Chapter 166: Hero [1] - Experiments & Progress
"Not much has taken place over the past week. The riot of the beasts continues, and the beasts’ attacks on the city have never stopped."
"However, following the Duchess’s orders, no noble has stepped forward so far. The strategy has remained the same: to use the lives of ordinary soldiers to kill the strongest of the beasts."
Alpha’s voice echoed in Liora’s ears as she gave a general report of what had happened recently.
"But Miss Eleanor seems very unwilling. There were a couple of times that she was ready to take action. Fortunately, the other Black Tulip members managed to stop her in time."
While Liora nodded her head from time to time to show that she understood, her two hands moved mechanically, continuously grabbing objects from the side and placing them in front of her.
If anyone else were here to take a look, they would discover that Liora was currently standing in front of a white metal table.
On the table, the body of a dead True Knight could be seen lying, with his eyes closed.
Liora’s hands moved with precision as she opened the corpse’s skin with a thin scalpel.
Then, just when Alpha had finished giving her report, she took a drop of blood out of the Space Orb and brought it to reality.
With a flick of her fingers, the blood shot onto the wound, merging with the corpse and fully integrating into it.
Immediately, the aura of the corpse began growing stronger.
From an ordinary True Knight, it quickly jumped to the peak of that rank and showed no signs of stopping.
However, Liora didn’t show much excitement.
She knew that the hard part was only now coming. Most likely, the experiment would fail next.
Indeed, just when it seemed that the corpse would undergo a transformation and become a Great Knight, a switch seemed to have been turned on.
The lifeless body began elongating like a rubber balloon.
The next moment, a bang—the corpse exploded.
Blood and body parts flew everywhere, ready to make a mess out of the room.
Liora waved her hand just in time and manipulated her demonic energy to suppress the explosion.
As if time itself was turning back, the blood and other parts returned to the operating table, one stacked neatly on top of each other.
Liora was neither happy nor sad about the experiment’s failure.
Reaching to the side, she picked up a small notebook and, using an ink pen, she began writing.
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"Experiment No. 28. The process went as predicted at the start. But the subject’s body had an intense reaction when integrating the beasts’ blood. Like fire meeting water, it was unable to withstand the impact."
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There were many similar records above this one, numbering from one to twenty-seven.
Clearly, Liora had not been idle over the past week.
Although she had not participated in the ongoing war—only coming out from time to time to collect souls—she had been quite busy.
And her goal was clear—to find a way to become a King of Knights.
"I can be certain that my theory is correct. Just like Knights accommodate the Bloodline Seed to undergo a transformation and thus advance, they can also accommodate the blood of beasts. However, it seems that a link is missing."
"The blood of beasts is too corrosive. Ordinary humans cannot withstand its impact upon integrating. That holds true even for Knights.
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