They rested for a little while and then started training. Although they didn’t level up, they were still getting stronger. Leonel was training them in multiple weapons so that they could choose the most suitable one for themselves. While they were training, Leonel made so calls so that he could give the promised Angels and Demons to the boys. It would take a few days for the subjects to be delivered to their lab.
A few days later, a truck full of sedated Angels and Demons arrived at their facility. Leonel personally received the delivery. He and Alexi moved all of them to a dungeon below the lab.
Leonel headed back to the house. He and Zeke needed to brainstorm so ideas. Experints are supposed to verify ideas and theories and without sothing to start with, it would all be pointless.
They sat in the living room, just shooting any ideas that ca to mind. As they had nad the technique, Supre Conduit Codex, they decided to call the circulatory systems Conduits.
Leonel said, "The Body Vessel Conduits would still be easier to create. The Soul Vessel Conduits on the other hand, now that’s where things would get complicated. We not only need to create the conduits inside the soul, a part of them also needs to manifest in the material world, so that they can connect to the mana centre."
"I did not think of that."
"And are we really sure that the Mana Vessel doesn’t need its own set of Conduits? Will the leftover mana from the other two Vessels really be enough?"
"We need more ideas, not more problems. Let us start with one problem at a ti. We’ll focus on the Body Vessel Conduits first. Maybe we can get inspiration for the others from it."
"Alright. Let us focus on the Body Vessel Conduits. They need to be created from a fusion of Solar Light and Life attributed mana, that is sothing that we already know. But how do we create them? There is also the matter of where to create them. Your bodies don’t have the space for a new circulatory system."
"I don’t know. What about an external set of conduits instead of internal ones?"
"What are you talking about?"
"External conduits. The Faes have sothing similar in the form of their Ancestral Glyphs. Bloodline strength and purity matter to those colourful bastards and-"
"Wait a damn minute. What the hell are Ancestral Glyphs?"
"You don’t know about Ancestral Glyphs? Wait, this is 1223 AA (After Awakening). Of course, you don’t know about Ancestral Glyphs. My bad. In the other tiline, Cass completely eradicated a clan of the Faes. The purple fucker that killed was the only survivor. Anyway, Cass, found a lot of records there and that’s when we discovered the truth about the Ancestral Glyphs.
The tattoos that they have on their bodies are not a Racial Trait as we thought. Although they are the manifestation of their bloodlines, they are not natural. They are the result of a sick and perverted ritual. It is disgusting even by my ethical standards and you know that the only bottom line I have are the citizens of the Earth Federation."
"You’re telling that Cass massacred a whole clan of the Faes? And what ritual is so cruel that even you find it disgusting?"
"Yep. They killed soone that they shouldn’t have. Our little sister. Uncle Alexi was MIA and Cass, well, let’s just say that the rage inside him terrified . He went there alone with just a halberd and killed every last one of them. He even destroyed their Ancestral Tree."
"Ancestral Tree?"
"Every Fae clan has their own Ancestral Tree. It’s how they reproduce. A male and a female Fae separate so of the equivalent of their sperm and eggs and inject it into a flower on the Ancestral Tree. If the fertilization is successful, the flower starts transitioning into a fruit.
The parents have to constantly nurture the fetus fruit with their mana and a little life force. When the fruit matures, it develops a hard shell around it, like an egg. Then, the baby Fae erges from inside. If the baby fails to erge or dies midway, the fruit wilts and the Ancestral Tree absorbs it."
"They don’t even let go of their children?"
"It gets worse. Halfway through the gestation, the Ancestral Tree seals the baby’s bloodline. According to the records that Cass brought back, they get transported to another Dinsion similar to the Spirit Dinsion for their first Ascension Trial. We couldn’t decipher its na but it had sothing to do with bloodlines, so we just nad it the Sanguine Dinsion.
Maybe, and Cass will visit it once we’re strong enough. According to their legends, all the Fae clans are the descendants of the eight Fae Lords. Before the King of the Fair Folk killed them and ascended the throne, he granted them an act of rcy. Well technically, they killed themselves but it’s the sa thing.
With his help, they opened a door to that Dinsion and entered it with their physical bodies leaving only a small piece of their hearts each. Those pieces germinated into eight Ancestral Trees in the material world. In the Sanguine Dinsion, they sacrificed themselves and created eight Ancestral Idols.
These Idols connected with the Ancestral Trees and gave birth to the ritual. After reaching the Sanguine Dinsion, the Fae kids go through a ceremony. There weren’t many details in the records. We just know that only 60% of the kids survive. The rest are devoured by the Idols of their respective bloodlines."
"That is disgusting. But how would the external Conduits work? And how do we create them? We know nothing about the ceremony and even if we did, we don’t have an Ancestral Idol."
"How about we use the subjects’ Vessels as talismans and enchant them? We can create an ink from Null Slis that inherits their Racial Traits and tattoo the Conduits on their Vessels. If that doesn’t work, we can try tattooing their Vessel cores."
"Not a bad idea. But what about the Soul Vessel? The ink won’t work on it."
"We’ll work on the Soul Vessel in the Spirit Dinsion. It’s ti I made use of that Innate Skill. It is tailored for interacting with other Dinsions, especially the Spirit Dinsion. I’m sure that we can find sothing similar to Null Slis there. After all, other Dinsions partially mirror the material world."
"Lets do what we can do here first. We are going to need a lot of Null Slis. We should build a Null Sli farm. It won’t be difficult. We just need a large area rich in mana."
"I’ll talk to Alessio about it. anwhile, let’s catalogue our subjects and start designing the Conduits."
Zeke contacted Alessio and told him the requirents of the farm. Alessio told him that it would take a month to complete the farm. He also told Zeke that he would post a task of collecting live Null Slis for the Nephilim rcenaries. While Zeke was doing that, Leonel went to the dungeon. He was able to get a total of about five thousand subjects in a 1:1 ratio of Angels and Demons for the boys. He started by creating a database of the different sub-species of the subjects that they had. Zeke wanted to help but Leonel refused because he didn’t know how the subjects would react in his presence.
It took him a whole week. By the ti he was done, many Null Slis had also arrived. During this ti, Zeke also thought hard about how they could create the ink. They started creating the recipe for the ink. They needed the ink to inherit two of the Racial Traits of Null Slis; Absolute Adaptibilty and Mana Devour. They would allow the ink to adapt to any attribute of mana and boost mana absorbing qualities.
They got to work. First, they simply tried to use the sli body as ink but the results were subpar. It took a long ti and an astonishing amount of attributed mana for it to adapt to the mana. And, it didn’t inherit the Mana Devour Racial Trait. Of course, they knew that the ink would only be able to inherit a very nerfed version of the Racial Traits but they wanted to make sure that they used the best version. They nad this version Ink#1.
Ink#2- They blended a sli in different ways. First, it was a whole living sli. When it had turned into a sli smoothie, they strained it. This was Ink#2.1. For Ink#2.2, they blended them separately and mixed the two. They both were better than Ink#1. They concluded that it was because of the sli core.
Ink#3- First, they boiled a sli body. Then, they turned a sli core into a fine powder and added that to the boiling sli body. It exploded. They tried again, but this ti, they gradually added the sli core powder to the sli body while slowly heating it. This ti, it didn’t explode. But they felt that it was too weak. So they changed the ratio of sli body to sli core from 1:1 to 1:5. Any more sli cores and the ink would explode.
It took a lot of trial and error but after two months, they finally did it. Ink#20.7, their latest ink almost perfectly inherited the Null Sli’s Racial Traits. They took inspiration from the last step of the recipe for Sanguine Tears of Demonic Angels. They took a mana insulation flask, added a Null Sli to it, and sealed it. After that, they didn’t do anything to it.
Due to the lack of mana, the sli slowly devoured its body. When only the core was left, it started struggling. Slowly, the core started evaporating. The vapors had nowhere to escape and started condensing into a liquid at the bottom of the vial. When only a small bit of the core was left, it devoured the condensed liquid. This cycle went on until only the condensed liquid was left in the flask. The whole process took 86 hours.
This was the most promising version that they had created until that mont. They started experinting with the ratio and finally found the perfect one. The golden ratio of sli body to sli core was 2:7. They had completed phase one, creating the ink.
Now, they could begin phase two, designing the Conduits. For that, they would need to conduct so trials on the subjects. They decided that they would carry out the trials for the Body Vessel Conduits on Angels and the Soul Vessel Conduits on Demons. They also separated a batch of 500 from both Races in case they needed to create Mana Vessel Conduits as well.
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