The Demon Hunter mutation experiment has made a breakthrough, which is great news for Lann now. It's no wonder that Lann is so anxious. You know, when the experimenters such as Jielong got the results of the experiment, they were many times more excited than Lann now.

In response to Lann's inquiry, Jeron affirmed, "We haven't conducted human experiments yet. We are currently only using animals for horizontal comparison. But it can be predicted that under the joint supervision of multiple warlocks - that is, me, Mossak, Triss, and Kelda can barely play a role - the success rate of mutation has increased to about 50%.

Geron added: "But if we want to further advance the experiment, we also want to refer to the mutation formulas of other schools. Mossak has already negotiated with the Wolf School, and if possible, I hope the Snake School can also lend a hand."

Lann patted his chest and assured, "I'll talk to Letho. No demon hunter would refuse such a job. Don't you want the cat faction? I can also go to Novigrad to find Kaiyan."

Jielong hesitated, "For the cat faction, forget it. Come over here. It will always help to draw inferences from one instance to another."

Lann sensed something else in Jielong's tone and nodded with amusement.

"In addition, I need to collect some blood and tissue samples from you." Jielong said, "You are the most special and perfect mutant so far, and you can serve as the most ideal blueprint for mutation. Coupled with the ancient blood in your body, it may provide new ideas for our experiments. I didn't find you before because our experiments have not reached that stage, but now is the time."

"No problem." Lann nodded. "Just draw blood. What tissue samples do you need?"

Jielong looked at Lann with a very strange look, from bottom to top, and from top to bottom.

"Tissue samples in various forms."

At this point, the two had already walked to the entrance of Kel Siren's laboratory. After opening the door, Lane discovered that there had been a lot of changes inside.

The first thing he saw was a huge constant temperature incubator, which Lan had never seen before. The contents of the incubator made Lan's eyes widen.

"This is……"

Jielong chuckled and said, "This is the first gift that Mossak left here for you."

I saw a small golden monster lying inside and sleeping soundly.

This sleeping monster has an extremely strange appearance, with a bird's beak but a beast's head and body. There is a circle of black and golden mane around its neck, and two front limbs connected to two wings that have not yet begun to develop. This ugly and cute appearance looks like two beast cubs forcibly blended together.

It's a griffin.

When Lann went to Brokilon to rescue Ciri who had strayed into the forest, he killed a couple of griffins and giant griffins for the town. Now the cloak made of the skins of this ill-fated couple is still worn by himself and Ciri.

That was his first time facing a monster as a mortal. Geralt, who was weak, came to help with his sword and almost fell over. Levin almost died there, but was finally saved by the dryad and formed a deep "friendship" with him.

Among the spoils of that battle was a huge griffin egg, which was given to Mossak by Lann.

At that time, Lann didn't have much knowledge of magic, and didn't know how to use the griffin egg. He originally thought that this thing should have been used as a magic material by Mossak in an experiment, but he didn't expect it to be hatched now.

Seeing Lann's surprised look, Geron smiled and said, "Griffin eggs are not uncommon. But Mossak found that this egg still has amazing vitality, and he thinks this egg is quite meaningful to you, so he decided to hatch it and give it to you as a gift."

"He brought the egg back to the Druid's Circle in Skellige to hatch it. The druids there already knew how to tame pterodactyls, and had a relatively complete training process and methods. But after establishing contact with our school, Mossak and I agreed that the Dragon Mountains were a more suitable place to train griffins."

Geron pointed to the winding mountains outside the castle that were covered with snow all year round and said, "There used to be a lot of griffins here, which means the environment inside is very suitable for their growth and life. But later these griffins were almost cleared out by our school, and now they are rarely seen."

Lann twitched his lips and looked at the baby griffin sleeping soundly inside. Fortunately, it couldn't understand human language yet and didn't know that the school it was in once particularly liked to bully its compatriots.

Jielong suggested: "You can take it out and let it get familiar with your smell, and then come over to feed it a few times from time to time. When it grows up a little bit, you can carry out the corresponding training."

Lann listened and carefully reached into the incubator. He was not eager to develop feelings with the little griffin. It was unnecessary for him. With the [Follower] system, he only needed one skill point to make this little fellow, who had not yet developed wisdom, recognize his master on the spot.

But Lann didn't plan to contract this little guy so early. Just like Leo who was still receiving demon hunter training - the little griffin hadn't grown up yet. Although it was unknown whether it had any [talent], it definitely didn't have any good [skills]. It would be a bit of a loss to spend a skill point to contract it now.

Lann held the little griffin at this moment, more out of curiosity and prospect for the future. This was the first time he held a monster cub, and this was a powerful monster that could soar into the sky in the future.

The sleeping little monster seemed to have smelled something, and with a hiss, it opened its tender eagle beak, revealing a small section of pink tongue. Then it buried its head, which had not yet opened its eyes, into Lann's big griffin cloak, as if there was a scent of its own kind inside that made it feel at ease.

"I suddenly feel like," Lann said with a troubled look on his face, "we killed its parents, and now we're even wearing its father's clothes..."

Lann raised the griffin cape on his body and said: "It feels weird to tame this little guy under such circumstances and ride on him in the future."

Geron glanced at Lann and said, "Some of your ideas are strange. But if you care about this, don't worry - get closer and take a look at the breed and fur color of this little guy. Have you studied the monster illustration I gave you carefully?"

Suddenly, he felt suffocated because he didn't study hard and couldn't answer the teacher's random test. Lan En hurriedly followed Jie Long's instructions and got closer to take a look, muttering to himself:

"It looks like a griffin, yes... huh? But it has golden fur, an extremely dense mane, and no venom glands..."

Lann was surprised and said: "Is this the [Royal Griffin]?"

Geron nodded and said meaningfully, "Yes, it suits you very well. The Royal Griffin is the most majestic and best-looking of all griffin subspecies, and is often used by nobles as a family emblem. In the early years, it was almost extinct by those royal families who liked to collect it. I didn't expect that one could be hatched under such circumstances."

Lann looked incredulous: "A [Griffin] and a [Great Griffin] can give birth to a [Royal Griffin]? No... So this Royal Griffin was not born from that pair, and it's not even their egg?"

Gerald nodded and sighed at the wonderful encounters in nature: "I heard that the pair of griffins attacked you because of this egg? Perhaps monsters have many other strange habits that we have not yet studied clearly. The demon hunters are currently only focused on recording their aggressiveness and hunting-related knowledge, and they don't know much about their possible biological social structure."

"But this way, at least you don't have to fall into the moral dilemma of 'killing its parents and then riding it', right?"

Hearing what Jaron said, Lan smiled sheepishly.

…

The little griffin was only a few months old and was still in the growth stage of sleeping soundly. However, from its sharp claws and beak, one could already vaguely see the majestic appearance of the proud "air knight" in the future.

In the future, with the support of Lann's [Follower] panel system, it will surely become the strongest griffin in history, and even have a chance to rival a dragon, truly gaining absolute air supremacy for Lann.

If Lann thought more broadly, he even wondered if it was possible to use this royal griffin as a starting point to form a griffin cavalry? A true air ace force...

But now it's just a cub that needs to sleep in an incubator.

After gently stroking the griffin's fur to satisfy his curiosity, Lann put it back into the incubator. It would take about half a year for it to be able to fly freely in the blue sky; if it wanted to grow big enough to carry people, it would take a year and a half, which was still a long time.

It is said that Kelda is very interested in taming griffins. You should know that the condition for apprentices of the Griffin School in the golden age is to sneak into the Flying Dragon Mountains and steal a griffin egg. Kelda has witnessed countless eggs being brought back by apprentices, and most of these eggs have become alchemical materials.

But they have never tried to hatch the little monsters inside these eggs, this is the first time.

By the way, Leo is now mainly led by Kelda. This experienced old demon hunter master is particularly enthusiastic about training and teaching the younger generation.

"How's Leo doing?"

Hearing Lann's question, Jeron's words were full of affirmation for Leo: "He works very hard and learns very quickly. He is considered to be above average among the apprentices in the past. We are very sure that he can pass the [Choice], but the subsequent [Trial of Green Grass] and [Trial of Dreams] cannot be completed by talent and hard work alone. Before the mutation experiment makes a real breakthrough, we don't plan to convert Leo."

Lan nodded. This was what they had agreed on from the beginning.

"Of course." Jielong added, "Compared to you, Leo still has a big gap."

Lan En couldn't help but smile when he heard this.

This royal griffin cub was the first gift that Mossack left for Lann in Kael Siren. After playing with the little monster, Lann also received the second and third gifts that Mossack left here -

The enchantment of [Bloodsucking] and the infusion process from Ophir.

"This [Bloodsucking] enchantment is truly unprecedented. You said this was a weapon from a demon from another world, right?"

Facing the unique blood-sucking enchantment effect on the continent, Jielong couldn't help but sigh: "We have not been able to replicate the alchemical patterns on it so far, and can only crack a downgraded version. But since you are already here, let's do the basic enchantment on your weapon first. After we have thoroughly mastered the subsequent processes, we can upgrade it."

"That's enough." Lann smiled.

There was a small problem. That was that [Bloodsucking] could only be enchanted on [Alice] Scimitar, but not on [Sword of the Lady of the Lake]. Because the enchantment craftsmanship on [Sword of the Lady of the Lake] had reached the pinnacle and was seamlessly integrated, whether it was Jeroen, Kelda, or Mossak, they all believed that the sword could no longer withstand new enchantments. Rashly modifying it might even destroy the original power of the sword, so they had to give up.

On the contrary, the Black Magic Scimitar [Alice] and the [Bloodsucking] enchantment have good compatibility and can be perfectly compatible. Especially considering that the additional special effect of this scimitar will consume vitality, and with the [Bloodsucking] enchantment that plunders vitality, the two can actually achieve a strange balance.

The enchantment of [Bloodsucking] was a pleasant surprise, which could add a new special effect to the existing rune system. What Lan En was most looking forward to was the new alchemy system from the Kingdom of Ofir - Infusion.

After Triss brought the warlocks of the Kingdom of Orphir back to Brokilon, Mossack almost immediately contacted the two masters of the Griffin School. Geron was reluctant to leave the base camp, and Kelda rushed to Brokilon as soon as he heard about this magical technology, and learned the magic injection technology with Mossack; after returning to Kell Siren, he taught this technology to Geron.

Infusion is essentially similar to the alchemical enchantment process that is popular on the continent today, and it also uses magic and alchemical materials to give armor unique additional abilities. However, this is a completely new system. The Orphirs have always only helped others with infusion as merchants or craftsmen, and have never taught others to learn the technology of infusion.

Although Prince Offield didn't care much about the legend of magic infusion, it was easy to imagine how this precious technology could be handed over to other countries casually? Infusing others with magic and teaching others to infuse magic were two completely different concepts. It can only be said that Lann's rescue of the long-missing Prince Offield this time really made the Kingdom of Offield owe him a big favor.

At the same time, since infusion and enchantment are two completely different alchemical systems, they can be compatible and do not interfere with each other to a certain extent. In other words, even if the equipment is already fully enchanted, such as [Sword of the Lady of the Lake], an additional infusion effect can be added.

Now Lann can perform magic infusion once on each of his two swords, and once on his armor. Geron and his team are planning to start a new research project to see if they can reduce the magic infusion area and also perform magic infusion on gauntlets and cloaks. However, they are too busy to do so now, so they have to give up. Their main focus is still on perfecting the process of demon hunter mutation.

There are six main types of magic infusion techniques that Ophir taught Cintra, which are:

[Break]: Make the weapon extend a sharp blade formed by chaotic energy when attacking, and the range of attack is increased.

[Offset]: The armor can deflect the enemy's arrows and other long-range attacks at a small angle.

[Protect]: Absorbs chaotic energy in the air and automatically generates a small shield.

[Retribution]: There is a certain chance that part of the damage on the armor can be reflected back to the enemy.

[Balance]: The weight of the constant equipment, whether it is light armor or heavy armor, will become the weight of medium armor.

[Lightness]: Reduces the weight of equipment, enough to reduce heavy armor to the level of light armor.

Among the various magic infusion effects mentioned above, some are suitable for weapon enchantments, and some are suitable for equipment enchantments. It can also be seen from these special effects that, unlike the enchantment process of "increasing elemental attack by a percentage", the magic infusion process is not so simple and crude, and many special effects tend to be auxiliary types.

After a brief consideration, Lann decided to add the special effect of [Break] to both of his swords to increase the attack range of the two swords. This would allow him to mow the grass more happily when he was in a crowd, and avoid the embarrassing situation of the long sword not being able to reach the opponent's vital points when fighting against some large monsters.

As for the magic infusion on the armor, under the insistence of elders such as Mossak and Jerron, Lann chose [Deflection]. After all, he was going to the battlefield, and he had to guard against cold arrows and stray arrows. Although he had [Quen's Seal], how could active defense be as reassuring as passive deflection?

"The enchantment of [Bloodsucking] is okay, but the cost of infusion is very high. Just like what Warlock Ophir said, this kind of thing can only be circulated among the upper classes. At present, we only have enough materials for you to infuse. The rest will be invested in more important research."

"But Mossak also has a new idea. He plans to simplify [Fraudulent], saying that this will help to build a strong heavy cavalry. Of course, this needs to be discussed later, and he doesn't have time now."

[Flirty] If it can really be simplified and used on a large scale in the army, it will be enough to allow heavy cavalry to obtain the mobility of light cavalry while retaining the impact and defense of heavy armor. This scene, just thinking about it, can make any officer in the world tremble with excitement.

But Lan pursed his lips and said, "For spellcasters, the technology of [Protection] that can automatically generate shields is more important, right? Shouldn't Uncle Mossak give priority to researching this magic infusion?"

Jeron chuckled, "It's his choice."

Lan En only felt an inexplicable warmth surge in his heart, which made him look more vulnerable while fighting outside.

But he quickly calmed down and changed the subject, saying with a smile, "If you think the cost of the magic injection process is too high, I can solve this problem right now."

Under Jeron's puzzled look, Lann took him to the empty warehouse next door, and with a wave of his hand, all the gold, silver and treasures in the [Inventory] poured out.

The light called "wealth" that burst out at that moment even covered the sun reflected by the snow on the top of the mountain.

Even someone like Geron, who had seen a lot of things in the golden age of griffin hunters, had his eyes wide open, his breathing heavy, and his hands trembling slightly.

Lann looked at Jielong's reaction and smiled with satisfaction: "These coins are not only enough for everyone to infuse magic, but the extra ones should be enough to buy the castle under our feet. Moreover, this is far from all the wealth I have now."

Jielong pressed his chest hard and took a few deep breaths before finally calming down. There was still some excitement in his eyes, but he had regained his calm expression:

"I don't want to know where you got all this money. You want to use it to help me rebuild the Siren of Kel, right? You'd better keep it. Cintra needs this money more now."

After he finished speaking, he raised his hand and stopped Lan En from speaking: "This is my choice."

Lan had a conflicted expression, but after hearing Jielong's firm tone, he had no choice but to give up.

Gerald suddenly laughed again: "You want to help me rebuild Kael Siren as soon as possible, and then let me go to Cintra to help you, right? Actually, it doesn't have to be like this. I have been thinking about Kael Siren for a long time during this period, and I don't want to leave here and settle in Sintra..."

The master of the Griffin School looked at his disciple and said, "But if you encounter an enemy that you cannot deal with, you can contact me using our school's notes, and I will help you. Not only me, but Kelda as well."

When Lan heard this, his lion eyes lit up like a cat's: "Really?"