The hour: 2:45 AM
After Dante have mentioned Nikolas's comment on davoth, the mode was way too serious and Dante doesn't usually like these modes so he stood up from the ground and said:
"Okay enough of that, i will go get some drinks to wash off that dark mode that we are in, care for something?"
"No thank you, i don't like the taste of wine and even when i drink it to get wasted, i don't get wasted into the void, i get wasted into the awful past that i went through."
"Okay then." Dante left for a while.
After that conversation Aitor was just silent thinking about Nikolas's words and just like everyone else already understand that Davoth was a tragic and totally not a good event that passed on humanity, but now that he have seen what the Quegz can even do to their own people, he came to the conclusion that Davoth mostly saw a group of people as cowardly and immoral as the Quegz and gave up on humanity.
Dante got back with his drink and said:
"It's about time you stand up from the ground leaf man, come on, I want to have some heavy words with you right now." Aitor then stood up and sitted on the table that Dante was sitting at, Dante then said:
"Listen up clearly, you do understand very that Ahab is...well...very mentally unstable because of the sacrifices he did to gain power such as abandoning his ways to express emotions and sometimes his feelings to his guardians to make them stronger, right?"
"Carry on."
" *sigh* there's one time when the new headquarters was being built, Ahab have explained to me that most of his positive feelings are gone that includes happiness and i said most because pride wasn't sacrificed and wouldn't be sacrificed."
"And why is pride wouldn't be sacrificed?"
"There's that thing in the sixth world that Ahab didn't want us to visit, that thing is called Excruciator(translated into the crucifier or the tormentor, from latin) as far as i understood from Ahab, this is the very thing that tortures Ahab whenever he summon something beyond the amount of Element and the mind capability he has.
He is the one that makes Ahab feel sudden pain that is not from his opponent mid-fight force him to see horrible things just to distarct him to make him lose whatever he is doing and in return, Ahab gets the power as he have already suffered to get his hands on it.
One of the ways that he is using to make Ahab's life more intolerable is to demand him to sacrifice the emotion of happiness, kindness and pride, Ahab Ahab strongly refused as it will be a problem if sacrificed his kindness, and yes, Ahab didn't care about happiness and pride to be gone, so Excruciator thought of the perfect idea."
"And that is?"
"To make Ahab sacrifice only his happiness and in return Ahab wouldn't get the old concept of power he wanted, also dont ask me what was the power he demanded at first because he didn't tell me, but instead of that concept, Ahab got a tool that works in a sick retarded way.
it can take his emotions or his ability to express the emotion in question by it's own demand, and turn that feeling into pure power that goes to one of his guardians, he made a total of six sacrifices to his six guardians except Frektalyes.
"Do you know what were the things he sacrificed in specific? Also, if i was that machine i would have used atleast one of those sacrifices on Frektalyes to make the guardians count become less and his guardian's strength will be more unequally distributed."
"Well the things that he have sacrificed were his:
Silliness and that's obviously Yhormngan who got the power from that emotion.
Empathy that's mostly Logskyrr even though it doesn't seem like it.
Wisdom which apears through Lucius, also i noticed when Ahab speaks some big intelligent words, it was actually Lucius telling him what is best to say.
The ability to express pride i heard it belonged to a guardian called Yuxuan, i don't know, haven't seen him yet.
The ability to express anger, i honestly don't know any guardian who get mad in most times."
"Well that would be Meglarius, Frektalyes's most reliable imagination Ahab has ever made, he may not show his anger in most ways but he may show it when he fights his enemies by showing many different moves just to fuck around with their minds because they stood in Ahab's way, and that is how he normally express his anger, but i never wish to see him angery ever again."
"Wait, you saw him actually angry, like a mad face and other things?"
"Yes, in my tour in Ahab's mind, i have fought him and let's say it's an experience that i don't want to remember a lot, because i would doubt my decisions that i joined arms with someone like Ahab who got an imagination as ruthless as Meglarius."
"Well...where was I? Oh yeah, now the final sacrifice, his ability to express sadness, however in this one, Ahab told me himself that the guardian who got the power from the machine through this sacrifice doesn't express sadness nor does he feel it, that is because the machine wanted to break Ahab's mind as much as it can.
And by removing Ahab's ability to express sadness and anger, he is more of a time bomb waiting to explode the moment he receives too much shit in a short moment, in simple words, his crash out will be a doomsday situation as he will explode out of anger at one time unleashing all the beings in the sixth world that will wreck havoc in the world even more than the hungry hell hounds event in the 16th millennium.
As for your thoughts about what the right movement that should be done by the machine, it also tried to give Frektalyes a sacrifice who is the oldest imagination that Ahab have ever made, he completely denied it and tortured the machine just to remind it that he is no ordinary so that her words can work on him and demand that his sacrifice goes to one of the guardians, i believethat this have something to do with Frektalyesbeing some kind of a special case."