Althea felt her ears ringing in apprehension.
She had always known, through Medussa's borderline mad experiments when she was still in Alterra, that there were elementalist cores inside them. It worked like the combined bone marrow and heart for elemental power.
When they found out, this type of evil had indeed crossed their minds.
It was just something inevitable when it was found out.
People instinctively wanted to grow stronger. Knowing the awe and position that Elementalists occupied in this world, they feared that acts like these could be even more intense.
For elementalists, this was particularly worrying news. Who'd want to know their kind was being hunted down 'for parts'?
It was why the Ministers jointly decided to place a gag order to this finding, and also subtly instructed Loki and the others to watch out for unusual disappearances of elementalists in every territory they had people in.
