Let's rewind time to one hour.
Under the golden-haired young man's order, Maddog relocated their hiding place because their previous one got comprised, and they left for Alex, a little present, his sister's thumb.
Currently, Gracier was put on an operation table; her thumb was slowly regenerating, it was almost fully regenerated; Maddog was fascinated by this discovery.
''Hehehe! Soon I will become invisible with your blood; there's nothing I can do.'' Maddog declared while cleaning his cutting tools.
There was something attached to Gracier's left eye to make it easy to remove the golden eye without damaging it.
Gracier showed no fear; her expression was like that of dead fish; this annoyed Maddog as he expected at least to see her fall into despair and desperately beg to be saved, ultimately to dies at the end.
''Tch! You are not fun at all. Oh! By the way, your Big brother will die soon.''
''Um! Um!''
Gracier, who did not show any emotions even when all tools were being put on her body, started thrashing when she heard her brother die. She knew that these despicable people must have set up a trap for her brother; smart as he is, he must know, but because of his love for her, he would still step into the trap just because of the slightest chance of rescuing his sister.
''Hahahaha! Good, finally showing some reaction. Don't worry; I will study him as I study you. It's a shame that I can't get his right eye for myself, truly a shame.'' Maddog burst into laughter.
''Umu! Umm!" (Gracier meant, You bastard)
''Yeah! I'm such a generous bastard. Hahahaha!"
Gracier glared at Maddog; the latter only burst more into laughter; look could kill, Maddog would have died by thousand times.
Suddenly, someone entered the laboratory. Without turning around, Maddog stopped laughing and said.
''Well, you are finally here. We shall start then.''
''Wait, I want you to test this blood on her.''
Saying so, the man with golden eyes tossed a vial containing black blood at Maddog; the latter caught it; his expression was dark; how can he not be mad? This damnable lass wants to spoil his plans, knowing well what he intended to do with Gracier's blood.
As if he could understand what was going through Maddog's head, the man said.
''Don't worry, it's a diluted version of our God's blood, besides it's an authentic one. Same used to create Alice and to remodel 007.''
''Oh! That's good then. Talking about 007, no, she should be called Pandora now. Where is she?" Maddog asked as she did not see Pandora beside the man; it was her who brought Gracier here; Pandora's appeared changed, now she had pale white skin, long sharp ears, heterochromia eyes, one blood red, and the other green, her hair was pure black, she was their strongest creation, even Alice couldn't hope to last ten minutes against her.
''She went to check on Alice. It's time for her to wake; although she is not powerful as Pandora, she is still extremely powerful; those two would be my trump cards. With them, I can catch Alexander and deliver him to the organization to make up for going solo.'' the man with golden eyes explained.
''I see. Time for me to start.'' Maddog approached Gracier with the black blood vial; it was writhing within the tube as if it was alive. Gracier felt a chill shot down her spine, instinctually she started thrashing because she didn't wish for this disgusting thing to enter her body; she had the feeling that something will change forever if she was to let this thing corrupt her blood.
If only that bracelet were not attached to her wrist, suddenly, Gracier remembered what Pandora put inside her right arm and what she told her to do.
''Y you should w-wait the appropriate moment to use it.''
Although Pandora's words sounded broken, Gracier could still understand them. Somehow, she had faith in Pandora, as if she knew her somewhere, no wait, Pandora looks like Meera, the spirit mage user who was in their party during the rank-up test. Finally, Gracier could identify Pandora; if not for the sharp ears and green eye, Gracier couldn't have identified her.
'No way, she got c-'
Gracier's eyes widened when a foreign matter entered her body.
''Uga! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
Gracier wailed, her body started spasming, the area where the blood entered through her body turned dark, then white, then black again, black veins appeared all over her body. The black blood was trying to invade her whole body; it was trying to rewrite her DNA.
''Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
The pain was so excruciating that Gracier fainted numerous times; however, soon, she would regain consciousness and restart experiencing the same hell; this went on for one hour; however, to Gracier, it was like it has been an eternity, she wished to be dead be even this was refused to her.
After one hour, the black blood had succeeded corrupting half of Gracier's body, the end of Gracier's beautiful flaming red hair had turned dark, few strands of hair had turned completely dark, unlike the other who only had their tip darkened.
Even Gracier right eye started to show signs of changing.
''No good, her body seems to be rejecting our God's blood. We must add a bit more. I have the feeling that we will create something perfect. Her eye will be more perfect after receiving the baptism of our God through his holy blood.''
The man with golden eyes announced after seeing that Gracier could resist their God's blood corruption, he tossed another vial at Maddog, the latter sighed, even though it was not what he wished for, he could only comply; his scientific blood was boiling to know what Gracier would become after completing her baptism.
So, another God's blood got injected into Gracier; this time, the black blood rushed directly to Gracier's core, toward her heart where her blood essence was.
Boom!
A big explosion happened inside Gracier's heart; she vomited a mouthful of blood, half of her hair turned dark, she felt like all cells inside her body were being broken down and reconstructed; the pain was so intense that she couldn't voice it out.
It was at that moment that Alex fell to the ground and clutched his heart; he experienced for a millisecond what his sister was going through.
