The pungent smell, the buzz of flies, and the maggots crawling on the beastfolk corpse made Lidien somehow smile.
After the corpse was delivered into the Rift, he had it taken to his new personal laboratory--a cabin he'd commanded the soldiers to build in the free space below the floating island at the edge of the Rift.
Lidien walked towards the dissection table. Upon it still lay a female beastfolk, her body opened from chest to groin. One of her legs was cut off at the waist, her organs were already gone, and was placed with the other mutilated corpses stacked against the wall.
Cracking his neck, he touched the female beastfolk corpse, giving him the same information because of his Echoes of the Flesh.
A small amount of Necrotic Essence crawled to his hands, its emerald dim light crawling over his skin till it sunk deeper without leaving his arms.
"My understanding of Necrotic Essence is still at its Middle Stage, still slow at absorbing it..."
