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"Squeak~"
Then it let out a satisfied squeak~
"hiss!"
Seeing this, Hamon became unhappy, floated in front of Isaac, and opened his blood-red maw, which spanned his palm, in displeasure.
Isaac shook his head helplessly, grabbed a plate of roast meat from his second brother, and poured it directly into the pot.
Watching Isaac interact with the claw and the rat, Gaia and his children were completely stunned. Their eyes told them it was terrifying, but in their hearts, they also saw a touch of warmth...
'Your third brother is quite different from when you became a wizard, isn't he?'
'Nonsense! I'm an arcane mage! A truth wizard who believes in the truth! Not one of those weirdos among the legendary wizards!' Cheryl rolled her eyes after receiving a look from Caesar.
Gaia's lips twitched slightly; he was now somewhat worried about Isaac's mental state...
As for the second son, Remington…
He was right next to Isaac, watching Isaac's interaction with the monster rat up close. He had completely lost his senses and was just sitting there in a daze...
Normally, Gaia would have scolded Isaac for bringing his pet to the table and grabbing food from others, and might even have given him a small punishment. But because the pet and the gentle smile on Isaac's face were so abstract, Gaia and the others only slowly realized what was going on after Isaac bowed and left the restaurant...
"Father... in the future... open a separate restaurant for Third Brother... for their sake..." Caesar looked helplessly at the servants who were terrified. Some of the more timid ones had even rolled their eyes and were only standing there because of their superior professionalism.
Gaia paused for a moment, glanced at the horrified servants, especially those who had lost consciousness, his lips twitched slightly, and he silently nodded, making a decision that went against ancestral teachings…
We have no choice but to go against it!
Didn't you see that even those maids and butlers with special status were quite frightened?
Over time, one might get used to it, but it could also lead to strange psychological changes, just like Isaac's...
"...No wonder the High Princess wanted to live on her own...Legendary wizards...how terrifying!"
"The eldest princess also changed like the third brother... is it abstract?" Remington's lips twitched slightly as he came to his senses.
“The eldest princess is also a legendary wizard. Naturally, legendary wizards are not very mentally stable, but mad wizards are even more abnormal. Unfortunately, as far as I know, that eldest princess is also a mad wizard, just like our third brother.” Cheryl shrugged helplessly.
Upon hearing this, Remington's lips twitched again. How fortunate they were... to be in the same country as this pair of brilliant strategists...
Is it too late to run away now?
Chapter 37 Bloodline Factors
After leaving the restaurant, Isaac went straight back to the laboratory and began to design modification plans for the Gale Wolf, the Demon Boar, and the Horned Rabbit. Each of the three had its own obvious advantages and disadvantages.
Horned rabbits can easily swell in number, giving them an absolute numerical advantage. However, they are weak individually and become even more powerless against stronger opponents, offering no chance to maneuver. Gale Wolves, on the other hand, are more balanced, capable of biting at close range and using wind blades from a distance. Moreover, most of the monsters tamed by the opposing side are Gale Wolves, resulting in high conversion efficiency.
As for the demonized wild boar, it has only one advantage: it has thick skin and tough flesh!
Once they charge in a group, they are no different from heavy cavalry!
However, the downsides are that the magic power is too low, and the speed and durability are not enough.
Therefore, before it is officially put into battle, it needs to be modified to a certain extent. Only if there is no breakthrough can it be put into battle directly.
However, once I started using it, Isaac was a bit lost...
It wasn't until he actually started designing monster modification programs for war that Isaac suddenly realized how utterly worthless his prized biological modification technology was...
To be honest, he only has two modification techniques at his disposal: heart transplant and blood transplant...
It just has a slightly higher success rate.
These two technologies are simply insufficient to support the design of the renovation plan...
Fortunately, this is Cheryl's mage tower, which has a rich collection of books, so Isaac can look up the books he needs at any time.
The books in the Mage Tower are mostly owned by Cheryl herself, with only a few belonging to the Truth Society. These books cannot be lent out, but they are mostly sealed with magic, so no one can get them without Cheryl's permission.
Of course, Isaac didn't need those books. He only took some magic books on biological modification, and they were all solid theories with relatively few spells involved.
But none of that mattered. In Isaac's opinion, this thing was far more useful than any specific arcane or sorcery.
And so, holding these books and comparing them with the body structure diagrams of the three monsters, Isaac once again immersed himself in the ocean of knowledge, even taking a book with him to eat.
Fortunately, Isaac is now eating alone in the new restaurant; otherwise, if his father Gaia saw him, he might get a scolding.
The results of such tireless study far exceeded Isaac's expectations.
He had previously thought that in the field of biology, wizards with magical aids would go further than in his previous life, but he never expected them to go this far!
So comprehensive!
After studying the various famous theories of the Truth Society for some time, Isaac discovered that the wizards' biological modification technology was actually very advanced!
His heart and blood transplant technique was obsolete hundreds of years ago!
What's really popular now is genetic modification!
Of course, in this world, the scientific name for genes is bloodline factor.
By editing bloodline factors, monsters can be optimized in a more detailed and comprehensive way.
In addition to optimizing monsters, it can also add new bloodline factors to monsters, making them even more perfect!
A paper from the Society of Truth mentions a concept called the perfect being.
This is a creature that exists only in imagination. It perfectly combines the advantages of all living things in the world and is omnipotent!
However, it only exists in the realm of imagination, and there has not even been a preliminary process of its realization.
Firstly, different bloodline factors can cause a certain degree of rejection. The more bloodline factors you fuse with, the stronger this rejection becomes, and the easier it is to fail. Secondly...
The theory of bloodline factors is not yet perfect. It can only affect first- and second-tier monsters. Third-tier monsters, which are high-level monsters, also possess powers, just like high-level wizards and high-level knights among humans.
Power, most of the time, transcends bloodline!
Only a small number of monsters possess bloodlines that supersede certain powers, such as dragons!
Dragons are among the few monsters whose bloodline factors cannot be interfered with, which is why the current breeding of dragons is still at the feeding stage.
Thus, a week later, with the help of his perfect teacher, Golden Finger, Isaac successfully grasped the basics of the mage Cheryl Tarry's magic book on biological modification.
Actually, there are only 11 books, because Cheryl herself is not good at biological modification. She studies alchemy, and alchemical puppets are her area of expertise, so she doesn't have many books related to biology.
Even so, Isaac's learning speed still surprised Cheryl!
Keep in mind, this was all self-taught!
At least in her view, Isaac was self-taught.
Through self-study, in just one week, I have gained a basic understanding of eleven magical books in the field of biological modification...
Such talent... it's a real shame she's not a truth wizard!
Thinking of this, Cheryl sighed, turned off the research progress Isaac had published, shook her head helplessly, and continued to focus her attention on the manuscript in front of her, which recorded the data of the mice.
This helped her to develop her own powers.
……
"Very good, Harmon, get ready, we're going to conduct our first bloodline factor modification experiment!"
In the laboratory on the third floor, Isaac, wearing a white lab coat and white gloves, had a hideous claw extending from the back of his head. He held a scalpel and forceps in his hands, and his eyes above his mask were filled with overflowing excitement.
Before him lay a swift wolf fast asleep, a young wolf sleeping soundly.
"hiss~"
Hamon shook himself slightly, indicating that he was ready.
Without hesitation, Isaac began to cut open the wolf's body with the scalpel, revealing bloody wounds and peeling away the wolf's skin layer by layer.
Hamon gently shook the wolf, and a faint magical energy surged onto the operating table, halting its rapidly fading life force.
Soon, Isaac roughly cut the demon wolf open. It looked terrifying, but it was actually nothing special. Although the demon wolf was covered in wounds, and in several of them you could see the bone, it was nothing compared to the divine network that the rat had implanted before.
If Isaac, the mouse, could survive such a dangerous situation, then the dire wolf's minor wounds are nothing to worry about.
After cutting open the wolf, Isaac put down his scalpel, took the forceps from Hamon, and carefully inserted strands of blood into the wolf's body.
These blood streaks are divided into three categories: one category promotes the optimization of one's own bloodline factors, another category contains bloodline factors of other wind element monsters that can be accommodated, and the third category does not have a simple function. It is a pad unique to Isaac's cheat code. Thanks to it, Isaac was able to stack the success rate to 200%!
In other words, unless there is a fatal mistake during the surgery, such as accidentally cutting open the heart, the surgery will definitely be successful!
Isaac, of course, would not make such a basic mistake. Soon, he buried all the blood vessels inside the wolf's body and completely stitched up the wound.
After casting several healing spells on it to completely stabilize its condition, Harmon put the wolf into an iron cage, then knocked out a horned rabbit and placed it on the operating table...
Chapter 38: Optimization Directions for the Future of Flesh-and-Blood Conversion
Next, repeat the previous process to complete the modification of the Diagonal Rabbit. Like the Demon Wolf, the modification of the Diagonal Rabbit still involves its own bloodline factor plus the wind attribute bloodline factor and the pad.
The former can make the horned rabbit stronger, while the latter comes from the demon wolf and has a certain chance of awakening wind attribute magic. Even if it is unlucky and does not awaken, it will be easier to modify it by engraving magic runes later.
The so-called magic rune inscription originated from wizards engraving the magical patterns of monsters onto objects to facilitate the casting of spells. It has gradually evolved into the current practice of engraving magic runes onto the body, thereby giving the individual the ability to directly cast the corresponding spells.
Over the years, the technique of engraving magic runes has become increasingly sophisticated, and the spells engraved on them have the ability to grow. As a result, there is now a niche school of wizards that engraves magic runes on their bodies to enable them to cast more spells instantly and thus have relatively stronger combat power.
However, such wizards are rare; most of them inscribe their skills onto the monsters they raise, which is an important branch of biological modification.
In fact, engraving also accounts for half of biological modification magic, and most biological modifications will eventually return to this path.
But there's nothing we can do; the bloodline factor has such a high purpose and great potential.
Therefore, there are naturally more wizards studying bloodline factors, and with more wizards, there are more related documents.
While the development of magic rune inscription is also significant, most of it is purely technical, and its voice is naturally smaller among wizards, who are mostly research-oriented scholars.
In this situation, Isaac would naturally not choose just one to study; the greed of an adult led him to want them all!
Anyway, he has cheat codes~
Therefore, in the Horned Rabbit's plan, Isaac added the wind attribute bloodline factor in advance, so that even if the awakening fails, it will be more convenient to inscribe it in the future.
After treating the horned rabbit, Hamon immediately carried the giant demonized wild boar onto the operating table.
The modification of the demonized wild boar is different from the previous two first-tier monsters. Although it still has three bloodline factors, except for the third one, the other two are all earth-attribute bloodline factors and do not have the demonized wild boar's own bloodline factors.
After all, it's just a low-ranking monster; how strong can its bloodline factors be?
In addition to the bloodline factor, Isaac also replaced the heart of the demonized wild boar with the heart of a first-tier monster, the Rockskin Wild Boar.