If you asked Elpis what he did for a living, he'd say he sold his body.
This is not as wrong as it might sound.
What it actually means is, given more detail, is that he sells tissue samples of himself to certain biological organizations, who pay him for the samples of course, and he had made clear that he would only take offers from legitimate companies, nothing shady.
After all, he didn't want to wind up being vivisected or dissected again.
That hadn't been a fun way to go out, to say the least.
He winced at the memories. Things were different then.
Thankfully, CWIS was there to help find a place that seemed to be legitimate enough for him to donate his precious vital fluids to.
Currently, the people with exclusive rights to his flesh samples were Lumis Pharmaceuticals, who's motto was "Medicine will light the way for life!"
They had nearly balked, he remembered, upon seeing the kinds of things his regenerative slime compounds were capable of.
The first test they had done was on a dead rat that had only it's head left, the rest cut off.
After applying some of his compound's in a test to see just how powerful it was, if it met up to what Elpis's claims were (he didn't mention it could reanimate the dead, he merely only said that he had the healing factor of a superhero known as Deadpool, a response Shinji had told him once).
The results were, after a brief test, the rat's body had been fully regenerated, and in pretty much perfect condition, too. All signs of tissue decay were gone, to the point where it was like it had never died at all, and was merely sleeping.
They immediately offered him a extremely generous amount of money to come in to donate samples, claiming that if this payed off, it would result in the medical breakthroughs of an eternity.
For the first time, they claimed, it might be actually possible to eliminate a entire cause of death.
Namely mortal wounds.
But alas for them, he had not mentioned (by choice) that it only worked on dead things.
Something that for all their intelligence, they knew by now, but were extremely puzzled by why.
He, for the most part, had taken to concealing the fact that he himself had a host body that was already dead as much as possible.
He smiled beneath his mask as he went into the lab, had them extract the sample, and was handed the proof that the money had been transferred directly to his account in exchange.
They always seemed to need more samples, but at most, he only donated once a week, which meant that this would be the most he'd receive normally.
Little did he know the secrets the place held....
Elsewhere...
"Are you certain? If this is indeed what you claim to be, it could be the thing that could kill us all." one said to another in a dark room via video conference on a highly secure channel.
"Positive. I've read the reports. The properties of the stuff... there's only one thing capable of doing this this easily." the other said.
"In that case... the first sign, the sign of the star, The first of ten that signals the Herald of Dawn, occurred years ago, according to what data we have on it. Are you saying the second sign is already going to come?" "Right. After those twelve signs, then the Herald shows up, and we have one chance at that point to get the herald to go away before the lord itself shows up.""Indeed. I won't have what happened to our worlds happen to Junction." "Remember, KY, we can't afford to be caught now. Not after all the work we put in." "Indeed. Especially not by the Dawn Society. Curse them managing to rise to power in the wake of the failed jump... damn those fools. They don't know what they're dealing with, D.""Right. Well, according to AA, the tests are going smoothly so far. The being itself has no idea so far what's really going on.""Indeed. Although, I must say, I do worry about the Sign of the Llama coming. If it awakens to some of the power that it's unaware exists, then-""Calm down, KY. JS is always keeping an eye too, you know."
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