170 Bloodline Enlightenmen (1/2)

Yale stopped using blood for the experiments with Shirk because Shirk's main problem at that moment was on another side.

The transformation into half-beasts happened due to the beast bloodline overtaking the human one, those who had it well integrated looked more like humans due to being able to avoid that overtaking.

In Shirk's case, the beast bloodline had the absolute advantage; Shirk was more lizard than human, everyone could tell it by his looks.

However, the bloodline alone couldn't transform a human enough to turn it like someone of the species of those invaders, people like Shirk are extremely similar, but in the end, they were still half-beasts.

The first step Yale needed to do was modifying Shirk's body to turn it even more similar to the invaders. Yale started by Shirk's skin; although it was already sturdy, compared with the details in the book, it wasn't enough.

Yale changed to his adult form to improve his mobility, giving blood to drink wasn't a problem with his kid appearance, but for other experiments it was bothersome.

Shirk wasn't surprised by the change; he knew that there were skills to appear older and it wasn't strange that genius kids used it; as Yale was the most outstanding genius Shirk had seen, the fact Yale could use one of those skills wasn't something that could surprise Shirk.

Yale gave a drug to sleep to Shirk before starting his testing because he didn't trust Shirk enough and he would use different methods in different parts of the skin and use Time Healing to revert all the failures.

Yale didn't have enough confidence in his level of Time Healing to reverse huge bloodline changes as his knowledge of bloodlines was still lacking, but as long it was just the body, Yale was fully confident in being able to undo any mistake as long Shirk was alive.

In fact, without the assistance from the system, Appraisal and Time Healing, that experiment was doomed to fail because every half-beast would need different methods and if the experiment failed with one subject, the next ones would turn more complicated. The best method was to test always with the same individual, but without Time Healing it was impossible, other healings wouldn't heal those changes as they weren't true injuries.

For the next month, Yale didn't get out of that room, and Shirk spent almost all the time sleeping. Yale was in a weird state of mind; he was only focused on the research by experimenting with Shirk's body.

That was a deep obsession with the research, anyone who had seen him would have been scared, but the effectiveness was undoubted because after that month Shirk's skin was tougher than most armors, it would be difficult to harm him with a strength inferior to the Apprentice Rank even if Shirk didn't defend. However, even being that tough, the skin didn't harm Shirk's flexibility nor his movement speed.

Shirk was extremely pleased with the toughness of his new skin, although his bloodline and power level remained the same, his battle prowess changed completely, and that was with only the skin improved.

The skin was the easiest to improve and doing that was already a feat, but Yale wanted to do the research until the end. That wasn't because he wanted to turn Shirk stronger, that was just a good side effect for Shirk, Yale was just too immersed in the research.

Yale only spent time with Aiwai and Wyba when he was blocked or when they went to visit him at the experiment room where he spent almost all of his time; Sebe also went to see Yale and Shirk sometimes, being Shirk's boss he was deeply interested in the result experiments.

Another five months passed while Yale continued with that routine.

In those months, Wyba reached the 7-star Novice providing a good increase in the capacity of Bloodline Force as that also improved Yale's bloodline. Although Yale hadn't trained properly due to being focused in the research almost all the time, Dexterity reached the max thanks to the experiment itself, and his other stats had reached the max thanks to Aiwai's food. Moreover, the continuous use of Time Healing had also improved his Origin Points to the max, so he managed to reach the 8-star Novice. That speed was far slower than his usual speed training near Aiwai, but that was better than nothing.