.
One that was hidden by this massacre to not show the ugliness of the royal family.
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When he appeared on the other side of the gate, what greeted him wasn't a cold and damp dungeon like he had thought, but rather a facility worthy of the best Sci-fi film.
In this facility, each room was filled with ten cells, each with a transparent door.
At one glance it really seemed like a super-prison of sorts, but the reality was that this place was the secret laboratory used by Neptune for his experiment on living beings.
All the bullshit about keeping prisoners was just to easily experiment on strong people without arousing any suspicion.
Project Genesis was nothing more than one of the many experiments he had conducted.
This was also why Milia had been so stiff earlier and one of the reasons why Sol didn't want her to follow him.
No matter how strong one was, a trauma was still a trauma and he didn't wish to make her relive her darkest memories.
'But what were they trying to accomplish here?'
The only one who could answer him was Lilith. Sol also had a hunch that whatever secret Lilith had was tied to this place.
Shaking his head, he began to walk quietly in the deserted facility until he stood in front of one particular cell.
There, on the other side of the wall, sat peacefully an old man with a missing arm.
Feeling a presence, the old man opened his eyes, and gave a bitter smile,
”I thought you would never visit me, your highness.”
The old man was none other than Gerald.
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(AN: Welp, seems like it is time to get answers, right? Man, writing the next chapter and not betray expectations will be so hard. Haha. Anyways stay tuned.)