Flame Union

The moment he broke the chains he was already prepared for anything. Despite not being able to draw his power out of his body without a conductive material, it was not hard for him to disrupt the cameras in this room. Of course, it was the old voice that taught him how to do it.

After assuring the lady was really unconscious, Rick searched through his belongings. Other than a credit card, a small storage crystal and little pink sphere than would turn into something unspeakable, but huge the moment its switch was turned on. He quickly dropped the pink object onto the ground while it still vibrates when he heard voices coming from a thin little device on her ear. It was clear that those people had started to suspect something.

"Women must have it tough too." Rick joked a like as a way of distract himself from the life-and-death moment he was about to face before picking the pink 'sword' and leaving in the elegant lady's bosom.

"Oh mighty god, do you know how I should leave this place?"

[The is a total of one hundred life forces in this place and from the strong pressure we must be deep underground. Not only they all have strong elemental force around them, I have been feeling there is something really powerful not too far from here. I suggest we find a safe place for your breakthrough.]

"Telling me to find a safe place is easy, but how I'm supposed to find a place like this in a underground base full of enemies?" At the moment Rick had started to believe in what the voice said about both of them being a god. Maybe because of the nearly infinite knowledge he seemed to have or if it was the story his father told him. No matter if he was the first or second child, the fact he may have been a god or a powerful entity would make more sense.

[Who cares, this is your problem to solve. As a shadow of our past, I shouldn't interfere in our future.]

"You damn son of a..." He was about to curse when he shut himself. Someone was knocking on the door.

"Professor Trisha, Professor Trisha, subject nineteenth has just received the dose and has showed signs of change. Maybe using the body of a former peak elemental master really made the difference." The moment Rick heard the last phrase, his eyes lit with a cold light before he open the door and pulling the owner of the voice inside. Only when he pulled the person he notice it was a young female in a simple white coat. From the looks of it she looked like a young female alchemist.

"Ahh...." The person tried to scream, but her voice was blocked by Rick's hand. Noticing her life and death was in the hand of the blue-haired youth in front of her, her body grew soft.

Seeing how scared the female alchemist was, his eyes sparkled."Speak everything you know about this subject nineteenth."

"Don't kill me, I will tell, I will tell." She was really desperate when she saw the youth who was holding her entire body by the neck. Although she witnessed horrible things down here as well as causing a lot of deaths while testing some of their new products, she has never been in the place of those people. Seeing death from close was more than enough for her to surrender to him. After that she told him everything she knew and Rick face changed dramatically as he kept hearing.

This base was not from the church of beast gods like he thought, but a research center for the flame union, one of the factions in command of the alchemists' guild. Different from other alchemists factions, they were known in all the sectors as the most predatory one. Stealing alchemy recipes from newly and low-ranked alchemists as well as having a finger in the underworld selling forbidden products to the black market.

This female alchemist name was Mary Safar, a twenty-two old second-star alchemist. She was hired by the flame union two years ago. From what she told him, the union made a deal with the beast church and the fire beast god himself where they would gain a piece of land inside his territory for them to establish their research centers where they would be bound by no laws and half of their products would be donated to the beast gods. When he heard this he realized how much they would be gaining from it. It was common sense than beasts could not practice alchemy or learn medicine which made them rely on human hands for the job and despite the beast church having their fair number of alchemists, it was not enough to distribute to the other beasts.

It was only some time ago when the people arrived carrying an unconscious female, they told them it was a gift and that the woman was a precious testing subject being a former fourth stage elemental master. He could easily see the surprise and fervor in the female alchemist's eyes, until some time ago she didn't even knew there was a fourth stage. The only reason she knew all of this was because she was the granddaughter of the chairman.

So they took her to the testing room to test a new product they made. Having been named Beast King Serum, a powerful fluid made from refined beast blood of two hundred beasts and countless herbs. It's effect was supposed to transfer the beasts innate abilities into humans. And from the looks of it his mother has already been injected with the fluid so he had to be fast.

The moment she finished, he transferred a thread of energy into his only hand that was holding the female's neck, knocking her down. Searching her body he found a sharp blade used to cut herbs and took it with him as he left the room and fried the door opening system making sure they would be stuck for some time as he walked forward.