Chapter 379 Rand's Flying Animal Hybridization Experiment

Outside the New Holy City.

The knights, who smelled of sulfur, were determined to be inspected before entering the city.

As knights from the north, they still have the aura of purgatory.

The power of Purgatory can be discovered by the ritual objects of the Torch Church.

It will definitely not pass the review.

But it's not completely impossible to enter the city.

From the very beginning, the new holy city was planned to have a huge scope.

Therefore, the walls of this magnificent holy city have not yet been fully built.

The holy city is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the surrounding environment is quite beautiful.

If it is completed, it will definitely be a city that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

But now, there are still many loopholes.

Also, in areas where the city walls have not been built yet, the guarding does not seem to be very strict.

The front of the new holy city is majestic.

Solid and flat stones form the walls of this city.

But if it's at night, go from a hidden place and bypass the Paladin patrols.

Then cross the moat.

This is the "flaw" of this city.

The city wall here is still under construction, and from here you can see the scenery inside the city that was originally supposed to be blocked by the wall.

Under the night sky, this holy city is not quiet.

From afar, there are many palace-like houses with bright lights emitting from the houses.

It looked like a party.

A scene of prosperity and joy.

As for other places in the New Holy City.

From time to time, a paladin would patrol by with a torch, but the frequency was not high.

The rest is mostly darkness.

Some streets in the New Holy City will be illuminated by torches.

The palace-like houses also radiate bright light.

But these tiny bits of light cannot illuminate too much darkness.

In the night, the new holy city is twinkling with stars.

How much darkness will there be? Soon, at least, these knights cursed by purgatory will be one of them.

Those parts of the New Holy City's walls that are still under construction are not completely undefended.

But these knights cursed by purgatory could have competed with the knights of the den led by the Perfumer Knight Ayesha at the Knight Conference.

It can even be said to be better? The power of purgatory made them suffer, but it also brought a corresponding increase in strength.

At least with this level of vigilance in the New Holy City, it is still difficult to easily discover the highly skilled knights cursed by Purgatory.

And it was at night.

The knights cursed by purgatory entered the new holy city.

One of the knights, who was relatively thin, said, "The guards are much weaker than we thought. They managed to get in like this."

The leader of the knights said: "This can be said to be a sacred base camp. No evil demon would dare to invade here."

The knights cursed by Purgatory all nodded.

Indeed, the evil invading here is a thankless task.

There is little point in invading here unless there is a chance to destroy the city in one fell swoop.

Perhaps only people like them who want to lift the curse of purgatory would come here under the cover of night.

As for whether any human nobles will send people to attack or go undercover.

At least now, human nobles will not, in this age of frequent evil, come into conflict with the forces of the New Holy City who have mastered the technology to efficiently eliminate evil.

The undercover agent was caught, but he became enemies.

"What should we do next?" the relatively thin knight continued to ask.

The knight leader who smelled of sulfur said, "Let's rest first. There shouldn't be no place for rats like us to hide here."

When comparing themselves to "rats", the knight leader made a somewhat self-deprecating comment.

…

At the same time, members of the "Scorching Sun Project" also left the sewer.

They didn't reveal any information to the lifeless people in the sewer.

At this stage, those who see no future in their eyes cannot be trusted.

They may betray others for a few pieces of bread.

The “Jiaoyang Project” is definitely not a short-term thing. If you want to accomplish enough things, you need to have enough patience.

Therefore, they only had a preliminary understanding of the composition of the sewer "slums".

Most of them are humans, but there are also many captured people of other races, such as ratmen, half-elves, and dwarves.

Members of the "Sun Project" hired several relatively healthy-looking people, as well as a ratman and a dwarf.

The "merchants" would pay these workers a pittance that was almost nothing.

And some better food.

Such behavior will not arouse the vigilance of the New Holy City.

There are always caravans passing through the New Holy City, and the merchants always need some manpower help, so they will hire people from the "slums".

This has always been a lucrative job for the slum people and humanoid races.

The next step is to try to understand how angry these people are in the normal course of trade.

At least for now, they are oppressed and forced to build a city that does not belong to them.

Forced to live in a sewer environment, they can only enjoy the sunshine when they are working.

Eating the worst quality food.

And there is almost no salary.

Because these people are nominally working for "faith", although in the eyes of the New Holy City, these people are not qualified to believe in the great and sacred Torch Goddess.

…

At this time, Rand was studying how to train flying troops.

The first thing to consider is definitely birds.

What Rand wanted most was definitely a large, stable flying creature that could be used as a mount for humans.

But the ordinary birds in this world are limited in size.

As for monsters, most of them are unruly and difficult to train.

Moreover, the number of magical beasts large enough to carry humans and fly is also very rare.

Cultivating flying troops is not an easy task.

Otherwise, it would have become popular long ago, instead of only a few human countries having extremely rare flying troops.

Some southern countries have flying troops, but their numbers are very small, and there are few opportunities for them to truly play a strategic role.

In several wars between the Northern Alliance and the Southern Kingdom, its role was not very impressive.

But Rand still felt that having an air force and not having an air force were two different things.

Crow Coke can only replace part of the reconnaissance, and the role of air strikes is definitely not trivial.

Now that we have more financial resources, it is still worth a try.

Unfortunately, the last success in breeding cattle and horses seemed to be just a coincidence, and now Rand's progress in breeding flying troops is not going smoothly.

At first, Rand tried to breed flying creatures like Pegasus or Griffins, which were a combination of mammals and birds.

Pegasus and griffins also exist in this world, but Rand has only seen their appearance in books.

It is too rare and cannot be seen under normal circumstances. And now it seems that it is not easy to cultivate it with the power of the Mother Goddess.

This is because birds have cloacal intercourse, which is very different from mammals.

The Mother Goddess's powers can inspire desire, but birds and mammals do not view each other as sexual partners.

So it failed directly.

So, Warcraft, or synthetic beasts, or even constructed creatures? Just when Rand wanted to continue the experiment.

Karin came over for a visit.

Karin's senses swept across Rand's laboratory.

It was a bloody scene.

Many mammals have worn out their genitals because they can't find a target.

Many birds also have damaged cloacae.

In short, it's very bloody.

Karin asked, "Are you conducting any evil research?"

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Rand was a little embarrassed. The current laboratory did feel bloodier than a slaughterhouse.

And it's full of weirdness.

Rand explained: "I want to develop a type of flying soldier."

"Did you encounter any difficulties?" Karin asked.

Rand explained the past experience in breeding cattle and horses, and the problems encountered in the process of breeding flying soldiers this time due to the differences between birds and mammals.

Rand needed flying creatures that were as smart as cattle and horses, and that could be bred and tamed.

Karin thought for a moment and said, "Have you ever thought about that, Yalong?"

There are dragons in this world.

However, the known ones that are still active are basically sub-dragon species.

For example, Prince Alex met in the Wind Chaser campaign.

His mount is an earth dragon.

The orcs' wyverns can barely be called sub-dragon species.

However, the orcs' wyverns cannot carry people.

And Rand needs a flying species that can carry a certain load.

It should be possible to find powerful enough sub-dragons in this world now. The captain of the Steel Squad led his team members to kill a powerful sub-dragon.

But we still have to face the problem of being untamable and difficult to cultivate.

"Are there any suitable species of dragon?" Rand asked.

Rand didn't think that the right breed really existed, otherwise other human kingdoms would have cultivated it long ago.

Then Rand saw Karin holding her chest and said, "That's not what I meant. I meant that the birth of the sub-dragon species is a very magical phenomenon."

Rand said he was all ears.

Then Karin said, "It is obviously impossible for a dragon to interbreed with other inferior creatures, and there is what you call reproductive isolation between creatures."

So, how did the sub-dragon species come into being?

Moreover, humans do have professions like dragon blood warriors, although they are extremely rare. Rand thought of this immediately.

Seeing that Rand had thought of it, Karin continued, "According to the records in the church scriptures, a human organization has conducted such an attempt to inject dragon blood into the human body... and then the dragon blood warriors were born."

The dragon blood warrior profession has long been eliminated because the cost is too high and it comes with a huge risk of death.

But if successful, the dragonblood warrior will gain some of the dragon's power or some of the dragon's characteristics.

In a sense, it is also a sub-dragon species.

Rand looked at Karin and discovered that as the Saint of the Torch Church, Karin's knowledge was actually much richer than he had imagined.

Unfortunately, the knowledge Karin learned in the past could not save the Torch Church.

Karin felt a little embarrassed being stared at by Rand.

This reminded her of her past humiliating experience in front of Rand.

Karin said viciously: "Don't look at it, it's very rude of you to do that."

Rand said: "Thank you, I think I have an idea."

Karin turned her head away: "I just can't bear to see you torturing various creatures over and over again."

Rand looked at Elsa beside him and said, "Please help me draft a document so that if adventurers see a sub-dragon species, they can try to capture it, and the den will purchase it at a premium."

Then Rand turned his gaze back to Karin: "So, wise Saint Karin, do you have any suggestions for the next experiment?"

Karin was somewhat resistant to the evil experiments.

In Karin's understanding, the power in this world has always been divided into evil and justice.

And conducting cruel experiments on flesh and blood is obviously evil.

Maybe power itself doesn't really have evil or righteous attributes, but years of conducting experiments that violate the nature of nature...

At least Karin thinks it will have an impact on sanity.

Before she became a saint, she personally participated in many operations to eliminate cultists.

Repeatedly participating in evil rituals, conducting evil experiments, and enduring forbidden temptations are very likely to lead to mental problems.

Moreover, the cultists may also need to endure the whispers of evil gods.

Then humanity is erased.

Became a puppet of the evil god.

Maybe many cultists do not think of themselves as puppets of evil gods, because their bodies still belong to themselves.

But Karin doesn't think so.

In pursuit of evil power, he keeps practicing the evil god's ideas. What else could he be but a puppet?

Rand was just the opposite.

Those evil forces that originally tempted people and turned them into puppets of evil gods will only become Rand's tools.

For example, Karin knew that Rand possessed an ability that Rand called Blessing 2.

How would a normal cultist use such an ability?

Kidnapping young girls, seducing noble ladies, sacrificing, getting lost, and wandering among flowers are the life of this kind of cultists.

And Rand actually used such power to save people.

The power of evil gods was originally a whip used by evil gods to drive their followers.

But for Rand, it became a tool for him to use.

At least so far, Karin couldn't see any sign that Rand was tempted.

Although Rand is shameless and perverted, he is definitely not evil.

This is also why, when Rand was conducting such evil experiments, Karin still gave ideas for further experiments.

Because Karin really believed that Rand had enough willpower and would not be tempted by the power of the evil god.

Rand's evil experiments always bring good results.

In response to Rand's question, Karin replied, "According to the records in the classics, the dragon blood warriors were really injected with dragon blood. In other words, dragon blood may really have some ability to change the nature of living things."

Rand nodded, and that was what he had guessed.

But there are currently no real dragons still active in this world.

Rand's idea was to try to extract dragon blood from the bodies of sub-dragons, and Elsa had already drafted the documents to arrange this.

Also, Rand was actually very curious about whether the dragon blood stone in the Burning Land really contained dragon blood.

If it is true, will it be effective? "I am going back to Crescent Moon Territory," Rand said.

The alchemists in Crescent Territory are now in a hellish work cycle, and Rand is going to go back and motivate them.

"How's the research on Hyde's meat and marrow going?" Karin asked.

"It seems there is some progress." Rand said, "Shall we go back together?"

Karin nodded.

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