Chapter 61: Disaster (1/2)

Chapter 61: Disaster

Aldrich planned on lying low until Saturday night, staying in the forest while corresponding with Casimir via Darknet texts about specifications on his event He kept his undead fro further so as to absolutely minimize attention He did not want to co when he was so close now

Throughout the entire day of Thursday, Aldrich commanded his variants to lay low The variantsthemselves in the perimeter they patrolled

Valera, Stella, and the Geist trained together

More specifically, the Geist trained itself under Valera and Stella The Geist had never actually trained before, so all of its poere undeveloped Plus, it had no ht the Geist hand to hand coht it how to train its powers

Training Alter poas like training er frorew fro to increase fine control over one's power for innovative new attacks or to cover for weaknesses

The Geist was an exceptionally quick learner Within twelve hours, it ave Aldrich the idea to give the Geist the [Cursed Rock Axe] that the troll chieftain once used

As for its powers, the Geist learned how to apply its super regeneration to tereater surface area to protect others as a living shi+eld

It learned how to use its incredibly powerfuldurable body parts to guard against attacks with It also learned greater control in eas so that it e

Stella trained in her oay by rapidly flowing blood around her body She would try to keep this accelerated flow up for as much as possible until she reached nearly to heart failure By doing this, she gained greater control and output on her explosions

[Geist Level 17 ] 18]

[Dynamite Girl Level 14 ] 15]

While everyone trained, Aldrich accompanied Fler'Gan in his experimentations, curious of the Mind-Eater's results He watched as Fler'Gan went about perforhastly experiments that most humans would be horrified at

He re the top of the villain's skull completely flayed and raw The spikes, Fler'Gan put into a vat heated bysolution that slowly turned the spikes into liquid mush

Then, Fler'Gan hooked up the Lasher to a series of large flasks, inserting barbed needles attached to transparent, plastic-like chords that funneled blood into the flasks

Fler'Gan dissected the Lasher further, taking basically one of everything One eye, one arans Fler'Gan incised into the Lasher's skull, taking out pieces of the brain that the villain did not need to stay alive He also took out a kidney and scraped flesh sahout, Fler'Gan kept the Lasher alive through pastes and sprays that prevented excessive bleeding

As for the Slasher, Fler'Gan severed one of his ar purposes

All the dismembered body parts were either broken down into liquid form or suspended off of spikes where Fler'Gan would do further delicate dissections, analyzing individual muscle fibers, vein structures, bone place to see Fler'Gan work Aldrich did not feel anything fro these men broken down into component pieces He only ad the hu an artist in their craft

"Any results?" Aldrich said at the end of the day approaching ht Fler'Gan had worked constantly for nearly twenty hours now

"Not as much as I would have hoped," said Fler'Gan He used a self-cleaning e stains of blood off his body

By now, the two villains were nearly unrecognizable They were reduced to flayed torsos with their internal organs exposed by a cut down their le patch of skin remained on them, and indeed, patches of muscle had been cut out too for analysis

Miraculously, they were still alive, their exposed lungs still drawing air The tubes that Fler'Gan hooked them up to not only drew their blood but could also transfuse the

The presence of a minor barrier around the laboratory also kept the work station sterile and clean to prevent infections

"I havethe Alterhuman body," said Fler'Gan "The placeans seem to differ from human to human In this one that could transan is nestled at the base of his spine In this one that can manifest chains from his arrowths, alter cells h the body

This, I am sure you already know

But what I have discerned is that the energy signature that this organ and its cells produce is not significantly distinct from that of hly interested

"No They are both pure and fory They have no discerned structure or behavior, instead, they mold themselves to fit their vessels," said Fler'Gan "Take es across y

Yet, when processed through different spells, mana takes upon wildly different forms

Thus,froic to raise the dead

The energy that these Alter organs produce - Ether as you call it - is extrees to suit its vessel, hence why Stella is capable of using this energy to infuse her blood with explosive properties while these two can generate spontaneous growths ofmana and Ether should be possible, no?" said Aldrich

"That is the difficulty," said Fler'Gan "In our world, ic, a 'class' as so the baptise fundamentally alters how they processtheir mana towards the specific spells in the field they are baptized in

I am baptized in Pyromancy, and you in the Dark Arts

Certainly, we can shape our mana into spells from other fields, but ill be far less efficient than those properly baptized in said classes

There is so in this world that takes the place of these baptisans seem to be akin to a baptism They direct how Ether produced in Alterhu into unique powers

But it see Ether only a single way And they are only capable of processing Ether

When I atteans, they rejected the energy source"

"How about the other way around? Can you use Ether?" said Aldrich

"I have been able to absorb Ether into hly inefficient I estiy in the conversion, for though the two are similar in function, they are still different

I believe over tiin to produce efficient ress is progress," said Aldrich "And how about changing or affecting Alter powers?"

"I believe it is certainly possible However, it is difficult to analyze Alter organs and cells for they reject any hly

All blood divinations or alchemical analyses return with no inforans and cells that rejects foreign attempts to pry into them

For co to pick the lock of a royal dwarven vault

I lack the experience and tools to 'unlock' access to the organs"

"I see" Aldrich put a hand to his chin before he waved forward an idea "There are Alters whose powers fall under the category of 'Editors' They can e the powers of others in some way Would a sample-,"

"Yes! Yes! That would most certainly work!" said Fler'Gan excitedly "That would be what I require to breakthrough this hurdle You must obtain this sample for me!" Fler'Gan calmed down "Or, ehem, I request such a sample, O Elder"