Corpses if Necessary, Prisoners if Possible

Nova appeared out of nowhere right next to Felix. If people in the simulation had to deal with biological processes, he would have shat himself in surprise.

{Sir, something’s come up that requires your urgent attention,} she reported to Aron.

“What’s up?” Aron calmly asked, as if he were a pillar that could hold up the sky if it fell on him.

{We discovered that a large number of Edenian and Esparian citizens have gone missing in a few countries. They all disappeared at roughly the same time over the course of an hour or two.}

“How many citizens in total, and which countries did they disappear from? What were they there for? Are the disappearances done, or are people still going missing?” Aron asked, this time with a distinct chill in his tone. He had a few ideas of why his people would be going missing, and none of them were pleasant.