A satisfied look appeared on Adams's face:
"Good. Doctor, proceed with the clone's behavioral logic and memory implantation according to the plan we discussed earlier."
"I understand. Leave it to me."
Vegapunk readily agreed.
Adams looked at Aramaki:
"After absorbing the energy from those islands, combined with your own reserves and excluding what was just used, is there enough life energy left for the three of them to grow up?"
He pointed at Uta and the other two.
Aramaki closed his eyes and carefully sensed the life energy stored within him, then frowned:
"It'll be a little tight. That clone was force-grown from an infant to an adult in one go just now, so the consumption was enormous."
After thinking for a moment, Adams raised his hand and pointed at the bone from an unknown creature that Vegapunk had been studying earlier:
"Try absorbing that."
Although Aramaki was somewhat puzzled—how much life energy could a piece of bone possibly contain?—he still stepped forward as instructed.
His fingers transformed into branches and gently touched the bone.
The next instant, obvious astonishment appeared on Aramaki's face:
"This... this is?!"
He could clearly feel an immense surge of life energy, far greater than the combined energy of those small islands from before, continuously flowing from the bone into his body like a warm current!
"It's incredibly abundant! This is simply unbelievable!"
Aramaki exclaimed, "The life energy contained within it is of extremely high quality. The total amount is probably equivalent to the vitality of several islands combined! What kind of creature's bone is this?"
Adams wore an expression that said, Just as expected.
Just as he had anticipated, these remains of the Millennium Dragon might not possess the miraculous ability from folk legends to grant direct immortality, but their effect of greatly extending