The smell of cooked meat and melted platinum lingered in the damp air of the sewer tunnel.
Sebastian crouched over the smoking rigid corpse of Apostle Cole. The armor was completely fused shut. It acted as a high end coffin for the puddle of sludge inside.
He didn't care about looting the gear. The platinum was corrupted and useless. He already had enough god tier junk sitting in his bottomless inventory to fund a small nation.
But he needed something specific.
He raised his heavy boot and brought it down hard on the chest plate of the armor.
CRACK!
The brittle superheated metal caved inward and revealed the charred blackened cavity where Cole's heart used to be. Resting amidst the ash was a glowing jagged piece of rectangular hardware. It hummed with a faint sickly purple light.
It was the Apostle's communication array. It was the direct neural link Cole had used to broadcast the System's twisted religion to his followers.
