Chapter 74: Choices

After Liam revealed his plans to Hugo, the latter was not able to look at him in the same way as before. It was unbelievable to him, that the cheery old man even had such plans.

He sat at the long table enjoying lunch on the surface but carefully contemplated his approach to the situation.

'I most likely won't be punished since the Association wouldn't want a valuable asset such as myself to be lost. Liam, on the other hand, is a goner. He can only be saved if I give some sort of acknowledgement in supporting the matter,'

'Still, what he's trying to do is not natural. Giving an Awakening to an unliving piece. Even if he could go about making those golems the real deal, how would he implant Awakenings? So far, all study shows that they're not transferrable since the power lies not only in the body but in the soul.'