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Valbanill 2 – Part 08

The human infantry was mindless. That was because engineers called Tuners, who inherited the first Housman’s research from Siegfried, had subjected them to a special kind of conditioning.

Through prolonged drug administration and surgical procedures, they underwent brainwashing, physical enhancement, and suppression of pain. Originally mercenaries and wandering swordsmen, they were stripped of their ability to think and turned into puppets built solely for combat, unable to feel pain.

The longbow Infernal Blade crackled with lightning when it manifested its power. No ordinary human could even draw its string. But these pain-numbed human infantry could.

The single greatest flaw of the Infernal Blade Eliza Eva was that the force field they emitted injured not only their enemies but also their wielder. Lightning was a serious threat to life itself, far too dangerous for any human to handle. Until now, they had been wielded only by a specially modified demon,