What a certain Lich wanted to do was to recreate her own physical body, a real physical body. Furthermore, she wanted to recreate it from the molecular level. In other words, as long as she was willing, she would have endless options based on her original skeletal frame.
However, it was impossible for her body to be fat, thin, tall, and short. There would always be a general inclination. There was no such thing as a perfect physical body in the true sense of the word, nor was there any such thing as eternal beauty. No matter how beautiful she was, she would not be able to stand people getting tired of looking at her. Thus, among the endless options, what kind of physical body she wanted to recreate became a very troublesome problem.
Because of the unpleasant memories of growing up, during the Dark Age, the Demon King would always have the appearance of a skeleton covered in a cloak. When she revived, her consciousness was still in chaos. Only when she condensed her authority to create a body would she use her original appearance that existed in the memories of her soul.
In fact, she had thought of abandoning that appearance more than once. Then, due to various reasons, she did not actually do it until the World Tree leveled up and the authority to condense her body was blown away by the dimensional storm.
When she once again had the opportunity to recreate her body, and it was a real physical body, she had many plans to leave her human form in front of her. Werewolves, gnomes, half-beastmen, elves, sirens, centaurs … and so on. She could choose from any race. However, she could not make up her mind to choose any race.
Even if she appeared in the world as a human, not only could she freely control her height, her skin color, and her hair color, she could even choose to become 'him' and change her gender.
However, in the end, it seemed like she was back to square one. As for her appearance, she returned to the first plan, which was the appearance in the memories of her soul. Yes, the soul was very mysterious. Thus, the physical body had to be perfectly compatible with the soul to achieve the effect of one plus one greater than two. There was nothing wrong with this explanation. That was right, that was right.
Alright, the problem of appearance was solved. Next, she had to consider her inner self. The reason why each race had their own racial characteristics was that those characteristics strengthened their abilities to a certain extent.
There were half-beastmen and dwarves with great strength, elves with sharp ears who had sharp observation and a wide range of voices, goblins with short limbs but especially big heads, sirens who were good at swimming, centaurs who were good at running, and beastmen who maintained their beast instincts to the maximum. These characteristics were not only on their appearance but also in their bloodline.
Yes, the so-called DNA was a good thing. With this knowledge, many things that Fen didn't understand before were now clear to her. In the past, when creating undead creatures or artificial creatures, accidents that often happened were finally under control.
In addition, a certain someone had given the idea that they only needed a part of the creature's flesh and blood to detect the DNA code of the species. In the middle of the night, Lich, who didn't need sleep, ran around in a daze. It couldn't be helped, Blink was too useful. Even with the addition of protective items and protective shields to prevent contamination, it was still a drop in the bucket for him.
All kinds of rare creatures and legendary creatures in the world suffered. The target creature was either sleeping in the middle of the night and had a piece of meat dug out of its butt after it was pinned down, or the target creature was busy. It might be hunting for food, or it might be disturbed during mating. That wasn't the worst part. The most despicable thing was that the other party would not hesitate to interrupt his actions, then dig out a piece of meat and disappear.
It was this kind of crazy running around the world in the middle of the night that allowed Fen to collect the samples of almost all the creatures in the world. From dragons to small insects, from Titans to Abyssal Demons, Fen almost didn't leave any behind. And this rich library of biological samples became the most important basis for her to decipher the DNA code.
Of course, to be able to obtain results in just a few days, there was still the existence of other helpers. Otherwise, just relying on the computing power of the Head Coffin wouldn't be enough to meet Lich's needs.
In addition to the previous dimensional observation and calculation, and the earlier calculation of the star map, these made Fen familiar with and constantly improved the programmed algorithm. The most important partner was the World Tree – Walder, who had advanced with their help a while ago.
Using cooperation as an opportunity, a certain someone first persuaded Walder to agree to provide computing power and be the backup machine for all the servers of the Tower of the Great Sage.
Everything that Lin had built up to the outside world was based on the Tower of the Great Sage. It could be said that without the forum, there wouldn't be as many conveniences as there were now. Of course, there might also be a lot less trouble. However, he didn't forget that when he left, he had given a magic stone to format the Magic Tower to his successor.
If one day someone in the tower had a screw loose and took out the magic stone to use, everything on the forum would disappear. Seeing his hard work being ruined like this, no matter how open-minded a certain someone was, he might not be happy to see such a thing happen. Moreover, what was above was not the result of Lin's hard work alone, but the work of countless people.
Therefore, it was good to find a place to make a mirror, a backup, and backup. In case something really happened, and someone took it out on him, the creator of the invention, he wouldn't be able to cry out for justice.
Since a certain someone had taken the lead, Lich naturally followed. Since everyone relied on computing power to promote their own progress, adhering to the principle of mutual benefit, Fen was in charge of the program logic, and the World Tree provided the computing power. This was very fair and there was nothing wrong with it.
Therefore, when Walder had a need, Fen helped to solve it. When Fen needed to calculate, the data would be placed on the decentralized computing platform set up under a certain someone's suggestion. Moreover, not only could this platform be shared, but it could also be expanded. As long as existences of the same level joined, it meant that the computing power of all existences on this platform could be increased.
So far, seven of the high officials of the Turtledove Alliance who had direct contact with Walder had joined this decentralized computing platform. The terrifying computing power that they obtained was that as long as Fen uploaded the data of the biological sample, the results would be obtained in the blink of an eye. A certain Lich sighed and said, "It takes more time to upload the data."
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If the First Coffin was the top personal computer on Earth, the seven high officials of the Alliance in Walder's territory would be like having eight supercomputers backing them. For someone who had begged his grandfather and grandmother for help, but could only use his grandfather's computer to run the algorithm, this was a very luxurious equipment.
What was even more f * cked up was that the personalities of the World Tree did not realize what their actions meant to an expert hacker. This was not installing a back door or anything, it was simply opening the door to thieves!
Perhaps they did not rely on the forum to the extent of being sick. However, for the sake of communication, the high officials of the Alliance still opened a discussion area on the forum with limited authority. It was a place where only a few trees could talk loudly.
Fen also learned from it that a certain tree called Mackinin advocated that the data and formulas of the World Tree should not be leaked. The meaning behind his words was that he planned to send people to deal with those who knew about it.
Although this idea was stopped by Walder, the other World Trees had no intention of implementing it. However, a certain Lich mumbled, "It should be good to roast dragon meat with the World Tree." Words like that. He also said that he would chop firewood someday. A certain coward was so scared that he did not dare to reply, afraid that the former Demon King would take it seriously.
Now, Fen had a rough grasp of the meaning of every DNA code.
As long as she was willing, she could cover her skin with dragon scales, have legs as strong as a centaur's, have the muscles of a half-orc, and have the perception and magic talent of an elf. It was even very easy for her to have wings, a few more arms, snake hair that could petrify others, and even one or two more heads.
As long as she was willing, she could have talent that ordinary people could not imagine. She could attach all the magic she could think of to her body, so that she could summon wind and rain with just a raise of her hand. She could live and die with a thought, becoming the perfect creature she had once imagined, an existence that surpassed gods and demons.
Those imaginations were so laughable in retrospect. Forcefully integrating the advantages of all creatures into one body was very much like what she would have done when she was young and energetic. At that time, she had also created many such monsters. Those monsters that were pieced together had never succeeded, and she blamed it on not getting enough good materials.
However, the level of life was not only determined by how high one could fly or how fast one could run.
When Fen began to analyze the mysteries of DNA, she truly understood the beauty of the harmony of life. Just like a programming language, it had to conform to its most basic operating principles for the program to operate normally. There were rules, and it was not something that could be done by piecing things together. The same was true for DNA sequences.
Back to the topic of the creation of this body. Since she did not intend to transform herself into a monster, but rather maintain her original appearance, then how could she use the existing knowledge and technology to strengthen this body?
Life was malleable. Wantonly changing the cells would only destroy the division of labor of the cells, and then cause unpredictable consequences. According to a certain someone, it would mutate into cancer cells. Therefore, this path did not seem like a good idea.
But what if she started to change from a lower level?
In the end, Fen chose two targets, mitochondria and chromosomes. In other words, she planned to modify the DNA. This was inspired by a certain super creature.
Most creatures in the mysterious land, including magical beasts, had chromosomes similar to what a certain someone had said. There were pairs, and one pair would determine the gender. It was not that the more chromosomes the more special or powerful the creature was. The number of chromosomes was small, but there were more genomes on each chromosome. It was possible that it came from a more powerful species.
The DNA of most creatures was a double helix, but there was one exception: dragons. Their DNA was a four-stranded helix structure, made up of more complex and powerful genetic codes. What it brought was a powerful physique and strength.
For Fen, the most difficult point was her pioneering thinking. As for realizing her various ideas, it was not difficult with her current knowledge and technology. Therefore, after discovering the four-stranded helix of the dragons, she secretly and simply did a series of experiments. In the end, she decided on the direction of her body reconstruction.
Eight strands of DNA that matched the eight authorities of the mysterious land. In addition to strengthening the body at the genetic level, she also tried a never-before-seen magic array layout, using the bases in the genome to create magic effects similar to talent. Of course, not all magic could be compiled like this. Fen had a headache about this for a long time.
Moreover, he didn't choose the eight-strand helix on a whim. Fen wanted to see what kind of effect the combination of authority and the body would have. Besides, if she really messed it up, she would only lose this body and waste a Magic Stone vein. A skeleton that had reached the limit of this world was not so easy to destroy.
As a certain someone joked, a scientist who did not experiment on himself was not a good mad scientist.
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