e-booksonline Chapter 35: Extremely High Mortality Rate
Chapter 35: Extremely High Mortality Rate
First, twenty Ash Knights walked proudly into the modification room.
Edmund, as the commander of the Knights, sat quietly on the iron chair to the side, following Leon's instructions.
Li Ang separately redeemed a 500-minute usage right for Edmund's [Medical Servant].
This [Medical Servant] is responsible for extracting fresh blood from Edmund's body and then refining it into a simplified [Primarch Serum]!
One dose of the [Original Serum] is 50ml. After extraction, it needs to be blessed by Li Ang using faith points.
This is a new feature unlocked only after the Yellow Skin system upgrades to LV2: [Blessing]!
Function: Bestowing blessings
Target substance: original serum
Quantity per serving: 50ml
Faith Points Cost: 500
Effect: The [Primary Serum] after being blessed can significantly improve the Knight's "Organ Rejection Reaction".
Note: The Primarch Serum, after being blessed, will subtly endow the recipient knight with certain characteristics of a Primarch Knight.
During organ implantation and modification, rejection is the most dangerous complication!
After all, it is a biological organ that transcends species, how could it be mixed into a human body?
Edmund possessed exceptional physical abilities and, with the help of fate, completed his initial transformation.
At the same time, Edmund's serum naturally possessed a certain type of special mutant antibody.
After undergoing a round of systemic blessing, the effects of the [original serum] can be amplified, and some "lesions" can be eliminated, making the serum even "pure".
Li Ang knew that after being injected with the blessed [Primarch Serum], the knights would have a much higher chance of successfully being modified.
This is also the cornerstone for the large-scale transformation of knights that will follow.
Of course, the newly opened [Blessing] function bar is not limited to blessing [Original Serum]; there are many other things that can be blessed.
The higher the level of the target item, the more Faith points it will consume.
Considering that these knights are far weaker than Edmund, undergoing two organ modifications is far too dangerous!
Therefore, following Li Ang's instructions, the [Medical Servant] only carried out the first project of the knights' modifications: [Muscle and Organ Modification]!
Twenty Ash Knights were locked one by one into the modified bed by a mechanical arm. Hydraulic clamps fastened their limbs and torsos, and spinal slots automatically connected to nerve inhibition catheters.
The multiple mechanical arms of the [Medical Servant] unfolded simultaneously, emitting a low, energetic hum.
"Implantation procedure initiated. Material sequence: Titan tendon bundle, green skin regeneration muscle core, lich energy muscle group, polar bear cold-resistant muscle layer."
After scientific screening by the Medical Servant, five knights underwent the Titan Tendon Band modification. The Servant's mechanical arm used a sharp golden scalpel to cut open the human chest and back, and "metallicly sutured" the dark gold tendon band to the human skeleton.
At each stitch, a miniature forging hammer performs high-frequency impact forging, and lava-like golden patterns gradually appear on the bodies of the five knights.
This step was not yet complete. Just as the [Medical Servant] was about to inject the five knights with [Primary Serum] to reduce the rejection reaction of their organs.
The five knights let out screams of "unbearable pain," their bodies began to convulse, and their life force rapidly began to drain away.
Although the medical servants immediately began emergency treatment, it was to no avail.
"Beep beep beep~~~!"
The numbers on the vital signs monitor quickly changed to "0"!
"The modification failed; five knights are dead!"
A mechanical, synthesized voice came through.
The modification experiment still needs to continue!
[Medical Servant] After performing human body scans on the other five knights, suitable green-skinned monsters were selected for their proliferating muscles. When the green-skinned monster's muscle tissue was implanted, the abdomens of the new five knights suddenly swelled up and twisted into balloons, and their skin was stretched open with spiderweb-like bloodstains.
"Aaaaaah!"
The screams were incessant. This "muscle modification" was extremely painful, and even those with cultivation levels of intermediate-level fighters or above could hardly resist it.
A few minutes later, the medical servants' efforts to save him were also in vain!
This means that five more Ashbringer Knights have died!
The brutal transformation must continue, even though blood has already stained the entire laboratory.
The remaining ten knights in the first team also gasped in shock.
Edmund's gaze remained cold and unwavering: "Do not be afraid, do not frighten! To become a true legendary knight, even death is an act of loyalty! The kingdom will not forget every loyal knight!"
The medical servants continued their modifications, selecting five new knights and beginning the implantation of lich muscles!
The lich's muscles possess extremely strong "darkness," "corrosiveness," and "undeadness," but they also have the unique characteristic of "immortality"!
Their muscle tissue is extremely powerful.
During the implantation process, which was only one-third complete, all five knights died from festering sores and ruptured blood vessels.
At this point, only five of the twenty reserve knights in the first team remained.
Edmund glanced at the solemn and stern-faced Li Ang, his gaze hardening even more: "Knights, step forward and prepare for the transformation!"
The last five knights were chosen by the [Medical Servant] to undergo the modification of their Arctic Bear-like cold-resistant muscles!
The mechanical suture needles extended by the servants performed nano-suturing at a rate of three hundred times per minute, while metal cables weaved and crisscrossed the knights' flesh and blood.
As one knight gritted his teeth and persevered to the very end, the medical servant had already laid [Cold-Resistant Muscles] beneath his body, forming an insulating and warm bio-armor.
But then, an accident suddenly happened!
Extreme pain! Then, the icy factors inside the [Cold-resistant Muscles] overflowed, and the knight's internal organs were covered with a layer of frost.
"Ah! I offer my loyalty to His Majesty the King!"
The knights' last voices echoed faintly.
Even a tough guy like Edmund couldn't help but shed two lines of tears.
"They are the kingdom's most loyal knights!"
Edmund raises his sword in salute.
Li Ang remained silent for a moment, then waved his hand, and the court guards stepped forward to carry away the bodies of the twenty Ash Knights.
The second squad of Ash Reserve Knights followed closely behind, striding forward.
The [Original Serum] and various sufficient quantities of advanced biological organs were neatly arranged. The [Medical Servants], devoid of any emotion, carried out organ modification of the muscle tissue of the prospective knights according to a predetermined procedure.
The knights' agonizing cries echoed endlessly!
The medical operatives also did not stop for a moment.
However, for various reasons, all twenty reserve knights of the second team died on the experimental table.
Next up is the third team of reserve knights!
The ending was still cruel!
All failed, death!
All the way up to the fourth squad and the fifth squad!
It was a complete failure!
One hundred highly loyal elite reserve knights, all at least intermediate-level fighters, have died!
Edmund's face was solemn and sad. These loyal knights were all the best men selected from the garrison. They did not die on the battlefield, but died in the experimental modification process.
Edmund was also deeply grieved.
Li Ang glanced at Edmund. According to the data from the [Medical Servant], Edmund could extract another twenty bottles of [Original Serum] today.
"Send over the sixth squad! If no one else succeeds, halt the organ transplant!"
Li Ang said in a low voice.