Destiny Holder
Strange Experiment

"I leave the rest to you, Joshua" Felix said shortly before he left the room with his magic.

The guards hurriedly ran to where Felix had escaped, intending to check the path Felix was walking on, but the shadow hole was already closed by Felix.

One of the guards who was right where Felix had escaped stood and said, "Your honor, we lost the intruder" while holding the device in his ear.

"Good work, you stand back. Making the intruder run away is already in our favor, I thank you" the king replied through the device, his soft voice felt like a gentle breeze in the morning.

"Oh yeah, one more thing, you better keep around the entrance because soon I'm sure someone will barge in" added the king.

"Ready, your majesty, we will carry out your orders immediately" the guard replied firmly.

The guard who was communicating with the king nodded then politely asked for permission to turn off the call, after which he ordered all the guards in the room to leave the room immediately.

Above the kingdom, Felix emerges from his shadow hole, looking around the city hidden behind an invisible dome.

"Escalivor is on the move, I have to hurry back to where I'm from right now" Felix said.

Felix looked down, seeing the many guards standing guard at the entrance, he once again activated his portal to teleport elsewhere.

"I'm counting on you, Joshua."

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Returning to Katsura's situation, he kept calling Arizawa and Yukichi at the base, telling them what he was going through against Zero.

After a long time of talking, Arizawa began to ask when Katsura would return to the base.

"Katsura, are you going to be there all the time?" asked Arizawa who was slightly insinuating Katsura who had been lying on the ground.

"Yes I'll be back later, I haven't explored Zero's castle. I'm sure there are a lot of clues about her" Katsura began to get up and stand with the communication device in her right hand.

"Eh? you're leaving now?" asked Arizawa who saw Katsura immediately wake up.

"You want how else, right? I don't want to be insinuated by you anyway" Katsura replied in a joking tone.

Arizawa laughed, then she said, "Alright, but don't turn this phone off, I want to see the contents of Zero's castle."

Yukichi responded, "You're very enthusiastic today, yes" he told Arizawa.

"I was just curious, nothing more, really" Arizawa replied casually, though her gaze continued towards the hologram screen.

Katsura started to run into the castle, in the early hallway there were not many interesting things, there were only many black pillars towering up as a foundation, and there were many black pillars, and Katsura arrived where she first met Zero.

"This is it. Is this where you met Zero?" Arizawa noticed the damage around the room and concluded.

"Yes right, I only advanced until here before I was finally driven away by Zero, I don't know what's in front of me after this, help me" katsura's voice started to become serious and his gaze also became alert.

Arizawa agreed, and then Katsura continued forward through the small door in front of him, the hall around him narrowed and continued to narrow until finally he reached a fairly large room.

The room was filled with tubes full of experiments and strange items, Arizawa commented on the room like a room in the J-60 universe.

"I don't know.I don't feel anyone else's energy here, but I do feel a bit of anomaly down here" Katsura replied as she continued walking forward.

"Anomaly? what kind of anomaly?"

"Like-" as Katsura wanted to answer, he passed through a tube containing the person inside, he immediately regained his senses and looked towards the tube.

"Human..? so on this planet there are also its inhabitants, yes." said Katsura who was still surprised. He was thinking of taking out the person inside, yet he was still thinking about it.

"T.please.j-don't. k. kemar.i.." said the person in the tube with great pain, his face very frightened, his body very trembling. Then hot steam appeared inside the tube.

The hot steam hits the body of the person inside, and the person's body begins to melt like ice into water. Katsura reflexes away from the tube and looks from afar.

After a long time Katsura moved away, the person inside the tube exploded into a strange silver liquid.

"Cruel" the same response came out from the mouths of Katsura and Arizawa, both of their faces showing expressions of disdain and panic.

"I will continue to advance" Katsura ignored the events that had just happened, he continued to advance forward without looking back.

Katsura continued forward and forward, then he saw someone in the tube again. With his vain attitude, he immediately called out to Crescent Deluz just in case.

Upon closer inspection, the person inside the tube was a woman whose hand had already mutated into a large and strange, strange one, similarly, half of his head and legs that were fully mutated became like monsters.

Katsura reflexively raised her Crescent Deluz, then the woman spoke.

"T. t. t. tolo. ng. b. b. unuh. a. I." he said in stammering, the effect of the mutation has reached his neck.

Katsura was very confused by what happened, he was worried and could not make a decision, his face seemed to say, "What is right?"

"C. c.exactly. b. b.un.uh. a. ak.u se. not yet. aa-" Katsura couldn't stand to see the woman tormented, he quickly slashed through the diagonal of the tube along with the woman inside.

"I'm sorry" Katsura felt so guilty, then she turned around and continued forward.

"Really, I can't stand what happened there, Katsura.." Arizawa complained while rubbing her forehead.

"I don't know what's going on. I'm fed up with all this" Katsura's tone turned regretful, she just stared down instead of forward.

"First his body was forcibly destroyed, both of his bodies mutated.I want to go home." he added.

"Hold on, Katsura, it should be the last room you can explore" Yukichi said suddenly.

"What do you mean?" Arizawa looked towards Yukichi with a curious look.

"Well, actually that place is not a castle, it's more like a steam engine factory, there's no other room as long as you walk, there's only a straight hallway and a room on the same street, if it's a castle, if it's a, surely the design inside will be more colorful and the room will be much wider" Yukichi said of his understanding.

"I understand" Katsura responded, then she stopped at the last door. As soon as he peeked inside, there was one person in all-black clothes who was fiddling at a machine.

Then the man looked at Katsura with a suspicious look.

Seriate...