Chapter 39

“Holy shit,” Lily muttered. “Are you seeing this?” She poked the dead man’s stomach. “He’s fused with the metal.”

“It’s like with my old motorcycle,” Dana replied. “This guy was essentially teleported and became one with the structure.” She looked through the doorway and then came back out. “The rest of him is in here.”

“When he rots, will he leave a hole in the metal?” asked Lily.

“He is the metal.” Ingrid knocked on the wall. “The rest of him may fall away, but this slice of metal is now a steel-human alloy, the molecules forced into a stable configuration. The Order did a ton of research on this effect in the hopes of developing new tech that would be light years ahead of what is scientifically possible right now.”

“Did they test on people?” asked Lily.

Ingrid shook her head. “Never on purpose, to my knowledge. Any sort of experiment involving the human mind itself is unreliable at best, and that’s without the interference of an elder god. They did t