Chapter 32
After the little experiment, Dax retreated to his isolation chamber and settled at his desk. He unloaded the stack of books he'd got from Micah, then tore through them like a man possessed—flipping pages with frantic speed, dropping each volume aside the moment it was done. He barely lingered a full second on any single book.
All of it made possible by Ineros.
With ruthless precision and impossible velocity, he scanned the text, breaking it into perfect segments that slotted neatly into his mind. Dax's eyes had become little more than monitors, tracking lines at a pace no human retina could match.
Wonderful, he thought. This world is so much vaster than I ever imagined. So much history.
He had reached the section on the world's ancient past. The pages spoke of 5 gods belonging to what the texts called the Good faction. 4 governed the primal elements: the God of Fire, the God of Wind, the God of Water, the God of Earth.
