You are all my wings!

The legendary detection magic can detect objects up to nearly a thousand kilometers away, which is quite astonishing.

Of course, the farther away, the less clear it becomes. It can basically detect a rough area within a hundred kilometers, and beyond a thousand kilometers, it is mainly used to detect the existence of large targets.

The Moriper people remained seated inside the carriage and did not appear. Those present were mainly Lyon's Salvation Alliance, eight paladins under Tumoria, Karl and his four companions under Britta, and so on.

After several days, Karl and his companions were all in high spirits. When they met Leon, they expressed their respect and also hinted at their greatly increased strength, saying things like, "Don't let us catch up with you, sir." Then, they were intimidated by the slight pressure from Leon's special ability and didn't mention it again, which made for a pleasant occasion.

"Our objective this time is to ensure that they cannot escape; it's either to annihilate them all or capture them all!"

As the initiator, Britta, drawing on the details of her previous communication with Lyon, took the initiative to give instructions.

"There are three entrances in total, and we will proceed in three separate routes. If we encounter any test subjects, we will kill them if they resist! If they surrender, we will temporarily stun them, freeze them with ice magic, or bind them with the four-tier ropes that are provided in a unified manner! If they are experts of the fifth tier or above, unless they immediately remove their spell-casting items and bind their own hands, we must kill them first!"

At this moment, Britta's cold expression and the unyielding commands she uttered reminded everyone that she was the Third Saintess, renowned for her iron-fisted purges!

……

Lyon attacked the cave entrance located to the west.

The team consists of twelve paladins, including Iris, Machiru, Kekeqi, Mshifisu, Britta, and Calbowalli, four fourth-tier paladins and eight ordinary fourth-tier knights.

Tumoria led her team to attack the southern cave entrance, consisting of eight fifth-tier paladins and 24 fourth-tier ordinary knights.

Camille, as a legendary expert, can suppress the northern entrance without attacking; she only needs to stay there and kill the fleeing personnel.

Epic-level masters would provide support from outside the mountains to ensure complete success.

In terms of total numbers, Tumoria's group has the advantage, but in terms of overall strength, Lyon estimated that with Britta, who can unleash divine power at crucial moments, their group is clearly more stable.

laugh!laugh!laugh!

The black blade flashed, cutting through thin paper with ease, easily ripping open the opponent's protective leather armor.

With a tearing sound, the opponent in front was decapitated, and the headless body, covered in hot blood, rolled down.

Leon used the materialization properties of Shadow throughout the journey, cutting down one opponent at a time with almost no need for a second strike.

With this characteristic alone, he is essentially equipped with a weapon as powerful as a sixth-tier magic sword at any time.

Bang!Bang!Bang!

The fifth-tier alchemical treant punched one of the sect members who blocked its path, blasting them to pieces.

"After my strength increased, when I returned to the school headquarters, I felt that all the terrors that I used to be awe-inspiring were no longer worth mentioning."

Machiru sat sideways on the fifth-tier alchemical treant, her little white legs swinging back and forth, her face full of emotion.

[The villain Machiru's main quest "Endless Demon Blood" is 2% complete, currently at 10%]

Chapter 354 Bloody Laboratory

Leon glanced at Machiru in surprise. Was it because her inner conflict had been resolved that she had managed to mitigate a small portion of the demonic blood impact?

Could it be that the spiritual pollution of Machiru's demon bloodline is partly due to the natural generation of the bloodline, and partly due to the aggregation of her own subconscious fears?

With this in mind, Leon gained a better understanding of how to complete the "Endless Blood of Demons" quest.

Along the way, the group fought easily, and the resistance was not strong.

On the one hand, it's because everyone is a master. Leaving Leon aside for now, he already had a record of defeating M'shifisu three levels above him before he was promoted.

Among the group, Iris, who currently has the lowest rank, not only possesses extremely high magical power, but is also able to skillfully cast several intermediate spells.

Although Machiru has just advanced to the fifth rank, she already possessed terrifying attributes at four times the limit when she was at the fourth rank. Although she was restrained by two-thirds of her power by the magic blood, with the assistance of fifth-rank alchemical treants, fourth-rank vines, and alchemical items such as cursed venomous snakes, her combat power was stronger than that of a strong fifth rank.

M'shifisu and Kekeqi go without saying. The former is a renowned strong sixth-tier warrior, while Kekeqi, with the support of future mechanical magic, can also unleash strength comparable to a strong sixth-tier warrior.

In the blink of an eye, the two assassin-type experts easily took down the lurking members of the sect. Although they were all third and fourth-tier members whose bodies had been modified, they were as fragile as rice seedlings waiting to be harvested in a paddy field.

Carl and his companions, who were originally ready to make a big splash, were stunned.

Bovary exclaimed, "Your Excellency, I never imagined that in less than two months, not only have you gained another batch of beauties, but they have also become even more formidable. I am truly impressed."

Lyon broke out in a cold sweat.

What do you mean by "another batch of beauties has appeared"? It's as if the beautiful women around me are automatically refreshed.

Bovary, oblivious to Lyon's silence, looked at him with eyes full of reverence and admiration.

After his advancement, his strength increased by leaps and bounds. His strength, physique, and agility have reached the mid-stage of double. With a few more years of hard work and accumulation, it is entirely possible for him to advance to the fifth stage at double the limit.

Even so, he still couldn't see the teleportation speed of the two girls, M'shifisu and Kekeqi, and he was naturally extremely impressed.

On the side, Karl, who had originally wanted to show off in front of Leon after his strength had greatly increased, had now lost his temper and obediently scouted the way, doing his old job as a meat shield.

Seeing their attitude, the subordinates naturally dared not offend Lyon and his men.

So the journey went quite smoothly until we discovered a place worth noting.

It was a vast laboratory that was exquisitely built, with walls made of finely polished glass bricks joined together.

The laboratory's style is somewhat similar to the modern laboratories of Lyon's previous life—clean, tidy, and bright.

Upon entering, one can see rows of impeccably clean steel cages lined up along the walls.

Inside the cage were children whose bodies had been implanted with various monsters.

Some of the young children were on the verge of death.

Some seemed to loathe the strange limbs that had appeared on their bodies, and nervously and repeatedly struck the deformed parts.

Some of them gripped the railing with both hands, staring coldly at the Lyon group at the entrance.

The eyes of the vast majority of young children seemed to have completely lost their souls.

Everyone couldn't help but swallow.

"This should be the school's 'placement area' for the first batch of body modifiers. Ninety-nine percent of people will die here. Those who survive will undergo a second and third experiment until they can't hold on any longer, or they will be promoted to a special profession that has been lost since ancient times."

Machiru's gaze was icy, and her voice was low and menacing.

Leon knew that Maggie was being reminded of the past, so he patted her head and said:

"These people are in your hands to save. Save one if you can, and if you can't, just give them a quick death."

"Ah."

Maggie nodded silently.

No one spoke, their hearts filled with a deeper understanding of the extent of the school's sins.

Mark's eyes welled up with tears as he clenched his fists.

Iris also saw a half-elf boy who had been tortured to the point of near death, his skin covered with strange, slippery scales, from which black blood seeped.

He looked at Iris, his lips moving slightly:

"Kill...kill me."

Iris walked forward silently.

Leon stopped Iris and said:

"Let Maggielu diagnose it first; maybe she can save him."

As a life alchemist and a modified member of the school, she naturally knew better than anyone else what circumstances would allow her to survive.

Maggie walked over, then shook her head.

"The implant rejection was so severe that the damage was irreversible. The fact that it is still alive is purely due to its racial constitution; there is no hope."

"Little one, what's your name? Do you have any last wishes?"

Leon cast a healing spell on it, then asked.

“My name is… Jer… If you can, I hope you can tell my sister Jessa… I hid her treasured silver-edged hair tie in a secret compartment under my bed… My home is in the Elven Holy Land, Gran Hero Village… Thank you… Please kill me.”

"I promise I'll definitely deliver it to you, so don't worry."

"Thank you."

Lyon silently swung his sword.

Karl approached and silently delivered the Vatican's eulogy.

Britta remained silent the entire way, her brows slightly furrowed, perhaps related to the details Moripert had previously given her, as Rencal finished his eulogy.

The other children included dwarves, halflings, fox-people, bear-people, and even dragon-people, but there was only one human.

Clearly, races with strong vitality are more numerous and more likely to be selected by the school of thought as experimental targets.

Someone as gifted as Machiru, who could withstand round after round of experiments, even artificial demon experiments, is truly unique, and may even be the only successful case in the school's decades-long history of experiments.

However, Leon did not expect that this modification experiment could still be carried out without Andrio's presence.

Machiru found the only dragon girl who had any hope of surviving.

This is a true dragon-human, not like Camille, whose parents were degenerated humans who reverted to dragon blood to acquire the special physique of a dragon-human.

Of course, although Camille is a special case of a human reversion to her ancestral form, her bloodline concentration is extremely high, and her physical strength and growth potential can even be compared to a real dragon, which can be considered as the protagonist's halo taking effect.

The dragon girl had short purple hair and a pair of thumb-sized purple horns on her head.

She was only about ten years old, with fair skin, delicate features, and a thin figure, clearly having been hungry for a long time.

What was modified about her was her heart, seemingly replaced with the heart of some powerful monster. Her chest was wrapped in blood-stained bandages, yet she was still alive, demonstrating her extremely strong vitality.

After all, generally speaking, life modification involves relatively external organs such as eyes and limbs, which increases the chances of survival.

However, organ replacement surgery is more likely to result in rejection and has a higher mortality rate.

Dragonkin are also a type with high internal variance. The strong ones can rival or even surpass pure-blooded elves, while the weak ones are far inferior to half-blooded elves. Their bloodlines are mixed, making it difficult for them to exert their power.

This is also why the dragon people are not as influential as the elves on the mainland.

However, generally speaking, the strength of the first generation of dragon people is relatively high (the first generation of pure-blooded dragons and other races are mixed). After several generations, the concentration of dragon blood will be stabilized by various means. If it cannot be stabilized, the descendants will continue to degenerate.

Therefore, dragon people are proud to have a new generation of dragon people born from a pure-blooded dragon JP.

The purple-haired dragonman before them was clearly a first-generation dragonman, otherwise his vitality would not be so strong. At only seven or eight years old, he was able to survive such a crude heart replacement surgery and withstand the terrifying blood volume of a powerful monster.

Chapter 355 Maggie's Past

Machiru's healing method is life alchemy magic, life fusion.

It can neutralize the heterogeneous elements of different life forms and resolve the rejection reaction through slow and continuous support.

This was a magic she created herself, combining Andrio's modification techniques with reference to ancient materials. It was with this magic that she survived countless painful nights of being corrupted by demonic blood.

Leon had read the prequel to Machiru's story and knew that Machiru's ability to survive round after round of life modification experiments was largely due to the magic she created.

She was originally born to a couple of unorthodox adventurers, and she showed great talent as a spellcaster from a young age, becoming famous far and wide.

Unfortunately, her parents were killed in an accident during a mercenary mission. Maquill began living alone at a very young age and was determined to study life magic to resurrect her parents.

This wish was too naive, but it was also her only motivation to survive at that time.

Gradually, due to her great reputation as a child prodigy, she was targeted by the school and abducted to Andrio's laboratory, where she underwent physical modification.

Then, she miraculously survived the first round, but was already on the verge of death.

She grasped at this like a lifeline, using her innate magic and learning ability to study the divine magic book she had accidentally seen in the laboratory.

At that time, as the experiment progressed, her will to survive unleashed a miraculous creativity. At the young age of twelve, she comprehended the various divine magical images recorded in the reference book and used divine power to resolve the burden of the demonic blood in her body, successfully saving herself.

This also allowed her to successfully endure Andrio's rounds of bloody modifications and gradually optimize her Divine Might Magic. By referencing Andrio's Life Alchemy Magic, she transformed it into a new type of Life Alchemy Magic, successfully suppressing the various powerful demonic bloodlines that had been incorporated into her body during the experiments.

All of this was happening in places Andrea couldn't be aware of.

Therefore, Andrio was never able to replicate a second artificial demon, because the key answer lay with Machiru, not with his methods.

As the creator of a brand-new theory of life alchemy magic, Machiru showed insight into the mysteries of life from a young age.

And in Andrio's final experiment, he successfully fused with the precious original blood of the demon, becoming the only demon since ancient times.

Therefore, she will forever look like she is twelve or thirteen years old.

Now, seeing Machiru's healing efforts, Leon realized once again that Machiru's new theory of life alchemy was actually based on divine magic.

The power of the gods is used to counteract the heterogeneous elements produced during the fusion of life.