Becoming Their Guiding Spirit

# Chapter 94: A Spear Across the Night Sky Parvis was out of options.

The Flame Demon Project was a collaborative effort between Rhine Lab and the military, with the latter injecting a massive amount of funding.

If...

The Flame Demon Project had failed, and the test subject had died during a rampage or escaped, it would have been understandable. Parvis would have been blamed, but not too heavily. As long as the data remained, everything would be fine. But the current situation was completely different.

The Flame Demon Project was completed!!

And the test subject was lost due to his own actions, with the military fully aware that the project had been completed. The blame for this was immense!!

In the former case.

Parvis would at most be suspended for a while. Once the situation cooled down, he could continue being the head of the Structural Section, living his life freely.

But now things were completely different!

It was no longer a matter of suspension or not.

Those high-ranking, hot-tempered, and cold-hearted military generals would probably kill him outright...

Moreover.

The vast military of Columbia was certainly not a monolithic entity.

Similar to the army groups in Ursus, the Columbian military was also divided into several major military districts.

And in the absence of war, these major districts naturally needed to compete internally. It was not uncommon for them to court major tech giants. For instance, the military district that Raythean Industries collaborated with received a large supply of the most advanced combat weapons and equipment for its soldiers every year.

On the other hand, the military faction backing Rhine Lab hoped that Rhine Lab could use biotechnology to create beings on the level of Ursus’s ultimate fighting force, the [Emperor’s Blade].

And Rhine Lab itself was not a solid block either.

The various generals of that military district had placed their bets on different sections.

After continuously providing a number of [Modified Soldiers], the status of Parvis’s Structural Section had been quietly rising within both Rhine Lab and the military. The top-secret [Flame Demon Project] was the very capital on which Parvis’s rise was built, and also the capital for the rise of the general who backed him.

The stakes were enormous.

Even Parvis, who was usually dedicated to his research and regarded life and all other things with indifference, was now like an ant on a hot pan, pacing anxiously.

”Remember!!”

Just as the head of the Structural Section’s special operations team was about to leave, Parvis called out to him again. His eyes, somewhat cloudy with age, stared at the man like a wild beast.

”You must!! You must! Not harm a single hair on the head of the Raythean Industries’ young miss!!”

After saying that.

Parvis collapsed into his chair like a deflated balloon.

He knew...

The biggest taboo in corporate warfare was going after an opponent’s family.

Over Columbia’s many years of development.

A tacit understanding had formed among the major corporations.

They would never touch an opponent’s family, unless that family member held a very important position in the company and chose to get involved.

Because going after family was not worth it at all.

Even if you succeeded in killing the opponent’s family member, not only would you not make a cent, but you would also provoke a frenzied counterattack, even leading to the assassination of your own family. In the end, you kill one, they kill two, and both of you end up like Batman. A total loss...

Except for those dishonorable kidnappers demanding ransom..

And Parvis had no other choice!

He had to take this risk.

Moreover, Parvis kept comforting himself psychologically.

The heiress of Raythean Industries took his test subject, and he was just ’rightfully’ taking back what was his. And since he wouldn’t harm the heiress, Raythean Industries would have no reason to be angry.

And.

He just needed to get the test subject back.

Everything would be fine.

With such an important Flame Demon test subject, even if Raythean Industries really did cause trouble, not only would the military protect him, but Rhine Lab would as well. If he couldn’t get her back...

Either way, he was dead....

It didn’t matter anymore.