Volume 3 Chapter 222

Volume 3 + Chapter 222: Hybrid Experiment

Claire.

Xia Yi wrote down this name in her notebook.

An alchemist belonging to the Human Alchemists’ Guild — Rhine Alchemy. She called herself Doctor, and should hold a certain position within Rhine Alchemy.

There was a peculiar connection between the Doctor and Xia Yi.

When the False Sword Saint caused a huge incident in Laurel City and lost control, it was the Doctor who stepped in to calm him down. With just a few words, she made the False Sword Saint immediately stop and retreat.

Tracing back further, when Xia Yi went to Rhine Alchemy to take the test for an alchemist qualification, she also ran into the False Sword Saint there.

And even earlier than that, on the very first day Xia Yi arrived at Laurel Academy — when the False Sword Saint left the academy, there were also members of Rhine Alchemy at his side.

This series of clues had already made Xia Yi very certain that between Rhine Alchemy and the False Sword Saint there existed an enormous connection.

“Could it be that this is the Schubert family behind the scenes, collaborating with Rhine Alchemy in research, and creating a fake replacement Sword Saint?” Xia Yi muttered.

The family supporting Rhine Alchemy was the Morrison family, one of the four great families of the Rhine Kingdom.

Under the Morrison family’s support, Rhine Alchemy had gained huge profits through the trade of alchemical potions. To express gratitude, they also returned these riches to society by carrying out many acts of public welfare.

For example, funding many orphanages across the kingdom and taking in countless displaced orphans.

They even provided free medical services for poor prisoners inside Rhine Kingdom prisons.

And gave free aid to the homeless, building shelters for them…

On the surface, Rhine Alchemy looked like a charitable organization full of love and devoted to public welfare.

But according to what Xia Yi knew, the truth behind this was absolutely not so simple. It was even very likely that Rhine Alchemy did all these things with ulterior motives — in order to obtain experimental subjects for their research.

This was something she had vaguely heard about back in her days as a Human Sword Saint, through family channels.

Now that Xia Yi had seen the False Sword Saint in close contact with Rhine Alchemy, she was even more certain of this point—

Rhine Alchemy was conducting top-secret experiments.

Xia Yi wrote this sentence in her notebook.

“If this really is the case…”

The little princess furrowed her brows.

In her heart she had a suspicion: what if these experiments were to create humans possessing the power of the dragon clan…?

That was simply too inconceivable.

Because even the Dragon Kingdom itself could not achieve such a thing.

For outsiders cursed by the dragon clan, except for the two exceptions herself and Monet, all others who tried to bear the overwhelming power of the dragons would have their rationality and bloodlines eroded, lose self and sanity, and become half-dragon monsters that knew only slaughter.

Yet, the False Sword Saint, though he had lost control before, most of the time still remained rational. At critical moments he could even wield the power of the dragon clan…

Xia Yi felt this was extremely ominous.

She had to investigate this matter clearly. After all, everything now was only speculation — but if it truly turned out to be real, then it could cause an earthquake within the Dragon Kingdom.

For outsiders to lay hands on the power of the dragon clan — such a thing had never happened before in the past.

Perhaps Xia Lulu had already sensed these signs, and so sent her here to investigate. After all, there was no one more suited for the task than herself.

“For now, the plan is still to find some way to make direct contact with Claire, test things out, and then decide the next step.” Xia Yi made her decision in her heart.

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The False Sword Saint lay on the experiment table.

The light shone down on his pale face. His murky eyes were like those of a dead man, facing the light shining directly on him, motionless.

Compared to some time ago, he seemed to have aged many years at once. He was no longer that high-spirited hero.

“Mm-hmm-hmm~”

The Doctor in a white coat, with a lollipop in her mouth, leaned back in her chair, crossed her legs, and cheerfully read through experiment reports submitted by other alchemists.

As for the hybrid experiment, recently it has still not made much progress.

Dragon blood, for humans, was simply like dynamite.

When combined with dynamite, even the slightest outside stimulus would make it explode. With a bang, the human would turn into a half-dragon monster.

The hybrid experiment demanded that after fusing with dynamite, a human could freely control it — to make it explode whenever they wished, in whatever amount, and with power precisely as desired…

What nonsense!

The Doctor threw the report aside, papers flying everywhere in the lab.

If any other alchemist had acted this way, it would definitely be considered extremely serious misconduct. But Claire was different — she was the one and only Doctor.

No matter how unruly she was, the human leadership could still temporarily tolerate her.

“How boring. Even with so many failures, one can’t let it completely crush their enthusiasm~”

The Doctor, uninterested, looked over at the False Sword Saint on the experiment table.

He was the only hybrid from the experiments who had survived and still retained rationality. But even so, this hybrid still had many defects and could not use the power of the dragon clan.

However, thanks to the alchemical potion Xia Yi had created — tentatively named the Stabilizing Potion — this defective product had managed to make up for that flaw. Although it was still far from the ideal, it did indeed show some signs of approaching a finished product.

Now, according to the will of the human leadership, as long as more hybrids like the False Sword Saint could be produced and supported with the Stabilizing Potion, the experiment could be considered complete.

The Doctor didn’t know why the human leadership wanted to create so many hybrids. Could it be to raise an army of hybrids and wage war?

The dragon clan was powerful, but few in number, poor at reproduction.

The human clan was weak, but had many people, and reproduced well.

Perhaps, with a hybrid army, using sheer numbers against the dragon clan, there might be a chance?

But the Doctor didn’t care about such matters. For now she had to push forward the experiment’s progress. Recently the pressure from above has been getting stronger and stronger. If she couldn’t produce results, those people seemed ready to put her on the experiment table herself…?

Thinking of this, the Doctor actually felt amused. If it really came to that, then at that time she had better go mad, even ask her colleagues to give her a larger dose, transform herself into a super monster, and butcher the entire human leadership.

“Doctor, um… the Sword Saint-sama’s examination results are out. All indicators are stable, very ideal!”

The alchemist submitted the report to the Doctor. Out of respect, they still addressed this impostor as Sword Saint-sama.

“……”

Even though the experiment was over, the False Sword Saint still lay on the experiment table, deathly pale.

The Doctor narrowed her eyes. Without even glancing at the report, she stuffed it back, stood up, walked over to the experiment table, bent down, and showed a brilliant smile.

“Wright, I now have an absolutely great piece of news. Are you interested in hearing it~?”