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—Brain Sucker.
El-Cid’s voice dripped with disgust, and it was only natural.
The way brain matter, blood, and scraps of flesh squirmed together like molten clay was sickening enough to haunt dreams. Even Leon nearly retched at the sight.
That foul slime induced something primal—an instinctive revulsion that clawed at the very core of life.
—Among the summons that exolaw can call forth, it’s one of the vilest. You could call it a parasitic variant of that Abomination you fought before.
A… parasitic variant of that thing…?!
—Yes. By nature, it can’t exist independently in this world, so it latches onto a host to sustain itself. I didn’t think they’d twist that property into a tool for brainwashing, but it looks like they’ve picked up quite a few new tricks while I was gone.
At the word “brainwashing,” Leon’s eyes widened.
He had cut the knight down out of sheer revulsion, but the man’s mental state had already been strange. If it had truly been loyalty that drove him into this atrocity, he would have died without speaking so much as a word.
Instead, he had shouted for all to hear: Sacrifice for the Emperor. The rabble’s life is worth less than firewood.
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