Chapter 241 Feast (1/2)

Chapter 241 Feast

"A long day, I presuan as carefully held a crystalline crucible over a light blue flas A pale white liquid boiled within the crucible, and a strange, daot what I wanted to done," said Aldrich

Getting Fler'gan started on his potion Done

Meeting with the chiefs, done

Securing their alliance A work in progress Gerard still had not given his full seal of approval to Aldrich Butthe Blackwater students to stay on his side of their oill to maximize their perforoods, and for that, he needed Sentinel status to get proper funding and a city that they could stay in

"But I still have much more left to do" Aldrich sat in a chair within the confines of the cargo hold where Fler'gan's lab lay He looked at the cra you a proper lab"

"Indeed, this lab is certainly considerably below the likes of the grand laboratories I used to toil away countless hours in" Fler'gan shrugged "But how can this one complain?

In the later half of my life, upon ed From one deserted cave to another From one forsaken land to another"

"Why were you exiled?" said Aldrich

"The search for iht it

Undeath

Undeath disrupted the natural order of things That is the false knowledge the Gods spread, and it was the Gods that sponsored the scholarly body that I was once proud of

And the masses ate that drivel up so very easily I can understand why To gaze upon lesser undead, the walking, rotting corpses or the treravesto fraildeath alone was an affront to the natural order, then the Gods themselves are prime offenders with their coveted immortality"

"Why search for iive it all up?"

"Knowledge, O Elder My kind are all driven to seeking knowledge Fros and develop ht, we desire to seek the unknown

In that regard, we are quite unlike humans that hold an innate fear of the unknown"

"That desire, though, is it really yours? Is it not programan served a deity called the 'Elder One' that sought to devour all knowledge it could, especially from the brains of live subjects

The Elder One spawned Mind Eaters and ie Mind Eaters would find that knowledge, return to the Elder One, and then transfer over the memories of their lifetiet melted down and recycled into a new Mind Eater

"It may be, but if it is si I can do about it, no?" Fler'gan placed the crucible down on a heat absorbing pad "Nothing except to take that instinct ande I learned with the Elder One, I detere to myself

Whatever hand one is dealt with at birth, those instincts and drives wired into the very being, cannot be changed What ed is how one handles those instincts

The path of least resistance is to allow those instincts to take over, but the path of strength is to take those instincts and become their master"

"I see"

"Ah, this almost slipped my advanced mind But I have encountered ayour potion"

Aldrich cocked his head "What is it?"

"These enhanced humans possess an innate resistance to an "It is provided by the Alter Organs that fuel their great powers It seeainst outside ht That's a known phenomenon," said Aldrich "It's almost impossible for Alters to use their poithin another Alter But you're telling ic based powers? I didn't encounter any issues using things like [Horror Warp]"

As a general rule of thumb, Alters could not just manifest their powers inside another Alter's bodies For example, if somebody could create flames out of thin air, they could not just do that inside another Alter's head and instantly cook their brains

There was an intrinsic field in live Alters fueled by the energy of Alter Cells that prevented that froree, Aldrich knew that this also granted resistance to effects like ical powers

"[Horror Warp] introduces a foreign agent froan "So it is more effective Tell me, hoell did my first potion work?"

"Quite well There was an i how Casian'sThe fact that the solution was drank and introduced willingly into the body likely bypassed h, I suspect, considering how unrefined that initial potion was to Alter physiology, that it only worked to such a degree because the speciin with"