Demon Hunter: School of the Wolf.

Chapter 552: New Discovery to Inhibit Dragon Malignant Gene Expression

The second mutation of Iron Maiden has been transformed beyond recognition compared to when she was in Thomas Moreau's laboratory.

Several iron pipes were inserted into the back of the Iron Maiden in a hideous and disorderly manner, as if countless tentacles had emanated from the back of this original torture device, connected to bottles and jars containing clear and turbid liquids of various colors.

Can this strange-looking thing, which took only two days to make, really cure the Chief?

In addition to Aristo, there was more than one person in the laboratory who had such doubts, including Vesemir who kept saying "You can always trust Arryn."

It's just that no one said it.

"let's start!"

A young but steady voice suddenly sounded, causing Aresto to breathe faster and clench his fists subconsciously.

Ailin, who was standing next to the hideous monster, nodded to Jeroen Moreau, and the two of them opened the valve on the back at the same time.

"His-"

The strange sound, like the hissing of a poisonous snake, makes one's teeth ache.

Several iron pipes trembled fiercely, absorbing liquids from bottles and jars. Finally, during the pressurized rune conversion, they turned into gushing green gas that filled the entire inner chamber of the Iron Maiden.

The scene inside was concealed, and only a strange blue hue could be seen vaguely.

Aristo swallowed and unconsciously clenched his right hand on Vesemir's shoulder.

Vesemir was also concentrating, seemingly oblivious to the growing weight on his shoulders.

for a long time.

"Whoo~"

With a slight sound, green gas spurted out from the hole in front of the Iron Maiden.

At this moment when everyone is watching...

"Hey! Aristo, relax!"

Vesemir's cry of pain broke the tense atmosphere.

"Oh, sorry, Vesemir." Under the gaze of everyone, Aristo blushed and withdrew his right hand.

Vesemir waved his hand and looked back at the Iron Maiden.

"Click."

After the sound of the lock being unlocked, the Iron Maiden opened her arms, and in the hazy green mist, a blue figure slid down and knelt on the ground.

It was a water ghost, but in the eyes of everyone, it was like looking at a hatching dragon egg.

"Gurgle~" Aristo swallowed and stared.

at last.

“Quack…quack…quack la la…”

The water ghost muttered as he climbed up from the ground. His scarlet eyes slyly turned around in his eyes before he pounced on Jeroen Moreau, who was closest to him.

Geron Moreau's right hand did not leave the wrench next to the Iron Maiden, and he did not draw his sword or dodge. Instead, he waved his left hand lightly as if he was brushing away some dust and dirt.

"Click~click~"

The water ghost's limbs were bent at abnormal angles and he fell to the ground, roaring loudly.

"Is this... a success?" Aristo looked at Vesemir, then turned his gaze to the water ghost who could not be more ordinary.

"Success."

Geron Moreau's expression was not as confused as Aristo and Vesemir's. Instead, his face was filled with shock as if to say, "It actually worked."

He is somewhat of a doctor who has learned from his long experience in illness. He cannot be said to be an expert in secondary mutations, but he has a good understanding of them.

Originally, Jeroen Moreau thought Ailin was daydreaming, but he cooperated without saying a word out of friendship and respect for the Grand Master of the Wolf School.

He watched how Thomas Moreau spent decades and ultimately succeeded in achieving something completely opposite to his original intention.

Although Ailin made improvements based on Thomas Moreau's secondary mutation, it only took two short days!
I didn’t expect that he actually did it!
Simply inhuman!
"Uh..." Aresto looked at the struggling water ghost on the ground, then looked at Ailin, and said hesitantly, "Can the experimental results obtained on the water ghost really be successfully replicated on the Chief?"

The one who spoke was not Aelin, but Aida Amin, the master of free elves.

"The water ghost is not the most similar to humans among the monsters, but its soul is more fragile than that of ordinary humans," she said softly, "Vera and I spent a lot of effort to replicate most of the injuries on Soi's soul on it..."

"In theory, as long as this water ghost can recover, Soi should be able to as well."

"And now, the water ghost that was originally stupid and unresponsive to the outside world due to soul trauma has almost perfectly recovered because of the second mutation."

"certainly……"

Before Aristo could breathe a sigh of relief, Aida Emin added, "The dragon's curse cannot be replicated."

"Although the soul of the water ghost is much more fragile than that of Soi, the influence exerted by the dragon can never be ignored."

"Besides, in theory, it's just in theory. Also, because time is tight, we don't have time to observe the subsequent changes of this water ghost, so..."

Ida Emin did not continue, but everyone knew what she meant.

Aristo's heart sank again.

"Erin, what do you think?" Vesemir looked at Erin, who had kept his eyes closed since the end of the experiment and did not participate in the discussion, as if he was thinking about something.

Aristo, Dante, Ada Emin and Geron Molu also looked over at the same time.

"Yes, there are still some shortcomings." Ailin opened his tired blue eyes, "The formula needs to add three more grams of Cyclops heart extract to act as a mutation inducer to slow down the effects of the dragon's curse."

"Cyclops?" Geron Moreau was stunned. "How did you know that the heart of a Cyclops can slowly release the dragon's curse?"

It was obvious that Ailin had never come into contact with it, and Thomas Moreau had never used this material.

"intuition."

Ailin was silent for a few seconds, glanced at the system prompt flashing in front of him, and spoke.

But of course this can't be intuition.

【叮！消耗50个经验珠，您的技能：基因突变学LV6已提升至基因突变学LV7（0/100W）】

In fact, LV6 genetic mutation knowledge is enough. Two days ago, he understood secondary mutation better than Thomas Moreau.

The water ghost experiment was also successful.

But after hearing Ada Emin's speculation, he thought about it and decided to spend another fifty experience beads to upgrade his genetic mutation to level 7.

after all.

Once Soy officially begins to mutate, there will be no more room for fine-tuning...

Either life or death.

Since you have enough experience beads, it is better to spend a little more than regretting it later and having all your efforts go to waste.

If he had enough experience beads, he would even like to upgrade his genetic mutation skills to the maximum.

But overall, in order to save Soi, he has spent nearly 84 experience beads, and the remaining experience beads in his pocket are less than 100, which is not enough for the genetic mutation to upgrade to level 8.

Of course, these fifty experience beads are well worth spending.

There are no panels for knowledge skills such as alchemy, ritual studies, and genetic mutation, but they also follow the rule of three levels at a time for ordinary skills.

If it is expressed in the form of a system panel, it would be...

【Name：Gene Mutation】

【Type: Knowledge】

[Level: LV7] [Passive Effect:
LV1-LV3: Mutation traits of creatures without magic, without the involvement of magic and elements, and the possibility of (benign/malignant) biological mutation direction.

LV4-LV6: Mutation traits of non-large monsters with magic, involving magic and elements, and the possibility of (benign/malignant) mutation direction of non-large monsters.

LV7: The mutation characteristics of some large monsters with magic power, with a large amount of magic power and elements involved, and the possibility of mutation direction of some large monsters (benign/malignant). 】

It wasn't accurate enough, because as his level increased, Ailin had an almost intuitive hunch about genes, like the intuition that when two genes were matched in this way, a certain trait would inevitably appear, and most of the time it was very accurate.

Especially when judging genetic mutations below the current level...

But that's roughly the difference.

The function of the Cyclops' heart is the knowledge he gains after upgrading.

Although it is not known why - perhaps it is related to the legend that giants are the natural enemies of dragons - the heart of the Cyclops can indeed suppress the expression of the dragon's vicious genes at the genetic level.

This is a small knowledge point upgraded from Gene Mutation LV7, which can be used just in time.

It was also thanks to the fact that the Cyclops was judged to be a lower-level monster among the large monsters according to the Demon Hunting Notes. Otherwise, the LV7 genetic mutation science would not have been able to provide knowledge related to dragons, which is something that can only be achieved at least at LV9.

"Intuition?" Jeroen Moreau, Vesemir, Ada Emin and the others looked at each other.

This is obviously not a convincing reason.

The scene suddenly became cold.

"Believe me," Arryn took a deep breath and looked at the silent Vesemir and the hesitant Arestor. "Like you, I hope Chief Soi can survive."

"Besides, we don't have time. The Chief can't wait for a thorough verification..."

The Cyclops' heart suppresses the mutation of the dragon's malignant gene expression, but it is impossible to produce experimental results on any monster that does not contain dragon genes.

and so……

Even if there is time to verify, it is difficult to find a suitable experimental subject, at least the water ghost in front of us is definitely not suitable.

Besides, Soi really didn't have time. The reason why Vera was not here was not because she didn't want to be here, but because in just two days, Soi was so ill that he couldn't leave.

There is no next two days to study slowly.

"Then I'll leave it to you, Ailin!"

It was not Vesemir who spoke, but Aristo, who, although restrained, could not hide his suspicion and distrust.

"Don't look at me like that." He took a deep breath and glanced at Vesemir and Dente, who looked shocked. "I did have my doubts, but I never doubted Arryn's determination."

"Ever since you returned to Kaer Morhen, Arlin has been busy all the time. After returning from Thomas Moreau's laboratory, he has been spending the entire day in this laboratory..."

"I'm not blind."

"Aelin did more to save the Chief than all of us combined."

Ailin was stunned when he heard this: "It's not just mine..."

"We all have eyes, so there's no need to be modest," Aresto waved his hand to interrupt him, "Just do it, and don't feel burdened. We all believe in you!"

Just say it.

Everyone was still stunned by Aristo's sudden change. He didn't even wait for a response, but turned his back to everyone and walked straight out of the laboratory.

"Where are you going, Aristo?"

Vesemir and Dante reacted and asked.

"I'll go inform Ms. Vera." Aristo paused, but did not turn back. After saying this, he pushed the door and walked out of the laboratory.

The lab was quiet for a while.

"Shouldn't it be Ms. Ada's job to contact Ms. Vera?" Dante was a little uncertain. "Aristo...Aristo, is he...is he crying?"

"Don't talk nonsense!" Vesemir glanced at Arryn and slapped Dante on the head.

"Aristo just has too deep feelings for the Chief..."

He paused and looked at Ailin:
"Aristo is a war orphan."

"The Chief saved him from the swords of several murderous deserters and took him away."

"He was already ten years old at the time. He was too old to be accepted as a member of the Demon Hunter Cult."

"So Aristo is different from the rest of us. He wasn't forced to become a witcher because of the Law of Accidents or the reward for a commission. He chose to become a witcher."

"Of course, Soi rejected him at the time and handed him over to a farmer in the village at the foot of Mount Mograg. But that day he climbed up the mountain by himself in the middle of the night and came to Mograg Castle, where he met Arzu."

"Then, miraculously, he passed the cruel trial beyond his age limit and became the chief's first traveling apprentice."

"Then it was a long story. The Demon Hunter Order reached its peak, Cosimo and Alzu left, and eventually the Demon Hunter Order fell apart..."

"Later, Aristo followed the Chief to Kaedwen..."

"We share weal and woe, life and death together."

"The bond between them is beyond our imagination."

So he didn't believe that I could save Soi at all... Ailin knew why Vesemir explained so much, and sighed quietly in his heart:

"Don't worry, Vesemir, I'm not that ignorant."

Vesemir nodded with satisfaction and returned to the topic: "The heart of the Cyclops..."

"Vera must have the heart of the Cyclops. I'll go find her now," Ada Emin took over the conversation and looked at Aylin. "Are there any other materials you need, or is there anything else you want to tell Vera?"

"No..." Ailin was about to shake his head, then paused and said, "Once the heart of the Cyclops arrives, we will prepare the genetic mutation solution. At noon today, we can start the...treatment..."

"I'll make sure she's prepared." Ada Emin waved her hand to summon a portal. She paused before entering the portal, then turned back and looked at him with pity in her eyes: "Make all kinds of preparations."

Then he walked straight into the portal.

"Boom~"

Ailin looked towards the place where the portal disappeared with empty eyes. He stared for a long time without knowing what he was thinking, until he suddenly felt a light touch on his shoulder and came back to his senses.

“You’ve done your best.”

Vesemir patted his right shoulder gently, then pulled Dante out of the laboratory. "I'll ask Rumen to roast some beef and bread and send it down later."

"Squeak~"

"Bang~"

The door of the laboratory closed gently.

There was silence for a while in the huge room, with only the croaking sounds of the water ghosts.

"We are the only ones left now," Jeroen Moreau stepped on the water ghost's neck to quiet it down, and asked, "We now?"

"We'll prepare the genetic mutation solution," Ailin took a deep breath and walked to the alchemy table in the corner. "Before the Cyclops' heart arrives, we'll prepare a new solution. There are still many things that need to be adjusted in the previous formula..."

"And then?" Jeroen Moreau, the only demon hunter in the world who had completed a second mutation, naturally took the position of deputy.

Ailin paused while washing the test tube:

"Then we stayed in the lab, waiting..."

"The arrival of noon..."

then……

Time flies and noon arrives.

(End of this chapter)