Felix spent the next couple of days on this dilemma, using every piece of information at his disposal to find a way, a solution.
Alas, no matter how hard he thought about it, his brain returned with nothing but dead-end ideas.
Right now, nothing filled his mind besides finding a way around empowering the entire human race without affecting his birth.
When he checked with Emilia and the rest of the chosen participants, he found out that all of them were stuck on the sa problem.
As it was unwise to start the trial without sufficient preparation, no one appeared to be willing to proceed without addressing this issue first.
'The key is in the seven celestial hearts powers.' Felix pondered as he ate dinner with his family in silence, 'My race has already gone through every possible route to discover a cultivation system fitting for us. Genetic manipulation seems to be the most promising field, but no groundbreaking results have erged.'
'Our bodies might have affinities to all elents, but we have no tool to harness such affinities. No matter how hard we have modified our genetics, it won't be enough without adding the tool first.'
Based on the information bestowed upon him, Felix had a broader understanding of how the universe worked...system-wise.
In his eyes, humans could modify their genetics as much as they desired, but the end product would always lack the possibility to harness the elents.
It was the sa as water-based races with the genetic ability to manipulate water, suddenly having their genetics modified to start commanding fire elents...It was simply impossible.
'How...There must be a way.' Felix frowned deeply as he kept fiddling with his food absentmindedly.
'Love, I don't know what's going on and I understand it must be very important, but please, don't bring it to the table.' Asna moaned as she sent this ssage to Felix through Queen Ai.
'Ah, I am sorry dear...I got caught up in my thoughts.' Felix apologized with a faint wry smile.
He could see that he was ruining the atmosphere at the table as it was always lively and delightful...But now, even their son was eating in silence, picking up on his energy.
Thus, Felix imdiately engaged with his son and wife, lighting up the mood by asking his son about his day in preschool.
"The teacher gave us legos to play with! I built a big, big, dog!"
Niko's expression kindled up happily as he started sharing about his day, sparing no details.
"A dog? Oh, did you take a picture of it?" Asna chuckled.
"I wanted to, but Batty tripped and crashed it." Niko pouted.
"I know my son wouldn't let that stop him from building a better one." Felix smiled.
"Hehe! Of course! Batty helped build a new one with her own legos." Niko grinned widely as he showed them a picture of the final product.
When Felix and Asna saw the final product, their eyebrows couldn't help but twitch in amusent.
Their reaction was justified as the new creation resembled a weird centaur with the upper half of a human and the bottom half of a dog.
"Wh...what is this?"
"A Mandog!" Niko explained excitedly, "He can run as fast as a dog, sll as strong as a dog, and, and think like a man!"
"Oh, so like a werewolf...Wait..."
While Felix listened gleefully to his son, it suddenly hit him.
'Humans might not possess the ability to manipulate elental energy, which is nothing but the universal celestial language coded into the genes, other races do possess it.' Felix dove into his thoughts again, 'Is it possible to rge other races' DNA with ours, obtaining their ability to manipulate elents while at the sa ti maintaining our humanity? I am certain such attempts must have been made to achieve this by the upper echelons.'
'Queen Ai, can you...'
Just as Felix wanted to check on the Queen Ai database as they were given almost full access to it to support their preparation, he heard his son and wife's laughter.
'Never mind.'
He canceled and joined his family's conversation with a smile, knowing that if he was going to take this path, he must not lose himself in it.
His wife and son had nothing to do with his mission and it wasn't fair to have them suffer from his decisions.
...
After he finished his dinner, Felix returned to his private space and began digging for any data related to genetic manipulation related to other races.
What he found shocked and disgusted him to the core.
'How inhuman...How cruel...I can't believe they went this far...'
Many trials have been attempted using dead and live subjects of many races. Yet, no matter how ruthless the experints had beco, the outco was still lackluster.
After reading the details of the experints, Felix discovered out that the core problem was human strength posing a serious limitation.
The calculations were good and there was a strong chance of the genetic rger succeeding, but...Regardless of what thod was used, the subjects' bodies always ended up ruined after a grueling agony.
'To obtain strength we need to rely on others' genetics, but to survive the process, we need a stronger vessel.' Felix smiled bitterly, 'What kind of sick joke is this.'
While this path seed to be a dead end too, Felix hadn't given up on it yet.
He knew that he had sothing those mad scientists didn't possess, the ability to make miracles.
Soon, Felix continued down this rabbit hole and discovered out more twisted facts that dispatched chills down his spine.
Human-animal hybridization, Parasite Bonding, Forced Evolution Trials, Human-Plant Symbiosis Studies...The list goes on and on.
If there was an idea, humans were there to execute it regardless of the consequences or ethics.
While Felix was sickened, he was more frustrated by the fact that after all of these wicked experints, nothing really worked reliably...There was always a limitation or a key missing.
"In most experints, human bodies seed inadequate to complete the processes." Felix held his chin thoughtfully, "This ans success is near if the bodies were stronger or the process itself wasn't too damaging."
"Since empowering human strength is the goal, my best shot is to find a process that's just borderline possible for humans if they had the will to go through it."
After thinking about it thoroughly, Felix ca up with a new idea.
"How about I use the seven hearts' powers to create a new race that possesses a cultivation system that is easily passable to humans through genetic modifications?" Felix pondered, "I believe if there was such a race, I am sure humans would run experints on them and find the path forward before Earth can be discovered."
The only saving grace from Felix's situation was the fact Earth wouldn't be discovered until much later on by the Alexender Kingdom.
In other words, as long as the modifications didn't affect the origin of humans, any change whether positive or negative wouldn't affect Earth until much later on.
"So far this theory seems the most plausible." He said.
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