Golden Dragon: Six Thousand Years of Empire.

Chapter 219: Living organism transformation, four-armed ichthyosaur giant
"A creature with only one heart is too fragile."

This is what Wayne heard when he was diving into the underwater lair of the strange race. The strange creature that seemed to be an elder or a priest made a crazy statement to his fellow creatures.
"If we want to survive here, we must get rid of our fatal weaknesses!
Members of our race must have at least two hearts, a stomach that can absorb nutrients from stones, kidneys that can break down highly toxic substances, stronger vision and hearing organs, muscles that contain more powerful strength, and harder bones and scales..."

"..."

Wayne stood in the shadows, making sure that no creature noticed him. He was just an unknown observer, observing the crazy race he had never seen in his life.

Yes, crazy. Wayne didn't know what other adjectives he could use to describe their behavior.

Because after he went deeper, he found that the various parasites used by the members of these races were not special species, but were hatched together when they were born.

This strange race and the various parasitic creatures they use are relatives by blood, and can be said to be true brothers and sisters. Because of this, there are almost no obstacles or stagnation when they merge.

He had never seen such a race, which transformed their own kind into biological tools. Although these monsters themselves had no such awareness, they took it for granted as a natural adaptive evolution.

However, it must be admitted that this way of destroying ethics and morals and trampling on secular concepts has indeed allowed this race to occupy a place in this resource-rich water area.

After these creatures disintegrate, it is very difficult for them to survive as individual individuals and they can only be at the bottom of the food chain. But when three or five of them merge into an eight-armed ichthyosaur, they are qualified to compete for resources in this swamp and expand their tribe's territory.

But it is just a qualification. They are only in the middle level of the ecological niche in this swamp and can still be hunted by the dominant creatures at the top level. The food label on them has not been removed.

A combined creature simply piled up in numbers cannot achieve qualitative change. Therefore, the elders of this monster tribe, or the ruling class like priests, have even crazier ideas.

Living organism transformation!
For creatures that are born with only one heart, in normal life evolution, even under environmental pressure, it would take many years for them to grow a second heart and a complex system of internal organs, bones, muscles, blood circulation, etc. to adapt to it. They cannot afford to wait such a long time.

Compared to natural evolution, it is obviously faster to stuff a heart in through surgery.

Of course, this statement is too rough. The actual operation should be more meticulous, because what is inserted is not only the heart, but also more specially cultivated organs that can form a circulation with the original organs.

This is why Wayne thinks this group is too crazy, because not only are their theories crazy and lack sufficient knowledge to support them, their technology is so crude that it is not worth watching, but they still dare to put them into practice.

Even the mage apprentices shook their heads at the theoretical and technical levels, as well as the bloody and unrefined operating tables that looked like a slaughterhouse. Yet these monster elders dared to tie their own kind to the operating table and perform biological transformation.

Barbaric, bloody, primitive, brutal, as well as stupid, ignorant and naive, any derogatory word can be used to describe them.

Biological modification is not a rare thing for a knowledgeable extraordinary person like Wayne.

Many existing species in the material world were not conceived and evolved naturally, but were born from various magical experiments.

However, the birth of these species is a very rigorous process. The most typical one is the Chimera. This monster, which seems to be spliced ​​together, has now evolved into an independent monster race.

However, behind this successful case, there are countless failures. Many wizards have worked hard but failed to create a qualified synthetic beast.

A group of monsters who have no theoretical knowledge, just because they saw their mutated fellows who were born different, they wanted to transform those ordinary individuals into similar forms, and also wanted to concentrate all the advantageous mutations on them.

It's simply a fantasy and wishful thinking!

Wayne originally wanted to curse like this, but in this strange demiplane, under the transformation of this group of monster elders regardless of sacrifice and cost, some monsters actually survived the operation.

Although it was a four-armed giant without any aesthetic sense and was created solely for the pursuit of greater strength, its body was ugly and bloated. Even the green fish scales all over its body could not hide its explosive muscles full of tyranny.

Its upright height is less than five meters, far less than those of its kind that have armed and fused their brothers and sisters into their bodies, but it has not undergone any biological fusion, or it can be said that it has already stuffed its brothers and sisters into its body, and there is no more fusion and disintegration. It is just a separate biological individual.

This was an extremely outrageous case, so outrageous that even Wayne, who was not the caster, felt a sense of absurdity as his world views and cognition were shattered.

"this is okay too?"

Looking at the ugly giant in front of him, who was walking with two thick legs in the water, waving his four arms, moving his body and adapting to the new form, Wayne just thought it was ridiculous.

He had just seen with his own eyes that the group of monsters cut open his wailing fellow and stuffed a bunch of colorful internal organs into his abdominal cavity for an unknown purpose. They also cut open all of his muscles, filled them with muscle, and stuffed bones into them. In the end, they didn't even sew them up and threw them into the nutrient pool.

A biologically modified synthetic beast without even any sutures. Its flesh and blood, when cut open, heal entirely with its own vitality. Those that survive will live, while those that don't will become nutrients in the nutrient pool.

Any spellcaster who sees this kind of transformation experiment and sees that there are successful cases will think that the world is crazy.

"Dragon blood?"

Wayne is not a spellcaster, so he will not be shocked by such unreasonable results. Instead, he can see the reasonable logic hidden behind all this unreasonableness.

"Golden Sun?"

He found out why these giants were born. It all came from the sun in the demiplane. Any creature that could survive on this land would possess an extremely vigorous and twisted vitality.

The twist is that all the creatures here have a terrifying devouring instinct. They seem to feel that they are broken and incomplete, and will instinctively devour and merge with other creatures to fill their own flaws and incompleteness.

This experiment took place underwater, and all the necessary conditions, from the knife-wielding transformer, to the transformation facilities and the transformation environment, were not perfect or even non-existent. The reason why it was successful was precisely because the transformed monster would instinctively devour everything and complete itself.

Of course, behind this successful case are mountains of corpses. There is no telling how many monsters failed to survive the operation that was no different from torture and died directly on the operating table.

This way of dying is actually relatively clean and neat. The truly tragic thing is that after finally surviving the operation with half a breath left, he was thrown into a nutrient pool. This pool water contained dragon blood and was highly corrosive, not much better than a strong acid solution.

Only the strong ones who can absorb nutrients from it can survive, otherwise they will become the solution in the pool water and turn into nutrients. The lives of the weak are as cheap as grass in it, and only the strong ones are qualified to survive.

However, surviving does not mean the end, but the beginning of a new round of nightmare. Wayne watched this successful case being put on the operating table again. The monster elders were still not satisfied with such results and they wanted further transformation.

"A bunch of lunatics!"

Wayne, who had been following and observing for many days without realizing it, stopped watching and left the lake after giving his final evaluation.

Because it was really too hopeless. Born in such an environment and living in such a tribe, Wayne couldn't see any hope even if he put himself in their shoes.

Because hatching is a difficult hurdle, the brains of most monsters will be removed at this time and they will be trained to become various biological tools. Only a small number of embryos that are judged to be excellent can be hatched.

Even so, they have to go through numerous screenings before they can become soldiers who can use biological weapons and become the most common members of the monster clan.

Of course there are channels for upward promotion. Just stay alive. As long as you live long enough, you can become the ruler of the clan, but staying alive is the most luxurious thing here.

Even the elders of monster clans who can dissect and modify their own kind at will are sometimes eaten as snacks by passing monsters.

It's a desperate and hopeless future, but even so, this race of monsters is still struggling, trying to keep their species going, even if it means transforming themselves beyond recognition.

"Sahuagin!"

Although he didn't recognize them at first, after observing for a while, even Wayne, who had never been to the seaside, was able to determine the origin of this monster clan, the murlocs who were known as sea demons.

In this demiplane filled with dragon species and dragon vein creatures, all ordinary members were also forced to be screened out. Like the kobolds, ordinary species are not even allowed to breathe here.

Only individuals who have completed adaptive mutations have the possibility of being born and then experiencing a living environment that is like hell.

To be honest, Wayne, who is very familiar with the environment of hell, feels that even hell is friendlier than here. At least, in some areas of hell, ordinary species can still breathe.

But it doesn't work here, because the vegetation here is too dense, and the air is filled with many spores that are invisible to the naked eye. Once accidentally inhaled, if your immune system is not strong enough, you will soon become a walking giant mushroom.

"Mr. Wayne, are you done with your tour?"

When Wayne returned to the designated area, crossed the teleportation array, and left the demiplane, he felt the lighter but softer sunlight, and the warmth falling on his body. His body and mind couldn't help but relax. He took a deep breath and then exhaled. A sweet questioning voice followed.
"How does it feel? Isn't it great?"

"Yeah, it's an eye-opener."

Wayne sighed sincerely when he saw the big goblin in front of him with obvious golden scales on his delicate and pretty little face.

"Yeah, that's what everyone who enters for the first time says."

The fairy looked very proud. If you didn't know the truth, you might think that the secret demiplane she recommended people to enter was some fairy tale wonderland.

"However, I personally think that opening this demiplane to students as an entrance test is a bit too harsh?"

Wayne tactfully raised his opinion. Although with his strength, he could move freely in the demiplane, he still felt vaguely that there was a dangerous aura deep in the demiplane.

"Harsh? How come?"

The goblin who was guiding Wayne through the onboarding procedures tilted his head, obviously not understanding.

"The environment inside is not only dangerous for students, but also contains too many fatal factors."

Wayne, be frank.

He felt that throwing students into such an environment was a complete alternative massacre.

When he came back, he saw a crack in the sky, and groups of goblins were thrown in. In a very short period of time, all the goblins were eaten by the animals and plants below. The scene was basically like a feeding ground, and almost no goblins survived.

"Surviving in the Dragon Domain for a day is the last stage of the assessment. The elimination rate is the lowest. Most freshmen enter there mainly to familiarize themselves with the environment and broaden their horizons. The teleportation location is also fixed. As long as you don't wander around randomly, there is basically no danger."

There was confusion in the eyes of the big fairy. In her opinion, the Dragon Realm was a very dreamy and beautiful paradise. There were too many new and strange things that they had never seen before, and treasures were everywhere, and they were free to use them.

"The last level of the assessment?"

Wayne was stunned and suddenly realized something.

"Yes, the admission threshold of Dragon Academy is mainly based on talent. It also tests one's will. If there are no problems with these two items, one can basically be admitted. Going to Dragon Territory is just to experience it in advance. It's not very dangerous."

"Is there anything you didn't give me?"

The young man looked at the fairy in front of him, especially the golden scales on the other's cheeks. He discovered something: any creature with golden scales in the Dragon Domain basically has the highest status in its race, and will encounter fewer unprovoked attacks, which makes it have a strong deterrent power.

"Oh, sorry, I forgot to give you your teacher credentials."

As Wayne's gaze gradually solidified, the goblin took out a chest ornament made of golden dragon scales.

(End of this chapter)