"This nation is doomed." – said Edmund Pendurawan.

"And honestly speaking? Sooner or later another war will break one."

"And moment it does? Everybody dies."

"..."

"These bastards are always eager to start off a war, nor they even trusted us from the start."

"So, they are strengthening their military power."

"We are also doing the same, but those bastards posses way stronger resources and the artefacts from the old age.... If I’m honest?"

"We may lose that war."

"But even if were to, the whole nation will completely be erased."

"And this also works other way around, if we were to win in this hopeless situation."

"A war where only losers will emerge."

"..."

"And there are only two ways to win this."

"Either destroy your enemy before the war happens."

"Or end the war as soon as it starts."

"These are the only way you can avoid the total destruction."

"..."

"But the problem was, we had nothing."

"We really had no way of doing it."

"We may have way more numbers that them, but we lack equipment. Resources needed to make new weapons."

"Heck. We even started trying to learn the necromancy which was forbitten, but there was no way for us to refine it to the point where it could change the outcome!"

"There was really no fucking way to do it for us."

"That was it! We had nothing!"

"..."

"But we didn’t gave up."

"If nothing was left in this ruined nation to use, we decided to plunder from the others."

"And we managed to obtain something."

"Did you ever heard of the ruined nation of Poland? The one that ceased to exist?"

"And did you heard about the creature that came to life upon its destruction?"

"The Red Man."

"The being made out of the pure blood and bloodlust."

"A new god born from the death."

"A being so dangerous, that the last true dragon ended up dying alongside it when they fought each other for years."

"And even to this day, the entire Poland is nothing more than a sea of blood, which was transformed by the Red Man’s death and birth."

"The remains of this new god, the god of blood and bloodlust were said to be gone."

"But gone how exactly?"

"That is the question."

"The remains of the last true dragon were plundered."

"But what about the Red Man? What happened to him?"

"Some says that it merged with the sea of blood.... But that wasn’t the case."

"His remains still exist."

"They didn’t melted or anything... No."

"The retained their original solid form."

"And we managed to obtain it."

"The left hand of the Red Man."

"The hand itself lost most, making it nothing more than husk that it was once was."

"But even, so it is beyond dangerous."

"Just being near that husk can drive the weak minded into the murder frenzy."

"This is a divine artifact."

"Something that shouldn’t had been possible be made after all the gods were no more."

"Yet, here we are?"

"And you know what is the best part."

"Even though this hand was nothing more than a husk, it is still beyond powerful."

"Not only that, but with it, we were able to produce it."

"The Blood Of The Red Man."

"?!"

"You probably guessed it." – said Edmund Pendurawan as he saw Lucy’s reaction.

"You were injected with its blood."

"However, a diluted version."

"You probably seen some of the people and animals that were injected with the blood."

"It was too the diluted version."

"Yet, the mutations occurred."

"The divine blood pure potential is the main problem."

"It forces the unstable evolutions."

"Some people grow feathers."

"Some people grow scales."

"Some people grow fur."

"Some people have their arms transformed into something inhuman."

"Or somebody sometimes obtain a new brand one."

"Sometimes mutations are timid."

"Other go berserk."

"There is also the case from person to person."

"Some people weren’t able to handle even the most diluted version, while some others could be injected with larger amounts or the less diluted versions."

"But you!?"

"You had received so many injections!"

"Not only that, but we even injected you with the less diluted versions as the experiment went by"

"Yet, you are still fine?"

"Not only you didn’t experienced any mutations that changed your appearance, nor the divine blood ended up damaging your mind."

"But instead you had been growing stronger and stronger?"

"You had been evolving nonstop, while still remaining human."

"So, I’ve had my people look into you."

"A prostitute."

"And the orphanage acting director."

"Your mother was originally one of the workers working at the orphanage, who was also a prostitute like you."

"However, she died one day when she was attacked by the drunkard who ripped open her throat with a broken bottle."

"Afterwords, the orphanage officially took you in."

"But I didn’t get it at first."

"Why were you a prostitute in the first place?"

"The person who was previously in charge of backing the orphanage was not doing their job, but after he was replaced after getting caught, the orphanage was in no physical danger at all."

"There shouldn’t had been any problem with money, food or clothing."

"Tell me."

"Why are you working yourself as a slave?"

"Is it truly out of your own free will?"

"..."

"Shut the fuck up." – said Lucy who was brimming with unyielding rage as she swung her fist at one of the bars, bending it at extremely hard that even caused the man on the other side to get scared.

"Get to the fucking point before I murder your ass." – said Lucy as she stared at the man, emitting such large amounts of overwhelming bloodlust that even the man himself was starting to get alarmed by it.

"..."

"At first, we had thought that you may had been related to the Poland." – said the man.

"That this was the reason why the divine blood was working so well with you."

"But no. You are not related to the Poland one bit."

"However!"

"Instead we found something else."

"Your own body."

"It possess a special ability."

"A special form adaptivity."

"A perfect one that allows your body to handle the divinity power and integrate it into your own existence."

"Your body is able to absorb the divine blood of the Red Man, and make it yours."

"We even extracted some of your blood and it was no longer the blood of the Red Man."

"But instead something brand new."

"How do YOU possess this ability?"

"Why you possess such unique ability?"

"We looked into your mother and what not, but we couldn’t find anything at all."

"This.... Unique adaptability."

"A mutation without mutation."

"How does a random prostitute like you have it?!"

"You are mixed race here and there, bit of vampire blood and bit elven blood, but most of the presentence is a human! Your race is even human!"

"There is no fucking way that it could be either elven or the vampire blood running through your veins."

"That means it is from your human blood."

"But who?!"

"Is it your very own mutation ability?"

"Or maybe you inherited it from somebody?"

"..."

"But, no matter how we searched."

"No matter how much we experiment on you."

"We couldn’t find it no matter what."

"And that confirmed one thing."

"It is your very own unique ability."

"You are one of your kind."

"And this ability of yours, allows you to absorb the divine blood of the Red Man into your body, fusing it with yourself."

"THAT is the reason why you never mutated!"

"..."

"And why the fuck are you even these experiments in the first place?" – asked Lucy with the stone cold voice.

"Why the hell are you torturing me like that?"

"..."

"To create a weapon." – replied Edmund.

"As said before, the situation is beyond hopeless."

"There is no fucking way we will avoid the slaughter."

"But with the blood of the Red Man, it is possible."

"And you had proven yourself!"

"Maybe we could even turn you into the new god!"

"The new Red Man!"

"..."

"And if I say fucking, no?" – asked Lucy as she gripped the cell bars, alarming the man who instantly activated the magic circles to halt the woman in her tracks.

"..."

"!" – but that was still not enough, as Lucy grabbed the cell bars and began bending them within her grasp.

"You fucking put me inside of hell itself!" – said Lucy as she was resisting the magic circles.

"You fucking think that I will willing help you out?!"

"You think I will help you out after all you had done to these people!? How you violated them?!" – said Lucy as she started slowly moving her hands, making the bars bend sideways.

"..."

"Orphanage." – said Edmund.

"!"

"Did you forgotten that this is MY city?" – asked Edmund as he could see both pure anger.... And fear in Lucy’s eyes.

"Not only them, but also the Red-Light district."

"And I think you are forgetting the most obvious part." – said the man as he pressed the button... But not to strengthen the restrain magic, but instead to completely release it, allowing Lucy to instantly rip out the bars and leap straight towards the man, aiming to kill him right on the spot.

"The war will kill them." – said the man as Lucy was about to grab the man’s throat and rip it out.

"Didn’t listened to me before? They will be wiped out."

"Here is a question."

"Would you rather turn yourself into the monster to save them?"

"Or would you rather escape and have them all die?"

"My methods are indeed inhuman."

"But they are the same time the only way to survive the evil."

"So, what is your reply?"

"What do YOU want?"