Messing With Her? Are You Crazy! novel Chapter 1359

His tone wasn't excessively loud.

Yet every single word struck like a sledgehammer, ruthlessly smashing into the faces of the Severian officials.

The high-ranking Severian authorities turned ghastly pale, their knees buckling beneath them.

They knew the truth.

Severia was completely finished.

...

Once the chaos at the tech center was largely stabilized, Serena, Nicholas, and the Lancaster brothers accompanied Ambassador Sterling, Consul Bennett, and their entourage back to the Elyndorian embassy.

This location was an absolute safe zone, guarded by top-tier security.

The moment they stepped inside the embassy, all core evidence was immediately centralized, sealed, archived, and verified.

The lights in the main hall and the makeshift conference room blazed brightly throughout the entire night.

Nicholas personally placed the data lockbox salvaged from the underground hidden sector onto the table.

From within, he retrieved an old, physical experimental file, its edges charred and curling.

Serena's gaze locked onto it instantly.

She stared at those few pages of yellowing handwritten notes.

In the bottom right corner was an incredibly familiar, elegant signature.

—Aria Wynn.

Serena's eyes, which had remained calm to the point of absolute apathy, finally trembled.

As she raised her hand and brushed her fingertips against the files, an uncontrollable, faint tremor ran through her.

It was as though, through those scorched, yellowed pages, she was finally reaching out to the family member who had existed solely in her memories and regrets.

She lowered her eyelashes.

A rim of red slowly bloomed around her eyes.

Nicholas stood by her side, his voice a low rumble. "This was pulled from the deepest core of their hidden sector. Some of it is damaged, but the main structure remains intact."

"What Grandma Aria left behind... at least a portion of it has finally returned to you."

Serena said nothing.

Stacks of data files covered the entire table.

There were the fragmented experimental records pulled from the base.

The core transport logs for the human specimens.

The high-level clearance access keys.

And the transaction data linking the tournament organizers and Severian officials directly to the Obsidian Sun.

Nicholas tapped his long fingers against a specific column in the transit logs, his eyes somber. "Grandma Aria's research data wasn't stored as a single, complete unit."

"Judging from how these modules were fragmented, the Obsidian Sun likely divided the core research into separate sectors, restricted by different clearance levels, and held by different individuals."

"What we recovered today is only a fraction of it."

Julian chimed in. "And it's the earliest fraction at that."

"The Obsidian Sun forcefully dismantled the later stages to manufacture those monstrous Obsidian Augments."

Jasper kept his eyes glued to the monitor, his fingers flying across the keyboard as he dug deeper into the data. He clicked his tongue. "So basically, these bastards still haven't fully cracked Grandma's research. They barely scratched the surface, and yet they still managed to create all these nauseating freaks."

"No wonder Special Envoy Mordecai claimed The Overlord had set his sights on Serena."