The Princess was looking at the pool of blood in shock while the butler had woken up to only immediately faint again. The Emperor grunted in amusement. The High Priestess was the one to break the silence. "What did you mean by the Spectres being a species?"
Her words caused the Emperor to jolt in his seat while Jace was expecting the question. The Princess pulled out of her shock, looked over at her father. While Astella made a facial expression that was more reminiscent of her making a mistake. The Emperor sighed after a moment, "just how it sounds. The nanomachines in our system were made to evolve the users into greater warriors. We had managed something similar a long time ago during the Grand Hexarian Empire with the Praetorians. But the Spectres were the next step on that path and only achievable when the users were young."
"So you created an entire species? How did you even manage that?" The princess asked in shock as she looked over at Jace.
