Chapter 151: Aphrodite's Function

After all, time passed just the same.

While his exploration progress on this side steadily increased, the research progress on his main body's side did not lag behind either.

Therefore, regarding the project of "Aralin Bloodline," there had indeed been quite good progress, even to the point of saying it was half successful—

Mainly the artificial refinement of fairy bloodlines, taking ordinary bloodline factors through specialized magecraft processing, filtering, and purification, finally reaching a concentration and purity close to that of the Ancestor, achieving considerable progress on this point...

After all, even under natural iteration, atavists possessing power rivaling the Ancestor would be born from ordinary fairies. With such precedents, it showed that it was not only the great fairies who inherited the Aralin Bloodline; the bloodlines of ordinary fairies also flowed with the Mystery of the Star's Inner Sea.

The difference might just be the abundance of the inherited bloodline factors, determining the fairies' innate aptitude.

Since that was the case, theoretically speaking, there was naturally the possibility of carrying out artificial refinement.

And it did not even require using great fairies for refinement; even if lower fairies provided consumables, it would do, anyway as long as quantitative change could cause qualitative change... And precisely because of this, not long after Londinium was built, the ruled fairies welcomed their own "blessings," beginning to be regularly bled.

Although the amount drawn each time was not much, it was long-term and forced.

As long as they were alive, the fairies had an obligation to dedicate their blood to the Kingdom.

Considering that in the near future, they would also be levied a Mana Tax... tsk tsk, I can only offer blessings for the fairies' beautiful future.

In fact, if not for implementing the development strategy of sustainable draining-the-lake-to-catch-the-fish, they definitely would not have only been required to have a small portion of fairy blood drawn every once in a while... As far as things stand now, Vivian, or the future Fairy Queen Morgan, has already been quite gentle to the fairies.

Although limited to this period, once the fairies' numbers redevelop and undergo explosive growth, they would not have such good treatment anymore.

Although the fairies did not feel the current treatment was good, and even had quite a few complaints, with a sense of not knowing one's blessings while in the midst of them, but they would understand later.

However, since it was said to be half successful, it also meant half was not successful.

——The current main achievement was that "Aralin Bloodline" could be obtained through artificial refinement...

——But there was still no way to apply the refined "Aralin Bloodline" to ordinary fairies, catalyzing ordinary fairies into so-called atavists afterward...

The specific reason was still unclear; the fairies who received bloodline enhancement first showed not an explosive growth in strength, but an explosive growth in curses, almost instantly turning into terrifying Moss entities on the spot.

According to Vivian and Medea, as well as several experienced practitioners of the magecraft world including Xia Zhi himself, masters and grandmasters among magicians, after discussion, they unanimously agreed it was very likely a lingering problem left behind by the previous Magic Dragon, a curse issued by the Island's Will after its manifestation, directed at the fairies.

As for how to solve it, it remained to be discussed.

But if the experiment subjects were not limited to fairies, but placed on humans instead, they could instead gain some unexpected surprises.

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Xia Zhi gazed at the Mors People before him, quietly waiting for them to make a choice.

These people were not clones, and moreover came from another world; in a sense they were both human and not human. So bloodline enhancement technology on them might present another kind of possibility; anyway, by the standard of "Extraterrestrial Lifeform," they were indeed quite worth looking forward to.

Of course, this was also the main reason he had high hopes for this group of people—

Although not everyone had that opportunity...

But this world was just like that; if everyone possessed the noble Alien bonus, then the passengers on this plane would indeed be quite valuable...

Taking them as the beginning of a race, Xia Zhi was very optimistic about the future of this planet; the intelligent beings ruling this planet would inevitably be more advantageous higher life forms.

At least—could not be inferior to the overall level of the Gods of South America, right?

That was what he thought.

After all, the circle on the South America side, it was said, originated from alien bacteria not belonging to this planet, attached to a meteorite that fell in South America, naturally combining with local species and developing and deriving as a result.

Then this group of humans not belonging to this planet, sitting on a plane and falling into the Sea of Nothingness, and under his intervention combining with the fairies originally existing on this planet, thereby deriving another kind of life form... were these two not very similar? Then placing them together for comparison was naturally justified.

After a long silence, the Mors People looked at one another, but in the end no one could force themselves to step forward voluntarily.

They did not know what the Aralin Bloodline was, but subconsciously associated it with directions like genetic modification.

It had to be said, this idea was actually not wrong, but the problem was that this was reality, not a superhero movie; they considered themselves not protagonists of superheroes, so naturally they felt fear and rejection from the heart toward this.

Who knew if touching such a thing, they could still survive?

Or turn into lizardmen? Rotten mud monsters?

These were all what they feared in their hearts, so naturally they did not have the courage to easily gamble, all hoping others would make a choice first, so they could have a reference... This was the thinking of smart people, but unfortunately everyone was a smart person, all thinking this way, so the situation became a bit awkward.

"It seems you have not truly realized your situation... Then wait until you are ready to talk again; by then you can find me on the highest mountain peak nearby."

Xia Zhi did not care, casually put away the bloodline material in his hand, and smiled lightly.

"By the way, let me ask, has anyone among you played《Starving》?"

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"Played, played..."

A young man hesitated for a moment, slowly raised his arm, not quite sure what the other meant.

"Then good, my advice is... you had best find something to eat before dark." The youth on the reef stretched lazily, speaking in a languid tone; in the very next moment after his voice fell, his figure disappeared, as if he had never appeared at all.

After a brief dead silence.

Everyone finally came to their senses; their stagnant thoughts began to turn with difficulty, and after belatedly realizing what had happened, they instantly became panicked, with visible commotion spreading.

They never expected that the Devil would leave so decisively!

Just abandoning a group of them like this on this strange continent!

The long coastline, the boundless sea level, the endless waves beating against the reefs on the shore one after another, splashing white foam and spray. The fern plants in the distance were huge as towering ancient trees; the strange peaks and ridges with jagged rocks revealed their outlines at the end of the distant horizon, like the silhouettes of giant beasts crouching on the earth.

Everything on this continent was intentionally or unintentionally revealing a primitive, ancient, and desolate aura.

After helpless panic, everyone inevitably slowly calmed down; they silently looked at everything before their eyes, the panic and unease on their complexions extremely obvious, not fading for a long time.

They were lucky, not having died inexplicably after transmigrating.

But they were also unlucky; in this completely strange Lost Continent, surviving undoubtedly required paying a considerable price.

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The island's area was considered quite large.

Especially after being scaled down proportionally, for the guinea pigs thrown into it, it was indeed truly a continent.

Zhiyou, Mors Actually speaking, just that half Starship placed on the Island would occupy quite a large Place, even with only half remaining, it is still several Kilometers in length. Such a Colossal Thing appearing in a Heaven and Earth like a small-person country is absolutely an unprecedented Divine Miracle, like ants facing a giant's palace.

Xia Zhi also stretched space again, only then placing this thing on a Mountain Peak on the Island.

During this period of time, he also explored the sunken Europe Continent on one hand, and pondered this Starship on the other, more or less obtaining a little bit of result.

Mainly it was a piece of Wreckage found later, suspected to be a shot-down Machine God Core, and it happened to be paired with this Starship. Under the infusion of massive energy, the damaged Divine Core barely showed a little bit of Reaction; it couldn't be called a restart, but at least it let him find a suitable entry point, so he wouldn't be at a loss.

And after this period of tossing about, Xia Zhi is not very hopeful about the technique of recreating a complete entire Universe Spaceship.

Bijiao the damage is too severe, a lot of Intelligence can no longer be read.

If not for his Special Situation, there would be almost no Method to extract any value from the Wreckage.

At this very moment, the half Starship lies across the Mountain Peak, like an alien palace of a vastly different style. And in the Main Control Room area, the damaged Divine Core floats Floating Mid-air, under the infusion of huge magic power, Emitting a faint light and bursts of humming, making the hull's metal seem to produce some kind of strange Reaction.

Like waves, becoming Blur because of an unknown fluctuation, Immediately then returning to original state.

It seems the Molecular Structure of the metal composing the hull, or even smaller structures, are changing their Combination arrangement according to some law.

Xia Zhi manipulates all this; he is already very Proficient with this process, so operating it is also deft. In an Instant, massive Intelligence Explodes, making him feel as if he is being washed by a tide of information; although difficult to fully understand, it does not feel Strangeness.

Just like in thousands upon thousands of scientific Experiments, one can always see something like a very reasonable law existing.

He has already found a very reasonable law collection through a large amount of repeated trials, and familiarly launches analysis and inverse calculation on it again.

Authority of Love……

Authority of Beauty……

Strange information flows into his heart, Xia Zhi's expression has no change.

He already knew these things long ago, and therefore confirmed this Starship's Main Body is Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love, Goddess of Beauty in Greek Mythology.

This indeed matches his initial guess perfectly, so there is nothing to be Disappointed about. He values the Essence behind the Authority; before that Mors Strength because of Belief or some other reason, deteriorated into Divine Authority, it was undoubtedly a Function belonging to the Starship itself, this is a very important point.

"Spirit Child Information Warfare Attack Aircraft…… no, not right, the more important Positioning is Large Terminal for teaching intelligent Lifeform……"

"So this is Aphrodite's ship type……"

Bit by bit reading the analyzed information, Xia Zhi Thoughtfully Muttered to himself.

Indeed as he speculated, this Mors Strength's Essence is not simple; thinking deeply, Aphrodite might be the core Configuration of that Machine God Fleet, at least in that Fleet's Mors Original mission it was so, Bijiao this Goddess Represents the so-called "function for teaching intelligent Lifeform"……

——Is this wanting to enlighten primitive species?

——Or a Function specially prepared to recreate the Civilization inheritance the Fleet itself belongs to?

But no matter how it is, it is Definitely not merely absolute charm ability——such as "forcing Ten Thousand Things to love oneself", "forcing others to have favorable impression of oneself"…… that is merely the basic characteristic of this Divine Function, the most surface Phenomenon.

Xia Zhi pinches his chin, seriously pondering.

He is thinking how much help this Function's assistance will be for the upcoming Civilization Experiment.

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(PS: Today's bad luck: computer seems beyond saving…… have to look for a new machine……)

(Chapter End)