After carrying the paralyzed Logan on his back for who knew how many years, Victor tended to his bodily needs every day, cooked the food he begged for into thin gruel, and fashioned a tube from the hide of a rabbit he had hunted.
Every day, he fed the food into Logan's stomach, little by little.
At last.
Victor met a kind man.
A kind man who called himself Stryker.
He was a mage with plenty of ideas, passionate about researching ways to open the doors of the magical world to people who could not sense magical power.
But he lacked living subjects.
After spending a long time making inquiries, Victor finally confirmed that Mage Stryker had the ability to save his younger brother, and resolutely agreed to become his experimental subject.
On the condition that Stryker save his younger brother, Logan.
Stryker agreed. Delighted that he could finally conduct human experiments, he announced that he would support both brothers from then on.
Every day, Victor climbed down from the experimental table drenched in blood, and the first thing he did was feed Logan and tend to him.
One year.
Two years.
Three years.
Victor died.
On the day he died on the operating table, Stryker began another operation.
To save and modify Logan.
After conducting so many experiments on Victor over the years, the extraordinarily gifted Archmage Stryker was already confident of success.
Though his chances were only eighty percent.
The two brothers shared the same bloodline, so Stryker pulverized Victor's corpse, squeezed it dry, and infused all the essence of Victor's flesh and blood into Logan's body.
And Victor had personally agreed to all of this.
Logan, whose muscles had long since atrophied after so many years of paralysis, grew strong again.
Then Stryker forged lengths of mithril