Bloodline of the Wizard-Chapter 251 - 133 [Ice Soul], The Most Perfect Test Subject_2
Chapter 251: Chapter 133 [Ice Soul], The Most Perfect Test Subject_2
They settled in a place and began to live, working together to research and comprehend the inheritance, hoping to find the correct way of rune embedding through everyone’s wisdom and effort.
Thus, a gathering place for Ice Wizards, jointly governed by several families, gradually formed.
Through generations of research by family wizards, they found a method barely able to utilize the [Ice Soul]—embedding the runes belonging to [Ice Soul] while condensing Spiritual Power Crystals and solidifying Soul Seals.
This is why the "Talent Transplant" method of White Stone Castle could only be applied at specific nodes, such as when a Level 1 Wizard attempts to advance to Level 2 or when a Level 2 apprentice advances to the intermediate stage—these nodes being when a wizard’s mind forms a new Spiritual Power Crystal.
Although this method solved the crucial rune embedding issue, it subsequently exposed various other new problems.
For example, since the [Ice Soul] is not a real Soul Seal but a different type of rune formed by refining the blood and soul of a Demon Beast, embedding it into one’s Spiritual Power Crystal inevitably leads to pollution of one’s own spiritual and soul power.
The result of this contamination is an increase in impurities in one’s soul and spirit, making it difficult to improve further; in severe cases, it could lead to soul decay and regression in strength.
While significant progress has been made in solving this issue through generations of optimization by major Wizard Families, each embedding still leaves some residue; after two or three embeddings, avoiding impact becomes challenging.
The collective statement by the Wizard Families of White Stone Castle is that embedding should be done at most once.
The strict limitation on the number of embeddings and the overly complex embedding process—this powerful rune, which should have brought glory and prosperity, now offers only mediocre results.
It’s unknown how those who died in the internal conflict over inheritance during the first Secret Realm exploration would think upon seeing the current results.
The box given by Soraya contained a depiction of the [Ice Soul] rune, recorded on a blank Rune Stone.
Ronan picked up the Rune Stone and carefully examined the entire form of the rune.
The complexity and mystery of the [Ice Soul] were second only to the core rune he had seen within the Wanxiang Treasure Pearl.
The overall shape resembled a distorted, vibrating droplet, with each rune pattern within the droplet filled with a mysterious and chilling aura.
"This can’t be condensed into a Soul Seal; I wonder if it can be enchanted onto a Magic Tool..."
Ronan thought casually, committing the rune to memory before picking up the documentation on "Bloodline Transplant."
As one of the co-contractors originally obtaining the [Ice Soul] rune, the Kaqin family abandoned the rune embedding method long ago due to an inability to find a perfect way and chose another field instead.
They found inspiration and enlightenment in the rune characteristics of [Ice Soul] and attempted to apply extracted demon beast blood directly to the body to achieve a bloodline transplant.
Transplanting demon beast bloodlines into humans has always been a popular topic in wizard body modification.
With the support of the [Ice Soul] rune, the Kaqin family made smooth progress in the initial stages of their research.
They considered retaining demon beast bloodlines in humans in rune form and activating this "Bloodline Seal" as needed, like activating a Soul Seal. As a result of this fusion by bloodline, wizards gained far more power than from a simple "Talent Transplant."
However, controlling the rampaging demon beast bloodline within the body after activation became a major issue.
The demon beast blood remaining in the body uncontrollably developed the recipient’s body towards a "monster."
The wild and violent factors of the demon beast lingering in the bloodline even influenced consciousness, turning even an Official Wizard into a "beast" driven by instinct if not careful.
The Kaqin family conducted extensive human experimentation, beginning with commoners, then to Wizard Apprentices, and eventually involving Official Wizards.
This family showed some ethical boundaries; experiments involving Official Wizards were typically conducted on their own family members or prisoners from hostile forces.
The decline of the Kaqin family to its current state is significantly related to the massive resources they dedicated to bloodline transplant experiments and the human trials involving their clan members.
This research only saw breakthrough progress after Soraya took control of the family.
"According to Soraya’s understanding..."
True bloodline transplant should involve complete analysis of a bloodline and then appropriate modification of one’s own bloodline to replicate certain powerful traits present in the foreign bloodline.
Ronan personally agreed with Soraya’s perspective.
In his view, the Kaqin family’s previous actions were no different from randomly drawing a tube of blood and injecting it into someone in hopes that the person might mutate as desired.
A game of pure luck!
Without any scientific basis!
Even modern medicine knows about blood rejection reactions and requires blood type testing before a transfusion.
Of course, although Soraya’s views were correct, she couldn’t apply them as her theories suggested.
Simply analyzing the essence of a bloodline exceeded the capabilities of a Level 3 Wizard; she could only continue to "gamble on luck" based on the Kaqin family’s experiments.
But Soraya was intelligent, as she improved the steps of "bloodline transplant."
She broke down the process of "Bloodline Rune" activation into steps starting from small to large and weak to strong, gradually releasing the power.
The first step was to release a tiny amount of demon beast blood in the test subject’s body and, once the subject almost fully adapted to this blood’s power, increase the release amount, continuing this process...
At any stage, should uncontrollable circumstances arise, the "transplant experiment" could be halted immediately in its current step.
"This method sounds much more reliable..."
Moreover, one of Soraya’s clever approaches was that she no longer sought test subjects within the Kaqin family nor did she capture commoners and Wandering Wizards.
Instead, she used the allure of "Bloodline Transplant" to recruit those Official Wizards eager for power to voluntarily become test subjects, reducing many complications and greatly expanding the range of experimental subjects to the Level 2 Wizard tier.
The Level 2 Wizard You Jike, whom Ronan had seen before, was a typical example of a volunteer in the "bloodline transplant" experiment.
Soraya also offered her conclusions and ideas at the end of the documentation.
For the Kaqin family’s method of "bloodline transplant" to succeed, certain conditions had to be met—
First, the transplanted bloodline had to be sufficiently pure.
Lower-level demon beast bloodlines were overly mixed; the more mixed the bloodline, the more challenging the fusion became, leading to uncontrollable results. Hence, bloodline purity was crucial.
Second, the recipient’s body had to be sufficiently strong.
A stronger body indicated a stronger intrinsic bloodline and a greater ability to handle the fusion and modification of a different bloodline. freewebnσvel.cѳm
A frail body would only be assimilated by powerful demon beast blood, leading irreversibly toward deformity and grotesqueness.
Third, the recipient’s will had to be sufficiently strong.
Only a strong will could withstand the wild and violent factors within demon beast blood and avoid being consumed by "beast nature" while better managing changes in the body during bloodline fusion.
Meeting these three requirements provides a slight possibility for complete success in the experiment, achieving a genuine bloodline transplant.
Ronan gently set down the materials, his eyes blinking slightly.
Possessing a [Pure Body], he fulfilled the latter two of Soraya’s three requirements rather well.
If what Soraya mentioned about the bloodline of the Third Rank Cold-Scale Python, which had awakened a trace of Ancient Ice Crystal Demon Snake bloodline, was sufficiently pure...
"Then I would indeed be the most perfect bloodline transplant experimental subject to date..."
