Electroshock treatment, excessive sedatives, high-strength alloy restraints, and bulletproof culture chambers with real-time monitoring—more comprehensive than any other research institute… For these most dangerous experimental samples, the Director had set up a net-like preservation facility.
But now, reality had clearly given the Director a harsh slap.
Looking at the Director's somewhat dazed expression, Goki, however, smiled.
"Ha… Let me guess, you thought those emaciated Mind-suckers with chrysanthemum-shaped heads were obediently lying in their culture chambers—the truth is, when I saw them, they were roaming in that darkroom, and the culture chambers next to them were completely intact."
Looking at the big-headed dolls gradually emerging above, Goki guessed the nature of these monsters.
"You should be glad you used silver and mercury to make the darkroom walls, otherwise… Rhine Lab might have been full of imbeciles."
Looking at the largest one, three or four meters tall, with half its head embedded in the ceiling and not blocked by the building, Goki, of course, recognized these familiar monsters before him.
Celestial Envoy, or Holy Messenger.
It had nothing to do with the Celestial Court, nothing holy about it, and it certainly wasn't a messenger for communication.
These big-headed dolls, gradually appearing, were products created by the Choir, a faction of the Healing Church, for their experiments after they accidentally communicated with Ibytas, Daughter of the Cosmos, upon excavating the great isz chalice.
These bastards were the true mad scientists. To research Ibytas's path to Ascension, they didn't hesitate to use patients and infants as experimental subjects, transforming them into these deformed experimental bodies.
Maria, who had left the hunter organization, was originally caring for these patients and infants, but the sinful truth of the Healing Church eventually broke her, leading her to choose suicide, maintaining a brief and peaceful death.
Therefore, Goki, who had seen all the madmen of Yharnam, had a very high resistance to "mad scientists." Even someone like Parvis seemed like a trifle to Goki, and the Director could only be described as a few small cats.
Rhine Lab was still a bit lacking compared to a true villain.
However, in Yharnam, Goki had already eliminated all members of the Choir, and also killed the Daughter of the Cosmos herself, whom they had summoned, letting them die embracing their deity.
Similarly, Goki had also given these experimental subjects, who were once human, the peace of death in the most decisive manner.
Goki was certain that no more of these "big-headed dolls" existed in Yharnam.
However, now, in far-off Terra, in the most advanced and developed Columbia, within Rhine Lab, he saw his old adversaries.
And clearly, these gel-like transparent creatures were not ordinary Great One kin; they… had no physical form.
"Um—Goki, I can't hit them!"
Not far away, Skadi swung her heavy mechanical sword, slashing through an illusory big-headed doll, but there was no sensation of the blade cutting into flesh.
"Then cut what you can—I'll keep thinking of a way."
At least, they had no physical form now—they had always existed within Rhine Lab, but floated in a different plane from the real world.
Whether called a dream, an illusion, Heaven, Hell, the underworld, or a fairyland, there are many descriptions of such other planes in legends and myths, even sub-space is a possibility.
These planes and the material world were like concentric circles nested within each other, originally never meant to connect, coexisting peacefully.
However, with unique methods or powerful entities, these mutually encroaching worlds could be temporarily connected.
In Yharnam, the Blood Moon was such a landmark presence; after its arrival, many unseen things emerged in the dream.
And on the continent of Terra, a brute like the God of Burning Wind, who was among the top in divine combat power but at the bottom in intellect, could, with all his might, even punch through from the Burning Wind Scorched Earth into the interior of Sargon via sub-space.
This was not surprising; the Akahula Rainforest was already close to the Burning Wind Scorched Earth, and historically, it had even been invaded by the Scorched Earth. The stability of the real world was not firm.
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Columbia, this emerging nation with no official deity worship and a prevalent materialism, had one of the most stable reality barriers on Terra.
"See, this is another downside of rashly researching Great Ones. Your power, though strong, has also led to an imbalance in Rhine Lab's reality barrier. These strange beings hidden in the cracks finally have a chance to break out into reality."
Patting the Director's slender back, Goki nodded in satisfaction and released the Director—though she was a mature woman nearing forty, the feel was still good, her size not inferior to the young Saria.
Turning his head, he waved to Saria.
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