Industrial Revolution of the Mage Lords

Chapter 64 Medical Alchemy Beast
"Lord Harvey! Look what a great thing this is!" Egno excitedly brought two people to find Harvey in the underground laboratory.

"Uh... what the hell is this?"

Harvey looked at the wet linen bag in front of him, and saw several short and thick snake-like creatures falling out. The sticky liquid on their bodies covered the floor of the laboratory. He suddenly felt a little nauseous.

Egno didn't care. He bent down, picked up one of them, and firmly grasped the place where the strange short snake's neck appeared to be, so that it could not turn its head to attack him.

"Remember what I reported to you last week about some people picking mushrooms in the Green Water Swamp to the west and being attacked by poisonous snakes?"

Harvey scratched his head, as if vaguely remembering that this was the case.

About two or three hours west of the territory, there is a vast swamp that grows a lot of delicious non-toxic mushrooms, which are called red algae mushrooms by the people of the territory. Harvey has tasted the thick soup made with red algae mushrooms and fresh fish several times during his meals, and it is indeed delicious.

It is probably because of this advantage that some subjects who do not have a fixed job often go to the Green Water Swamp to pick mushrooms. After all, the market area is no longer a monopoly of Harvey. He encourages subjects who do not have a fixed job to sell their hunting or gathering harvests freely in the market, and they only need to pay a small amount of tax.

As more and more people went to the swamp areas to gather and hunt, accidents such as attacks by wild animals and poisonous snakes and insects often occurred.

Harvey considered that it was time to establish a systematic medical system in the territory, on the one hand to meet the daily medical needs of the people in the territory, and on the other hand to start reserving the talents needed for wartime medical care in advance for the upcoming war.

As expected, this important task was given to the hybrid elf Egno. He had won the trust and praise of Harvey and the other three with his performance, and no longer had to wander around the territory bored all day.

Egno attached great importance to this appointment. He felt that his abilities had finally found a place to be used, and no one would discriminate against him for his mixed-race identity anymore.

Now, the Territory People's Medical Hospital he leads has more than ten pharmacists and medical care staff who were personally taught by him and are working normally.

Therefore, those people who were bitten by poisonous snakes in the swamp were naturally handed over to him for detoxification and treatment.

"Sir, this thing is not a poisonous snake at all!" Egno waved the sticky creature proudly and showed off to Harvey.

Harvey couldn't help but take a step back. "What is it? A poisonous loach? If you can't eat it, throw it away."

"No, no, no! It's not a loach, it's an insect! An insect like an oversized leech!"

Egno began to talk incessantly, reporting to Harvey his research results on this oversized leech.

"So, the mucus on this leech has the ability to heal and accelerate wound healing," Harvey asked uncertainly. "And its fangs can secrete a toxin similar to an anesthetic, rendering the bitten prey insensitive to pain?"

Egno nodded and added, "All of these characteristics are designed to satisfy this creature's bloodthirsty hunting needs. It will attach itself to large animals and use paralyzing toxins to suck their blood without the prey noticing."

Egno also mentioned that this creature was extremely sensitive to the smell of blood. Some of the attacked subjects would be immediately found by it by following the smell even if they only had a small wound on their fingers or toes that was almost healed.

But humans are obviously not within its hunting range. After all, no one would ignore a strange snake as thick as an arm sucking blood from their body.

"I plan to capture a large number of these creatures and try to raise them. This way, we can continuously obtain the raw materials for anesthetics and painkillers, as well as the materials for therapeutic agents that accelerate wound recovery..."

Harvey's mind moved, and he said, "Well, that's right. It's indeed a very meaningful idea. Go ahead and do it. If you're short of manpower, you can go to the military camp and find Pierce. If you need financial support, go find Reiner."

"Leave these giant leeches with me. I just need some live experimental materials..." Egno got the manpower and funds promised by Harvey as he wished, and left happily with his medical staff.

Harvey paused for a moment before realizing that this guy wasn't here to report on the hospital's progress, but was simply trying to defraud him of funds...

……

Harvey worked at his desk for a while, breaking down the previously drawn sketch of the magic gun modification into several detailed finished product drawings, and then pressed the communication device to call Reiner and Asdalen.

Today they are both on the farm, responsible for teaching the staff of the Ministry of Agriculture, maintenance-type alchemy beasts.

Harvey glanced at the tightly tied sack thrown on the ground, which was still squirming, and a feeling of nausea rose in his heart again.

In his previous life, the creature he hated most was leeches.

He cast the Mage's Hand, threw the sack into the box of living experimental materials, pulled out a giant leech and threw it on the experimental table. Under the suppression of the Mage's Hand, the leech twisted and struggled, and mucus splashed everywhere.

"Ugh...so disgusting!"

He stood far away and took out a wild rabbit from another experimental box. He used a blade to cut a long cut on its strong hind leg, then dipped a small amount of leech mucus on a test paper and smeared it on the rabbit's wound.

The mucus quickly covered the wound and stopped the bleeding.

It seems that what Egno said was right. Since this giant leech is a fragile mollusk, it must have evolved super recovery ability to ensure its own survival.

This is the natural law of species evolution...

As for the paralyzing toxin contained in its fangs, Harvey did not intend to try to analyze it. The hybrid elf Egno was much more professional than him in this area, so it would be more appropriate to let him study it.

The rabbit that was cut and healed suddenly jumped twice and accidentally approached the struggling leech.

The giant leech seemed to smell the scent of blood and immediately stopped its useless struggle, stretching its body as much as possible to move towards the rabbit.

As expected, I'm extremely sensitive to the smell of blood...

Harvey's thoughts wandered. "If I take advantage of its sensitivity to blood, combined with its inherent paralysis and healing abilities, perhaps..."

"Perhaps we can use soul transformation to transform this leech into an alchemical beast with healing abilities?"

"This way, it can at least simultaneously possess the therapeutic functions of detecting wounds, quickly stopping bleeding, and quickly relieving pain!"

He immediately ran back to the laboratory table and recorded his sudden inspiration.

After Reiner and Asdalen arrive, we can start the transformation experiment immediately!
Anyway, what he lacks the least now is the alchemical waste parts sent by the Alchemy Exploration Society!
(End of this chapter)