"From today, we will start the main event of your experiment.
For the past seventeen years we kept pouring mana into you in different forms: spells, injections, etc.
But you have kept absorbing them into your body.
So today we're going to be doing it differently: we'll suck out the mana.
We have successfully invented a mana extracting machine and have connected them to this tube and with it we'll get things started."
Augustina summarized the day's activity to Henry.
Finally, they were going to start getting to the main work and if their plan is successful, Henry can leave that god-damned desert, as she had expected, Henry was acting indifferent.
He looked around examining the seven huge tubes, filled with multicolored liquids.
He sited a new machine, traced it's host and saw that it was connected to the tube he would enter.
It wouldn't take a genius to guess that it was the machine Tina was telling him about.
"Ugh...why are you explaining all this to me?" He asked, less concerned.
"Why?
Tina sighed and looked down at her notepad to scribble somethings down. Her tired eyes moved along with her hand.
"It's because it's gonna hurt...alot. It's pain is going to be three fold and...
She paused as she pressed her lips together. She couldn't get herself to look at him.
"...you might die. There's a 31% possibility of you dieing." She said.
It was silent for a moment—so much that it was suffocating. She looked up to her staff and saw them all with gloomy eyes and then to Henry.
Henry looked indifferent, as their eyes met he blinked twice as if not still understanding what she had said.
"Oh, I see" Henry whispered as Tina was looking at him with the expression "Aren't you going to say anything?"
"Well, I don't care, let's just hurry it up, like I said I'm hungry." He said as he walked towards the tube.
"All of my experiments and spar with my teacher have always been near death experience." He suddenly stopped to look at Tina.
"Besides, I'd be doing a lot of people a solid if I died and that includes me.
So let's get this over with and let the wheel of fate spin. It's not like you can control it right?"
He asked and his lips curved up a bit as he walked into the tube.
He was somehow certain that he wasn't going to die—nje couldn't afford to.
The ordinary thought of death scared him, not because of the pain but because what happens after death was still a mystery to him.
If there was something he learnt throughout his little life it's that "ignorance breeds fear"
You only fear what you don't know properly.
Besides, he now has a purpose to serve. Once he escapes he'll find meaning to his life and then seek his revenge.
Another thing that strengthened his faith was that he was the devil's host and somehow he knew that even if not his family, the devil won't let his host die.
From stories, he knows how prideful devils are, so there's no way he's letting humans destroy his house.
Seeing this, Tina bit her lips. She calmed herself and remembered herself that emotions aren't allowed in her line of work.
With steeled resolve, she moved and ordered her assistants to start with the experiment.
As the needles connected to his body, Henry didn't make a single sound. He had gotten used to it.
The tube closed shot and the liquids drowned him. Just like before the rune in the tube shot different spells at him.
Tina waited, they had readied the extraction machine which was enhanced with spells. As soon as the protective lightning shot out from Henry's body she screamed.
"Now!"
There were varieties of clicking sounds which ended within seconds, getting a nod from his fellow assistant, a male assistant pressed a big button.
Following this action the machine reacted, with the hosts connected to the tube, it sucked in all the water as soon as it was done it's focus shifted to Henry.
Henry's body was exuding a purple glow. Once it's aim was firm, a set of runes formed at the host's mouth.
The rune that was shooting the spells changed into the same rune that was on the machine.
Henry breathed with his eyes shut. He knew that it was only the beginning so he bit down to steel his resolve.
'I'm not dying, not today, not here!'
He thought before a sharp pain flooded his whole body.
"Argh!" He screamed.
The machine had activated and it was sucking in the purple mana that was covering Henry.
But the mana didn't enter the tube yet, it was in-between Henry and the tube—a struggle for the both.
To Henry it felt as though his whole bones were being forcefully pulled out of his body at the same time.
He felt his skin melt and his veins burst.
"Increase the intensity to the highest" Tina instructed.
With a nod, her assistant increased the intensity.
"Argh!" Henry's scream intensified.
His popped out veins were glowing red, as if they are burning.
Just as the struggle continued Tina started to notice something.
"God... what's that? How many?"
She whispered as she started seeing a mixture of golden-black in the aura that was being sucked out.
Following the golden-black manner was a dark red manner, they were all leaking from Henry's body.
All part:his eyes, ears, nose and even from the little holes in his skin.
"Khuk!" Henry coughed out blood.
His whole body was bleeding, hus throat was clogged with blood so he couldn't shout.
The mana of different colors filled the tube but refused to get into the host.
"Ma, let's stop here, he'll die at this rate." He assistant advised.
"No, let's wait a bit more, just a few seconds..."
Just as she was about to finish talking, Henry's eyes glowed red and...
~Boom!~ there was an explosion! An explosion that pushed everything back. The force threw Tina against the wall.
~Bzzt!~
The whole place backed out. Of all her assistants, Tina was the only one who managed to remain conscious.
The impact on others knocked them out, with a bleeding head Tina and a blurry vision she moved her gaze towards Henry, then she saw it.
She saw Henry floating.
Mid-air his eyes glowed purple and the multicolored mana hovering around him.
The sight madeTina feel as if she had seen an angel, there was an ominous divine energy exuding from him.
She felt...safe.
Like a flash the mana immediately went back into his body and he slumped unto the ground, unconscious.
She muttered gently under her breath.
"He...he survived. I'm glad."
She smiled before letting her consciousness drifted away.
The medics came rushing in seconds after Tina passed out.