Watching Alfonso leave, Todd lay prone on the ground, beginning to plan for the future of Froststone City.

Cú Chulainn's madness and the fall of the Connaught Kingdom forced Todd to be more vigilant about potential future crises.

A single attack from a demonic spear capable of wiping out an entire army—such a weapon would be devastating, let alone battle groups.

Even Todd himself would find it difficult to guarantee a clean getaway.

The three hundred alien knights possessed by Twilight City are Todd's strongest force, but they would probably be annihilated in the blink of an eye in front of Cú Chulainn and the Demon Lance.

Although this time, with the help of Scáthach and Meredith, Todd found a way to break the magic spear...

But what about next time?

What about the next time?

Therefore, finding ways to enhance his own strength has become Todd's primary concern.

Under these circumstances, Todd began to focus his attention on one person.

This person is the mad veterinarian—Wayne Dunlop.

Wayne is a madman who can disregard ethics and morality in order to conduct his experiments.

To test the weight of the soul, he could watch his fellow human beings die before his eyes; to obtain firsthand experimental materials, he did not hesitate to use innocent people for human experiments.

In his eyes, the dignity of life was no different from that of dung.

After learning about Wayne's behavior from Huggins, Todd's first thought was to bring this madman to justice.

But the other party's achievements in the Tyrant Experiment made Todd change his mind.

By applying the Tyrant Virus to normal people, the recipients would gain mutant powers... Todd himself had once aimed for this goal and conducted a series of experiments, hoping to find a suitable path to continuously create a Tyrant army that was even more powerful than the Successors.

However, the Tyrant Virus's aggressiveness towards the nervous system caused Todd's experiments to end in failure.

Just when he thought that Tyrant could no longer be mass-produced, Wayne's experiment gave him a glimmer of hope for victory.

Todd never imagined that to achieve the tyrant's alienation while preserving human consciousness, the first step would be to weaken the body's immune system through methods such as inflammation, thereby preventing the tyrant's attack mechanism from being triggered.

This method of "self-harm first, then alienation" was indeed far beyond Todd's expectations.

It was thanks to this that Wayne's experiments with an orc, a werewolf, and an elf-like woman made the Tyrant's living application a reality.

Although, in Todd's view, Wayne's application of the Tyrant live form is not perfect. For example, no matter how much the immune system is weakened, it cannot be completely shut down, which will cause a certain probability of failure.

However, Todd is confident that he can improve and refine this method.

The most troublesome problem at present is that the tyrant's living form requires the recipients to pay a heavy price.

Those who are inoculated with the tyrant will permanently lose their human form and be transformed into complete mutants.

The appearance and structure of the variant will vary depending on the type and number of foreign microorganisms contained in the body.

For example, a mutant with enhanced power within its body has a high probability of transforming into a beast-like human after accepting the tyrant's command.

A mutant with regenerative abilities will have a high probability of transforming into a wolf-like human after being subdued by a tyrant.

If there are two or more types of mutant bacteria in the body, the changes in morphology and structure will be more severe, with fewer human-like appearances and more monster-like appearances.

However, if the recipient possesses both Sutherland archaea and various other mutant bacteria, the situation becomes even more complicated.

The Tyrant Virus will make the mutation even more complete. The mutants will become more monstrous, larger in size, and more powerful.

Moreover, this type of tyrant is very likely to suffer the same problem that Todd and Cú Chulainn faced—the complete loss of humanity and thought.

Therefore, before the Tyrant came to life, Todd only intended to have the recipients receive two types of mutant bacteria at most.

After all, Todd didn't want to see a successor who possessed the Sutherland archaea end up as a monster like Cú Chulainn after receiving the Tyrant Virus.

Faced with the side effects of a tyrant, Todd pondered more than once whether the safety of the majority should be ensured by sacrificing a small number of people.

But considering the dangers the kingdom might face next, Todd couldn't worry about those things anymore.

The appearance of the pilgrimage site made the warriors of Froststone City even more devout and fanatical in their faith in Todd.

Todd, on the other hand, focuses on the members of the tyrant's army.

He hoped to select some warriors from the existing mercenary groups, inoculate them with the Tyrant Virus, and eventually form a Tyrant Crusader directly under the Temple.

The members of this Tyrant Crusader will be composed of the bravest and most devout warriors in the chapter.

Those who become Crusaders will have their families treated best in Froststone. But the price is that these warriors will renounce their family name, transform into mutants, and never again concern themselves with worldly affairs, dedicating themselves entirely to Todd's army of faith.

From the moment their bodies and souls were accepted by the Holy Land, they no longer belonged to themselves.

The sons of the gods will give them meaning and purpose in life. In return, after death, they will directly enter the Sanctuary and become members of the Heroic Spirits.

In terms of equipment, Todd brought in the Psionic Vault and Dragon Bones from Twilight City. In addition to turning these warriors into tyrants, he also planned to tame the unique war beasts of the Northland to serve as their mounts.

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