"Power source." Algon said coldly. "You barely managed to bring back a small rodent dead for a few minutes last time. If you are going to return a group cold human bodies, or even one. You are going to need power. The kind of earth shattering power you might never reach. I'm not waiting around for that. Little Eli over here though, has power. And plenty of it. He is a conduit to the heavens, and with a full set of keys, he holds enough. As per requested I won't lie: It will hurt, he will experience more pain than anyone here could imagine.. short of Charles but that's not relevant right now. But there will be no permanent damage and I can assure you he'll live, we are all leaving this place alive tonight."

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"Apparently" Charlie said calmly as he came walking over to pick Gao back up again.