The fifth level of the Blazing Flame Monarch.
Within the laboratory.
Grimm put down his scalpel regretfully, and began to clean up the lab table.
The innate talent plunder experiment had been very successful. That beast had perfectly inherited some of the unicorn's innate abilities. However, how to transfer the exotic beast's talent to a third party became a new problem.
Things like bloodlines had always been particular about purity. Once a trace of impurities was mixed in, it would affect the probability of advancing in the future. Grimm only had innate elemental abilities, and his bloodline belonged to a pure human.
Even after advancing three times, he had not given up on his human body.
The so-called Body of Fire and Body of the Firelord were ultimately just transformations among his innate elemental abilities. If he completely transformed into an elemental body, he would gain a certain amount of fire damage, but the gains would not make up for the losses when advancing in the future.
As spellcasters, everyone knew that while elemental lifeforms had extremely long lifespans, the path of advancement was especially long and bumpy.
If Grimm had chosen to become a flaming creature when advancing to Grade 2, he would not have reached Grade 3 so quickly.
Perhaps this was what it meant to lose something for every gain.
In terms of bloodlines, Grimm was like a blank piece of paper, with plenty of room for him to develop as much as he wanted.
However, he had to choose carefully so that this bloodline could fuse with his current fire innate ability, and not clash or interfere with each other.
But before that, Grimm needed to accumulate some basic experience with bloodline stripping and transplanting. These were the hardest things to deal with. After all, research and secret techniques related to bloodlines were usually the most confidential in any Magus family or organisation.
Although Grimm had stayed in the Sarubo family for a period of time, with his strength and status back then, he could not have come into contact with secrets of this level. Trying to obtain it from the outside world was just wishful thinking.
No family or organisation would release the results of their research. As for those bloodline Magi families, they would harshly crack down on Magi who researched bloodline stripping and transplanting in private. If this secret technique were to spread, it would place all bloodline Magi in an extremely dangerous situation.
Bloodlines were a mysterious power that could not be seen or touched.
They existed in the flesh and soul of living beings, and were extremely powerful yet mysterious.
In the past, bloodline research had focused on the blood of the target creature. It was believed that as long as the impurities were removed, the concentration of high-energy substances in the blood could be purified, and the source of the bloodline creature's strength could be found.
After a period of analysis and summarisation by the A.I. Chip, it had basically agreed with the direction of research.
While other Magi did not have the A.I. Chip's assistance, their minds were not much weaker than the A.I. Chip. After tens of thousands of years of tireless research, Magi's understanding of bloodlines had reached a whole new level. Even the A.I. Chip could see the problem, so how could they not sense it?
How could they not sense anything when even the A.I. Chip could see it?
And in this aspect, Grim had a natural advantage.
Grimm successfully extracted all the blood from the exotic beast's body, trying his best to find something different about it.
With the help of the magnifying spell formation on the experiment table and the A.I. Chip's scanning ability, Grim was like a scientist from his previous life on Earth. He began to magnify the blood slices layer by layer.
With the help of the magnifying spell formation and the A.I. Chip's meticulous scanning, Grimm was like a scientist from his previous world. He began to magnify the layers of blood.
After meticulous dehydration, more than half of the water molecules in the exotic beast's blood had been removed. What was left were tiny protein substances, active molecules, cell residues, bacterial corpses, microscopic parasites … Even though these things were normally invisible and intangible, they made up more than 96% of the blood's total composition, and there were more than a hundred of them.
In order to remove these substances one by one, a special process was needed to deal with each one.
If there was a problem with any of these processes, all the blood purification work would go to waste.
Truth be told, the ancient Magi did not have high-powered microscopes, heaters, condensers, evaporators, filters, separators, and other high-tech equipment. Yet, they were still able to rely on the intricate spell formations to complete the research on bloodlines. This made Grimm gasp in admiration.
Now, Grimm had no idea how the older generation Magi had done it. Hence, he could only rely on his own knowledge and the A.I. Chip's guidance to forge a new path.
High-energy substances? What exactly was this substance that could bring about powerful magic? What did it have to do with the soul? How was it passed down from generation to generation?
Grimm could not help but scratch his head.
These were all questions that he would have to research one by one and face them one by one!
After leaving the biological laboratory, Grimm first took a bath to get rid of the smell of blood on his body. Only then did he leisurely enjoy the most sumptuous meal of the day.
With his current strength, he would not starve to death even if he did not eat for half a month. However, eating and meditating were still important ways for him to increase his strength.
After gaining control of the Dragon Plane, the Fire Dragon's ribs had become an indispensable source of income for Grimm every day. Compared to meditating to increase the upper limit of his spiritual force and gather elemental particles, the Fire Dragon's ribs were an excellent way to replenish his energy.
While absorbing pure fire elemental energy, the high-energy substances in the Fire Dragon's meat nourished Grimm's body. Powerful sorcery required a strong physique to support it!
Why were Dragons so large in size? It was to support the requirements of a powerful bloodline.
Although that strange beast had stolen the Unicorn's bloodline talent with its strange ability, it did not have a strong physique like the Unicorn, nor did it have a body that was soaked in holy energy day and night. Therefore, it could not produce a large-scale purification halo like the Unicorn.
It was like installing a super engine on an old carriage. Not only would it not be able to exert its power, it would also cause the body of the bloodline's owner to collapse and break the sequence of life.
Of course, if the strange beast was given a few years or even a few decades to adapt and adjust, it could also evolve into a body similar to the Unicorn. After all, only such a body was most suitable for the Bloodline Talent to unleash its full power.
As a human wizard, if Grimm was not willing to change his body shape as he increased in rank, the amount of magic he could soak in with only a two-meter body was limited. How could he unleash more powerful magic?
Therefore, he used the method of nourishing himself to subtly improve his physique and increase the threshold for his body to soak in magic energy. This was actually something that all wizards were secretly doing.
Humans were, after all, short-lived creatures. Their bodies were not strong enough, and they did not have outstanding racial talents. The only good thing about them was that their various abilities were mediocre, and they did not have any fatal flaws.
Therefore, if one wanted to become strong, they had to adjust and change themselves by hook or by crook. From then on, they would enter a one-way path of no return.
This was a difficult problem that all Magi had to face!
Grimm set a daily limit of five kilograms of Fire Dragon Ribs for himself.
Of course, this was not a problem of Grimm not being able to afford it. It was a perfect number that the A.I. Chip had calculated meticulously.
With his current physique, ten kilograms of Fire Dragon Ribs would take him a day to digest and absorb.
This way, he would not waste any food, nor would he waste any time.
After finishing his only meal of the day, Grimm spent the rest of his time in the alchemy laboratory.
After conquering the Goblin Plane, Grimm had obtained a large amount of magic machinery technology from the goblins. After the A.I. Chip's analysis, he found that this technology could be combined with the magic machinery that he had mastered.
A long time ago, Grimm had envisioned the combination of elemental magic machinery and metal magic machinery.
However, in order to turn this idea into reality, there were many problems that needed to be solved.
Firstly, high magic and metal.
Secondly, energy effects.
Thirdly, magic spirits.
If he could not solve any of these three problems, the combination of elemental magic machinery and metal magic machinery would just be a pipe dream.
High magic and metal were the first hurdle that needed to be overcome in creating new elemental magic machinery.
Among the thousand types of metals that the A.I. Chip had recorded, there were less than seventy that had magic conduction properties, and those that had all magic conduction properties could be counted on one hand.
The elemental magic machinery that Grimm had created covered almost 60% of the elemental spectrum. If he did not have a suitable magic metal to conduct magic energy, the elemental magic machinery would not be able to display its power.
That was why Grimm had been sifting through suitable magical metals these days, working hard to concoct a high magical metal that could meet his requirements.
Grimm's basic requirement for high magic and metal was to have full magic conduction properties and be able to mix them in large quantities.
As for physical defence and magic resistance, these things could be solved through other methods.
Energy effects were one of the basic requirements for elemental magic machinery to display great power in battle.
Magi had their own consciousness, and could memorise and cast spell models. So how would this new elemental magic machinery fight?
Could it be used as a cannon like a magic archer, using energy ray guns or magic fire guns?
However, doing so would undoubtedly erase the natural strength of the elemental magic machinery. It would be better to just strengthen magic archers!
Magic spirits were the only way to solve the problem of the intelligent elemental magic machinery.
However, Grimm would have to learn some soul spells.
He would have to at least be at the level of a Necromancer.
Although Grimm wanted to let the A.I. Chip command these elemental magic machinery, with his current attainments in soul studies, he was still far from being able to use the A.I. Chip's clone as the core to create magic spirits!
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