Chapter 106 – 106. Returning Away (2)
“Why is that?”
Theresia, unable to understand why Eunhyeon was making such a puzzled expression, calmly asked Eunhyeon.
“Well, then… Teaching Illyana strange things… Is it true that she was the Marquis… ?”
“Ask her friend’s wife directly about it…”
“Oh, sorry. There was a lack of consideration.”
Eunhyun, who still had no idea about this topic, hurriedly apologized to Theresia.
“It’s just that he suddenly ran away, and somehow learned strange things from the Marquis and brought me… That… Whoa, no, no.”
Since it was not a subject she could bring up with her own mouth, Eunhyeon couldn’t bear to mention what Illyana had done to her.
“Huh, I know what Eunhyeon-nim is thinking about. The help I gave you must have worked.”
“… You don’t have to tell me in the future. No, don’t tell me. I no longer have the confidence to handle it.”
If Illyana, whose eyes were awakened by her sexual desire, grew any further, Eun-hyeon said that she would be able to handle it on her own, but she was not confident.
“Huh, it was really refreshing when he gave me this kind of counseling.”
“Madam, the Marquis has arrived.”
“Okay.”
At the words of the attendant who knocked and entered the office, Theresia got up from her seat and left the office with Eun-hyeon.
As soon as she descends into the central hall, Theresia greets Rio de as she opens the door and enters her mansion.
“Welcome.”
“Hmm.”
To the greeting of her wife, who greeted her with a smile, Leo de gave a short reply and nodded her head, then moved his gaze to find Eun-hyeon.
“Come. I heard that you will come today.”
Riod glanced at Theresia, who was meeting with Illyana periodically to exchange information, and continued her words.
“Has there been any growth?”
“It’s up to you to judge that.”
Eunhyeon knew what they were asking about, even without asking each other.
“At least it didn’t roll nicely.”
“… That doesn’t sound very pleasant.”
Because there would be no father who would be happy that his daughter had to work hard on her body somewhere and come back after a lot of hardship.
However, it was Eira’s choice to want it, so while worrying about her, Riod allowed her daughter to join her expedition.
“At least sparring at least once. Because that child has been working hard towards you.”
“That sounds like at least you’re putting some expectations into it.”
“First of all, I have a responsibility too. If you were disappointed, I wouldn’t be confident in your evaluation.”
“The words are both happy and complicated. I wish I had just followed my mother like other noble ladies…”
“If Aira had heard that, she would have looked hurt.”
“I know. Only… It must be the time to give up.”
Riod’s feelings of having to decide to accept his daughter into his knights were complicated.
“I will become stronger in the future. Because he was at least four daughters, so I didn’t want to hear that he was offered a job offer to Artia. Even so, it seemed that he hated that sound more than dying. Perhaps because she resembles my father, her pride and desire to compete were no joke.”
“Huh, was Eira like that?”
She asks Eun-hyeon back, as if she is interested in Theresia, who imagined a side of her daughter she did not know.
She smiled bitterly and nodded her head, then looked at Eira’s father, Leo de, with an expression of ‘as expected’.
Liod, who avoided her wife’s eyes as if he couldn’t stand it, looked at Eun-hyeon and opened her mouth.
“Eunhyeon, I just have something I want to talk to you about.”
“Consulting? Hmm, judging by the expression on his face, it looks like he has another troublesome problem. Okay.”
After Eun-hyeon briefly agreed, Theresia, who saw Liode’s reaction by nodding her head, ordered her attendants to bring tea to her office, and the three headed back to the office.
Soon after, they came to her mansion and had her second cup of tea, while Eunhyeon waited for Leod to open his mouth slowly.
“You also had outstanding abilities in alchemy, didn’t you?”
“What, all right?”
Alchemy is one of Eunhyeon’s many skills.
The materials he made while building the house in the Great Labyrinth of Archis were not without alchemy-processed parts, and Eun-hyeon, determined not to hide her identity, decided to use the villa built in the labyrinth to demonstrate all her abilities. Inside, it was planned to build various facilities, including a blacksmith’s shop and an alchemy workshop.
“I remember that among some of alchemy, there was also a technique to combine living things into one. Am I right?”
“You mean ‘biological alchemy’?”
“I guess that’s the name…”
Liod, who murmured softly, nodded at Eunhyun’s comment and continued to ask questions.
“Have you ever seen a case where a demon beast and a demon beast merge?”
“A witch and a witch? Hmm. There should be.”
The origin of ‘biological alchemy’ is a field similar to the ‘life science’ of the earth, which creates a new life while synthesizing living things.
The purpose of this research is to stabilize the supply of food by artificially growing livestock easily and quickly, or to artificially process creatures necessary for combat or training in a non-dangerous way, and to develop a method that is closely related to human life. It is also somewhat closely related to the field of ‘medicine’.
Even the beings of wild ‘beasts’, who attack and threaten human society, are beings that humans must constantly study, think of countermeasures, and wipe out.
Eun-hyeon knew that mainly dealing with this issue was currently being carried out as a national project through collaboration between the adventurer’s guild and alchemists.
After hearing Riod’s question, Eunhyeon put aside the question of why he was asking such a question, and answered whether or not it was possible.
“It is also called the Chimera.”
“Then, what about the case where humans and demon beasts merge?”
As soon as he heard what he said, not only Eunhyeon, but even Theresia looked at Liod with surprised eyes.
“Hmm…”
Eun-hyeon put on a worried expression for a moment, stroked her chin, and fell into his thoughts.
“I have never seen it. But…”
While pondering whether it was right to say this or whether it was just confusing, Eunhyeon finally opened her mouth when her gaze met Leo who was looking at her expecting something.
“Theoretically, it is not impossible. But I thought you would have already looked around and researched many places before asking me?”
“I am on my way back after seeking advice from a professor who is teaching alchemy in Aether today.”
“Oh, that woman named Cecilia?”
“You know?”
“For some reason, I was the former homeroom teacher of Elvin Hersha, and now the homeroom professor of Erinn. I ran into it a few times when I was investigating the Guardian Dimension and Elvin’s affairs.”
“… It’s a strange relationship. Coming back to the main topic, the woman’s answer was, ‘Humans and demons cannot be combined.’ But you answered differently. I would like to hear the rationale for what you think is possible.”
“The reason why the combination of witch beasts and beasts can be achieved on a certain principle is because the origin of the race is the same. For example, you are seriously injured and there is a serious lack of blood in your body. The only ones who can transfuse the blood you lack are the children of the same blood, Eira and Elion. But what if you were transfused with the blood of a stranger you don’t know?”
“I will die.”
Eunhyeon nodded her head at Liode’s calm reply.
“I took blood as an example, but like this, there is a fundamentally common part between the Witchbeast and the Beast, so if you fuse and synthesize those parts well, you can succeed. This common part is the ‘contaminated mana’ that only demon beasts have. It is also the most fundamental reason why humans and monsters cannot be synthesized.”
Just like water and oil, mana that has already been polluted and deteriorated enters a human body the moment it contaminates the body, turning the body into a terrible look and turning it into a ‘manhwa’.
Cecilia, a professor of alchemy in Aether, believed that it was impossible to synthesize a part of a demonic beast while maintaining a human body.
“I guess the basis for the impossibility the woman said was an example of this?”
“The examples are different, but the words you want to say seem to be similar. But don’t you see that it’s possible nonetheless?”
“Well, only in theory.”
“Why?”
“Yes. Remember riod? In the past, the people of the empire all turned into monsters.”
“Yes?”
Teresia, startled, nearly dropped the teacup she was holding in her hand.
Recalling the bad memories, Riod’s eyebrows narrow at once.
“The terrible sight of that time.”
It reminded me of the time when the emperor of the Mirvabilla Empire, the country that caused the Great War of Arcena, went crazy and scattered demonic energy in the capital of the empire, contaminating the mana dissolved in the air and turning the people of the entire capital into demonic beasts.
“But, that… Rather than being a human, isn’t she already degenerated into a demonic beast?”
“To be precise, you could also call it a ‘human’ that has been mutated into a monster. If only humans could find a way to stop the progression of demonization even with contaminated mana in their bodies.”
“…”
“It is quite possible to synthesize the body of a demon with a human body that contains contaminated mana.”
In the end, Eunhyeon and Cecilia adopted similar grounds for the opinion that ‘human’ and ‘beast’ could not be synthesized, but the two people’s views on this fact were clearly wrong.
In Cecilia’s case, it was the opinion that it could never happen, and in Eunhyeon’s case, it was the opinion that there was nothing she couldn’t do if she found some kind of means.
“Um…”
Riod let out a small moan and began to think about him.
“I don’t understand.”
“What do you mean?”
Theresia asked Eunhyeon, who slightly frowned, in place of Lyod, who was lost in thought.
“I don’t know why they go through such complicated tasks.”
“Reason… Are you?”
“Biological alchemy, which synthesizes monsters from one another, is a very minor field even among alchemists. It is very difficult to obtain samples of monsters to synthesize, and above all, there is almost no merit that can be obtained by synthesizing monsters. Even if you succeed in creating a synthetic magic beast after painstaking research, the synthetic magic power is only used for military purposes accompanied by destruction, and whether or not the synthetic magic beast can be controlled by an alchemist is another matter.”
In other words, the reward or performance that can be received in preparation for the effort and cost is extremely small.
Moreover, if the control of the synthesized monsters failed, the damage to the surroundings, including the alchemist, would not be small by any means.
It means that not only efforts and costs, but also considerable risks should be considered.
“Combining monsters with monsters is also a field that everyone is reluctant to do, but in the midst of this, the field of synthesizing humans and monsters is so out of the blue.”
Eunhyun glanced at Riod.
“In my opinion, there seems to be a fundamental purpose behind the creation of that ‘humanoid synthetic monster’.”
“Purpose… Ira…”
Liod sighed as he chewed over the words Eunhyeon said.
“Last week, a rescue request came in from a village through guards for a little girl. That her own village had been raided by bandits, killing the men and old men and dragging the women away. The child, less than 10 years of age, who had been reporting her, was able to escape detection after her parents’ efforts to hide herself desperately, and her widowed child became frightened and left her village and walked aimlessly alone, she says. . She said that a merchant lord of a merchant guild passing by had found a girl, and she had brought her to Pernin and left her with her guards.”
And the guard who comforted the child learned about the situation in the village based on the crying testimony of the little girl, reported this fact to his superior, and requested that the knights be dispatched.
“I put a pipe on the duke and asked for soldiers to be recruited, and I ordered an expedition to subdue the bandits with 3 knights and 50 soldiers.”
“… Result?”
“I couldn’t find any bandits, and while on the way to the village, the knights of Artia and the soldiers of Pernias encountered were said to be humans with parts of the beast’s body merged together.”
It is said that the appearances of humans, which are synthesized with the body of a demon, could not be found in unity.
A skinny man with only the forearms of an orc with thick green skin like a big stick attached, a man with wolf legs boasting agile movements, and a bizarre shape with a woman’s upper body attached to the lower body of a giant spider. From the point of view of the knights and soldiers, they were said to be ‘unknown beings’ and fear itself.
