Icy Soul, the Most Perfect Test Subject
Soraya shook her head slightly.
"Bloodline Transplant is not something that can be achieved so easily."
"The Kachin Family has spent hundreds of years and generations, but they have only scratched the surface of it."
After I took over the Kachin Family, I finally achieved some results, but it was still far from a true Bloodline Transplant.
Soraya thought for a moment, then took out a small box about a foot square from her Space Ring and handed it to Ronan.
"If you're interested, you can look into it yourself first... Actually, I was already planning to ask your opinion. If we can successfully obtain that third-tier Cold Scale Python essence blood containing a trace of the Ancient Ice Crystal Magic Serpent Bloodline, it would be a real waste to use it only for 'Talent Transplant'."
Ronan took the box and thanked Soraya.
At that moment, a figure quickly walked towards the two from the other end of the corridor.
It is Madam Livy.
Ronan looked closely and discovered that Madam Livy actually looked quite similar to Soraya when she was young, that is, the girl in the long dress in the oil painting in the studio, the difference being the color of her hair and eyes.
Of course, the two also have very different personalities and temperaments.
"Grandmother."
Madam Livy walked up to the two of them and bowed to Soraya.
She seemed quite afraid of Soraya, and standing in front of Soraya, she was completely different from the elegant woman who had previously been the mistress of the manor and the socialite of the wizard. She appeared rather reserved, even nervous.
"Um."
Soraya's attitude towards Madam Livy was extremely cold. Even though the woman in front of her was a true relative with some blood ties to her, Ronan couldn't see any affection from Soraya for Madam Livy, far less than for Wan Yi towards him.
"From this day forward, Linas is half the owner of the Cold Stone Manor."
As soon as Soraya opened her mouth, her words startled Madam Livy abruptly looked up.
Soraya seemed not to notice the expression on his face at all, nor did she intend to explain. She simply said calmly, "While I am not in the manor, all of you must obey his will."
After speaking, Soraya looked at Ronan, her gaze softening instantly, almost like a completely different person from when she was facing Madam Livy.
"I'm going to visit some friends, it will probably take a few days. If you need anything, just tell Livi, she'll do her best to help."
"Yes, Aunt Soraya."
Ronan nodded. He couldn't see Madam Livy's expression beside him, but he could clearly feel her body trembling slightly. She was obviously struggling to withstand the shock and impact of this sudden and dramatic change.
Ronan thought to himself.
He called Soraya "Auntie," and Soraya was Madam Livy's grandmother. So, if we go by that, he should be Madam Livy's cousin?
How wondrous are the things of this world as night falls.
The warm light emitted by the Constant Temperature magic array gently illuminated a corner of the large room.
Ronan sat at a heavy desk, with exquisite tapestries and oil paintings hanging on the wall beside him, and the sound of wind and snow pattering through the huge French windows in front of him.
Using the light from the Illumination Crystal, Ronan carefully examined the contents of the box that Soraya had given him.
That contains all the detailed information about "Talent Transplant" and "Bloodline Transplant".
"So this is what 'Talent Transplant' and 'Bloodline Transplant' are all about."
Ronan pushed aside a pile of Rune Stone in front of him, looked out the window at the howling wind and snow, and gently rubbed his temples with his fingers.
Everyone imagines "Talent Transplant" to be too mysterious and profound.
In fact, the essence of this method is still rune literature.
The origin of the "Talent Transplant" method in White Stone Fortress comes from the private Secret Realm Space of an ancient wizard. The first people to enter and explore found a rune called "Icy Soul" in the Secret Realm Space.
The effect of this rune is to extract the innate characteristics of ice-type magical beasts and apply them to oneself like Soul Rune.
However, it cannot be condensed as a normal Soul Rune because the [Icy Soul] must be condensed using the souls and blood of magical beasts, and it will be consumed.
In the ancient wizard's notes that created this rune, the [Icy Soul] is exceptionally powerful. It allows the user to freely utilize the talents and spells of various ice-type magical beasts in battle, essentially giving them countless additional skills and abilities out of thin air.
The only drawback is that once the [Icy Soul] within the body is depleted, it is necessary to collect new monster blood and souls and re-condense them.
Nevertheless, [Icy Soul] remains an unparalleled top-tier rune, especially for wizards who specialize in ice magic.
The first explorers who received this inheritance were overjoyed. After some infighting and fighting, the survivors finally decided to share the rune.
They made Soul Contract, guaranteeing that no one would reveal the matter of their inheritance.
This group of people were the ancestors of several major wizarding families in White Stone Fortress.
If things continue as they are, several ice wizards who inherit the same magical style should quickly rise up on this land, and the name "Ice" will resound throughout the land.
However, fate played a cruel joke on these lucky individuals—they obtained the core [Icy Soul] rune, but failed to find a way in the inheritance to perfectly embed the condensed [Icy Soul] into their spiritual power and soul crystal! The absence of this crucial step forced them to regroup.
They found a place to stay and studied the inheritance together, trying to find the correct way to embed the runes through everyone's wisdom and efforts.
In this way, a community of ice wizards, jointly ruled by several families, gradually took shape.
Through generations of research by the family wizards, they found a way to make use of the [Icy Soul] – that is, when condensing Spiritual Power Crystal and solidifying Soul Rune, they could take the opportunity to embed runes belonging to the [Icy Soul].
This is why White Stone Fortress's "Talent Transplant" method can only be performed at key points such as when First Level Wizard is breaking through to level two, or when a wizard is breaking through to the middle of level two. These key points are precisely when a wizard's new Spiritual Power Crystal is born in his mind.
While this method solved the key rune embedding problem, it subsequently exposed a variety of other new problems.
For example, since the [Icy Soul] is not a true Soul Rune, but a different kind of rune condensed from the blood and soul of a magical beast, it will inevitably cause pollution to one's own spiritual power and Soul Power after being roughly embedded into one's own Spiritual Power Crystal.
The consequence of polluting mental and Soul Power is that there are more impurities in the mind and soul. At best, it will make it difficult to improve one's cultivation level. At worst, it will even cause the soul to decay and one's strength to regress. Although this problem has been largely solved through generations of optimization and adjustment by the major wizarding families, no matter what, each embedding will cause some impurities to remain. Usually, after embedding two or three times, it is difficult to remain unaffected.
The collective statement from the major wizarding families of White Stone Fortress can only be inserted once at most.
The stringent limitations on the number of times a rune can be embedded, and the overly cumbersome embedding process, mean that a powerful rune that should bring glory and prosperity can now only produce a meager and unsatisfactory effect.
I wonder what those who participated in the first round of exploration of the secret realm and died in the infighting over the inheritance would think if they saw this outcome now.
The box Soraya gave me contained the graphic of the rune "Icy Soul," which was recorded on a blank Rune Stone.
Ronan picked up the Rune Stone and carefully examined the entire rune.
The complexity and mystery of the [Icy Soul] were second only to the core runes within the Myriad Treasure Orb that he had ever seen.
Its overall shape resembles a twisted, vibrating water droplet, with every rune pattern within it exuding an aura of mystery and coldness.
"It cannot be condensed as Soul Rune; I wonder if it can be enchanted onto magical artifacts?"
Ronan thought casually, memorizing the runes, and then picked up the informational materials about "Bloodline Transplant".
The Kachin Family, one of the contractors who jointly obtained the [Icy Soul] rune, abandoned this path early on after failing to find a perfect way to embed the rune, and turned to another field instead.
They found inspiration in the rune properties of the [Icy Soul] and attempted to apply extracted monster blood directly to the physical body to achieve the effect of Bloodline Transplant.
Transplanting the bloodline of magical beasts into the human body has always been a popular topic in wizarding body modification.
With the support of the [Icy Soul] rune, the Kachin Family made good progress in the early stages of their research.
They conceived of storing the bloodline of magical beasts in the human body as runes, activating this "Bloodline Rune" when needed, much like activating Soul Rune. Because it was a fusion of bloodlines, the power the wizard received was far greater than that of a simple "Talent Transplant."
However, after activation, controlling the rampaging demonic bloodline within the body became a major problem.
The residual monster blood within the human body uncontrollably causes the transplant recipient's body to develop in the direction of a "monster".
The wildness and violence of magical beasts that remain in their blood can even affect their consciousness. Even a formal wizard can inadvertently become a "beast" controlled by instinct.
The Kachin Family conducted numerous human experiments, first on commoners, then on Wizard Apprentice, and finally on professional wizards.
This family has a certain bottom line. When it comes to human experimentation with formal wizards, the subjects are usually selected from members of their own family or prisoners of hostile forces.
The decline of the Kachin Family is largely due to two reasons: investing a large amount of resources in Bloodline Transplant experiments and using family members for human experiments.
This research did not see a breakthrough until Soraya took over the family.
"According to Soraya's understanding... true Bloodline Transplant should be a process of fully analyzing a bloodline and then modifying one's own bloodline accordingly, thereby replicating some of the powerful characteristics that exist within that bloodline."
Ronan personally agrees with Soraya's views.
In his view, what difference was there between the Kachin Family's previous actions and simply drawing a vial of blood and injecting it into someone, hoping that the person would receive the mutation they wanted? It was a game of pure luck!
There is absolutely no scientific basis for this!
Even modern medicine knows about blood rejection reactions, so blood type must be tested before a transfusion.
Of course, while Soraya's point of view is correct, she cannot actually do what she describes.
Deciphering the essence of a bloodline is beyond the capabilities of a Third Level Wizard. All she can do is continue to "gamble" based on the experiments conducted by the Kachin Family.
But Soraya was wise; she improved the procedure for "Bloodline Transplant."
She broke down the activation process of the "bloodline runes," setting up a gradual release process from few to many, from weak to strong.
The first step is to release a tiny, extremely small amount of the magical beast bloodline into the test subject. Once the test subject has almost completely integrated with and adapted to the power of this bloodline, the amount released is increased, and this process continues indefinitely. If any uncontrollable situation occurs during the process, it can be stopped in time, and the "transplantation experiment" can be terminated at the current step.
"This method sounds much more reliable."
Moreover, Soraya was very clever in that she stopped looking for test subjects within the Kachin Family and stopped capturing civilians and Wandering Wizard.
She used the allure of "Bloodline Transplant" to recruit powerful, formal wizards to become her test subjects, which not only reduced a lot of trouble but also greatly expanded the scope of her test subjects to the level of second-level wizards.
Ronan had previously met a second-level wizard You Ji Ke, who was a typical example of someone who voluntarily participated in the "Bloodline Transplant" experiment.
Soraya also summarized and proposed her own ideas at the end of the document.
For the Kachin Family's "Bloodline Transplant" method to succeed, several requirements must be met—
First, the transplanted bloodline must be pure enough.
Low-level monster bloodlines are too mixed. The more mixed the bloodline, the more difficult the bloodline fusion process becomes, and the more uncontrollable the result. Therefore, the purity of the bloodline is very important.
Second, the recipient's body must be strong enough.
The stronger the physique, the stronger one's own bloodline, and the more capable one is of withstanding the fusion and transformation of different bloodlines.
A weak body will only be assimilated by the blood of powerful monsters, heading in a direction of deformity and grotesqueness from which there is no return.
Third, the recipient's will must be strong enough.
Only a strong enough mental will can withstand the wild and violent factors within the blood of monsters, avoid being devoured by "beastly nature," and better control the changes in one's own body during the bloodline fusion process.
Only if these three requirements are met can this experiment have even the slightest chance of being completely successful and achieving true Bloodline Transplant.
Ronan gently put down the documents in his hand, his eyes flickering slightly.
Having a "[Immaculate Body]," he was quite satisfied with the latter two of the three requests Soraya made.
If the bloodline of the third-tier Cold Scale Python that Soraya mentioned earlier, which had awakened a trace of the Ancient Ice Crystal Magic Serpent Bloodline, was pure enough, then "I would be the most perfect Bloodline Transplant test subject to date..."