章 146: Repercussions [Bonus chapter]

While hearing Kiera's loud screams, a thought crossed Emir's mind:

'Thank God they had theirs implanted during surgery.'

He simply couldn't imagine them going through this without his heart being torn into a million pieces.

The reason why he thought that way was due to his knowledge about the two main methods of implanting an Aether core. 

One was the painful route of swallowing this large capsule, only needing the user's neural network's will to activate the process.

But why was it so painful? 

Well, it was because of the almost instantaneous change to the internal structure of the body with the addition of the Aether core as it expanded and rearranged the other organs while strengthening itself as a second heart. 

And even though suppressants were deployed in the bloodstream, they weren't able to negate all of the pain experienced during the transformation.