Reborn as an Extra Chapter 635: Endless Greed, Endless Cruelty. Part-3.

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Previously on Reborn as an Extra...
Nova defied Kai's attempts to shield Lia, insisting she learn the truth of human greed and cruelty, and sent Bela away with the golem. She freed Miria and Lyria, then projected a hologram seized from a human corpse, revealing laboratories where fairies were caged, dissected, tortured, and crushed into meat paste to harvest Benevolent Fairy Powder. The recording excitedly detailed the fairies' regenerative vitality as the source of the powder's miraculous healing powers, extracted best through terror.

The camera operator didn't halt; instead, he moved to a different window, revealing a far more terrifying sight.

"As you can see, this is a prototype of a fully functional ’Benevolent Fairy Powder’ farm. We've got roughly a thousand fairies captured from Fairyland and smuggled right into our lab..."

"All this meat paste is getting dried and ground into fine powder via numerous machines and filtration processes..."

Visible through the glass into the airtight chamber, countless shriveled, flattened fairy corpses lay on conveyor belts, inching toward a grinder that pulverized them into dust.

That powdery essence was then bottled into small vials and sealed just like merchandise.

Witnessing such a horror alone could crumble any rational person's heart into fragments, yet the camera operator showed zero reaction, completely desensitized to it.

"Fairies form a compassionate and benevolent species; they mend every creature they meet, and exploiting that quality, we've crafted schemes to dispatch wounded beings into Fairyland..."

"From there, they infiltrate deeper zones to uncover hidden cities... leading us to the legendary artifact ’Fountain of Elemental Life.’ ..."

"Securing that legendary artifact means endless fairy production, allowing nonstop extraction of Benevolent Fairy Powder from them!"

The cameraman spoke with fervor.

"Should we achieve this, an endless stream of ultra-potent healing potions awaits, arming our troops and aiding every citizen in need across the nation..."

"Such a monumental venture will explode our medical and pharmaceutical sectors, making all rival remedies utterly obsolete!"

"A denser concentrate might extend lifespans too, and awakeners could harness it for explosive advancement!"

Benevolent Fairy Powder stood hailed as transformative innovation, founded purely on butchering and agonizing blameless, gentle fairies innocent of any wrongdoing.

"Incidentally, ’Benevolent Fairy Powder’ fits because these fairies are overly naive, kind, and benevolent toward all, ripe for deception..."

"My teacher coined it as an ironic jest on their plight. I prefer ’BFP’ myself, since the acronym conceals the horrific process..."

"We market ’BFP’ as a tech marvel, denying it's real fairy extract... and fools everywhere swallow it whole..."

"Buyers will flock, and once addicted, our sinister truths stay buried no longer..."

Once the footage concluded, silence enveloped the whole greenhouse chamber.

Lia stood speechless from the shock; grasping the clip's contents took her considerable time.

Nova stored the recorder and addressed them.

"I confiscated this from a human faking injury to beg for aid..."

"We crossed paths near Kenorland’s borders... his voice aligns perfectly with this recording..."

Nova gestured to her eyes and continued.

"These many decades haven't passed idly. I've awakened the fairy race's bloodline magic. My abilities and eyes let me glimpse soul fluctuations in people..."

"Anyone can spew lies endlessly, but souls never deceive—wicked ones emit fluctuations that betray their malice..."

"The vile human seeking to trick me... Magic bound him once I detected his darkness, and rifling his possessions uncovered this..."

"Days of starvation later, he admitted being a chief lab researcher..."

Nova met Lia’s gaze directly, her grave tone slicing straight into Lia’s core.

"He confessed filming this himself, entering Fairyland deliberately to dupe fairies and mock them afterward..."

"He relished humiliating us... so that human marked my very first kill..."

Having uttered that, Nova eyed the terrified, shuddering Lyria and Miria, then said,

"You're both so young, clueless on handling such perils; thus I kept this from you till now..."

"Yet today you blindly led a human into Kenorland—a grave blunder..."

"Luckily, he's vouched by the Divine General himself, sparing us concern..."

Nova paused briefly after those words, scanned Lia’s dazed face, shook her head, and added,

"Such is your race's ugly truth; the motive for their assaults... even demons outshine humans! They at least slay swiftly, unlike human torment..."

"Humans devour our very corpses like monsters! Scheming to claim our ’mother,’ the ’Fountain of Elemental Life,’ merely to snare our young!"

"I cannot grasp the bottomless pit of human greed, nor their boundless savagery... impossible!"

Nova quieted then, glanced around, bowed to Lia, and declared,

"Bela awaits me still... time to depart. Please reflect on my words, and should you thwart such human atrocities in future, do so..."

"Not solely for fairies, but the ’world’ as well... their deeds hasten miasmic blight's world conquest..."

"Endless Greed, Endless Cruelty—this beckons the miasma sea to engulf the planet..."

Nova shook her head and departed, granting Lia and the rest room to process and sort their turmoil.