-2 weeks later-

So tell me...how is your project doing windal I expect some good news"the voice coming from the phone said, the elf couldn't help but bring his hand to his face from exhaustion and the prospect of what he was going to say hopefully the project doesn't get shelves or worse cancelled given the staggering quick and horrifying development of the anomaly".

The project is moving along just fine Mr Rogers tho there are some things that make this anomaly quite..different.

I'm all ears windal what do you mean by that"he said over the phone his tone growing more serious as if urging windal to get on with what he was gonna say"is this something that can prove to be problematic.

Possibly you see the test we conducted showed significant results for instance the virus upon infection and conversion of a creature appears to become smarter in a sense even being able to alter and change the body appearance.

Oh really? How so.

Well we believe it does this by skills since the first few test were simple and after the test it became more smarter and would start to alter some of it hosts whenever we gave it rats and sometimes a gobbloid or two we were at one point planning on giving it a human criminal on death row but we stopped giving it things too infect because it gotten out of control and reached a point where it started probing the walls for any weak points and has covered parts of the walls and ceilings in biomass from the infected test subjects we given it leading to a lot of problems that we are currently fixing.

"He couldn't help but flinch at those last words he said given the fact the situation was not fine and was getting a little bit more out of control since whatever sample they managed to get from the containment cell experiment 3088 was held in kept on dying making attempts to form a countermeasure that wouldn't destroy 3088 completely very hard, he could only hope roger the one who was in charge of the lab would be merciful".

So let me get this straight the anomaly you released from that time crystal has skills never heard of or seen before and you idiots just fed it a bunch of crap that made this thing brain if it even has one wrinkled putting the facility at risk of a containment breach!!

And you have the idiocy to say it's fine! How in the actual fuck is it fine windal tell me how you could come up with such a smooth brain thing to say that is the exact opposite think windal think are you stupid?!

"His voiced screamed out on the other end of the phone making windal pull it away from his ear so as to avoid getting ear raped, Roger was very unhappy and he had a right to be since they at first thought it was just a simple virus and while it did shock them at first with it ability to mess with organic matter they didn't think too much about it since it couldn't leave it cell due to it being made of mana steel, then it started getting smarter something that should've made them very concerned but they chalked it up to it understanding and getting use to the body since sentient viruses were unheard of and even anomalies that were viruses never showed true sentience and they thought they had the situation under control for the most part, oh boy they were very wrong like so wrong windal and novie could make cake out of it".

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Give me one good reason one very good reason on why I shouldn't cancel this project and be done with it.

Wait sir! You can't it been funded and ordered by the king himself who knows how he'll react upon finding out all of this money went to waste!

Well clearly that'll be the least of his concern given the drama that been started between him and one of his sons over that damn time crystal"his words struck like a hot knife leaving windal unable to do anything but stand there in confusion and shock".

Mr Roger what do you mean by that I know time crystals are incredible expensive but it shouldn't be this much right surely experiment 3088 hasn't cost this much money.

Wrong you see that time crystal wasn't found in some bum fuck cave or in the middle of bloody nowhere it just so happened to have been found IN THE HOLUX VAULT!

The same vault that had demon king fragments that got put together like a damn Lego set and boom some new demon king nobody called umbera everybody gotta deal with now, just buying that time crystal alone costed 4/10 of the treasury and the project being funded brought the cost up to 5 which raised a lot of suspicion and created a trail prince ereon sniffed out if anything were lucky he haven't found this place because of the king acting as a shield.

Listen now that you know about our predicament I'll give you and novie an ultimatum either get this bullshit taken care of either destroy the anomaly and make it seem like a accident or whip up some magical baloney that keeps it in line end of discussion now if you excuse me I need to create some false trail to throw off any investigations goodbye.. "with that he was gone, all windal could do was slump down in his chair in his office phone in hand drained of any energy in his body".

What do I do"he exclaimed bringing his hands to his face and sighed in frustration before hurtling the phone to the other side of the room, he can always get another one anyway".

Clack

Clack

We can't give up on the project now there's so much to learn so many possibilities, if we give up now without trying then all of this would be pointless"he looked over to one of the monitors in 3088 cell the red biomass appearing to have grown bigger than before taking up an entire corner of the cell.

Hm it appears it has the ability to even grow the biomass tho where it gets the energy to do so is a mystery, his eyes widened as a idea popped up in his head...energy"the cold!

Why haven't we thought of that we really are fucking idiots, the virus is using the biomass of the things we fed it as a breeding ground for more of it and while collecting samples has failed maybe we been approaching it in the wrong direction, what if freezing the infected material slow the virus reaction enough where we can gain useful information from it and given that the mass is easy to damage it should be easy to freeze as well yes this can work!

Now hopefully nothing horrible wrong happens.

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Anomalies that are viruses aren't rare, they tend to be quite common however that doesn't take away from their lethality due to how they react to a host and the properties they posses one such virus I can use as a example would be the chimera virus.

Despite it supposed harmlessness at first it was found out that it could transfer DNA from one host to another leading to the creation of chimera monsters through multiple generations, creatures with conflicting instincts and behaviours roamed and terrorized the landscape their bodies a mismatch of different animal features that have no business working together with how different limbs functioned yet....they do.

-Bra alkaz the xenophobic